Lucky Fish 79

 

Chapter 79: Two Explosions!

 

With such high talents and good aptitude, why did this kid only possess D-level mental power? If Yu Jin Li’s mental power had been at least B-level, Master Kamon believes that it isn’t impossible for him to become an A-level card craftsman through hard work.

 

However, for person with D-level mental power to want to become an A-level card craftsman, that is simply a fantasy. Master Kamon couldn't help but sighed deeply in his heart.

 

After looking at the dead energy card, Kamon didn't tell Yu Jin Li how to integrate energy, but instead asked: "What are the characteristics of the two-color flower?”

 

"The two-color flower has two petals, one black and one white. The white petal can clear away temptations, while the black petal can seduce the enemy." Yu Jin Li blurted out subconsciously.

 

"The characteristics of the clover?" Master Kamon continued to ask.

 

Yu Jin Li: "The clover can increase one's own attack power."

 

Master Kamon: "Qiqi Flower?"

 

Yu Jin Li: "Qiqi Flower is...”

 

After asking more than a dozen questions about the characteristics of plants and receiving Yu Jin Li’s skillful answers on all of them, Master Kamon finally showed a satisfied smile.

 

"It seems that you were reading the book I gave you yesterday." Master Kamon rarely praised a person.

 

The surrounding assistants, who were observing closely, were already so shocked that their expressions were paralyzed, and their activities abruptly stopped.

 

Compared to others, this person simply drives people crazy. ¹

 

"Yes, I have finished reading it." Yu Jin Li said happily. He is a good koi, and he has done all the tasks assigned by the teacher.

 

"Even if you have memorized this book, you can't be complacent. This is only the first part of the lowest-level in card crafting. Only by through continuous practice in crafting F-level energy card, can you advance to E-level energy cards.

 

As of now, you haven't even produced a single F-level energy card yet. You certainly don't deserve the title of card craftsman." Master Kamon’s habitual poisonous tongue strikes again.

 

If the situation was changed to someone else, their confidence will be greatly shattered by Master Kamon, and they might not even want to be mentored by him anymore. After all, this kind of harsh thrashing does not typically happen in a school environment.

 

However, it’s unknown whether Yu Jin Li was born with a lack of nerves, or that he simply didn't understand berating comments, or maybe he just didn't care at all. Instead, he cheerfully replied: "I will work hard to practice crafting these energy cards.”

 

At last, Kamon's expression was a little better, and he took the dead energy card made by Yu Jin Li and said: "Come up with me."

 

"Yes." Yu Jin Li immediately responded and obediently followed Master Kamon upstairs. He once again missed the surprised expressions of the nearby assistants.

 

"Oh my god, he—he actually went upstairs." Liu Qi, an assistant, exclaimed incredulously, and couldn't help but pinch the person next to him.

 

"Ah, why are you pinching me?" The person who was pinched asked Liu Qi dissatisfiedly.

 

"It turns out that this is not a dream. The master actually took him up to the second floor. How could this kid's luck be so good? Why is the one being instructed by the master not me? I have been here for half a year, and I haven't been to the second floor yet.” Liu Qi said enviously, his tone dripping with vinegar.

 

"Not to mention the fact that you’ve been here for half a year, I have been here for an entire year, and have never been up there once." Another assistant said quietly.

 

The second floor is where Master Kamon works. Usually, no one is allowed to enter. Everyone’s scope of activity is limited to the first floor and outside in the courtyard.

 

As a result, when they saw the boy being taken upstairs, although they understand the reasons behind it, their heart is naturally still filled with envy, jealousy and hatred towards Yu Jin Li.

 

"Well, Little Chestnut used one night to memorize the entire [Encyclopedia of Unique Level-One Plants]. Have you all memorized it? He also became proficient in drawing the heart-shaped grass in one night. Are you all proficient in drawing?" Ali spoke suddenly.

 

Hearing these words, everyone closed their mouths and stopped talking.

 

Indeed, Yu Jin Li have worked so hard in just one day, while those who have been here for up to a year still have things they couldn’t remember. They are also not very proficient in energy drawing, so they really have no right to be jealous of others.

 

They all have equal opportunities, success depends on how each person seizes it.

 

At this moment, Yu Jin Li was following behind Master Kamon on the second floor obediently. His eyes never wander around, which pleases Master Kamon greatly.

 

When they arrived at his usual studio, Master Kamon put the dead F-level energy card made by Yu Jin Li on the table, before taking out a new blank energy card and handed it to Yu Jin Li, saying, "On this one, draw a heart-shaped grass.”

 

Yu Jin Li held a blank energy card, a little hesitant, "Master, I don’t know how to integrate energy yet."

 

"You don't need to integrate energy. Just do it the same as how you made this card before." Master Kamon wanted to see if the heart-shaped grass on the dead energy card was truly drawn by Yu Jin Li.

 

If he finds out that someone dared to try to pull the wools over his eyes, then he will let them understand the fate of those who engage in crony opportunism and deception.

 

"Oh." Yu Jin Li didn't think so deeply. Since the teacher told him to just draw a card without injecting any energy, then he would just do it.

 

Yu Jin Li had already memorized the details of the heart-shaped grass by heart, and quickly finished drawing without any pause. Though the pattern on the energy card was just as dull and lifeless as before.

 

Kamon watched Yu Jin Li complete the drawing with his own eyes. The drawing was done beautifully, and the time spent was short. Kamon’s eyes flashed with surprise.

 

"How did you feel when you were drawing?" Master Kamon asked.

 

"It feels very smooth." Yu Jin Li said honestly. He basically didn't feel any obstacles, and drew smoothly.

 

Master Kamon didn't say anything else, and gave Yu Jin Li another blank energy card, and said: “This time, just probe your mental power into the card.”

 

Upon hearing the words, Yu Jin Li obediently followed suit, and probed the card using his divine consciousness.

 

Although it was detected during the mental power test that he does have mental power, Yu Jin Li still didn’t know what mental power is. So instead, he replaced it with his familiar spiritual power. Besides, he had used his spiritual power before and successfully summoned a beast, so it can be assumed that his divine consciousness may be a substitute for the mental power of this world.

 

"Use your mental power to touch the energy inside the card carefully." Master Kamon meticulously guided Yu Jin Li step by step.

 

If at first accepting Yu Jin Li was for the sake of the Jiang family's face, then now he really wants to teach this gifted child, and does not want his talent to be wasted.

 

The dimensional space inside the card was full of radiant energy. Yu Jin Li had seen this before when his divine consciousness first went in, though it was the first time he was going to touch these radiant energies.

 

Yu Jin Li cautiously stretched out his spiritual consciousness and tentatively touched the clusters of energies, but he didn’t expect a loud "bang", and, in the next second, the blank energy card exploded.

 

Yu Jin Li was closest to the energy card and suffered the most effect, his hair was blown into a mess.

 

Master Kamon: …….

 

Master Kamon obviously didn't expect the explosion to come so suddenly, and there was no defense at all.

 

"What did you do just now? I only told you touch the energies, not to arouse them!" Master Kamon roared angrily.

 

Yu Jin Li felt a little wronged and retorted in a low voice, "I was just touching them, I didn't arouse them."

 

He really did just touch them lightly, who knew they would explode.

 

"If you didn't provoke them, why would the energy card explode? Could it be that the energy card wanted to explode and wronged you?" Master Kamon said bluntly.

 

If normal mental power just gently touches the energies in the card, it will not cause the energy to riot. Only when mental power is misguided, does an accidental explosion becomes extremely easy to happen, so naturally, Master Kamon would assume it’s an issue of control.

 

It's a pity that Yu Jin Li didn't understand this, and Master Kamon couldn't have imagined that the thing Yu Jin Li used was not mental power but divine consciousness.

 

Thus, a misunderstanding arose.

 

Master Kamon tried his best to control his violent temper, then threw another blank energy card to Yu Jin Li, and said, "If you dare to be disobedient and provoke the energy this time, don't come to me again."

 

“Yes.” Yu Jin Li was aggrieved, but he really didn't know.

 

This time, Yu Jin Li was more careful in inserting his divine consciousness into the card. He was a little scared when he saw the radiant energies. He wasn’t so much afraid of the energy explosion, but rather of the teacher getting angry if the energy explodes.

 

However, the given by the teacher still has to be completed, and Yu Jin Li's divine consciousness is more cautious than ever. Unfortunately, who would have thought that when his divine consciousness touches the energy in the card, it exploded again.

 

Yu Jin Li was really going to cry this time. His pitiful appearance and small blackened face made people feel that he had suffered a great deal of grievance.

 

Master Kamon saw the looks in Yu Jin Li’s eyes, and his angry words, which was about to overflow, got stuck in his throat, unable to go up or down, almost suffocating him to death.

 

"Were you wronged? Do you dare to say you’ve been wronged? Two consecutive explosions in a row, what is wrong with you?" Although Master Kamon’s tongue was as vicious as always, his tone has improved a lot, though his heart is still frustrated.

 

Obviously, the boy is so talented in drawing, how come he becomes so dumb when it comes to channeling energy?

 

Although most card craftsmen have a low success rate due to the difficulty in channeling energy, beginners only learn about the basics of mental power. It is really rare to have two explosions as a result of just some basic energy touching.

 

It must be said that Yu Jin Li can also be regarded as "extraordinarily gifted" in this aspect.

 

"Come over here and see how I use my mental power." Master Kamon finally said helplessly.

 

Yu Jin Li didn't dare to disagree, and hurriedly walked over to the teacher's side. He saw a white silky strand come out of Master Kamon's head and connected itself to the energy card in his hand.

 

The thread-like strand connects Master Kamon’s mind with the energy card. This should be the so-called mental power that Kamon kept talking about, right?

 

Yu Jin Li was very curious about the mental power of the people here, and he quietly spread out his divine consciousness, wanting to see what this mental power is.

 

If he learns it, then when he touches the energy inside the card, it probably won’t explode?

 

Yu Jin Li carefully touches Master Kamon’s mental power with his divine consciousness. However, at the moment when their powers meet, the mental power quickly retracted, and Master Kamon's eyes suddenly looked sharply at Yu Jin Li's direction.

 

Yu Jin Li was so frightened that he didn't even dare to breathe, lest Kamon might find out what he had just done.

 

Master Kamon frowned, his expression was serious. The feeling of his mental power being touched just now still remains, but there was only Yu Jin Li in this room, and he can't even control his mental power that well yet.

 

This boy can’t be the one that touches his mental power, right?

 

In the Federation, mental power is vital to being a card craftsman. Most people will not use their own mental power to touch the mental power of others, nor will they let others touch their own. This is because even the slightest carelessness, especially in cases where the opponent's mental power is higher than one's own, can results in permanent damage to a person’s mental power.

 

An incident of attacking with mental power has happened before. It happened in a dispute between two conflicting card craftsmen, and ended in a great tragedy. Since then, it is forbidden for anyone to use mental power to touch the mental power of another person.

 

Thus, when Kamon felt the touch of Yu Jin Li's divine consciousness, he immediately retracted to protect himself.

 

"Your mental power has just awakened. Don't just let it run rampant. Don't touch other people's mental power, let alone letting other people's mental power to touch yours, unless you want to completely ruin the possibility of becoming a card craftsman in the future.” Master Kamon solemnly warned.

 

Kamon only thought that Yu Jin Li could not control his mental power just now, so he accidentally leaked some of his mental power which brushes against Kamon’s.

 

"I understand." Yu Jin Li nodded hurriedly.

 

 

 

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TN:

1)       这人比人，绝对是要气死人的节奏 (lit. It’s definitely a rhythm that drives one crazy). 节奏 (jiezou) means rhythm, but also refers to the movement of emotion or a scene (tone/mood).

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