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Chapter 1059 Li Qi: I never rely on luck when playing cards
Li Qi opened his eyes, and a completely new world appeared before him: a dim sky, a winding mountain road, and he was on a mountaintop. There were many people around him, but the atmosphere was very quiet, and everyone's face looked grim.

This is a magnificent yet bizarre world. Thirty thousand years ago, thirteen great worlds collided, some shattered, some overlapped, the Heavenly Dao was overturned, the rules were in chaos, and everything was rewritten.

Among them, the overlapping parts of the thirteen great worlds underwent incredible changes. The collision of thirteen vastly different Heavenly Dao rules, amidst destruction, achieved a bizarre balance, transforming into a land of miracles.

The power of miracles is presented in the form of cards.

Of course, cards are merely an outward feature; in essence, they are fragments of the Heavenly Dao, the manifestation of the Heavenly Dao's rules.

For the past 30,000 years, in the thirteen great worlds, all kinds of creatures that survived the disasters have been groping and exploring this new power.

The old supernatural system has long since become partially ineffective due to the collision of the vast world; only cards remain the only true system.

Whether it's cards with a preordained contract, or cards created through rituals, binding, forging, reconstructing, and writing, this is the path we're on today.

As for You Yu, Li Qi's past self, he is now seventeen years old and has not yet graduated from the Extraordinary Academy. He was inadvertently involved in the evil incident, and most of the students in his class fell into this evil ritual called the Dark Duel Arena.

In the memories that naturally appeared in Li Qi's mind, he would die in the dark duel an hour later, becoming a sacrifice and nourishment.

"The school must have already discovered our disappearance. This evil cultist is at most a second-tier cultivator. The power of the ritual cannot stop the school for long."

Beside Li Qi, a girl who wasn't particularly beautiful but had a resolute demeanor and was full of youthful vitality whispered that her name was Ivy and that she was his childhood sweetheart from his past life.

The two had a good relationship, but it wasn't romantic love; it was more like the mutual appreciation between top students.

In this great era of the rise of the Human Emperor, who led the human race through countless hardships and sought to once again stand at the pinnacle of the world, most people were focused on becoming stronger and achieving great deeds, rather than indulging in romantic relationships at a young age.

Students at the Extraordinary Academy are naturally different from those at ordinary schools.

No matter the era, not everyone can be an extraordinary being. There will always be people who lack talent and perseverance. Their greatest use is to contribute to the propagation of the race.

As for evildoers, where there is light, there is darkness, and there will always be people who will stop at nothing to become stronger.

Heretics worship powerful demons, or rather, borrow the power of demons, which is a mutually beneficial relationship. The more powerful the heretic, the less faith they have, just like in many religions, the pope who is closest to God is the least believer in God.

It can be said that the more powerful the evildoer, the more cunning they are, but the less powerful evildoers are all madmen.

At this very moment, no wicked person with a sound mind would be able to use a ritual to capture so many people at once, especially students from the Extraordinary Academy.

This is a truly big event.

It's obvious to anyone with a brain that there's simply not enough time to complete the ceremony.

But the other party still did it.

However, this kind of thing is also common among low-level evil people.

The first hurdle to becoming a heretic is to reduce one's sanity to a multiple, thereby achieving self-liberation, embracing the reality of the universe, and gaining true power.

Those who go astray are bound to go mad; it's just a matter of degree.

A truly insane person doesn't do stupid things; only someone who's insane but not insane enough does.

"That makes sense, but it takes time. The ceremony has already begun, and some people will be chosen first. We can only leave it to fate."

“If you’re lucky, you have a chance to survive. If you’re unlucky, you’ll be the first one chosen and you’re sure to die…” On the other side of Li Qi, a tall and thin boy named Han Xiuming said. He was usually in the top five in his class. Because of his good skills, he had always had a good relationship with Li Qi and they were good friends.

You Yu, Yi Wei, and Han Xiuming are in Class 2, forming a close-knit trio.

Of course, Class 1 is the strongest class in the school; they are still a long way off.

"Luck? I never rely on luck when I play cards."

Li Qi laughed, saying that he was currently experiencing two conflicting emotions, with the side belonging to his past self filled with resentment and anger.

His own side, however, consisted only of an interest in playing cards.

All I can say is that in the infinite world, anything is possible.

The world of "Tales of the Heavenly Dao" is undoubtedly a world of card players.

Card games, dark duels... it has all the elements you could want.

So at this point, he no longer had the idea of ​​speedrunning through the game, nor was he in a hurry to study the path to immortality in this world. Instead, he planned to play a game first.

Play one hand of cards first, then destroy the whole world!

At this moment, Li Qi looked at the world and the entire ritual, and made slight modifications to the details, changing himself to be the first person to go on stage.

Normally, once the ritual is set, it cannot be changed, and even the people who participate are randomly selected according to the ritual.

The laws of nature have overlapped and changed, and all disorder has been amplified. Many things emphasize true randomness, or rather, the more random it is, the more real and powerful the power that can be obtained.

Therefore, battles are also conducted through card draws. Randomness itself is a powerful ritual, or one of the manifestations of miracles.

The effect of playing cards directly versus playing them through card draws is at least ten times different.

"How can You Yu be so confident? This is a second-tier evil disciple, does he have some trump card?!"

"That's not right either. Wasn't he an orphan? His parents died in the Dark Duels when he was young..."

Upon hearing Li Qi's words, Ivy secretly pondered the matter, sensing that things were not so simple.

"I never thought that Ayu was all bark and no bite. He usually outperforms me in class, but when something big happens, he breaks down and starts to give up on himself."

"As the saying goes, one should remain calm in the face of great events. Ah Yu is still lacking in composure, unlike me. Although I'm very flustered, at least my thinking remains clear..."

Han Xiuming was also thinking to himself at this moment.

After all, he knew the terror of Dark Duels; this thing, named after darkness, was characterized by its unfairness.

None of these people have gone to university yet, and their decks are still basic, roughly equivalent to half-tier.

The perpetrators of this ritual are at least Tier 2, and their deck strength varies greatly.

To win, you'd need to have cards printed on the spot, drawing whatever cards you want. But if you had that kind of incredible luck, how could you possibly be drawn into the ritual of the Dark Duel?!
(End of this chapter)