In another world, Lu Mingfei is learning card making.

The card doesn't feature a genie like Aladdin's lamp; instead, it depicts a silver-clad girl.

She was dressed in pure white, with jet-black hair and clear, watery eyes. Her features were well-proportioned, and her lips were slightly pursed into a straight line, revealing a touch of aloofness.

Beside her feet, a round-mouthed bottle rested on her calf—that seemed to be the real 'Life-Creating Jar,' while the image on the card was merely its spirit.

Besides the descriptions Lu Mingfei could see on the online platforms, there was also a simplified description on the cards:

The Jar of Life's Forging

【✪】【100/100/200】

[Race: Dragon] [Attribute: Psychic]

[Ultimate Move: Refinement, Sublimation]

[Refinement: Absorb enemy spirits, refine them, and obtain Philosopher's Stones]

[Ascension: Use the Philosopher's Stone to perform ascension, enhancing your Pokémon.]

"Wow, it's a purple card!" Rong En leaned closer to Lu Mingfei. "You managed to create a purple card on your first card crafting attempt!"

Lu Mingfei's fingers caressed the card surface. The spirit girl in the painting seemed to sense Lu Mingfei's touch and took the initiative to bring her head close to Lu Mingfei's fingers.

This world naturally categorizes cards by level, but compared to the crossover network, the categorization here is somewhat simplistic and crude: it depends on the number of special moves.

No special move is a white card, one special move is a blue card, two special moves are a purple card, and three special moves are an orange card.

In addition, the cards themselves have been quantified. The three numbers that are all over 100 represent the card's attack, defense, and magic power. When the magic power reaches zero, the magical spirit must return to the card to recuperate and wait to fight again.

The number to the left of the card indicates its energy level, meaning the energy required to summon it. Below that are its race and attribute—Lu Mingfei suddenly became curious as to why this card was classified as the 'Dragon' race.

Could the living spirits be related to dragons?

"Now that you have your own spirit card..." Johnny leaned closer, pulling out his deck from his bag, "How about a duel with your sister?"

Before Lu Mingfei could say anything, Rong En exclaimed excitedly, "Oh, a duel!"

Judging from his expression, he seemed more excited watching Lu Mingfei duel than when he dueled himself—of course, it's also possible that he couldn't duel, since he didn't have his own Pokémon.

"How about...we play a couple of rounds?" Lu Mingfei was also intrigued.

Although we need to put the Spirit Cards into the Mirror of Eternity to train them, there's no rush. No matter how urgent things are, there's always time for a duel.

The two stood in the living room, with Jessica in the middle raising her hand as the referee: "Ready... the duel begins!"

With a swift movement, Johnny drew his starting card. The two stood facing each other, simultaneously beginning to chant summoning incantations.

"My turn, summon!" "In the name of Lu Mingfei, summon!"

And the summoning was completed almost simultaneously!

In front of Johnny, three dwarf warriors held long spears, pointing them directly at Lu Mingfei's head, while the spirit girl kicked the clean bottle under her foot, which landed naturally in her hand, with the mouth of the bottle pointing at the three dwarf warriors.

The three dwarves moved with perfect coordination, almost like one person, but the spirit maiden was fearless. She raised her hand and activated the Jade Purification Bottle, pulling one of the dwarf warriors into the bottle. The Jade Purification Bottle shook twice, and the dwarf warrior turned into water, containing a Philosopher's Stone the size of a red bean.

But while she was refining it, the remaining two dwarves had already hurled their spears at her. With two quick strikes, Lu Mingfei could feel the pot spirit's magic power decreasing; just two attacks had reduced it by half!

The spirit of the pot raised her hand and struck again, taking down another dwarf warrior. She continued shaking to extract the Philosopher's Stone, preparing to withstand the attacks of the remaining dwarves, but they did not arrive.

She looked over in confusion and saw that the remaining dwarf had his beard and hair standing on end, with lightning gathering on his armor and weapons—and Johnny was now holding a different magic card!

It seems the only way to win is to consume a Philosopher's Stone… The Pot Spirit gritted its teeth, preparing to risk being scolded to ascend itself, when it heard Lu Mingfei's voice:

"Alright, I give up. Sister Johnny, please don't let my magical spirit be killed on the very first day it was summoned."

The spirit of the pot turned around in surprise and saw only Lu Mingfei with a helpless expression.

"Oh, it's alright. It's just a magical spirit. I can summon it again if it dies." Although Johnny said that, she still obediently put the dwarf warrior back into her magic card.

"Do you have anything else to do? If not, you should go back to sleep—the other students will all be back soon, and you don't want to leave the girls' dormitory in public, do you?"

Lu Mingfei reached out and returned the pot spirit to his magic card, then followed the two sisters out of the girls' dormitory with a normal expression. In his palm, the two Philosopher's Stones were radiating astonishing heat, as if they were the passionate kisses left by the pot spirit.

……

The next day, Sunday.

Having learned his lesson from yesterday, Rong En didn't go out at night again, but instead slept soundly all night. As a result, he was finally able to wake Lu Mingfei up early in the morning and drag him to the playground for sparring.

"Because you have a certain level of physical ability, and your opponents are not much different in terms of physical ability—based on your previous description, you can overpower all three of them by yourself, so we should focus on the tactics."

Rong En began to speak eloquently, a short stick appearing in his hand:

"Because there's not much time, the playing style I'm going to teach you is something you can grasp and absorb in the shortest amount of time."

"Wand Combat Techniques"

Rong En passed the short stick in his hand to Lu Mingfei. Lu Mingfei picked it up curiously and examined it from all angles, but couldn't figure it out.

"This combat method originated from the time when wands were widely used. At that time, the number of 'mages' who had not mastered a complete system of spells increased dramatically, and they were all engaged in professions that involved frequent combat, such as adventurers and patrol officers."

"To adapt to the needs of the combat environment, they developed a special wand with solid materials and rapid magic conduction, thereby gaining a certain combat ability."

"Later, due to its adaptation to the extreme environment of trench warfare, this combat method was absorbed and modified by the army, gradually forming a staff technique that can be used at six distances: close, medium, long, ground, medium-close, and medium-long."

"Besides the single stick, this fighting method also has extensions such as double sticks, single sword, shield and sword. It can be said that the wand fighting method is the foundation of almost all 'military physical techniques' - even the military physical boxing we are teaching now has the shadow of this fighting method."

"Now that we've talked about this, do you think it's difficult?"

Rong En pulled out another short stick, held it with both hands, turned his body to the side, and pointed the tip of the stick steadily at Lu Mingfei's waist and abdomen.

"It's okay, just use your body to memorize it, it's very simple."