Mythical Card Maker: Starting with the Mountain Spirit

Chapter 93 Card Production Preparation

Duobaoge (a type of curio cabinet).

The building is seven stories high and resplendent in gold, making it a striking sight to be seen from Baiyu Square.

Before long, Lin Mo arrived in front of the Treasure Pavilion. It was afternoon, and students were coming and going in a constant stream, making it quite lively.

Lin Mo glanced around a few times, then stepped inside.

Upon entering the lobby on the first floor, several senior students were talking with the staff of the Treasure Pavilion, apparently intending to hand over some of their supplies in exchange for achievement points.

Of course, in addition to that, many students also stopped to choose items at the counter in the lobby on the first floor.

The lobby on this floor is filled with a dazzling array of items, including equipment cards, summoning cards, prop cards, material cards, formation cards, and knowledge cards, among others.

It boasts a wide variety of products, offering everything imaginable.

As the only place within the Imperial Capital Heavenly Palace to exchange points, the popularity of the Treasure Pavilion is undeniable.

Lin Mo nodded to himself, then casually walked to the area displaying the material cards and began to examine them closely.

Unlike the material area of ​​the Wushan City Card Making Association, the material cards at Yudu Tianfu are significantly more diverse and of much higher quality.

The lowest-level white materials are basically not available here; the vast majority are blue and purple materials.

There are also quite a few orange materials above purple materials, and even gold materials are the highest grade.

The price, however, left even him, who now has a modest fortune, speechless.

Any single gold-colored material can fetch a price tag in the five or even six figures.

It's true that I can't afford it.

However, Lin Mo was not here for the golden materials, so he only glanced at them casually and did not pay much attention to them.

What he really cares about is the orange material.

However, these orange materials aren't cheap; the lowest price is over 0 GPA points, which isn't very friendly to freshmen.

After browsing through them, Lin Mo was surprised to find that he had never heard of many of the material cards.

For example, those belonging to the category of creation, such as [Forest Path], [Green Mountain Mental Hospital], and [Walkway for the Dead] —

Lin Mo guessed that these material cards should be the main materials needed to make the field cards.

Besides, he was seeing materials like spiritual essences of heaven and earth, living beings, and sexual attributes for the first time.

After browsing through them, Lin Mo had a general understanding of the material cards on the first layer.

Living things, metals and stones, and plants are still the most common materials.

There are relatively fewer aspects related to sexuality and creation.

Given his current GPA, it's clearly unrealistic for him to use only orange material cards; he can only use a mix of orange and purple.

Furthermore, there shouldn't be too many orange material cards, otherwise his GPA will be depleted too quickly.

After a moment's thought, Lin Mo immediately had an idea.

Use around four orange-tier cards, and the rest should be purple-tier cards.

Having made up his mind, Lin Mo immediately selected materials based on the River God card-making formula he had previously deduced.

The River God's true form is a human body with a fish tail, and the main material card symbolizing his body is already available.

Next are materials related to his identity, skills, authority, etc.

The book "Baopuzi: Explanation of Ghosts" records that "the Heavenly Emperor appointed him as the River God."

"Shu" means appointment, and there must be an imperial edict or document.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Overseas Eastern Classic, records that "River God—uses jade as weapons."

The "Biography of King Mu" records that the emperor "submerged the jade disc in the river" to worship the River God.

Based on the above records, Lin Mo ultimately chose the [Golden Bamboo Slip] (purple) and [White Jade Seal] (purple) as the two material cards to symbolize the identity of the River God.

As for skills, he chose [Waterwheel with Lotus Canopy] (orange), [White Turtle Armor] (purple), and [Shrimp Scales].

The material cards (purple), [Ghost-Suppressing Talisman] (purple), and [Dragon's Sheath in the Abyss] (orange) correspond to the various supernatural powers of the River God in mythology, such as controlling wind and rain, exorcising evil spirits, and transforming into a dragon.

For the final symbol of authority, Lin Mo chose the orange material card, 【Nine Rivers Map】.

After selecting the materials, he immediately went to the counter to pay.

The total requirement was 3960 GPA points, but because Lin Mo had the exclusive identity card of the "Ten Prodigies of Tianfu", he received a 30% discount, and in the end, he only spent 2772 GPA points.

Even so, it still left him speechless.

This orange material card is indeed too expensive; it costs more than nine times as much as the purple material card.

If it weren't for the discounts offered by his ID card, he really wouldn't have dared to make such a casual purchase.

Next, Lin Mo told the staff that he wanted to exchange material cards for performance points.

The other party gave him an exchange form. Lin Mo looked at it and found that one green material card could only be exchanged for one GPA point.

Blue materials can be exchanged for 2 GPA points, purple materials for 20 GPA points, and orange material cards for 100 GPA points.

The discounts are incredibly steep; to be honest, it's a bit of a rip-off.

However, one advantage is that you can earn corresponding exchange points by selling material cards.

You can participate in a lottery once for every 1,000 points spent, with a near 100% chance of winning. However, the quality of the prizes varies and depends on your luck.

A lucky draw might bring in a fortune, while an unlucky one might only get a small reward.

In the end, he earned a total of 1362 GPA points, which translates to 1362 points in the credits.

not bad.

After putting away his identity card, Lin Mo immediately left the Treasure Pavilion.

He didn't use this lottery chance, but planned to save it up and do a ten-pull at the end.

Based on his past experience with gacha pulls, the probability of getting good items in a 10-pull is much higher than in a single pull.

Of course, this does not include certain lucky dogs who get lucky on their first try.

After leaving the Treasure Pavilion, Lin Mo turned and walked towards the card-making room not far away.

As one of the landmark buildings of Yudu Tianfu, Lin Mo was also curious whether it was as effective as rumored.

It just so happens that this card crafting process is quite difficult, so to be on the safe side, he simply chose to complete the crafting of the River God card in the Grade A card-making room.

Although the card-making room is called a "room", it is actually a three-story building.

It is divided into individual small rooms, hence the name "card making room".

The moment you step inside, a dense surge of spiritual energy washes over you.

Within this intense spiritual energy fluctuation, there was also another gentle force.

"The spiritual energy and mental power here—"

A hint of surprise flashed across Lin Mo's eyes.

"No wonder this card-making room can increase the success rate of card makers. The hall alone is filled with rich spiritual energy and mental fluctuations. There must be a lot of spirit-gathering cards and spirit-warming cards set up here. It's really extravagant!"

Lin Mo sighed a few times, then walked toward the staff in the card-making room.

"Hello, I'd like to rent a Class A card-making room for about three hours!"

"Nine hundred GPA points!"

The young woman in the black uniform smiled her signature smile and spoke softly.

"That's really expensive!"

Lin Mo made a sarcastic remark, then took out his ID card: "I have a one-month free access to the Grade A card-making room!"

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The young woman in black took the ID card and checked it. Then she pointed to the rightmost room and smiled, "There's no one in the No. 1 card-making room right now. You can go in directly. Once inside, just insert your ID card into the groove on the wall, and the door will lock automatically and the relevant array will be activated. You don't need to worry about the card-making process being disturbed by the outside world."

Thank you!

Lin Mo took the ID card and turned to walk in the direction the young lady pointed.