First-time decryption free? A counter-decryption system!

Some people held their shattered cards, on the verge of tears.

Someone glared angrily in Lin Wan's direction.

Some people quietly backed away to create distance...

Lin Wan glanced at it briefly. The collapse of the heavens shattered more than forty cards in one go, most of which were low to mid-star cards ranging from five to seven stars, but a few eight-star cards were also shattered.

The shattered card fragments did not disappear; instead, they transformed into specks of light and drifted towards Lin Wan, automatically merging into his card panel.

Thank you everyone.

He nodded around.

"Help me gather more crafting materials."

Shen Qingyi stood at a distance, holding an eight-star defense card in her hand, her expression a mixture of surprise and amusement:

"Is this the Nine-Star Card?"

After she finished speaking, she turned and walked away, quickly moving towards the edge of the plain.

Clearly, she also intended to stay away from this madman.

"Solved the problem for most people"

"The remaining dozen or so people were spared the cleanup because they generally possessed nine-star cards or special eight-star cards!"

"A significant proportion of them are high-ranking prodigies!"

"Perfect timing, it's time to harvest!"

Lin Wan didn't give everyone a chance to catch their breath, and directly took out the twelve-star card.

The end!

He will throw out the end.

The jet-black cards unfolded in the air, silently hovering in mid-air...

But the next second, the sky over the entire plain darkened.

The gray-white ground and the distant corridor walls all darkened, leaving only the pitch-black card spinning in the void.

"Final decision."

A voice arose directly in everyone's mind.

At the same time, all the contestants on the plain felt an irresistible force sweep over their bodies. Their card panels opened uncontrollably, and cards flew out and lined up in front of them.

[The End Effect activates.]

[The total number of cards held by the holder, Lin Wan, is currently 763.]

[Judgment: All participants have lost 50% of their current total card count.]

[Judgment Result: Holder Lin Wan receives 50% of the total number of cards stripped from the deck.]

In an instant, all participants lost fifty percent of their cards.

This series of incentives,

This caused some people to kneel down on the spot, some to let out desperate screams, and some to simply slump on the ground, too exhausted to even curse.

The cards that were stripped away turned into countless points of light, a large stream of which surged towards Lin Wan and merged into his control panel.

His total number of cards jumped from over 700 to over 1,100, and that doesn't even include the cards that were taken from the participants who were stripped of their cards; some of the cards they lost also went to him.

The entire room fell silent.

Curses echoed from all directions.

"You fucking bastard!!"

"Twelve stars?! Can this thing really be combined?!"

"Cheat code! Absolutely cheat code! I refuse to accept this!!"

"Is this a hidden eternal will? If it's not a cheat program, I really don't believe it!"

"Don't be skeptical! The rules forbid the use of cheat software. He achieved his twelve-star rating through sheer skill!"

"Damn it... why wasn't I the one who synthesized the twelve stars?"

"..."

Those contestants who had been stripped of half their cards by the End of the World—some slumped to the ground, eyes vacant, others clutched their shattered card panels, muttering to themselves…

Lin Wan stood in the middle of the plain, looking at the numbers on the panel, and couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Those contestants who had their cards taken away by him had very few cards left, some with only a dozen or so low-star cards. Without him, they would have no chance of even making it into the top eight.

"Since I'm being kind, leave it to me!"

[Third Tier - Card Brawl - Early Settlement]

[Reason: The number of cards held by Lin Wan exceeds the total number of cards held by all remaining participants.]

[Final Ranking: First Place, Lin Wan.]

[The rankings from second to eighth will be filled later.]

[Level cleared: Lin Wan, currently calculating dimensional rewards.......]

Lin Wan let out a breath.

Shen Qingyi glanced at him from afar, but did not approach, secretly heartbroken.

"Oh no, I've fallen in love..."

"Fine, I'm not worthy..."

Fahai put away his prayer beads, clasped his hands together, and bowed to him, his face showing neither joy nor sorrow.

Zhao Qian huddled at the edge of the crowd, his expression numb, even with a hint of relief.

"Damn it, if I'd known he was so arrogant, I should have built a good relationship with him back then..."

[Dimensional rewards are being settled...]

[Basic completion reward: Dimensions +3.]

[Bonus reward for the King of Cards achievement: Dimension +2.]

[Excess Collection Reward (Total Cards Exceed 1000): Dimension +2.]

[Current Dimensions: 42-dimensional → 49-dimensional.]

Lin Wan felt the surging, cleansing force within his body, every cell of his body being reshaped by some unseen energy, which made him involuntarily utter a sound of amusement.

"Oh ho ho!!"

Meng Ke'er, who was standing nearby, was somewhat puzzled by his strange cry...

Even the big shots want mugwort?

The physical body of the forty-nine-dimensional being was much thicker than before, and the cognitive dimension also increased accordingly, jumping from forty-two dimensions to forty-nine dimensions.

He stretched his neck and was about to leave when he suddenly heard a sigh behind him.

It's Lin Yi.

She awoke from standby mode, emerged from the void, and stretched.

After waking up, she glared at Lin Wan resentfully.

Then he looked down at the contestants lying all over the ground...

"Are you done?" she asked.

"Um"

Lin Wan tried her best to move her fingers back, clearing away the aura of the planetary world she had just conquered.

He pointed with his other finger at the demons slumped on the ground.

"While they're still lying down, you finish up the job."

Lin Yi rolled her eyes at him, landed on the ground from the void, and began to walk along the plain one by one.

As she approached each contestant, she bent down, extended a finger, and gently poked the contestant's forehead before straightening up and moving on to the next one.

Her movements were graceful, as if she wanted Lin Wan to regret it, to regret seeking other vixens while she was being banished by Eternity...

[Deciphered successfully, EX-level talent x23.]

[Deciphered successfully, EX-level Extreme Talent x41.]

[Deciphered successfully, U-level talent x1.]

Lin Wan's gaze paused for a moment.

To his surprise, quite a few of these prodigies possessed dual talents.

There were even U-level talents.

Although there is only one.

He turned to look in Lin Yi's direction, where she was standing in front of a pale-faced middle-aged man.

The man was dressed in a dark red robe, and his aura was deeper than that of everyone around him, with a dimension of about fifty-two.

He had his eyes closed at the moment, and there was still a bloody hole from Lin Yi's fingertip on his forehead.

[U-Tier Talent - River of Reversal: You can reverse any positive change that occurs on a target to its opposite.]

[For example: reversing an enemy's cultivation level increase to a decrease, reversing an enemy's injury recovery to aggravate their injury, everything is reversible...]

[Each use consumes cognitive power; the cooldown time increases with the target's strength.]

[When used on oneself, it can reverse negative statuses such as death into positive statuses.......]

Lin Wan raised an eyebrow as she looked at the talent description.

This talent is also highly valuable.

Seeing this even reminded him of someone.

Ye Qingxian, who taught him to reverse the artistic conception...

After obtaining the permanent certificate, he in one of his dimensions had already recognized Ye Qingxian, but not in this dimension.

Ye Qingxian has not yet obtained permanent certification. Although he has the Great Destiny Technique, it cannot take care of all aspects of Ye Qingxian's life.

This made him feel really bad...

"Once we get out, we have to make it up to them properly!"

He had barely finished speaking when Lin Yi pinched his ear...

"Compensation? All you ever think about is compensation!"

"I think you're trying to have your cake and eat it too!"

"I'm so angry!"

Lin Yi pouted and turned her head away sullenly.

For some reason, after having a physical body, all her emotions and senses were completely different from when she was still in the system.

It seems as if it has been assimilated by the physical body...

She was gradually molded into the image of this man...

Lin Wan didn't say anything, but patted her bottom as a reward.

The game on the third floor has also ended in victory!

"I'm gone."

He waved to Lin Yi, then glanced at Meng Ke'er.

"The third floor is finished; we're ready to move on to the fourth floor."

Meng Ke'er jogged up to catch up, her face looking like she was dreaming.

The dimensional erosion of the basic rewards allowed her to reach the forty-three dimensions.

She didn't contribute much in the melee, relying entirely on the high-star cards Lin Wan had given her beforehand to hold her up. As a result, when the final results were announced, her total number of cards actually ranked in the top two.

Having gained such a huge advantage, she thought...

Why don't we just give it to Lin Wanhua now? We won't lose anything anyway...

Lin Wan ignored her and, holding her hand, helped Lin Yi onto her shoulders.

Silently count to the next level...

The golden light engulfed the three figures.

With the addition of twelve star cards in the subsequent corridor levels, Lin Wan will inevitably have a great advantage every time she appears, making things increasingly easier.

After the golden light dissipated,

Fourth floor,

Lin Wan found herself standing in the center of a huge circular plaza.

The square's surface is made up of countless hexagonal stone bricks, each with different patterns engraved on it, emitting a faint blue light.

The edge of the square is surrounded by towering stands.

among them,

To Lin Wan's surprise, there were more than 300 participants this time, but their overall level was much higher than that of the third level.

Looks like another massive server merge is happening.

Lin Wan glanced around and found that most of the people had dimensions of fifty or higher, with some even reaching a level he couldn't fathom.

"There's a bunch of monsters at the top," he muttered.

Meng Ke'er followed behind him, nervously glancing around. Although she had been boosted to forty-three dimensions by the dimensional swirl, she was still quite inconspicuous among this group of monstrous beings with fifty dimensions or more.

Lin Yi remained calm, sitting on Lin Wan's shoulder, rubbing his head against her with her legs, and lazily scanning the contestants in the stands.

A huge black stone tablet floats in the very center of the square.

Golden characters appeared on the surface of the stone tablet, scrolling line by line, showing everyone the rules.

Lin Wan looked up.

[Fourth Floor - The Game Corridor]

[Number of participants in this floor: 374.]

The rules are as follows:

[I. This level adopts a chip-based game mode. Each participant starts with 100 chips. Chips can be used for betting, exchanging, and lending, but cannot be used for direct combat.]

[II. At the start of each round, all participants will be randomly matched with an opponent. The two sides will engage in a psychological game with chips as stakes, and the winner will receive the loser's bet chips.]

If both sides bet the same amount, it's a tie, and the chips return to their original owners.

[III. The content of the psychological games will be randomly selected by the system, including but not limited to: rock-paper-scissors, dice rolling, comparing sizes, guessing numbers, taking turns asking questions, etc. The content of the games will be announced before the start of each round.]

[IV. After each round of the game, participants who run out of chips will not be immediately eliminated, but will enter a state of debt.]

Those who remain in debt for more than three consecutive rounds will be directly assimilated.

[V. This level consists of ten rounds of gameplay. After the ten rounds, the top ten players with the most chips will advance, and all other participants will be assimilated.]

[VI. In this layer, the use of any talent, cultivation level, or cheat-like abilities to influence the outcome of the game is strictly prohibited. Violators will be assimilated.]

After reading the rules, Lin Wan's first reaction was to look down at her shoulder. Fortunately, Lin Yi was still there and not on standby.

He tried using the target settlement function to secretly investigate and found that the target settlement function was still usable, but it could only be used to make vague directional judgments such as predicting the opponent's psychological tendencies, in order to guess what the opponent would do.

better than nothing.

But for Lin Wan, that was enough.

"At worst, I'll just pull out my Twelve-Star Ender and fry the fish!!"

With the End as his asset, he was not afraid at all.

But if he can play, he still wants to play games properly.

He wanted to see where he differed from these prodigies at the same level.

"Three hundred and seventy-four people, ten rounds of competition, the top one hundred... no, the top ten will pass."

He silently calculated that this meant more than 90% of the contestants would be eliminated.

Of these 300-plus people, most are high-level prodigies who undoubtedly possess various game-themed abilities.

Although the rules prohibit talent, some people's talents may be borderline abilities such as keen intuition or psychological insight, which can still provide a huge advantage without directly interfering with the outcome.

"Boss, do we have an advantage?"

Meng Ke'er leaned closer and asked in a low voice.

"have"

Lin Wan patted her shoulder.

"I have a talent called the Winner. Although the rules have disabled its active effect, as long as you accumulate winning points, the slight advantage it provides in probability games is still there."

"Moreover, I have more than just this one talent."

"Playing it close to the edge? Who can beat me at that?"

Lin Wan made a solemn vow.

Meng Ke'er suddenly blushed: "I don't believe it!"

Before Lin Wan could make a move, Lin Yi slapped her buttocks with his other hand.

"You slut, still trying to seduce me!"

"You have to believe it whether you want to or not!"

Meng Ke'er: ......