Chapter 81: Torture, General, please take the side path

The Lord plays a Strike.

The next moment,

the phantom of Bound Lu Bu swings his Halberd of the Heavens,

carrying the force of ten thousand jun,

and hacks toward Divine Xun Yu.

Seeing this, Gu Xuan plays two Dodges.

"Dodge!"

"Dodge!"

The phantom of Divine Xun Yu behind him,

the light orb held in its hands rotating slightly,

manifests a golden, transparent protective barrier around him.

"Hum~"

The Halberd of the Heavens collides with the golden barrier,

sending ripples across it,

and Bound Lu Bu's offensive is blocked.

Subsequently, the golden barrier turns into light and shadow, vanishing from sight.

The Bound Lu Bu player hesitates for a long time,

but decides to play the Nothingness in their hand.

After all,

drawing two more cards,

might just yield control cards like Enjoyment of Shu.

Even if they cannot restrict Player 1314,

they could at least restrict the other Rebels.

"Nothingness!"

Almost the exact moment Bound Lu Bu receives the cards,

the voice of Divine Xun Yu rings out across the field:

"Though Shao's soldiers are numerous, they are difficult to use; it is truly futile."

[Spirit Strategy] activates,

Gu Xuan's hand size +1.

Bound Lu Bu looks at the two new Strikes drawn,

then looks at the full hand of cards in front of Gu Xuan,

feeling an incomparable bitterness in their heart.

Fortunately,

with Bound Lu Bu as the Lord,

their health is relatively thick.

A health cap of six points

is enough for them to hold these cards without discarding them.

It is now the turn of Player 04, Gu Xuan.

The Divine Xun Yu phantom brushes the card table with one hand.

"I do not seek merit for the state, I only seek to have no regrets in my heart."

[Fixing Han] activates.

In front of Gu Xuan,

a pile of virtual Strategy cards appears, visible only to him.

After a moment of hesitation,

he moves the Enjoyment of Shu away,

and only then begins to draw cards.

Including the two cards drawn,

he now

has a total of twelve cards in hand.

He tilts his head to look at the Ma Liang player.

Since it is his turn,

then this annoying fellow

should also be ready to type GG!

Having Divine Xun Yu take a sip of wine,

Gu Xuan grins at the Ma Liang player,

revealing eight white teeth.

"Wine, Fire Strike!"

"Snap!"

The crisp sound of losing health echoes through the arena.

The Ma Liang player looks at Bound Lu Bu with a pleading gaze,

but the latter only shakes their head with a bitter smile,

indicating they have no Peach.

The game space's response time passes quickly.

With no Peach to save them, the Ma Liang player

can only be eliminated in resentment.

They turn into a beam of white light,

exiting the game space.

Before leaving,

they snort at Gu Xuan with an unlucky expression.

To run into such an "underworld" freak today,

it's just his bad luck!

Gu Xuan shrugs.

He doesn't really care.

Having played "underworld" generals so often,

people react like this every round.

After the Ma Liang player is eliminated,

a blinding flash of fire,

following the silver-white iron chains left by the Huang Yueying player,

climbs onto the Bound Lu Bu phantom,

and only slowly extinguishes after burning away two of their health points.

"Fire Attack!"

After dealing with the Ma Liang player,

Gu Xuan turns his spearhead toward the Bound Lu Bu player.

Seeing the latter pull out a Heart Nothingness,

Gu Xuan also pulls out a Heart Peach.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle."

The fire ignites once more,

and Bound Lu Bu loses another health point.

After dealing three points of damage, Gu Xuan

equips a Vine Armor,

a +1 Horse, and a Cold Ice Sword,

then discards his hand down to three cards,

and ends his turn.

After Gu Xuan's round of playing cards,

the Bound Lu Bu player is now down to only three health points.

Their face is pale,

and they sigh deeply.

With Ma Liang eliminated,

relying on themselves—a card-drawing "white" who cannot reach Divine Xun Yu—

and a Bound Deng Ai who has awakened but dares not use Snatch,

how could they be the opponents of the Rebels?

Even if the Traitor Lu Meng helps them,

but 3v4,

with Divine Xun Yu still alive,

how could they possibly win?

If not for the fact that the game space has no concept of surrender,

they would have long since looked for a side path to run away.

Staying here to watch Divine Xun Yu draw cards

is simply torture!

………………

The second round, the third round, the fourth round.

Just as they expected,

Gu Xuan sits in his original seat,

doing nothing but watching others play cards.

In one round, he draws at least five or six cards.

This is even while he, Bound Deng Ai, and Lu Meng are restraining themselves from using Strategy cards.

But in many situations,

such as being hit by Enjoyment,

they are forced to use Nullification.

By the time Bound Lu Bu barely survives to the fifth round with two health points,

Lu Bu of the Boundless Realm had managed to survive until the fifth round with only two health points left.

they tilt their head and discover

that Gu Xuan has eighteen cards laid out in front of him,

looking at them with a smile.

That kind of "underworld" smile

truly makes them shudder.

"Discard, discard,"

"I don't want to live anymore anyway."

Continuing to play is just a waste of time.

Quickly discarding the cards in their hand,

the Bound Lu Bu player lets Gu Xuan finish them off with a Wine-Strike for their last two health points,

and immediately after,

they turn into a beam of white light and leave the game space.

The Bound Deng Ai player thinks about how in the final round,

the number of Fields on their general card had reached as many as six,

yet they hadn't been able to use a single one.

Looking at Gu Xuan,

they complain with a wronged expression:

"You underworld player, what kind of underworld general are you using?"

"This is too much of a counter to me, isn't it?"

Gu Xuan looks at their appearance,

shakes his head with amusement,

and explains:

"Actually,"

"if you had used your Fields to convert into Snatch,"

"I wouldn't have been able to draw cards."

He will definitely use Divine Xun Yu in the future,

and the skill effects will be exposed sooner or later.

Now that he has said it,

it doesn't really matter.

The Bound Deng Ai player hears this,

freezes for a moment,

then,

looks at Gu Xuan with grief and indignation,

grits their teeth hard,

and points their right finger at him:

"You @####"

But the next moment,

Gu Xuan has already exited the competition arena.

……………………

The game ends,

and the game space's notification sound appears as usual.

[Congratulations to Player 1314 for winning the game!]

[Gold Beans +1800]

[In view of your outstanding performance, you will receive an additional 900 Gold Beans!]

With a dizzying spin,

Gu Xuan returns to the game space.

He had originally thought about continuing to compete,

but after seeing the gold coin balance in the upper right corner,

he can't help but feel his hands itching again.

"236,100 beans!"

Should he go and draw fifty more times?

Anyway, keeping about 180,000 gold beans is enough for him to buy Great Demons, Great Ghosts, or Divine Xun Yu later.

Thinking this,

Gu Xuan exits the game space without hesitation,

goes to the bathroom to wash his hands with the "old three-piece set,"

and sits on the bed.

Closing his eyes,

his consciousness enters the [Underworld].

The progress bar on the Underworld

is still that tiny bit,

feeling like it hasn't changed at all.

The shop inside the [Underworld],

with its 65,000-cost Great Ghosts, Nanhua Old Immortal, and other generals,

is still waiting for him to use Gold Beans to buy them.

Every time Gu Xuan sees this,

he has the feeling that his Gold Beans are quite insufficient.

Taking a deep breath,

Gu Xuan communicates with the [Underworld]:

"Golden Finger, give me fifty draws directly!"

"Don't stop!"

"Whoosh!"

50,000 Gold Beans are deducted from Gu Xuan's account,

vanishing without a trace.

Accompanied by a heavy sound of opening doors,

this time,

because 50,000 Gold Beans were spent,

the golden light radiating from the [Underworld]

is more intense than ever before!

Gu Xuan doesn't blink,

staring fixedly at the opened [Underworld] gate.

When the brilliant light finally calms down,

Gu Xuan counts with his hands:

"Five white clusters, forty blue clusters,"

"and five golden clusters!"

He rubs his hands together, looking at the fifty clusters of light in front of him,

and with a wave of his hand,

opens all the white and blue light clusters.

"Let me see,"

"what treasures did I draw?"

……………….