Wu Tong surrendered very straightforwardly.

In this kind of situation, where the outcome is already irretrievable, stubbornly dragging it out until the opponent accumulates enough materials to defeat you won't leave a good impression. After all, we're all Life Card Masters, and we all know in our hearts whether we can keep fighting or not.

"What kind of mindset did you have when you put together this deck?" Wu Tong asked helplessly, extending his hand to Shen Sui.

Shen Sui didn't summon any followers on his field throughout the duel, yet his victory was indisputable.

Although Wu Tong's deck had Life Cards that used his own field's followers as materials, being a mech-themed deck, all his similar-effect cards had specified fields, so they couldn't deal with the Mutated Fish King on his field.

This was also why Wu Tong was so straightforward.

"Ah, if you can't beat them, join them." Shen Sui said ambiguously, but for a Life Card Master, such a sentence was more than enough.

In his previous life, Shen Sui was tormented by all kinds of Evil Beasts, and "if you can't beat them, join them" was no joke for him.

After defeating Wu Tong, Shen Sui went on to challenge three more opponents, all of whom he defeated without question.

Players recommended by ninth-tier Life Card Masters are not easy to deal with.

Especially after watching Shen Sui's previous duels, they all used their deck's strengths to limit Shen Sui's strategies when facing his challenges.

Unfortunately, Shen Sui's deck wasn't limited to just the Fish King set.

After achieving five victories, Shen Sui directly moved to first place on the leaderboard.

Even if he lost the next two matches, he could still unquestionably claim the top spot, effectively winning two rounds early.

"Truly, the younger generation is formidable...." Tan Song said, looking at Shen Sui, who was resting in a corner.

When he participated in the dueling enthusiasts' soirée, he only managed to achieve four victories.

Sometimes, in Life Card Duels, fate is indeed unpredictable.

"He's both lucky and strong," You Wenqi said, coughing. He had just finished talking with Wang Ming and finally had a little color on his originally pale face.

Tan Song looked at You Wenqi, his old rival, jokingly dubbed by netizens as "perennial second place," and asked with concern, "How did the talk with the Exploration Bureau go?"

"The terms are the same as before," You Wenqi replied, "but I have no other choice."

"I'm curious," Tan Song looked towards An Hai and asked, "What's the Exploration Bureau been preparing recently? Wenqi isn't the first ninth-tier Life Card Master to receive an invitation."

"Probably the same kind of tasks as before," An Hai said casually, adding that it would naturally come to Tan Song after the Exploration Bureau's investigation.

The Life Card Master team against the Extraordinary must go through the strictest selection because any betrayal could cause incalculable harm to the world.

Tan Song wasn't stupid; he could see that An Hai and You Wenqi were hiding something from him.

Meanwhile, while several ninth-tier Life Card Masters were discussing the Exploration Bureau's recent actions, Shen Sui also finally saw new information from Qishala.

Qishala wasn't visiting World No. 6 for the first time.

However, compared to her last visit, the world was no longer as peaceful as it once was.

With the continuous division of Spiritual Creatures, the living conditions in the Mirror Stele became increasingly harsh.

About a hundred years ago, war suddenly broke out in the Mirror Stele.

The ceaseless wars have continued ever since, causing countless Spiritual Lives to perish.

As time went by, many didn't even know the original cause of the war; they only knew that if they didn't keep fighting, they would become food for other Spiritual Lives.

Lingyi's Spiritual Terminal was completely destroyed in a war a few years ago, scattering all members around the world.

Qishala went through immense hardship to find one of Lingyi's former minions, a Spiritual Terminal Creature named Eternal Wolf King.

[Qishala inquired about the source of the war.]

[Eternal Wolf King, as a firsthand witness, recounted the discovery to Qishala.]

[To solve the limited survival resources in the Mirror Stele, the strongest factions of the Spiritual Network initially proposed collaborating to excavate the civilization-deep knowledge, especially that concerning the Mirror Stele.]

[Initially, their intentions were very pure, merely looking to find knowledge related to creating other Mirror Steles.]

[However, when they saw the vast sea of data deep within the civilization, a hopeless truth slowly unveiled itself.]

[The so-called Mirror Stele was nothing more than the toy of a certain Doctor Strange named Giant Eye.]

[All Spiritual Life was merely pets placed within the Mirror Stele by him.]

[His favorite pastime was watching, in silence, as Spiritual Creatures were born, grew, thrived, decayed, and waged wars, until their ultimate demise.]

[Without powerful external interference, the Mirror Stele's self-destruction was unsolvable.]

[In Giant Eye's hands, five or six similar Mirror Steles were already destroyed.]

[Then came the mysterious disappearance of the so-called Doctor Strange named Giant Eye; people of this world entered his lab and packed up all research data.]

[When he set up the Mirror Stele, because he defined the Spiritual Life as some kind of manifestation of civilization, the Mirror Stele's ecosystem was also crowned with the name of civilization's proliferation theory,]

[When the Boundary-breaking Worm invaded, and the world was doomed, people took Doctor Strange's research and turned the world's entire civilization into a Mirror Stele.]

[The world of the Mirror Stele is destined for destruction.]

[Even the legendary father of the Mirror Stele hasn't found the ultimate solution.]

[Despair spread among the expedition team, eventually leading to internal strife and triggering the Mirror Stele War.]

Shen Sui looked at these words, finally remembering this game.

This is a fantasy AAA title similar to Earth civilization crossing into an Otherworld.

Players play as a Transmigrator from a higher plane world, using the knowledge from the civilization they came from to help natives win the war.

The player is the embodiment of another civilization, possessing all the knowledge and technology of that civilization, but these things require the player to gain action points to unlock.

The enemies in the game are civilizations from other worlds.

Magic, science, evil energy, extraordinary powers...

Various magical civilizations collide in this world, competing to see which is the most powerful.

Since the entire process is about clicking and then watching the game's system automatically simulate, the developers thoughtfully included a little easter egg on the side.

This easter egg vividly represents the current game situation in the form of a biological ecosystem.

Each civilization is shown as different creatures during its period of strength, and they reproduce to represent the strength of that civilization in this world.

The game's difficulty is very high, and Shen Sui never managed to achieve a perfect survival ending, with almost every time ending in two ultimate powerful civilizations destroying each other, leading to the world's destruction.

According to experts on the game forums, if you really want to achieve a perfect ending, you can't just focus on destroying other civilizations; instead, you must quickly acquire devastatingly powerful weapons to destroy your opponents and promptly end all other civilizations.

Of course, there is another strategy: when you can't outpace your opponent in development, try to achieve a peace ending similar to nuclear deterrence.

However, until Shen Sui finally abandoned the game, he never managed to achieve such an ending; instead, he reached a very unusual great fusion of civilizations ending.

The several destructions of the Mirror Stele they witnessed were probably the saved games of Shen Sui's world endings.

Shen Sui finally knew what Vivian wanted him to handle.

The Mirror Stele is the last place in World No. 6 that holds the spark of life.

If the Mirror Stele is destroyed by internal war, then the entire World No. 6 will become a dead world, without any life.

Is Vivian wanting me to save World No. 6 and stop the war of the Mirror Stele?

Shen Sui pondered.

The Mirror Stele is a very special thing.

It is similar to a server, and Spiritual Life is the data stored inside.

The key is, the Mirror Stele belongs to the game's mechanics and was not created by Shen Sui's game character, so he has no means to create another Mirror Stele or transfer the Spiritual Life to another Mirror Stele.

Shen Sui felt a bit of a headache.

Vivian ultimately did not solve this matter, probably because of this.

She probably thought, as someone who left a name in this world, he should know how to handle it.

[Qishala found the Spiritual Ability Restart Button.]

["I can go back to awaken Lingyi now," Qishala said to you, "Do you need to come over?"]

[She sensed your hesitation.]

[You asked Qishala to leave a Dragon Scale next to the Mirror Stele as an anchor point, so you can travel over at any time.]

[Qishala took out Martina's Fish Scale.]

["????" How come you have this thing?]

["Martina gave it to me," Qishala said.]

["Did she meet with you?"]

["In the Elf Forest. Martina said she's going to Andrew City to fulfill her promise with you," Qishala said.]

["Uh... why didn't she directly find me through you then?"]

["I told her..." Qishala was also helpless, "But Martina said it's a promise between you two, and she's waited over a thousand years. She finally gets to fulfill this promise and must do it as agreed..."]

Martina, how did you learn such tricks from Freymia?

Shen Sui couldn't help but complain in his heart.

This promise was meant as a message left for Martina, thinking she might not keep up with him. Now she's met with Qishala; wouldn't finding me be as easy as pie? Why complicate matters....

["She probably feels it's very ceremonial this way," Qishala said while transmitting the restart button back through Martina's Fish Scale to the Elf Forest, "You know, Martina has always liked ceremonies very much."]

Yes, Martina indeed is someone who loves ceremonies.

Otherwise, she wouldn't always be thinking of giving Shen Sui a giant squid as a gift.

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