Cost is one of the rules in the Life Card Duel.

Under the tournament rules, a normal Life Card Master can only have 16 Soul Points per turn.

But now, every card Tan Song uses requires an additional 6 Soul Points, which is unbearable for anyone.

Tan Song fell into prolonged contemplation.

He was calculating whether he had enough cost to make his plays.

For a Life Card Master with a fixed strategy, a sudden increase in card cost is a very frustrating issue, as you might run out of cost halfway through and be forced to stop your play.

It's one thing to interrupt your play; the worst is to be stopped at the most awkward moment, like sending followers on the field to the graveyard, preparing to activate a Spell Card for a special summon, only to find out you're short on cost, leaving you with an empty field.

Tan Song is facing this very issue now.

After engaging in a chain twice with Shen Sui, he only has 6 Soul Points left. A little carelessness and he'd be blocked by the cost.

"If it were you, could you handle such a situation?" Wang Ming looked at Shen Sui's front field, thinking about the name Qishala, while on the other hand, asking An Hai.

An Hai, similar to Tan Song, remained silent for a long time, hesitantly saying, "It depends on my hand cards."

His meaning was clear, if the hand was slightly unfavorable, Shen Sui's series of moves would trap him.

Tan Song was in a similar situation.

Luckily, his starting hand in this duel was decent, even if hindered, he could still put up some struggle.

As long as he passed this turn, it would be fine.

Tan Song stared at the Gem Merchant Alice on Shen Sui's field.

Shen Sui couldn't maintain this form during Tan Song's turn. If he doesn't have other means to switch into the Gem Merchant form during Tan Song's turn, then without the [Toll] restriction, his play will be unstoppable.

Just as Tan Song thought about this, Shen Sui activated another face-down card.

[Soliciting Bribes].

Tan Song needs to pay at least 5 Soul Points, then both players choose a Follower Card from their graveyard to add to their hand.

I only have 6 Soul Points!

Damn it!

"You bastard!" Even Tan Song, who had a good temper, was a bit furious at this point. Ever since he joined the Life Card circle, when had he been subjected to such indignity, "If you have more cards like this, take them out all at once!"

"No more. Ahem, no more." Shen Sui coughed awkwardly. After all, this was a friendly match, and doing this was indeed not quite right.

But it was refreshing!

Seeing Tan Song's frustrated expression, most of the gloom in Shen Sui's heart dissipated.

"There was supposed to be another card, but I didn't draw it." Shen Sui added, he hadn't drawn [Give Me Money], the card that forces Tan Song to pay more, otherwise, Shen Sui wouldn't even leave Tan Song with 1 Soul Point.

Tan Song finally chose to pay all his Soul Points, that is, 6 Soul Points.

There was no retrievable Life Card in his graveyard. However, in Shen Sui's graveyard, there's the powerful 5-star card [Sacrificial Puppet·Ada], and Tan Song wouldn't want Shen Sui reclaiming this card.

According to the effect of [Soliciting Bribes], Shen Sui reclaimed [Daylight Knight·Oshana] from the graveyard.

"What on earth did you do with your Soul Cards?" Tan Song felt frustrated, "to get these cards."

"Um... she's rather mischievous," Shen Sui replied.

Tan Song took a deep breath, suppressing his frustration.

Although severely restricted, at least the special summon of Infinite Sword Immortal wasn't interrupted by Shen Sui.

Or rather, Shen Sui might have had the means to interrupt, but in that situation, he needed to send Anna to the graveyard first, therefore the timing was blocked.

Like the Silver Moon Wolf King.

While thinking about what the last face-down card of Shen Sui might be, Tan Song activated the effect of the Infinite Sword Immortal, to special summon a [Sword Immortal] Follower from the deck.

Shen Sui activated Anna's effect, drawing a card.

Tan Song ignored it and continued making his plays.

Tan Song activated the effect of the special summoned [Sword Immortal] Follower, revealed all hand cards, special summoning up to two [Sword Immortal] Followers from the top of the deck.

This time, Tan Song's luck was quite good, two high-star followers were special summoned.

"Activate the effect of [Moon River Sword Immortal - Tian Lin]." Tan Song said loudly, "Once per turn, pay half the Life Value to destroy all cards on your field."

At that moment, his eyes almost sparkled.

As long as he can wipe out your field, without the Gem Merchant's restriction, he could be a bit relieved!

He certainly knew the Silver Moon Wolf King's effect.

But he's not afraid, because he also has that card on his field!

"Hmm..." Shen Sui hesitated for a moment, seriously considering if this would provoke Tan Song.

In the end, he couldn't hold back and said, "When targeting me or my field's cards to activate a card effect, I activate the effect of [Dragon Conqueror·Qishala] on my field, negating your card effect, reveal the top card of my deck to determine and discard it, if it's a Follower Card, end the current chain, if it's not a Follower Card, Qishala's Spirit Value decreases by 3000."

Shen Sui revealed the top card of his deck.

[Bound Holy Artifact Puppet·Naphitaya].

Another one?

Tan Song felt even more frustrated inside.

Unconvinced, Tan Song activated the effect of another follower, releasing it to destroy a card on the opponent's field.

He aimed to send away [Gem Merchant·Alice].

"At this point, activate the effect of [Dragon Conqueror·Qishala] on my field..."

"Does this thing not have a once-per-turn limit?!!" Tan Song shouted incredulously.

Shen Sui blinked and said, "Doesn't it have a negative effect?"

"Bastard! You call this a negative effect?!" Tan Song retorted, "Determining discard pile, even if it fails, it just decreases a little Spirit Value."

"Well, if the Spirit Value drops to 0, Qishala would be destroyed."

"...." Tan Song remained momentarily silent.

Forget it, he was becoming somewhat numb, and he could understand if Shen Sui pulled out any more outrageous cards.

For the first time in his life, he so hoped the Forbidden Card List would sanction someone.

Tan Song released his two followers on the field one by one, converting them into cost.

Then he saw Shen Sui activate the effect of [Vivian's Matchbox], drawing two cards gladly.

If I had enough cost, I'd make you draw until your deck is empty!

Tan Song felt deeply aggrieved.

Being disrupted by Shen Sui like this, Tan Song knew that he probably couldn't build the field he wanted this turn.

So, what to do?

Survive!

Tan Song quickly switched his mindset, normally summoning [Sword Immortal·Xu Qingyin] from his hand.

This was his Soul Card and also had resistance.

But this resistance wasn't very stable. If he had enough cost, he might have set a card to ensure its safety.

"My turn ends." Tan Song quickly ended his turn.

It's like being in a cage, truly like being imprisoned.

Wait for my next turn, I'll definitely show you the might of a Sword Immortal!

Tan Song thought angrily.

"My turn, draw a card." Shen Sui drew a card from his deck.

Then... Shen Sui activated the effect of Mutated Fish King from his hand, directly releasing Tan Song's [Seeker of Immortality] and Xu Qingyin on the field.

"???"

Next, Shen Sui switched Alice's form to the Flame Witch form, releasing Tan Song's last [Sword Immortal] follower on the field, summoning a Flame Derivative.

"???"

Shen Sui drew a card from his hand and very considerately equipped that Flame Derivative with an Equipment Spell Card that wouldn't be destroyed by battle.

"Spend 14 Soul Points." Shen Sui pointed to Qishala, "transform Qishala's form to [Star Abyss White Dragon·Qishala]."

Yes, [Star Abyss White Dragon·Qishala] can be summoned through form transformation, but Shen Sui always thought it was cooler to release five followers and normally summon it, so he hadn't used this method before.

Seeing the Star Abyss White Dragon, Tan Song immediately understood what Shen Sui intended to do.

And at this moment, the only way he had to retaliate against Shen Sui was: Don't let him be pleased!

"I surrender." Tan Song surrendered at lightning speed, showing no tenacity of a ninth-rank Life Card Master.

"What the heck! You're a ninth-rank Life Card Master, aren't you?!" Shen Sui, who was ready to enjoy himself, was immediately stifled, "Is surrender really okay?"

Seeing Shen Sui's frustration, Tan Song felt slightly better and chuckled:

"It's just a friendly match; consider this victory my gift to you."

"Could you please have some dignity?" Shen Sui rolled his eyes.

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