After Shen Sui was placed on the leaderboard by those card hunters, they seemed to realize that Shen Sui wasn't someone to be trifled with, and finally stopped bothering him.

Thus, Shen Sui's journey ahead became very smooth.

"Let me see." Shen Sui paused at a crossroad and took out his phone to glance at the map.

Once you're on the leaderboard, your location is also synced in real-time to the event's official website, making it easier for others to challenge you.

When Shen Sui opened the map, the first thing he saw was his rank and location.

Ranked 89th on the leaderboard.

Looking at this ranking, Shen Sui thought to himself: I feel like I haven't even started the competition, yet I'm on the leaderboard.

All I can say is that those guys who always claim "I can do it too" really can pass on their points, practically elevating me to my current position on the leaderboard.

Shen Sui's participation in this event wasn't just for winning that card.

He also wanted to find a few scapegoats to invade World No. 8.

Therefore, Shen Sui first excluded Life Card Masters like An Hai and Tan Song, whose backgrounds were well known; they were surely not the All-Knowing.

Then he ruled out some participants from this nationwide tournament, as Shen Sui found no information linking them to World No. 8 in the competition's intel.

Afterwards, he also excluded a group of nationally renowned Life Card Masters, as there was no visible connection between them and World No. 8 either.

After this round of screening, few Life Card Masters were left, so Shen Sui picked the nearest one and rode his bicycle over.

*****

Brian felt that his luck was exceptionally good today as he looked at the rare cards he had won. He felt that this trip to Huaxia was extremely profitable.

When he was informed by the organization that he'd be assigned to Huaxia for activities, he was very reluctant.

This country is different from the United States.

Although both prohibit World No. 8, the United States only pays lip service to it. As long as you don't go overboard, the federal police won't come knocking on your door; in fact, their organization even collaborates with the federal police quite a bit.

But Huaxia is different. If they discover a Life Card Master from World No. 8 here, they actually will take action and arrest them.

Recently, many cadres from the organization were caught by the Huaxia Exploration Bureau.

But now Brian just felt exhilarated.

The Life Card Masters in Huaxia really are well-off. No wonder it's the country with the cheapest Life Card prices worldwide. Any Life Card Master here holds quite a few good cards.

Just these few Life Cards he won, if he could take them back to the United States, would easily bring in an income of several million US dollars.

Of course, before that, he needed to pass the customs checks of both Huaxia and the United States.

The former recently issued a ban on exporting rare and powerful cards.

The latter has strict anti-dumping laws on Life Cards, tightly controlling the influx of Huaxia's Life Cards.

But for the All-Knowing, these two matters are nothing.

As Brian was immersed in his rich fantasies, an ear-piercing scraping sound came from in front of him.

Brian opened his eyes and saw a tall figure riding a bicycle against the light.

"Are you Brian?" the person asked.

"Yes."

"Alright, let's duel," the other party immediately said.

Brian found it amusing.

But he wouldn't refuse any fat sheep that came to him.

Without hesitation, he accepted the duel invitation.

"Your Huaxia really has a lot of people who overestimate themselves," Brian couldn't help but mock, "Today, all have come to send cards to your grandpa!"

"Your Chinese is quite fluent," Shen Sui glanced at Brian and said, "If you learned it by yourself, I might go easy on you."

In his eyes, the man named Brian in front of him was almost overflowing with the power belonging to the Secret Peeping Man.

Evidently, Brian didn't learn Chinese through diligent study; it was entirely the result of forcible instillation by the Secret Peeping Man.

Infusing others with the knowledge he peeps.

This is also one of the privileges of the Secret Peeping Man.

Shen Sui recalled Vivian saying that when she casually took down all the Dominators in World No. 8, she didn't even touch the Secret Peeping Man. When this guy tried to peek at the power of Twilight within Vivian, he just instantly died.

A quarter of the Origin Power of the Dawn Continent isn't something a mere fifteenth-level Dominator can probe.

"Hahaha! I have the first move!" Brian laughed proudly.

"Kindly reminding you!" he arrogantly said to Shen Sui, "My first move win rate is ninety percent!"

"Oh...." Shen Sui didn't feel surprised at all, "My current win rate when taking the second move is one hundred percent."

Of course, his win rate when making the first move is also one hundred percent.

Brian snorted coldly and started his play.

His deck is a very typical first-move suppression type.

Create a situation that the opponent simply cannot resolve.

And then strip the opponent of the ability to play cards.

Shen Sui pretended to be very scared.

Shen Sui decided to silently throw a [Sinful Saintess · Anna].

The moment Anna's effect was triggered, Brian was visibly stunned for a moment, then became overjoyed: "This card is very powerful! Nice! You've successfully piqued my interest! This card belongs to me today!"

Shen Sui squinted his eyes slightly.

The last bit of pity he had for Brian was gone.

Brian clearly didn't realize the seriousness of the situation; he completely ignored Anna's effect and just pushed through with his strategy.

In his eyes, his end-game was an invincible existence. What did it matter if his opponent drew a few more cards?

Looking at the thirteen cards in Shen Sui's hand, Brian sneered, "You're down to just one thousand life points. Can you really finish me in one turn?"

Brian's confidence stemmed entirely from the thirteen-star boss on his field.

He was the strongest Hidden Moon Apostle of the Secret Peeping Man.

He had resistance to becoming the target of card effects; as long as he's on the field, opponents can't activate effects to destroy, banish, or send cards to the graveyard.

When he destroys an opponent's follower, he deals double battle damage.

Moreover!

He boasted a mighty 8000 stats!

Brian didn't see how he could lose this duel; he could win with his eyes closed, right?!

What can you possibly do with thirteen cards in one turn to beat my boss?

There's no way such a weak opponent could overcome my Hidden Moon Apostle!

Brian was just that confident.

Then he ended his turn.

Shen Sui glanced at his hand and chuckled, "To be honest, since my debut, I haven't seen anyone as bullheaded as you."

This wasn't the first time he threw Anna on the first turn, but Brian was the first to brazenly persist under Anna's effect.

Even Yuan Youxin before him tried to exhaust Shen Sui's deck, not knowing Anna had a self-summoning effect.

Other opponents launching a strategy under Anna was out of desperation because they knew standing firm could lead to defeat, but not doing so would certainly lead to it.

"Indeed, a very strong follower." Shen Sui looked at Brian's Hidden Moon Apostle and nodded approvingly, then drew the Fish King Paiyigaard.

Brian's proud laughter came to an abrupt halt.

Shen Sui scratched his ear and said with a smile, "I'm not used to you suddenly going quiet."

"What is this card!" Brian exclaimed in disbelief, pointing at the Fish King on his field, "Why doesn't the Hidden Moon Apostle's resistance work!"

"This isn't an effect," Shen Sui shrugged, "I recommend you go back and copy the Life Card Duel rules fifty times."

With that, Shen Sui couldn't be bothered with Brian.

He raised his hand to specially summon the Radiant Lion, then sacrificed this spiritual life to send the stacked Cursed Puppet and Substitute Puppet to the grave.

Then, using the effect of the Cursed Puppet, he activated [Shining Debut] from his deck to specially summon the Sacrificial Puppet Ada.

He activated Ada's effect to fill the field with derivatives of the Sacrificial Puppet.

Then activated the effect of the sent Substitute Puppet Jamie to add Qishala to his hand from the deck.

What followed was a procedure Shen Sui was all too familiar with.

And because of Anna's effect, the hand card star levels displayed due to the opponent's spell card activation were 0, so Shen Sui didn't need to pay any costs. He simply didn't bother reducing costs by sacrificing Ada's derivatives, directly sacrificing all Sacrificial Puppets to normally summon the Star Abyss White Dragon Qishala.

Since he didn't draw the Equipment Spell Card that prevents equipped followers from being destroyed in battle, to ensure a one-turn kill, Shen Sui needed to perform a control top-deck move.

So Shen Sui employed a control top-deck strategy he had used before.

It was through the negative effect of [Pure White Holy Steed Golden Ship]; when she's in the graveyard, as long as the [Magic Apprentice · Alice] leaves the field, Shen Sui must place a card from his hand onto the top of the deck.

After completing the top-deck control, Shen Sui wasted no time and entered the battle phase directly.

With the stacking effect of the spiritual life's deck, Shen Sui's deployment ability was near perfect.

The only concern was that the Exploration Bureau would place all of Shen Sui's spiritual life follower cards on the Forbidden Card List.

However, even if they ended up on the Forbidden Card List, it just meant they couldn't be used in professional matches.

In a city-level duel tournament like the one in Coastal City, despite its scale, it didn't obtain the qualifications of a professional event; thus, it was technically an amateur competition.

Even if spiritual life wasn't banned, or even if it were, opponents could not stop Shen Sui from launching his strategy with these followers.

Brian lost.

He lost very thoroughly.

Shen Sui, without any fuss, directly wiped out all of Brian's life values.

"H-how could this be?" Brian sat down dejectedly.

Shen Sui put away his deck and slowly walked over to Brian.

He looked down at Brian and said, "Alright, according to the rules of the tournament, it's time for you to hand over a Life Card."

Shen Sui's words carried an overwhelming, undeniable pressure.

Brian raised his head, seeing the half-smiling expression on Shen Sui's face.

"Well, of course, you have another option," Shen Sui tilted his head, smiling, "Make a little transaction with me. The collateral for the transaction...is your soul."

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