Chapter 191: 191 Mount Flower VS Shaliye 3_1
Ten seconds. The catch was this brief window of opportunity. As the marks on Mo Lihong and his two comrades gradually materialized into a pure white cross radiating sacred light, Ganesha’s sealing Skill took effect!
Actually, it hadn’t completely taken effect.
Wen Jiang could feel that Ganesha had no restraining power over her. Card restraint was a feature of a card’s abilities, but it was too fanciful to think that a mere A-Rank Card could seal her own abilities. She currently just felt an uncomfortable sensation while manipulating Mo Lihong, like walking through a sponge, but it wasn’t proving too difficult.Besides, she was only having a bit of trouble operating the Mo Lihong card smoothly; she could still summon other Cards and use her own abilities.
Still, considering she had to feign going easy on them, Wen Jiang licked the corner of her mouth and calmly ceased her actions.
Meanwhile, Gong Yuan and Chen Runyu felt their spiritual power being sealed; their Card Spirits could no longer move.
Ganesha’s ability had a full ten-second window during which their three Cards were disabled and unusable. In any other match, that would be enough for players to be eliminated a thousand times over. But their abilities had also been unleashed.
This should have been an excellent opportunity, but the Spirit Card Master controlling Hou Yi felt he had been too optimistic. It was one thing for Mo Liqing’s dozen or so wind blades to scrape past him, but when he barely dodged the Skill and saw Su Daji’s three Cards already disabled, he was instantly overjoyed.
However, the poison gas released by Su Daji still spread over them. Seeing this, Ganesha’s Spirit Card Master immediately switched Cards, invoking a curse. Ganesha used the curse Skill on the three sealed Cards. After ten seconds, the Card Spirits would automatically enter a state of reduced spiritual power, which would continue until dispelled by a Healing Card.
Of course, this time Mount Flower hadn’t brought a Healing Card, so the curse couldn’t be dispelled.
Shaliye’s side, of course, knew this. However, if the curse had been used from the beginning, even with a continuous drop in spiritual power, it wouldn’t have caused too much damage to the Spirit Card Masters in the early game. It had seemed better to use the enhanced sealing Skill. Besides, by all logic, Mount Flower should have lost three Cards during the Moon Palace Card Set’s first offensive wave.
The reality was, Mount Flower hadn’t lost a single Card Spirit and, on top of that, was in excellent condition.
A faint shadow had already crept into the minds of Shaliye and their teammates. Even though Wen Jiang’s Mo Lihong had been prevented from acting, they still felt an inescapable sense of dread.
When Shaliye, their team’s main damage dealer, prepared to strike again, the smiles vanished from their faces.
Although Mo Liqing’s attack was gone, the Copy Skill of Shaliye’s Purple Mink was in a precarious state, and the entire Moon Palace Card Set had a mere five seconds of activity left. Within this brief window, the water bubbles controlled by Ruan Chunen were already upon them.
The "water bubbles," nominally just bubbles, were actually air transformed into vapor that swept across horizontally. Shaliye’s team, having never witnessed such a Skill, couldn’t devise a countermeasure. The moment the vapor touched their Card Spirits, all five were trapped, each inside a separate water bubble.
Trapped inside the water bubbles, the Card Spirits couldn’t move, let alone use their abilities.
Shaliye and their teammates realized the dire situation and cried out in panic, "It’s over, it’s over!"
"God, something’s gone wrong! We’re finished!"
"Fuck! How can Cards like these exist in Yunxia?! This is unfair! No, no, no!!"
"We’ve lost—"
They didn’t know how long the water bubbles would last, but Ruan Chunen could act again. New support Skills were needed to coordinate with Mo Liqing. Even though Chen Runyu was sealed, these support Skills still possessed powerful deterrent capabilities. Ruan Chunen reacted swiftly, switching to an earth-type state and timing the move perfectly for when the water bubbles disappeared. Unleashing earth-type abilities, the ground beneath Shaliye’s team instantly began to show signs of collapsing.
Thus, just as the Card Spirits of Shaliye’s team were freed from the water bubbles, an effect from Purple Mink and the collapsing earth occurred simultaneously. Not only were all five Card Spirits hindered, but the Moon Palace Card Set was instantly rendered a useless trio!
Chang’e, unable to use her abilities, was even stripped of her Moon Palace state and plummeted from the sky.
The crowd on site was in an uproar.
The synergy of these two Skills was sickening and dreadful. Once Chen Runyu’s sealed state was lifted and he regained freedom of movement, he immediately followed up with Fire Skills, without hesitation.
Fire Skills erupted—in front of the Card Spirits, a massive, serpent-like flame materialized and shot straight towards the Moon Palace Card Set trio with lightning speed.
Normally, with abilities as straightforward as Mo Liqing’s, they could have easily dodged. However, under the chain of control effects, Shaliye’s team was utterly powerless to resist—to say nothing of the Heaven’s Pendulum Clock, which only served as an amplifier, or Ganesha!
Wen Jiang was also released from her sealed state. She simply manipulated her orb nonchalantly, and in an instant, the giant parasol handle in the sky swiveled, still blazing with fire.
The initially ferocious Fire Serpent suddenly split into three, precisely targeting the three members of the Moon Palace Card Set.
HISS.
As the Fire Serpents approached, onlookers could almost see human-like panic on the expressions of the Moon Palace Card Spirits. Even Jade Rabbit Pestle Medicine was too late. While Shaliye, their team’s main damage dealer, watched in horrified outrage, the Moon Palace Card Set, having already endured several waves of abilities, couldn’t withstand such a powerful assault, no matter how strong they were, and ultimately disintegrated.
Everyone present was dumbfounded.
The commentators in the live broadcast booth were practically dumbfounded, but in those mere tens of seconds, their mouths had already rapidly narrated the battle’s progression, "Hou Yi seized the initiative, targeting Su Daji and Mo Lihong! That should have been unstoppable!"
"Wen Jiang’s Mo Lihong made a move! Unbelievable! She utilized just a two-second window to accurately unleash her Card Spirit’s abilities!"
"What kind of divine defensive Card is that umbrella?! This is impossible! It actually blocked Hou Yi’s double strike! Absolutely impossible!!!"
"Mount Flower launched a counterattack! Mo Liqing and Mo Lihai struck simultaneously! Purple Mink’s Copy Skill created several waves—Fuck! How many damn control effects did Mount Flower just get hit with?!"
"The Moon Palace Card Set is gone!!!!"
At this moment, the audience watching the live broadcast could hear the commentators straining their voices to the limit.
Ever since the Moon Palace Card Set appeared, its strength had been unquestionably formidable. Even the most powerful players from Frost Moon admitted they couldn’t completely absorb Hou Yi’s Skills with their Cards. To be precise, absorbing Hou Yi’s Skills was simple enough; some players could even use their own Cards to redirect Hou Yi’s damage. However, countering Hou Yi required rather tricky Cards, making it difficult to achieve a complete counter-effect in world-class tournaments.
Yet, witnessing them take a Card’s ability head-on like this today, everyone understood one thing: Mount Flower’s card set was terrifying.
In an encounter lasting less than a minute, the Moon Palace Card Set was utterly defeated—a result that not even Shaliye’s team had anticipated, let alone the commentators or the audience.
Shaliye had lost too quickly.