Zhang Chunjiu had intended to use Fang Yang’s parents to provoke him, a move he thought was a winning hand. It was, in fact, one of the trump cards Zhang Chunjiu held against Fang Yang. However, Zhang Chunjiu could never have guessed that the soul residing within the Fang Yang before him had long since changed. The parents of the original body could no longer stir the emotions of the current Fang Yang. Zhang Chunjiu had just played a losing card.
Fang Yang, in turn, had thrown out a "Minor Joker." The dense barrage of offensive talisman paper and magical arrays forced Zhang Chunjiu to deploy his own trump card: the Thunderbolt Talisman. At this moment, Fang Yang finally unleashed his "Major Joker"—the Hundred Sword Talisman.
This was only the second time Fang Yang had truly engaged in a duel, yet he had already grasped the essence of it: cultivator duels were essentially turn-based card games. They relied entirely on calculation. To win, beyond maintaining sufficient cultivation, one needed a surplus of hidden cards, and most importantly, one had to know the right order in which to play them. Clearly, Fang Yang held more cards than Zhang Chunjiu and knew precisely how to play them.
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