"Little Duke!"
Bob always arrived earliest at the Sam's Card Repair Shop because he didn't know how to repair cards. He mainly handled logistics and welcomed customers, and only diligence could keep him there.
"Morning, Bob."
"Morning, morning." Bob looked at Duke with some surprise.
Wearing a white shirt, a blue scarf around the collar, covered with a dark blue thin jacket, sleeves rolled up to the elbows. He wore coffee-colored casual pants with a brown belt tied around them, and on his feet were a pair of black leather shoes.
A brown tool bag hung on his shoulder.
With slightly naturally curled brown-black hair, about fifteen centimeters in length, parted three-seven on his handsome face with distinct features, and skin full of collagen.
Compared to the past, Duke at this moment exuded an indescribable vigor, coupled with a carefree temperament.
Just this appearance surpassed most people.
"Bob, what do I need to do? Does the boss have any instructions?" Duke, no longer an apprentice, needed to inquire about his new job.
Bob came to his senses and quickly said, "The boss announced three days ago that you've been promoted. There's no specific assignment for now. Just follow him or the three card repairmen to learn the techniques of card repair."
"Okay."
"Well..." Bob looked puzzled, "Little Duke, what did you do for the boss to suddenly promote you?"
"Not much, just opened the spirit sea." Duke smiled in response. It wasn't a secret or necessary to hide, similar to getting into university after the college entrance exam.
"Opened, opened the spirit sea!" Bob widened his eyes. "You mean... you opened the spirit sea, really succeeded?"
"Yes."
"Oh, congratulations, Little Duke." Bob's smile was somewhat twisted.
Duke didn't mind, simply saying, "The card repairmen haven't arrived yet. If there's no other assignment, I'll go read a book for a while."
"Sure, take your time."
Bob watched Duke go to a corner, took out a book from the tool bag, then took a deep breath, quickly walked to the repair area, and grabbed the lazy Bobby wiping the table.
Bobby was his son.
"Quickly, go congratulate Duke."
"What?" Bobby looked like he hadn't woken up.
"Go congratulate Duke. You guys are good friends, right? He has successfully opened the spirit sea and become a spiritual apprentice. He will definitely become a card repairman in the future."
Bobby was stunned for a moment, then exclaimed, "How is that possible!"
As apprentices, Bobby found it hard to believe.
He knew that Duke had been secretly saving money before, buying rising Qi elixirs, and then buying boiling blood elixirs. As a result, neither the Qi sea nor the blood sea had opened. It was evident that, like everyone else, he was an ordinary person without any talent for cultivation.
Moreover, among the three seas, the spirit sea was the most difficult to open.
"He can't even open the Qi sea or the blood sea. How can he open the spirit sea!" Bobby shook his head. "Dad, you're not kidding me."
Slap!
Bob slapped Bobby's head. "Hurry up!"
Bobby was not a fool. Seeing his father's serious attitude, even if he didn't want to believe it, he had to believe it. Leaving the cloth, he reluctantly went to congratulate Duke.
"Duke..."
"What's up, Bobby?" Duke knowingly asked. After opening the spirit sea, his senses had become much sharper. He had already overheard the conversation between the father and son.
"Did you open the spirit sea?"
"Indeed."
"No way, you really opened it?" Bobby still couldn't believe it. "How did you open the spirit sea? You failed to open the blood sea just a few days ago. This is too exaggerated."
"I borrowed some money from the boss, bought a spirit awakening elixir to take a gamble, and then I succeeded." Duke said, taking out a magic card from his pocket and shaking it. "Two days ago, I took a trip to Chenjiao City with a car and registered as a spiritual apprentice in the Magic Card Tower."
"Magic card!" Bobby widened his eyes.
He wanted to take a closer look at the magic card, but he didn't dare. After all, a few days ago, he and Thomas were still mocking Duke for wasting money, foolishly trying to open the three seas.
Such a turnaround was too abrupt for him.
So, after confirming that Duke had indeed opened the spirit sea, Bobby couldn't hold his face and made an excuse, "You're really lucky. Congratulations. I'll go wipe the table first."
"Go ahead." Duke waved his hand.
Feeling really good.
From the attitudes of Bob and Bobby, he could clearly feel that opening the spirit sea, even if he had just registered as a one-star spiritual apprentice, was a significant leap in status.
In the extraordinary world, extraordinary power is the truth.
By eight in the morning, Old Sam entered the shop, and Duke immediately shared the good news of opening his spirit sea.
After Old Sam's surprise, he was very happy for Duke. "Now your chances of becoming a scholar have increased a lot. Work hard, lucky and clever young man."
Duke took the opportunity to say, "Boss, I want to try a waste spirit card."
"Uh, have you cultivated spirit fluid?"
"Yes."
"Then find some waste cards and try it yourself. I'm too lazy to repair cards now. Just go to my workstation."
There were naturally a lot of discarded spirit cards in the card repair shop. Duke picked a popular spirit dragon card, then activated the spirit card testing machine to check its energy circuits.
With the machine stimulating the energy circuits, you could see that the energy circuits in this spirit dragon card were shattered into countless small pieces, like a comminuted fracture.
"Xiao Yi, assist me in repairing it."
"Yes, master. Xiao Yi will tell the master the repair steps, and the master will operate the repair personally."
Xiao Yi is the best intelligent assistant tool, but unfortunately, it cannot materialize or control Duke's hands personally. It can only provide support from a theoretical technical standpoint.
"The ring of this spirit dragon card is broken into twenty-seven small segments. According to the speculation of a normal ring, six segments of the energy route have already dissipated, so it cannot be repaired."
"No need to fix it. Just practice. Let's work together and connect one segment of the energy route."
Peeling off the cover, prying open the card shell—these basic card repair procedures were already familiar to Duke.
Now the energy routes were completely exposed to view.
He picked up a "spiritual pen," a kind of spiritual tool that could perfectly transmit the operator's spirituality, converting it into stable spiritual energy to draw energy routes.
Suddenly.
Feeling the spiritual fluid in the spirit sea, through the arm, slowly flowing into the spiritual pen.
Duke collected his thoughts, focused on the discarded dragon spirit card, and with Xiao Yi's assistance, found two segments of connected but damaged energy routes. Then he slowly pressed the spiritual pen.
Puff!
A large amount of spiritual power surged from the pen tip, directly sealing the energy routes. Excessive spiritual energy instantly burst these two energy routes, completely destroying them.
"Too much energy infusion, repair failed," Xiao Yi concluded.
"I know, try again."
For an hour, Duke tirelessly repaired the dragon spirit card, until he had damaged all the energy routes in the entire card, but still didn't repair a single energy route.
"It sounds simple, but doing it... is really difficult!"
(End of this chapter)