Carried to Victory by Chinese Cards!

[Leveling Up] [Satisfying Face-Slapping] [Genius Showdown] [War of the Gods] [Light Ensemble Cast, Feel-Good Novel]

[Looking for readers of similar novels: Reborn to Summon the Gods of China; The Gods Apply to Enter the Battle]

[Summoning Progress: The Ten Kings of Hell and Peacock Wisdom King complete; Nezha is wreaking havoc...]

[Full Story Progress: Comeback in the College Entrance Exam (√) Cleared the Night Parade of a Hundred Ghosts (√) Entrance Assessment (√) Underground Arena (√) Academy Tournament in progress...]

In the interstellar era, alien beasts soar through space and run rampant, bringing disaster everywhere!

The war grows fiercer by the day. The beasts seek to invade humanity's last homeland, and humanity is no match for them!

Just as defeat seems inevitable, the gods descend!

Some people can summon gods by offering sincere faith and something the gods cherish as sacrifices. They then use cards to hold divine power, divine skills, and divine artifacts!

These people are known as card masters!

*

Jiang He, a frail liberal arts student, transmigrates and discovers she's facing the college entrance exam all over again.

And that's not even the worst part.

The worst part is that this world's college entrance exam is meant to select more card masters, so there are only two subjects: arts and martial studies. And the original owner's arts exam papers have been torn to shreds by a rival with ulterior motives!

In short, before the exam has even begun, Jiang He is already a hundred points behind.

Jiang He: ?

With no other choice, and determined to avoid the debt she'd incur if she failed to get into college, Jiang He has nothing left but to grit her teeth and start summoning cards from scratch!

But she doesn't know what she's in for until she starts looking through the popular cards and is stunned!

[Win Rate Top 1: Athena, Goddess of Wisdom]

[Win Rate Top 2: Tyr, God of War]

[Win Rate Top 3: Odin, Chief God]

She looks from the top of the list all the way down to number one hundred. At the end, Jiang He can't help but imagine a question mark:

Where's our Chinese god squad?

Wait, are you saying that from the Victorious Fighting Buddha to the three-section staff-wielding hero of Chentang Pass, even the Jade Emperor and Queen Mother of the West, all pale in comparison to these foreign gods?

Jiang He: Stunned.

But whatever. She may not understand much, but as a true daughter of China, she's going to blindly bet on Chinese gods!

*

At the most critical moment, as everyone fights on only to suffer one defeat after another,

the people around her despair, convinced they're all about to die!

But Jiang He smiles.

With just one card, [The Three-Section Staff of Chentang Pass],

in an instant,

a Wind-Fire Wheel whirls and tears the soul from the beast that had just been glaring menacingly at them!

A Fire-Tipped Spear shoots across ten thousand miles, striking down the beast leading the pack without mercy!

A Red Armillary Sash silently coils around a traitor's neck, killing them with effortless ease!

After leaving everyone on the scene, along with the viewers in the livestream, dumbfounded, Jiang He simply gives a lazy, almost roguish smile from behind them:

"This is the Chinese god of slaughter you looked down on!"

*

The gods of China have not emerged for a long time!

The reason is that the Chinese pantheon has impossibly high standards, so card creators are rare. The powerful card creators have been hunted down by their enemies until few remain. China's reputation has consequently fallen to rock bottom, to the point that even ordinary people have never heard of it!

So when a girl from humble beginnings suddenly creates a Chinese card, some people try to recruit her, some try to suppress her, and others scheme against her from the sidelines...

But without exception, everyone silently agrees that if they can't have her, they'll destroy her. They absolutely won't let China produce another genius and rise again!

But a month later,

[Victorious Fighting Buddha] card: One swing of the Golden Cudgel sends opponents fleeing in tears, and he dominates the army tournament!

[Ten Kings of Hell] card: A chill wind blows, the King of Hell raises his eyes, and the judge's brush moves without a breeze. Those who came to suppress her are so terrified they suffer nightmares every night!

The [Peacock Wisdom King] card appears, and with just one icy glance, even the Buddhas of the Indian pantheon burst into tears and cry, "Bodhisattva!" as they beg for their lives!

The followers of other gods and the onlookers: What the heck???

Jiang He blinks, looking a little proud: Easy-peasy!

*

"Maybe the greatest purpose of my transmigration was to save China, which has fallen so low!"

"Above me, Jade Emperor and Queen Mother of the West..."

"Gods and Buddhas of the heavens, hear my command."

"Follow me. Kill!"

Reader's Guide:

1. A satisfying leveling-up and face-slapping story, with epic mythological card battles!

2. Academy competitions in the first half, battlefield combat in the second.

3. Includes lots of forum-style and livestream-style sections.

4. The male lead appears midway through the story.

5. This novel is based on my own knowledge, so there may be errors or missing details. If you don't like it, feel free to drop it, but please don't flame me or point out mistakes.

6. The heroine's character card was kindly gifted to me for free by a lovely artist on Xiaohongshu! I'll add the hero's once I find a suitable one!

7. The author is always revising, so details in earlier chapters may change. I can't take responsibility for incomplete pirated versions.

Next novel: Reborn to Summon the Gods of China

If you like it, please add it to your favorites to help me get it started!

Blurb:

[Revenge-Driven Heroine] [Genius Showdown] [Ensemble Cast of Gods]

In the year 4444, Chinese civilization fails its "advancement assessment."

Perhaps because she couldn't accept it, Jiang Li, now a ghost, can only watch helplessly as her beautiful homeland is destroyed overnight and all of human civilization is reduced to the lowest class, "the untouchables."

Just as her fury has nowhere to go,

she is reborn three days before the start of the "advancement assessment."

*

Given a second life,

Jiang Li knows all too well from her memories of the previous life that neither technology nor history can save Blue Star from the fate it suffered before.

Since that's the case, Jiang Li lowers her stubborn eyes and unhesitatingly chooses the same path she took in her previous life:

Summon the gods who fought to the death alongside her!

*

During the advancement assessment, countless livestreams go dark as their protagonists die, leaving behind a single tiny screen.

And so every civilization sees it:

In the summoning array that appears as Jiang Li lowers her eyes,

A bitter wind howls as the Ten Kings of the Underworld tower over the Netherworld.

The judge's brush, its cold gleam streaking through the air, turns with a flash of ink. On the full moon night when a hundred ghosts appear, it suppresses them so completely that even the Ghost King dares not move.

A red-tasseled cloak billows in the wind as the shadow of the Great Sage Equal to Heaven appears.

Before the Golden Cudgel, growing with the wind, can even fall, the heart-demon tribulation that terrifies everyone breaks on its own, saving them from certain death.

Wind-Fire Wheels blaze in the wind as the Dharma form of the Third Prince appears.

The slender Fire-Tipped Spear flashes red, and in an instant, he cuts a path through the endless tide of bloodthirsty Asura beasts.

After claiming first place from all the top civilizations time and time again, Jiang Li and the whole of Chinese civilization become famous!

Billions of civilizations tremble and debate: What sort of power is Chinese civilization?

Jiang Li smiles gently, her gaze both fierce and tender.

Here, mountains rise and fall, and the ranges stand with me.

This is the world of humanity, the land where the gods' legacy lives on.

The gods answer China's call; the realm is the Nine Provinces.

This is a civilization you cannot afford to provoke!

Next up for preorders, in case anyone might like it:

The Mythology Arena: The Gods Apply to Enter the Battle

Jiang Nan transmigrates.

Here, countries don't fight wars against each other. Instead, everyone watches a nationally livestreamed "arena battle."

Each country selects a representative, who summons a god willing to appear and borrows their powers to fight in the arena.

The winner becomes king, the loser is crushed. The defeated lose everything, including territory, resources, and even the intangible fortune of their nation...

Jiang Nan also discovers that summoning gods from the Chinese pantheon is incredibly difficult, and that most of China's mythological figures have been entirely forgotten by the people.

So when other countries summon their gods of war, gods of wisdom, and even legendary creators of the world, the summoning array before China remains empty!

Someone who has already completed their summoning sneers at Jiang Nan: "The gods of China have abandoned you at last! Why keep waiting here?"

Just as Jiang Nan, despite her best efforts, continues to fail at summoning, a cold voice rings in her ear.

[Congratulations, Host. You are now bound to the "God Summoning System." You can spend fortune, lifespan, and other things to gain the opportunity to communicate with the gods!]

The System waits for Jiang Nan to act like its previous Hosts: either kneel and beg it for mercy while haggling, scheme against others, or seize the chance to become the world's savior and earn the gratitude of millions.

Instead, it hears Jiang Nan's calm voice.

[Can I see them first?]

And so Jiang Nan sees, against the backdrop of the distant galaxy, a towering divine palace seemingly located at the edge of the universe. Countless Chinese gods sleep inside. The particles of the galaxy shift and turn, but the stillness of the ages remains unchanged.

Then Jiang Nan speaks softly.

"I am Jiang Nan, a junior. I offer my life and ask you, I beg you, to save China once more!"

Jiang Nan's voice is not loud. If anything, it is soft.

But almost the moment her words fall, the gods who have slept for untold ages open their eyes. They see Jiang Nan, and the countless desperate people of China behind her, along with the arrogant foreign invaders!

At first, the divine palace is silent.

Then, in an instant...

The Third Prince passes straight through the seemingly useless summoning array and appears behind Jiang Nan.

"I hear you're the one who bullied my kid into this state?"

Before the words have even left his mouth, a flash of cold light, and his spear is already out!

His killing intent surges!

"I took a little nap, and you let them bully my people like this? You must have thought too little of me!"

The Great Sage Equal to Heaven even yawns lazily as he speaks.

But his cudgel is already in motion!

"This is the Sea-Calming Golden Cudgel. Come! Take one hit from me!"

When it feels the aftershock of just one strike from these two gods, even the System, which has remained unchanged for countless years, freezes.

It is no longer calm and superior as before. Instead, it is terrified:

[How is this possible? Don't gods only open their eyes to look at someone after a desperate blood sacrifice, a sacrifice of overwhelming fortune? How could they end a sleep lasting ten thousand years just because you called for help, all to stand up for you?]

[Who are you?]

Jiang Nan gives a faint smile.

[I'm nobody special!]

[Your experience only proves that your gods are aloof, standing above mortals!]

[The gods of China say: Call, and we will answer. Ask, and we will come!]

[The Third Prince slew dragons to protect the people. The Great Sage Equal to Heaven went all the way to the Heavenly Court to beg for rain!]

[The King of Hell became a god through the people's merit, and Nuwa mended the sky to save the world!]

[They have always come from the human world, and returned to the human world!]

[How could they possibly watch China in danger and do nothing? I summon the gods only to tell them...]

China is in danger. Gods, awaken, and then,

come and die!

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