Master of Trading Star Card Game

Chapter 33 - The Ghost Hell Club (Part 2)

Translator: Star River from wangmamaread

Proofreader: Rhith

In game, Xie Mingzhe started to make the new cards as soon as he returned to his individual space.

Actually, ghost cards could be easily targeted. He already had the idea when Legend Tang suggested aiming at ghost cards earlier. But he had just finished [Lin Daiyu] and [Xue Baochai] at that time, then he made [Xi Shi] and [Wang Zhaojun] in order to maintain the continuity of beauty cards.

Imagine walking into the store and seeing the complete series of the Four Great Beauties cards in the display cabinet. That would be enchanting.

He already had the four beauty cards as the greatest treasure of the store, which means the new cards that he made next wouldn't be placed in the display cabinet. Accordingly, the consistent painting style could be eliminated from his consideration, and it was okay if the new cards' images were not that good looking.

According to Chinese mythology and the description in one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Journey to the West, people would become ghosts and go to "the underworld" after they die. Yanluo Wang※ oversaw the underworld realm and he had four subordinate judges who were in charge of four departments of the world respectively. They were the Four Judges in Chinese mythology, Wei Zheng of the "Rewarding Kindness Department", Zhong Kui of the "Punishing Vice Department", Lu Zhidao of the "Inspecting Department" as well as Cui Yu of the "Regulating Department".

Wei Zheng of the Rewarding Kindness Department was responsible for rewarding "good ghosts" who had done good stuff to people before they died. In other words, good people would get rewards when they came to the underworld and met Wei Zheng. And they would be reincarnated to families with good conditions.

Zhong Kui of the Punishing Vice Department, just as its title, was responsible for punishing "evil ghosts" who did a lot of bad things when they were alive. According to these evil ghosts' sins, he sent different ghosts to different levels of Diyu※ which had eighteen levels in total, and there they would atone for their sins. They could be reincarnated after serving their sentences, but if the crime was extremely serious they would stay in Diyu and never be reborn.

As for the other two judges, Lu Zhidao of the Inspecting Department was responsible for vindicating ghosts, so he was literally a judge; Cui Yu of the Regulating Department was in charge of increasing or reducing the life span. If a ghost did good things when they were alive, he would live long in his next life; if not, he would die young.

Xie Mingzhe used to be interested in paranormal fiction, so he once inquired about the structure of the underworld realm when he was in college. He knew that all characters related to the underworld, such as Yanluo Wang, the Four Judges, the Heibai Wuchang※ and Meng Po※, could be made into cards.

However, he only needed to create one IDE card currently, so he didn't have to figure out all of the characters.

The elements could be provided by the Four Judges. And Zhong Kui of the Punishing Vice Department was the most appropriate one because he could punish evil ghosts.

Thinking of this, Xie Mingzhe started to conceive the image of Zhong Kui based on the materials in his mind.

In history there was the painting of "Zhong Kui Hunting Ghosts". And many people glued the painting to their gates because Zhong Kui would frighten the evil ghosts off and protect their families.

According to local folklore, Zhong Kui※ looked very fierce with an iron face, wildly curly beard, a tiny head and giant eyes. But he was a man with integrity. He was never afraid of evil ghosts and good at casting them out.