Magic Cards Across the Heavens

Magic Cards Across the Heavens is a "cards across the heavens" web novel by Wei Guanzhang, serialized on Qidian from April 2020 and completed in 2021, running to 540 chapters and about 1.57 million characters. The story is set in a world where cards govern the power system: everyone has the chance to enter "otherworlds" to obtain cards, and only those who awaken a "soul card" can become "cardists," possessing "energy levels" that let them use and even materialize high-tier cards; cards come in item cards, equipment cards, and many other types, forming the core of social operation and personal growth. The protagonist Wei Yuan is a transmigrator and an orphan, outwardly an ordinary student about to graduate from Tianyuan City's Second Cardist Academy, scoring only 89% on the school's mental-fluctuation test and regarded by classmates as hopeless of awakening; in truth he awakened his first soul card at seven and his second and third at twelve and nineteen, making him a triple-soul-card awakener—a one-in-ten-million probability. With a "keep a low profile whenever possible" temperament, he hides his strength for a long time, using cards such as the "Extending Leather Bag" and the "True False Face" to cover his identity, and once worked in the black market under an alias as a card enhancer to accumulate starting capital. When he follows the academy's organized illusion-realm adventure into an otherworld, he gradually discovers that these dungeons resemble films, anime, and games from Earth yet are subtly different, and the story then unfolds across wildly varied dungeon worlds such as a Tokyo zombie outbreak, Zhiguai Liaozhai, and Behemoth Contention, advancing layer by layer around card collection, enhancement, and adventures across multiple worlds, all the way to the finale.