Catalog only. The chapter bodies were not read. No quoted lines, no free-preview paste, no claim that a welcome row, a restarted chapter 1, or the newest button is the first door.
Search Card Apprentice or 卡徒. The Qidian page does not print an English title. The mobile book page is book 1031950, author 方想.
The first story volume is 第一集 东商卫城, and it opens on 第一节 以卡为生. 以卡为生 is section 1, in 第一集 东商卫城. It does not say 第一章. 作品相关 holds 21 rows. The newest row announces 不败战神. Same writer as Five Elements Heaven. 209.51万 characters is the shelf label. The mobile page said 完本. The door is the earlier row.
Start at 第一节 以卡为生
Open 第一节 以卡为生 on Qidian and follow that catalog from the first story row, not from the newest button. The Chinese original, 卡徒, is the book page. On 15 October 2026 the mobile page called it 完本, author 方想, category 科幻·未来世界, updated 2014-04-18, with 209.51万 characters. The catalog listed 645 rows. The public pitch was not copied here.
The newest button is not the door
The newest timestamp points at 新书《不败战神》登录起点~~. 209.51万 characters is a shelf label, not a dare. You are deciding whether 第一节 以卡为生, filed under 科幻·未来世界, is your door. 完本 is a status. The newest note is not this book’s first row.
Who should start here
Try it if a search for Card Apprentice or 卡徒 sent you and you want this Chinese original by 方想, on book 1031950. Same writer as the Five Elements Heaven opening guide. 万界独尊 did not open as its own long Qidian book.
Leave it if you want a newcomer’s first chance at training, checked scene by scene. That door is the RMJI opening guide. The shelf is the Card Apprentice reading series. The index is where to start. If the shelf label xuanhuan is the thing you searched, start at what xuanhuan means here.
Sources and limits
Checked on 15 October 2026, from public Qidian pages only. The desktop book URL returned an anti-bot stub; the mobile book page and catalog loaded. No chapter body was copied. The character total is the 总字数 on the book record.