One hundred and ninety white Human Cards and ten green Human Cards. For a Realm Lord who had opened a Small World, integrating that many cards into the Small World would take at least ninety days, not counting the time needed to refine the cards.
As for him, he had used only eight days. That was even with the final card, which had advanced to Green Rank, holding him up for several days.
If he went all out, two days at most would be enough.
In other words, taken together, the development speed of his Small World was forty-five times faster than other people's.
And in reality, development was like a snowball, affected by exponential growth. In practice, the multiplier was far beyond forty-five times.
At that moment, he suddenly realized that the development path he had originally planned for humanity had begun to fall out of step and was no longer suitable for him. He needed to make some changes.
But after looking down at the few Gold Yuan Scrolls and Silver Yuan Scrolls left in his wallet, he decided that changing his plans could wait.
Over the past few days, he had spent quite some time in the Small Library searching for descriptions of cards similar to the Flat Peach Tree.
This type of card was called a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure Card.
According to the records, many ordinary plants would produce special mutated individuals. These individuals possessed all kinds of incredible effects.
Such cards were collectively known as Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure Cards.
Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure Cards were mainly divided into two categories. One was quantity-based. If the original plant was annual, the time required for its fruit to mature would not change, but the fruit it produced would inherit the plant's mutation.
The most representative examples were the various types of Spirit Rice in the Immortal Cultivation World.
The other was quality-based. Many Masters of the World believed that quality-based treasures were the true Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasures.
As for quality-based ones, if the original plant was perennial, then even if it originally bore fruit once a year, it would change to bearing fruit once every several years. The longer the fruit took to mature, the better its effects would be!
The gray Flat Peach Tree had originally been an entirely ordinary plant. In the Small World, some ordinary-tier Flat Peach Trees had already blossomed and borne fruit after several months, but the Flat Peach Trees in the Elite Realm and Mortal Transformation Realm still had dazzling peach blossoms and showed no sign of bearing fruit. They seemed very much like Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure Cards.
Of course, Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure Cards were also divided into ranks. The lowest rank was the Mortal Transformation Realm.
Regardless, if that Flat Peach Tree truly was a Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure, Zhang Zhi was quite looking forward to the fruit it would produce.
For that reason, he deliberately sought out Fang Yun and told him to pay closer attention to those special Flat Peach Trees.
On the fifteenth day after Opening a Small World—the day of the Heaven and Earth Trial—Zhang Zhi generated a projection inside the Small World early in the morning.
He knew his own abilities and had no intention of competing with Fang Yun for command of the war. With God's Perspective, he considered himself the most suitable candidate for reconnaissance.
After fourteen days of development, the Small World had changed dramatically once again.
At this time, aside from the original small city, there was another Human Gathering Place about twenty li south of it.
This was the Iron Smelting Base of the Small World.
He had upgraded the gray "Three-Section Saber" skill book to the white "Hundred Forged Saber."
It was not that Zhang Zhi did not want to upgrade this saber-forging skill to green. Rather, after it had been upgraded to white, the skill, like the Human Cards and Plant Cards, no longer absorbed Mental Power.
This finally confirmed for him that the principle behind card advancement was far more complicated than he had previously imagined, and that the effect of his Golden Finger had become just a little weaker.
After the "Hundred Forged Saber" skill was integrated into the Small World, Fang Yun indeed lived up to Zhang Zhi's expectations.
He spent three days in the Small World mastering the techniques of ironworking.
Then, beside the original Private School, he opened the Hundred Crafts Pavilion, where he taught forging techniques.
Three months later, the embryonic form of the Iron Smelting Base appeared in the Small World.
Although, after nearly ten months of development, the Iron Smelting Base currently consisted of nothing more than several blacksmith shops that could provide only various basic weapons, its progress was already quite respectable for a Small World that had only recently been opened.
The Small World had also made extensive preparations to welcome the Heaven and Earth Trial.
For example, the main force fighting the enemy this time consisted of five hundred cultivators in the Elite Realm and the eleven Mortal Transformation Realm cultivators including Fang Yun. All of them had a suit of well-fitting armor, and a few already possessed green-rank weapons.
However, because Zhang Zhi had never integrated any cards related to military formations or military strategy, the force facing the enemy looked somewhat disorganized.
Cards of this type were basically impossible to find on the market. Only after entering Seven Dragons Academy in the future could he see whether he could exchange for such cards from the Trial Tower and make up for this shortcoming in the Small World.
Looking at the somewhat disorderly force, Zhang Zhi sighed inwardly. He had finally found an area in which Fang Yun was not skilled.
There was actually nothing worth watching about the battle. Given the current level of the Small World, the first wave of the Heaven and Earth Trial was practically just bullying the weak.
After Zhang Zhi pointed out the direction in which the Chaos Monsters had appeared, more than a thousand gray-rank Chaos Monsters were wiped out by the arriving force in the blink of an eye.
After the Chaos Monsters were killed, the Chaos Qi they condensed mostly formed gray-rank weapons, ores, herbs, the gray "Basic Fist Technique," basic "Saber Technique," and various other miscellaneous items.
To Zhang Zhi, only two things were valuable: a copy of "Brewing Technique" and a copy of "Record of Hundred Herbs."
Skill books obtained by killing Chaos Monsters could be placed in the Scripture Depository for everyone in the Small World to learn.
Likewise, if Zhang Zhi needed to, he could turn a skill in the Scripture Depository into a card and manifest that card in the Main World through a card slot.
Of course, once a book in the Scripture Depository was turned into a card, the book would disappear from the Scripture Depository.
Only after someone recopied a book containing the relevant skill and the Small World acknowledged it could it be made into a card again.
Therefore, under normal circumstances, when Realm Lords obtained a certain skill book while possessing a Scripture Depository, they would first have as many people in the Small World as possible learn the skill, then use the Scripture Depository to turn it into a card.
A while after the ordinary Chaos Monsters had all been killed, five Elite-tier Chaos Monsters finally arrived late.
However, the moment these five monsters, which had originally counted as Gatekeeper BOSSes, appeared, they were instantly killed by the humans lying in wait nearby before they could even greet this world.
Perhaps because they were Gatekeeper BOSSes, after these five Elite-tier creatures were killed, they actually condensed a Light Cluster.
Someone from the Small World curiously reached out and touched the Light Cluster, only to discover that their hand passed straight through it.
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