Fang Long and the Second Small World

But this wasn't the biggest change within the Small World.

The biggest change within the Small World was the appearance of a 'Mountain Village' halfway up the Small World's only mountain range.

That Mountain Village housed the second exceptionally talented individual to appear in the Small World after Fang Yun.

This person was named Fang Long, and she was a member of the Dark Green Rank Human Card that had absorbed a large amount of Zhang Zhi's Mental Power.

That Dark Green Card already contained two humans with outstanding talent in certain areas: Fang Long and Nian Xinyu.

Nian Xinyu's Talent was in leading troops.

Fang Long's primary talent shown so far was in the area of herbs.

During the Heaven and Earth Trial, a White Record of Hundred Herbs appeared. Zhang Zhi had read its contents, and many of the medicinal plants listed weren't found in his Small World.

But this Fang Long was truly remarkable. She had tasted all the plants in the Small World – that wasn't the impressive part. Her brilliance lay in using the existing plants within the Small World to cultivate many plants with medicinal effects similar to those recorded in the Record of Hundred Herbs!

This left Zhang Zhi utterly stunned when he first learned of the situation.

Fang Long's ability was no longer simple cultivation or cross-breeding of herbs. Zhang Zhi speculated that Fang Long likely possessed the ability to directionally cultivate the effects of the plants she had mastered.

To put it simply, if she needed a certain herb and knew its general effect, she could combine the medicinal effects of multiple spirit herbs whose effects she had already mastered through cultivation, and grow the specific plant she needed.

In Zhang Zhi's understanding, this was an ability bordering on rule-based power, truly defying logic.

Of course, Fang Long's current ability could only target White Rank medicinal materials.

Zhang Zhi speculated that the reason that Card could turn Dark Green might be because of her presence.

It was also because of Fang Long's existence that Zhang Zhi, after using Mental Power to upgrade the Basic Alchemy, integrated it into the Small World.

Although Basic Alchemy had absorbed a lot of Mental Power, its rank hadn't increased, remaining White. Coupled with the lack of Pill Recipes, Zhang Zhi wasn't initially optimistic about it.

However, what surprised him was that even so, Fang Long still managed to research a Pill Recipe capable of boosting breakthroughs to the Elite Realm through her own abilities.

It was precisely for this reason that Zhang Zhi, according to Fang Long's wishes, assigned everyone below the Mortal Transformation Realm who had comprehended alchemy to her.

Then she built a village halfway up the mountain and frantically planted various herbal plants in the surrounding mountain forests.

Of course, the most important reason Fang Long built the village here was that the Flat Peach Tree forest within the Small World was located there.

After learning about the heaven-defying effects of the Mortal Transformation and Elite Realm Flat Peaches from Zhang Zhi, she ran to the Flat Peach Tree forest every day.

Fang Yun had always worried that she would dig up those few Flat Peach Trees for thorough research. From Fang Long's actions, Zhang Zhi could see that she indeed had such thoughts.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for the Elite Realm Flat Peaches to ripen once. The first batch of fruit from the Elite Realm Flat Peach Trees would ripen in just over ten months.

After promising to give her a few Elite Realm Flat Peaches in the future, she showed no further signs of wanting to touch the Flat Peach Trees.

Because of Fang Long, Zhang Zhi planned to go to the Student Activity Center to exchange for some Pill Recipe Cards or herb-related Cards, preferably books like the Record of Hundred Herbs that detailed medicinal materials.

As long as there were suitable Pill Recipes and enough medicinal materials, Fang Long would surely be able to research pills that could increase the rank of the Elite Realm. As for medicines for Breaking Through?

Of course, Zhang Zhi also understood that this was just his own wishful thinking. After all, if Pill Recipes like the Foundation Establishment Pill for breaking through to Mortal Transformation were so easy to research, there wouldn't be so few people in the Mortal Transformation Realm.

Pill Recipes and medicinal materials were the first areas in the Small World that needed optimization.

The second was definitely related to the Art of War.

Since the last Heaven and Earth Trial, Fang Yun also understood that he wasn't suited for leading troops. At the same time, he knew that the Small World would definitely face numerous wars in the future. Therefore, in the past two years, he had been trying every possible method to cultivate outstanding generals.

From the results Zhang Zhi saw now, there were some effects, but not many. Nian Xinyu could only be said to be just starting to show promise. In other areas, there were only a batch of barely usable basic soldiers in the Small World currently.

Therefore, Art of War type Cards were what Zhang Zhi urgently needed at the moment.

He hadn't found any Cards related to the Art of War in the Trial Tower, which made him realize that Art of War type Cards must be extremely precious.

That's why the Academy would exchange all Art of War and Array Formation type Cards.

After finding Fang Yun and discussing for a while, Zhang Zhi decided to continue integrating large quantities of Land Cards, Water Resource Cards, various Ore Vein Cards, Livestock Cards, as well as Wheat and Rice Cards in the coming days.

The Blood Refinement Cultivators in the Small World needed too much food, especially as the number of high-level cultivators increased, the more food was consumed. In just over a year, the food in the Small World was insufficient, forcing him to cancel his original plan to integrate more humans.

Fortunately, currently, various Resource Cards were the only Cards that could be upgraded using Mental Power without restrictions. After waiting for ten days to half a month, integrating a large number of Cards to perfect the Small World's ecosystem, he would be able to integrate more Human Cards again.

For a Small World following the Human Path, the number of humans determined the strength of the Small World.

After his consciousness left the Small World, the image of the World Seed still flashed in his mind.

After a long while, he sighed and whispered, "If it's meant to be, it's meant to be. I'll buy that World Seed tomorrow and see if it's truly fated with me!"

The next day, Zhang Zhi got up early and went straight to the stall. Without any pleasantries, he said directly to the stall owner, "Forty White Beastman Path Cards for the World Seed. If you're willing, we can trade now. If not, I'll turn around and leave."

The stall owner sized up Zhang Zhi, frowned, and after considering for a moment, agreed to Zhang Zhi's proposal.

To the stall owner, the World Seed was something that was both rare and not rare. Some people wanted it, and a little profit was enough.

This World Seed had been in her hands for quite some time. If it wasn't sold soon, it might end up stuck with her.

Zhang Zhi counted out forty White Cards from his Card pack and handed them to the stall owner. After confirming the quantity was correct, he took the World Seed from the stall owner.

After browsing the nearby stalls for a while longer and buying a few Gray Resource Cards, he turned and walked towards the Subway.

When he returned to his place, his face suddenly turned flushed.

That World Seed was now within his Sea of Consciousness.