Green Rank; Breaking Free

The Small World had actually evolved for seven days.

Under normal circumstances, only exceptionally good or exceptionally poor Small Worlds evolved longer than average.

His own world should be the exceptionally good kind... right?

With unease in his heart, his Mental Power slowly touched the World Bead, which had only just stopped.

In an instant, immense joy filled his heart.

On the World Bead was a shallow, pale green indentation.

That pale green indentation was a Card Slot.

After a world was successfully opened, the only way to integrate more cards into the world one had created was through Card Slots.

Likewise, if one wanted to turn certain things Within the World into cards, those Card Slots were also necessary.

The color of a Card Slot corresponded to the highest rank of Retainers or items within one's world.

There was actually a pale green Card Slot on his World Bead. This meant there was a Green Rank existence within his world.

That Green Rank existence had to be the Daoist Apprentice Card he had integrated into the Small World earlier!

With a Green Rank, Mortal Transformation Realm Dao Boy helping him, he could definitely escape this place.

He turned to look toward the basement exit. Lei Aigou, you were dead!

No matter what, Lei Aigou had to die.

If he did not kill him, his thoughts would not flow freely.

If he did not kill him, his Dao Heart would remain unstable.

Suppressing the wild joy in his heart, he swept his gaze over the other Card Slots: more than ten White Card Slots and what seemed to be thirty or forty Gray Card Slots.

Judging by the number of White Card Slots, this was the amount only a Small World on the verge of advancing to a Medium Small World should possess!

But why were there so few Gray Card Slots?

Under normal circumstances, the ratio of Gray Card Slots to White Card Slots was twenty or thirty to one. In his world, it was nearly three to one.

After glancing over the Card Slots, he eagerly shifted his attention to the Small World he had opened.

His first impression was that his world was quite large. At the very least, for a newly opened Small World, it was enormous. Its diameter was estimated at roughly fifty kilometers, or about two thousand square kilometers—about the size of a county on Earth.

For an ordinary person's Small World, even ten or twenty square kilometers would be considered extremely impressive.

Its size was nothing. Zhang Zhi's focus was on the human Gathering Place at the center of the world.

He could sense that there were more than nine thousand people there.

The number of humans was somewhat beyond his expectations.

But what astonished him even more was that eleven of them had Auras that had reached the Mortal Transformation Realm.

In terms of card rank, the Mortal Transformation Realm was Green Rank.

Besides that, there were actually more than a thousand humans whose blood and vitality boiled fiercely, already having reached the Elite Realm!

As for the remaining seven thousand or so, every single one of them bore traces of practicing Blood Refining techniques.

Looking at the scene in the Small World that exceeded his expectations, even though Zhang Zhi had long made Mental Preparation, he still cried out softly in amazement.

The scale of his Small World was enough to rival the worlds of students at third-rate Higher Education Institutions.

What exactly had happened to his Small World during its evolution?

Was all of this related to that White Daoist Apprentice Card?

But now was not the time to investigate what had happened during the Small World's autonomous evolution. Once he escaped, he could examine it slowly.

The most important thing now was to escape danger—and settle the score with Lei Aigou while he was at it!

A Thought Moved, and Zhang Zhi directed a large amount of Mental Power toward the World Bead.

As Mental Power flowed in, a trace of special energy slowly formed within the World Bead.

This special energy was World Power.

The World Bead was the core of a world and possessed many functions. Using those functions required the consumption of World Power.

For example, summoning Retainers from a Small World into the Main World. The armored men who had "kidnapped" Zhang Zhi before had been summoned from a Small World several days ago by the person behind the scenes, at the cost of World Power.

Another example was creating a projection within the Small World that his consciousness could inhabit.

With the Mental Power provided by Zhang Zhi's current Mental Power Value of thirty-two, he could normally convert at least three points of World Power. But Lei Aigou had tortured him constantly these past few days, leaving him exhausted and drained. He did not know how many points of World Power he could convert.

As he poured in Mental Power, the first point of World Power slowly formed inside the World Bead, followed by the second.

Just as the third point of World Power was about to form, the sound of a key unlocking the door came from outside. Then the door opened, and a blinding beam of light shot in.

It was time for his "interrogation" again.

Enduring the agonizing pain throughout his body, Zhang Zhi wriggled along the wall under Lei Aigou's astonished gaze, struggling to sit upright.

Watching Zhang Zhi, whose face was missing half its skin, whose body was drenched in blood, and whose limbs were bent at grotesque angles, try to sit upright was such a bizarre sight that Lei Aigou's scalp went numb.

He had originally intended to kick Zhang Zhi as usual, but for some reason, he could not bring himself to deliver that kick.

Just as he hesitated over whether to make up for it, he saw Zhang Zhi staring fixedly at him with one eye. Seeing the murderous glint in that eye, Lei Aigou instinctively took a step back.

The next moment, realizing that Zhang Zhi had scared him into retreating, Lei Aigou raised the iron bar in his hand in humiliation and fury, about to whip Zhang Zhi with it.

"Fuck! What are you looking at? If it weren't for those cards, I'd have gouged out that eye of yours too!"

The next moment, a figure appeared in the room.

The instant the figure appeared, it struck several palms in all directions with lightning speed.

Lei Aigou, who had been charging at Zhang Zhi while swinging the iron bar, flew backward at a speed countless times faster than his charge.

Zhang Zhi hated him to the extreme and had no intention of letting him die so easily.

The few people behind him were not so fortunate. After being struck once by that figure, a soft pop sounded, and their entire bodies instantly exploded into a cloud of blood mist.

Lei Aigou crashed into the wall, every bone in his body shattered into countless pieces. Even now, he was still completely dazed.

Only when the shattered bones throughout his body told him what had happened did he realize he should scream in pain.

But the moment he opened his mouth, a torrent of blood sprayed out.

Then he discovered that aside from ragged, wheezing breaths, he could not make any sound at all. His vocal cords had actually been destroyed!

Even now, a trace of bewilderment remained on his face.

What was going on?

What had happened?

Could it be that the truth had come out, and the school had found them?

But that should not be possible. He had always dealt with Zhang Zhi's classmates outside under the identity of Zhang Zhi's orphanage brother. Aside from him, no one here even knew who Zhang Zhi was. There was no way the matter here could have leaked!

Besides, if the school had come looking, they should have fought their way in from outside, not suddenly appeared here.