Monster Race Path?

Zhang Zhi had now confirmed that he really could open a Second Small World!

After pacing around the room many times without being able to suppress his inner elation, he pushed open the window and shouted toward the outside!

After venting that pent-up energy, he felt refreshed and slowly sat down in the chair by the window.

This time, he needed to plan carefully: when to open the Second Small World, which path to take when Opening a Small World, and how many cards to fuse in during the process!

His Mental Power was currently undergoing a period of explosive growth after the opening of the Small World. This period would last for a year.

During this year, his Mental Power would increase at least tenfold.

The higher his Mental Power, the more cards he could fuse into the World Embryo when Opening a Small World. So he had to consider whether he should wait until a year later, when his Mental Power growth had leveled off, before opening the Small World.

No, if he wanted to maximize his benefits, he definitely had to wait a year before opening the Second Small World.

Moreover, advancing the Small World could also stimulate the growth of Mental Power, although the increase was only about half that of Opening a Small World.

But with the two effects combined, there should be at least a fifteenfold increase, right?

When he had opened his first Small World, the process had lasted nearly ten hours. Fifteen times that would be one hundred and fifty hours?

No, the farther along he got when Opening a Small World, the more Mental Power it consumed. To be conservative, perhaps one hundred and thirty hours?

An ordinary Green Card required roughly eight to nine hours, while a Blue Card required at least eighty to ninety hours.

In other words, could he only choose one Blue Card?

That was difficult to decide.

If he chose the Tier 1 Spirit Vein Card, the Small World he opened would certainly be a Medium Small World. However, unless he encountered another Human Card like Fang Yun, the chances of directly opening a Large Small World were slim.

Hm? Wait.

Zhang Zhi suddenly remembered that when he had opened his first Small World, the time it took the World Embryo to digest cards seemed to be about half that of other people.

In other words, each Blue Card would take him a little over forty hours to fuse. By that calculation, he might be able to fuse three Blue Cards?

Moreover, his Mental Power grew much faster than ordinary people's. That meant that after a year, the multiple of his Mental Power growth might exceed fifteenfold.

If so, the duration for which he could maintain the World Embryo might approach two hundred hours?

Based on two hundred hours, he could fuse at least four Blue Cards, and still have plenty of time to carefully choose the supporting cards needed to form a Small World ecosystem.

In that case, the Blue Tier 1 Spirit Vein Card would definitely be his first choice.

He could still choose three other Blue Cards.

Three Blue Cards... Zhang Zhi suddenly remembered that he still had a Blue Phoenix Tree Card, a key card for the Monster Race Small World Path.

Hm? The Monster Race?

At that thought, a somewhat unusual idea rose in Zhang Zhi's mind.

Should his Second Small World still follow the Human Path?

If he proceeded step by step, his first Small World could actually follow both the Immortal Cultivation and Fantasy paths.

The reason other people chose only one path was, in the end, that there were no humans with sufficiently high talent and aptitude in their Small Worlds.

He had the Golden Finger, so he did not need to worry about that at all.

Therefore, his first Small World could try following two powerful Human Small World paths. In that case, did his Second Small World still need to follow the Human Small World Path?

He sat down and pondered the idea carefully. Glancing at the Parasol Tree Card in his sea of consciousness, he thought, How about making the Second Small World follow the Monster Race Small World Path?

There had also been quite a few Green Cards depicting birds among the Spoils of War from the last Race Confrontation Secret Realm.

After mulling it over for a long time, he suddenly smiled and shook his head.

There was still almost a year left. He did not need to be so hasty and could take his time considering it during that year.

He now had quite a few sources for obtaining cards. There was the Trial Tower, he could exchange for cards at the academy's Card Exchange Point, and he could even use his Mental Power to upgrade them directly. He could slowly collect suitable cards over the course of the year.

After chuckling softly, he sent his consciousness into the Small World. One day in the Main World was a month in the Small World. He made a tour of the Small World, checked on the progress of various matters, and then went to the Private School.

At the Private School, he began explaining the contents of the book Elementary Explanation of Array Dao, which he had memorized by hastily swallowing it whole, to the cultivators who had come to listen.

Quite a few cultivators came to listen to him personally teach as the Realm Lord. Aside from those in the Mortal Transformation Realm, everyone else could only stand outside and listen.

This was a method many Realm Lords liked to use: subtly establishing their authority among the humans of their Small Worlds.

Although the Realm Lord could Control everything within the Small World, intelligent beings had minds of their own. If the Realm Lord went too far, they might not merely slack off—they might even resist to the death.

When he had previously attended Primary Education School, Teacher had often given examples of Realm Lords who had been thoroughly humiliated after being tricked by their own Retainers in their Small Worlds.

Therefore, even Realm Lords of the Faith Conferring Divinity Path, who most loved maintaining an air of mystery, would occasionally use projections to enhance their presence in the Small World.

Just as Zhang Zhi was doing now.

After he had tirelessly continued fusing basic cards such as "wind," "rain," and "mist" over the past few days, the Small World's climate had now begun to take shape. As he lectured, a light drizzle was falling outside.

After finishing the lesson, Zhang Zhi went to the Mountain Village where Fang Long was staying.

Fang Long had been researching new pill formulas these days. After watching for a while, Zhang Zhi felt that he, too, needed to pay more attention to collecting pill-formula cards.

Once the school's rewards and subsidies were issued, he definitely had to remember to exchange for several more pill formulas.

After withdrawing his consciousness projection, Zhang Zhi sat on the bed and sighed emotionally for quite a while.

It had only been two days since the start of school, yet his gains already surpassed those of the previous ten-odd years. There really were more opportunities in a big place.

He still had to submit his course-selection schedule later. Zhang Zhi did not busy himself with anything else. After fusing the cards he had bought into the Small World, he got up and headed toward the classroom.

When he saw Class Advisor Liu in the classroom that afternoon, Zhang Zhi did not beat around the bush and asked directly, "Advisor, do you know where there's a Black Market near the academy?"

Seeing Class Advisor Liu look at him in surprise, Zhang Zhi flashed his teeth in a smile. "You know I'm from a small place, so there are many common things I don't know about. That's why I wanted to ask whether there's anywhere I can buy this kind of information."