Dragon Gate Card

The Dragon Gate Card, as its name implied, was the Dragon Gate from the saying of fish leaping over the Dragon Gate.

Any kind of fish, as long as it leaped over the Dragon Gate, would see a qualitative improvement in its aptitude.

Fish with elite aptitude, as long as they could cross the Dragon Gate, could evolve into fish with Mortal Transformation aptitude.

Under certain special circumstances, they could even evolve into fish with a faint True Dragon Bloodline, capable of evolving into flood dragons.

Although it was extremely difficult for fish to leap over the Dragon Gate, this was also a card capable of mass-producing creatures with Mortal Transformation aptitude!

As long as there were enough fish, the number that crossed the Dragon Gate naturally would not be too small.

A card capable of producing Mortal Transformation Creatures in batches was a Core Card for any Cultivation Path.

This Dragon Gate Card was a Core Card in the Mortal Transformation Realm for Small Worlds following the Dragon Palace Path, Monster Beast Path, or Monster Race Cultivation Path.

But what Zhang Zhi found rather strange was why Night Shadow had kept such an important key card.

Whenever a Master of the World obtained a Core Card that did not belong to their own path, they would immediately exchange it for one from their own path.

The sooner a Core Card was integrated into one's own Small World, the sooner it could increase one's strength.

Had he only just obtained this card? Or did he simply not know how important it was?

That should not have been the case. Although the Dragon Palace World path could not compare to Cultivation Paths like Immortal Cultivation, Magic, Fantasy, or Heavenly Court, it was still a path that could directly reach a Middle Thousand World in the later stages. How could he not know?

Could it really be that Night Shadow had only just acquired it? And Zhang Zhi had ended up benefiting from it?

Looking at the Dragon Gate Card in the Card Album, countless thoughts flashed through his mind. In the end, he slowly closed the Card Album.

No matter the reason, this Dragon Gate Card was now his. It could count as a little interest on the suffering he had endured these past few days.

This Dragon Gate Card was useful to him as well—extremely useful, in fact!

His Small World already had a Core Card: Fang Yun's Daoist Apprentice Card.

If he traded the Dragon Gate Card for another human Core Card, it would indeed greatly increase the number of Mortal Transformation Realm humans in his Small World for some time to come.

But for him, that would merely be adding flowers to brocade.

For all Realm Lords, the advancement of their Small Worlds was what mattered most.

For example, if his Small World wished to advance from a Small World to a Medium World, someone within it needed to break through to the Transcendent Realm.

To break through to the Transcendent Realm, the Small World needed Extraordinary Laws.

Yet a Small World with Extraordinary Laws was certainly a Medium World or higher.

This created a paradox of whether the chicken or the egg came first. If a Small World wanted to advance into a Medium World, it needed Extraordinary Laws.

But Extraordinary Laws only existed in Small Worlds of Medium World grade or above.

Take his own Small World. If it wanted to advance into a Medium World, the simplest method at present would be to integrate a Tier 1 Spirit Vein Card.

But the problem was that a Tier 1 Spirit Vein Card was a Blue Card! How could his Small Small World possibly have a Blue Card Slot?

For the Masters of the World of all Tiny Worlds and Small Small Worlds, advancing their Small Worlds was an extremely difficult problem to solve.

This alone showed just how heaven-defying it was that Zhang Zhi's Small World had contained a Mortal Transformation Realm existence the moment it was opened.

The most common advancement method Zhang Zhi knew of was to travel to a world possessing the laws of the next level, open a Teleportation Gate, let the cultivators in one's own Small World who were most likely to break through do so in a world with the corresponding laws, and then return to their own world.

At first glance, this seemed to present no problem.

But there were two issues with doing so.

First, if the Small World where one advanced had an owner, the cultivator who advanced might become part of someone else's Small World after breaking through.

Second, Small Worlds could devour each other. If one opened a Teleportation Gate in someone else's world, the rules of the two worlds would intermingle. If one's own world was at a disadvantage, some of its world laws could very likely be devoured by the stronger Small World.

If the Teleportation Gate remained open for too long, or if the gap between the two worlds was too great, it was not impossible for the weaker Small World to be devoured entirely.

For instance, if Zhang Zhi opened a Teleportation Gate in the Main World right now, his Small World might be completely digested by the Main World in an instant and become part of it.

This was also why only Realm Lords who had achieved a Lesser Thousand World would begin using Teleportation Gates to summon creatures from their own Small Worlds.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, if one wanted to break through, it was best to find an ownerless Small World that was not much stronger than one's own and advance there.

Such Small Worlds were neither especially numerous nor especially scarce. They were generally controlled by various factions, such as the various Secondary Education Schools.

Of course, entering such a Small World to advance was certainly not free. Or rather, the price could sometimes be quite steep. Some factions, for example, would require one to sign a contract binding them to the faction.

Thus, upon seeing this Dragon Gate Card, Zhang Zhi considered whether Fang Yun, with his Heavenly Talent, could use it to break through into the Transcendent Realm.

The Dragon Gate Card's primary function was to grant those fish powerful bloodline aptitudes.

Meanwhile, the cultivation method in his Small World was Blood Refining.

Perhaps the two could produce a chemical reaction?

If a fish obtained a faint True Dragon Bloodline and Fang Yun refined that bloodline into cultivation, could he possibly break through his realm and reach the Transcendent Realm?

After pondering for a long time, Zhang Zhi felt that his idea was feasible. Even if it failed, his Small World could still obtain enough Blood Food.

Elite or Mortal Transformation Realm fish were excellent Cultivation Resources for Blood Refining cultivators within the Small World.

But the problem was that the Dragon Gate Card was simply too valuable. Especially for Small Worlds following the Monster Race or Dragon Palace Path that had just broken through to the Transcendent Realm, it was precisely the kind of card they needed to fill their worlds with large numbers of Mortal Transformation Creatures and strengthen their foundations.

This Dragon Gate Card was worth even more than an ordinary Blue Card.

And Zhang Zhi was not wealthy at present. Having only just opened his Small World, he urgently needed a large number of cards to replenish and improve it.

Therefore, he could not make a decision for the time being.

There were still several white Resource Cards in the Card Album, however, and those cards were exactly what he desperately needed.

For example, that White Copper Mine Card.

The White Copper Mine Card not only produced far more copper ore than a gray card, but also yielded an additional Mortal Transformation Grade Ore known as Refined Copper.

Mortal Transformation Type Ore could be used to forge Mortal Transformation weapons.

Zhang Zhi's Small World still had a great demand for White Material Cards.

With nothing else to do, he decided to integrate these Resource Cards into his Small World first.

After checking them over and finding no issues with the cards, Zhang Zhi began refining the white Resource Cards with his Mental Power.

More than ten minutes later, the first card was refined into his Sea of Consciousness.