A Personal Demonstration

Xie Mingzhe walked in, and Tang Muzhou took several sets of Experience Starstones and Evolution Fragments from the display case. Then he placed the Lin Daiyu card he had bought at the auction on the workbench and fed it materials.

In the blink of an eye, he had fed it several million experience points and several hundred Evolution Fragments. When it advanced to six stars, he even fed it three six-star cards as evolution materials.

The color on the back of the Daiyu Card rapidly changed, eventually turning pure black with a metallic sheen. Green patterns representing the Wood element wrapped around the entire card back like threads, and even Yueban's creator logo gave off a soft green glow.

This was Xie Mingzhe's first time seeing the seven-star Black Card, Lin Daiyu.

Just the back of the card looked exceptionally beautiful. How powerful would a max-level Black Card Daiyu be? He was truly looking forward to it.

Tang Muzhou flipped the card over and handed it to Xie Mingzhe. "Take a look at a seven-star card's stats."

Lin Daiyu (Wood)

Card Level: 70

Evolution Stars: ★★★★★★★

Uses Available: 7/7

Base Attributes: HP 640, Attack 0, Defense 1000, Agility 85, Critical Hit Rate 0%

Additional Skill: Daiyu Burying Flowers (Deals devastating damage to flower-type cards, with a 100% chance of triggering the Instant Death effect)

Lin Meimei's body was far too frail, and her defense was terrifyingly low, but her skill was utterly outrageous—100% chance to instantly trigger Instant Death on flower cards.

Tang Muzhou said, "Let's go to the Arena and test this card in an actual match."

Xie Mingzhe nodded and excitedly followed him. They teleported directly from the neighboring star map to the Phoenix Star Domain.

Since getting to know this great god, Xie Mingzhe had visited the restaurant in the Peacock Star Domain's entertainment district for the first time, entered someone else's personal space for the first time, and now come to the Phoenix Star Domain for the first time—it had truly opened his eyes!

Phoenix Star was a competitive planet, and Tang Muzhou directly opened a private battle arena.

Xie Mingzhe held the Daiyu Card, while Tang Muzhou held... a seven-star Tuberose??

Seeing that familiar card, Xie Mingzhe froze for a moment and could not help saying, "So you bought Tang God's Tuberose too! I was at that auction as well. I remember this card sold for the high price of 660,000."

Tang Muzhou smiled without explaining—the Tuberose was naturally not the one from the auction. He was the card's creator and could make countless Tuberose cards. This was one he had copied, and his alternate account happened to have one stored away.

Tang Muzhou said, "Give it a try. Use Lin Daiyu to instantly kill my Tuberose card."

The match began, and countdown numbers appeared before them. Xie Mingzhe held his breath. The instant the countdown reached zero, he immediately summoned Lin Daiyu, intending to use Daiyu Burying Flowers to instantly kill the opposing card.

However, Lin Daiyu completely refused to obey. Forget attacking the opposing card—she turned around and ran about everywhere instead.

Xie Mingzhe's eyes widened. "What's going on? Why isn't my Daiyu Burying Flowers skill working?"

Tang Muzhou posed a question. "If you had a submachine gun and I had a pistol, and we fired at each other face-to-face, who would win?"

Xie Mingzhe guessed, "The submachine gun? It has more firepower?"

Tang Muzhou chuckled. "Whoever fires first wins."

Xie Mingzhe: "..."

That was right. The person who fired first could kill the other with a single shot. No matter how powerful the other person's weapon was, in a face-to-face confrontation, getting the first move meant certain death!

Tang Muzhou said, "I told you before that Daiyu Burying Flowers is extremely effective against Flower Cards, but it doesn't completely counter them. Why can't she instantly kill Tuberose? Because of agility—her Agility is lower than Tuberose's, and she casts skills more slowly. Before she can use her skill, Tuberose can seize the first move and control her. If I had other attack cards in hand, your Lin Daiyu would be counter-killed before she even had time to use her skill. Do you understand?"

Xie Mingzhe felt as though he had been enlightened!

—Agility. He had never paid any attention to this card attribute at all!

Looking closely, Daiyu's Agility was 85, while Tuberose's was 100. No wonder Daiyu would be controlled in return when they faced off. This was the importance of seizing the first move in competitive battles! No matter how powerful your card was, if you could not secure the first move and could not use your skill, you were nothing more than a target.

Tang Muzhou said, "Let's go back and raise the Daiyu Card's Agility to 100, then try again."

Xie Mingzhe realized that this great god genuinely intended to guide him, so he immediately scampered after him.

A Personal Demonstration

After returning to the personal space, Tang Muzhou took out another fifteen Agility Enhancement Cards from the display case and fed them to Daiyu. Black Card Daiyu's Agility was forcibly raised from 85 to 100. He handed the enhanced card to Xie Mingzhe and said, "All cards in the game can have their attributes enhanced later on, but the production of these enhancement White Cards is limited, so they're very expensive. For example, a single Agility Enhancement Card costs 5,000 gold."

In other words, he had just spent materials worth tens of thousands of gold to enhance the Daiyu Card. This mad experimenter truly did not even blink when using materials.

Xie Mingzhe accepted the enhanced Daiyu Card and followed him again with complicated feelings.

The two returned to the Arena in the Phoenix Star Domain.

The instant the countdown ended, Xie Mingzhe immediately summoned Daiyu and used Daiyu Burying Flowers—Daiyu extended her delicate jade-like hand and scattered flower petals. The moment the petals touched the Tuberose illusion, they instantly killed the full-health Tuberose!

As long as Daiyu's skill took effect, it truly was powerful.

Xie Mingzhe, who had come to the Arena for the first time, was deeply shaken by the sight before him.

The next moment, Tang Muzhou took out another tree-type card—Banyan Tree. The enormous banyan standing there had an exceptionally thick trunk and looked incredibly imposing, while the Tuberose blooming beside it appeared small and delicate.

"Again," Tang Muzhou said.

"Should I keep using the Daiyu Card to instantly kill your Tuberose?"

"Mm, give it a try."

The five-second countdown began, and the match started.

Following the method from before, Xie Mingzhe instantly summoned Lin Daiyu the moment the countdown reached zero and directly used Daiyu Burying Flowers on Tuberose. Almost at the same time, he saw the Banyan Tree's branches and leaves suddenly spread open. Green leaves vast enough to blot out the sky formed a huge pale-green protective shield around them. Under the light, that thin shield looked like a massive green bubble, beautiful beyond compare.