Personal Demonstration

Xie Mingzhe walked in, and Tang Muzhou took several sets of Experience Starstones and Evolution Fragments from the display cabinet. He then 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 reached 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 becoming a pure black with a metallic sheen. Green patterns symbolizing the wood element wrapped around the entire card back like threads, and even Yueban's creator logo emitted a soft green glow.

This was Xie Mingzhe's first time seeing the Seven-Star Black Card Lin Daiyu.

Even the back of the card looked exceptionally beautiful. How powerful would a max-level Black Card Daiyu be in battle? He was filled with anticipation.

Tang Muzhou flipped the card over and handed it to Xie Mingzhe. "Take a look at the stats of a Seven-Star Card."

Lin Daiyu (Wood)

Card Level: 70

Evolution Stars: ★★★★★★★

Available Uses: 7/7

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

Additional Skill: *Daiyu Burying Flowers* (deals severe damage to Flower Cards, with a 100% chance to trigger the Instant Death effect)

Lin Meimei's body was far too frail, and her defense was frighteningly low, but her skill was absurdly overpowered—100% chance to instantly kill flower cards.

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

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 entertainment district of the Peacock Star Domain 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—his horizons had truly been broadened!

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

Xie Mingzhe held the Daiyu Card in his hand, while the card Tang Muzhou held was... a Seven-Star Tuberose??

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

Tang Muzhou smiled without explaining—of course, this Tuberose was not the one from the auction. He was the card's creator and could make countless Tuberoses. This was a copy he had made, and his alternate account happened to have one stored away.

Tang Muzhou said, "Try using Lin Daiyu to instantly kill my Tuberose."

The match began, and a countdown appeared before him. Xie Mingzhe held his breath. The instant the countdown hit 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. Rather than attacking the opposing card, she turned around and ran wildly in every direction.

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 greater firepower?"

Tang Muzhou chuckled. "Whoever shoots 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 fight, 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 does not 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 take the initiative and control her first. 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 if he had been struck by enlightenment!

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

Looking carefully, Daiyu's agility was 85, while Tuberose's was 100. No wonder Daiyu could be controlled in return during their duel. This was the importance of seizing the first move in competitive battles! No matter how powerful your card was, if you could not seize the initiative and could not use your skills, you were nothing more than a target.

Tang Muzhou said, "Let's go back and raise Daiyu Card's agility to 100 for a try."

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

Personal Demonstration

After returning to the personal space, Tang Muzhou took out fifteen Agility Enhancement Cards from the display cabinet 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 in the later stages, but the supply of these enhancement White Cards is limited, so they are very expensive. An Agility Enhancement Card like this costs 5,000 gold coins each."

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

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

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

The instant the countdown ended, Xie Mingzhe immediately summoned Daiyu and unleashed Daiyu Burying Flowers—Daiyu stretched out her slender jade-like hand and scattered petals. The moment the petals touched Tuberose's illusion, they instantly killed the full-health Tuberose!

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

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

The next moment, Tang Muzhou took out another tree-type card—a Banyan Tree. The enormous banyan stood there with an exceptionally thick trunk, looking imposing even at a glance. Meanwhile, the Tuberose blooming beside it appeared especially 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 same method as before, Xie Mingzhe instantly summoned Lin Daiyu the moment the countdown reached zero and directly used Daiyu Burying Flowers on Tuberose. At almost the same moment, 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 layer of shield looked like a great green bubble, exceptionally beautiful.