Chapter 57

While thinking about the carefree Hanxue in his spiritual sea, Zhang Che’s entire body suddenly shook; something was happening in his spiritual sea!

In the empty skies of his spiritual sea, a strong seven-colored light suddenly shone from above the crystal, illuminating the entire spiritual sea as a seven-colored space.

“What is going on!?” Zhang Che was astonished, thinking that something bad had happened.

In the next moment, the rainbow rays gathered, forming a pillar and shining directly at the Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly card below.

The pillar of light seemed to contain a suction force, sucking the Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly card up to the skies of the spiritual sea, passing by the golden ball of light that represented Hanxue, stopping directly below the rainbow crystal.

“Could it be…” Zhang Che was ecstatic, as he guessed at a certain possibility. His heart beat faster, full of anticipation.

Focusing on his inner world, he saw a vortex suddenly growing from within the Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly card enveloped in the pillar of rainbow light, madly devouring the radiance above it.

At this moment, the other beast cards and the golden ball of light representing Hanxue weren’t getting a shred of the seven-colored fog at all.

-Okay, is this considered as focused nurturing?- Zhang Che was at a loss for words. He concentrated harder, afraid to miss what was happening next.

As the abundant rainbow fog disappeared from his spiritual sea, the first change occurred on Hanxue’s golden ball of light. This fellow seemed to have felt the thick rainbow energy from above, and hurriedly flew upwards like a star.

The Golden Elephorse King had a mind of his own, after all. Unlike the beast cards, they wouldn’t move an inch without Zhang Che’s instructions, no matter how much they thirsted for the rainbow energy.

Now that strong energy fluctuations were discovered above, how could Hanxue not be tempted?

However, that seemingly short distance was like an endless galaxy. No matter how hard Hanxue tried, he wasn’t able to get one bit closer.

Hanxue nearly wept in frustration. The golden ball of light rushed out of the spiritual sea and transformed into its original appearance by Zhang Che’s side, neighing in displeasure. He seemed to be saying, “Why is that fellow allowed to feast on it, and not me?”

This thinking wasn’t wrong; it was similar to that saying of Ah Q, “The monk can move, but not me?”

Zhang Che patted his head, amused, reprimanding it, “Stop making a scene. This will happen to you in the future as well, when you accumulate enough energy!”

Hanxue stayed by Zhang Che’s side, his eyes shining in anticipation. This fellow was thinking, -When I get stronger and is able to run faster and longer, will we be going to find a nice female elephorse? The elephorses from the herd I was in previously were truly a little too ugly.-

In his spiritual sea, the vortex on the Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly card grew increasingly bigger, and even swallowed the beast card in the end. Zhang Che could only see the twisted rainbow rays being sucked into it non-stop.

Time trickled by. Zhang Che, immersed in his spiritual sea, felt as if a very long time passed. Finally the vortex slowly stopped devouring the rainbow rays, and turned into a mass of radiant light shaped like a cocoon, quietly floating beneath the rainbow crystal.

“Is this going to take a freaking long time, too?” Zhang Che cursed. He really wanted to see the changes to the Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly card immediately.

As if it had heard Zhang Che’s wish, countless cracks suddenly appeared on the polychromatic cocoon a moment later, and it shattered into countless dots of light, revealing a bronze beast card.

Zhang Che went wild with joy after seeing the beast card was upgraded to bronze quality, nearly laughing out loud.

His guess was right on the spot; the seven-colored crystal was really able to upgrade the quality of beast cards!

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[Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly]

Level: Two Star (Level 20)

Quality: Bronze

Type: Original Combat Body

Characteristics: Able to Disperse Poison Powder with Strong Hallucination Effect

Weakness: Fire Attribute Attacks

Potential: B Rank: 25% Chance of Breaking Through Current Level, 5% Chance of Breaking Through Current Quality. Chances Halved on Next Upgrade. (Level Upgradable 3 Times, Quality Upgradable 3 Times)

Cultivating Directions: …

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Its quality upgraded from black iron to bronze. The Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly’s hallucination inducing effect became even stronger; it was probably potent enough to put down most two-star silver-quality exotic beasts.

The only thing that made Zhang Che sigh inwardly was that despite the potential of the beast card was still indicating B Rank, both the number of times upgradable for quality and level had dropped from 4 times to 3 times.

From the looks of it, no matter if he used Fusion skill to raise its level, or the rainbow crystal to raise its quality, they were still operating within the limits of the beast’s potential.

This meant that he couldn’t increase the beast’s level or quality without limits.

Thinking about it, this was normal. It couldn’t be that an earthworm could really turn into a dragon, could it?

This provided Zhang Che with a train of thought. When he chose which beast cards to use in the future, its quality didn’t necessarily have to be high, but its potential must be good.

After all, even a gold-quality exotic beast with the lowest E Rank potential could only upgrade its quality once.

If it were some bronze-quality exotic with B Rank potential or higher, it would surely surpass the former by a large margin in the end.

Take the Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly, for example. Although it was at the lowest black iron-quality, this fellow had high potential. In the end it could even surpass gold-quality!

Of course, this was only applicable to Zhang Che, who had a heaven-defying treasure, the rainbow crystal. If it were any ordinary beastmaster, naturally they would want their subdued beast’s base quality to be as high as possible.

The Psychedelic Ghost-Patterned Butterfly took about a week’s time to increase its quality. Zhang Che couldn’t help but look forward to his other beast cards that were at a higher quality. How long would they take to raise their quality?

The rain gradually stopped. The devastating mountain flash flood subsided at a speed visible to the naked eye, too. Zhang Che knew that he could leave this mountain range very soon.

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He waited in that cave for another day. The next morning, Zhang Che rode Hanxue and slowly descended the mountain along the path they came from. Although they came across some areas that were still flooded from time to time, they did not affect his travelling.

However, when he was about halfway through his journey, Zhang Che was stunned by the sight before him.

The area before him was originally a valley, but at this moment the path was blocked off by countless rocks.

Evidently, part of the mountain had collapsed from the flash flood.

-There’s no way to go now. What should I do?- Zhang Che scanned his surroundings, trying to find a way to get past the obstruction. To his dismay, he discovered that unless he had an aerial subdued beast or pet he could ride, there was no way to pass through from here.

Zhang Che sighed helplessly. He could only pat on Hanxue’s head and order him to turn back, hoping to find another way out.

Suddenly, Zhang Che noticed in his peripheral vision that there seemed to be something moving in that collapsed rock pile.