My Card Beast Taming Game

"Meow~"

Only the white ape remained relatively still, sitting in the corner as if taking a nap while holding its long sword.

"Excellent! Very energetic! I'll upgrade you to three stars right away!"

Without a second thought, Zhou Chen fumbled around for a bit before immediately disbanding the formation and upgrading Changming Captain and Cloud Mist Witch to three stars.

Captain Changming unlocked his second active skill in the process.

【Martial Virtue - Flame Feather Stomp】

"Charging forward amidst raging flames, dealing extremely high damage and knocking back all enemies in its path; it cannot be blocked during this process."

Haha, the Universiade is here!

Compared to the first active skill, Dawn's Roar, Flame Feather Kick undoubtedly deals much higher damage and is the skill that best brings out the stats of the Roar Captain.

"Crunch—!!"

After being upgraded, the appearance of the Changming Captain has changed slightly. His fleshy crest is like a blooming flame flower, his feathers are distinct and bright as gold, and his tail feathers are colorful and dazzling.

However, once it has calmed down, it can still maintain its previous posture, except that its head has become a little bigger.

On the Cloud Witch's side, she also unlocked her second active skill, [Mist Shelter].

The appearance hasn't changed much; it's just a little taller.

The civet cat's condition remained completely unchanged.

Zhou Chen was very satisfied. "Not bad, not bad."

Finally, it's time for the main event of this promotion to junior card master.

"White Ape King".

He looked at the spirit card in his hand. As a card used openly, he had grown into a novice card master, so naturally he also made it a silver-tier card.

However, it's worth noting the reward he received for checking in the previous two days – [Miniature Breath of Soil].

Zhou Chen opened the Spirit Card Advancement interface, selected White Ape, and a dazzling array of advancement materials appeared below:

【猿骨×20】、【恶猿犬齿×10】、【自然本源×10】、【自然的果实×5】、【自然的痕迹×10】和【恶山魈×5】。

The materials have been gathered for a long time, and even the materials for advancing to the Gold rank are ready.

As a spirit card of the nature attribute, the White Ape King requires nature-type materials for its advancement.

In addition, in the game, to upgrade a card, you must consume a card of the same type.

In this world, however, cards of the same attribute and race can be used as substitutes, with only a requirement on the quantity.

This is undoubtedly a good thing for Zhou Chen. It's fine for the lower-level cards, but it's really difficult to draw the same type of card like the gold card.

His gaze swept over a series of materials, finally settling on the empty space behind them, “Miniature Breath Soil…”

This thing's effect is to rebuild the origin and create a new life.

Furthermore, it is limited to Bronze-tier Spirit Cards.

It can only be the White Ape.

Without hesitation, Zhou Chen threw the miniature Breath Soil into it and pressed the upgrade button. He didn't believe the game panel would betray him.

"Evolve, White Ape!"

He raised his arms high, his eyes fixed on the various materials that were constantly merging into the white ape's body, feeling even more nervous than when he had just been promoted to a junior card master.

hum~

A dazzling light enveloped the white ape, and the next second...

Deng!

The card trembled, changing from a bronze hue to a silvery white, and then the White Ape King transformed into a completely unfamiliar figure—

Its fur changes from sparse to thick, with a ring around its neck resembling a lion's mane. Its face is ferocious and menacing. It wears baggy trousers and has a long knife tied around its waist. The shape of jet-black wings is vaguely visible on its back.

Why is it described as indistinct?

Because it's like those raster cards from childhood, where you could see different images from different angles.

The name of the White Ape King changed accordingly, with the words "Black Feather" added before it, thus becoming the Black Feather White Ape King.

Zhou Chen saw its upgraded stats through the game panel, and after a moment of silence, he sighed.

"Wocao!"

Even if the original White Ape King were to advance, its stats would only be considered above average in the Silver tier. It was only through its superior skill mechanics that it became the African God of War.

Now that it has been reforged from its original form by the miniature Breath of Earth, not only has the card's appearance changed, but its stats have also jumped to the top level of silver cards.

Zhou Chen fed it to three stars without hesitation, unlocking its new passive skill after advancement.

Passive Skill ② - [White Ape Semen Locking Technique]

When your health is ≤50%, you enter Burst Mode, where all attributes are doubled for ten seconds.

Ten seconds of true heroism!

Zhou Chen used to think that he couldn't do anything in ten seconds, but now he knows that he can do a lot in ten seconds.

As for the cooldown time, that requires further testing.

Chapter 86: Monkey King's Advancement

Upon further examination, Zhou Chen quickly discovered other changes in the Black-feathered White Ape.

First, it gained an additional Sky attribute, changing from a single Nature attribute to a dual attribute; second, its active skill [Charged Strike] was changed to [Shadowless Strike].

"Spread your wings and launch a surprise attack, unleashing a powerful aerial-attribute slash at the enemy."

Next is [Wind and Thunder Escape]. When it is installed on the Black Feather White Ape, its effect changes from "enhancing the next attack and adding lightning attribute damage" to "enhancing the next attack and adding lightning attribute area damage".

The same applies when installed on the Bronze-tier White Ape.

Now we have both single-target and area-of-effect skills.

"This is the Breath of Earth."

Zhou Chen was extremely satisfied and decisively summoned the White Ape.

However, the changes in skill effects are not entirely due to the Breath of Earth; normal advancement also brings changes.

After a Spirit Card is upgraded, its appearance effect will also change.

The Wind and Thunder Blade slowly emerged and hovered in mid-air. Then, a gust of black wind surged out from it, suddenly transforming into pitch-black wings that blotted out the sky and enveloped the Wind and Thunder Blade. When it unfolded again, a black-winged giant ape nearly two meters tall appeared in the room.

"Waaah..."

It cried out in a low voice, and then its wings suddenly disappeared.

Zhou Chen, who was marveling at how big the white ape had grown, was slightly taken aback and immediately went forward to check its back, but found nothing.

"Where are the wings? They've disappeared?"

He looked at the White Ape King, who, as always, turned to look at him, his fierce face filled with innocence, as if to say that he didn't know either.

Once a Bronze card is transformed into a Silver card and upgraded to three stars, it transforms from a mere puppet controlled by the card master into a card creature that develops its own consciousness. The current White Ape Justice is an example of this.

Interestingly, there are also differences in intelligence among the card creatures.

The white ape clearly belongs to the group with high intelligence.

After a moment's thought, Zhou Chen led the various "animals" out of the room and into the yard, ignoring the chirping of insects in the dead of night, his mind stirring slightly.

"Waaah!"

The black-feathered white ape let out a low cry, and suddenly jet-black wings sprouted from its flat back, allowing it to fly straight into the air.

Zhou Chen raised his head, watching it fall to the second floor and stop there, then took out his phone to check the time.

Three minutes later.

The white ape's wings disappeared, and it landed smoothly.

"You only get wings when you use a skill? Is it an intermittent two-winged ape?"

He roughly understood the mechanism of the wings, but felt it was a pity that they weren't permanent. Did he have to upgrade to a gold card to have them?

Since this is a brand-new advanced form after adding [Miniature Breath Soil], Zhou Chen is not sure what the White Ape's experience will be like when he reaches the Gold level.

"Let's complete the mental link first."

Zhou Chen deactivated the summoning and held the White Ape King's card to his forehead.

The spiritual energy that had merged with the brain seemed to have found a breakthrough, drilling into the spirit card along the space between the eyebrows.

[Spiritual Link] is the second ability that a novice card master gains after [Spiritual Boiling]. It allows the card master to mark the card with a personal mark, preventing others from using the card immediately after obtaining it, and also helps with the cooperation between the card master and the card.

Lu Qingning had once demonstrated the effect of the [Mental Link] [Behavioral Synchronization] in front of him, that is, the behavior of the card master and the spirit card became similar or even identical.

From then on, card players no longer needed to bring card creatures into their line of sight to control them; they could issue precise commands even when the creatures were out of sight.

The only drawback is that the connection for junior cardholders is a one-way information transmission; two-way communication can only be achieved when the level reaches intermediate level.

After a long while, Zhou Chen put down the white ape and replaced it with Captain Changming and the Cloud Mist Witch.

While novice card masters cannot summon gold-tier spirit cards, they can establish mental links without any problem; at most, it will just consume more mental energy.

Ordinary people wouldn't need to do that, but Zhou Chen had to.

After all, he can summon gold cards through the game panel, and if he can use the mental link to convey more accurate commands, it will be of great help to him!

By the time the three cards had achieved a preliminary mental link, he was already feeling somewhat tired.

"Phew... This thing can't be done just once; it requires a lot of mental energy."

After the Spirit Card and the Card Master complete their connection, they need to nurture it through meditation. The stronger the connection between them, the more beneficial it will be in battle.

However, nurturing spiritual cards is not entirely without its benefits.

Nurturing can be done during meditation, and the spirit card will then replenish a portion of its spiritual energy. This spiritual energy can perfectly blend with the card master, accelerating their advancement to the next level.

A radiant light appeared on the horizon.

Zhou Chen had been up all night, which left him feeling quite tired.

"Take a nap first."

After consuming the Spirit-Concentrating Pill, the Spirit-Replenishing Liquid, and several other mental energy supplements, he lay down on the bed and went to sleep soundly.

Two and a half hours later.

Zhou Chen gradually opened his eyes, feeling exceptionally energetic and incredibly relaxed.

"Is this the recovery ability of a novice card master?"

He raised his hand, and soon a fluffy, cloud-like cat tail came into view. He couldn't help but grab it and hug it to his arms. "Mimi!"

The Cloud Witch feels so good; I can never get tired of touching it.

Zhou Chen sat up and saw the rooster, Changming Duwei, pacing by the bed. He quickly went over and touched its comb. "Good morning, Brother Chicken!"

Captain Changming used to hate air conditioning and rarely entered his room, but ever since the Cloud Mist Witch appeared, she would come and circle around from time to time.

"Where is the White Ape?"

Zhou Chen lifted the air conditioner curtain and immediately saw the white ape lying in the shadows of the courtyard, swaying back and forth in a rocking chair. The guy was leisurely crossing his legs and putting a crisp peach into his mouth.

Squeak squeak~

Noticing his approach, the White Ape didn't get up, but casually raised his hand to greet him.

"Woo~"

"You're quite impolite... That's fine."

Instead of being angry, Zhou Chen nodded approvingly.

A newly formed spiritual card is like an infant, needing to learn by absorbing everything around it.

At this moment, the white ape was undoubtedly in the learning stage. It instinctively imitated Zhou Chen's usual behavior, copying his actions.

But even though the spirit card has its own personality, and even though the spiritual link maintains the card master and the spirit card, the White Ape will not become a second Zhou Chen in the end.

Nine o'clock in the morning.