Chen Mu had been a little malnourished from his life as a vagabond.
Later, after his life had taken a turn for the better, his body had started to become sturdy. Although his physique couldn't be considered strong on the surface, his physical quality was actually excellent, and he rarely got sick.
But when Chen Mu tried to do one of the movements, he found it unusually strenuous. It required a lot of strength from the lower limbs, which wasn't his strong point.
After a few rounds, Chen Mu's legs were as sore as mud.
Chen Mu didn't know if he had really done those movements, but the soreness from his legs was as clear as day.
Chen Mu tried all of the eighteen movements, and he could only do three.
And Chen Mu found that as long as he did one of the movements according to the standards, the puppet would immediately darken.
If the movements he did weren't exactly the same as the puppet's demonstration, there wouldn't be any change in the puppet.
Apart from that, no matter how much Chen Mu tossed and turned, there weren't any changes in his surroundings.
After tossing and turning, Chen Mu's physical strength was exhausted. His biggest problem just then wasn't how to complete those eighteen movements, but how to get out of the illusion.
There was nothing around him, and apart from those eighteen puppets, there were no other signs.
Could it be those eighteen puppets?
Chen Mu quickly rejected that idea. Those eighteen puppets were all illusions.
Or did he have to complete those eighteen movements?
Chen Mu smiled bitterly. If that was really the case, then he would be miserable!
He would need to go through quite a bit of practice to be able to successfully complete those eighteen movements, and he couldn't do it now.
Break the illusion?
He didn't even need to think about it. Relying on his own strength, there was no way he could break such a brilliant illusion.
So, where would the key point to get out of the illusion be?
Thinking about all sorts of legends about high-grade fantasy cards, Chen Mu's forehead was dripping with cold sweat.
If he couldn't find that key point, then there were only two possibilities for his end.
One was that the power card supplying the fantasy card would be used up, and the illusion would be automatically lifted. The other was that he would die of thirst or hunger before his energy was used up.
A drop of sweat slid down the bridge of his nose, finally dripping into the endless dark void below.
Chen Mu, who had never encountered such danger, didn't panic. It wasn't the first time his life had been in danger.
Wandering as a child, apart from hunger and cold, had been accompanied by a lot of danger.
Stray dogs were also very likely to be fatal to street children.
There were also those vicious human traffickers. In their eyes, street children were also a piece of juicy meat.
But there had never been a danger that had made Chen Mu feel so helpless.
In his eyes, that fantasy card represented the highest level of skill in fantasy cards, which was too high to reach.
For a dabbler card master who had just learned a one-star fantasy card, that was an existence he could only look up to and not surpass.
This sense of danger was not only external, but also came from the deepest part of his heart.
Chen Mu forced himself to calm down.
He believed that the purpose of creating this card was not to trap the user in an illusion.
Because if that was the case, this place would be filled with all kinds of lethal attacks, and it wouldn't be as peaceful as it was now.
The only possibility was that he had not found the key to exit the illusion.
He hadn't gone through the formal study of card masters, and it was clearly unrealistic to think that he could use what he had learned to solve the problem.
After thinking about it for a long time, Chen Mu decided to use a stupid method, which was the method of elimination. He would eliminate them one by one, since there weren't many things in the fantasy realm anyway.
However, he had touched almost everything in the illusion just now!
There was clearly no reaction.
Where could it possibly be?
The void, the puppets, and himself!
Chen Mu's mind flashed. Right, he had been neglecting a possibility, and that was himself!
In the entire illusion, apart from the void and the eighteen puppets, there was also himself!
Chen Mu's gaze fell onto his wrist, and he was suddenly startled. On his wrist, his apparatus could impressively be seen!
Almost unconsciously, Chen Mu pressed the activation button on the apparatus on his wrist.
The scene in front of him changed, and Chen Mu returned to his familiar room.
His legs went soft, and Chen Mu sat down on the floor with a sigh of relief.
He was too tired!
He didn't even feel like moving a finger by then.
In order to try out those eighteen movements, he had used up seventy or eighty percent of his physical strength, and he had been very nervous afterward.
Both his body and mind had gone through a severe test.
Chen Mu was so tired that he lay on the floor and fell asleep.
Chen Mu was once again awakened by hunger!
The feeling of waking up from hunger was really terrible.
Chen Mu really hated the feeling of hunger, which was probably a shadow left over from his previous wandering days.
He wasn't picky about food, as long as he could eat his fill.
When he opened the fresh food cabinet, a gust of cold air hit him in the face.
The core of the fresh food cabinet was an air-conditioning card that could refrigerate, which could maintain the freshness of the food.
Its price was low, but it consumed a lot of energy each month.
Like the air-conditioning card in the fresh food cabinet, the heating card in the hot pot, and so on, those cards weren't high-grade, only one or two stars, but they had become an indispensable part of people's lives.
They could all be produced on a large scale, which also made their cost even lower.
The application of low-grade cards radiated to every area of ordinary people's lives.
There were two undisputed grandmasters in the card world, and they were Rosenberg and Heiner Van Sant.
Grandmaster Rosenberg was the first to propose card theory, and he made the first power-card and fantasy card in human history.
And Heiner Van Sant not only developed Rosenberg's fantasy cards to an unprecedented height, but he also created many other cards that were completely different from Rosenberg's style.
Those two grandmasters climbed to the top of the card world.
But in that world, there was an equally outstanding person who, in a different way, emitted an incomparably dazzling light, and was called the grandmaster closest to the two grandmasters!
That was Luo Qi!
Luo Qi's status as a high-grade card master was so bleak compared to those outstanding card masters in history.
But such a card master had set off an unprecedented revolution in the world of cards.
He devoted his life's energy to how to connect cards with ordinary people's lives.
Many cards that had been unattainable had entered the lives of ordinary people because of him.
The fresh food cabinet, the hot pot, the shuttle car..
He was always full of wisdom and creativity, and he took those unremarkable one-star and two-star cards and put them to great use. Because of that, people's lives had undergone earth-shaking changes.
That had also greatly improved the lives of many low-grade card masters who were struggling to make a living.
That had also brought him enormous wealth, and he was also full of wisdom when it came to business. His wealth was like a rolling snowball, and in a few short decades, he had already become the richest person in the Heavenly Federation.
Until then, the Luo Qi family was still one of the few rich and powerful families in the Heavenly Federation.
Luo Qi was a figure full of controversy, and in the eyes of traditional card masters, he was a typical representative of someone who didn't engage in proper business.
At that time, Heiner Van Sant had derisively called him "a guy whose body reeks of money."
But in the eyes of many people, he was an out-and-out genius, an unconventional genius.
That was how it was in Chen Mu's eyes.
Breaking convention wasn't something that just anyone could do.
Chewing hard bread and sitting at the table, Chen Mu's gaze once again fell onto that mysterious card.
That enigmatic card was still a mystery.
He hadn't found any of the answers he wanted to find.
He had originally thought that once he had a three-star power card, the truth of what kind of card that mysterious card was would come to light. He hadn't thought that in the end, he still wouldn't be able to figure it out.
The lifelike illusion in the card had cut off all his connection to his surroundings. It was like another world, and he almost couldn't find his way out. It still gave him an intense shock.
So, illusions could get to that point!
Thinking again about the fantasy card he had made, Chen Mu felt even more defeated.
But that feeling of defeat only lasted a few seconds. Chen Mu believed that there would be only a few people who could make such a fantasy card in those days.
What followed was a big boost of encouragement.
The fantasy card, the most traditional card in the Heavenly Federation, was really awesome!
Unconsciously chewing the hard bread, Chen Mu's mind was full of those eighteen different forms of action.
Chen Mu wasn't a card artisan, but fighting had been a common occurrence when he had been a vagabond, and he was an old hand at it. So, he could see at a glance that those eighteen actions weren't aggressive at all.
No matter how he looked at them, they looked a little like exercise gymnastics.