Chen Mu had run into trouble.
The middle level perceptual sensitivity training was a lot more difficult than he had imagined.
For seven days in a row, apart from rest, he was immersed in there, not even practicing the exercise gymnastics.
Regarding the exercise gymnastics, he could already clearly feel that it was doing less and less to improve his body.
The training was boring, but he didn't find it boring, and he was constantly being tormented.
It was a lot more interesting than making one-star power cards.
When he had previously made one-star power cards, especially at the beginning, the resistance he had encountered was so great that it was hard for anyone to imagine.
He was only eleven years old at the time, and that card master was a card master who was in dire straits and about to starve to death. He had only been studying for seven days.
To have an eleven-year-old kid with no prior foundation learn to make one-star power cards in seven days was almost an impossible thing to do.
But that dying card master could only think of that method, which was the only thing he could give Chen Mu in return.
In order to teach Chen Mu, that card master racked his brains, breaking down each step into detail, and patiently explaining the use of each step.
Chen Mu didn't understand a lot of things the first time he had encountered them.
But as a young boy, he was keenly aware that it was an opportunity to change his fate.
So he worked very hard, and since he didn't understand, he would first memorize it.
Chen Mu still didn't understand the card master's death, but he had already memorized all the steps and every detail.
With hope, Chen Mu started to find temporary jobs everywhere, which lasted for a year.
During that year, he finally figured out what the dead card master had imparted to him.
Even if it was only the simplest and most common way to make a one-star power card, it was still hope for him. Hope for survival.
Every night, he would dip his hands in water and practice the composition of the one-star power card over and over again.
Because he was afraid he would forget, he would take some time every day to completely recite all the details he needed to pay attention to in his mind.
From beginning to end, not a single detail was left out.
When he started to make one-star power cards, the pressure on him didn't lessen in the least.
He had pitifully little money on hand, and every time he failed, his losses were huge.
He didn't have the right to fail!
So he developed a habit of concentration and thoroughness, which was the only way he could minimize the number of card failures.
Chen Mu's card making success rate was quite shocking among card masters.
When ordinary card masters were making cards they were familiar with, their failure rate was about 30 percent.
But Chen Mu's failure rate was far less than that. That day, Pearson was dumbstruck.
Chen Mu had already gotten used to such a dull and monotonous life. For him, it was merely the most common and ordinary part of life, nothing worth making a fuss about.
He probably didn't know that it was because of this attitude that he was able to achieve what he had today.
People who lived a privileged life always felt that life should be colorful, colorful, and full of the smell of cigars and red wine.
But that wasn't the case in Chen Mu's eyes. Survival wasn't easy. It was arduous, like walking on thin ice. There were always all kinds of unimaginable troubles and troubles.
He was used to it.
Because of this, he had never given up hope.
Even if this hope was nothing more than a thin one-star power card.
Because of this, he gritted his teeth and endured the inhuman pain when he practiced the "extreme training method" in the mysterious card.
To him, this was just a part of life, a very, very ordinary part. It was not a big deal.
It was the same then, with the perceptual sensitivity training tormenting his nerves again and again.
He didn't know how many times he had failed, so many that he couldn't even count them.
He had only completed a shallow layer of the base of the model in front of him. That was the pitiful result of those seven days.
Chen Mu's expression was the same as always. His attention hadn't been distracted by his constant failures, and he wasn't discouraged. He was always focused on controlling his perception.
For others, concentration was quite exhausting, but for Chen Mu, it was a common occurrence.
Making one-star power cards had taught him to concentrate, and he had used that habit in every part of his life.
He had already found a little trick, or it could be said that his perceptual sensitivity had made a little progress.
The high-speed rotating turntable was no longer able to interfere with him, and he could now easily find the energy block he needed from the high-speed rotating turntable and lock onto it.
That was the only result he had gotten in those seven days.
But it was still very difficult to take it out. He would need to try about 150 times before he could successfully take a piece out. That really demanded too much of his perceptual control.
That was a ratio that could drive a person crazy, but Chen Mu wasn't the least bit discouraged.
Compared to when he had first touched the card and had no one to guide him, he had to rely entirely on self-study. The difficulty just then was just a matter of proficiency, even though it was a little more difficult.
But his body still had a limit to what it could take, and the speed at which concentration consumed his physical and mental strength was astonishing.
After three hours, he withdrew from the mysterious card.
His result in those three hours was to take out two energy blocks, but the number of failures had reached as high as 500.
Those two energy blocks were a lot more difficult to take out than ordinary energy blocks, which was why the ratio was so hopeless.
Wei-ah was sitting in front of the fantasy card receiver, watching the program inside with great interest.
He was holding that brown, fleshy dog in his arms, and his other hand was teasing it from time to time.
The dog was very fat, and its body was heavy. Every time Wei-ah picked it up, he could see waves of flesh rolling around.
It had a big appetite and a lazy temperament, often sleeping all day.
Surprisingly, Wei-ah, who didn't care about anything, seemed to really like that fleshy dog, which made Chen Mu click his tongue in wonder.
Just then, the apparatus on Chen Mu's wrist sounded.
Chen Mu took a look and saw it was Sue Lochiro.
"Hello, Mr. Cao." Sue Lochiro's beautiful face appeared on the screen that had popped up in front of him.
"Hello, Miss Sue." Chen Mu nodded to her.
Sue Lochiro smiled gently and asked with some concern, "How have you been lately, Mr. Cao?
Is there anything wrong? "
Chen Mu's heart warmed, and his tone naturally eased. "Everything has been fine lately. Thank you, Miss Sue."
He and Sue Lochiro had only met once, and not only had she examined his body and diagnosed the cause of his illness for free, but she was also so concerned about his situation. Chen Mu was moved.
Gathering up the bangs in front of her forehead, Sue Lochiro's pretty and fair face made people's hearts race. She said with a slight smile, "Mr. Cao is very polite. I am a medical card artisan, and this is only my job."
She then said in a serious tone, "I have come to find Mr. Cao because of the preliminary diagnosis."
"Oh, please go on." Chen Mu's attention was immediately focused.
"To tell the truth, neither the teacher nor I have ever seen such a situation.
We haven't found any records of that thread-like thing in Mr. Cao's body. "
She paused for a moment, flashing with the brilliance of knowledge. Her small cherry lips then threw out a very heavy bomb. "Moreover, according to the analysis of the known data, the teacher and I have found that this green thread-like thing is very likely to be a living organism!"
"A living organism?" Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat.
His mind flashed back like lightning to the scene of the demonic woman using that green thread-like thing, which had easily killed several card artisans.
He suddenly remembered that when the demonic woman had put away the green thread-like thing, it had turned into a card!
Yes, it was a card!
He still remembered how surprised he had been at that time!
He had never seen such a magical card, or perhaps he had never seen such a strange transformation.
The core of the Heavenly Federation's cards was energy and composition. All the cards revolved around those two points without exception.
Similarly, the changes in the Heavenly Federation's cards were all changes in energy and composition.
That was Chen Mu's understanding of cards before he had seen the demonic woman.
The card in the demonic woman's hand had completely shattered Chen Mu's understanding of cards.
It turned out that there was a card system that was completely different from that of the Heavenly Federation!
For some reason, when Chen Mu heard Sue Lochiro say that the green thread-like thing was a living organism, the first thing he thought of was that green thread-like card!
"Yes, from the analysis of all its characteristics, it should be a living organism, although neither the teacher nor I have ever seen such a strange creature." Sue Lochiro's expression was solemn.
Once they talked about professional issues, the gentleness on her face always disappeared, replaced by a sense of sharpness.
Chen Mu quietly waited for her to continue.
Sue Lochiro paused and looked at Chen Mu apologetically. "But up until now, the teacher and I haven't found a practical way.
It's really entrenched too deeply, and it's spread all over your body.
If we wanted to take it out by force, we would have to cut open all the muscle tissue in your body, but our current technology is still far from that point! "
A faint disappointment arose in Chen Mu's heart. That outcome wasn't out of his expectations.
He had had a bad feeling the last time he had checked.
But what Sue Lochiro said next roused his spirits. "But it's not like we haven't discovered it."
Sue Lochiro pursed her lips into a smile. "The teacher and I studied it together for a long time, and the teacher was very interested in your situation.
We finally came up with two conjectures that might be able to help you. "
"What conjectures?" Chen Mu couldn't help but blurt out.
"There are two conjectures. The first is that the strength of your perception can slow down the number of times it flares up. That is to say, the stronger your perception, the less likely it is to flare up, and the shorter the pain and duration of each flare up.
But the other problem is that the stronger your perception, the greater the pressure on it.
That kind of living organism is the strangest one the teacher and I have ever seen. Its vitality is very strong, and it requires very little energy. Ordinarily, you wouldn't have to worry about it absorbing the nutrients in your body.
But it is very sensitive to pressure, which is why the last time you were about to take it out, it drilled into the depths of your muscles.
The pressure brought by the strengthening of your perception is very likely to stimulate its further growth.
It's a very strange kind of organism. The greater the pressure, the more intense its tendency to grow.
At that time, it would absorb nutrients from your body. We can't be sure what kind of after-effects that would cause.
"The other conjecture was something I discovered by accident.
At that time, I made all of its parameters into a standard data sheet for sexual symptoms, in case I wanted to find a similar organism.
I wanted to see if I could find a close relative, so that I might be able to make some new discoveries.
Regrettably, I didn't find a close relative, but I did inadvertently discover a kind of organism that was the complete opposite of its data sheet! "
Chen Mu opened his ears wide and listened carefully, lest he miss a word.
"In medicine, there is a very strange phenomenon called the Popovich phenomenon.
A medical card artisan by the name of Popovich had discovered a kind of very strange phenomenon a hundred years ago.
He discovered that if two kinds of organisms had completely opposite data sheets for sexual symptoms, they would often have the phenomenon of mutual solution.
Among them, the most typical were the three-palmed grass and the brown ground fern.
Both of those plants were highly toxic, and the standard data sheets for sexual symptoms were completely opposite.
But the wonderful thing was that the three-palmed grass could cure the brown ground fern's poison, and the brown ground fern could also cure the three-palmed grass's poison! "
Her rippling eyes glanced at Chen Mu and Sue Lochiro continued to say, "But there are very few such coincidences in the natural world.
Up until now, I've found a total of five completely opposite examples.
There's no theoretical basis for such a phenomenon of mutual solution, and there's a lot of debate about it in the medical card artisan world.
But I personally think it's a breakthrough.
The one that is completely opposite to the standard data sheet for sexual symptoms of that filamentous organism in your body is the gold-mottled liquid-soft fungus. "
"Gold-mottled liquid-soft fungus?" Chen Mu asked back, never having heard of such an organism.
Sue Lochiro smiled bitterly. "To tell the truth, I've never seen the real thing.
It's a very rare kind of fungus. Its texture is extremely soft, like jelly, with golden markings growing on it. "
At the same time, Sue Lochiro popped up a tiny screen, on which was impressively the image of the gold-mottled liquid-soft fungus.
She kept adjusting the angle of the gold-mottled liquid-soft fungus in the screen to make it easier for Chen Mu to see it more clearly.
"The gold-mottled liquid-soft fungus is very rare and expensive. It has a very important function, which is to prolong a person's life.
Moreover, the federation doesn't produce the gold-mottled liquid-soft fungus. It is produced in the House of a Hundred Depths, where it is said to be equally rare and precious. "
Sue Lochiro seemed to feel the hope was too slim, and she said apologetically, "This speculation actually isn't worth much, but I'll tell you anyway.
I hope you don't lose hope. It doesn't matter if you don't have the gold-mottled liquid-soft fungus.
I'll go look for it to see if I can find a close relative. That might be useful. "
Chen Mu looked stunned.
Seeing Chen Mu's expression, Sue Lochiro's pretty eyes dimmed, and she sighed to herself. She didn't know how to comfort him, and she felt even more guilty. After a few words of comfort, she hung up.
Actually, she didn't know that Chen Mu wasn't stunned because of the gold-mottled liquid-soft fungus, but because of the House of a Hundred Depths she had just mentioned!
When he heard the name, it was like his brain had been struck by lightning.
During the time he had spent with the demonic woman, he had suspected countless times that the demonic woman had come from the mysterious House of a Hundred Depths!
The ghost-faced flower fruit, the wall-climbing lotus, the elastic grass, and the fighting style of walking in the dark had made him make the same speculation many times.
By then, he was 90 percent sure that the demonic woman had come from the House of a Hundred Depths.
Although Chen Mu didn't know much about the House of a Hundred Depths, he still had some basic knowledge.
The House of a Hundred Depths and the Heavenly Federation had established diplomatic relations for almost 270 years, but the House of a Hundred Depths was still mysterious in the eyes of the people of the Heavenly Federation.
Although the two sides had established diplomatic relations, they actually had very little contact.
Originally, the House of a Hundred Depths and the Heavenly Federation had frequent contact.
But about a hundred years ago, a card artisan firm with tens of thousands of people entered the House of a Hundred Depths, which caused a very bad influence.
After that incident, the House of a Hundred Depths strictly controlled the communication between the two sides.
Now, the communication between the House of a Hundred Depths and the Heavenly Federation was almost zero. If it weren't for the demonic woman being so unusual, it would have been hard for Chen Mu to think of that mysterious place.
Chen Mu suddenly remembered that the first time he had met the demonic woman was in the wilderness outside Eastern Shang-Wei City.
But the transit window between the House of a Hundred Depths and the Heavenly Federation wasn't in the Eastern Reaches!
How did the demonic woman get to the wilderness outside Eastern Shang-Wei City?
Even though the demonic woman was tyrannical, Chen Mu didn't believe she could have crossed more than half of the Heavenly Federation single-handedly.
Moreover, judging from the stiff demonic woman's performance, she hadn't had any dealings with other residents of the Heavenly Federation before seeing him.
Chen Mu thought again about the Star Academy coming to Eastern Wei Academy for an exchange.
There were many versions of the speculation about that incident, but no matter which version it was, everyone believed that the Star Academy certainly had a clear purpose.
Otherwise, why would the grand Star Academy come to such a small, unknown place?
The demonic woman … Star Academy …
Could there be some connection between the two?
A bold conjecture popped up in Chen Mu's mind uncontrollably.