Starting that day, Copper was busy with the script for the second installment of "The Legend of Master Shi," which finally gave Chen Mu some time to rest.
Of the twelve cards, he had finished three, leaving nine to go, among which was a token card.
Sure enough, the more he used it, the more proficient he became.
Although his perception hadn't clearly increased by then, he couldn't use it at the same time.
The remaining eight one-star fantasy cards didn't take too much time for Chen Mu to smoothly complete them.
Now there was only one card left, which was a specialized token card.
It had to be said that the token card was a very magical card.
The token card was only used with other cards, and a stand-alone token card wasn't completely worthless.
It was like a person's brain, playing the most central role, but it didn't have much use when it was put out on its own.
That was Chen Mu's first attempt at making a specialized token card.
It was only when he really started to make it that he understood how profound the "token" was.
The previous eleven one-star fantasy cards had already made him feel very complicated, but when he faced the composition of that token card, he realized the two weren't on the same level at all.
Of course, that wasn't unrelated to the fact that he was more familiar with fantasy cards and relatively unfamiliar with token cards.
Throughout the process of making it, Chen Mu entered the mysterious card to re-learn the basics of token cards no less than twenty times.
When he ran into a problem that he couldn't solve, he could only enter the mysterious card to find the relevant content.
He even had trouble finding the answers to some of the problems, so he could only pull out everything that looked similar and ponder it carefully.
Chen Mu felt as though he were fighting a war, and in front of him were fortresses that he needed to break through.
At the beginning, when he ran into a problem that he couldn't solve, Chen Mu was so annoyed that he nearly scratched his scalp.
Later, he could calm down and try to break through it from different angles, full of patience and without impatience.
After twenty days and nights of deliberation and calculation, Chen Mu finally completed the token card.
In front of him was a pure black card lying quietly on the table, the entire card's surface dark and without light, as though it had been sanded.
That was the effect of soaking in the matt liquid, which cost Chen Mu a whole hundred thousand Oudi, and was generally only used to make three-star and above mid-grade cards.
On the pure black card's surface, the glossy black composition flashed with a bewitching glow. The composition was very even, and when put in front of his eyes, it was as smooth as a mirror.
Once the token card was made, Chen Mu loved it to bits.
An artist's vision and aesthetic appreciation of a work of art were always different from that of an ordinary person. That point was also applicable to a card master's fondness for the card's surface.
Holding the twelve cards in his hand, Chen Mu entered the illusion of the mysterious card.
The interfaces of the twelve fantasy cards appeared in front of Chen Mu, floating in front of him, all dull and without light.
Chen Mu put the twelve cards in order in front of him in the positions of the gray cards. Every time he put one on, the gray card would suddenly burst into a ball of light, and then they would turn from gray to bright, spinning slowly in front of Chen Mu.
Chen Mu knew those bright cards were no longer virtual images, but real cards he had just put in.
He couldn't help but sigh in admiration at the mysterious card's miraculousness. The illusions it released seemed real and illusory at the same time, but he couldn't tell whether the illusions around him were real or illusory.
Chen Mu was nervous.
It seemed that his guess was not wrong. However, what would happen next …
Chen Mu's heart jumped into his throat when he finished putting in all twelve cards.
There was no dazzling light, no startling noise. Everything happened so quickly and so quietly.
In the blink of an eye, Chen Mu seemed to have suddenly entered another world.
The enormous pressure closed in on him from all sides, which was a feeling that nearly suffocated him.
Suddenly, a slow but abundant power came through, and he couldn't stand straight, as though someone had pushed him, and he suddenly staggered a few steps forward.
This was …
Looking stupidly in front of him, Chen Mu was stunned.
Water!
He was actually in the water!
Beside him, countless swordfish were swimming here and there, as though he were air.
They swam gracefully, sometimes whistling in groups, and sometimes collapsing like snowflakes.
But those swordfish … were a little too ugly!
Chen Mu couldn't help but wipe a cold sweat. He had paid too much attention to the parameters of those swordfish, and hadn't put any effort into their appearance. That had led to those swordfish looking extremely ugly, all flat like shuttles, with triangular heads, triangular bodies, triangular fins, and triangular tails..
Those swordfish looked like they were assembled from triangles of different sizes.
Chen Mu couldn't help but feel ashamed that the person who made the card play had done that with the swordfish.
"Welcome to the simple water world!"
Chen Mu hadn't heard that hoarse voice for a long time, and he knew he had succeeded!
He had successfully entered the next stage of that mysterious card.
Water world. So it was the water world!
Looking at the surroundings that were as transparent as crystal and yet constantly penetrating with a faint pressure, Chen Mu suddenly saw the light.
He finally understood what those strange parameters of the fantasy cards were really for.
It really was like a fairytale world!
The water plants were floating slowly in the water like strands of hair, the schools of swordfish were playfully frolicking, and there were all kinds of strange underwater reefs, with giant milky white clams lying on top of them..
Even though he knew it was an illusion, Chen Mu couldn't help but be moved by the world he had created.
After a little infatuation, Chen Mu came back to his senses.
He knew very well that the maker of that mysterious card certainly wouldn't have been so bored as to make a water environment.
And he remembered very clearly what that hoarse voice had just said, "Welcome to the simple water world."
He couldn't help but ponder the simple water world.
Since there was a simple water world, wouldn't there be a corresponding complex water world?
He still didn't know, but Chen Mu believed that nothing would be so simple.
By then, he was already prostrating himself in adoration of the maker of that mysterious card.
In his eyes, these superb skills were like unreachable stars. They were so mysterious and so fascinating.
Looking around, Chen Mu was looking for a breakthrough point.
He was very curious about what it would be this time.
A new calisthenics exercise?
Or a new way to make a card?
Just then, the giant milky white clams on the reefs slowly opened to reveal a slit, from which a beam of light shot out.
The beam of light condensed into a point of light in front of Chen Mu, and then spread out in all directions, evolving into a screen of light.