Chapter 44: A New Discovery (1/2)

Chapter 44: A New Discovery

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Since getting back from the club, Chen Mu had been very excited. He experienced so very many astonishing and ingenious ideas which expanded his outlook. Before then he hadn't had any exchanges with other card masters. He had always been shut up alone studying by himself, trying things by himself, and muddling along when he failed by himself. Even though he later had that mysterious card, there wasn't ever really any change with his situation.

It was his first taste of the joys of communicating with others.

That first time having come face to face with the ideas of so many card masters kept Chen Mu in a state of excitement. He spent a whole day in the great hall as though he were intoxicated, grasping other peoples' ideas and trying to answer other peoples' questions.

By the end he didn't remember clearly how many questions he had really tried to crack, but what discouraged him was that most of them ended in failure.

By the time he had gotten home, he was dying of exhaustion, but his state of excitement kept him from sleeping. Copper wasn't home, and he didn't know where he had gone off to play. Compared with Chen Mu's squatting at home, Copper couldn't really be considered well-behaved, and frequently stayed out all night.

Suddenly remembering that he hadn't done his perceptual training that day, Chen Mu promptly got up. Having rested a little just then, he felt that his strength had been somewhat restored enough to enter the simple water world. Although it was perceptual training, in the simple water world he wouldn't be able to do anything without strength.

The soft water enveloped him, and without knowing if it was because of the cool water, Chen Mu's excited state gradually calmed down. He quickly entered a deep meditative state.

He perception spread out in the water around him like water flowing, and he could feel every little ripple within the scope of his perception.

Taking long breaths, he was calm in the middle of agitation.

When Chen Mu came back from his mental calm, he had a wry smile. His perceptual training had hit a bottleneck where four and a half meters was like a chasm in front of him with no way to get beyond.

Chen Mu became a little upset, as rarely happened.

He raised his head and looked around at the crystal clear simple water world, as beautiful and charming as a childhood fairy-tale world. The triangle swordfish cruised about in large schools, free and easy. The water grass not far away swayed slowly and regularly.

Chen Mu stood silently, and after a long while, suddenly laughed at himself, since what did he have to be dissatisfied about? Especially now that he had a lot better fortune than most people. After he'd worked it out, the furrow in his brow disappeared.

With a little smile and with peace in his heart, Chen Mu moved about freely in the simple water world.

Which is to say that having been busy all along with perceptual training, he had never really wandered around in that strange fairy-tale water world.

Chen Mu was already pretty used to the underwater currents, and his perception was spread all around his body by him, so that he could respond in time whenever there was a ripple. Step by step, although it wasn't fast, it was steady.

Not far away the thicket of water grass was green and lovely, and Chen Mu couldn't stop himself from walking toward it.

Having walked over in front of the thicket of water grass, and while Chen Mu was preparing to examine it closely, two strands of water grass suddenly curled around his ankles like a clever snake. Chen Mu only felt his calf tighten and his feet get unstable.

What happened? Chen Mu was taken aback, and given his null level of biological knowledge, he naturally couldn't recognize what kind of water grass that was.