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 <p>As a child living the life of a street punk, Chen Mu suffered malnutrition for a little while. Later, after his life took a turn for the better, his health started to become stronger; although judging from his appearance, you wouldn't say he was well-built. But his health was essentially excellent, and he seldom got sick.</p>
 <p>However, when Chen Mu attempted one of the exercises, he found it to be quite strenuous. It made high demands on his lower body strength, which wasn't his strong suit. Both of Chen Mu's legs were aching and as weak as mud after going through it a few times. While he didn't know if he was really doing the exercises, the soreness that developed in his legs was perfectly real.</p>
 <p>Chen Mu was able to try each of the eighteen actions once, but there were just three that he could do. Each time he did one of the activities according to the standard, that figure would immediately dim. There wouldn't be any change in the figure if the activity he did wasn't exactly the same as the figure demonstrated.</p>
 <p>Apart from those changes, no matter how many times Chen Mu suffered through the exercises, there would be no change in the surroundings.</p>
 <p>Suffering the unbearable repetitions had almost completely wiped out Chen Mu's energy. His biggest problem now was not how to complete the eighteen activities, but how to get out from that fantasy realm!</p>
 <p>He was surrounded by a void, empty of a single thing. There weren't any other indicators apart from the eighteen figures. Could they be the indicators?</p>
 <p>Chen Mu quickly vetoed the notion, since the eighteen figures were complete illusions. Or was it that he had to finish the eighteen actions? Chen Mu was smiling bitterly, since if that was how it was, he would certainly be miserable. He would have to go through quite a few trials before he could possibly complete them successfully, and it wouldn't be right away. Break out of the fantasy realm? That wasn't worth thinking about in such a brilliant fantasy realm. He certainly couldn't break out by relying on his own power.</p>
 <p>And so where could the key to exit the fantasy realm be? Chen Mu's forehead was beading up in cold sweat trying to remember all the various legends about high-grade fantasy cards. If there were no way to find the critical key, then his future had only two possibilities. One was that the power-card which supplied the power for that fantasy card would get used up, causing the fantasy realm automatically to terminate. The other was that he could die of thirst or hunger before the power got used up.</p>
 <p>A bead of sweat slid down along the bridge of his nose and finally dripped off into the endless dark void below. But even never having experienced that sort of danger, Chen Mu wasn't flustered, since it certainly wasn't the first time in his life that he'd encountered danger. Besides starvation and cold, there were many dangers which went along with being a young street punk. Vicious wandering dogs could be just as fatal to wandering children. Then there were those thoroughly awful and extremely vicious traffickers in people. In their eyes, street kids were like a piece of juicy meat.</p>
 <p>But Chen Mu had never once encountered any danger which made him feel so utterly helpless. In his eyes, that fantasy card represented the highest art of fantasy cards; too high to touch. For a dabbler in card-mastery who had only just mastered the one-star fantasy card, he expected simply to be gazing upward, never being able to go beyond that for his whole life.</p>
 <p>The feeling of danger wasn't just coming from something outside of him but had also emerged from the deepest reaches of his heart.</p>
 <p>Chen Mu forced himself to calm down. He knew that the goal of the card maker wasn't likely to be to make the user die while trapped in the fantasy realm. If that were the case, the place ought to have been full of mortal attacks, and not so peaceful as it was. The only possibility was that he had not yet found the key for exiting the fantasy realm.</p>
 <p>Since he hadn't gone through any sort of orthodox card master training, it obviously didn't seem practical to consider using his own knowledge to resolve the problem. After pondering a while, Chen Mu decided to use the crude method of the process of elimination. There weren't many objects in the fantasy realm in any case.</p>
 <p>However . . . just then, almost all the things in the fantasy realm came together by themselves and touched! It was quite clear that it wasn't in response to anything. What could possibly be going on?</p>
 <p>The figures in the void themselves!</p>
 <p>Chen Mu had a flash of divine insight. Right! I ignored one possibility. Myself! Besides the eighteen figures in the whole fantasy realm, there is myself!</p>
 <p>Chen Mu's panicked glance fell onto his own wrist. Astonishingly, he could see the apparatus there. Chen Mu almost unconsciously pressed the activation button.</p>
 <p>Phew! The scenery in front of his eyes changed and Chen Mu was back in his familiar room again.</p>
 <p>His legs had gone soft. Heaving a huge sigh of relief, Chen Mu plopped on his butt onto the floor. He was so exhausted he didn't even feel like shifting his finger.</p>
 <p>He had almost entirely used up his energy attempting those actions. After both his mind and his body had gone through such a rigorous ordeal, his spirits had also become highly enervated.</p>
 <p>Worn out, Chen Mu lay down on the floor and fell asleep.</p>
 <p>Once again, Chen Mu was awakened by hunger! The feeling of waking up hungry was really awful. Chen Mu really loathed feeling starved, which was probably the left-over influence of growing up as a street punk.</p>
 <p>He wasn't picky about what he ate - he just wanted to fill his belly. He opened the fresh food cupboard, and a blast of cold air hit him in the face. The core of the fresh food cupboard was a cold-air card - capable of refrigeration - to keep the freshness of food items. Its price was low, but the power it consumed each month was not a small amount.</p>
 <p>The fresh food cupboard's cold-air card, or the hot pot's heating card, and so forth, were not at all high-grade - not more than one or two stars. But they had become things which people couldn't do without in their everyday lives. They had all gone into large-scale industrial production, which made their production costs even lower.</p>
 <p>Low-grade card usage had radiated to all aspects of ordinary people's lives. In the world of cards, there was no disputing who the great masters were; Rosenberg and Heiner Van Sant. As part of the first theory of cards that he proposed, the grand master Rosenberg made the first power-cards and fantasy cards in human history. Heiner Van Sant not only took Rosenberg's fantasy cards to a level never achieved, he also made other cards which were entirely different from the Rosenberg style.</p>
 <p>These two great masters both climbed to the very peak of the card world.</p>
 <p>However, there was still one who was equally outstanding in that world, who used a different style. He shone forth with incomparably dazzling radiance and was called the 'grand master most approaching the two sages.'</p>
 <p>That was none other than Luo Qi. Luo Qi's status as a high-grade card master is very dark among the outstanding card masters throughout history. But it was just that kind of card-master who stirred up an unprecedented revolution in the world of cards. He spent his entire lifetime's energy devoted to integrating cards with the lives of ordinary people. Many cards which bad been too high to reach came into ordinary peoples' lives because of him.</p>
 <p>Fresh food cupboards, hot pots, shuttle cars . . .</p>
 <p>He was always brimming with matchless wisdom and creativity. He brought about great value from unremarkable one-star and two-star cards. As a result, peoples' lives underwent earth-shattering changes. That also greatly improved the lives of many low-level card-masters, whose livelihoods had been challenging. It also gave him enormous riches, since he was also wise in the ways of business. His wealth grew like a rolling snowball, and after a few short decades he had become the wealthiest person in the entire Heavenly Federation at that time. Right up until the contemporary period, Luo Qi's descendants were still among the rich and powerful of the Heavenly Federation. There were so few that they could be counted on one's fingers.</p>
 <p>Luo Qi was a person brimming with controversy. In the eyes of traditional card-masters, he was the archetype of someone who didn't attend to his proper duties. His contemporary, Heiner Van Sant, mockingly called him "a jerk who stinks of money from head to toe." While to very many people, he was an out-and-out genius, though an unconventional one. That was also the way Chen Mu's saw it.</p>
 <p>Breaking through convention is not something everyone can do.</p>
 <p>Chewing on a hard piece of bread, Chen Mu sat at the table and let his gaze fall again on that mysterious card. As of then, that enigmatic card was still an enigma. He still hadn't found one of the answers he wanted to find. He had originally thought that once he had a three-star power-card, 'the rocks would show as the water receded,' and he would know after all what sort of card the mysterious card really was. He hadn't expected that in the end he still wouldn't know why it was as it was.</p>
 <p>The life-like fantasy realm in the card seemed like a different world, cut off entirely from his surrounding environment. It had really shocked him when he couldn't find a way out because of that.</p>
 <p>Illusion had actually progressed to that stage!</p>
 <p>Chen Mu felt a little defeated when he thought again about the fantasy card he had made on his own. But his feeling of defeat only lasted a few seconds. Chen Mu believed those who could make any kind of fantasy card were few enough. He felt an immediate boost in his morale. Fantasy cards, the most traditional cards in the Heavenly Federation, were awesome after all!</p>
 <p>As he was chewing on the hard bread, Chen Mu's mind was full of the eighteen actions, each one unique. They were certainly not methods for attack. Chen Mu was not a card artisan, but street brawls were his daily fare when he was a street punk. He was an old hand with them, so he could tell at a glance that these eighteen moves had no attack nature about them.</p>
 <p>Somehow, the moves looked a little bit like tricks from gymnastics exercises.</p>
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 <p>This is both a work of science fiction and an exploration of the meaning of life, love, literature and art. Brainpower is no longer the main ingredient for being human in this far distant future world. Spirituality, physical balance, and diligence all come together as integrity for Chen Mu, the Card Apprentice. The cards which Chen Mu masters in his own scrappy way, distill all the powers of the cosmos – human and nonhuman – into something that is not a book, not technology, and neither art nor magic, but is these and more. Learn about these strange cards, which can embody everything you might imagine for the future of technology, but also a future beyond technology which promotes the best, and sometimes the worst, from mankind’s past.</p>
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 <p>From ancient times to the present, it is rumored that there is a spiritual realm in the world.</p>
 <p>Regarding the theory of the spiritual realm, celebrities and scholars in the past dynasties have different opinions. The poem records:</p>
 <p>“From Qi to Tang, Zishan?</p>
 <p>“The spiritual realm is indescribable, and it is difficult to ask for forgiveness for ghost workers.”</p>
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 <p>The story of how a little weakling of a loser who can’t do anything but eat, drink, and have fun, and who’s been dumped on top of it, grows up into a crafty and conniving genuine man.</p>
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 <p>Blood, war, mission, revenge… In this age of bloody battles, only the strong can survive.</p>
 <p>Everyone has a mecha dream in their hearts, and Chen Feng is very thankful that he has the ability to drive mechas.</p>
 <p>Let’s look at how a small pilot who lost his parents since childhood, how to deal with mechas with various special functions, how to control the torrent of steel, step through the world powerhouse standing in front, laugh at the world, and achieve supreme peak.</p>
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 <p>This is the best of times. The two camps are fighting but not broken, and the door to the "New World" has been opened. Exploration and development, courage and glory are the background of the entire galaxy.<br>
   This is the worst of times. The people of the earth have forgotten the hardships and pride of the fathers of independence, and are addicted to the false prosperity of Wen Tian and Wu Xi. They are about to fall into the abyss without knowing it.<br>
   This was a time before miracles, when Titans sailed across the stars, psykers roamed the void, and Leviathans awakened in the shadows behind stars. The will left by ancient times is not only a legacy, but also a test and even purification.<br>
   This is the eve of the great era. The dragon girl in the morning light is taking a nap, the boneless and one-eyed goddess of wisdom is still healthy, the female khan who swallows the sea of stars is still dormant, and the queen who is obsessed with all insects is silently growing up.<br>
   After being reborn again and again, Yu Lian was bored with all the above and decided to be a revolutionary with no emotion, using the workers' Star Destroyers and Colossus to completely overturn the ancient rule of the psychic aristocrats.<br>
   **********************************<br>
   The old book club group has exploded, and the new book club group "Meow Star Club" is 887291431.</p>
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 <p>On the eve of the college entrance examination, the super brain that had been hidden in Liu Haoyu's mind for many years suddenly awakened. Only then did Liu Haoyu learn that he was actually an alien living on earth!<br>
   Space teleportation, flying into the sea, super cannonballs... With the super brain, everything will be a piece of cake.<br>
   With the help of Super Brain, Liu Haoyu gradually became the technological overlord of the universe that shook the galaxy!</p>
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 <p>[Interstellar + Strong Female + Upgrade + Live Broadcast + Mecha + Farming + CP]<br>
   After failing to escape the tribulation and traveling to the interstellar world, Tang Ranran originally just wanted to be a rice insect to practice and upgrade, but conditions did not allow it. He started out as a negative second generation, and he would go bankrupt at any time with hundreds of billions of loans. What should he do? I can only concentrate on my career!<br>
   Goldfinger's products must be of high quality, and the farm crops are grown.<br>
   Tang Ranran grew vegetables on the farm, grew vegetables on the planet, and sold vegetables through live broadcasts. Tang Ranran made a fortune by growing vegetables. When he finally achieved his small goal of 100 million points and could focus on cultivation without growing vegetables...<br>
   The loser who eats, drinks and has fun: Anchor, sell me some food! Just a few hundred million will do!<br>
   The third generation of rich people working hard to start a business: Dear, let’s work together to grow vegetables and become the richest man in the world!<br>
   The hard-working and capable Star Lord’s younger brother: Everyone is responsible for building the planet. Boss, plant some vegetables!<br>
   The most powerful healer in the universe: I am unemployed, you have to be responsible for growing vegetables and treating people!<br>
   The strongest peer in the planting world: I heard that you are better at growing vegetables than me? I don’t believe it unless you sell me food!<br>
   A certain marshal who drank several pots of vinegar every day since he had a wife: Get out of here!<br>
   Tang Ranran:......</p>
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 <p>New Zealand underwent sudden changes and all humans and animals began to feel unimaginable hunger. At the same time, they begin their transformation into monsters as they feed voraciously.</p>
 <p>The chef Bai Yi with his daughter struggles for survival every step of the way, only to find that the entire New Zealand has transformed into a devil island. This, was only the start of the change to the entire world.</p>
 <p>Starting from powerful physical strength to mystical skills and then to magnificent battle techniques, will they be able to find a long peaceful future? From the evolution that humanity themselves triggered, the fate of the entire world is completely changed.</p>
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 <p>Global mutation, mysterious recovery reflects reality, and disaster is coming.<br><br>
   Everyone will awaken the ability to control the beast lord at the age of eighteen, obtain the lord space, and in a month, the lord space will be embodied and become a lord of one party.<br><br>
   Each lord can acquire a recruitment pool when he awakens and recruit his own troops.<br><br>
   Plunder resources, strengthen arms, expand territory, and resist the invasion of monsters!<br><br>
   Ren Qi starts recruiting mutant succubus, which can be continuously upgraded to fallen angel!<br><br>
   “Someone can recruit succubus?”<br><br>
   “What are you envious of? The succubus has no combat power, and is a proper battle against the five scumbags. When his lord space materializes, it is estimated that he will soon be swallowed by the monsters.”<br><br>
   “Hahaha, I woke up with the top class Golden Tiger, which is invincible.”<br><br>
   Not long after, Ren Qi’s territory expanded to the Warring States level, with a group of fallen angels standing beside him, overlooking all the monsters.<br><br>
   The weakest fallen angels are all demigods…<br><br>
   Group number: 418467409</p>
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 <p>When I cleared the final chapter of a game that was a national failure, I became an unnamed side character in it.</p>
 <p>A non-standard, unmeasurable, EX rank supporting character.</p>
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 <p>Kang Chi was originally just a maintenance worker, but suddenly got the "item upgrade system".<br>
   As long as you make it yourself, you can upgrade it!<br>
   "It's a little unrealistic to rub an aircraft carrier with your hands for the time being, but isn't it easy to rub a lens?"<br>
   So starting from rubbing the lens by hand, far-leading technologies were introduced one after another.<br>
   "What do you think is a strong country?"<br>
   "The enemy retreated thousands of miles and did not dare to cross the pond."<br>
   “People all over the world are learning Chinese, translating Chinese papers, and reading instructions are all in Chinese characters.”<br>
   "I am a street sweeper. All I know is that Master Kang has made things cheaper for us, and we can never spend all the money we have. Everyone is happy, so with him, the country is strong!"</p>
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 <p>have you heard of it?<br><br>
   If you are in the dead of night, turn on the music player, put on headphones, hide your head under the quilt alone, and listen to the looping single repeatedly.<br><br>
   Fall asleep after forty-four cycles, if you are unlucky, open your eyes again, you will no longer lie on your own bed, but enter a strange space completely isolated from reality.<br><br>
   That space....on the surface, it appears to be our usual places, such as our own bedroom, living room at home, underground garage, bathroom, basketball court, construction site, etc. But if you look closely, you will find that it is different. ...everything is different.<br><br>
   ====<br><br>
   This is an ordinary person who, after obtaining supernatural powers, transforms and grows step by step in a different world, reaching the ultimate experience.</p>
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 <p>As soon as Tang You opened his eyes, he found that he had come to the interstellar age, and he had successfully become a “boy”. Not only did he have no abilities, but he also picked up a little brother Tang who had the poisonous tongue skill in Tsundere.</p>
 <p>For this debt-collecting younger brother, Tang You resolutely chose to enter the Shengyang Military Academy, one of the four major military academies in the Gumela Star Region.</p>
 <p>It’s just that I got a group of friends by the way… Tang You looked back at the great young people of the Federation, are you really following me like this!</p>
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