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 Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat, as he deftly picked up the card with his fingers and inserted it into the slot of the device on his wrist.
 "Crap!" The readout on the face of the card was still the same as before.
 So, what kind of transformation did this card undergo? Chen Mu's curious mind abruptly became fierce beyond measure. He hated not being able impulsively to go out right away and buy a three-star power-card.
 Impulses are the devil! Impulses are the devil! Chen Mu was muttering to himself, reminding himself that this was not a small figure. After a lot of effort, he finally restrained himself with great difficulty. An ordinary person would likely be unable to restrain himself and would have gone out to buy a three-star power-card. But Chen Mu had steely resolve and had never slipped up in his restraint.
 After he had slowly chilled off, he got his clarity back. The most important responsibility in front of him at that time was to learn how to make the fantasy card. That would be a qualitative leap for him. Although it basically wasn't any kind of wish that he couldn't achieve, Chen Mu had been fumbling along all by himself so assiduously and for so long, that he had already looked forward to that day for a long, long time.
 At that moment, he couldn't let himself be distracted by anything else. That hope was the reason he hadn't been willing to touch his savings. He didn't really know how much longer he would fumble about, or how much material he would use up, so he bitterly held back, and didn't buy a three-star power-card.
 Although that card was mysterious, making a fantasy card had been Chen Mu's dream for a few years. Ever since he was a little street punk, when he would see those ever-shifting bright-colored fantasy card advertisements outside the shops, they would frequently hold him in their thrall. At such times he would always be able to forget his own tattered clothes which couldn't even keep out the cold.
 As far as keeping warm was concerned, he was already completely able to satisfy his needs. If it weren't for that dream, he wouldn't be studying card-theory so conscientiously. It was only the power-card which had enabled him to persist in his current existence, and to tell the truth, he was very satisfied with his current existence.
 He wasn't a very ambitious person. His childhood dreams were mostly simple and ordinary - to be able to eat his fill, dress warmly, have a place to live - and he had already achieved all of those. The only remaining thing that was still lodged in his memory was the multicolored fantasy card advertisements twinkling in the winter nights.
 Hu! Chen Mu forcefully exhaled all the air from his chest, and lightly put the mysterious card into the drawer. Until he had learned how to make a fantasy card, he would absolutely not try to decipher the riddle of that mysterious card.
 Looking at the pile of wasted cards on the table, Chen Mu sat back down without a word. He had long since gotten used to failure. He had been fumbling along by himself all along. Failure was his daily bread. If he were to become discouraged by defeat, he would never have gotten so far.
 Try harder! Chen Mu inwardly clenched his fist.
 Seven days went by.
 Chen Mu couldn't hide the exhaustion in his face. His eyes were completely bloodshot. In front of him were piled up innumerable cards, without one having a completed composition on its face. They were all rejects. He had been attempting to make fantasy cards without stopping for seven days, without a single success.
 He somehow couldn't let his perception control the pen in his hand. He could very clearly sense the intense nature embodied within the card-ink flowing from the pen nib, but he certainly had no way to use perception to control those liquids; to make them and the card get along together. The pen nib, filled to overflowing with liquid, was like a wild horse, which wouldn't listen to commands.
 Chen Mu's perception was always low, and when it would sometimes torment him, he had no choice but to rest and wait for his perception to recover. For seven days, every day and every night, he would draft fantasy cards, without succeeding with any of them. The blow to his confidence made him much more tired than the weariness of his body and spirit.
 What was he doing wrong, after all?
 Chen Mu clawed at his unkempt hair with frustration.
 He sat dejected in his chair, lost in thought as he stared at the piles of rejected cards. For these few days, what had gotten used up wasn't only Chen Mu's energy, but also a great quantity of money. The most important part of that was the expense for materials. Even though it was a one-star fantasy card, he had already wasted almost ten-thousand Oudi.
 His flimsy pathetic savings wouldn't bear that sort of torment any more. Chen Mu smiled bitterly to himself.
 Standing up, and opening the window, the beautiful bright sun shone on his face. The warmth on his face made him squint contentedly. No matter what, take a rest!
 Walking along the sunshine suffused street, Chen Mu, who was in an utterly miserable frame of mind because he had failed to make a fantasy card, unwittingly loosened up. Cloudless sunny weather was also among the favorites of the street punk, because you didn't have to worry about the cold. You didn't have to worry about quietly losing your life amid the cold wind.
 Humming a little folk-tune, with his hands clasped behind the back of his head, Chen Mu strolled along according to his whim.
 Without meaning to, he had walked to the area of the main gate to Eastern Wei Academy.
 He himself had never entered Eastern Wei Academy to look around. Already cheered up, Chen Mu unwittingly walked right over toward Eastern Wei Academy.
 Eastern Wei Academy didn't have any restriction at all on the entry of non-Academy personnel. Because of the beauty of the scenery, and since there were so many historic sites, there were quite a few people who went there to amuse themselves. Every year, Eastern Wei Academy profited to no small figure from those sightseers. So, every time the school's board met, they would always vigorously tidy up the Academy's environs, which became one of the Eastern Wei Academy's distinguishing features. Although Eastern Wei Academy didn't have the actual strength to move forward in the rankings above the hundred or so federation academies ahead of it, it was selected among the top ten "most beautiful academies of the federation" every year. That also made the people of Eastern Shang-Wei City proud.
 As he walked into Eastern Wei Academy, he saw several groups of tourists. Students and scholars could easily be told apart; the scholars always wore neat and tidy school uniforms. But no matter where Chen Mu went, he always stood out like a sore thumb.
 With disheveled and bushy hair, wrinkled and filthy clothes, shuffling along in a pair of sandals, topped off by a face that hadn't been washed in a few days, he looked very much like a beggar.
 Mixed up and despite the looks of the people around him, Chen Mu calmly lay down on the grass. During childhood as a street punk, he had grown accustomed to the warmth and cold of the world. He had also grown immune early on to those looks of disgust and disdain. Sitting on the ground and then lying down came naturally for him. The surrounding people all detoured around him one after the other, even more certain that he was a beggar
 Chen Mu didn't pay attention to any of that. He lay on the grass, squinting his eyes and basking in the sun. The sun shining on his body made him lazy. It was really so comfortable that he didn't want to move at all.
 Just then someone's voice penetrated his ear.
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 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.
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 Zhou Mian, the God of War in the Glacier Empire, and his enemy, Admiral Cecil of the Earth Federation, fought on the battlefield for six years and lost.
 What to do if you lose the battle?
 Oh dear!
 With a patriotic heart of generosity and righteousness, Zhou Mian gritted his teeth and prepared to accept the torture from the Federation, endure his fierce opponent , and live a life worse than death from then on, however…
 Cecil: Madam Are you tired? Come here and I’ll give you **.
 Cecil: Saturn’s tribute grapes, all for you to eat!
 Cecil: Madam, the bed is warm! Come, let’s sleep /v\
 Zhou Mian: …
 um… what’s wrong?
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 After the first year of the Chaos game. 
 All the monsters in the game have descended on the blue planet. 
 The entire blue planet has become a large Shura hell. 
 Dong Lei is reborn and comes back for his own destiny. 
 He sells off his family inheritance and spends 10 billion to recharge. 
 Enter the game and successfully obtain SSS-level talent. 
 Become an emperor admired by thousands of people!
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 As a well-known beauty in the empire, Ran Bai is delicate and frail, and needs to be comforted and squeamish. 
 Many Alphas are waiting for her to differentiate into Omegas, so that they can bring this much-anticipated flower home. 
 The squeamish bag is also waiting. She has been eyeing her neighbor brother Qi Wenhao since she was a child. 
 The elder brother Qi Wenhao is the crown prince who is admired by thousands of people in the empire. He is gentle and powerful. 
 A lot of Omegas are waiting for him to differentiate into an Alpha so that they can marry him. 
 It’s a pity that Ran Bai and Qi Wenhao have long been privately set for life. 
 Until the day of division— 
 Ran Bai became an Alpha, an Alpha with an S-level physique. 
 Ran Bai: I want to cry. 
 Double A is destined to have no end, Ran Bai fell out of love, Ran Bai perverted, and went directly to the Imperial Military Academy. 
 Became a ferocious and vicious cub. 
 But she still can’t forget her brother, just when she gathered up the courage to overcome the difficulties of double A love, and was not afraid of the pressure of both families, when she confessed to Qi Wenhao—— 
 I hit my brother’s estrus. 
 ·I thought I was O and you were A, but we both are A. 
 ·In the end I thought we had double A’s, only to find out that I’m an A and you’re an O.
 Content tags: strong future overhead 
 Search keywords: Protagonist: Ran Bai ┃ Supporting role: Qi Wenhao ┃ Others: 
 One sentence introduction: When I break through all difficulties, you are an O 
 Purpose: work hard for the goal
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 “Even if this universe is truly nothing more than a brutal bloody shadowy forest, we Cultivators will burn all that we have just to give off a single weak flickering spark in the darkness!
 No matter how weak each spark is, how short-lived, how small… As long as the sparks flow unabated, then one day one of those sparks will light some tinder, and that tinder shall light some fallen branches, and those branches shall set ablaze each and every last tree of the forest!
 In the end, even the smallest sparks will eventually set the shadowy forest ablaze, and illuminate the whole world!”
 In a world teeming with cultivators, Li Yao, who makes his living collecting scrap metal, encounters the soul of a titan powerhouse from forty thousand years in the past.
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 The full-time lottery system, as its name implies, can draw prizes; skills related to a profession. Those who get it will become the top elite of the whole profession. 
 Since getting a full-time lottery system, Chen Ze, as a cook, has got the food God’s seasoning. As a teacher, Chen Ze was convinced as the truth. As a street writer, Chen Ze got a golden keyboard… 
 Chen Ze: “As the saying goes, one profession has its own number one scholar, but I’m sorry, every profession also has its own collectively number one scholar!” 
 However, as a net taxi driver, he first has to experience a 30-minute vehicle god possession!
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 In the Year 30XX……
 Humans have long been discovering the wonders of the universe and exploring the great galaxies beyond the milky way.
 They are not alone.
 The universe is primal and untamed with civilisations pitted against one another in battles to decided life and death.
 Mankind is one of the weakest races but have discovered cultivation techniques that morph their bodies and grant them unimaginable power.
 Sui Meng was just an ordinary girl who woke up in the body of sixteen year old Sophie Peterlor.
 Sophie is the half human hybrid of a prestigious duke house but faces discrimination based on her racial heritage and apparent lack of cultivation talent.
 This changes when Sophie discovers a cultivation manual hidden in the necklace given by her late mother.
 'Spider Whisper Art'
 Sometimes power comes with a price……
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 Do you want to explore the truth of this universe? 
 You want to be a pseudo-scholar who can only see the answers to the questions but cannot understand the knowledge. 
 Or do you want to gradually become a true academic master through your own efforts in the deep learning state one by one? 
 Regarding these questions, Xu You also hesitated, but never regretted his choice. 
 Of course, becoming a top student is only a small step on the road to discovering the truth. 
 The small joy of figuring out a difficult problem from success. 
 To the great shock of solving an unknown conjecture. 
 A blockbuster paper from the discovery of new low-temperature superconducting substances. 
 A material revolution to room temperature superconductivity. 
 Smart chips as small as nanometers. 
 A giant rocket with a carrying capacity of hundreds of tons. 
 ... 
 Xu You is not only excited by these achievements, but also enjoys the process of exploring the truth. 
 In this way, step by step towards the summit of the profound and splendid truth.
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 [Damage conversion (Super Divine Grade talent): When receiving damage, if it is a physical attack, the upper limit of Health Points + 40, physical defense + 1; if it is a magical attack, the upper limit of Health Points + 40, magic defense + 1. 】
 [Blood evolution (Super Divine Grade talent): active effect, consume blood to evolve equipment quality, consume 1000 Health Points to upgrade 1st grade equipment quality, consume 100,000 Health Points to upgrade 2nd grade equipment quality. This effect is only valid for equipment below Divine Grade. Each piece of equipment can only enjoy the evolution effect once. 】
 ...
 At the beginning, Su Mu got the talent against the sky, and since then Su Mu has embarked on the road of invincibility.
 Players: "Why can you beat the BOSS beyond level 10?!"
 Su Mu: "Because my blood volume is high."
 Players: "The game's explosion rate is so low, why do you have an artifact?"
 Su Mu: "It's still because of my high blood volume."
 "..."
 Facing Su Mu who turned into a repeater, the players were completely at a loss..
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 This novel is also known as Almighty Video Game Designer
 Chen Mo a game designer got sent to a parallel world with advance technology but undeveloped game concepts.
 Watch as he redefines the world’s gaming industry with the games he remade from his old world.
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 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. 
 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. 
 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. 
 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. 
 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. 
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 The old book club group has exploded, and the new book club group "Meow Star Club" is 887291431.
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 【Celebrity】【1V1】 
 Cold Su! 
 Taking on a heavy responsibility to become the so-called master of time and space… Forced to enter the mission world to fix loopholes, and look for those “mysterious outsiders” in various time and space! 
 Hidden reborn girl? Greedy transmigration girl? The jealous daughter of destiny? 
 NO! NO! NO! 
 These are a piece of cake!
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