Chen Mu returned to his room carrying a large bag of materials from the Self-Service Materials Supermarket and immediately buried himself in work.
There was no fundamental difference between the structures of a Three-Star Energy Card and a One-Star Energy Card; the former was simply more complex and more intricate.
However, completing a Three-Star Energy Card required the involvement of Perception. For Chen Mu as he was now, though, this was not particularly complicated.
His understanding of card crafting had made its first qualitative leap when he crafted the twelve cards for Simple Water World. The second had come while crafting the Tail-Shedding Shuttle Card. That exceptionally difficult three-star card had cost him immense effort and exhausted all his savings at the time. But the benefits he gained from it had been just as enormous: it had raised his sights by more than a single level.
Even now, he had yet to encounter a Three-Star Illusion Card more complex than the Tail-Shedding Shuttle Card. Even many four-star cards fell far short of it. Chen Mu could be considered quite familiar with Three-Star Illusion Cards, but if asked to design one himself, he could never have designed an Illusion Card that was rated three stars yet possessed such formidable power.
He began processing the raw materials.
Nightglow leaves came from nightglow trees. The nightglow tree was an exceptionally beautiful large tree, with broad, thick leaves, some even larger than a human palm. During the day, it looked unremarkable, but once night fell, its leaves emitted a moon-white glow.
The entire tree shone with a clear, pale glow like white buds, dreamlike and beautiful. Many wealthy households liked to transplant nightglow trees.
As famous as its beauty was another of its traits: its delicacy. So far, the survival rate of transplanted nightglow