Tiny, almost imperceptible currents surged ceaselessly beneath the water. Chen Mu's normally resilient Perception was as fragile as paper in real water; the slightest lapse would let those tiny torrents tear it to shreds. The currents were far more complex than his present control could handle, throwing him into a desperate predicament.
This was hundreds of times more complicated than the Simple Water World. Chen Mu began to understand why it was called that. Perhaps the Card Crafter who had made the Mysterious Card had also understood how far the world within the card fell short of a real water world, and so had named it the Simple Water World.
But this did not make Chen Mu retreat. On the contrary, he felt a faint stirring of excitement. He had been stuck in a phase of slow Perception growth for a long time, its increase like strands of hair, accumulating one by one. Although this had not made him impatient, he had now stumbled upon a possible shortcut to accelerating its growth.
The foundation of the Limit Training Method lay in the intense pressure the Simple Water World exerted on him. Only by constantly pressing and tempering his Perception could it make his Perception grow so quickly. But as his Perception strengthened, he grew increasingly accustomed to the Simple Water World. The gap between the two narrowed, the pressure he felt diminished, and his Perception growth hit a bottleneck.
And now he had found that pressure again! These tiny torrents were everywhere, slipping through every gap, tearing at him without rest, almost driving him mad. Yet a real water world was far crueler than the Simple Water World. In the Simple Water World, the pressure he faced was always just a little stronger than his Perception, keeping him in a