With his Perception spread outside his body, Chen Mu carefully monitored Jiang Liang in the snow pit, not daring to relax for an instant. In truth, the method he had devised contained little originality; it was more of a compromise. No one understood the dangers of the Extreme Training Method better than he did. Honestly, he felt that his still being alive was something of a miracle. The further he progressed in his training, the more keenly he felt this.
But being a compromise did not mean it lacked technical sophistication. In this day and age, anyone capable of making even the slightest alteration to a Perception Training Method was an extraordinary figure. And what Chen Mu had done was far more than a minor alteration.
This involved the fundamental principles behind the generation and growth of Perception. Without Jiang Liang's Grade B Standard Perception Training Method, Chen Mu might not even have found the threshold.
After entering the Snow Region, he discovered that bitter cold could accelerate the growth of Perception, a discovery that had a profound impact on him. It inevitably brought to mind certain conjectures about Perception.
Perception was, ultimately, a human ability, a form of latent potential. Whatever the ability, the harsher the environment, the more readily it tended to grow. The Extreme Training Method simply pushed this principle to a greater extreme. Even the Card Crafter behind the Mysterious Card understood the importance of gradual progression, which was why [Simple Water World] existed. Yet even with [Simple Water World], the training process remained fraught with danger.
He would never forget the piercing headaches that tormented him for an hour after every early training session. With his nerves stretched to their limit, even the slightest rustle of grass in the wind thundered through his mind.
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