It was indeed trouble. Yet no one would complain about having too much of this kind of trouble.
Chen Mu had never expected his perception to break through again so quickly-so quickly that he was completely unprepared. The effects of the Single-Breath Perception Training Method far exceeded his expectations. For countless people, the distance between level six and level seven perception was impossibly vast.
His perception had actually always grown quite rapidly, especially after Xize helped him adjust it; his progress could truly be called a thousand miles a day. The Single-Breath Perception Training Method in the Mysterious Card had sent its growth rate soaring once again. On top of that, he had been making cards nonstop. Others only saw that he had produced six hundred cards in five days, but they had no idea that he exhausted himself to the verge of collapse every day. Although the card-making machine no longer needed him to control it, it still required a constant input of perception.
He fed in perception mechanically, at a steady rate, until it was exhausted. To speed up his progress, he had no choice but to enter a state of deep serenity. Unexpectedly, combining deep serenity with the Single-Breath Perception Training Method proved astonishingly effective. But combining the two required one prerequisite: his perception had to be completely exhausted.
That did not sound particularly difficult.
In reality, however, the suffering involved was far more terrifying than people imagined. Generally, when perception fell below forty percent, a Card Adept would feel weak. Below twenty percent, they would essentially lose control of their perception. Below ten percent, severe physical reactions would occur, such as full-body spasms or excruciating headaches. What people normally called complete exhaustion meant having only twenty percent of their perception left.
But the exhaustion Chen Mu