Fang Xiang

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.

The Card Apprentice

<p>The standoff between the Central Repository of the Classics and the Federation Comprehensive Academy was lasting quite a bit longer than the fatty had expected. Pomelo was peaceful, though battles would break out in the outskirts. Seeing there was no way to enter Pomelo, the Central Repository of the Classics' reinforcements simply took advantage of a little trick. They started to relentlessly take shots from ambush at the reinforcements of the Federation Comprehensive Academy. They were holding nothing back with those ambushes, given their power.</p>

<p>If the technology in Ren Wenzhou's hands were to fall to any of the Big Six, it would enable them to rapidly pull away from the other five. How could the Central Repository of the Classics be willing to allow that technology to be diverted into someone else's hands?</p>

The Card Masters Storming Off