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

Peach-colored energy blades were zipping about like falling petals, hovering about Wei-ah. The silent energy blades went about in cohesion like rain droplets in the wind as the Bronze Masked Man mumbled.

Wei-ah's expression turned even colder and he became shrouded in a cold aura. If Chen Mu was able to see Wei-ah's current expression, he would have been very surprised to see that Wei-ah had a rarely seen serious look on his face.

Wei-ah did not underestimate the energy blades which were only about the size of a fingernail. He had instead been able to sense the lethality within those tiny blades!

He moved before the Bronze-Masked Man said anything! He lifted his right hand, which had been dangling by his side all the while, to his chest, and shook it like the string of a bow!

A formless air wavy blade shot out from his hand, streaking at the Bronze-Masked Man with a sharp noise!

Wei-ah's Retaliation