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

After reading through the "One Breath Perception Training Method", Chen Mu's eyes fell upon several other things and touched upon them one by one.

The book was called High Level Card Making Method, and he was overjoyed at its discovery. As its name implied, recorded in the book was probably the method for making high level cards, which was something he had dreamed of.

He had always felt that it was very strange that among mystery cards there was only a method for making three-star fantasy cards, and the methods for making four-star cards was something that he had learned from other four-star cards. However, this was only limited to four-star cards. Up till now he had still not made a five-star card. Wheel and Bomb were four-star cards, although some of their functions were quite close to those of ordinary five-star cards.

Behind the Scenes ( I )