Chương 245: On the Verge of a Crisis

Looking at the Y09 energy block he had just taken down, Chen Mu was full of joy. A person's power was like a cask of water; each failure raised the level of the water in the cask by some imperceptible trace. In the eyes of most people, that little bit was so tiny they would just ignore it. Even when the number of failures had gotten large enough, people would still have the illusion they hadn't gotten the necessary return on their effort, and most would get discouraged.

But 1,611 failures was 1,611 traces, which, when gathered up, had helped Chen Mu break through the layer of obstacles.