584 More than 100 Years
What a terrifying high-dimensional weapon. Xu Jingming sensed the terrifying might it contained when his mind and consciousness seeped into the Primordial Fire Bead. But to activate it required a deep understanding of the Primordial Star, and his mental strength had to be strong enough!
With his Lv. 10 mind, Xu Jingming activated the Primordial Fire Bead. It was like a child pushing a cart—it didn’t budge!
Primordial Battle Armor #9 is just different. This is specially refined by the dean for Origin lifeforms. The requirements for using it are very low, and it even contains Elementium. It doesn’t require me to expend my strength. Xu Jingming felt that the two treasures were completely different.
To use the Primordial Fire Bead? Xu Jingming needed to control it himself using his strength. The requirements for the mind, Cosmic Force, and realm were extremely high.
Although the requirements for use are very high, the might released once I can control it is extremely terrifying. After all, this is a weapon used by the dean. Xu Jingming knew very well that many high-dimensional weapons that the human race had opened up for exchange were specially refined for Origin lifeforms by Paramounts or great scholars.
The threshold was relatively low, so its might was naturally inferior.
The Primordial Fire Bead was a weapon used by true high-dimensional lifeforms.
After the dean became a high-dimensional lifeform, he relied on 36 Primordial Fire Beads to deal with all kinds of dangerous situations for a long time.
Just one sold to a junior in a ‘half-giveaway’ cost him 500 million credits.
Although I only obtained one, as long as I can unleash its might, I can stand heads and shoulders above Lv. 10 Origin lifeforms! Xu Jingming thought to himself.
More than three hours later.
Xu Jingming became more and more familiar with the Primordial Fire Bead before gradually restraining his strength.
The flames rising from his body retracted into his body, and the color of his hair, skin, and eyes returned to normal. But if anyone could observe Xu Jingming’s body… they would discover that there was still a ball of fire burning in his heart.
Xu Jingming could constantly sense the Primordial Fire Bead in his body, and his understanding of the Primordial Star deepened.
…
After retrieving the treasure, Xu Jingming returned to Earth in the Milky Way. Before setting off, he had already informed his wife and daughter in the virtual world.
Whoosh.
Xu Jingming took a step and crossed distant spacetime to appear in his courtyard. His wife and daughter were already waiting.
“Dad.” Xu Lixing ran over, her eyes burning.
“A gift I promised you.” Xu Jingming smiled and extended his hand, producing a silver bracelet that landed in Xu Lixing’s hand.
Evolutionary Guide? Xu Lixing looked at it curiously. Soon, the silver bracelet fused into her wrist and hid under her skin.
How magical. Xu Lixing exclaimed in surprise. “After being authorized, it’s collecting all my training, combat data, and records of my training in the virtual world to provide me with a systematic review.”
“So the evolutionary path can be divided into so many details. It has plans for my daily training and combat in the future,” Xu Lixing exclaimed in surprise.
“It will monitor your changes at all times,” Xu Jingming remarked with a smile. “Based on your changes, it will constantly modify the evolutionary plan to increase the efficiency of your evolutionary path. Based on past experience, it won’t be a problem to guide you to reaching Lv. 8.”
As for becoming an Origin lifeform?
Even many peerless geniuses were stuck at the limit of Lv. 8 their entire lives. Evolutionary Guides weren’t good at this.
“I’m already very satisfied with becoming a Lv. 8 cosmic lifeform.” Xu Lixing looked forward to it.
“After you reach Lv. 8, I’ll arrange a follow-up cultivation plan for you,” Xu Jingming said.
“Understood. Although the chances are slim, I have to give it a try. Perhaps I can become an Origin lifeform?” Xu Lixing was also very motivated. Although she was very ordinary in the universe, she was one of the top geniuses on Earth.
Xu Jingming gazed at his wife and flipped his hand to take out a silver bracelet. “Miaomiao, this is a gift for you.”
“There’s another one?” Li Miaomiao was surprised.
Of Xu Jingming’s relatives, only Mr. Xu, Xu Lixing, and Li Miaomiao relied on themselves to become cosmic lifeforms. Li Miaomiao spent the most time and was relatively less talented.
She trained diligently after becoming a cosmic lifeform. Many of the corporation’s matters were left to her daughter and the management, while she honed herself in the virtual worlds.
In her opinion, her husband was outstanding, and she wasn’t talented enough. She could only work harder.
“I still want you to spend more time with me.” Xu Jingming looked at his wife. He knew very well that they had met in their twenties…
High-dimensional lifeforms were destined to be lonely.
For example, what about the relatives of the three human Paramounts? They had long died as the tide of time washed over them. Redeye was only a child of the current era’s Spacetime Island Lord. If Redeye couldn’t become a high-dimensional lifeform, he would die when his lifespan expired.
Although Xu Jingming had the ambition to become a high-dimensional lifeform, he cherished his days with his family more. This was because when he truly became a high-dimensional lifeform, perhaps these would become his best memories.
“Alright.” Li Miaomiao happily took the silver bracelet.
“Miaomiao, invite Dad, Mom, and the others over,” Xu Jingming said with a smile. “I’ve also prepared gifts for all of them.”
Xu Jingming had also prepared an Evolutionary Guide for his father, Xu Hong, who had become a cosmic lifeform.
He had prepared relatively ordinary gifts for the other relatives.
“Both grandpas and grandmas are in the Milky Way, but Great Grandpa has already gone on a cosmic trip on a spaceship,” Xu Lixing said.
“It’s fine. I’ll give him the gift personally.” Xu Jingming nodded.
“In our family, Great Grandpa knows how to enjoy himself the best.” Xu Lixing couldn’t help but say, “Dad, you don’t know this, but Great Grandpa has set up a company and recruited a group of gaming teams to fight in Dark Abyss’s gaming world. Moreover, the team members have started live-streaming! The company is quite profitable, and it has produced several famous streamers in the Hunter Cosmic Sector. There’s also a large-scale celebration every ten years. Great Grandpa… is taking his outstanding employees on a trip.”
Xu Jingming smiled. “Great Grandpa is quite impressive.”
“It’s very impressive,” Li Miaomiao commented with a smile. “With just the family’s regular pension every year and our occasional gifts, Great Grandpa established a game company with an initial registration capital of five billion cosmic dollars. In the past hundred years, the game company’s market capitalization has increased tens of thousands of times. It’s already a very famous game company in the Dark Abyss virtual world.”
“To be honest,” Xu Jingming said, “the person with the highest commercial talent in our Xu family might be Great Grandpa.”
Great Grandpa built up his family business from scratch. This was why his father, Xu Hong, could focus on martial arts.
“I’d also invited Great Grandpa to join the group’s management and help us take a look,” Xu Lixing said. “He despised it and thought that it was a waste of his fun times. I can finally tell that Great Grandpa started the company to find a large group of playmates.”
Great Grandpa was indeed talented in the gaming and live-streaming industry. Coupled with Xu Jingming’s influence, the running of his company went smoothly.
“As long as he’s happy,” Xu Jingming said with a smile.
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More than 100 years passed in the blink of an eye.
In space.
Whoosh.
Xu Jingming walked in space and looked around.
The entire universe’s spacetime shrank—the stars, planets, satellites, and so on. The stars shrank to the size of a fist. From this, one could imagine how much the entire universe shrank.
It shrunk greatly, bringing with it an extremely terrifying suppression that affected Xu Jingming.
“Senior Brother Jane, this suppression isn’t enough,” Xu Jingming said with a smile.
A huge face appeared in the shrunken universe—it was Jane’s face. He stared at Xu Jingming. “Junior Brother Wu Ming, escape this Cosmos Mirror if you have the ability.”
“I’ve fled it countless times.” Xu Jingming smiled and moved.
Whoosh.
He forcefully entered high-dimensional space.
However, a huge mirror appeared in high-dimensional space, and Xu Jingming was inside it.
“You can control the Cosmos Mirror from high-dimensional space?” Xu Jingming was surprised.
“If it weren’t for my breakthrough in strength, why would I spar with you?” Jane’s voice echoed in the Cosmos Mirror.
“Senior Brother, this won’t trap me.”
Light circulated around Xu Jingming’s body, and his entire body turned into a miniature Primordial Star.
Boom! Boom!
This miniature Primordial Star caused the surface of the mirror to ripple, and he rushed out and fled into the distance.
“Huh?” The Cosmos Mirror gave a puzzled grunt.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The two of them returned to the universe.
“How did you escape?” Jane looked at Xu Jingming. “I know that the Cosmos Mirror’s ability to isolate spacetime is very powerful. It can even isolate high-dimensional space.”
“You may have broken through, but so have I,” Xu Jingming remarked with a smile.
“Has your educational level reached Lv. 100?” Jane asked.
“Lv. 99,” Xu Jingming answered.
According to the dean’s instructions, Xu Jingming learned the recommended knowledge and reached about Lv. 100. After becoming a Lv. 10 Origin lifeform, his learning efficiency far exceeded that of Lv. 9. Having consumed the Abyss Fire Lotus Seed, he often spared no expense hiring great scholars to explain the key problems that plagued him. Unknowingly, he reached Lv. 99.
In fact, Lv. 99 was about Lv. 100. It was actually enough.
The more profound knowledge the human race grasped was specious.
“Your improvement speed is really amazing,” Jane said with a sigh.
“I also hire great scholars to teach me whenever I encounter any problems,” Xu Jingming said.
Jane shook his head. “The great scholars have extraordinary statuses, so they are only doing this on your account! If I hire them, many won’t come even if I’m willing to spend money.”
Xu Jingming was stunned.
“You reached Lv. 10 at the age of 251, which is even more astonishing than you becoming an Origin lifeform.” Jane sighed with emotion. “Therefore, be it cosmic legends, emperors of advanced civilizations, or transcendent great scholars, all of them are filled with goodwill toward you. Even the Paramounts think highly of you.”
“For example, I’m considered very outstanding, but my reputation is far inferior to yours. Many people can give me the cold shoulder,” Jane said with a sigh. “The path for powerhouses is smooth. The weak will see darker sides.”
Xu Jingming smiled and said, “Senior Brother Jane, your attitude has changed ever since you cultivated the Dark volume.”
“Only by seeing darkness can one understand light better,” Jane said. “Have you tried seeing more darkness?”
“No.” Xu Jingming shook his head.
“As I cultivate the Dark volume, I took the initiative to see more of the dark side. I’ve seen the 34 cosmic sectors of the cosmic human race and even the other alien races…” Jane said with a smile. “Sometimes, I understand light better after seeing so much darkness.”
Xu Jingming fell into thought.