Luke grumbled, "Damn it! I really underestimated the speed of this gazelle phantom beast..."

At this moment, another traditional martial arts master, Ma Daiguo, exclaimed that Luke was an expert, "I was careless, haha, I smiled, and didn't dodge."

Luke's eyes went black; a palm strike to the back of the head from the gazelle phantom beast caused a concussion, resulting in temporary blindness.

Pfft!

The gazelle phantom beast sidestepped in front of Luke. The phantom beast's left leg pressed down at the hip, its sole firmly planted on the ground as a point of explosive force.

Leaning forward, it pressed its open right hand against Luke's face.

Boom!

The gazelle phantom beast slammed Luke's entire head into the ground with a single arm.

After a few seconds, the gazelle phantom beast looked down with disdain at Luke, whose head was buried deep in the earth.

"With this little combat power, you want to challenge a phantom beast with national-level calamity potential? Did a pea pod squeeze your brain or something?"

Luke, knocked unconscious by the gazelle phantom beast's attack, seemed to arrive in a desolate place, utterly silent and eerie.

The wind blew through dead branches, creaking.

Black mist filled the surroundings, obscuring even the faintest starlight.

In the darkness, Luke felt a chill that pierced his entire body, his scalp tingling and his hair standing on end.

"Wha... where is this?"

Luke's voice began to tremble uncontrollably.

Suddenly! The black mist gradually turned blood-red, and a winding path seemed to connect heaven and earth. Dark, cold, crimson liquid gradually seeped from the blood-red mist.

From a distance, it looked like a grotesque face of mangled flesh.

A drizzle began to fall from the sky, and everything around became damp. Splintered dead branches and rotten soil gradually began to fester, and a suffocating stench permeated the air.

Suddenly! From behind Luke came a voice he hadn't heard since childhood, yet was intimately familiar.

"Luke, is that you?"

The voice was gentle and warm, instantly dispelling the chill in Luke's body.

"It... it's Mom."

Luke turned around quickly. "Mom... is it really you?"

Luke's mother's face was bloodless, a deathly white visage as if darkness had devoured her former radiance.

Luke's mother said, "How did you come to this underworld?"

"Mom, this is the underworld? Could this be!"

Just as Luke was about to step forward to embrace his long-missed mother,

Behind Luke's mother, the thick fog suddenly overlapped, ethereal and soul-stirring.

"Luke, my child. Remember my words, head towards the light! Don't look back!"

With that, Luke's mother pushed out a palm strike, landing squarely on Luke's chest.

Whoosh!

Everything around Luke instantly switched to a pitch-black cave, with a faint, firefly-like glow emanating in front of him.

Luke thought, "Mom's words are telling me to head towards the light."

Taking a step, Luke ran towards the faint glow.

He didn't know how long it had been, but Luke felt a chill gradually approaching from behind.

This chill was different from the biting cold of winter.

The chill creeping up from behind was not only icy,

But it also penetrated the brain's nerves with its yin energy, striking directly at the soul's essence.

Luke thought, "I can't look back! I can't look back!"

Luke got closer and closer to the light, and the firefly glow became brighter and brighter. Luke mustered all his strength, sprinting furiously toward the light, and plunged into the dazzling radiance.

Just then, a hand covered in bandages suddenly reached out from behind Luke, grabbing the corner of his shoulder.

Luke looked back, so frightened that his soul almost fled back to his great-grandmother's house!

He saw an unidentifiable figure, clad in a dark ashen hooded cloak, with bandages wrapped around their eyes. Behind this person, a dark gray mist swirled, distorting the surrounding space.

"Heh heh heh heh heh... no one can leave the underworld without permission!"

In a moment of quick thinking, Luke rapidly condensed the energy of hyperdimensional quantum particles in his right fist.

He quickly turned around, "Haoqi Blast Fist - Roar!"

Poof! A perfect punch landed squarely on the mysterious person's forehead.

The mysterious person cried out in pain, staggering backward. "I was careless, and didn't dodge! Young man! You actually launched a sneak attack! You don't have martial ethics!"

At the same time, the light contracted along with Luke, eventually transforming into a speck of light that disappeared into the underworld.

A ball of firefly-like light enveloped Luke, constantly leaping and darting.

Luke thought, "Where is this going?"

With that thought, myriad rivers and mountains appeared.

Sensing Luke's confusion, the firefly-like light answered, "Taking you back to your body."

"What? Back to my body? Could it be... could it be that I'm dead?"

"No! You're not dead. Your brain suffered a heavy blow, causing you to fall into a brief coma and temporary hallucinations."

"It's... it's a hallucination?"

"That's right, Luke! It's a hallucination. So, are you ready?"

"What... what do I need to prepare for, Light?"

The firefly-like light explained, "As a Jumper, there must be an energy boost from hyperdimensional quantum particles within your body. With this energy boost, you can defeat the phantom beasts."

"However... the degree to which hyperdimensional quantum particles are developed within each person's body varies. Right now, you're only utilizing 8% of the potential energy of the hyperdimensional quantum particles."

"So, as you return to your body, I will completely merge with you, becoming a part of you. At that time, your boundary rate value will break through 10%."

"Whether you can win against the phantom beast will depend on you!"

Whoosh!

The scene before Luke's eyes instantly switched. His eyes opened, and he turned his head to see the gazelle phantom beast just turning around, its back to Luke.

It turned out! The time Luke spent in a coma, experiencing hallucinations, was only a matter of seconds.

"Hey! Grade B phantom beast! Our fight isn't over yet!"

The gazelle phantom beast stopped in its tracks, turning around to look at Luke with disdain. "Heh... so you're not dead yet."

Suddenly! The gazelle phantom beast roared, "Then die, Jumper! Phantom Beast Ultimate Technique - Gazelle Leap!"

Luke refused to be outdone, and roared as well, his voice resounding through the heavens, a powerful and vigorous male fighting spirit echoing throughout the world.

In a gust of wind and dust, a sudden arc of light appeared!

The blade edge slashed, emitting a series of clear ringing sounds.

Thump!

The gazelle phantom beast's head was neatly severed. With a "bo-chi" sound, the headless gazelle phantom beast fell to the ground.

A moment later, the phantom beast's body vanished like ice cream melting and disintegrating in the hot summer sun.

It was as if this grade B threat phantom beast had never appeared at all.

Luke's newly ignited fighting spirit instantly dissipated as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on it.

"Hey! Miss, who are you? Are you also a Jumper? I don't think I've ever seen you before?"

The girl raised her eyebrows slightly and said slowly, "A mere grade B phantom beast brought you to the brink of death."

"Compared to before... the hyperdimensional quantum particles in your body have indeed become stronger. But so what?"

"Even if you give it your all now, you can only barely win against this grade B phantom beast. By then, you won't even be able to stand."

"If, at this time, another grade B phantom beast were to appear, you'd really be going to a funeral feast."

Luke was speechless at the girl's words.

Seeing Luke's embarrassment, the girl teased, "I can't tell, you're quite the stubborn one... if it were any other hyperdimensional Jumper, they would have turned around and run away in this situation."

"Not only are you not afraid, but you actually fought the phantom beast head-on in a 1v1 fight, amazing! You're a real man! Boy, what's your name?"

Luke quickly replied, "My name is Luke. I'm from the T800 Nebula."

"Oh? The T800 Nebula, that nebula... where the warlords are fighting and haven't unified the world yet?"

Luke lowered his head and said dejectedly, "That's right... that's my hometown."

The girl asked curiously, "What's wrong? Do you miss your hometown? Do you miss your family? Or do you miss your mom back home? Hahaha..."

At this moment, Luke suddenly remembered meeting his mother when he was in a coma and experiencing a brief hallucination. A wave of longing that transcended life and death surged into his eyes.

Luke forced back his tears and said, "My mom is already dead. She was forced to death by the warlords fighting in my hometown, and I almost died under the guns of those warlords too."

The girl knew that the T800 Nebula had been in a state of warlord warfare for hundreds of years, and the world had never been unified. And these warlords, who had no bottom line and no morals, were even more guilty of arson, murder, looting, and all kinds of evil.

The girl smiled and turned to leave. "Goodbye, Luke! I hope you'll be stronger when we meet next time!"

Luke quickly wiped away his tears. "Miss, what's your name?"

The girl casually rested her Wulei (name of the sword, meaning "no tears") on her shoulder and said slowly, "My name is Axue."

As soon as she finished speaking, Axue disappeared.