Chapter 1 What the Hell is the King of the Boundless?

King of the Boundless? What the hell is that? Sounds intimidating.

Han Xiao raised an eyebrow, intrigued.

If the problem here was simply a bizarre, rule-bending secondary dimension, it would be slightly troublesome. But the fact that it's a conscious lifeform, capable of communication, makes things much easier.

It felt like being in the true deep sea, with immense water pressure attacking from all directions, an overwhelming force. But this pressure only tightened his body slightly, causing almost no damage. Compared to the Dragon Throne's force field, this force wasn't even a massage; at most, it felt like wearing a tight-fitting suit.

Secondary dimension worlds are extremely dangerous, but at the level of a Peak Beyond Grade A, most dangers pose no threat. Especially since he was one of the best among the Peak Beyond Grade As. As long as it wasn't some anomaly like the Star Cluster Alliance, there wouldn't be much of a problem.

Han Xiao hovered in place, ignoring the surrounding pressure, his body unmoving, and asked curiously:

"What is this King of the Boundless you speak of?"

As the words fell, another mental message was transmitted, carrying an even more majestic aura:

"The King of the Boundless, born from the Black Sky Storm, rose from the Void Heresy. He is the master of millions of dimensions, the hunter of countless worlds. Any lifeform that sets foot in his territory is a slave under his royal authority!"

Ho! The style suddenly became magical.

"Not bad, that's quite the title. I feel like you're almost catching up to me."

Han Xiao grinned quietly.

It sounded like a powerful dimensional god entrenched in a deep-level secondary dimension. If an ordinary Beyond Grade A encountered this, they might be in mortal danger... but unfortunately, he wasn't an ordinary Beyond Grade A.

As he pondered, the voice became even more assertive, like a great bell ringing in his mind, echoing with a powerful aura:

"Foreign lifeform, leave here immediately, or I will expel you!"

"Why don't you try?"

Han Xiao raised an eyebrow, mobilizing the cells in his body, like activating miniature reaction furnaces, suddenly pumping out energy.

Chi!!

Golden arcs of electricity shot out of his body, leaving scorching trails of light, as if cleaving through the surrounding black sea.

He flipped his palm, and a ball of pale blue psionic energy emerged, bursting into spherical shockwaves, like stirring up endless ripples on the surface of the sea.

Although he didn't know what was going on in this secondary dimension, the previous probing had been ineffective, probably because there wasn't enough energy.

Because he was worried about harming Harrison and the expedition fleet, who were somewhere in this dimension, Han Xiao didn't unleash too much energy at once to blow up the entire secondary dimension. Instead, he controlled the power output, increasing it bit by bit.

At first, nothing changed. The burst of energy was like a stone sinking into the sea, not causing any reaction. But after a while, the black liquid substance filling the entire space trembled slightly, as if exceeding its limit of endurance, and large swathes of waves were stirred up, like squid tentacles on a hot plate, convulsing under the stimulus.

Rumble—

Amidst the tremors, Han Xiao detected dark currents with strong impact force shooting towards him. At the same time, his mind felt like it was being pricked with needles, as he was mentally attacked.

But to him, it was like a tickle. He blinked, and his health bar was full again.

This black liquid substance was strange, making his energy perception ineffective and his detection radar fail. He couldn't find the other party's location, so he could only use brute force to force them to show themselves. If this was a dimensional consciousness, then the dimension itself was the other party's body. Releasing energy inside it was like giving them a constant enema, and they would eventually not be able to withstand it.

Before long, the tremors in the entire space were extremely violent, as if it were about to explode and disintegrate at any moment. The mental attacks became weaker and weaker, already carrying a sense of pain.

Han Xiao looked around and squinted:

"Still not coming out? Do you really want me to burst you?"

As the words fell, the surrounding pressure suddenly lightened, and the black liquid substance contracted, as if turning into a whirlpool. The black sea poured into it, like pulling the plug in a bathtub full of water.

As the black sea receded, Han Xiao's energy perception quickly recovered, and his vision returned to normal.

He saw that this secondary dimension was a white, blank world, without anything, like a secondary dimension prototype that had not been completely formed, or as if all the matter had been swept away by the receding black sea.

And in the distance, in the sky, a black vortex floated, getting smaller and smaller, sucking away all the black matter, about to open a spatial rift, wanting to escape in a panic.

"Run? I'll break your legs!"

Han Xiao waved his hand, and mechanical soldiers appeared with streaks of mecha force arcs, the scene like scattering beans to conjure soldiers.

The mechanical troops that appeared released restrictive force fields without saying a word, grabbing the black substance, preventing it from moving, and by the way, using a secondary dimension version of a special space device to patch up the spatial rift that the substance had torn open.

This kind of black liquid substance had bizarre properties and was slippery, but under the control of Han Xiao's mechanical troops, it was still fixed in place, turning into a high-density liquid mass, constantly changing shape, lunging left and right, as if struggling.

At the same time, mental fluctuations were constantly shooting out from the center of the liquid mass, no longer with the previous solemn aura, only shock and anger:

"Foreign lifeform! You will pay for your actions, the King of the Boundless will demand it from you!"

Han Xiao turned a deaf ear, had the mechanical troops increase the restrictive force field, and took out a cylindrical container, swallowing the substance like a whale swallowing the ocean, compressing it into a fist-sized liquid mass, floating in the container. Fine arcs of electricity were attached to it, electrifying the liquid to tremble, in great pain.

This was still the equipment he had specially made when capturing the Original Esper Ability, and he didn't expect it to be applicable to this strange substance.

Confined in the containment vessel, the liquid finally calmed down. Han Xiao tapped the outside wall of the container with his finger, and asked curiously:

"What are you? Also, has a fleet recently passed through here? Where did you take them?"

"So you want to find those people. It seems you are a high-level lifeform from the main universe!" The mental fluctuations of the liquid were unstable, already tinged with fear, but then turned into anger, "I am just one of the guardians of millions of dimensions. They have already been offered to the King of the Boundless. If you have the guts, go find him!"

"Offered?" Han Xiao raised an eyebrow, "Tell me all the information you know... never mind, seeing how uncooperative you are, I'll just interrogate you."

Han Xiao poured in mecha force, and lightning flashed and thunder roared inside the container, forming a miniature ionic thunderstorm. The liquid was like a bug trapped on an electric mosquito swatter, crackling under the electricity.

After torturing it for a while, Han Xiao finally pried the information he wanted from the other party's mouth.

The essence of this liquid lifeform was an energy field lifeform, born in a secondary dimension that nurtured life. The black liquid substance was the shell given to it by the so-called King of the Boundless. It called itself one of the guardians of millions of dimensions, a confidant of the King of the Boundless (questionable). Its name, translated using a universal language, was Babuenica, meaning "corrosion" or "devouring."

The King of the Boundless devoured the matter and energy of dimensions through this black substance, transforming them into his own "territory," entrenched in this area, with a large number of guardians under his command, stationed in the dimensions he had seized.

The fleet Harrison was in was indeed captured by him. Through the special connection between the black liquid substance and the King of the Boundless, he performed a dimensional teleportation, sending them to the King of the Boundless's "royal land"—this was the main job of guardians like Babuenica, intercepting passing lifeforms and sending them to the King of the Boundless, calling it an "offering."

"Tsk, it seems that if I want to rescue people, I have to go find this King of the Boundless... With Harrison's luck, he actually encountered such a thing. I don't know if it's good or bad."

Han Xiao stroked his chin.

He pondered for a few seconds, shook his head, put on the mecha specially designed for dimension traversal, set the coordinates given by Babuenica, and traversed towards the location of the King of the Boundless.

…

In the center of a certain secondary dimension, on a huge platform made of black crystal, Harrison was floating in mid-air, his eyes closed, as if he had lost consciousness, but his face maintained a painful expression.

A wisp of black mist-like energy connected to his brow, and the other end connected to a huge black finger, with light flowing on it.

The owner of the finger was a mountain-sized black entity, humanoid in overall shape, with several heads and a large number of arms, sitting on a black throne—it was the King of the Boundless.

After a while, the King of the Boundless withdrew the energy wisp, and Harrison lost the power to float, falling to the platform, still unconscious.

"Interesting, that tree has new prey, and I can harvest sweet souls again..."

The King of the Boundless let out a low laugh, but in other people's ears, it would only be a wild roar.

As a powerful entity in the secondary dimension, the souls of lifeforms were a rare delicacy, but he could not fully descend into the main universe, and could only project a portion of his power. Moreover, the main universe was extremely vast. Without coordinates, he could only wander in the boundless starry sky, making it difficult to find the existence of life.

But now, he had absorbed the memories of these main universe lifeforms, learned the coordinates of the three civilizations and a large amount of intelligence, and also knew that the famous World Tree civilization was at war with them. In his eyes, this was a feast for harvesting souls.

Under normal circumstances, even a powerful dimensional entity like him was afraid of the power of universe-level civilizations and unwilling to provoke them.

But if universe-level civilizations were at war, the situation would be different. He still had the guts to fish in troubled waters and rob a burning house, and a big one at that.

"Provoked that tree, your end is coming, hehe, rather than becoming its slaves, it's better to become my food... But the World Tree actually has a weakness in its main body? This is the first time I've heard of it."

The King of the Boundless moved his body, making a rustling sound, like countless insects crawling.

Then, countless eyes on his body looked at the unconscious Harrison on the platform, their eyes flowing with greed and desire, but he quickly restrained himself.

"It's rare to encounter a lifeform with strong luck. If I eat you, my karmic power will increase by a level... Unfortunately, the guy behind you is not easy to mess with. It's better to make a deal with him."

The King of the Boundless averted his gaze.

From Harrison's memory, he saw Han Xiao's figure and learned that the two were close.

He had enough fear of the top powerhouses in the main universe. It was precisely because he saw a backer like Black Star that he did not dare to eat Harrison immediately.

The King of the Boundless knew that this was one of the ways powerful karmic power was expressed, but he did not intend to violate it, because violating karmic power would likely incur a price. If he insisted on eating Harrison, then the price would likely be this fierce man named Black Star coming to his door, and fighting to the death.

At this moment, a mass of black substance suddenly fell from the black mist-filled air and floated in front of the King of the Boundless, containing Babuenica's emergency message before being captured, showing Han Xiao releasing energy to prop open the black sea.

"Oh? Coming so quickly, it seems Babuenica, that useless thing, couldn't escape his grasp and would reveal my coordinates. That's good, wait for him to come to me."

Seeing this scene, the King of the Boundless moved his body, changed to a comfortable position, and waited leisurely for Han Xiao to come to his door.

Black Star was very powerful, and might have the ability to threaten his life, but the King of the Boundless was not flustered at all.

In terms of secondary dimension exploration, the World Tree was far ahead of the three civilizations. Although the King of the Boundless had no contact with the World Tree civilization, he knew how to pass messages to the World Tree dependents.

And among the intelligence he obtained from this expedition team's memory, it contained the secondary dimension territory coordinates of the three civilizations and various information. This was the best bargaining chip, and he believed that the World Tree would be happy to accept this gift.

However, the King of the Boundless did not intend to inform, after all, he did not want to have too much contact with the World Tree. Compared to that, he was more interested in Black Star, this newcomer from the new universe-level civilization.