Chapter 18 Serious

In reality, a star system served as the lair of a cosmic bandit group. Here, law was nonexistent, and chaos reigned supreme.

Inside a bar.

Xu Jingming sat alone, and no bandit dared to approach the surrounding area.

"Within the Arena, I possess extremely high authority. I can teleport long distances to the vicinity of various combatants, allowing me to kill over three million of them in 109 years. However, this number is still insignificant."

After all, the Arena was open to players from 34 cosmic domains! Even some eighth-realm experts registered accounts, and they were in the hundreds of millions. Many combatants yearned for the Gun Fiend to find them!

Unfortunately, Xu Jingming was spread too thin.

"After laying the foundation for my spear techniques, the next step is what comes next," Xu Jingming mused, holding his wine glass.

Suddenly, a group of bandits entered the bar. Their eyes scanned the area and noticed the emptiness surrounding Xu Jingming.

"Captain, that person is occupying an entire area. No one dares to approach him; he must be someone important," the large group of bandits didn't immediately charge over but looked at their leader.

"I know the nine top leaders of our Thousand Eyes Bandits headquarters and eighteen branches," the one-eyed leader scoffed and led the group over. At the same time, two bandit subordinates directly tried to drive Xu Jingming away. Xu Jingming didn't even look up as the bandits who entered his area silently disintegrated, turning into ashes and disappearing.

"It's still more comfortable in bandit territory."

"These past few years, my occasional loss of control has only destroyed a few bandit planets," Xu Jingming remained seated. The intelligent system of his No. 9 Primordial Battle Suit had long controlled the intelligent system of this bandit lair. He didn't even need to take action himself; with a command to Little Nine, its power alone could knead this planet as it pleased.

"Visualizing the Void Abyss."

Xu Jingming sat in the bar, but his mind began to visualize his figure.

He was the end of everything. He was the most magnificent existence.

His face was blurry, and Xu Jingming found it difficult to see clearly. What Xu Jingming saw most clearly was the black robe he wore, and the endless darkness it contained.

The darkness contained in the black robe was a kind of all-encompassing nature, encompassing the Primordial Star, encompassing the Abyss, encompassing all forces.

"Ahhh!"

Sitting in the bar, Xu Jingming suddenly clutched his head in pain.

Boom!

An extremely terrifying wave erupted from Xu Jingming, instantly obliterating the bar and tearing the entire planet to pieces, continuing to spread in all directions! The spaceport outside the planet was also destroyed.

Centered on Xu Jingming, an area of hundreds of millions of kilometers was shattered by the bizarre and terrifying wave.

"Ah..."

Xu Jingming clutched his head, his face twisted.

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"Master's loss of control this time is very serious." Little Nine was very worried. "It's been over a hundred years, and Master's previous losses of control were only minor. Why is it so serious this time?"

Xu Jingming had visualized his figure countless times over the years, each time to explore the path of the spear.

But this time, the effects were completely different.

After his mind was completely refined and transformed, laying the foundation, Xu Jingming truly became compatible with the path of the 'Lord of the Void Abyss.' Therefore, this time, after his visualization, it immediately triggered more high-dimensional information feedback from his figure. Xu Jingming also saw more high-dimensional information.

Massive, fragmented, and chaotic high-dimensional information, not yet systematized, impacted Xu Jingming's consciousness. Usually, suppressing chaos required most of Xu Jingming's mental consciousness. Now, with a large amount of information impacting him, Xu Jingming naturally could no longer maintain clarity and completely lost control.

After half an hour, because the high-dimensional information received from the visualization was limited, Xu Jingming gradually regained consciousness with the help of the icy cold wine in his body.

"What happened to me?" Xu Jingming looked around, and the surroundings were a silent starry sky, with only distant stars still shining. "This star system is missing three planets," Xu Jingming instantly determined.

"Master, you lost control just now and destroyed the bandit planet and the two adjacent barren planets."

Little Nine reminded him. "Oh."

Xu Jingming didn't want to stay on desolate, barren planets, making himself suffer.

He also didn't want to reside in ordinary civilian planets, in case his loss of control affected countless civilians.

Therefore, the final choice was...

When he craved food, he would visit some inhabited planets, but only for short stays.

Usually, he resided in some bandit lairs. The more sinful the bandit lair, the more Xu Jingming liked it. With Xu Jingming's influence and his ability to traverse space and time, finding some bandit lairs was easy.

"The visualization just now actually allowed me to receive so much high-dimensional information." Xu Jingming began to organize the information he had received. Different cognitions and visualizations of his figure would yield different gains.

It was expected that Xu Jingming would have new gains after his mental refinement and transformation.

"The path of the Lord of the Void Abyss is much more difficult than any of the nine core chapters of the Primordial Star Conjecture." Much of the high-dimensional information Xu Jingming received was related to the path of the spear, and he faintly glimpsed many mysterious spear techniques.

The massive amount of high-dimensional information allowed him to break through more fog, understanding more key points on this path.

"Combining this high-dimensional information, I can judge."

"The first step in the path of the spear is to refine all impurities and transform the mind. This is just laying a foundation, representing that I have the qualifications to cultivate this path."

"The second step in the path of the spear is the tempering of the mind! How many times is required for the tempering is not fixed—thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of millions? These are not important. What is important is that countless temperings lead to the continuous transformation of mental power, until it transforms into the heart realm force, the high-dimensional power of the third realm."

The information Xu Jingming received this time also made him understand that if his path reached the high dimension, it would be the heart realm force. "Heart realm force."

Xu Jingming sighed inwardly, "There are many kinds of high-dimensional powers related to the mind, such as Nightmare Force, Heart's Brush, Mirage Force, Dream World, and so on. But these all belong to branches of the 'Heart realm Force.'"

"In the high-dimensional space, there are some special places, such as the Abyss, the Primordial Star, the Mother River, and the Heart realm."

"The spear technique path I saw on the Void Abyss figure emphasizes sincerity to the spear and purity to the spear, so that one can use the spear technique to temper the mind to the extreme. Tempering the mind to the extreme can directly transform into the high-dimensional power of Heart realm Force." "Use Heart realm Force as the foundation to construct a high-dimensional lifeform! Once you become a high-dimensional lifeform, you can enter the 'Heart realm' in the high-dimensional space in your nascent state."

Xu Jingming understood this after integrating the high-dimensional information he had come into contact with.

"As expected of a high-dimensional force originating from the third realm, it starts on the broadest path from the very beginning," Xu Jingming sighed inwardly. "Those who cultivate other mental power paths, such as Nightmare Force, may also hope to enter the 'Heart realm' after reaching the Eternal realm and accumulating enough depth. However, it is almost impossible for them to reach the third realm through the 'Nightmare Force' path.

"But the Heart realm Force can clearly see the direction of the third realm."

"Of course... it's just a direction."

Xu Jingming was very clear about this.

The five great inheritances cultivated by generations of Void Gods all pointed directly to the third realm. Gu Mo, the greatest existence of the Void Gods, must have reached an extremely high level in his research on the five great inheritances.

Within one universe, there were so many who had obtained the inheritance of the third realm.

Looking at the high-dimensional space, the number of those who have obtained the inheritance of the third realm is probably countless, but who can become a third-realm high-dimensional life?

"Don't expect the third realm. What I need to do now is to first master the high-dimensional force, the 'Heart realm Force,'" Xu Jingming thought. "The Void Gods of this era have five great inheritances, and only three have become cosmic legends because of them."

"And I, I have no inheritance! I only have some fragmented information obtained by visualizing his figure."

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The second step in the path of the spear is to temper the mind with spear techniques.

Static visualization method. In the past, I visualized the Primordial Star! Now, I can often visualize the Void Abyss! As my mind gradually progresses, each visualization occasionally yields gains, allowing me to obtain some fragmented high-dimensional information. With more information, the path will become clearer, and I will know how to walk."

Therefore, Xu Jingming spent half an hour visualizing the Void Abyss figure every day.

Yes, only half an hour.

Because he could remain calm only at the beginning; he would lose control if the time was slightly longer.

"Second, try to create a 'Void Abyss Spear Technique.' In the endless darkness of his robe, I saw the path of the spear, and I also vaguely saw move after move of spear techniques. I can try to imitate them."

In weakness, imitation is a good method.

The mysterious spear techniques glimpsed in that endless darkness had a special charm. Xu Jingming planned to imitate, summarize experience, and try to form a set of 'Void Abyss Spear Techniques.' "Third, dynamic visualization method! When fighting in the Arena, I can also visualize his figure. Even if I lose control, I will lose control in the virtual world."

"Fourth, imitate the Lord of the Void Abyss!"

With my understanding of the Lord of the Void Abyss, I will imitate his every move, trying to understand him.

Wear similar clothes, use the imitated Void Abyss Spear Techniques, and kill combatants one after another.

"Fifth, Darkness Primordial Star Spear Technique! The endless darkness of his robe encompasses the Darkness Primordial Star. I can try to encompass the Darkness Primordial Star with spear techniques..."

Xu Jingming's understanding of the Primordial Star over the past three hundred years had long been twisted into the 'Darkness Primordial Star.'

Now, he would use spear techniques to interpret this twisted understanding.

After all, the figure of the Lord of the Void Abyss encompassed the Darkness Primordial Star, and Xu Jingming felt that he was following the other party's tracks to move forward.

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There was no other way; this was how it was without a complete inheritance.

It was the same with the Dean. In the early days, he borrowed from the Primordial Star lineage inheritances of other powerhouses. However, later on, the Dean was also researching the Primordial Star and summarizing the "Primordial Star Conjecture."

Xu Jingming was currently exploring and summarizing. Perhaps some methods would be effective, and some methods would be ineffective. But he could only know by experimenting.

"For now, I will temporarily temper myself with these five methods. In the future, with progress, and with more high-dimensional information obtained from the Void Abyss figure, I can add new tempering methods." Therefore, Xu Jingming began the second step of cultivation.

He anticipated that the second step would be terrifyingly difficult.

Those Void God tenth-realm powerhouses who possessed the "Void Abyss" inheritance would not be able to withstand the torment of their minds during cultivation and would eventually give up, choosing other paths. Not to mention that he had no inheritance. But he had no choice! After being contaminated, he could only walk this path!

Of the three paths he saw when he first watched the Void Abyss figure, he chose the "spear technique path" because it was what he loved the most. Only with the greatest love could he cope with the "difficulties of the path."