Chapter 141 Fire

"Xu Jingming, one of the top ten in the Yuanchu Research Institute," Xu Jingming laughed. "Little Jiu, don't flatter me. I know very well... those who can be in the top ten of the Yuanchu Research Institute almost all have high-dimensional mental strength, and their accumulation is much deeper than mine!"

"Like Senior Brother Yi Jiu, who cultivates two paths simultaneously, can use high-dimensional power! His mind is already high-dimensional. But he still couldn't get into the top ten." Xu Jingming said, "Compared with Senior Brother Yi Jiu, my accumulation is much weaker."

"What did I rely on to get into the top ten? It's my high-dimensional treasure that's powerful enough!" Xu Jingming said, "Looking at all the origin lifeforms in the entire Yuanchu Research Institute, excluding the cosmic legends, the high-dimensional treasure I use should be the best."

"Yes."

Little Jiu agreed, "Only the treasure used by Yuan Yi is close to yours, everyone else is much worse than you two."

Xu Jingming nodded.

Senior Sister Yuan Yi was once as famous as Senior Brother Chi Meng, so it was normal for the Dean to bestow treasures upon her.

"Using the best high-dimensional treasure, and only making it into the top ten, what's there to be proud of?" Xu Jingming said with a smile, "The high-dimensional treasures used by my senior brothers and sisters are often only worth tens of millions of credits."

"If I didn't rely on external objects, my strength would be good enough to get into the top 100 of the Yuanchu Research Institute." Xu Jingming thought.

"Like Chi Meng and Yuan Yi, those with high enough talent will be cultivated." Little Jiu said, "The master's talent is high enough, so naturally resources must be tilted towards him. The deeper the accumulation, the greater the hope of becoming a high-dimensional life."

"In the history of the human race, there have been those with more dazzling talent than you, master, but they still couldn't become high-dimensional lifeforms." Little Jiu said, "From the real universe to the high-dimension, it's a leap in dimension!"

"I understand." Xu Jingming nodded.

From Tier 1 to Tier 10 limit, these are all lifeforms within the real universe, and can be improved step by step. But the leap in dimension! It's too difficult.

Chi Meng's talent was so dazzling, and he comprehended three kinds of high-dimensional powers, but he was still stuck in a bottleneck. He even relaxed and had a son, and it was Xu Jingming's accidental cosmic fruit that gave Chi Meng some gains.

Otherwise, it would have taken Chi Meng a long time to become a high-dimensional lifeform. He might even fail when his lifespan arrived. That was how difficult it was to become high-dimensional.

Not only the human race, but also the Prison race! In the current era, besides the Prison race progenitor, there was only Emperor who was a high-dimensional lifeform. Even the Void God race, as powerful as they were, had only a handful of high-dimensional lifeforms.

For any race, no matter what path they took, it was not easy to become a high-dimensional lifeform.

"I'll go to the auxiliary universe." Xu Jingming took a step and disappeared into the starry sky.

In the auxiliary universe, the outermost flame world was no longer attractive. After all, those cosmic fruits had all been picked. Xu Jingming only took three steps to reach a complete patterned stone pillar.

"Buzz~~"

As he approached, the patterned stone pillar, 1.6 light-years tall, spread out invisible waves, impacting Xu Jingming's mind and consciousness.

However, Xu Jingming had taken the Abyss Fire Lotus Seed, and his mind itself had reached the 11th level. With the Yuanchu battle armor blocking and weakening the external mental impact, Xu Jingming stubbornly resisted the mental impact, getting closer and closer to the patterned stone pillar.

"Boom!!"

Xu Jingming suddenly transformed into a flame figure, continuing to walk step by step. The patterned stone pillar had a super repulsive force, making Xu Jingming's steps more and more difficult. Moreover, the increasingly high temperature also made Xu Jingming feel uncomfortable.

A large amount of flame condensed around the flame figure, completely transforming into a miniature Yuanchu Star. This miniature Yuanchu Star continued to fly slowly towards the patterned stone pillar.

"Boom~~"

When the terrifying repulsive force and the super heat wave emitted by the patterned stone pillar affected Xu Jingming, flames naturally arose! Xu Jingming, transformed into a miniature Yuanchu Star, withstood the heat wave and repulsive force, and when he approached to within a hundred meters, he could no longer move forward. Because the repulsive force was too great!

"My strength is already in the top ten of the Yuanchu Research Institute, and I still can't get past the patterned stone pillar?" Xu Jingming thought to himself, "I'll try the collapsed and broken patterned stone pillar, the obstruction should be weaker."

The thirty-six patterned stone pillars protected the central giant palace, but nine of the patterned stone pillars were broken and collapsed. With a bang, the repulsive force at the broken patterned stone pillar was obviously much weaker. Xu Jingming approached to a close distance before transforming into a miniature Yuanchu Star and continuing to approach.

"I..." Xu Jingming looked at the collapsed stone pillar in front of him.

Ninety meters, eighty meters, fifty meters, thirty meters, ten meters... the distance was getting closer and closer, and Xu Jingming was inexplicably nervous.

"Touched it."

The repulsive force of the collapsed patterned stone pillar was obviously much weaker. Although the flames rose under the impact of the heat wave, even if the flames were ten times stronger, they would not be able to break through the Yuanchu battle armor. The Yuanchu battle armor was very advantageous in resisting energy and material impacts.

When faced with high-dimensional methods such as mental and binding techniques, it was somewhat at a disadvantage.

"This—"

When Xu Jingming's palm touched the patterned stone pillar, his mind roared!

It was as if he was touching the skin of a behemoth. Xu Jingming's consciousness had a sense of "looking up" because it was too huge! Ten light-years? Ten thousand light-years? One hundred million light-years? No, it couldn't be accurately described with units of length.

That was the immensity of the high-dimensional level!

This behemoth gave Xu Jingming a sense of oppression that even exceeded the Yuanchu Star he saw when he accepted the inheritance.

Xu Jingming knew this was an illusion! After all, he had never truly seen the Yuanchu Star, he only knew some images. But this time, Xu Jingming felt this behemoth very strongly.

These patterned stone pillars were actually part of the behemoth's body. It was just that these were conceived in the inner universe, and only after its death would they be in this form.

"I once bought three strands of Yuanchu Star flames and watched them with my own eyes. But what I saw was far inferior to the flames on the surface of this great being." Xu Jingming touched the patterned stone pillar, and his mind continued to feel it.

On the surface of the behemoth, there were strands of black flames, and these black flames gave Xu Jingming an unusual feeling.

"Flame!"

"It is the source of this great being's power. Or rather, one of the sources." Xu Jingming understood somewhat.

Touching the patterned stone pillar, his mind watched the great figure.

Every strand of flame on the surface of the great figure carried endless knowledge. They were more attractive to Xu Jingming than the Yuanchu Star flames. Xu Jingming interpreted it and understood it.

With the "Yuanchu Star Conjecture" and human scientific knowledge as the foundation, coupled with eating cosmic fruits for many years, Xu Jingming interpreted a lot of information.

More than three months later.

Xu Jingming felt that his consciousness was trembling unbearably, so he had to withdraw his palm and stop touching the patterned stone pillar. Without touching it, he couldn't perceive it. Xu Jingming's mind and consciousness began to recover and stabilize.

"This kind of terrifying flame?" Xu Jingming was thoughtful. His mind and consciousness penetrated the Yuan Fire Pearl in his body. The Yuan Fire Pearl was made in imitation of the Yuanchu Star.

Although the Dean and that great being were heading in different directions of the Yuanchu Star, they still had many things in common! Especially in the early stage, there were many common points. Xu Jingming penetrated the outermost layer of the Yuan Fire Pearl, and even some of his power penetrated into the inner layer.

"Buzz."

Suddenly, a strand of black flame appeared in Xu Jingming's palm.

"Although it's not as good as the flame controlled by that great being, it's already one or two points similar. The most important thing is that I can unleash this flame as much as I want." With a thought from Xu Jingming, a large amount of black flame spread out from his body, completely enveloping his whole body.

The terrifying black flame burned in all directions, annihilating everything.

"Master, the power of this flame feels no less than Ma Xun's flame." Little Jiu said in surprise, "However, the range of the flame released by the master is not as large as Ma Xun's."

Xu Jingming nodded.

Ma Xun was faintly the number one tenth-level in the Yuanchu Research Institute, with high-dimensional mental strength. The flame he released had a very wide range and could directly descend the flame from a long distance. In terms of application, he surpassed Xu Jingming.

"But with this flame, master's strength will increase even further, and he should be able to enter the top five of the Yuanchu Research Institute." Little Jiu exclaimed, "Master, the path of the creator of this auxiliary universe is very suitable for you."

"Whether it's the Dean or the creator of the auxiliary universe, they are both from the Yuanchu Star lineage."

Xu Jingming said, "Let's learn from each other and explore slowly."

As his education level reached level 99, his accumulation in the real universe was almost complete. Now, all his methods were striving towards the high-dimension, but none of them had truly broken through to the high-dimension yet.

"381 years of cultivation, with sufficient accumulation in all aspects, the next step is to explore the path to the high-dimension."

"The first step is to make my mind high-dimensional."

"I have cultivated for more than three hundred years and reached the 11th level of mental strength. According to the historical data of the research institute, it is estimated that it will take thousands of years to break through to the 12th level." Xu Jingming thought, like Senior Brother Jian, who was also tempering his mind now.

Those in the Yuanchu Research Institute with high-dimensional minds generally spend more than 50,000 years! Of course, some like Chi Meng and Yuan Yi were exceptions, but Chi Meng also spent thousands of years to make his mind high-dimensional.

The breakthrough of the mind cannot be achieved by trickery, it must go through all kinds of tempering, Xu Jingming thought.

How to temper it?

Cultivating the "Dark Chapter" of the Yuanchu Star Conjecture, tempering the mind in the darkness, and keeping the mind from being eroded, was one method, but it was also playing with fire. Even if he reached the 12th level with this method, like Yin Xiao of the Eternal Pagoda, who reached the high-dimension, he still actively plunged his mind into the abyss again, wanting to get closer to the abyss and master stronger power.

Once one becomes accustomed to seeking power from the darkness, they may continue to do so after reaping the rewards.

Xu Jingming did not have a passion for the "Dark Chapter" and was unwilling in his heart, so he would naturally not spend his mind on it.

"In the future, there will mainly be two directions."

"One is mental tempering."

"The second is to strive to become familiar with high-dimensional power, borrowing all kinds of high-dimensional power, and even cultivating it to as high a level as possible! With enough borrowing, high enough usage level, and deep enough understanding, then there is hope of completely comprehending it and being able to use it on one's own." Xu Jingming thought. Only when both of these paths were clear could one be qualified to construct a high-dimensional life body.

Every step was not easy.

A peerless genius ranked in the forefront of cosmic history? If they cannot become a high-dimensional life, it is just a mirage. Xu Jingming had no sense of complacency, he knew very well. The road ahead was the real difficulty!