Chapter 1 Gaining an Attached Universe

Gaining an attached universe was just an unexpected delight. Xu Jingming's life quickly returned to its normal rhythm. Apart from carrying out assassination missions, Xu Jingming devoted almost all of his energy to the evolutionary path. Years passed, and Xu Jingming's understanding of the serpent ring model deepened.

In the blink of an eye, twenty-five years had passed since he obtained the attached universe.

Black Iron Star.

Inside the manor where Xu Jingming, Senior Brother Jian, and Senior Brother Yi Jiu lived.

In the study.

"Serpent ring, serpent ring?" Xu Jingming sat there, his mind power penetrating the attached space of his Primordial Battle Armor, observing the Heavenly Python Scale stored inside, carefully examining it.

"Space-time is a ring, and life is also a ring."

"When the most basic structural unit of life can form a perfect cycle of space-time, matter, and energy, that is the perfect life form in the real universe."

Xu Jingming pondered, "But the serpent ring model is also the most difficult of the six major evolutionary models. How to balance all parties? How to combine them perfectly?"

"Why does the serpent ring model have to be in this structure?" Xu Jingming's mind moved, and the serpent ring model began to gradually form before his eyes.

Countless source energies condensed and constructed, instantly creating tens of millions of layers of structural combinations and continuing to build. After half an hour, a serpent ring source power model composed of hundreds of billions of layers of structures was formed, about the size of a fist.

"Success." Xu Jingming revealed a look of joy.

He had barely managed to construct a complete serpent ring model for the first time.

Xu Jingming also knew the problem.

"The serpent ring model must be small enough; it needs to form the most basic life unit with the other five major source power models." Xu Jingming looked at it, "The serpent ring model I can construct now is still too big."

"But being able to construct it is already a successful first step."

"Within three years!"

"I must achieve the miniaturization of the serpent ring model within three years." Xu Jingming was very clear that he was getting closer and closer to becoming a tenth-order source life, "I need to continue to deduce the theory of the serpent ring model, increase my understanding. The deeper the understanding, the easier the miniaturization."

In fact, there was also the simplest method: repetitive memorization!

Constructing the serpent ring model over and over again, although it was relatively complex, constructing it ten thousand times, one hundred thousand times, or a million times, the familiarity with the model would penetrate deep into the soul, and naturally miniaturization would become easier.

But Xu Jingming, after all, also had the ambition to become a cosmic legend, and even reach the Supreme Realm, so he still pursued a more thorough understanding of the essence. The more solid the foundation, the further he could go.

"Wu Ming, Junior Brother Wu Ming, come over for a drink." A voice came.

"Lu Naxing has broken through, you know?" Yi Jiu poured the wine, placed the wine glasses in front of the two junior brothers, and sat down before saying, "It's really enviable and jealous. He hasn't been a tenth-order source life for long, and he has already mastered high-dimensional power."

"Junior Brother Wu Ming, you mastered high-dimensional power when you were a ninth-order source life, isn't that even more amazing?" Senior Brother Jian said with a smile.

"Being able to use high-dimensional power may be because one's own accumulation is strong enough, or it may be because the high-dimensional object used is relatively special, making it easier to display high-dimensional power." Xu Jingming said, "My knowledge accumulation is obviously weak, belonging to the lucky kind."

"Your talent is among the best in this era, the research institute giving you a more powerful high-dimensional object is appropriate." Yi Jiu said, "But this Lu Naxing, becoming a tenth-order source life in more than three thousand years is relatively excellent. But there are many with higher talent than him; Junior Brother Jian is stronger than him. But I am still very surprised that he can master high-dimensional power so quickly."

"He must have had some fortuitous encounters." Senior Brother Jian said.

Anyone could guess that.

After all, it had only been a few hundred years since he became a tenth-order life; without special opportunities, how could he display high-dimensional power?

"Many people have fortuitous encounters. Senior Brother Anxing has talent and encounters; it is normal for him to have such achievements." Xu Jingming said while eating meat. He didn't care at all, because he was confident that he could break through to become a tenth-order source life within two years.

His speed of becoming a tenth-order was much faster than Lu Naxing.

In addition, with the No. 9 Primordial Battle Armor and the opportunity to obtain an attached universe, how could Xu Jingming envy others?

"You can't underestimate Lu Naxing." Yi Jiu said, "Because he has mastered high-dimensional power, he has been promoted to the first in line to the throne in the Yuancheng civilization."

Once the current emperor abdicates, Lu Naxing will ascend to become the Yuancheng civilization's emperor. His influence and power will then be completely different.

Xu Jingming and Senior Brother Jian were both stunned. The emperor of a cosmic high-level civilization indeed controlled resources that were far beyond what ordinary kings could compare with.

The Primordial Battle Armor? The Yuancheng civilization's national treasure was no less than the No. 9 Primordial Battle Armor.

Speaking of the Yuancheng civilization's national treasure, it was also prepared by the dean for his family.

"He has been promoted to the first in line to the throne, and many source lives in the research institute have already sent congratulatory gifts." Yi Jiu looked at Xu Jingming and Senior Brother Jian, "Have you two sent congratulatory gifts?"

"He's just been promoted in line, is there a need to send congratulatory gifts?" Senior Brother Jian frowned slightly.

"According to normal rules, one naturally has to send a congratulatory gift for officially inheriting the throne." Xu Jingming also said, "There's no need for just a promotion in line, right?"

Under normal circumstances, people would send a congratulatory gift for important events such as becoming a ninth-order, tenth-order, a cosmic legend, being officially ennobled as a king by the civilization, or ascending the throne as emperor!

As for other breakthroughs in strength, promotions in line, or job promotions, they generally wouldn't be celebrated in a big way.

"He's only over three thousand years old, and the current emperor is over eighty thousand years old. The probability of Lu Naxing inheriting the throne is extremely high. Isn't it normal to please an emperor in advance?" Yi Jiu said with a smile.

"Did you send one?" Senior Brother Jian asked.

"No." Yi Jiu shook his head.

"Then that's it."

Senior Brother Jian was too lazy to say more. His cultivation time was short, and his *Mirror Domain* had reached the level of the number one person in the human race of the universe. At his level, his goal was to become a cosmic legend, and he didn't want to get involved in power struggles at all. So what if he was an emperor? He couldn't control him!

"Drink." Xu Jingming raised his glass; he cared even less. When he became a tenth-order, his strength would skyrocket, and his influence would also greatly increase.

His hometown was in the Hunter Cosmic Domain, and the Yuancheng civilization's emperor couldn't control it either. He could normally befriend an emperor of a high-level civilization, but there was no need to please him.

Xu Jingming's ambition even exceeded that of Senior Brother Jian and the others. He not only wanted to become a cosmic legend, but also to reach the Supreme Realm. The dean had been full of expectations for him when he saw him in the beginning.

Because his goal was lofty, even though he was confident that he could break through to the tenth order within three years, Xu Jingming didn't have a trace of pride.

Compared with his goal, what did becoming a tenth-order even matter?

The three of them drank and chatted.

"In recent years, the Prison Clan's Monarch Moyou has become increasingly crazy." Senior Brother Jian put down his wine glass, somewhat worried, "He has repeatedly participated in plundering various medium and large-scale pillaging operations, and even frequently conducts small-scale pillaging."

Xu Jingming also put down his wine glass and said solemnly, "Yes! We have also carried out several assassinations, but we can't deter him at all."

"Yes, quite a few tenth-order source lives have been swallowed by him." Senior Brother Jian nodded. Tenth-order source lives, as the backbone of the human race, would definitely be resurrected by the Supreme Realm, but it would still cost a price.

"It's very strange." Yi Jiu nodded slightly, "Logically speaking, our destroying part of his Nightmare World would hurt his mind and affect his fusion with high-dimensional objects. He should restrain himself after being injured. But in recent years, he has not restrained himself at all, repeatedly pillaging even when injured."

"Tenth-order source lives can't stop him, and life planets are being slaughtered by him one by one." Xu Jingming was also very angry and powerless. Although he had deterred the most numerous ninth-order Prison Clan members, he couldn't threaten Monarch Moyou.

Xu Jingming didn't even dare to appear near Monarch Moyou; he would throw companions like Senior Brother Yi Jiu and Senior Brother Jian to Monarch Moyou from high-dimensional space. In the past, Monarch Moyou was somewhat afraid.

But recently, he had gone somewhat mad.

"He's a bit deranged." Yi Jiu's eyes were cold, "This isn't good. As one of the Prison Clan's Ten Great Monarchs, his control over high-dimensional objects is extremely high. Logically speaking, he shouldn't be so deranged."

"There are two possibilities for such madness: one, his Nightmare Power has made new breakthroughs; two, he is beginning to be assimilated by the high-dimension." Yi Jiu's expression was solemn.

"Neither of these two possibilities is good." Senior Brother Jian also nodded. Xu Jingming also knew the situation was serious, but he couldn't do anything about it.

A solitary planet had only Monarch Moyou as a life form.

He sat alone on the throne, lowered his head in some pain, and covered his eyes. A virtual nightmare world completely enveloped the entire planet, and each virtual shadow roared and howled on the planet, as if they had descended from the virtual into reality.

"Abyss, abyss. Great abyss." Monarch Moyou whispered to himself. He slowly raised his head, and his original emerald green eyes had become pitch black, making them even more terrifying.

"Each time I glimpse a piece of history experienced by these eyes, although it is very painful and tormenting, I will gradually grow stronger. That's how I became one of the Prison Clan's Ten Great Monarchs. But I never expected, never expected that I would see the abyss."

In high-dimensional space, the greatest celestial body was the Primordial Star, but there was also an extremely terrifying and vast area—the abyss.

The abyss was known far and wide.

Many high-dimensional objects came from it; for example, the Eternal Academy Tower Master, one of the three Supreme Realms of the human race in the universe, focused on studying the abyss.

Monarch Moyou, after all, was only a life form within the real universe. He should not have been qualified to glimpse the abyss.

Upon arriving in front of the abyss, he wouldn't even be able to see it.

But he had seen it through the memories of these eyes.

"I saw the abyss, and the abyss also affected me. These eyes are fusing with me more deeply." Monarch Moyou murmured. He stretched out his hands, and in his hands were a pair of closed eyes.

His chest also had an eye gestating; his body was uncontrollably transforming.

The abyss was not something he could glimpse.

"As long as I reach the cosmic legend and completely comprehend the essence of high-dimensional power, I can perfectly control these eyes and no longer have to worry about the danger of assimilation." Monarch Moyou muttered, then covered his eyes again, trembling painfully.