Chapter 1 The Lawn Outside the Palace

Outside the palace, on the lawn, Lu Naduo sat on a chair with his eyes closed, listening to music.

"Lu Naduo!" A woman strode over, her eyes filled with anger. "The royal family's number six pasture has always been mine. What do you mean by deliberately blocking the audit?"

Lu Naduo, his eyes still closed, frowned slightly, then opened them and said, "Couldn't you wait until I finished this song? You're such a killjoy."

The woman's face was icy. "I've been on your planet for three days."

"Only three days, and you're already anxious?" Lu Naduo looked at the woman.

Before his elder brother had risen to prominence, their branch of the family had declined, and he hadn't even been qualified to stand before this woman. But things were different now!

"Speak. What do you want?" the woman said coldly, staring at Lu Naduo.

"Aunt Mo Yun," Lu Naduo said with a smile. "I reiterate once again, the royal family's number six pasture has always been royal property, not your personal property. You've only ever leased this pasture."

"From the moment I was born, the number six pasture was mine," the woman said angrily.

"But... a thousand years have passed, and the lease has expired." Lu Naduo looked at the woman with a smile. "I think the rent you're paying is too low, not worthy of the value of the number six pasture. I can't sign off on it!"

"You want to raise the rent?" the woman asked, staring at him.

"The original price was too low because your grandfather was a tenth-order Origin lifeform, and the royal family favored you." Lu Naduo shook his head. "But you know the actual value of the number six pasture very well. You want to renew the lease for another thousand years? I think the minimum rent should be increased a hundredfold."

"Increased a hundredfold?" The woman's expression changed.

The profits from operating the number six pasture for a thousand years probably wouldn't even be enough to cover the rent.

"I think this rent is very suitable," Lu Naduo said matter-of-factly. "After all, your grandfather is dead."

The woman was annoyed. "Lu Naduo, you're going too far. If you push me too hard, I will definitely file a joint impeachment against you."

"Impeach me? My brother is the emperor. How are you going to impeach me?" Lu Naduo sneered. "As for going too far? Aunt Mo Yun, ask around. Considering that you're also a member of the royal family, I've already been very merciful to you."

The woman nodded. "I know your reputation, Lu Naduo. You are so greedy and vicious that one day, it will backfire on you!"

"Backfire? Hahaha, I'm so scared!" Lu Naduo laughed. "I am the Minister of Finance of the Yuánxīng civilization, I am the emperor's own brother. Who will backfire on me? Who can backfire on me? The little bit of evidence you can gather won't shake my position."

The woman was furious.

"Aunt Mo Yun, I'm not stupid. I understand the law very well." Lu Naduo smiled brilliantly. "My think tank can eliminate all possible dangers. You can't bring me down."

"Good, very good." The woman turned to leave.

"Hahaha..." Lu Naduo laughed even more gleefully.

Suddenly—

A figure appeared in the high sky above the lawn. Lu Naduo, who had been laughing heartily, suddenly widened his eyes, and his laughter stopped abruptly! He couldn't believe the black-robed figure that had appeared in the high sky.

An absolutely black robe, cold eyes, he overlooked the bottom when he appeared.

An invisible aura made all the creatures around him feel inexplicably terrified.

"Xu Jingming!!!" Lu Naduo couldn't believe it. This was his private planet, with a very high security defense system. From a legal standpoint, without his permission, no one could trespass on his planet.

Xu Jingming had directly broken into his planet without any notification and was now close to him, making Lu Naduo feel terrified.

"Guardian!" Lu Naduo's voice became shrill as he shouted urgently.

The woman, Mo Yun, who had been walking away in anger, as well as the surrounding butlers and guards, all saw the cold-faced man in black robes in the high sky. Their identities were not ordinary, and they recognized the identity of the person who had come in an instant and couldn't help but tremble.

"Boom." Among the guards, there was a guardian! This was a civilization-level intelligent robot worth 1 trillion cosmic dollars.

As soon as this guardian moved, it realized that time and space had been completely suppressed and sealed. The guardian's movement speed had become difficult, barely managing to rush out more than ten meters away. As Xu Jingming's gaze landed on it, this guardian completely solidified, motionless.

The guardian, comparable to a newly advanced ninth-order Origin lifeform, was powerless to resist in front of Xu Jingming.

"It's Wu Ming!"

"Lord Wu Ming!"

Whether it was the woman Mo Yun, or the butlers and guards, they were all extremely nervous and dared not interfere at all.

The highest status in the entire human race of the universe ultimately belonged to the evolutionaries. As for some powerful children, their power also stemmed from the evolutionaries. Just like Lu Naduo's power, it also stemmed from his elder brother, Lu Naxing, who served as the emperor of the Yuánxīng civilization.

And at this moment, Wu Ming was the most dazzling evolutionary of the era! His brilliance even surpassed Lu Naxing.

In the eyes of the three Supreme Realm existences, Xu Jingming's importance was probably even higher than that of 'Lu Naxing,' who was the emperor.

"Whoosh."

Xu Jingming slowly landed on the lawn, his eyes without a trace of waves, looking at Lu Naduo.

Lu Naduo's heart was filled with fear and anxiety. At this moment, he could only force a smile. "Lord Wu Ming, you scared me. This is my private planet, and it is also equipped with a security defense system. I thought I had encountered an enemy because someone broke through the defense system and came directly to my vicinity."

"You have indeed encountered an enemy." Xu Jingming nodded. "I am your enemy."

"Ha..." Lu Naduo's face turned pale, but he was still smiling. "Hahaha, what a joke. Lord Wu Ming is a shining star of our cosmic human race. I have always admired Lord Wu Ming very much. How could Lord Wu Ming be my enemy?"

Everyone else around was quiet, not daring to say a word, because the oppressive feeling brought by this black-robed man 'Wu Ming' was too terrifying.

"Lu Naduo."

Xu Jingming nodded. "There is no need to doubt or have any侥幸 (jiǎoxìng - luck/chance) mentality. I've come here today to kill you."

Lu Naduo's face immediately lost all color.

"No, no... it must be a joke." Lu Naduo said with a forced laugh. "Moreover, I am a member of the Yuánxīng civilization's royal family, and I am protected by the laws of the Cosmic Human Alliance. Lord Wu Ming, you have no right to kill me."

"Killing you is indeed a bit of overreach." Xu Jingming nodded. "I guess I'll have a few tens of millions of merits deducted as punishment."

Lu Naduo's face turned pale.

It really was...

Xu Jingming was not carrying out a large-scale slaughter. Merely killing Lu Naduo, who was not even an Origin lifeform, and deducting tens of millions of merits was already because of his status as a member of the royal family.

"It's not worth it. It's not worth deducting tens of millions of merits to kill me." Lu Naduo said ingratiatingly, "Lord Wu Ming, what can I do to get you to spare me? Just say it, and I will definitely satisfy Lord Wu Ming."

Xu Jingming looked at him.

Lu Naduo became even more desperate. He could not feel a glimmer of hope and immediately said, "My brother is Lu Naxing, the emperor of the Yuánxīng civilization. I am his only brother! If you kill me, he will not let you go. The Yuánxīng civilization's royal family will not let you go. This is an offense against the entire royal family."

"Contact your brother," Xu Jingming said.

"What?" Lu Naduo was stunned.

"Now, contact your brother Lu Naxing," Xu Jingming said.

Lu Naduo couldn't believe it. "You're letting me contact the outside world?" The surrounding space and time had been suppressed. Lu Naduo thought that he would not be able to contact the outside world until he died.

"This Xu Jingming is really crazy. He wants to kill me, but he's letting me contact the outside world? He's really lost it." Although Lu Naduo thought that the other party was insane, he still immediately opened the light screen.

Xu Jingming watched all of this without stopping him.

"Mimicry method, mimic 'Lord of the Abyss'."

"The Lord of the Abyss' nature is unruly and wanton. There's no need to be secretive about killing a Lu Naduo. It has to be unrestrained and open!"

Xu Jingming thought.

The surrounding woman, Mo Yun, butlers, and guards were all somewhat dumbfounded as they watched this scene, watching Lu Naduo open the light screen and contact the emperor 'Lu Naxing.'

"Brother, Xu Jingming wants to kill me. He wants to kill me." As soon as Lu Naduo connected, he immediately said urgently.

"You save me, save me."

"What?" Lu Naxing was a little confused.

Xu Jingming also walked to the side of the light screen and looked at Lu Naxing. "Lu Naxing."

"Junior Brother Wu Ming." Lu Naxing revealed a smile. "What's going on? Is there a misunderstanding?"

"There is no misunderstanding."

Xu Jingming shook his head. "Lu Naduo has committed countless evils over the years. As his elder brother, you don't know about it? After becoming the Minister of Finance of the Yuánxīng civilization, he has committed even more heinous crimes. As an enforcer, I have the right to sentence him... to death! I will synchronize his criminal data to the virtual world network."

"You have no right. He is a member of the royal family. You have no right to kill him." Lu Naxing was shocked. "Junior Brother Wu Ming, don't mess around."

This madman, he kills people just like that?

"I haven't committed any crimes. I don't know anything. It's all done by my subordinates." Lu Naduo was also trying to defend himself.

Xu Jingming looked at Lu Naxing in the light screen. "I let him contact you so that you can see it with your own eyes and learn a lesson! He is your brother, and he relies on your power! You have to bear half of the crimes he has committed!"

"This time, I am only killing your brother, killing this culprit! If you continue to dote on your relatives and cronies, and allow them to run amok, then it proves that you are not worthy of being the emperor of the Yuánxīng civilization!"

"When that time comes, I will publicly execute you, just like I killed your brother today," Xu Jingming said coldly, looking at Lu Naxing.

Lu Naxing in the light screen was stunned.

Kill me?

Kill me, the emperor? The coldness and madness in Xu Jingming's eyes made Lu Naxing feel that this person was not joking.

"No, I know I was wrong, I know I was wrong," Lu Naduo said urgently.

Xu Jingming turned his head and glanced at him, his eyes filled with a cold light. Under the gaze of his eyes, Lu Naduo's entire body was directly annihilated into nothingness, leaving no渣 (zhā - dregs) behind.

Lu Naduo was dead, completely annihilated!

The onlookers—the woman, butlers, and guards—stared blankly.

The light screen was also dissipating.

As it dissipated, Lu Naxing still couldn't believe all of this. He saw Xu Jingming's cold eyes sweep over him.

Even through the light screen.

"Ah ah ah." Lu Naxing felt a terrifying darkness impacting his brain, and a great fear arose.

If they were face to face, Xu Jingming's gaze would have been enough to kill Lu Naxing.

"He dares to kill me. This madman, he means what he says." At this moment, Lu Naxing was certain that Xu Jingming was not threatening him. If he continued to condone his relatives and cronies in running amok, the next person to be publicly killed would be him, Lu Naxing.

"Madman, he's really a madman." Lu Naxing muttered to himself, "Publicly killing a member of the royal family, killing the Minister of Finance of the Yuánxīng civilization. I can't afford to offend you, but the Yuánchū Research Institute and the Cosmic Human Alliance will definitely hold you accountable."

Lu Naxing was very aggrieved.

He was the emperor of the Yuánxīng civilization, but he had no right to manage Origin lifeforms from other cosmic regions, let alone Xu Jingming.

Legally, the Yuánchū Research Institute and the Cosmic Human Alliance had the right to punish Xu Jingming.