Chapter 198 Dark Space

"He fought with us, his aura completely erupted. He was clearly at the ninth level; it's impossible for him to be at the tenth!" The gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life quickly thought in his mind. "But his bizarre move just now was definitely not something a ninth level could do. So he must... possess a terrifying treasure!"

He quickly deduced the most likely possibility. The gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life glanced at Xu Jingming. Without hesitation, *swoosh!* He silently teleported half a light-year away.

This was the limit of his teleportation distance.

If he used a cosmic warship and wormhole travel, the distance would naturally be much greater, but that required starting the warship, which took time. In a life-or-death moment, there was no time to pilot a warship.

"I have to return to the team as soon as possible and report the news to the captain." The gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life had just teleported half a light-year and was planning his next move, but then he discovered—

Xu Jingming had also appeared beside him, looking at him.

"What? His teleportation distance can also be so far?" The gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life felt a chill in his heart.

Previously, when Xu Jingming fled in terror, causing the three Prison Clan Origin Lifes to chase him, Xu Jingming's teleportation distance was very ordinary, the standard of a human ninth-level Origin Life.

Due to the evolution method, every Prison Clan Origin Life was very skilled in teleportation, generally having an advantage over the human race.

"You can't escape." Xu Jingming held his spear. *Boom!*

Light burst out from Xu Jingming, his entire body shining brightly, as dazzling as the sun. Under the impact of the terrifying energy, the Prison Clan couldn't teleport within a range of ten thousand kilometers.

"He hid too much of his strength before." The gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life felt an even greater chill in his heart as he sensed the terrifying energy impact.

"Hmph."

Xu Jingming, like a man of light, flashed and arrived in front of him, wielding his spear and attacking fiercely. "Scatter!" The gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life gritted his teeth, his body silently scattering, turning into hundreds of streams of light fleeing in all directions.

"Escape?" Xu Jingming snorted angrily, and rings of light continuously impacted the surroundings with him as the center. The speed at which the numerous rings of light spread was obviously much faster than the Prison Clan, and in the blink of an eye, they enveloped the hundreds of streams of light.

The vast majority of the hundreds of streams of light were annihilated in an instant, leaving only nine streams of light to withstand the impact.

In the impact, it could be seen that some of the nine streams of light carried short spears, and some were wrapped in blood-colored horns.

"Divide into nine and flee separately?" Xu Jingming wasn't surprised. Whether it was humans or other races, after reaching the Origin Life level, they were completely origin-force-ized. Dividing the body into multiple parts was just a conventional method.

As long as the remaining energy reached a certain level, it was enough to condense into a body.

"Extinguish!"

Xu Jingming waved his left hand, and ultra-high-density lasers shot out from his palm. The lasers, reaching the speed of light, instantly impacted the nine streams of light.

How could the Prison Clan Origin Life's escape speed compare to the speed of light? All nine streams of light were strangled by the lasers shot out by Xu Jingming.

"I'm quite skilled in the light lineage." Xu Jingming was confident in releasing the lasers. The principle of lasers was very simple; he only needed to guide the vast origin force of the Primordial Battle Armor to converge.

The greater and more condensed the amount, the more terrifying the power of the laser.

What limited the power of the laser was only Xu Jingming's mental strength.

"Pfft pfft pfft..."

"Such terrifying laser power?" The nine streams of light fled in panic, extremely resilient, but under the strangulation of numerous lasers, they were still completely shattered one after another.

*Chi chi chi~~~*

The gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life's nine streams of light were all fleeing desperately, fleeing in all directions, wanting to escape the ten-thousand-kilometer space-time suppression range.

"Escaped!"

A mere ten thousand kilometers was just a blink of an eye, but he had lost seven-ninths of his body's power, leaving only two streams of light to escape outside the space-time suppression range.

—to escape.

*Swoosh! Swoosh!*

The two streams of light teleported to the distance, converging into the gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life, but at this moment, his aura was significantly weaker.

"I can't worry about it anymore." The gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life's eyes showed determination and madness, and the horns on his forehead erupted with a dazzling scarlet light. "Space-time, banishment!"

*Boom!*

His entire body transformed into a stream of blood-colored light, instantly drilling into the space ripples.

A full twelve light-years away, the gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life appeared from the starry sky, his aura even weaker.

"Escaped." The gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life looked around and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. "I am quite talented in escaping. This time, I used self-space-time banishment at all costs, instantly traversing more than twelve light-years. Even if this human Origin Life can also traverse so far, he... can't detect my location and doesn't know which direction to chase."

The distance of twelve light-years gave him enough sense of security.

"Hmm?"

The gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life's eyes widened slightly. He looked ahead, and a human man appeared in the darkness ahead, precisely Xu Jingming, who had killed his two companions.

"You escaped quite far." Xu Jingming looked at him, his killing intent sharp.

"Impossible!" The gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life couldn't believe it. "This is twelve light-years!!"

"Even if this human is a tenth-level Origin Life, even if he relies on his battle armor, even if he is very skilled in wormhole travel, he can chase after me. But how did he detect me twelve light-years away?" He couldn't believe it.

How would he know?

When Xu Jingming was still a peripheral member of the Primordial Research Institute, he studied the core inheritance of the *Light Chapter*. At that time, the Primordial Battle Armor he obtained had a detection range that exceeded the solar system.

And the current numbered Primordial Battle Armor was the Primordial Research Institute's treasure, and its detection range was even beyond the imagination of this gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life.

Twelve light-years?

Even if it was multiplied tenfold, it was still within the detection range of the No. 9 Primordial Battle Armor.

"No. 9 is one of the Primordial Battle Armors that is best at escaping. Would I let you escape?" Xu Jingming's entire body once again emitted a terrifying light, enveloping the surrounding ten thousand kilometers. Xu Jingming, like a man of light, looked at the Prison Clan Origin Life.

Under the impact of the terrifying light, the gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life's aura was obviously weaker.

"It's over." The Prison Clan Origin Life didn't struggle anymore because he knew he couldn't escape this light domain.

*Whoosh.*

A spear instantly arrived in front of him.

The Prison Clan Origin Life didn't move. He was extremely weak and knew very well that wielding his short spear wouldn't stop this spear. He calmly watched the arrival of death.

"My life, Sang Ya, ends here."

"It's a pity that I stopped at the level of a lord and didn't become a monarch to see a wider world." The gaunt Prison Clan Origin Life allowed the spear to pierce his body.

*Boom!* His body shattered.

Among the shattered parts, many of his wills were staring at Xu Jingming. Under the impact of the light, these shattered parts were finally decomposed and annihilated.

Xu Jingming frowned slightly as he looked at everything. "This Prison Clan Origin Life escaped at all costs, and now his strength is less than one-tenth of what it was, but I still couldn't annihilate him with one spear? The bodies of these Prison Clan Origin Lifes are too strong."

"In terms of physical bodies, the Prison Clan's evolution method does have some advantages." Xu Jingming thought to himself.

Every race had its own advantages.

The human race had advantages in technology and battle armor. The Prison Clan had a unique evolution method! Other races couldn't learn it at all.

"No, I feel that his body is very strong, or maybe I am too weak." Xu Jingming thought to himself. "I am only a newly advanced ninth-level Origin Life. I can only kill them three by relying on the Primordial Battle Armor."

Without the Primordial Battle Armor, he was just a novice and no match for any of these three. With the No. 9 Primordial Battle Armor, he could reach the threshold of tenth-level strength. He had an advantage in a one-on-three fight. But it was still difficult to wipe them all out.

"I used a little trick, but I didn't lie. I am indeed a ninth level." Xu Jingming thought to himself. The ninth-level life aura he released during the battle was undisguised, which was why the three Prison Clan Origin Lifes were so confident.

If they were afraid to fight a ninth-level human Origin Life, that would be a disgrace! "Huff."

Xu Jingming waved his hand and collected the floating weapons, blood-colored horns, and other items.

Then, he stepped away and disappeared, returning to the star system where the Dreadfish Star was located to collect the weapons and other items left behind by the other two Prison Clan Origin Lifes after their deaths. He had been fully focused on chasing the last target and hadn't taken the time to collect the spoils.

Xu Jingming looked at the Dreadfish Star in the distance.

The Dreadfish Star, after experiencing the aftermath of the previous battle, the surface had become a ruin, and the entire planet was covered in thick dust.

Xu Jingming silently watched.

Yes, he had killed three Prison Clan Origin Lifes.

But...

What about the more than two billion humans?

"I must kill more Prison Clan members until they don't dare to come again! It would be even better if I could completely destroy the Prison Clan." Xu Jingming had no pity for hostile alien races.

Ji Water Star, Xu Jingming's residence.

Upstairs, in the study.

Xu Jingming appeared from nothing and sat in the study.

"Mission completed. All three Prison Clan Origin Lifes were killed, and spoils were obtained." Xu Jingming sat there. With a thought, he sent the appearances of the three Prison Clan Origin Lifes, the current situation of Dreadfish Star, and the virtual appearances of all the spoils through the virtual world network.

At the same time, Xu Jingming began to inspect these spoils.

"A saber?"

Xu Jingming took out a bloody long saber. After the saber was taken out, an invisible aura affected the surroundings. However, Xu Jingming naturally restrained it by manipulating his origin force. Otherwise, if these auras spread out, they would be like poison to ordinary people.

"I heard that the weapons of the Prison Clan Origin Lifes are all coordinated with their evolution methods, giving the weapons extraordinary destructive power." Xu Jingming put away the saber and took out a pair of gloves to look at, then looked at the black short spear with a terrifying baleful aura.

After inspecting the weapons, he took out three blood-colored horns.

"I heard that the Prison Clan is only given blood-colored horns when they become Origin Lifes. This is a symbol of their status and honor, and it also contains the subsequent evolution method." Xu Jingming carefully explored them.

The blood-colored horns were very special, containing independent spaces, storing a large number of plundered items, as well as personal cosmic warships and other items.

"For so many years, various races in the universe have not been able to seize the Prison Clan's evolution method." Xu Jingming quickly put away the blood-colored horns, preparing to wait for the Primordial Research Institute to send someone to receive the spoils afterward.

In a small cosmic warship.

The Prison Clan squad leader and a female companion silently looked at the signal receiver in their hands. "Buzz."

Another signal light was completely extinguished.

"Sang Ya is also dead." The Prison Clan squad leader and his female companion didn't look good.

"Captain, who exactly did Cong Luo and the other three encounter? A human tenth-level Origin Life?" the female companion said.

"It should be."

The Prison Clan squad leader nodded slightly. "They were intercepted as soon as they plundered their first life planet. It's likely that the tenth-level Origin Life lives in the surrounding star system and was able to arrive so quickly."

"But Varuna and Cong Luo died at the same instant," the female companion said. "If they encountered a tenth-level Origin Life, the three of them should have separated and fled immediately. With our Prison Clan's escape ability, it's unlikely that all three of them would have died."

"It is a bit strange."

The Prison Clan squad leader's eyes were dark. "It's a pity that we don't know the details."

"Varuna and Cong Luo died at the same time. After their deaths, Sang Ya sent out a danger signal. Then his signal was also completely extinguished." The female companion pondered. "But Varuna and Cong Leng didn't send out a signal before they died."

"Perhaps they all thought they could escape earlier," the Prison Clan squad leader shook his head. "It was too late when the other party revealed his terrifying methods. Unfortunately, our Prison Clan's communication technology is too poor and can't cover the human race's Heavenly Python Universe Domain."

In the vast universe, communication had always been a problem. The human race was the best among the many races.

Humans were good at technology, and the virtual world network was an extremely outstanding achievement. For ordinary star lifeforms, there was no delay in the same universe domain! For Origin Lifes, the information reception range even exceeded the human race's 34 universe domains.

But other races were much inferior in terms of communication.

Like the Prison Clan, even within their native territory, information exchange was very rudimentary. Even the virtual hosts they plundered only covered one planet, but that simplified version of the virtual world was already a rare luxury for the Prison Clan.

As for outside their native territory?

Once they acted alone, they were on their own. Of course, this also had an advantage: when infiltrating the territory of enemy races, they couldn't contact each other, so they wouldn't expose their position or implicate their companions.

"Captain, the first wave of action has already resulted in the loss of three team members. Should we return?" the female companion asked worriedly. "I always feel that the simultaneous deaths of Cong Luo and Varuna are a bit strange."

"Infiltrating human territory to kill naturally occasionally leads to encounters with human Origin Lifes. It's normal to have losses." The Prison Clan squad leader shook his head. "As long as the losses don't exceed 30%, everything will proceed as usual."

As the leader of the team, he was already used to the loss of team members.

Moreover, in racial conflicts, the Prison Clan had losses, and the human side also had Origin Lifes killed in battle.

The female companion nodded in agreement: "Yes."

"Cong Luo and the other three may just have been unlucky. The truly powerful figures of the human race are generally on the front lines fighting against the Void God race. There are very few in the Heavenly Python Universe Domain." The Prison Clan squad leader said, "Rest first. When the time comes, we'll start the second wave of plundering."

The Prison Clan squad leader looked distantly at a prosperous life planet in the distance. It was an administrative star with more than ten billion humans living there. This was the second plundering target he had set his sights on.

Each time they acted, the entire squad wouldn't stop until they had plundered enough or the losses reached a certain level.