Chapter 48 Space-Time Induction

After Xu Jingming became a Source Life, he was also very sensitive to space-time induction. He could generally determine how far he had traveled.

"Hmm?" Xu Jingming felt that space-time was greatly distorted and penetrated. The distance traveled was so incredible that he couldn't determine it at all.

One second he was still on Blue Star.

The next second, he was in a lonely darkness. Xu Jingming felt the cold and loneliness; ahead was a twisted darkness, and behind him in the distance was a huge, dazzling halo.

"Oops, we've traveled into a black hole." Secretary-General Black Heaven glanced around and said to Xu Jingming with a smile, "Don't worry, with me around, the various environments of the universe are still very safe."

Xu Jingming muttered to himself.

He was just a newly advanced Source Life, and black holes were still a great threat to him.

"This is a black hole ring, isn't it beautiful?" Secretary-General Black Heaven pointed to the dazzling halo. "This is my second carrier; it's a bit slow to travel. From the Hunter Cosmos Domain to the Primordial Research Institute headquarters in the Primordial Star Cosmos Domain requires three space-time traversals."

"That's already very fast," Xu Jingming said. "The most advanced spaceship of the human race that I know of can only perform a wormhole traversal of 200 million light-years at most."

"That's a spaceship; it's a technological creation. How can it compare to me?" Secretary-General Black Heaven curled his lip. "If it were my true form, it would only take one jump to cross from one end of the human race's territory to the farthest other end."

Xu Jingming was very surprised.

"It's a pity that your Dean doesn't trust me," Secretary-General Black Heaven said. "He created me and then imprisoned me, only allowing me to act as a carrier."

"Imprisoned Secretary-General?" Xu Jingming was surprised.

"Although this is a secret, the alien races in the universe all know about it, so there's no need to lie to you," Secretary-General Black Heaven said with a sigh. "The Dean has been in high-dimensional space for a long time, and what remains at the Primordial Research Institute headquarters is just a split-consciousness carrier! His split-consciousness carrier isn't confident in suppressing my true form. He's afraid that if he releases me, I'll be out of control and destroy a large number of civilizations of the human race. After all, my true form is a high-dimensional lifeform."

"So you can only be imprisoned," Secretary-General Black Heaven said. "I can understand! Anyway, I can descend my consciousness into many carriers to act freely. The Dean created me, so according to human terminology, he can be considered my parent. I have to understand his good intentions."

Xu Jingming listened to this secret.

Among the higher echelons of the human race and the higher echelons of the alien races in the universe, these were all things that they had long known, so Secretary-General Black Heaven spoke very casually.

During the conversation, the two of them went through another universe traversal. This time, it was an infinitely vast and dark area; they couldn't even see any 'galaxies' or cosmos domains, and it was naturally difficult to discern directions.

"Secretary-General Black Heaven's true form is actually a high-dimensional lifeform?" Xu Jingming was still shocked by the previous news…

Because in the entire human race that he knew of, there were only three Supremacies, and only they were high-dimensional lifeforms.

Now, the Primordial Research Institute's Dean had created a high-dimensional lifeform—'Secretary-General Black Heaven'? This meant that the human race had more than three high-dimensional lifeforms.

"We're here."

Secretary-General Black Heaven's third universe traversal with Xu Jingming arrived at their destination—the Primordial Research Institute headquarters.

The Primordial Research Institute headquarters in reality was on a planet covered with lush vegetation and sparse buildings. Secretary-General Black Heaven flew in the high sky with Xu Jingming and introduced, "Because Source Lifes have many affairs in reality, there are very few Source Lifes at the headquarters. There are only a little over a thousand ninth-order Source Lifes and a little over eight hundred tenth-order Source Lifes—just a fraction of the total."

Xu Jingming asked curiously, "How many tenth-order Source Lifes does our Primordial Research Institute have?"

"You've already broken through. Once your identity information changes, you can check the codename and contact information of every official member on the virtual world network," Secretary-General Black Heaven said with a smile. "The Primordial Research Institute has a total of 10,037 tenth-order Source Lifes to date! They account for about one-fifth of all tenth-order Source Lifes in the human race."

"The Primordial Research Institute, the Eternal Academy, and the Space-Time Island are far ahead. The Eternal Academy has slightly more tenth-orders at 11,522, and the Space-Time Island has slightly fewer at 7,652."

Xu Jingming estimated.

These three families accounted for more than half of the human race's tenth-order Source Lifes. The other fourteen top factions were indeed much inferior in comparison.

"Secretary-General Black Heaven." A shout came from afar.

Black Heaven and Xu Jingming both looked over.

In the distance was a long-eared man with a long, thin face and a gentle smile.

"It's Mr. Yang," Secretary-General Black Heaven introduced. "Xu Jingming, this is Mr. Yang, the teacher of the 《Cosmic Rubik's Cube》 course at the Primordial Research Institute."

"Mr. Yang," Xu Jingming greeted.

He knew that those who were addressed as 'Mr.' at the Primordial Research Institute were all teachers.

"You personally came to pick him up. Who is he?" Mr. Yang looked at Xu Jingming with curiosity.

"He's the fastest to become a Source Life in this era," Secretary-General Black Heaven said with a smile.

"You're Wu Ming?" Mr. Yang smiled and looked at Xu Jingming carefully. "Recently, your name has often been mentioned during our internal gatherings at the Primordial Research Institute. Becoming a Source Life in 31 years is remarkable."

"Mr. Yang is too kind," Xu Jingming said.

"I'm looking forward to your future achievements. Alright, I won't disturb you two." Mr. Yang smiled and left.

Secretary-General Black Heaven continued to fly with Xu Jingming and said at the same time, "Mr. Yang's strength is enough to rank in the top ten among the tenth-order Source Lifes at the Primordial Research Institute! If he were placed in any advanced cosmic civilization, he could easily be enfeoffed as a king. His strength alone could be superior to a mid-level civilization."

"One person, superior to a mid-level civilization?" Xu Jingming was shocked.

"It's normal," Secretary-General Black Heaven said. "You still have too little understanding of the strength of tenth-order Source Lifes. You just need to know that Source Energy is filled with all possibilities. Source Energy can be used to create any kind of technological weapon, and even unleash some cosmic natural phenomena. Once you become an official member, you can view more information. Once you've viewed it, you'll understand how terrifying tenth-order Source Lifes are."

Xu Jingming nodded.

He had heard that ninth-order Source Lifes were just starting to study Source Energy. As time accumulated, their strength would become increasingly varied.

But those who could become tenth-order all had extremely high attainments in Source Energy, so their methods were naturally unfathomable. However, the fact that Mr. Yang alone could be superior to a mid-level cosmic civilization still made Xu Jingming unable to believe it.

"There are quite a few who are stronger than Mr. Yang," Secretary-General Black Heaven said. "Now, I'm taking you to see the Vice-Dean Chi Meng, who is second only to the Dean in the entire Primordial Research Institute."

Xu Jingming nodded.

Chi Meng's fame was too great. As an outer member of the Primordial Research Institute, he had already learned some information about Vice-Dean Chi Meng.

"Vice-Dean Chi Meng is undoubtedly ranked first among the seven cosmic legends of the contemporary human race," Secretary-General Black Heaven said. "He became a cosmic legend after cultivating the evolutionary method for ten thousand years. In my opinion, he has a 90% chance of becoming a Supremacy."

"Is it also possible for him to fail?" Xu Jingming asked in puzzlement. "Is it not possible to break through even with a lifespan of 100,000 years?"

"There are many thresholds to becoming a Supremacy. If one of them cannot be crossed, it will not be possible to succeed," Secretary-General Black Heaven said. "However, Vice-Dean Chi Meng is close, after all, he's the closest to becoming a Supremacy."

Xu Jingming nodded.

This was Tiano's father!

The existence second only to the Supremacies in the contemporary era, an existence with a very high probability of becoming a Supremacy!

While they were talking, they flew to a building.

Secretary-General Black Heaven led Xu Jingming to the front of the door, which was open without any obstruction. Secretary-General Black Heaven gently knocked on the door.

"Please come in." A gentle voice sounded.

Xu Jingming observed carefully.

He didn't find any servants or intelligent robots in the entire building; it was completely empty.

"Follow me." Secretary-General Black Heaven led Xu Jingming up the stairs to a room upstairs. Xu Jingming immediately saw a silver-gray-haired, stocky man sitting at a table. He had a wide, chubby head, and from his appearance, one could see some resemblance to Tiano. Tiano was thinner, while this Vice-Dean Chi Meng was stockier.

Vice-Dean Chi Meng was still focused on looking at the information in front of him. Only now did he look up, look at Secretary-General Black Heaven and Xu Jingming, and smile. "You're Xu Jingming? I've heard of your name for a long time. Both of you, please sit."

"Vice-Dean Chi Meng," Xu Jingming said modestly and respectfully as he bowed and sat down on the side. Secretary-General Black Heaven sat down with a casual leg-cross, picked up a piece of fruit from the side, and threw one to Xu Jingming.

Xu Jingming put the fruit on the side table first.

"Very impressive. I cultivated the evolutionary method for 55 years before I became a Source Life, and you did it in 31 years," Vice-Dean Chi Meng praised. "You're more excellent than me."

"Becoming a Source Life is just the beginning; it's much more difficult after becoming a Source Life," Xu Jingming said.

Facing Vice-Dean Chi Meng, he didn't have any pride, after all, the other party's achievements were too high.

Becoming a cosmic legend in ten thousand years?

Any Source Life would find it unattainable.

In Xu Jingming's view, it would already be very remarkable if he could become a cosmic legend in his lifetime. The higher the strength, the more one knew, the more one understood the difficulty of the evolutionary path.

"Very humble." Vice-Dean Chi Meng looked at Xu Jingming and was quite interested in talking. "Speaking of which, we're quite fated. My son is muddle-headed and doesn't even know what he wants to do. I asked him to go and see the difficulties of those newly advanced civilizations, and who knew he'd be assigned to your Blue Star civilization and even get to know you."

"Tiano has been a great help to the Blue Star civilization and to me," Xu Jingming said.

"He's quite kind-hearted, but he's just willful," Vice-Dean Chi Meng said. "In the future, when he's being willful, please help me out and support him more. With his personality, he'll offend some people without even realizing it."

"He's helped me a lot, so helping him is only right," Xu Jingming said.

Vice-Dean Chi Meng nodded.

Although he personally had great power and influence, he had to abide by the regulations of the human alliance, so he was also quite constrained in many things. With Xu Jingming's potential, his future achievements would definitely be extraordinary, so it would be good to have one more person to help him out so that he could feel more at ease.

"Sometimes it's good to be willful," Secretary-General Black Heaven said from the side. "That's how you're happy."

Chi Meng smiled and nodded. "Yes, although it seems a little naive and silly, it's indeed good."

Xu Jingming listened.

He could feel that Chi Meng was very concerned about and cared about Tiano.

"Now that you've broken through to become a Source Life, you'll naturally be promoted from an outer member to an official member," Chi Meng said. "I'll arrange for it to be processed immediately. Soon, your identity information at the Primordial Research Institute will be updated, and your personal permissions will also change."

Xu Jingming nodded. "Thank you, Vice-Dean."

"It's the same for every official member," Chi Meng said. "By the way, once you become an official member, your identity information will also be officially made public."

"Officially made public?" Xu Jingming really felt a little nervous; after all, he had been hiding it for so many years.

Would the Blue Star civilization find out? Would his wife and daughter find out?

What happy trouble.

"You don't have to worry about safety issues," Vice-Dean Chi Meng said. "Since the Primordial Research Institute will make public the information of every official member, it naturally has the confidence to guarantee your safety."

"Okay," Xu Jingming nodded.

"Then according to the normal procedure, your identity information will be synchronized to the Wu Hook Star Alliance," Vice-Dean Chi Meng said. "After all, you're nominally under the Wu Hook Star Alliance, and they will officially announce it to the entire universe."

"Alright, thank you, Vice-Dean," Xu Jingming nodded.

"Then I'll sign and notify the Wu Hook Star Alliance." Vice-Dean Chi Meng lightly tapped the light screen, and the intelligence had already created a document about Xu Jingming's identity. After Chi Meng signed it, the document was directly sent to the Wu Hook Star Alliance.

The Wu Hook Star Alliance would also face this surprise from the heavens.

"The Wu Hook Star Alliance will probably be very excited to have a Source Life like you," Secretary-General Black Heaven said with a smile. "This isn't just a surprise for the Blue Star civilization, but also a surprise for the entire Wu Hook Star Alliance."

"Let's go, we're going to see the Dean now." Vice-Dean Chi Meng stood up. "The Dean hasn't seen anyone for many years. The affairs of the research institute are usually handled by me, but this time, he specifically named you to meet him."

"The Dean?" Xu Jingming also stood up.

After all, he was going to meet the creator of the 《Primordial Star Conjecture》, one of the three greatest Supremacies of the human race. After learning this strongest inheritance, Xu Jingming understood the Dean's greatness even more.

Immediately, Vice-Dean Chi Meng and Secretary-General Black Heaven took Xu Jingming to visit the Dean.