Chapter 17 The Future is Determined

Both Boat Lord Beihe and Realm Lord Gushu were so humble, wanting to be considered peers with Xu Jingming! This display surprised Xu Jingming, the dean, the tower master, and the island master, and filled their hearts with even more confusion.

"Why are they so polite to Jingming? Even if a new half-step third realm expert were born, Realm Lord Gushu's reputation wouldn't warrant a personal congratulatory visit," the dean thought.

Conflicts arose even between half-step third realm experts, and they belonged to different camps.

Realm Lord Gushu was the undisputed strongest 'half-step third realm' expert in this territory, with a reputation that spread far and wide in the surrounding territories! Even Boat Lord Beihe adopted a humble attitude when facing Realm Lord Gushu.

But…

Realm Lord Gushu was extremely polite to Xu Jingming.

"What exactly is going on?" Xu Jingming and the other three were very puzzled.

"Yes, yes, let's be peers," Boat Lord Beihe also said.

"Brother Wu Ming, won't you invite us in for a chat?" Realm Lord Gushu said with a smile.

Xu Jingming quickly said, "Realm Lord Gushu, Boat Lord Beihe, please."

Immediately, the four of them helped lead the way, guiding these two half-step third realm experts into the island.

Inside a grand hall on Myriad Star Island, the dean and the others were very solemn in entertaining Realm Lord Gushu and Boat Lord Beihe, treating them according to the highest standards, with all kinds of precious wines and delicacies served.

"We are peers, so there's no need to distinguish between high and low seating." Realm Lord Gushu said with a smile, the seats originally arranged in the hall were intended to have Realm Lord Gushu and Boat Lord Beihe sit in the most important positions, with Xu Jingming and the other three responsible for accompanying them. However, Realm Lord Gushu waved his hand, and the seats changed, with the six seats scattered in a circle, without any distinction between high and low.

Realm Lord Gushu and Boat Lord Beihe took their seats first.

Xu Jingming and the other four had no choice but to sit down as well, and some natural high-dimensional lifeforms living on Myriad Star Island immediately respectfully served food and wine.

"I've been on Myriad Star Island for hundreds of millions of years, and I've never seen a half-step third realm expert come to the island."

"I actually served food and wine to a half-step third realm expert; this is enough for me to brag about for the rest of my life."

These natural high-dimensional lifeforms communicated through voice transmissions after leaving the hall, all quite excited. For their ordinary and monotonous lives, being able to serve food and wine to a half-step third realm expert was a rare splash of color in their lives.

Inside the hall.

"Brother Wu Ming, this is a small gift I prepared for my first visit." Boat Lord Beihe said with a smile as he took out a deep cyan vessel, filled with brilliant starlight, with streams of starlight swimming inside the vessel.

Xu Jingming, the dean, the tower master, and the island master were all a little surprised as they looked at the streams of starlight within the vessel.

This, this aura?

"This is a third realm weapon I obtained by chance, 'Eight Thousand Rivers of Stars'. After mastering it, you can deploy eight thousand rivers of stars, and with eight thousand rivers of stars enveloping Myriad Star Island… even a half-step third realm expert would find it difficult to break through Myriad Star Island," Boat Lord Beihe said with a smile.

"This is too precious," Xu Jingming said.

"It's not worth mentioning." Boat Lord Beihe shook his head and said, "Island Lord Dilong gave Brother Wu Ming those Origin Gold that are worth 60 drops of abyss motherblood. I'm much poorer than him, and this 'Eight Thousand Rivers of Stars' is the only thing I can offer, and it's only worth 30 drops of abyss motherblood."

Eight Thousand Rivers of Stars needed to be carefully arranged, used to guard a cave abode.

It couldn't be carried for mobile combat and was at the bottom of the third realm weapons.

"Boat Lord Beihe only has three third realm weapons in total," Realm Lord Gushu said with a smile from the side. "It's already not easy for him to take out the Eight Thousand Rivers of Stars this time."

There was no way around it, he was poor!

"Brother Wu Ming, please don't be disgusted." Boat Lord Beihe waved his hand, and the deep cyan vessel containing the starlight flew toward Xu Jingming.

Seeing this, Realm Lord Gushu said, "Brother Wu Ming wants to learn inheritances and can easily learn them from Featherfire City! After thinking about it… I prepared some trinkets for Brother Wu Ming." As he flipped his hand, illusory beads appeared in his palm, each bead seemingly illusory but possessing an invisible magic.

The dean, the tower master, and the island master merely watched and felt their minds swaying.

"Mind Beads?" Xu Jingming said in surprise.

The Mind World also produced many high-dimensional materials, the most common of which were Sin Beads. Xu Jingming had refined many Mind Weapons with a large number of Sin Beads! And among the many materials in the Mind World, the 'Mind Beads' were the most revered.

A Mind Bead was generally equivalent to three drops of abyss motherblood.

"These trinkets are too difficult to collect. I asked some friends for help and only managed to gather 34 Mind Beads," Realm Lord Gushu said. "In the future, when Brother Wu Ming becomes a half-step third realm expert, you can use these Mind Beads to nurture and refine Mind Weapons suitable for yourself."

"This is too valuable, this…" Xu Jingming knew this very well. Unlike abyss motherblood, which could be obtained with enough sacrifices and was a stable supply.

Mind Beads really needed to be searched for in the Mind World for a long time, and one needed luck to find one occasionally. The difficulty of gathering 34 Mind Beads was much more difficult than gathering 100 drops of abyss motherblood.

As his strength increased, especially after becoming a half-step third realm expert, the Mind Weapons originally refined purely with 'Sin Beads' were a bit too weak. If he fought with abyss sovereigns in the future, the Mind Weapons might be corroded and damaged. If he added a few 'Mind Beads', the Mind Weapons could be transformed.

"Realm Lord Gushu, Boat Lord Beihe, your gifts are too valuable." Xu Jingming looked at the vessel containing the starlight and the floating Mind Beads in front of him. The gifts were too heavy and also frightening.

"Heavy?" Realm Lord Gushu looked at Boat Lord Beihe beside him. "Boat Lord Beihe and I both think these gifts are normal."

"Very normal," Boat Lord Beihe nodded.

At this time, the dean, the tower master, and the island master did not speak. They were not suitable to either help Xu Jingming accept or help Xu Jingming reject.

Xu Jingming looked at the two of them, "I want to ask clearly, why did the two of you give me such heavy gifts? The heavier the gift, the heavier the karma, I must understand the reason why the two of you are giving the gifts."

Xu Jingming made it completely clear, he had too many confusions.

"Your talent." Realm Lord Gushu looked at Xu Jingming.

"Talent?" Xu Jingming asked in confusion.

"You should know that our half-step third realm lifeforms have penetrated all spatial layers and even begun to peek into the timeline." Realm Lord Gushu said, "So we can see part of the future."

Boat Lord Beihe also spoke, "We came to visit together precisely because we observed part of your future, Brother Wu Ming."

"The future is uncertain." Xu Jingming said in confusion, "The future is full of variables, why bother caring too much about the vague future you saw?"

"But your future is certain." Realm Lord Gushu looked at Xu Jingming, "I watched your future again and again, hundreds of different future branches… whether fast or slow, you all became 'Invincible half-step third realm' existences."

"Me too." Boat Lord Beihe also said, "Your future is certain."

Xu Jingming's expression changed slightly.

The dean, the tower master, and the island master were both surprised and disbelieving, this was a phenomenon that violated common sense. Everyone knew that the decisions of countless living beings affected the future, the more distant the future, the greater the variables.

But Xu Jingming, this high-dimensional lifeform, his future was actually certain!

"We don't know the reason, but it is our honor to befriend an invincible half-step third realm expert," Realm Lord Gushu said.

"Our surrounding tens of thousands of territories have only produced one abyss sovereign." Boat Lord Beihe said, "As for invincible half-step third realm existences, they are much rarer than abyss sovereigns."

Xu Jingming also had many thoughts in his heart.

His future was certain?

Was there an invisible force behind it influencing him? Or was it really that his talent was too terrifying?

"Will telling Jingming these things affect Jingming's future?" The dean suddenly spoke.

"I said, his future is certain." Realm Lord Gushu said, "You can't stop it even if you want to."

The dean was thoughtful.

Realm Lord Gushu also said, "We have no other requests, just to make friends."

Xu Jingming looked at the other party and revealed a smile, "Okay, I'll accept these two gifts."

No matter what the future held! He would take every step at the moment steadily! These two gifts, especially the Mind Beads, would indeed help his future evolutionary path.

"Hahaha…" Realm Lord Gushu and Boat Lord Beihe both smiled. They did not hide anything and had no malice. They were completely holding the intention of making friends. Xu Jingming accepting the gift also meant that the karma was deeper.

Even the impoverished Boat Lord Beihe gritted his teeth and took out the 'Eight Thousand Rivers of Stars'! Because he knew that if he missed this opportunity, he would probably never encounter such a good opportunity again.

"Brother Wu Ming." Boat Lord Beihe said, "The Five Devil Stars asked me to help them buy back their five avatars from you. You don't have to give me face. You can sell them if you want to sell them, and you don't have to pay attention to them if you don't want to sell them. The highest price they can afford is five drops of abyss motherblood."

"Sell them to them," Xu Jingming said.

Selling the five corpses to the original owner could fetch the highest price. For any other high-dimensional lifeform, the value of the corpse would be much lower.

The banquet dispersed after the host and guests had a pleasant time.

"The future is certain?" Xu Jingming received the gifts, but he wasn't that excited.

"Take every step down to earth. If there really is an invisible hand, I will know in the future." Xu Jingming thought, "And it seems like it's helping me. If there is no invisible hand… it means that my talent is too strong!"

Xu Jingming pressed this matter to the bottom of his heart. It was useless to think too much, he would constantly make himself stronger.

…

Realm Lord Gushu and Boat Lord Beihe both went to Myriad Star Island to visit Wu Ming and also presented congratulatory gifts. This news quickly spread throughout the entire Nanting 3609 Territory under the dissemination of interested parties.

This made the various forces in the territory watching the situation a little confused.

"Realm Lord Gushu and Boat Lord Beihe both visited Wu Ming?"

"They not only didn't snatch the Origin Gold, but also gave gifts?"

"In my opinion, this Wu Ming should have broken through long ago, he is already a half-step third realm expert of the Mind World lineage."

"I also think he is a half-step third realm expert of the Mind World lineage! Otherwise, how could he easily defeat the Five Devil Stars? How could Realm Lord Gushu and Boat Lord Beihe give him face and take the initiative to visit him?"

The various forces in the Nanting 3609 Territory were originally looking forward to the reactions of Realm Lord Gushu and Boat Lord Beihe, but they didn't expect that, like Island Lord Dilong, they would all take the initiative to befriend Wu Ming of Myriad Star Island.

All of this also confirmed one thing, the entire Nanting 3609 Territory had one more overlord on top of the original three overlords—Wu Ming of Myriad Star Island.

The various forces began to refer to Wu Ming together with Realm Lord Gushu, Boat Lord Beihe, and Island Lord Dilong.

As time passed, the following Nanting 3609 Territory also returned to its usual calm, and no forces provoked Xu Jingming's position. The Five Devil Stars had fallen under Xu Jingming's spear, and the Mind Weapon school was known for its ruthlessness, who would go to their deaths?

In a blink of an eye, 119 years passed.

Xu Jingming, along with the dean, the tower master, the island master, and the avatars of Chih-meng and the other three, finally arrived at the territory where Featherfire City was located.