Chapter 1 Black Iron Star

Black Iron Star.

"Although I guessed that Lu Naxing would inherit the throne, I didn't expect it to be so soon." Yi Jiu sighed. "After becoming emperor, Lu Naxing's growth rate will definitely increase greatly. It's even possible he could become a cosmic legend."

Xu Jingming held his wine glass, listening to Senior Brother Yi Jiu while looking at the serpent ring model on the light screen.

"You don't seem to care?" Yi Jiu looked at Xu Jingming and smiled. "I know that Lu Naxing's younger brother had conflicts with you."

"The emperor of Yuanxing Civilization can't control me. Does Lu Naduo dare to come and cause trouble for me?" Xu Jingming said softly with a smile. He didn't care.

Lu Naxing couldn't control him, let alone a Lu Naduo.

"Actually, I still care," Xu Jingming looked up at Yi Jiu, "I sent a generous gift."

"How generous?" Yi Jiu asked.

"One trillion cosmic dollars," Xu Jingming said.

"Building a sufficiently complete habitable planet costs more than that." Yi Jiu shook his head. Equipping a virtual host, a top-notch planetary defense system, all aspects added up, one trillion was indeed not enough.

"It's already a lot. Tier 10 Source lifeforms generally give gifts of this amount," Xu Jingming said.

Yi Jiu smiled.

He could feel the arrogance in his junior brother's bones.

"That's right, you're almost at Tier 10, right?" Yi Jiu sighed. "Based on your speed of reaching Tier 10, it can undoubtedly be said... that you are the most talented of the contemporary human race in the universe."

Xu Jingming smiled, "Reaching Tier 10 is nothing. Becoming a cosmic legend is something worth bragging about."

"Then how many people in the entire human race in the universe are qualified to brag?" Yi Jiu shook his head.

As they were talking,

"Hmm?" Xu Jingming suddenly received an order from the Yuan Chu Research Institute.

"Senior Brother Yi Jiu, I received a transfer order." Xu Jingming looked up at his senior brother. "I'm to go to another outpost in the Tianmang Cosmic Sector within three days."

"You're leaving Black Iron Star?" Yi Jiu was stunned.

"Yeah." Xu Jingming nodded.

Yi Jiu sighed, "I remember the three of us often gathering together these past few years. In the blink of an eye, only I will be left."

"Once Senior Brother Jian is resurrected, we'll have plenty of opportunities to reunite," Xu Jingming said.

"Come, let's drink heartily today!" Senior Brother Yi Jiu took out a fiery red wine pot. The wine pot contained an attached space for storing the wine.

"You even took out your treasure wine pot?" Xu Jingming was surprised. "Before, you always limited me to three cups of Scarletfire Wine."

"You can drink as much as you want today!" Senior Brother Yi Jiu was extremely generous.

Xu Jingming's eyes lit up. "You said that. Don't regret it!"

Xu Jingming, as a Source lifeform, only stopped after getting slightly tipsy. The wine in the fiery red wine pot was already half gone, making Senior Brother Yi Jiu feel quite distressed. This was already Xu Jingming showing restraint.

The next day, Xu Jingming bid farewell to Senior Brother Yi Jiu.

"I'm leaving."

Looking at the big-headed Senior Brother Yi Jiu, Xu Jingming said with a smile. After nearly a hundred years of getting along, they naturally had developed a friendship.

"Reach Tier 10 as soon as possible! This era belongs to you!" Senior Brother Yi Jiu said with a smile.

"I'll work hard." Xu Jingming said, and then traversed space-time and left.

On Fang Sheng Star, in a secluded manor, an old man in a white robe sat on a chair leisurely looking at knowledge on the light screen. Xu Jingming suddenly appeared in the sky above the planet and then took a step into the manor.

"Senior Brother Sang," Xu Jingming said with a smile.

The old man in the white robe stood up, looking at Xu Jingming with a smile, "I only found out after receiving the mission from the Research Institute that Wu Ming, the mysterious guardian who gave the Prison race a headache, was actually Junior Brother Wu Ming. Junior Brother Wu Ming mastered high-dimensional power nearly a hundred years ago. I admire you."

"It's just high-dimensional travel," Xu Jingming said. "Senior Brother Sang is the number one Tier 10 Source lifeform in the Yuan Chu Research Institute."

Senior Brother Sang, real name: Ma Xun＊Yuan Xing＊Chu, was the recently retired emperor of Yuanxing Civilization.

After he abdicated and became idle, the Yuan Chu Research Institute arranged for him to solve the problem of Monarch Wuyou.

Many people considered him the number one Tier 10 Source lifeform in the Yuan Chu Research Institute. On the one hand, his status was high, after all, he was the emperor of Yuanxing Civilization. On the other hand, he indeed possessed extremely terrifying strength.

"Junior Brother, please sit," Ma Xun said.

Xu Jingming sat down to the side.

Ma Xun helped pour tea. "This is tea made from the roots of Qianye grass. I've always liked it very much. Try it."

"Thank you, Senior Brother." Xu Jingming took a sip from his teacup. The tea entered his mouth and naturally permeated his whole body. His whole body's senses became much sharper. His perception of space-time and material energy was clearly enhanced.

"This tea?" Xu Jingming exclaimed in surprise.

"It's somewhat helpful to body perception. I'll give you some Qianye grass roots later," Ma Xun said with a smile. "By the way, I came to the Tianmang Cosmic Sector this time to deal with Moyou. After solving Moyou, I'm going to fight against the Void God race. Regarding Moyou... Junior Brother should be very familiar with him."

Xu Jingming nodded. "Monarch Moyou should be out of control. He's gradually being assimilated by those eyes, but his strength is also becoming stronger and stronger."

"In the intelligence I received, it said that his world of eyes hides an abyss?" Ma Xun asked.

"I don't know much about it. Senior Brother Jian was suppressed by one eye and ultimately died, while Senior Brother Yi Jiu was swallowed by another eye and managed to block it," Xu Jingming said. "Senior Brother Yi Jiu said that Monarch Moyou probably has the strength of the top five Tier 10 Source lifeforms in the Yuan Chu Research Institute."

Ma Xun nodded, pondering.

"Is Senior Brother confident?" Xu Jingming asked.

Senior Brother Ma Xun's strength was beyond doubt.

"I'll only know after fighting," Ma Xun said. "Just send me into his Dream Demon World when the time comes."

"Alright." Xu Jingming nodded.

More than a month later, within the Tianmang Cosmic Sector, Monarch Moyou led a detachment on a small-scale raid. After all, large and medium-sized raids were relatively rare, and Monarch Moyou couldn't restrain himself.

Xu Jingming and Ma Xun received the mission and immediately set off.

The first interception killed a Prison race Tier 9 overlord.

The second interception finally encountered Monarch Moyou.

"Whoosh."

Xu Jingming was very cautious. As a Tier 9 Source lifeform, even with the protection of the Yuan Chu battle armor, he didn't dare to appear in front of Monarch Moyou. As always, he was traversing in high-dimensional space, observing from a high-dimensional perspective.

"I see him." From the high-dimensional space, Xu Jingming clearly saw the vast Dream Demon World merge into the real universe.

"Leave it to me." Ma Xun still spoke from the high-dimensional space.

Xu Jingming threw him.

*Ka!*

Ma Xun fell from the high-dimensional space, directly appearing in that vast Dream Demon World.

"Hmm?"

In the vast Dream Demon World, with a diameter of about two trillion kilometers, two huge eyes opened and looked at the white-robed old man, "Ma Xun."

"Space-time is like a cage, and we are all within it." Ma Xun walked towards the two huge eyes. Along with his voice, an even larger cage appeared, completely covering the entire Dream Demon World.

"Ma Xun, the emperor of the human Yuanxing Civilization?" The two huge eyes were filled with excitement. "You are the most delicious prey I've ever encountered."

One of the huge eyes took the initiative to envelop him. Ma Xun didn't resist, but instead actively walked in.

In just over ten seconds!

"Ah!!!"

A shrill scream echoed throughout the Dream Demon World. Within the huge eye that trapped Ma Xun, terrifying flames rose. The flames scorched the eye's pupils, causing them to begin to crack and break.

"You've mastered the Yuan Chu Star flame?" Monarch Moyou was shocked and furious. The abyss in his eye was collapsing from the scorching flames, after all, it was just a virtual abyss.

"If I had mastered the real Yuan Chu Star flame, you would have died long ago." Ma Xun, bathed in flames, was like a flame god. The terrifying flames continued to rise and burn, and new cracks constantly appeared in the eye's pupils. "Space-time cage, incinerate nothingness."

Ma Xun's eyes were indifferent, and the flames he unleashed quickly spread, covering an increasingly wider area. Wherever they passed, the Dream Demon power was burned into nothingness.

"Ahhh, it really hurts."

Accompanied by a roar,

The two huge eyes suddenly collided, crashing into the space-time cage, causing the space-time cage to collapse. Dream Demon power permeated the outside world, and with a whoosh, the entire Dream Demon World disappeared.

"The Dream Demon World merged into the real universe, cosmic stealth?" Ma Xun stood in place, frowning slightly.

Soon, Xu Jingming, having received the news, arrived.

"Senior Brother," Xu Jingming said as he approached, "how is it?"

"Those two eyes are the core of the Dream Demon World." Ma Xun shook his head. "Based on Monarch Moyou's level of control over those two eyes, those two eyes must be destroyed to kill Moyou."

"Can they be destroyed?" Xu Jingming asked.

"After all, they are two dead objects," Ma Xun said. "Give me more time, and I'm confident I can destroy them. But the Dream Demon World has a range of two trillion kilometers in diameter, making it very difficult to completely trap him. Even if I can trap him... because the range is too large, the binding force becomes weak, and I can't stop Monarch Moyou from launching a desperate attack."

Ma Xun being able to cast a space-time cage to trap the entire Dream Demon World was already incredible, but because the range was too vast, the binding force was naturally weaker. When Moyou escaped, he could concentrate his power in one direction.

Xu Jingming nodded.

"Junior Brother, you can travel in high-dimensional space. Can you observe where his Dream Demon World escapes to? As long as we can catch up and strike a few more times, we may be able to kill him," Ma Xun said.

"I can't observe him." Xu Jingming shook his head. "I'll try again after I reach Tier 10."

Ma Xun nodded. "This Monarch Moyou will only be crazy for about a hundred years at most."

Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

Monarch Moyou returned to his base, that lonely planet.

"Ah."

Monarch Moyou clutched his right eye in pain. The emerald green right eye still showed cracks.

"What a Ma Xun. Below a cosmic legend, he should be considered the strongest. But he still can't do anything to me." Monarch Moyou chuckled softly, then endured the pain and persisted.

At the same time, as the assimilation deepened, more memories in those eyes were merging into his consciousness.

Under the night sky,

Xu Jingming sat on the balcony of his study, with an extremely tiny object condensing in front of him. A basic "serpent ring source force structure model" was formed by the combination of trillions of layers of structures. This was also the most difficult of the six evolutionary models required for Tier 10 Source lifeforms in the Tianmang Evolution Method.

Xu Jingming looked at it, so tiny that even stellar lifeforms could hardly glimpse it, but Xu Jingming clearly saw its beauty.

"It's done." Xu Jingming whispered, "Next, I can attempt to reach Tier 10."