Chapter 105 The End of Life

Time continued to march on, and his daughter, Xu Lixing, reached her life's end.

"Dad," Xu Lixing leaned against the bed, holding Xu Jingming's hand and smiling, a bright and happy smile. "Don't be sad. I'm so happy and blessed to be your daughter for a lifetime."

Xu Jingming looked at his daughter.

The people who gave him life and raised him were all gone.

His partner had also passed away.

Now, his only daughter, whom he had raised, was also leaving.

Even as a Half-Step Third Realm being, Xu Jingming felt his heart was already riddled with holes.

"I know, my pride—my greatest father—is the strongest," the aged Xu Lixing said, looking at her father with a smile.

Xu Jingming gently touched his daughter's face. "Lixing, Dad loves you very much."

"I love you too, Dad," Xu Lixing replied with a soft smile. "Let me chat with Meng Tian and the children for a while longer."

"Alright." Xu Jingming stood up, took one last reluctant look at his daughter, and turned to leave the room.

Meng Tian, Xu Fangjin, and Xu Biyun immediately entered the room, surrounding Xu Lixing's bedside.

In the courtyard outside, Xu Jingming stood alone on the veranda, gazing at the endless starry sky as the night deepened.

"What's the point of being a Half-Step Third Realm?" Xu Jingming reached out and grasped the void. "I still can't stop time, I still can't change the limits of lifespan. I can only accept all this, endure all this."

Finally, late that night, Xu Lixing passed away.

The aged Meng Tian sat by the bed, looking at the deceased Xu Lixing, unwilling to leave for a long time. Xu Fangjin and Xu Biyun had already gone out to begin making arrangements for the funeral.

"Shijie, soon, I'll come and join you," Meng Tian said with a smile.

"Meng Tian." Xu Jingming appeared at the doorway.

Meng Tian turned his head to look at Xu Jingming. "Father-in-law."

"More than 30,000 years ago, you mastered the 'Method of Constructing High-Dimensional Lifeforms' and could have become a high-dimensional lifeform at any time," Xu Jingming said, looking at him. "But you never broke through, and now you plan to...die with Lixing?"

As a Half-Step Third Realm being who could observe the past and future, he could not hide Meng Tian's secret.

Although the human race now had a number of Cosmic Legends, the most outstanding among them was the extremely low-profile Meng Tian. Meng Tian had always been behind his wife, Xu Lixing, never revealing his full abilities. Only Xu Jingming, who could observe the past and future, clearly understood Meng Tian's progress.

"Father-in-law," Meng Tian said, startled, before nodding. "Yes, I mastered the method of constructing high-dimensional lifeforms more than 30,000 years ago. But I know that the perception of the world for a high-dimensional lifeform is completely different from that of a low-dimensional lifeform."

Xu Jingming nodded.

The same world is perceived very differently by ants and humans. And both are just very ordinary low-dimensional lifeforms.

The difference in the world seen by low-dimensional lifeforms and high-dimensional lifeforms is even greater! It is not only a difference in the perception of size, color, and taste, but even the perception of space and time is completely different.

"I wanted to grow old slowly with Lixing, to experience the same world together," Meng Tian said. "And I also know that my talent is not considered high. With your great cultivation, Father-in-law, my progress has been so slow. My talent... is far inferior to that of Vice-Dean Chi Meng. With the five of you in the human race, Father-in-law, my presence or absence makes little difference to the human race."

"So, I want to be selfish," Meng Tian said, looking at Xu Lixing lying beside him. "To leave with Lixing. Because without her, this world has no meaning for me."

He could not forget the first time he met his shijie.

He could not forget the girl who bought out his contract with a bright smile.

It was she who brought him out of the dark abyss and into the world of light.

"Meng Tian," Xu Jingming said, understanding Meng Tian's state of mind at the moment. "Your death will have no meaning for Lixing. It will only represent your selfishness."

"I want to be selfish," Meng Tian said with a smile.

"There is hope if you live," Xu Jingming said. "I've cultivated for so many years and I am indeed very talented in the heart realm lineage, but my talent in the physical body is very ordinary. I simply cannot create my own dependents. The only way to revive Lixing and the others is for me to break through to the Third Realm! But... the Third Realm is too difficult."

"So, I'll be honest with you! My hope of reviving them is not great," Xu Jingming said, looking at Meng Tian.

Meng Tian was startled.

"I need your help," Xu Jingming said. "Your talent in the physical body is still quite good. If you become a Half-Step Third Realm in the physical body, you may be able to revive them. You may be able to do what I cannot."

"If you die, you will abandon the chance to revive Lixing and the others." After Xu Jingming finished speaking, he turned and left.

Meng Tian fell silent.

That's right.

Although his father-in-law was the greatest expert in the entire territory, he only excelled in the heart realm lineage and had no achievements in the physical body.

...

By observing the future, Xu Jingming was very clear that after making it clear that his hope of reviving Lixing and the others was not great, Meng Tian would definitely choose to break through and become a high-dimensional lifeform.

"This child has always been centered on Lixing throughout his life," Xu Jingming thought to himself. Because Meng Tian had been extremely good to Lixing throughout his life, Xu Jingming was naturally very touched and admired Meng Tian very much.

Soon, only half a year after Xu Lixing's death, Meng Tian broke through and became the sixth high-dimensional lifeform of the human race.

But Xu Fangjin and Xu Biyun finally reached their life's end.

******

In the cemetery, a graveyard was silent. Xu Jingming sat alone on the steps, looking at the tombstones in front of him.

His grandparents, parents, parents-in-law, wife, daughter, grandchildren... They had all died after reaching the end of their lifespans. In theory, it should be considered a joyous funeral.

But Xu Jingming only felt as if the entire world was pressing down on his heart.

"Only I am left."

Xu Jingming sat on the steps, drinking wine. "Although I had seen the future and today's scene time and time again, it's still really hard when it really arrives."

His heart felt as if it was being cut by a knife at every moment, painful and unbearable. The pain spread throughout his entire body.

Xu Jingming was very clear that this was purely the pain of the soul affecting the physical body.

"Jingming." A voice sounded, and the gaunt Dean appeared in the cemetery.

"Dean," Xu Jingming said, looking up at the Dean.

"You've been in this cemetery for a full century," the Dean said.

"Has it been a century?" Xu Jingming murmured. "I've been reminiscing, recalling the days I spent with my parents, the beautiful memories I had with my wife and daughter. I didn't realize that a century had passed."

The Dean looked at the tombstones. "We all have to get used to it! Every high-dimensional lifeform who has risen from low-dimensional life has to get used to loneliness."

"Get used to it?" Xu Jingming looked at the tombstones.

"Yes, get used to it."

The Dean said, "The most important people in our lives are people we can never forget. The pain of losing them will continue to torment us, but over time, we will get used to that pain."

"This pain is also forcing us, forcing us to work harder to become stronger. Because only by being strong enough can we revive those most important people we have lost from the past." the Dean said.

Xu Jingming nodded.

"You shouldn't be immersed in it all the time." After the Dean finished speaking, he disappeared.

Xu Jingming sat on the steps without moving, silently drinking wine and looking at the tombstones.

...

Within the Nanting 3609 Territory, Island Lord Di Long had been paying close attention to Xu Jingming, because he knew that his master had begun to get involved.

"This Wu Ming has too much talent and grows too fast! That's why he can help his low-dimensional family members live for 100,000 years. But because of this, their feelings for each other are very deep," Island Lord Di Long thought, seeing Xu Jingming still in the cemetery. "His family members are leaving one by one, and he is still immersed in beautiful memories."

"Seeing him, I seem to see Master."

"Master was also like this, with very deep feelings for his family members. After becoming a Third Realm being, he revived his family members and gave them all eternal life."

"At first, life was very good, and they spent wonderful years together, but what was the result? Those family members had ordinary minds and wills, and in the face of endless time, their minds ultimately decayed and became twisted. In the end, it brought Master even greater sadness."

Island Lord Di Long looked at Xu Jingming in the cemetery. "This Wu Ming has extraordinary talent and may be able to reach the Third Realm in the future! But so what? He will also embark on Master's old path and face the days when his family members' minds will decay and become twisted."

"The more you value love, the more you will be hurt by love," Island Lord Di Long said silently.

******

Xu Jingming didn't know how long he stayed in the cemetery. He only knew that the Dean, Tower Master, Island Lord, Chi Meng, and Meng Tian had all come. Xu Jingming knew very well what he was doing, but he didn't want to stop.

He was immersed in many beautiful memories, the most precious memories of his life.

"Hmm?"

Xu Jingming raised his head, the wine pot in his hand tilting, but there was no more wine left.

"It's empty?" Xu Jingming stood up. "Now that it's empty, it's time to go out."

Xu Jingming looked at the names on the tombstones, as if looking at familiar figures.

"It is only after losing you that I feel how great your meaning to me really is."

Xu Jingming took a step, his figure blurring as he entered the heart realm and left the scope of the universe.

In the chaotic heart realm, Xu Jingming's eyes were dark, his heart filled with too much anger, sadness, unwillingness, and longing. A heart realm spear appeared in his hand.

"Whoosh—"

This spear was silent, but it turned into endless darkness, enveloping everything, permeating everything.

The darkness covered everything, and there was no hope to be seen.

The fourth stance of the Golden Halberd—Night!

It was as if he was in a long, long night, a night that was extremely long and extremely torturous. Xu Jingming was firmly waiting for the moment when 'dawn' would break.

"My Dao Domain! My Dao Domain!"

"You are my Dao!"

Xu Jingming whispered softly. Even though he knew that becoming a Third Realm being was very difficult, Xu Jingming did not waver in the slightest at this moment.

It was not until this moment that Xu Jingming completely completed 'practicing my Dao'.

Only after the 'My Dao Domain' was completely broken through was he qualified to begin comprehending the last realm of the Octagonal Diagram—the Great Freedom Realm!

"Great Freedom? Great Freedom?"

"How can I have great freedom?" Xu Jingming laughed self-deprecatingly. With a step, he had already disappeared into the heart realm.

(End of this chapter)

(Tomato will take a day off. The 'Final Chapter' will be updated the day after tomorrow. It will also be the last chapter of *Cosmic Professional Gladiator*.)