Chapter 180 Black Flame

"Xu Jingming, one of the top ten of the Yuanchu Research Institute," laughed. "Little Jiu, don't flatter me. I know very well... Those who can rank in the top ten of the Yuanchu Research Institute almost all have high-dimensional spiritual power, and their accumulation is much deeper than mine!"

"Like Senior Brother Yijiu, who simultaneously cultivates two paths and can use high-dimensional power! His spirit is already high-dimensional. But he still couldn't get into the top ten." Xu Jingming said, "Compared with Senior Brother Yijiu, my accumulation is much weaker."

"What do I rely on to get into the top ten? It's my high-dimensional treasure that's powerful enough!" Xu Jingming said, "Looking at all the Origin Lifeforms in the entire Yuanchu Research Institute, excluding the cosmic legends, the high-dimensional treasure I use should be the best, right?"

"Yes."

Little Jiu agreed, "Only the treasure used by Yuan Yi is close to yours, and everyone else is much worse than you two."

Xu Jingming nodded.

Senior Sister Yuan Yi was once as famous as Senior Brother Chimon, so it was normal for the dean to bestow treasures.

"Using the best high-dimensional treasure to get into the top ten, what's there to be proud of?" Xu Jingming said with a smile, "The high-dimensional treasures used by my senior brothers and sisters are often only worth tens of millions of merits."

"If I don't rely on external objects, my strength would be good enough to get into the top 100 of the Yuanchu Research Institute." Xu Jingming thought.

"Like Chimon and Yuan Yi, those with high enough talent will be cultivated." Little Jiu said, "The master's talent is high enough, so naturally resources must be tilted towards you. The deeper the accumulation, the greater the hope of becoming a high-dimensional lifeform."

"In the history of the human race, there have been those whose talent was even more dazzling than yours, master, but they still couldn't become high-dimensional lifeforms." Little Jiu said, "From the real universe to the high dimension, it's a leap in dimension!"

"I understand." Xu Jingming nodded.

From Tier 1 to Tier 10 limit, these are all lifeforms within the real universe, which can be improved step by step. But the leap in dimension! It's too difficult.

Chimon's talent was so dazzling, yet he was still stuck in a bottleneck even after comprehending three kinds of high-dimensional power. He even relaxed and had a son, and it was Xu Jingming's accidentally obtained cosmic fruit that allowed Chimon to gain something.

Otherwise, it would have taken Chimon a long time to become a high-dimensional lifeform. He might even fail when his lifespan arrived. This is how difficult it is to become high-dimensional.

Not only the human race, but also the Prison race! In the current era, besides the Prison race's ancestor, there is only Huang as a high-dimensional lifeform. Even the Void God race, as powerful as they are, only have a handful of high-dimensional lifeforms.

For any race, no matter which path they take, it is not easy to become a high-dimensional lifeform.

"I'll go to the affiliated universe." Xu Jingming took a step and disappeared into the starry sky.

In the affiliated universe, the outermost flame world was no longer attractive. After all, all the cosmic fruits had been picked. Xu Jingming only took three steps to get close to an intact patterned stone pillar.

"Buzz~~"

As he approached, the patterned stone pillar, 1.6 light-years high, spread out invisible waves, impacting Xu Jingming's mind and consciousness.

However, Xu Jingming had taken the Abyssal Fire Lotus Seed, and his spirit itself had reached the 11th level. With the Yuanchu battle armor blocking and weakening the external spiritual impact, Xu Jingming stubbornly resisted the spiritual impact, getting closer and closer to the patterned stone pillar.

"Boom!!"

Xu Jingming suddenly transformed into a flame figure, continuing to walk step by step. The patterned stone pillar had a super repulsive force, making Xu Jingming's steps more and more difficult. The increasingly high temperature also made Xu Jingming feel uncomfortable.

A large amount of flame condensed around the flame figure, completely transforming into a miniature Yuanchu Star. This miniature Yuanchu Star continued to fly slowly towards the patterned stone pillar.

"Boom~~"

When the terrifying repulsive force and the super heat waves emitted by the patterned stone pillar affected Xu Jingming, flames naturally arose! Xu Jingming, transformed into a miniature Yuanchu Star, withstood the heat waves and repulsive force, and when he approached to only a hundred meters away, he could no longer move forward. Because the repulsive force was too great!

"My strength can rank in the top ten of the Yuanchu Research Institute, yet I can't cross the patterned stone pillar?" Xu Jingming thought to himself, "Let's try the collapsed and broken patterned stone pillar. The resistance should be weaker."

The thirty-six patterned stone pillars protected the giant palace in the center, but nine of the patterned stone pillars were broken and collapsed. With a bang, the repulsive force at the broken patterned stone pillar was significantly weaker. Xu Jingming approached to a close distance before transforming into a miniature Yuanchu Star and continuing to approach.

"I..." Xu Jingming looked at the collapsed patterned stone pillar in front of him.

Ninety meters, eighty meters, fifty meters, thirty meters, ten meters... The distance was getting closer and closer, and Xu Jingming became inexplicably nervous.

"I touched it."

The repulsive force of the collapsed patterned stone pillar was significantly weaker. Although the flames rose under the impact of the heat waves, even if the flames were ten times stronger, they would not be able to break through the Yuanchu battle armor. The Yuanchu battle armor had a great advantage in resisting energy and material impacts.

It was at a disadvantage when facing high-dimensional methods such as spiritual and binding techniques.

"This—"

When Xu Jingming's palm touched the patterned stone pillar, his mind roared!

It was as if he was touching the skin of a gigantic creature, and Xu Jingming's consciousness had a sense of "looking up" because it was too huge! Ten light-years? Ten thousand light-years? One hundred million light-years? No, it was impossible to accurately describe it with units of length.

That was the immensity of the high-dimensional level!

This gigantic creature gave Xu Jingming a sense of oppression that even surpassed the Yuanchu Star he saw when he accepted the inheritance.

Xu Jingming knew this was an illusion! After all, he had never really seen the Yuanchu Star, but only knew some images. This time, Xu Jingming felt the gigantic creature very strongly.

These patterned stone pillars were actually part of the gigantic creature's body. Only when they were nurtured in the body's universe and after its death would they look like this.

"I once bought three strands of Yuanchu Star flames and watched them with my own eyes. But what I saw was far inferior to the flames on the surface of this great being." Xu Jingming touched the patterned stone pillar, his mind continuing to feel it.

There were strands of black flames on the surface of the gigantic creature, and these black flames gave Xu Jingming a different feeling.

"Flame!"

"It is the source of this great being's power. Or rather, one of the sources." Xu Jingming understood somewhat.

Touching the patterned stone pillar, his mind watched the great figure.

Every strand of flame on the surface of the great figure carried endless knowledge, even more attractive to Xu Jingming than the Yuanchu Star flames. Xu Jingming interpreted it, understood it.

With the *Yuanchu Star Conjecture* and human scientific knowledge as the foundation, coupled with eating cosmic fruits for many years, Xu Jingming interpreted a lot of information.

More than three months later.

Xu Jingming felt his consciousness tremble unbearably, so he had to withdraw his palm and stop touching the patterned stone pillar. Without touching it, he could not perceive it. Xu Jingming's mind and consciousness began to recover and stabilize.

"This kind of terrifying flame?" Xu Jingming was thoughtful as he infiltrated the Yuan Fire Pearl in his body with his mind and consciousness. The Yuan Fire Pearl was refined in imitation of the Yuanchu Star.

Although the dean and that great being were heading in different directions of the Yuanchu Star, they still had many common points! Especially in the early stages, there were many common points. Xu Jingming infiltrated the outermost layer of the Yuan Fire Pearl, and even some of his power infiltrated the inner layer.

"Buzz."

Suddenly, a wisp of black flame appeared in Xu Jingming's palm.

"Although it is not as good as the flame controlled by that great being, it is already one or two points similar. The most important thing is that I can use this flame to my heart's content." With a thought, Xu Jingming, with a whoosh, a large amount of black flame spread out from his body, completely enveloping his whole body in black flame.

The terrifying black flame scorched everything around, annihilating everything.

"Master, the power of this flame feels no less than Ma Xun's flame." Little Jiu said in surprise, "However, the range of the flame released by the master is not as wide as Ma Xun's."

Xu Jingming nodded.

Ma Xun was faintly the number one tenth-level expert in the Yuanchu Research Institute, his spiritual power was high-dimensional, and the range of the flame he released was extremely wide. Moreover, he could directly descend the flame from a long distance. In terms of application, he surpassed Xu Jingming.

"But with this flame, master's strength has increased even more. You should be able to enter the top five of the Yuanchu Research Institute." Little Jiu exclaimed, "Master, the path of the creator of this affiliated universe is very suitable for you."

"Whether it is the dean or the creator of the affiliated universe, they are both of the Yuanchu Star lineage."

Xu Jingming said, "Let's learn from each other and slowly explore."

With his education level reaching level 99, his accumulation in the real universe was almost the same. Now, all his methods were striving towards the high dimension, but none of them could truly break through to the high dimension for the time being.

"I have cultivated for 381 years, and my accumulation in all aspects is sufficient. Next, I will explore how to cross over to the high dimension."

"The first step is to make my spirit high-dimensional."

"I cultivated for more than three hundred years to reach the 11th level of spirit. According to the historical data of the research institute, it is estimated that it will take thousands of years to break through to the 12th level." Xu Jingming thought, just like Senior Brother Jian, who is also tempering his spirit now.

Those with high-dimensional spirits in the Yuanchu Research Institute generally spend more than 50,000 years! Of course, there are some exceptions like Chimon and Yuan Yi, but Chimon also spent thousands of years to make his spirit high-dimensional.

The breakthrough of the spirit cannot be achieved by tricks, it must go through all kinds of tempering, Xu Jingming thought.

How to temper it?

Cultivating the *Yuanchu Star Conjecture - Dark Chapter*, tempering the spirit in the darkness, and keeping the spirit from being eroded is one method, but it is also playing with fire. Even if the spirit reaches the 12th level by this means, just like Yin Xiao of the Eternal Tower whose spirit reached the high dimension, he still took the initiative to plunge his spirit into the abyss again, wanting to get closer to the abyss and master even stronger power.

If one gets used to seeking power from the darkness and has gained something, they may continue to do so.

Xu Jingming did not have a love for the *Dark Chapter* in his heart. He was unwilling, so naturally he would not put his mind on it.

"In the future, there will be two main directions."

"One is the tempering of the spirit."

"The second is to work hard to become familiar with high-dimensional power, borrowing all kinds of high-dimensional power, and even cultivating it to a higher level! If I borrow enough, use it at a high enough level, and understand it deeply enough, then I will hopefully comprehend it completely and be able to use it on my own." Xu Jingming thought. Only when these two paths are open can one be qualified to construct a high-dimensional lifeform.

Every step is not easy.

What about the peerless geniuses who rank in the forefront in the history of the universe? If they cannot become high-dimensional lifeforms, they are just castles in the air. Xu Jingming had no complacency, he knew very well that the road ahead was the real difficulty!