Chapter 161 Reality

In reality, a planet’s lair, home to cosmic star pirates, was a place where law didn’t exist and chaos reigned.

Inside a bar.

Xu Jingming sat alone, and no star pirate dared to approach the surrounding area.

“In the Arena world, I have extremely high authority and can teleport to the vicinity of a Dou Jiang (combat general) from a long distance, allowing me to kill more than three million Dou Jiangs in a hundred and nine years. However, this number is still insignificant.”

After all, the Arena world faced players from 34 cosmic domains! Even if some eighth-order experts registered accounts, it was in the ‘billions.’ Many Dou Jiangs yearned for the Gun Fiend to find them!

Unfortunately, Xu Jingming couldn’t be everywhere at once.

“After laying the foundation for the spear techniques, the next step is next,” Xu Jingming mused as he held his wine glass.

Suddenly, a group of star pirates entered the bar, their eyes sweeping over the area before noticing the empty space around Xu Jingming.

“Captain, that person is occupying an area, and no one dares to approach. He must be someone important.” The large group of star pirates didn’t rush over directly but looked at their leader.

“I know the top nine leaders of our Thousand-Eye Star Pirates headquarters and eighteen branches.” The one-eyed leader chuckled and led the group forward, with two of his star pirate subordinates directly moving to drive Xu Jingming away. Without even looking up, Xu Jingming disintegrated the star pirates who entered his area, turning them into ashes that vanished.

“It’s still more comfortable in star pirate territory.”

“These years, the occasional loss of control only resulted in the destruction of a few star pirate planets.” Xu Jingming remained seated, his No. 9 Primordial Battle Suit’s intelligence having already taken control of the star pirate lair's AI system. Without even Xu Jingming’s intervention, Little Nine’s power alone could manipulate this planet at will.

“Meditate on the Void Abyss.”

Xu Jingming sat in the bar, but his mind began to visualize his figure.

He was the end of everything. He was the greatest existence.

His face was blurry, and Xu Jingming found it hard to make out. The clearest thing Xu Jingming could see was the black robe he wore, and the endless darkness contained within it.

The ‘darkness’ contained within the black robe was a kind of inclusiveness, encompassing the Primordial Star, encompassing the Abyss, encompassing all power.

“Ahhh!!!”

Xu Jingming, sitting in the bar, suddenly clutched his head in pain.

*Boom!*

An incredibly terrifying ripple erupted from Xu Jingming, instantly annihilating the bar and tearing the entire planet to pieces, with the effect rippling in all directions! The space station outside the planet was also destroyed.

Centered on Xu Jingming, an area of hundreds of millions of kilometers was shattered under the bizarre and terrifying ripples.

“Ah…”

Xu Jingming clutched his head, his face twisted.

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“Master’s loss of control was very serious this time.” Little Nine was very worried. “It’s been over a hundred years, and Master only had minor losses of control before. Why was it so serious this time?”

Xu Jingming had visualized his figure countless times over the years, each time in order to explore the spear techniques path.

But this time, the effect of the visualization was completely different.

After his mind had been completely condensed and transformed, laying the foundation, Xu Jingming was truly suited to the path of the ‘Void Abyss Master,’ so this time, after visualizing him, it immediately triggered more high-dimensional information feedback from his figure. Xu Jingming also saw more ‘high-dimensional information.’

Massive, fragmented, and chaotic high-dimensional information that wasn’t systematized was impacting Xu Jingming’s consciousness. Usually, suppressing the chaos required most of Xu Jingming’s mental consciousness. At this moment, with a large amount of information impacting him, Xu Jingming naturally couldn’t maintain his clarity and completely lost control.

After half an hour, because there was only so much high-dimensional information received from the visualization, and with the aid of the icy wine in his body, Xu Jingming gradually regained consciousness.

“What happened to me?” Xu Jingming looked around; all around him was a silent starry sky, with only distant stars still shining with light. “This star system is missing three planets,” Xu Jingming instantly determined.

“Master, you lost control just now and destroyed the star pirate planet and the two barren planets next to it,” Little Nine reminded him.

“Oh.”

Xu Jingming didn’t want to stay on a lonely, desolate planet and suffer.

He also didn’t want to live on ordinary planets for a long time in case his loss of control affected countless civilians.

Therefore, the final choice was…

When he was feeling peckish, he would visit some planets with life, but only for short stays.

Usually, he lived in star pirate lairs. The more heinous the star pirate lair, the more Xu Jingming liked it. With Xu Jingming’s influence and his ability to traverse space and time, it was easy to find some star pirate lairs.

“The visualization just now actually allowed me to receive so much high-dimensional information.” Xu Jingming began to sort out the information he had received. Different cognitions and visualizing his figure would yield different gains.

It was expected that Xu Jingming would have new gains after his mind was condensed and transformed.

“The path of the Void Abyss Master is much more difficult than any of the nine core chapters of the Primordial Star Conjecture.” Much of the high-dimensional information Xu Jingming received was related to spear techniques, and he vaguely glimpsed many mysterious spear techniques.

The massive amount of high-dimensional information allowed him to break through more fog and understand more key points on this path.

“Combining the high-dimensional information from this time, I can determine…”

“The first step of the spear techniques path is to refine all impurities and transform the mind. This is just laying a foundation, representing that I have the qualifications to cultivate this path.”

“The second step of the spear techniques path is the tempering of the mind! There is no precise number of times tempering is needed—thousands, tens of thousands, or hundreds of millions? These are not important. What’s important is that countless temperings cause the mind to constantly transform, until it transforms into the third realm’s high-dimensional power—Mind Realm Force.”

Xu Jingming also understood from the information he received this time that if his path reached the high-dimensional realm, it would be Mind Realm Force.

“Mind Realm Force.”

Xu Jingming sighed inwardly, “There are many kinds of high-dimensional powers related to the mind, such as Nightmare Force, Brush of the Heart, Illusion Force, Dream World, and so on. But these are all branches of ‘Mind Realm Force.’”

“In high-dimensional space, there are some special places, such as the Abyss, the Primordial Star, the Mother River, and the Mind Realm.”

“From the spear techniques path I saw on the Void Abyss figure, sincerity to the spear, purity to the spear, is the only way to temper the mind to the extreme with the spear techniques. Tempering the mind to the extreme can directly transform into the high-dimensional power of Mind Realm Force.” “Take Mind Realm Force as the foundation to construct a high-dimensional lifeform! Once one becomes a high-dimensional lifeform, they can enter the ‘Mind Realm’ in high-dimensional space at the nascent realm.”

Xu Jingming also understood these things after integrating the high-dimensional information he came into contact with.

“As expected of a high-dimensional power derived from the third realm, it’s on the broadest path from the beginning.” Xu Jingming sighed inwardly, “Those who cultivate other mind power paths like Nightmare Force may also hope to enter the ‘Mind Realm’ after reaching the Eternal realm with sufficient accumulation. But it is almost impossible for them to reach the third realm through the ‘Nightmare Force’ path.”

“But with Mind Realm Force, one can clearly see the direction of the third realm.”

“Of course… it’s just the direction.”

Xu Jingming was very clear about this.

The five great inheritances cultivated by generations of Virtual God race experts all pointed directly to the third realm. Gu Mo, the greatest existence of the Virtual God race, must have reached an extremely high level in his research of the five great inheritances.

Within one universe, there were so many who obtained the third realm’s inheritance.

Looking at high-dimensional space, there were countless who had obtained the third realm’s inheritance, but who could become a third-realm high-dimensional lifeform?

“Don’t expect the third realm; what I need to do now is to first grasp the high-dimensional power of ‘Mind Realm Force,’” Xu Jingming thought. “The Virtual God race has five great inheritances in this era, and only three have become cosmic legends based on them.”

“And I, have no inheritance! Only some fragmented information obtained by visualizing his figure.”

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The second step of the spear techniques path is to temper the mind with spear techniques.

Static visualization. In the past, I visualized the Primordial Star! Now, I can often visualize the Void Abyss! As my mind gradually progresses, I occasionally gain something with each visualization and obtain some fragmented high-dimensional information. With more information, I can see the path more clearly and know how to walk it.”

Xu Jingming spent half an hour every day visualizing the Void Abyss figure.

Yes, only half an hour.

Because he could only remain calm at the beginning; any longer, and he would lose control.

“Second, try to create ‘Void Abyss Spear Techniques.’ In the endless darkness of his robe, I saw the path of spear techniques and vaguely saw move after move, so I can try to imitate them.”

When one is weak, imitation is a good method.

The mysterious moves glimpsed in that endless darkness carried a special charm. Xu Jingming planned to imitate them, summarize his experiences, and try to form a set of ‘Void Abyss Spear Techniques.’ “Third, dynamic visualization! I can also visualize his figure when fighting in the Arena world. Even if I lose control, it will be in the virtual world.”

“Fourth, imitate the Void Abyss Master!”

“Based on my understanding of the Void Abyss Master, I will imitate his every move, trying to understand him.”

“Wear similar clothes, use the imitated Void Abyss spear techniques, and kill Dou Jiangs one after another.”

“Fifth, Dark Primordial Star spear techniques! The endless darkness of his robe encompasses the Dark Primordial Star, so I can try to use spear techniques to encompass the Dark Primordial Star…”

Xu Jingming’s understanding of the Primordial Star over the past three hundred years had long been twisted into a ‘Dark Primordial Star.’

Now, he would interpret this twisted understanding through spear techniques.

After all, the Void Abyss Master’s figure encompassed the Dark Primordial Star, and Xu Jingming felt that he was following in the other party’s footsteps.

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There was no other way; this was how it was without a complete inheritance.

The Dean was the same. In his early years, he had drawn on other experts’ Primordial Star lineages, but later, the Dean was also researching the Primordial Star and summarizing the *Primordial Star Conjecture*.

Xu Jingming was currently exploring and summarizing. Perhaps some methods were more effective, and some were less effective, but he could only know by experimenting.

“For now, I’ll temper myself with these five methods. If I make progress in the future and obtain more high-dimensional information from the Void Abyss figure, I can add new tempering methods.” Xu Jingming then began the second step of cultivation.

He anticipated that the difficulty of the second step would be terrifying.

Those tenth-order Virtual God race experts who possessed the *Void Abyss* inheritance would be unable to withstand the torment of their minds during cultivation and would eventually give up, choosing other paths. Not to mention he who had no inheritance. But he had no choice! After being tainted, he could only take this path!

Of the three paths he saw when he first viewed the Void Abyss figure, he had chosen the ‘spear techniques path’ because it was his greatest passion. Only with the greatest passion could one cope with the ‘difficulties of the path.’