“I can’t even keep up with him.” Monarch Mo You felt a chill in his heart. “The Prison Clan in the Celestial Serpent Galaxy Domain can’t stop him. He’ll strike again and again, intercepting and killing the Prison Clan lords.”

Within the high-dimensional space, the line-shaped Nightmare Force ceased its extension, then left the high-dimensional space and returned to normal cosmic space-time.

In this cosmic space-time, Monarch Mo You condensed his form.

“Hmph.”

Monarch Mo You grunted softly. He could feel parts of his 'Nightmare World' being annihilated, causing pain and torment to his mind and consciousness.

“Perhaps only a cosmic legend would have the confidence to capture him.” Monarch Mo You’s eyes were clear. “But obviously, the Prison Clan won’t escalate the war to the cosmic legend level over such a small problem!”

Once the war escalated, the cosmic legends on the human side would also descend upon the battlefield. Combined with numerous technological weapons, the Prison Clan would still be at a disadvantage, even if they released one crazy monarch after another.

Perhaps humanity would suffer the slaughter of more life-sustaining planets, but the Prison Clan would lose even more source lifeforms!

Because in terms of high-level power, humanity held the advantage.

However, the vast majority of top-tier forces were focused on dealing with the Void God Clan.

The 'Celestial Serpent Galaxy Domain' overseen by the Primordial Research Institute, for example, had Yi Jiu as its strongest member! He couldn’t even rank in the top ten among the Primordial Research Institute's Tier 10 members. The Research Institute’s cosmic legends and some terrifying existences ranked in the top ten, aside from focusing on the path of evolution, generally rotated to the 'Void God Clan' battlefield.

“Report the situation. There’s nothing I can do here.” Monarch Mo You immediately began to return, also notifying the squadron he led to return. As for the three Prison Clan lords who had been acting with him, they were naturally long dead.

…

Xu Jingming was still fleeing in the high-dimensional space.

“Master, don’t worry. Monarch Mo You is skilled in Nightmare Force, in invading the enemy’s mind and consciousness, not in traveling in high-dimensional space. Even if his Nightmare Force can enter high-dimensional space… his pursuit speed is definitely very slow! Your specialty is high-dimensional travel; he can’t compare to you,” said Little Nine confidently. After all, he had been through generations of masters and had a wealth of experience.

“But I can’t see him,” Xu Jingming communicated mentally. “According to intelligence, his mental power reaches high-dimensional space and can sense me.”

“He’s already considered powerful to be able to sense you, which is why the Nightmare Force knows where to pursue you,” Little Nine said. “Most people who borrow high-dimensional power, even if their power can penetrate high-dimensional space, don’t know which direction to pursue you.”

“Master, you can leave high-dimensional space and go to normal space-time. I can guarantee that this time, he won’t be able to affect space-time again,” Little Nine said.

“I’ll try.”

With a thought, Xu Jingming left the high-dimensional space, and also tried to traverse space-time.

This time, there was no interference.

He easily traversed hundreds of millions of light-years away. Only then did Xu Jingming breathe a sigh of relief.

“Traversing hundreds of millions of light-years, I can confirm I’ve shaken him off.” Xu Jingming hadn’t dared to relax at all before, fearing the Nightmare Force would infiltrate his body.

“Being blind in high-dimensional space really isn’t pleasant; I can’t see anything around me,” Xu Jingming said with emotion.

“Being able to enter high-dimensional space at the Tier 9 source lifeform stage is already very impressive. As for wanting to see the scenes of high-dimensional space? Master, wait until you become a Tier 10 source lifeform, then slowly work on it,” Little Nine said.

Xu Jingming nodded.

At this stage, being able to escape was already good enough. He was still young, and there were many areas he needed to improve.

Soon, Xu Jingming, Senior Brother Yi Jiu, and Senior Brother Jian all returned to Black Iron Star.

“That Monarch Mo You’s desire to kill is truly strong. To kill you, he disregarded his subordinates, even disregarding parts of his own Nightmare World,” Yi Jiu said with a cheerful smile as he drank wine. “He desperately chased you in high-dimensional space.”

“If it were me,” Senior Brother Jian said, “I can’t even see in high-dimensional space; there’s no way I could track him.”

“I can track him.”

Yi Jiu shook his head. “But Junior Brother Wu Ming runs really fast. I clearly sensed it just now. Junior Brother Wu Ming zoomed away in high-dimensional space! That wisp of Nightmare Force desperately chased after him, but its speed wasn’t even half of Junior Brother Wu Ming’s.”

“Not even half of mine?” Xu Jingming immediately felt fortunate and relieved. He couldn’t see, but Senior Brother Yi Jiu could sense it.

“This time, he realized he couldn’t catch up to you, so he won’t bother anymore,” Yi Jiu thought. “The Prison Clan’s monarchs all use the power of fused high-dimensional objects. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s good at high-dimensional travel.”

“Without a cosmic legend taking action, he shouldn’t be able to do anything to you,” Mr. Jian said.

Xu Jingming nodded. “I’ve only killed so few Prison Clan source lifeforms; the Prison Clan’s cosmic legends probably wouldn’t care.”

Cosmic legends were beings who had completely understood and mastered high-dimensional power. They could perfectly utilize high-dimensional power in all aspects, so their strength was naturally much higher. In addition, their clans would also equip them with powerful high-dimensional treasures. Every cosmic legend was a pillar of their clan.

…

In the blink of an eye, more than three months had passed.

Ever since Monarch Mo You discovered that he couldn’t catch up with Xu Jingming in high-dimensional space, he had completely given up! Xu Jingming initially acted with his senior brothers twice, but later he acted alone.

His interception range covered a third of the Celestial Serpent Galaxy Domain, and his interception efficiency was extremely high. He would go out every few days, each time killing many Prison Clan source lifeforms.

*******

Inside the virtual world built by the Prison Clan, five Prison Clan monarchs gathered.

“This Dark Sharpshooter’s range of activity is too large. His shadow is everywhere in the front-line area of the Celestial Serpent Galaxy Domain,” said a figure in a blood mist.

“According to estimates, in the past few months, at least 190 Prison Clan lords have died at his hands! At this rate, how many will die in a year? What about a hundred years, a thousand years?” A corpulent figure also said anxiously. “This absolutely cannot continue.”

“It can’t continue.”

“News of this Dark Sharpshooter is also spreading among the lords. Many lords are starting to resist. Each small-scale raid yields meager gains, but the losses are enormous.”

“They’re somewhat resistant now. If this continues for a few more years, the Prison Clan squadrons probably won’t take their orders seriously.”

Although they didn’t care too much about the deaths and injuries of the Prison Clan lords, and although clan wars inherently had a high attrition rate, the number of kills by just one human expert was simply too high.

“There are methods to solve this. We could ask a cosmic legend to take action, or invite more Prison Clan monarchs who have mastered high-dimensional power to try, or change our war strategy. But we’re not qualified to decide these methods.”

“Let’s report it.”

“Mo You, what do you think?”

The other four looked at Monarch Mo You. Monarch Mo You was the leader of the Prison Clan in the Celestial Serpent Galaxy Domain.

“Report it,” Monarch Mo You said. He didn’t want to bear the responsibility either.

…

In the Prison Clan’s territory, in a chaotic void, there was only a dark pool of water. The dark pool of water had no ripples. Suddenly, the water flowed, and two figures condensed one after another.

The two figures stood on the surface of the pool.

One was a woman with a pair of gray wings. The wings were partially damaged and incomplete, and her gray eyes lacked any emotional color.

The other was a streamlined, handsome bald man. His entire body had extreme aesthetic lines. As he stood there, the surrounding space-time was affected.

“Shi Ku,” the gray-winged woman said, “has your lifeform tried to evolve again?”

“Yes.”

The handsome bald figure looked at himself. “I feel that the direction of evolution is correct, but I still haven’t become high-dimensional. Sometimes, I feel that the human race’s evolution method is better. They study various source force structure models. Once they understand the structure model, success is guaranteed. As for our evolutionary breakthroughs? It depends on luck.”

“The evolution of life is inherently a kind of luck,” the gray-winged woman said. “Moreover, Shi Ku, your repeated attempts at evolution are already approaching high-dimensional life.”

“It’s not that easy,” Shi Ku said. “Mo You sent a message that they’ve encountered some trouble.”

“Yes, a mysterious human sentinel.” The gray-winged woman nodded. “He has already affected my Prison Clan’s raids in the Celestial Serpent Galaxy Domain. If this continues, he may go to the other two galaxy domains! He will completely affect the three galaxy domains on the border. There are several ways to solve this problem. Which one do you think we should choose?”

Shi Ku said, “Now is not the time to fight against human cosmic legends. The last time I fought against 'Crimson Meng,' the strongest cosmic legend of the human race, I was almost killed by him. The human race has more high-dimensional treasures than us… Without becoming a high-dimensional life, I’m afraid I’ll never be able to defeat Crimson Meng.”

The gray-winged woman nodded.

“In the area where that mysterious sentinel is active, reduce the number of 'small-scale raids,' or even suspend small-scale raids,” Shi Ku said. “In the future, his area of activity should focus on medium and large-scale raids.”

“Medium-scale raids have at least 20 squadrons, attacking at least 200 locations. No matter how fast that mysterious sentinel traverses space-time, he can only intercept one location,” Shi Ku said. “Large-scale raids have at least 100 squadrons, his impact will be even lower.”

The gray-winged woman frowned. “Reduce small-scale raids? Then it will be difficult to explore the layout of the human sentinel forces and the layout of large-scale detectors. Medium and large-scale raids will easily run into traps, and the losses will be great.”

“This is already a method with lower losses,” Shi Ku said. “I’ve given you the methods, let Mo You decide the rest. At the same time, notify the other two galaxy domains of this plan. I suspect that this mysterious sentinel may leave the Celestial Serpent Galaxy Domain and go to the other two galaxy domains.”

The gray-winged woman nodded. “Okay, in the area where this mysterious sentinel is active, we’ll focus on medium and large-scale raids.”

Their decision was quickly transmitted to the three front-line galaxy domains.

From that day on, the Prison Clan’s raiding strategy also changed.

The Cosmic Human Alliance reacted quickly after discovering the changes on the battlefield. They also transferred Xu Jingming to the other two galaxy domains for a period of time, one year in this galaxy domain, one year in that galaxy domain, moving him around without any pattern. This forced the Prison Clan’s raiding strategies in all three galaxy domains to change completely.

One person, forcing the entire Prison Clan to change its raiding strategy, was indeed an influence worthy of a 'cosmic legend.' Everything was as Vice President Crimson Meng and the others had predicted. Xu Jingming’s shadow did indeed loom over the entire front line.

As a result, the entire Prison Clan’s raiding efficiency decreased, and their mortality rate increased.

There was nothing the Prison Clan could do. If they didn’t change their strategy, things would only get worse.