Chapter 17 Finally Breaking Through

On Blue Star, besides Xu Jingming himself, only one other person knew that Xu Jingming was breaking through.

"Finally starting?" A man in a Hawaiian shirt, shorts, and slippers, with a kebab in one hand and a beer in the other, looked up in the direction of Coastal City. "To break through to a Source Life after only 31 years of cultivating the evolutionary method, this speed is truly frightening."

He disappeared from the spot.

"Hey! He hasn't paid yet!" A service worker ran over, looking for him, then pointed at a nearby smart robot and cursed, "You idiot, you call yourself a smart robot and you can't even keep an eye on a customer."

"There was no customer," the robot said.

"No customer? Nonsense! What age is this, still trying to dine and dash! I'll check your surveillance and deduct your social credit score." The service worker immediately checked the surveillance, but strangely enough, it was indeed empty; there was no customer.

The service worker was stunned, and then looked at the smart robot next to him. The smart robot innocently said, "I told you, there was no customer."

"Damn, staying up all night has messed with my memory," the service worker muttered to himself.

In Coastal City, in the park near Xu Jingming's residential complex, the man in the Hawaiian shirt sat by the lake in the park, eating kebabs and drinking beer. "The straight-line distance between me and Xu Jingming is now 1003 meters. At such a close distance, even if a Supreme Realm enemy enters the solar system, I'll have time to take Xu Jingming and escape."

The man in the Hawaiian shirt was very confident.

If it wasn't a Supreme Realm enemy, he wouldn't even need to escape!

"What Supreme Realm alien race would have the time to pay attention to a little guy like you?" The man in the Hawaiian shirt ate and drank while fully focused, paying attention to Xu Jingming's breakthrough process.

Inside the virtual chamber.

Xu Jingming sat cross-legged. "The first step in breaking through to become a Source Life is to use mental power to leverage the universe's source power!"

Boom!

Xu Jingming's mental power, powerful enough to distort reality, began to explore the universe's source power.

There were countless kinds of energy in the universe.

But there was one kind of energy that was the most basic unit of all matter and energy. After all matter and energy were broken down to the smallest level, it was the universe's source power. Its 'minuteness' was unimaginably small. For many elementary cosmic civilizations, it was impossible to even glimpse it.

Although the 'mental power' of Starlife forms was magical, it had to be at the eighth-order limit, and even then, only a very, very small number had mental power strong enough to reach the level of glimpsing the universe's source power.

"Smaller... smaller..."

Xu Jingming's mental power entered the ultra-microscopic world. Even a speck of dust felt bigger than the solar system.

"Found it."

Xu Jingming's mind was relaxed enough that he finally detected that incredibly subtle level.

At this level, all things were made up of the universe's source power. It was the world of 'source power.'

"The universe's source power permeates everything. Rocks, soil, sunlight, flowing water, and even time and space are all made up of the universe's source power." Xu Jingming observed everything and tried to leverage it.

He was leveraging the most loosely existing universe's source power in the air. The universe's source power that made up matter had a more stable structure, making it much more difficult to leverage.

Although he had experience in the virtual world, Xu Jingming wasn't in a hurry. He took five minutes to adapt and control these incredibly tiny universe's source powers.

"Very good, the universe's source power is controlled perfectly. Next is the body transformation." Xu Jingming carefully changed the skin on the back of his left hand. This patch of skin began to energize.

"Transform the original energization into a purer, more perfect source power structure."

The construction method was recorded in the Heavenly Python Evolution Method.

This step could not be modified in any way!

The structure of life was very rigorous. Perhaps at the cosmic legend level, or the Supreme Life level… one could create a new 'Source Life' body structure. But Xu Jingming, a newcomer with shallow accumulation, naturally had to follow the experience of the predecessors of the human race.

Slowly dissipating the original energy, his mental power controlled the universe's source power to reconstruct it.

This step was very careful and very slow.

Xu Jingming spent twelve minutes constructing a single source power structure unit.

"Next is growth and replication." Xu Jingming mobilized the universe's source power to replenish it. Life inherently had the potential for growth and replication. With Xu Jingming's support, this single source power structure unit quickly turned from one into ten, ten into a hundred, and soon into tens of thousands, hundreds of millions.

Starting from one point, his entire body was rapidly changing.

Soon, the skin on the back of Xu Jingming's left hand had completely changed. It still looked like skin, but the most fundamental structure inside had changed.

Hair, skin layers, muscle layers, fascia, bones...

Starting from the skin on the back of his hand, expanding outwards for only 10 seconds, it began to permeate the bones and blood vessels. Half of his body had already been transformed. Xu Jingming's life magnetic field was also changing, becoming more vast and mysterious.

Another ten seconds passed, and only the brain remained to be transformed.

"Next is the most dangerous transformation of the brain." Xu Jingming stood up. "The brain is the source of mental power! The process of my transformation is controlled by mental power."

"And during the process of transforming the brain, mental power will become unstable, which is also where the danger lies."

"But my mental power is strong enough, and my control over my physical body is strong enough."

After Xu Jingming stood up, he began to practice the Heavenly Python Evolution Method's method of breaking through to become a Source Life.

This set of exercises was to stimulate the brain to a greater extent, so that mental power could be as stable as possible during the transformation of the brain, increasing the chances of success.

"Inhale!!!"

Xu Jingming took a deep breath, causing a storm in the virtual chamber. In the storm, Xu Jingming began to practice the evolution method. His figure became blurred, and he even floated off the ground.

He was like a void serpent walking in mid-air.

"Hmm?"

As his brain transformed, Xu Jingming felt stinging pain, dizziness, floating, and all kinds of sensations, but he had to endure it and continue practicing each move of the evolution method, making his mental power as stable as possible.

This was the final step in the transformation of the 'Source Life.'

It was like a snake shedding its skin and being reborn.

Xu Jingming was also transforming. No matter how painful or uncomfortable he was, he ensured the perfection of every move. He could control his own 'source power', and every move, whether magnified, slowed down, or multiplied many times, was extremely precise.

"Whoosh." Xu Jingming landed, his open hands slowly converging and joining together in front of his chest. At this moment, the transformation of his brain finally completed the final step.

At this moment, every part of his body had completely changed its life structure.

He was no longer a Star Life, but a higher life form—a Source Life!

"Source Life?"

Xu Jingming opened his eyes, a smile on his lips.

31 years!

From the moment he came into contact with the evolution method to the present, 31 years, he had been pursuing greater power at all times. He had also encountered all kinds of difficulties and hardships, but in the end, he had overcome those obstacles. He came from a weak civilization with very little accumulation.

In the mysterious place, there was much that he did not understand. He successively comprehended various visions and opportunities, and with enough accumulation, he understood the Primordial Star vision and was recruited by the Primordial Research Institute before the deadline.

After being recruited, he received an unlimited supply of information, the strongest inheritance was passed down, and cosmic treasures were taken. Xu Jingming's progress became faster and faster.

The Demon Subduing World supplemented Xu Jingming's understanding of humanity, and the Cosmic Peak Tournament forged Xu Jingming time and time again, finally blooming with the most dazzling light.

This newly advanced civilization, this weak civilization, had produced a Source Life!

"Finally succeeded."

Xu Jingming smiled, and his body disappeared silently.

His body was completely broken down into a 'source power' state. All things were made up of source power, and source power was also the smallest! The virtual chamber looked heavily guarded, but Xu Jingming in his source power state easily passed through it.

Passing through the virtual chamber, Xu Jingming glanced at his wife and daughter, who were logging into the virtual world network, and then he left home with a whoosh.

In the source power state, he didn't even need the Primordial Battle Armor's help. The Blue Star's security defense system couldn't detect him.

Whoosh!

A piece of source power flew over the city, over the ocean, and finally into outer space, where the source power condensed into a human figure.

Xu Jingming stood in outer space, overlooking the entire planet.

"Based on my own source power, the range of the universe's source power that I can leverage is too vast. Blue Star is just an insignificant part of it." Xu Jingming could feel, "I can leverage the universe's source power within a radius of 15 million li centered on me." (One li is approximately 0.5 kilometers)

With such a vast range, Blue Star was naturally small in comparison.

"I don't need to mobilize too much. Just the universe's source power within the range of Blue Star, I only need to gently nudge it," Xu Jingming sighed softly. "All life on Blue Star will be wiped out."

He could cause the source power that made up the most basic components of all life on the planet to riot, destroying the structure of life, and naturally everyone would die.

"Most elementary cosmic civilizations cannot resist a Source Life."

"This is a life form that transcends civilization."

Xu Jingming understood.

Even if he stood still, unless it was a weapon that could annihilate the universe's source power, he couldn't be harmed at all.

What's more, Source Lifes were very good at hiding and dodging. Like just now, transforming into a piece of source power to move… many elementary cosmic civilizations couldn't even observe him!

"I remember, I once had the experience of possessing Xuan and radiating Ambro." Xu Jingming thought, "And now, I have also become a Source Life."

Although the human race of the universe tried to protect the rights and interests of ordinary humans and Star Life forms, Source Lifes still had an incomparably detached status.

There was no way around it.

Great power converged in the individual!

In particular, the brains of each Source Life operated even more terrifyingly. After learning a large amount of scientific knowledge, their methods became even more mysterious and unpredictable.

"Master, the virtual world network has sent a notification," the Primordial Battle Armor AI reminded.

"Oh?"

With a thought, Xu Jingming used the Primordial Battle Armor to connect to the virtual world network.

"Xu Jingming, congratulations on becoming a third-level life form: a Source Life!"

"Every Source Life can maintain three virtual bodies in the virtual world network at the same time, dividing their attention to do different things, while still maintaining normal activities in reality. A Source Life's brain can easily handle all of this."

"Also, we remind you that the Primordial Research Institute's Secretary-General Heitian has arrived on Blue Star and will personally take you to the Primordial Research Institute headquarters."

"Finally, congratulations again. In the history recorded by the human race of the universe, you rank 35th in terms of the speed at which you became a Source Life."

After reading the letter, Xu Jingming was shocked. "Secretary-General Heitian has arrived on Blue Star? I control the source power within a range of tens of millions of li, but I didn't detect him."

Whether it was his own methods or the Primordial Battle Armor's methods, Xu Jingming didn't detect the other party.

"Master, all Primordial Battle Armors are managed by Secretary-General Heitian, so I can't find him," the Primordial Battle Armor AI said.

Xu Jingming nodded. Whoosh.

With the help of the Primordial Battle Armor, he had already traversed the void and returned home.

As soon as he returned home, Xu Jingming saw a man in shorts and a Hawaiian shirt in the courtyard.

"You've come?" The man in the Hawaiian shirt smiled. "You should have received a notification from the virtual world network. I am Heitian, the Secretary-General of the Primordial Research Institute. I have been on Blue Star for fifteen years, just waiting for today."

"Fifteen years?" Xu Jingming was stunned.

After a calculation, Secretary-General Heitian had already been here when Lu Na Duo came to Blue Star.

"You had only been on the Cosmic Peak Tournament for a few years when the Primordial Research Institute discovered your amazing talent. At that time, it was estimated that you would become a Source Life within fifty years. So, Vice President Chimon sent me over to secretly protect you," the man in the Hawaiian shirt said with a smile. "If you died in an accident before becoming a Source Life, that would be our responsibility."

"Thank you, Secretary-General Heitian." Xu Jingming now understood. He had been secretly protected for fifteen years?

"Let's go. Come with me to the Primordial Research Institute headquarters now."

The man in the Hawaiian shirt said, "Vice President Chimon and the President want to meet you in person."

"Okay."

Xu Jingming also knew that every outer member would go to the Primordial Research Institute headquarters after breaking through to become a Source Life. At that time, his identity would also be officially announced to the public by the authorities.

"Let's go." The man in the Hawaiian shirt nodded, and an invisible force carried Xu Jingming.

Whoosh, ripples rippled around, and the two of them had disappeared, having already left Blue Star and even the Hunter Cosmos Domain.

(End of this chapter)