Chapter 193 Black Hole Ring

Xu Jingming became a Source Life and was also very sensitive to time and space. He could generally determine the distance he had traveled.

"Hmm?" Xu Jingming only felt that time and space were greatly distorted and penetrated. The distance traversed was so great that it was unbelievable, and he couldn't determine it at all.

One second he was still on Blue Star.

The next second, he was already in a lonely darkness. Xu Jingming felt the cold loneliness. Ahead was twisted darkness, and behind him in the distance was a huge, dazzling halo.

"Oh dear, we've traveled into a black hole." Secretary-General Black Sky glanced around and said to Xu Jingming with a smile, "Don't worry, with me here, the various environments of the universe are still very safe."

Xu Jingming muttered to himself.

He was just a newly advanced Source Life. Black holes were still a great threat to him. "This is a black hole ring, isn't it beautiful?" Secretary-General Black Sky pointed to the dazzling halo. "This is my second vessel. I'm a bit slow, so it takes three space traversals to get from the Hunter Cosmic Sector to the headquarters of the Primordial Research Institute in the Primordial Star Cosmic Sector."

"That's already very fast," Xu Jingming said. "The most advanced spaceship of the human race that I know of can only perform a wormhole traversal of 200 million light-years at most."

"That's a spaceship, a technological creation. How can it compare to me?" Secretary-General Black Sky curled his lips. "If it were my true body, it would only take one traversal to cross from one end of the human race's territory to the farthest other end."

Xu Jingming was very surprised.

"It's a pity that your Dean doesn't trust me," Secretary-General Black Sky said. "He created me and then imprisoned me. He only allows me to act with a vessel." "Imprison the Secretary-General?" Xu Jingming asked in surprise.

"Although this is a secret, the alien races of the universe also know about it, so there's no need to lie to you," Secretary-General Black Sky said with a sigh. "The Dean is in a high-dimensional space for a long time, and only a sub-consciousness vessel remains at the headquarters of the Primordial Research Institute! His sub-consciousness vessel doesn't have the confidence to suppress my true body, fearing that if he releases me, I will be out of control and destroy a large number of civilizations of the human race. After all, my true body is a high-dimensional life."

"So, you can only be imprisoned," Secretary-General Black Sky said. "I can also understand! Anyway, I can descend my consciousness into many vessels to act freely. The Dean created me, and according to human terms, he can be considered my parents, so I have to understand his painstaking efforts."

Xu Jingming listened to this secret.

Among the higher echelons of the human race and the higher echelons of the alien races, these things were already known, so Secretary-General Black Sky spoke very casually.

During the conversation, the two of them traversed the universe again. This time, it was an infinitely vast dark area, so vast that they could not even see any galaxies or cosmic sectors, making it naturally difficult to discern directions.

"Secretary-General Black Sky's true body is actually a high-dimensional life?" Xu Jingming was still shocked by the previous news…

Because in the entire human race that he knew of, there were only three Supreme Realm existences, and only they were high-dimensional life forms.

Now, the Dean of the Primordial Research Institute had also created a high-dimensional life, 'Secretary-General Black Sky'? This meant that there were more than three high-dimensional life forms on the human race's side.

"We're here."

Secretary-General Black Sky took Xu Jingming through the third universe traversal, and they arrived at their destination—the headquarters of the Primordial Research Institute.

The headquarters of the Primordial Research Institute in reality was on a planet. The planet had lush vegetation and few buildings. Secretary-General Black Sky flew in the high sky with Xu Jingming, introducing, "Because Source Lifes have many affairs in reality, there are very few Source Lifes at the headquarters. There are only a little over a thousand ninth-order Source Lifes and a little over eight hundred tenth-order Source Lifes at the headquarters, just a fraction of the total."

Xu Jingming asked curiously, "How many tenth-order Source Lifes do we have in the Primordial Research Institute?"

"Now that you've broken through, once your identity information changes, you can check the codename and contact information of every official member on the virtual world network," Secretary-General Black Sky said with a smile. "The Primordial Research Institute has a total of 10,037 tenth-order Source Lifes as of now! This accounts for about one-fifth of all tenth-order Source Lifes in the entire human race."

"The tenth-order Source Lifes of the Primordial Research Institute, the Eternal Academy, and the Spacetime Island are far ahead. The Eternal Academy has more, with 11,522 people, and the Spacetime Island has fewer, with 7,652 people."

Xu Jingming estimated.

These three families accounted for more than half of the human race's tenth-order Source Lifes. Compared to them, the other fourteen top forces were indeed much inferior.

"Secretary-General Black Sky." A shout came from afar.

Black Sky and Xu Jingming both looked over.

In the distance was a long-eared man with a slender face and a gentle smile.

"It's Mr. Yang," Secretary-General Black Sky introduced. "Xu Jingming, this is Mr. Yang, the teacher of the 《Cosmic Rubik's Cube》 course at the Primordial Research Institute."

"Mr. Yang," Xu Jingming greeted.

He knew that those who could be respectfully addressed as 'Mr.' at the Primordial Research Institute were all teachers.

"You personally came to pick him up. Is he…?" Mr. Yang curiously observed Xu Jingming.

"He's the fastest to become a Source Life in the current era," Secretary-General Black Sky said with a smile.

"You are Wu Ming?" Mr. Yang smiled, carefully looking at Xu Jingming. "Recently, your name has often been mentioned during our internal gatherings at the Primordial Research Institute. Becoming a Source Life in 31 years is remarkable."

"Mr. Yang is too kind," Xu Jingming said.

"I look forward to your future achievements. Well, I won't bother you two." Mr. Yang smiled and left.

Secretary-General Black Sky continued flying with Xu Jingming and said, "Mr. Yang's strength is enough to rank in the top ten among the tenth-order Source Lifes at the Primordial Research Institute! If he were placed in any cosmic high-level civilization, he could easily be crowned a king. His strength alone could surpass a medium civilization."

"One person, surpassing a medium civilization?" Xu Jingming was shocked.

"It's normal," Secretary-General Black Sky said. "You still know too little about the strength of tenth-order Source Lifes. You only need to know that Source Power is full of all possibilities. Source Power can be used to create any kind of technological weapon, and even display some cosmic natural phenomena. Once you become an official member, you can view more information, and you'll understand how terrifying tenth-order Source Lifes are."

Xu Jingming nodded.

He had heard that ninth-order Source Lifes were just beginning to study Source Power. As they accumulated more and more over time, their strength would also vary.

But those who could become tenth-order had all achieved very high attainments in Source Power, and their methods were naturally unfathomable. However, Mr. Yang, one person surpassing a cosmic medium civilization, still made Xu Jingming dare not believe it. "There are quite a few who are stronger than Mr. Yang," Secretary-General Black Sky said. "Now I'm taking you to see the Vice-Dean Chi Meng, who is second only to the Dean in the entire Primordial Research Institute."

Xu Jingming nodded.

Chi Meng's reputation was too great. As an outer member of the Primordial Research Institute, he already knew some information about Vice-Dean Chi Meng.

"Vice-Dean Chi Meng is undoubtedly ranked first among the seven cosmic legends of the contemporary human race," Secretary-General Black Sky said. "Becoming a cosmic legend after only 10,000 years of cultivating the evolutionary method, in my opinion, he has a 90% probability of becoming a Supreme Realm existence."

"Is it also possible to fail?" Xu Jingming asked doubtfully. "Can't he break through even with a lifespan of 100,000 years?"

"There are many thresholds to becoming a Supreme Realm existence. If one threshold cannot be crossed, it will not succeed," Secretary-General Black Sky said. "However, Vice-Dean Chi Meng is close, after all, he is the closest to the Supreme Realm."

Xu Jingming nodded.

So this was Tiya Nuo's father!

The existence second only to the Supreme Realm in the current era, the existence with the highest probability of becoming a Supreme Realm!

While the two were talking, they flew to a building.

Secretary-General Black Sky led Xu Jingming to the door, which was open without any obstruction. Secretary-General Black Sky gently knocked on the door.

"Please come in." A gentle voice sounded.

Xu Jingming carefully observed.

He didn't find any servants or any intelligent robots in the entire building; it was completely empty.

"Follow me." Secretary-General Black Sky led Xu Jingming up the stairs to a room upstairs. Xu Jingming saw at a glance a stout, silver-gray-haired man sitting at the table. He had a large, stout head, and from his appearance, one could see some resemblance to Tiya Nuo. Tiya Nuo was thinner, while this Vice-Dean Chi Meng was stouter.

Vice-Dean Chi Meng was still focused on looking at the information in front of him. Only now did he raise his head, look at Secretary-General Black Sky and Xu Jingming, and smile. "You are Xu Jingming? I have heard your name for a long time. You two sit down."

"Vice-Dean Chi Meng," Xu Jingming said humbly and respectfully, and sat down to the side. Secretary-General Black Sky crossed his legs casually, picked up a piece of fruit from the side, and threw one to Xu Jingming.

Xu Jingming put the fruit on the table first.

"Very impressive. I cultivated the evolutionary method for 55 years before becoming a Source Life, and you did it in 31 years," Vice-Dean Chi Meng praised. "You are more excellent than me. Becoming a Source Life is just the beginning. It will be much more difficult after becoming a Source Life," Xu Jingming said.

Facing Vice-Dean Chi Meng, he had no pride at all, because the other party's achievements were too high.

Becoming a cosmic legend in 10,000 years?

Any Source Life would find it unreachable.

In Xu Jingming's view, it would already be amazing if he could become a cosmic legend in this lifetime. The higher the strength, the more one knew, the more one understood the difficulty of the path of evolution.

"Very humble." Vice-Dean Chi Meng looked at Xu Jingming, quite interested in talking. "Speaking of which, we are quite fated. My son is muddle-headed and doesn't know what he wants to do. I asked him to see the difficulties of those newly advanced civilizations. Who knew he would be assigned to your Blue Star civilization and meet you."

"Tiya Nuo has been of great help to the Blue Star civilization and to me," Xu Jingming said.

"He is very kind-hearted, but he is willful," Vice-Dean Chi Meng said. "In the future, when he is willful, please help me more. With his temperament, he will offend some people without realizing it."

"He has helped me a lot, so it is right to help him," Xu Jingming said.

Vice-Dean Chi Meng nodded.

Although he personally had great power and influence, he had to abide by the regulations of the Cosmic Human Alliance, so many things were restricted. With Xu Jingming's potential, his future achievements would definitely be extraordinary. With one more person to help, he could rest assured.

"Sometimes being willful is good," Secretary-General Black Sky said from the side. "That's how you can be happy."

Chi Meng smiled and nodded. "Yes, although it seems naive and a little silly, it is indeed good."

Xu Jingming listened.

He could feel that Chi Meng cared about and was concerned about Tiya Nuo.

"When you break through to become a Source Life, you will naturally be promoted from an outer member to an official member," Chi Meng said. "I will arrange it, and the procedures will be followed immediately. Soon, your identity information at the Primordial Research Institute will be updated, and your personal permissions will also change."

Xu Jingming nodded. "Thank you, Vice-Dean."

"It's the same for every official member," Chi Meng said. "By the way, when you become an official member, your identity information will also be officially made public."

"Officially made public?" Xu Jingming was really a little nervous, after all, he had concealed it for so many years.

Would the Blue Star civilization know? Would his wife and daughter know?

A happy trouble, huh?

"You don't have to worry about security issues," Vice-Dean Chi Meng said. "Since the Primordial Research Institute will make public the information of every official member, it naturally has the confidence to guarantee your safety."

"Mm," Xu Jingming nodded.

"Then, according to normal procedures, your identity information will be synchronized to the Wu Gou Star Alliance," Vice-Dean Chi Meng said. "After all, you are nominally affiliated with the Wu Gou Star Alliance, and the Wu Gou Star Alliance will officially make it public to the entire universe."

"Okay, thank you, Vice-Dean," Xu Jingming nodded.

"Then I will sign it and notify the Wu Gou Star Alliance." Vice-Dean Chi Meng lightly tapped the light screen. The intelligence had already formed a document about Xu Jingming's identity, and after Chi Meng signed it, the document was sent directly to the Wu Gou Star Alliance.

The Wu Gou Star Alliance would also face this unexpected surprise.

"The Wu Gou Star Alliance will probably be very excited to have a Source Life like you," Secretary-General Black Sky said with a smile. "This is not just a surprise for the Blue Star civilization, but also a surprise for the entire Wu Gou Star Alliance."

"Let's go, we're going to see the Dean now." Vice-Dean Chi Meng got up. "The Dean hasn't seen anyone for many years. Usually, the affairs of the research institute are handled by me. This time, he specifically requested to see you."

"The Dean?" Xu Jingming also stood up.

After all, he was going to see the creator of 《Primordial Star Conjecture》, one of the three greatest Supreme Realm existences of the human race. Having learned this strongest inheritance, Xu Jingming understood the Dean's greatness even more.

Immediately, Vice-Dean Chi Meng and Secretary-General Black Sky took Xu Jingming to visit the Dean.