Li Miaomiao said helplessly, "Didn't you ask me to observe our daughter before?"

"Any results?" Xu Jingming pressed.

"Half a year ago, I talked to her, and she didn't admit it at all." Li Miaomiao said, "Later, I carefully observed her daily schedule and some of her behavior when she was with me. I am more than 90% sure that she should be in a relationship, but the person she is dating... is not in the Blood Rain World, but in another virtual world."

"Who is the guy? Have you met him?" Xu Jingming asked.

"No."

Li Miaomiao shook her head. "I think... we should talk to her together formally. She should tell us."

Xu Jingming thought for a moment and nodded. "Then let's have a good chat with our daughter today."

That evening, the family gathered for dinner.

"Mmm, delicious."

Xu Lixing ate with gusto, and even looked at the housekeeper, Xiao Wu, who was standing aside. "Auntie Xiao Wu, your cooking is getting better and better."

"Thank you for your compliment." Xiao Wu smiled. Her intelligent operating core had been upgraded, and she was much wiser.

"Mom and Dad, why are you eating so slowly?" Xu Lixing noticed that her parents hadn't eaten much yet.

"Lixing, we have something to talk to you about," Li Miaomiao said.

Xu Jingming also looked at his daughter.

"So formal?" Xu Lixing looked at her parents and smiled. "What's so important?"

"Have you been dating recently?" Xu Jingming asked with a smile.

Xu Lixing was stunned.

"If you're dating, you're dating. If you're not, you're not." Xu Jingming looked at his daughter. "Your mom and I are just trying to understand."

Xu Lixing thought for a moment and nodded. "Well, sort of."

"Sort of?" Li Miaomiao asked doubtfully. "What do you mean, sort of?"

"We get along very well in the virtual world, but right now we're just getting along," Xu Lixing explained with a smile. "Stellar life is very long. Ordinary stellar lifeforms have a lifespan of three thousand years, and Tier 8s even reach ten thousand years. I'm not even thirty years old yet, so there's no rush to get married! I think we can get along more in the virtual world."

Xu Jingming and Li Miaomiao exchanged glances. Their daughter was really not in a hurry.

That's good too!

"Your father and I rushed into marriage when we were dating, but you're not in a hurry," Li Miaomiao said with a smile.

"Times are different," Xu Lixing said. "Many cosmic citizens don't get married their whole lives. Want children? There are all sorts of technological methods."

"It's good not to be reckless." Xu Jingming nodded. "But I think... even if you meet in the virtual world, if you've really been together for a long time, there's still genuine affection. You can try to understand each other's real-life situation."

"Because the virtual world can create many illusions. Even appearances can be fake," Xu Jingming said. "If you invest too much emotion and then learn the real situation and are hit hard, the damage can be great."

After all, it was his daughter's first relationship, so he had to prevent her from investing too much emotion. Dating for half a year is different from dating for ten years.

Xu Lixing listened and seemed thoughtful. "Okay, I understand."

"There are countless civilizations and countless kinds of people in the universe." Xu Jingming said, "There are even people who deliberately create various illusions in the virtual world just to deceive people. There are also some people who deliberately manipulate other people's emotions and minds in order to practice humanities subjects. In short, there are all kinds of scumbags!"

Of course, there are also many excellent people in the universe.

"Don't easily believe everything in the virtual world." Xu Jingming reminded her, "Because in reality, it may be completely the opposite."

"Dad, don't worry, Blue Star civilization has already popularized this." Xu Lixing smiled. "Our generation has been exposed to the virtual world since we were kids."

Xu Lixing also had some thoughts in her heart.

Her parents were right. She should understand the other person's real-life situation before deciding whether to continue.

She was also worried that the reality would be too different from what she knew in the virtual world.

This was also the biggest concern for many people who dated in the virtual world network.

Virtual world network, personal space.

"Lost again." Xu Jingming watched the combat replay video. He lost more than he won. He was used to losing in cross-universe domain battles.

"Watching the combat replay, my footwork is dominant, and my spearmanship is no less mysterious than the opponent's. The only problem... is that my power is weak. My moves can be easily blocked by the opponent. It's very difficult for me to block the opponent's moves." Xu Jingming frowned and looked at it. "Want more power? My physical strength is already at its limit, so I have to find a way to leverage more cosmic power."

"When it comes to leveraging cosmic power, there are many people in the Universe Pinnacle battle who are stronger than me." With a wave of his hand, Xu Jingming selected nine combat replays.

They were videos of battles with nine different experts.

"All nine of them leveraged enough cosmic power." Xu Jingming watched, and suddenly a flash of inspiration struck his mind.

He quickly tapped.

Immediately, books appeared in front of him. There were books on 'Light,' as well as supporting materials. The Primordial Research Institute's database had a wealth of valuable content, which could be read for free. Of course, Xu Jingming couldn't copy, record, or spread it. It was only for his personal reading.

Xu Jingming's brain was running extremely fast as he opened one book after another.

"Here, here, and here, it's all recorded." Xu Jingming looked at it. "The evolution of Primordial Star's light—a ray of light can evolve into endless light."

Primordial Star was a great celestial body in a high-dimensional space, possessing all kinds of incredible characteristics. 'Primordial Star Conjecture' was ranked among the three strongest inheritances of the human race in the universe. It was only the Dean's conjecture, and it had not been completely researched.

The light of Primordial Star had a characteristic.

The innermost layer of light seemed very weak.

However, when the inner layer of light propagated, it seemed to have experienced space-time folding. Layers of light were constantly superimposed, and the light became more and more massive until it became the most dazzling and greatest existence.

"According to the speculation in this book, the light of Primordial Star naturally assimilates other energy into light. One can be assimilated into a hundred, a hundred can be assimilated into... growing stronger and stronger, until it becomes endless light."

Xu Jingming looked at the theories in the books, and the inspiration in his mind became clearer and his understanding deepened.

In fact, Xu Jingming had a certain understanding of 'endless light' when he was in the mysterious land, but at that time, his understanding was very rough and superficial. Now, however, it had undergone a qualitative change.

"Perhaps, I can try it."

After all, Xu Jingming was standing on the Dean's shoulders. He had been studying the 'Light' lineage for many years and had accumulated a lot of knowledge. Now that he had a new understanding, he immediately began to practice.

Whoosh.

The surrounding scene changed, transforming into a starry sky.

Xu Jingming stood in the starry sky, his entire body transformed into energy, turning into a light being. Light flowed on the surface of his body. Xu Jingming used his massive body energy to leverage the external cosmic power according to his new understanding.

Countless cosmic powers were attracted and poured into Xu Jingming's body. The light on Xu Jingming's surface became more and more dazzling. With a thought, this energy transformed into a robe draped over his body. With the robe on, his own power became even greater, and the power he could leverage continued to increase.

"Indeed, my own power is one, and I can directly leverage and control the power of three! After fully controlling the power of three, I can use this as a foundation to control the power of nine. Then continue to improve, twenty-seven, eighty-one, two hundred and forty-three, seven hundred and twenty-nine, two thousand one hundred and eighty-seven. Theoretically, it can be improved infinitely."

"Although my improvement model is not as fast as Primordial Star's, and not as vast as Primordial Star's, it is indeed constantly improving."

"The only thing limiting the improvement is my mental strength?" Xu Jingming felt that, wearing a gorgeous light robe, the power he was wielding began to overflow and spread around him.

"My mental strength can't perfectly control these powers, and I can't continue to expand. I must perfectly control it before I can continue to leverage it. Once it starts to overflow, this model can't continue."

"I seem to have touched the essence of the 'Light' lineage's endless light." Xu Jingming felt a fiery sensation in his heart.

The 'Light' lineage contained multiple branches. The speed branch could reach the speed of light! This branch also led to the Supreme Realm.

The endless light branch could theoretically expand to infinity, and it also led to the Supreme Realm. Xu Jingming had only comprehended some shallow parts and felt that his mental strength was limiting him. He would discover more limitations in the future.

To truly possess 'endless energy' was too difficult, too difficult.

Xu Jingming then continued to experiment, perfecting the light robe model, hoping to use it to control more energy. He stopped excitedly after experimenting for a long time.

"Let's try visualizing. I feel that my understanding of Primordial Star is different now." Xu Jingming immediately logged off.

In reality, in the training room.

Xu Jingming sat cross-legged, visualizing Primordial Star.

After years of cultivation, Xu Jingming had already pushed the 'Light Visualization Art' to the seventh level. It was because of this that his mental strength could grow to its current level.

"The rapid expansion model of Primordial Star's light—according to my current understanding, one turns into three, three turns into nine, nine turns into twenty-seven, and so on—is more stable."

Xu Jingming visualized Primordial Star. Because he understood it more deeply and knew the partial principles of evolution, the countless rays of light he visualized were more real and clearer.

Countless rays of light were visualized, vast and immense.

Layers of light seemed to propagate from the deepest depths of space-time, each layer expanding, rapidly expanding, until it was endless! Illuminating everything!

It was the greatest celestial body known to human beings in the universe! The most incredible celestial body.

"Boom!"

When it was visualized, Xu Jingming only felt a burning sensation all over his body, a burning sensation in his mind.

The visualized Primordial Star was burning Xu Jingming's body and consciousness, changing him and influencing him.

"I've reached the eighth level of the 'Light Visualization Art'?" Xu Jingming was overjoyed. Although compared to a powerful source lifeform, his visualization achievements were insignificant.

But after all, he was a stellar lifeform who could reach the eighth level of visualization, which was still very rare.

Moreover, with the seventh level of visualization, he could hopefully reach the threshold of a source lifeform's mental strength.

The eighth level could further improve his mental strength.

"The eighth level of visualization can greatly strengthen my mental strength." Xu Jingming thought, "Today is the first time I've visualized the eighth level, and the improvement is the most obvious. Perhaps, I've already broken through 10,000 points at this moment?"