Chapter 11

As a seventh-order Starry Sky lifeform, Xu Jingming's learning ability was terrifying. He flipped through the books in his hands, completely memorizing each page with a quick glance, pondering over every sentence he read.

In just five minutes, he had finished three books and gained a lot.

"The higher the level of life, the more amazing the learning ability." Pang Ze, who was sitting next to him, exclaimed, "It's enviable to watch."

"That's why those scholars with a Level 1 or higher education are already exceptionally talented, and after being promoted to Source Lifeforms! The Source Lifeform's brainpower, combined with scientific knowledge, allows a single person's research capabilities to surpass those of a nascent civilization by countless times. Each one is an invaluable treasure to the human race of the universe," Xu Jingming said.

Pang Ze nodded. "That's too far away from us. Let's go, I'll take you to the virtual world."

Soon, he opened a virtual world called "Apprentice World."

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Both of them entered Apprentice World.

"Apprentice World is a very famous virtual world." Walking on the wide street, Pang Ze said, "Among the education-based worlds, it ranks in the top ten in popularity, making it perfect for novices like you."

"I am indeed a novice," Xu Jingming said with a smile. "I haven't even taken an education exam."

"I've purchased a course for you." Pang Ze opened his personal panel and quickly bought a course. "The countless citizens of the universe will encounter all sorts of life difficulties. So, learning how to deal with 'life difficulties' is a very popular course. The one I bought is taught by artificial intelligence! The teaching quality is recognized."

Xu Jingming nodded.

In the virtual world network, there were many "virtual worlds" available for learning. Which virtual world to go to? What kind of course to choose? What kind of teacher?

With Pang Ze, a "humanities" expert who was nearly max level, guiding him, Xu Jingming could learn the knowledge he wanted with maximum efficiency.

"Hello, I am your teacher for the 'Solving Life Difficulties' course!" A beautiful woman with translucent skin and a red gemstone between her eyebrows said with a smile, "In the following time, I will provide one-on-one instruction."

Xu Jingming nodded.

The two sat on the grass.

The intelligent woman said, "As citizens of the universe, in the lifespan of tens of thousands of years, you will encounter all kinds of difficulties! How to solve these difficulties is a very important topic."

"To have a strong ability to solve life's difficulties, first of all, you must have a very strong logical thinking ability," the intelligent woman said.

"Logical thinking ability?" Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

"You need to analyze your difficulties, what factors caused them! Then, think about what conditions you can use, what conditions you can create, and finally solve the difficulties," the intelligent woman said. "All of this requires logical thinking ability."

"So this course requires you to have a foundation in science," the intelligent woman said. "Given that you are a seventh-order Starry Sky lifeform and currently have no education, I think we can spend six days learning science."

"Oh." Xu Jingming's mood was complicated.

He hadn't expected that to learn a humanities course on solving life's difficulties… the first step was to study science.

In the earliest days of humanity, because there was a need to count, there were numbers!

So Xu Jingming began his science studies, and the intelligent teacher also provided him with the books he needed to learn.

"To solve a hundred kinds of life's difficulties, I have to study mathematics first." Xu Jingming sat on the sofa in his personal space, flipping through the textbook.

Based on numbers, there were concepts like integers, decimals, fractions, and so on.

And there were also different ways to classify numbers, such as prime numbers, rational numbers, irrational numbers, and so on.

"Splash, splash, splash…"

Xu Jingming flipped through the basic mathematics textbook. With the learning speed of a seventh-order Starry Sky lifeform, he flipped through the pages non-stop, memorizing everything with a glance, and calculating it thousands of times in his mind.

Number theory, algebra, basic geometry, high-dimensional space geometry…

This textbook focused on "geometry."

"High-dimensional space geometry looks very difficult." Xu Jingming had books stacked around him, and he finally stopped studying mathematics. "According to the requirements, I only need to learn basic geometry. I've even learned a good portion of high-dimensional space geometry." Xu Jingming looked up at the time. "I spent more than three days studying mathematics?"

Of course, the learning that Xu Jingming, a seventh-order Starry Sky lifeform, did in three days was more than a planetary lifeform could learn in three years, and he learned it more deeply.

Xu Jingming looked around.

"Sofa, chair, weapons…" Xu Jingming glanced around. All kinds of items contained geometry and could be expressed using functions.

The length, model, and curves of the sofa he was sitting on… Xu Jingming immediately had three-dimensional patterns appear in his mind, and he also had functions to accurately express these models.

"There's also physics." Xu Jingming began to study physics.

Force, motion, energy, rigid bodies, waves, gases, thermodynamics, vacuum, electricity, magnetism, light, mass-energy, space tunnels, multi-dimensional space, space-time fields, space-time wells…

When he learned about space tunnels called "wormholes," Xu Jingming found it increasingly difficult, and he might have to think about a page for an hour.

"Let's stop for now."

Xu Jingming looked at the time. "I spent a total of seven days studying science. That's one day more than the intelligent teacher required! I also studied it more deeply."

"I should also learn some information science, which will also enhance my logical thinking ability." Xu Jingming was a little obsessed with learning. After all, he majored in physics in college and was quite interested in science.

He spent another two days learning information science.

"With a strong enough logical thinking ability, we can start the next stage of humanities learning. We'll start by looking at how others have solved their life difficulties in individual life stories," the intelligent teacher began to teach.

Step by step!

As a seventh-order Starry Sky lifeform, Xu Jingming learned quickly.

After another nine days, Xu Jingming had completely finished the entire course.

"You have completed the entire course. If you have any questions about the course, you can come back to me," the intelligent female teacher said with a smile. "If you are satisfied with the course, please give it a perfect score."

The higher the rating, the more people would buy the course.

"Okay." Xu Jingming nodded.

The course recommended by Mr. Pang was indeed of very good quality, and Xu Jingming immediately gave it a perfect score.

"Thank you for your positive review." The female teacher bowed in thanks and then disappeared.

Xu Jingming stood on the grass, looking around, feeling very good. "I feel completely different."

After completing the course, his understanding of his own life and of the situation of the entire Blue Star civilization had become much clearer.

"The so-called ability to predict and calculate, to win from a thousand *li* away… is actually a kind of reasoning," Xu Jingming understood. "Those top strategists have a clear understanding of the entire world and of the many forces and groups. They understand the various relationships and entanglements, and can ultimately deduce the answer based on various elements!" Just like a rich second generation who is addicted to gambling, and the owner of the casino he goes to has dark methods, it is easy to deduce that the rich second generation is likely to go bankrupt.

Of course, that can only be considered addition and subtraction difficulty.

The war between countries! The difficulty is tens of thousands of times higher.

It is necessary to consider the overall world situation, the entanglements of relationships, the military capabilities of all parties, the combat styles of army commanders, the weather environment, the supply of food, morale, command ability… A comprehensive reasoning of a large number of factors will make some people military gods, able to defeat the strong with the weak, winning every battle! And some people are fools, leading troops to their deaths!

"I'm still far from Mr. Pang, but, right now… I can barely be said to have self-awareness," Xu Jingming said silently.

To solve life's difficulties, one must first "know oneself."

He has now reached this stage.

"I'll take an education exam." Xu Jingming wanted to test his own limits.

Six hours later, the results were out.

Humanities: 320 points.

Science: 1020 points.

Education Level: 33

"Education Level 33?" Xu Jingming nodded slightly. "I didn't take the time-consuming practical exam. If I did, I should be able to get a few hundred more points, maybe one or two levels higher."

The higher the education level, the higher the point requirement.

For example, Education Level 10 only requires 100 points.

Education Level 20 requires 300 points.

Education Level 30 requires 1000 points.

Education Level 40 requires 3000 points.

Education Level 50 requires 10,000 points.

Whether it is humanities or science, learning is easier in the early stages and becomes more difficult as you go on.

The highest (Level 60) full score in humanities is only 30,000 points!

And the requirement for Education Level 100 is 3 million points! It can be seen that… to become an outstanding scholar, one must take the path of science.

"The higher the level of life, the stronger the brain's thinking ability! For example, my brain's thinking ability as a seventh-order Starry Sky lifeform is ten times faster than it was when I was a sixth-order lifeform, and I can also think more deeply," Xu Jingming thought to himself.

"It's many times stronger than a planetary lifeform." "The fact that I learned for a little more than eighteen days is more efficient than a planetary lifeform learning for a lifetime," Xu Jingming exclaimed.

This is the difference in the level of life.

"I heard that eighth-order Starry Sky lifeforms, as long as they put their heart into it, can generally reach Education Level 50," Xu Jingming thought to himself. Eighth-order Starry Sky lifeforms may not have a high aptitude for scientific research, but with their terrifying brainpower, they can relatively easily reach Education Level 50. Of course, the "Education Level 100" that the entire human race of the universe values most cannot be achieved by brainpower alone, but also requires extremely amazing scientific talent!

"I can explore the sixth planet again." After nearly 19 days of learning, Xu Jingming felt his own transformation. His thinking methods and logical reasoning abilities had been greatly improved.

Mysterious Land, Sixth Planet.

Xu Jingming appeared at the foot of the black pyramid, looking up at the towering pyramid. "Let's begin!"

With a leap, Xu Jingming came to the first step.

The scene in front of him changed.

Blue Star, office building, in front of a desk.

Xu Jingming sat there, looking at the computer in front of him.

"Zhang Lei's predicament…" Xu Jingming felt the memories that were once again transmitted to him, which had previously given Xu Jingming a headache.

But now, everything was as clear as peeling silk from a cocoon.

"Zhang Lei's predicament, the bank's wealth management product exploding, the mortgage, the surgery fees, the unemployment… in fact, all these predicaments are the same predicament: money!" Xu Jingming thought to himself. "A stable social order, only a predicament of money, is not difficult for an explorer like me."

When a poor couple is beset by troubles, everything is sorrowful.

Zhang Lei and his wife originally had a good relationship, but because the wealth management product exploded, their savings were gone! And he lost his job, and the monthly mortgage and hospital expenses all plunged the family into collapse.

"Let's begin."

Xu Jingming opened the computer browser and went directly to a niche forum.

Soon, the other party contacted him.

As a 35-year-old programmer, Zhang Lei's programming skills were still good, and he occasionally took "outsourcing" jobs in the forum.

"I'll take this job." Xu Jingming scanned the forum and took a big job.

"Octopus, are you sure you can handle it?" The other party couldn't believe it. After all, Zhang Lei was an old user of the forum, and he hadn't heard that he had such strength.

"I'll give you the results in three days," Xu Jingming replied.

"Tsk, tsk, you're pretty confident! Okay, I'll see your results then."

The bank wealth management product exploding was not told to his family for the time being.

In three days, Xu Jingming completed the outsourcing job! After the other party ran it and confirmed it, they paid a fee of 30,000 yuan!

In half a month, Xu Jingming, who had lost his job, had successively completed several highly difficult outsourcing jobs and was recognized in the forum as a "god-level" programmer. The programmer's circle was very large, but also very small! Because there were not many "god-level programmers."

After his reputation was big enough, he received an invitation to help successfully solve a difficult problem for a large company, and he received a ten million yuan bonus! And the large company also invited him to join the company with a high annual salary and equity incentives!

"In addition to a 15 million yuan annual salary, we have also set up bonus incentives and equity incentives. We sincerely invite Mr. Zhang Lei. Today, our major shareholders have personally come to the door because we value Mr. Zhang Lei's ability and believe that Mr. Zhang Lei will be able to lead our company to the next level!" The company's chairman, president, and major shareholders, three people personally came to the door to invite him.

Zhang Lei's wife looked at this scene in disbelief. Was her husband so awesome?

Xu Jingming looked at this scene.

"The first level of the life illusion has been passed." Xu Jingming looked at himself still standing on the first level of the black pyramid, and understood everything. "The first life illusion is actually not difficult, you only need to find the 'key' to the predicament, and then solve it. For us explorers, with strong information science skills, it can be easily solved." Xu Jingming nodded, "However, if it was Zhang Lei himself, with his ordinary programming ability, it would be difficult to solve the predicament."

It was impossible for an ordinary person in all aspects to fall into such a predicament and earn ten million.

It was considered low difficulty for an explorer to do it.

"Zhang Lei himself can only reduce all aspects of expenses, even his children's tutoring fees have to be reduced. And he has to find ways to improve his personal ability. If his ability is strong, he can naturally find a good job in the programmer circle, which speaks of skills," Xu Jingming thought to himself. In a peaceful and stable world, strong skills are strength.

If your strength is weak, you can only drift with the tide.

If your strength is strong, the big storms are just gentle breezes and drizzles.

Xu Jingming leaped and went to the second level of the black pyramid.

The scene in front of him changed, and it was still Blue Star!

It was the earlier Blue Star of the era of war.

In a forest, fifteen wolf fox soldiers leaned against tree trunks, drinking water and eating dry food, each one in a daze. Xu Jingming was also one of them. "This gun?"

Xu Jingming noticed the rifle he had placed at his feet, and the bullets he was carrying on his back.

This kind of backward rifle was also a product of Blue Star more than a hundred years ago.

"It's over, it's all over." A soldier showed a look of despair.

"The enemy is hunting us down, and they might find us at any time. Why don't we split up and run? Maybe one or two of us can escape." A soldier said in a low voice. Xu Jingming sat there, receiving the memories in his mind.

Today, the world was in chaos, with warlords fighting each other. He was a member of Marshal Sun Da's army. Marshal Sun Da was defeated, and they, a dozen or so remnants, had fled into the forest. There were still a large number of enemies outside.

Xu Jingming saw illusory words appear in front of him. The second level of life's difficulties, the requirement to solve: Escape the pursuit, establish your own army within one year, and capture Wu'an City. (Limited strength and speed upper limit)

Xu Jingming thought for a moment.

"Split up and escape?" Xu Jingming immediately got up and looked at the surrounding soldiers. "Maybe none of us will escape! Are you willing to die like this?"

"Then what can we do? There are only a few of us." A soldier retorted.

Xu Jingming said, "The Western Fan Army has been fighting with us for so many years, we have a blood feud. The son of Marshal Pan Da of the Western Fan Army died on the battlefield.

The brothers who surrendered before were all shot! Marshal Pan Da is red-eyed, he doesn't accept surrender, he wants to kill everyone. Now they are hunting us down." "We can't live." Someone said in a low voice.

Everyone had long lost their morale.

"Then let's just treat ourselves as dead people." Xu Jingming's eyes turned red, and he said, "We are all dead people, let's try our best! It's a profit to kill a few! If we can escape by chance, that's an even bigger profit."

"To be honest," Xu Jingming said with expectation in his eyes, "I still want to go back to my hometown of Wu'an! To see my old mother again."

"I also want to go back and see my son. My son should be three years old this year." A soldier said in a low voice, tears flowing down. "I also want to go back. Xiao Cui said she would always wait for me to go back, but, I can't go back, I can't go back!" A soldier cried in pain. Xu Jingming looked at these soldiers. "If we give up, then there is no hope at all. Let's give it a shot, maybe we can really go back to Wu'an!"

Each soldier looked at Xu Jingming.

"Return to Wu'an," Xu Jingming said, "Return to our hometown."

"Let's give it another shot." A soldier gripped his gun.

"It's death if we don't fight, let's fight."

Each soldier gritted his teeth.

Xu Jingming first united this group of people, and then, on the one hand, he merged with more scattered soldiers to strengthen his own strength. On the other hand, he scouted the surrounding area, swallowed up small groups of enemies! And avoided large groups of enemies!

Although Xu Jingming's strength and speed upper limit were limited, he had become a sharpshooter by relying on his strong consciousness to control the gun in his hand.

Strengthen ourselves, unite ourselves! Avoid the real and attack the weak!

Xu Jingming did not fight with the Western Fan Army! After escaping the pursuit range, he went all the way in the direction of Wu'an, and he also tried to absorb strength along the way! In this chaotic world, there were still many people who wanted to join the army to get a full meal.

After eight months, Xu Jingming took the original Marshal Sun Da's team as the foundation, gathered the remnants, recruited new people, and pulled out a team of 30,000 people. In the end, with the help of the people of Wu'an, he entered Wu'an City overnight without bloodshed, and completely occupied Wu'an City in one night. When the dignitaries in Wu'an City came to visit Xu Jingming, the new warlord, the illusion dissipated.

"I passed the second level illusion." Xu Jingming also rested, it had been more than eight months in the illusion, and also more than half a day in reality.

In the illusion, he fought with intrigue, squeezed out some threatening people, united people who could be won over, and increased his influence among ordinary soldiers to ensure that the army was under his control.

There were many things to consider for the army to reach Wu'an, the supply of food along the way, the preparation of military expenses, and the prevention of other forces on the route.

"It's much more difficult than the first level illusion," Xu Jingming thought to himself.

Whoosh!

He leaped up and came to the third level of the black pyramid.

The scene changed, and it was the feudal dynasty period of Blue Star.

In the freezing cold and snowy weather, a small beggar huddled in the corner, with a broken bowl in front of him. When he saw people who were well-dressed, he kowtowed, "Kind masters and ladies, please, give me some food."

Suddenly, the small beggar was slightly stunned.

"Became a beggar?" Xu Jingming shivered. "It's so cold, so hungry."

He also had memories in his mind.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a great famine, and people were not living well. There were many rebellions. Li Ergou fled to Yu City.

In the freezing cold and snowy weather, with only ragged clothes on his body, and in hunger and cold, if there were no changes, he would probably be frozen to death tonight. Xu Jingming saw the illusory words appear in front of him. The third level of life's difficulties: Arrive alive in the capital within one year. (Limited strength and speed upper limit)

"From Yu City to the northern capital? And in a time of war and chaos? And with the body of a small beggar?" Xu Jingming could feel that even if he tried to mobilize his body, the upper limit of his strength and speed was weaker than that of ordinary people.

"Surviving in a chaotic world?" Xu Jingming realized that it was not easy. Rebels, robbers, refugees, all kinds of dangers, and even the weather environment, illness, etc., could take his life.

One layer after another of illusion.

This was also a kind of practice, and gradually, he became more skilled in dealing with various situations.

But there were still accidents, and he would fail.

"It's really difficult." Xu Jingming looked around.

The ninety-ninth illusion was the primitive period of Blue Star.

He had to find a way to survive. The weather suddenly dropped sharply, the river froze, countless plants froze to death, and food was scarce. Xu Jingming led the tribe to migrate in search of water sources to survive, which was really difficult.

In one year, only 36 of the tribe's original 132 people survived, and they were still on the move.

"It's not easy." Xu Jingming watched the illusion dissipate. "As long as more than 30 members of the tribe are alive after one year, it's considered a success. But it's really not easy." For the sake of migration and survival, Xu Jingming racked his brains.

The hundredth life difficulty: Space pirates arrive and massacre the Blue Star civilization! Please survive the massacre and complete revenge within one year. (Possess a real body)

This layer of illusion was the only future-like illusion!

When the terrifying space pirates appeared! The strength of the space pirates exceeded the limits of the Blue Star civilization's resistance.

The space pirates wantonly massacred, leaving no one alive!

Countless people of the entire civilization died. Even though Xu Jingming possessed a seventh-order Starry Sky lifeform body and possessed many high-tech weapons and equipment of Blue Star, he still felt despair.

In the end, Xu Jingming tried the last hundredth illusion a full eight times, and succeeded on the eighth time.

"Congratulations on passing the hundred kinds of life's difficulties, but reality is unknown, there is no chance to start over, so the best way to solve life's difficulties is not to let yourself fall into difficulties." A voice echoed in his mind, the last illusion dissipated, and Xu Jingming looked up. Then, with one step, he leaped upwards.

Xu Jingming stood on the top of the black pyramid, looking at the miniature wormhole at the top, but he was not surprised.

A hundred kinds of life's difficulties, more than a hundred days had passed in reality, and the time experienced in the illusion was even more than a century. During this century, he had been an ordinary programmer, a small soldier in a chaotic world, a beggar, a bodyguard, an assassin, a shopkeeper, a fortune teller, a lame man, a blind man, a terminally ill old man with only one year to live, a hostage, the ruler of a small country, a great general who dominated the court, a tribal leader, a primitive man, different characters in different periods, different life difficulties.

If the previous eighteen days of learning were the accumulation of knowledge and the improvement of logical thinking, then the "over a century of years" of the hundred kinds of life difficulties was a baptism for Xu Jingming's soul!

In this baptism, Xu Jingming was truly reborn!

Even most of those Starry Sky lifeforms who had lived for thousands of years did not have lives as complex and dangerous as the 'hundred kinds of life difficulties'.

"The seven planets of this mysterious land, perhaps the greatest help to me, is not being recruited by a certain force, but the trials in this process," Xu Jingming said silently. The more trials he went through, the greater his gains.

The trial of the neutron star allowed him to comprehend the Streamer spear technique.

The hundred kinds of life trials were even more of a baptism of the soul.

"Seventh planet." Xu Jingming looked at the miniature wormhole in front of him.

At this moment, in the observation space.

Whether it was the 352 regional forces in the lower layer or the seventeen top forces in the upper layer, they all looked at Xu Jingming!