Chapter 1 Glimpse

Xu Jingming overlooked the entire subsidiary universe from a high-dimensional space, taking in its entirety with a single glance.

The entire subsidiary universe resembled a broken flatbread, clearly a fragmented remnant after being torn apart.

He estimated its maximum diameter to be about 10.1 light-years. The most conspicuous feature of the entire subsidiary universe was a super-large palace at its core. This palace was immense, an architectural feat unlikely to exist within a normal universe.

Its maximum diameter exceeded six light-years, and its height surpassed three light-years. Such a super-large palace was simply unbelievable, but understandable considering its connection to high-dimensional life.

Beside the main entrance of the palace stood two black giant fruit trees, each bearing a single fruit.

"These two fruit trees?" Xu Jingming was somewhat bewildered.

"The outer Flame Fruit Trees were already tens of thousands of kilometers tall, which I thought was very high. But the two black giant fruit trees in front of the palace are estimated to be 1.8 light-years tall. The difference is too outrageous, and each black fruit tree only has one fruit."

Xu Jingming looked at the black fruits, each larger than an ordinary star. The surfaces of these black fruits seemed alive, with patterns slowly flowing. Xu Jingming couldn't help but feel an intense desire to devour them.

He had a feeling that swallowing them would lead to a tremendous transformation.

"Master, these fruits are for high-dimensional life forms," said Xiaojiu in amazement. "Even with the Yuan Chu Research Institute and the three most powerful forces, it would be impossible to exchange for treasures like these."

"Only for high-dimensional life forms?" Xu Jingming asked.

"Yes," Xiaojiu said. "It's in a low dimension, and we're in a high dimension, yet I can still sense its aura. This is a bit incredible. The only explanation is that these two fruit trees are high-dimensional fruit trees, so they appear so massive in a low dimension."

"Everything in high-dimensional space will appear enormous when unfolded in a low dimension," Xiaojiu explained.

Xu Jingming understood.

The previous Cosmic Fruit Tree, although considered a cosmic treasure, was not a high-dimensional fruit tree, so it was only tens of thousands of kilometers tall.

"To be able to form high-dimensional fruit trees within an internal universe, I'm even more curious about the identity of this subsidiary universe's creator," Xiaojiu said.

Xu Jingming nodded. He carefully observed the two black giant fruit trees. Each tree trunk had a large snake coiled around it. Even viewing from a high dimension, Xu Jingming felt fear when he saw the snakes.

"Each of these giant trees has a large snake guarding it. Based on observation, these two snakes are probably stronger than the giant ape," Xu Jingming said.

Around the outermost part of the entire palace stood rows of stone pillars.

Each stone pillar was covered in patterns, but now some of the stone pillars were broken and fallen.

Of the thirty-six stone pillars, nine were broken and fallen. This was, after all, a subsidiary universe formed after the death of a high-dimensional life form.

Xu Jingming understood this point. This subsidiary universe was only a very small part of the vast internal universe.

Giant palace, two high-dimensional fruit trees, and thirty-six surrounding stone pillars. Further out were three fiery-red worlds. Each fiery-red world had erupting volcanoes, the lava illuminating the sky. Each world had six Cosmic Trees with black-red fruits hanging from their branches.

"So the entire subsidiary universe has a total of 18 Cosmic Fruit Trees and two high-dimensional fruit trees," Xu Jingming realized. He hadn't seen the full picture before.

"Without a doubt, everything revolves around that palace," Xu Jingming said, looking at the towering palace. "What's inside the palace? I'm clearly viewing it from a high dimension, but I can't see what's inside."

The palace interior was shrouded in a hazy gray.

Xu Jingming tried hard to peer into it, even allowing a trace of Yuan Chu battle armor power to descend from the high dimension, hoping to get a closer look at the palace.

"Who's spying?"

Deep within the palace, a pair of eyes opened. As they opened, they looked towards the high-dimensional space and saw Xu Jingming! Xu Jingming also saw these eyes from the high dimension.

They were a pair of ancient, indifferent golden eyes.

At the same time, the voice "Who's spying?" exploded directly in Xu Jingming's mind. Even after passing through the Ninth Yuan Chu battle armor's obstruction and weakening, even though Xu Jingming was already a tenth-order original life form with a mind power of 10, he still clutched his head in pain in the face of the weakened voice.

His mind power became unstable, and he fell directly from the high-dimensional space.

"A little fellow?"

The eyes within the palace watched Xu Jingming fall, but a hint of reminiscence appeared in those high-dimensional eyes.

"A long time ago, I was weaker than this little fellow. Those were good times..."

"Back then, even eternal-realm high-dimensional life forms were swallowed into the master's internal universe and killed. And now, a little fellow who isn't even a high-dimensional life form can enter the master's universe?"

"Of the three thousand holy envoys, how many are still alive?"

"Master, I have been chanting your name, calling for your return. When will you return?"

"Three abyss epochs have passed. I can hardly wait any longer. Sanan really wants to see you, Master."

The eyes silently closed.

They continued to chant the master's name, again and again, until the end of life.

Xu Jingming fell from the high dimension to the edge of the fiery-red world. It took him a long while to recover and stabilize his consciousness.

"What happened?"

Xu Jingming couldn't believe it. "I was just glanced at by a pair of eyes in the palace, and I fell from the high dimension with just a single sentence?"

"What a powerful universe spirit," Xiaojiu said, also a bit nervous. "Master, the universe spirit in that palace is too terrifying."

"Xiaojiu, didn't you say that the universe spirit of a subsidiary universe is inferior to a cosmic legend?" Xu Jingming asked. "Why do I feel that this universe spirit far surpasses the Moyou Monarch and Senior Brother Sang, and should be no less than a cosmic legend!"

"Master, universe spirits can wield very powerful high-dimensional forces. These high-dimensional forces generally originate from the master of the internal universe! Although universe spirits can wield them, they are somewhat different compared to cosmic legends who have mastered high-dimensional forces themselves."

Xiaojiu explained, "It's just that some universe spirits can unleash terrifying power."

"Like the Moyou Monarch, he wields the power of nightmare, which only originates from an initial-realm high-dimensional life form. But the most terrifying universe spirit in a subsidiary universe can borrow a trace of an eternal-realm high-dimensional life form's power. Even a trace is very scary," Xiaojiu explained.

Xu Jingming understood.

"Borrowing the power of an eternal-realm high-dimensional life form... its power might be more terrifying than a cosmic legend. But cosmic legends perfectly control their own power, and with more time spent finding the opponent's weaknesses, there is still hope of defeating them."

"But Master, the universe spirit in this palace should be one of the most terrifying kinds in my records. Before your mind reaches a high dimension, it's best to stay far away from the palace."

"I think you shouldn't go in unless you become a cosmic legend," Xu Jingming said. He just felt it was too dangerous.

He felt that the threat from those ancient, indifferent, light-golden eyes was even more terrifying than Vice President Chih Meng!

Of course, it could also be an illusion.

After all, Vice President Chih Meng was his friend and hadn't shown his terrifying side.

"In any case, don't go in," Xu Jingming thought.

That pair of eyes glanced at him.

Xu Jingming also understood what the other party meant. It was a warning, warning Xu Jingming to stay away from the palace.

"I'll just harvest the Cosmic Fruits," Xu Jingming said. He didn't enter the high dimension again. He looked remotely at the fiery-red world, looking at the six Cosmic Fruit Trees.

Swoosh!

Xu Jingming instantly moved to a spot near a Cosmic Fruit Tree. He stretched out his left hand, and beams of light severed the stems, harvesting all nineteen fruits and storing them in the Yuan Chu battle armor's space.

After reaching the tenth order, he could mobilize most of the Yuan Chu battle armor's power. Any casual move could reach the tenth-order limit. This was much stronger than using the Yuan Chu battle armor's threads to cut, as the threads relied on their special material.

What took time to describe, actually happened in an instant. The fruits of one Cosmic Fruit Tree were completely harvested.

Xu Jingming instantly moved to another Cosmic Fruit Tree.

At this moment, the ground in the fiery-red world rolled, and one towering figure after another crawled out. Even super-long arms stretched out towards Xu Jingming.

Six towering Flame Apes, their entire bodies covered in burning fur, and their eyes filled with anger, had the mission of taking care of the fruit trees and protecting the fruits. Xu Jingming's harvesting naturally aroused their hostility.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Their arms swung wildly and violently.

But Xu Jingming's instant movement had reached an astonishing level. In even the most chaotic spacetime environment, as long as there was no high-dimensional power hindering him, Xu Jingming could forcibly teleport.

"Without high-dimensional power, you can't stop my instant movement," Xu Jingming thought. He instantly moved to a fruit tree, reached out, and swoosh! More than ten beams of light severed the fruits before he directly stored them in the Yuan Chu battle armor's subsidiary space.

The six towering apes roared in anger.

"Damn it."

"Fruit thief."

"Don't run."

They were very angry, but when they swung their arms to grab Xu Jingming, they had to restrain their power as they approached the fruit trees, lest they harm the trees.

Their purpose was to take care of the fruit trees and protect the fruits.

In terms of importance, the fruit trees were more important! So no matter how angry they were, they didn't dare to damage these Cosmic Fruit Trees in the slightest.

"Fruit thief!"

The six apes roared thunderously.

But no matter how fast they were, it was useless in the face of Xu Jingming's instant movement.

In the blink of an eye, Xu Jingming had harvested the fruits of all six fruit trees.

Huff.

With another instant movement, he completely left this fiery-red world.

"Fruit thief!" The six apes angrily searched the ground for the fruit thief, but couldn't find him. Each of them carefully observed the Cosmic Fruit Trees and guided the power of flames into the fruit trees.

After that, they sank into the ground again to silently guard.

Xu Jingming watched the six apes fall into slumber in high-dimensional space before sighing, "The universe spirits are really loyal enough, but their use of power is indeed crude. With my improved instant movement, they can't even touch me."

"I told you, universe spirits generally have weaknesses," Xiaojiu said. "But you have to avoid the one in the palace. After all, you can't withstand even a glance from it."

"Yes, I'll take the fruits from the other two flame worlds first."

The entire subsidiary universe had a total of three flame worlds.

Each flame world had six Cosmic Fruit Trees and six guarding Flame Apes. Xu Jingming naturally teleported as usual to harvest the fruits, making those Flame Apes angrily chase after the fruit thief.

However, they couldn't catch up and didn't dare to damage the fruit trees in the slightest.

Amidst the angry roars of the Flame Apes, the fruits of all 18 Cosmic Fruit Trees in the three flame worlds were quickly harvested, totaling 291 fruits.

These Cosmic Fruits were useful even to Vice President Chih Meng.

"Master, you also cultivate in the Yuan Chu Star lineage. You have to keep more for yourself. Considering the growth rate of Cosmic Fruits, who knows whether the next batch will grow up in a million years or ten million years."

Xiaojiu said, "Once these fruits are eaten, they're gone. You have to save them."

Xu Jingming also understood.

The human race in the cosmos had never discovered these fruits before. They were clearly some kind of unknown Cosmic Fruit.

Once they were eaten, they would be gone.

The next batch in a million years or even ten million years? Without becoming a high-dimensional life form, one simply couldn't wait for the next batch.

Once one became a high-dimensional life form, the usefulness of Cosmic Fruits would be negligible.

Now that the Cosmic Fruits were harvested, he could explore the patterned stone pillars.

Xu Jingming had sensed the special nature of the patterned stone pillars when viewing them from a high dimension earlier.