Chapter 18 The Vastness of the Universe

Personal space.

Di Yano walked out of the void, smiling, "Xu Jingming, you haven't contacted me in over a hundred years... huh?"

Looking at the person before him, Di Yano's heart trembled.

Although Xu Jingming's appearance hadn't changed, he was wearing a pitch-black robe. Even in the virtual world, the intangible aura made Di Yano's heart pound! In the past few hundred years, Di Yano had seen all kinds of people.

Bloodthirsty space pirates, grand slave owners, and some existences with twisted minds among the Originlife realm beings.

But none of them were as terrifying as Xu Jingming.

Xu Jingming's aura was so dark and mad, as if it would drown all reason.

"Xu Jingming, what's wrong?" Di Yano asked with some concern. "Is it because of high-dimensional contamination?"

He was very familiar with Xu Jingming.

Having been responsible for guarding the weak, newly advanced civilization "Blue Star Civilization," he had arrived when Xu Jingming hadn't even been born!

So, in his monitoring records, Di Yano clearly knew every stage of Xu Jingming's growth, from infancy, childhood, adolescence, and youth. He was familiar with every step of Xu Jingming's growth.

Xu Jingming's entry into the Blood Rain World, passing the selection in the mysterious land, and ultimately entering the Yuanchu Research Institute, was also due to Di Yano's guidance.

Only in the past hundred years or so, due to high-dimensional contamination, had Xu Jingming temporarily cut off contact with his friends. Before that, Xu Jingming had always maintained contact with Di Yano.

"Yes." Xu Jingming nodded with a smile. "The influence of high-dimensional contamination is very thorough."

"Have you sought help from the Supreme realm?" Di Yano asked. "Or, should I ask my father?"

"The院长 (yuanzhang, dean) and the other two have all tried." Xu Jingming shook his head. "There's no way."

"Then..." Di Yano also felt a headache.

Xu Jingming smiled. "Don't worry about me. High-dimensional contamination seems terrible, but as long as you master this contaminated high-dimensional power, there's no need to worry."

"You definitely know more about the path of evolution than I do." Di Yano nodded. "If there's anything you need my help with, just let me know."

"Okay."

Xu Jingming smiled. "I just wanted to chat with you this time. How have you been lately?"

"Me?" Di Yano laughed. "Still the same old temper. I can't stand what I can't stand, and I'll act when I should. So, I've caused a lot of trouble! Alas, although I knew the competition between countless civilizations in the universe's human race was cruel, and there was a lot of darkness within, I can't help myself when I actually experience it!"

Xu Jingming nodded. "There are countless humans in the universe's human race. There are excellent talents, and naturally, there are scumbags."

"Yes, scumbags. That's why I, the cleaner, am needed to clean up this trash." Di Yano's eyes flashed with coldness, and then he laughed. "A few times, I caused big trouble and it reached my father! Although my father scolded me, he didn't stop me. Haha."

Di Yano raised his glass. "I understand what my father means. Not stopping me means he approves of what I'm doing."

Xu Jingming nodded.

Vice院长 (fuyuanzhang, vice-dean) Chih Meng, as the strongest Cosmic Legend of the universe's human race alliance, was in charge of the Yuanchu Research Institute! He also held a high position in the headquarters of the universe's human alliance. Therefore, if Di Yano made a big mistake that reached the highest level, Chih Meng would be responsible for handling it. "However, you also need to be careful," Xu Jingming said. "Although Vice-院长 (fuyuanzhang, vice-dean) Chih Meng is powerful, he doesn't have absolute power in the universe's human alliance. You still need to consider the consequences of your actions."

"If the consequences are within my tolerance, I can act."

"If it's beyond your tolerance... if you really want to do it, you can come to me." Xu Jingming grinned. "I'm contaminated by high dimensions. It's understandable if I'm occasionally insane."

Di Yano glared. "Xu Jingming, you've changed."

"People always change," Xu Jingming said.

Di Yano smiled, but he felt a faint sense of foreboding in his heart.

To punish Di Yano, the higher-ups of the universe's human alliance could decide with a discussion.

But to punish Xu Jingming, it had to be decided by the院长 (yuanzhang, dean) and others! The simultaneous descent of the three Supreme realm beings to save Xu Jingming represented their attitude.

"If Xu Jingming controls the extent of his 'madness,' it's likely that even the internal affairs of the universe's human alliance will have difficulty restraining him. And the universe's human alliance won't bother the three Supreme realm beings unless it's serious to a certain extent." Di Yano was well aware of this.

The three Supreme realm beings were unwilling to be disturbed.

It was already rare for consciousness avatars to descend!

So, Xu Jingming wouldn't reach the level of the three Supreme realm beings unless he went crazy to a certain extent!

The last time Secretary-General Hei Tian warned Xu Jingming was also out of concern that Xu Jingming would cause the "Shadow of the Void Abyss" to descend into reality, annihilating all life within a dozen light-years. Such large-scale slaughter, if done repeatedly, would mean that Xu Jingming was completely out of control and would definitely be intolerable.

After drinking and chatting with Xu Jingming, Di Yano left. After leaving, he returned to his personal space.

"Father." Di Yano directly contacted his father, Chih Meng.

The corpulent Chih Meng looked at his son with a smile. Although his son often caused trouble and made messes these years, Chih Meng was very satisfied, and even tacitly approved of his son's behavior! Because he felt that there was indeed some trash within the universe's human race that needed to be cleaned up, but from a legal perspective, there were no loopholes to exploit. His son's barbaric behavior was more effective.

He tacitly approved.

Some major forces in the universe also understood that Chih Meng tacitly approved of his son's behavior.

"I met Xu Jingming," Di Yano said.

"You met him?" Chih Meng frowned slightly.

"It was a meeting in the virtual world," Di Yano added immediately.

Chih Meng relaxed.

Contaminated by the Third Realm's high-dimensional power, Chih Meng couldn't completely trust Xu Jingming.

"I felt that he had changed a lot," Di Yano said worriedly. "Although he seemed very sober and still treated me as a friend, he said... that if I encountered trouble that I couldn't solve, he could occasionally go mad to help me."

"I'm very worried about his state," Di Yano said worriedly. "I watched him grow up, and his character was excellent, but now..."

"Don't worry."

Chih Meng smiled. "Being able to know how to use 'occasional madness' to do things shows that he is very calm and rational."

"Very calm? Very rational?" Di Yano asked in confusion.

"He's using even madness, of course he's calm," Chih Meng said. "Rest assured, the Yuanchu Research Institute, and even the Space-Time Isolated Island and the Eternal Academy Tower, all three of us have been watching Xu Jingming. At least for now, his condition is pretty good."

"Pretty good?" Di Yano blinked. "You call this pretty good? I really don't understand the thoughts of you big shots."

"It's much better than we expected. He's already entered the door in terms of high-dimensional contamination power in just over a hundred years," Chih Meng said. "However, you must not meet him in reality, because he will become even more dangerous in the days to come."

"More dangerous?" Di Yano was shocked.

Chih Meng nodded slightly.

After all, he was in charge of the entire Yuanchu Research Institute, and Secretary-General Hei Tian would also tell him everything he knew, allowing him to understand that Xu Jingming was carrying out the "Imitation Method," and the Imitation Method became increasingly dangerous in the later stages.

"Is there any way to help him?" Di Yano pressed.

"Being contaminated by high dimensions, he must walk out on his own. No one can help," Chih Meng said. "In short, never meet him in reality."

Di Yano nodded slightly. He was worried about his friend but was powerless to help.

There were many things he was powerless to do these years. Just like in the countless civilizations of the universe's human alliance, he could walk sideways, but there were also many things he couldn't stand that he couldn't change.

...

A restaurant in the Demon Subduing World. Xu Jingming was drinking alone.

"Outside Blue Star, there are very few people who have had a profound impact on me," Xu Jingming looked out the window. "Di Yano is one, and the next is Uncle Qi."

That year, Xu Jingming was still very young, only 32 years old.

He chose to temper his mind and will and came to the Demon Subduing World! Here, he met Wu Qi.

In the following ten years, Xu Jingming and Uncle Qi, this master and servant, spent day and night together. The depth of emotion formed by spending more than ten years together... could already be considered family.

Even with his parents and wife, how long had Xu Jingming spent day and night together?

"Huff."

A figure appeared from the void, a man in a gray robe, sitting opposite Xu Jingming with a smile. "Brother Jingming."

"Brother Ke Yu." Xu Jingming nodded. "Thank you for everything these years."

"Brother Jingming, you asked me to take care of Wu Qi, so I naturally had to put in some effort." The gray-robed man said with a smile, "Wu Qi has been quite smooth for the past five hundred years. Only in recent years has he encountered some trouble. I couldn't hold it back, so I took the opportunity to punish him a little, demoting them to a prison planet, responsible for guarding the planet's prison."

"I said, even if Uncle Qi has ups and downs and encounters some things, it's not a big deal. As long as you help me protect him at key moments, that's enough," Xu Jingming said.

You can't ask too much of someone you ask for help.

It's normal for a person's life to have ups and downs! Xu Jingming only needed Brother Ke Yu to help ensure that Uncle Qi didn't completely fall.

"I'm ashamed." Ke Yu shook his head.

"Brother Ke Yu, with your status, and you're also the person in charge of the Demon Subduing Group. Are there still things within the Demon Subduing Group that you can't hold back?" Xu Jingming asked curiously.

Ke Yu shook his head. "Brother Jingming, I'm just a ninth-order Originlife realm being. Although I'm responsible for managing the Demon Subduing Group, the trouble Wu Qi encountered was beyond the Demon Subduing Group's jurisdiction. According to the Qingfang civilization, many people were to be executed. Even Wu Qi, who was only involved, was originally going to be imprisoned! I came forward, and the Qingfang civilization finally let them go, giving them a small punishment. Wu Qi still needs to be demoted."

"Uncle Qi has cultivated to the eighth-order Starspace lifeform realm. He was only involved, and he's going to be imprisoned?" Xu Jingming asked in confusion. "What trouble did he cause?"

"Wu Qi is still very good. His character and work ethic are impeccable," Ke Yu said. "I also admire him very much. Strictly speaking, he was implicated this time."

Xu Jingming listened.

He wanted to understand Uncle Qi's affairs before seeing him.

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