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

"Any results?" Xu Jingming pressed.

"I talked to her half a year ago, 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's dating... isn't in the Blood Rain World. It should be in another virtual world."

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

"No."

Li Miaomiao shook her head. "I think... we should both have a formal talk with her together. She should tell us."

Xu Jingming thought for a moment, then nodded. "Then let's have a good talk 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' beside her. "Auntie Xiao Wu, your cooking is getting better and better."

"Thank you for your praise," Xiao Wu said with a smile. Her intelligent core had been updated, and her intelligence had also increased a lot.

"Mom and Dad, why are you eating so slowly? I'm almost finished." 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?"

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

Xu Lixing was stunned.

"If you are, you are. If you aren't, you aren't." Xu Jingming looked at his daughter. "Your mother and I are just trying to understand."

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

"Sort of?" Li Miaomiao asked, puzzled. "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. "Starry sky life is very long. Ordinary starry sky 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 spend more time getting to know each other in the virtual world."

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

Which was fine too!

"Your father and I, back then, got together with marriage in mind. You're not in a hurry at all," Li Miaomiao said with a smile.

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

"It's good as long as you're not blindly following the trend," 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 will be real feelings. You can try to understand the situation in reality."

"Because the virtual world can create many illusions. Even appearances can be fake," Xu Jingming said. "If you invest too much emotion, and then you find out the reality and get hit hard, the damage might be great."

After all, this was her daughter's first relationship, so he still had to prevent her from investing too much emotion. Being together for half a year was naturally different from being together for ten years.

Xu Lixing listened and was thoughtful. "Well, I understand."

"In the universe, there are countless civilizations, and countless kinds of people," Xu Jingming said. "Some people even deliberately create all kinds of illusions in the virtual world just to deceive others. Some people deliberately play with other people's feelings and manipulate their minds in order to practice humanities subjects. In short, there are all kinds of scum!"

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

"Don't easily trust everything in the virtual world too much," Xu Jingming reminded. "Because in reality, it might be completely the opposite."

"Dad, don't worry, Blue Star civilization has already popularized these things," Xu Lixing said with a chuckle. "Our generation has been in contact with the virtual world since we were little."

Xu Lixing also had some thoughts in her heart.

What her parents said was right. She should understand the other person's real situation before deciding whether to continue.

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

This was also the most worrying situation for many people who were dating in the virtual world.

Virtual World Network, personal space.

"Lost again." Xu Jingming looked at the replay of the battle video. He lost more than he won. He was used to losing in cross-cosmic domain battles.

"Looking at the battle replay, my footwork is superior, and my spear techniques are no less profound than my opponent's. The only problem... is that the power is weaker. My moves can be easily blocked by the opponent. The opponent's moves, however, are very difficult for me to resist." Xu Jingming frowned and looked at the video. "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, many people in the Cosmic Professional Player competition are stronger than me." Xu Jingming waved his hand and selected nine battle replays.

They were videos of battles with nine different experts.

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

He quickly clicked.

Immediately, books appeared in front of him. There were books on the *Light* chapter, as well as supporting materials. The Yuanchu Research Institute's database had a massive amount of precious content that was free to read. Of course, Xu Jingming couldn't copy, record, or transmit it to others. This was only for his personal reading.

Xu Jingming's brain worked extremely fast, flipping through one book after another.

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

Yuanchu Star was a great celestial body in a high-dimensional space and had all kinds of incredible characteristics. *Yuanchu Star Conjecture*, ranked among the three strongest inheritances of the human race in the universe, was only the Dean's conjecture, and Yuanchu Star had not been thoroughly studied.

Yuanchu Star's light had a characteristic.

The innermost layer of light seemed very weak.

However, when the inner layer of light propagated, it seemed to experience the folding of space-time. 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, Yuanchu Star's light naturally assimilates other energies into light. One can be assimilated into a hundred, a hundred assimilated into... growing stronger and stronger, until endless light."

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

In fact, in the mysterious place, Xu Jingming had a certain understanding of 'endless light', but at that time, his understanding was very rough and shallow. Now, however, there had been a qualitative change.

"Perhaps, I can try it."

After all, Xu Jingming was standing on the Dean's shoulders, comprehending the *Light* chapter 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, turning into a starry sky.

Xu Jingming stood in the starry sky, his whole body turning into energy, turning into a light person. Light flowed on the surface of his body, and Xu Jingming used his majestic body energy to leverage the cosmic power from the outside world 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. He even moved his mind, and these energies turned into a robe that was draped over his body. With the robe draped over his body, his own power became more and more massive, 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 master the power of nine. Then continue to increase, twenty-seven, eighty-one, two hundred and forty-three, seven hundred and twenty-nine, two thousand one hundred and eighty-seven... In theory, it can be increased infinitely."

"Although my mode of improvement is not as fast as Yuanchu Star's, not as vast as Yuanchu Star's, it is indeed constantly improving."

"The only thing that limits the improvement is my mental strength?" Xu Jingming felt that as he wore the gorgeous robe of light, the power he swept up began to overflow and spread around him.

"My mental strength can't perfectly control these forces, and even more so, it can't continue to expand. It must be perfectly controlled before it can continue to be leveraged. Once it starts to overflow, this model can't be carried out."

"I seem to have touched the essence of the *Light* chapter's endless light," Xu Jingming felt a fire in his heart.

The *Light* chapter contained many branches. The speed branch could reach the speed of light! This branch also led to the Supreme Realm.

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

To really possess 'endless energy', it was too difficult, too difficult.

Xu Jingming then continued to try, improving the light robe model, hoping to master more energy through it. He experimented for a long time before stopping excitedly.

"Try the visualization technique. I feel that my understanding of Yuanchu Star is already different." Xu Jingming immediately logged off.

In reality, in the training room.

Xu Jingming sat cross-legged, visualizing Yuanchu Star.

After years of cultivation, Xu Jingming had already pushed the *Light Chapter Visualization Technique* to the seventh level, and it was precisely because of this that his mental strength was able to grow to its current state.

"Yuanchu Star's light, rapidly expanding mode—according to my current understanding, 'one becomes three, three becomes nine, nine becomes twenty-seven, and so on'—is more stable."

Xu Jingming visualized Yuanchu Star. Because his understanding was deeper and he knew some of the principles of the evolution, the countless rays of light he visualized were more real and clearer.

Countless rays of light were visualized, vast and majestic.

Layers of light seemed to propagate from the deepest part of time and space. Each layer was expanding, rapidly expanding, until it was endless! Illuminating everything!

It was the most magnificent celestial body known to humanity in the universe! The most incredible celestial body.

"*Boom!*"

When he visualized it, Xu Jingming only felt his whole body burning, his heart burning.

The visualized Yuanchu Star was scorching Xu Jingming's body, scorching Xu Jingming's consciousness, changing him, influencing him.

"I've reached the eighth level of the *Light Chapter Visualization Technique*?" Xu Jingming was overjoyed. Although compared to powerful source lifeforms, his visualization achievements were not worth mentioning.

But after all, he was a starry sky lifeform, and it was still very rare to be able to reach the eighth level of visualization.

Moreover, the seventh level of visualization had the potential to 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 visualizing the eighth level, and the improvement is the most obvious. Perhaps, I have already broken through 10,000 points at this moment?"