Chapter 1 Exploring the Ruins

Xu Jingming began a comprehensive exploration of the small territory's ruins, following the structure of the ruins and quickly finding its core.

It was a drop of liquid radiating a strange luster.

It just floated there.

"Buzz." The moment Xu Jingming sensed it, it triggered a change in it.

The surrounding scene changed, becoming magnificent. And next to that drop of liquid stood a child with a small unicorn on his head. He wore a light red cloak, his little face full of worry.

"I might be dying too," the cloaked child said in a low voice, while looking in one direction from afar. Suddenly, despair appeared in his eyes, and he cried out shrilly, "Father, Mother! No..."

The cloaked child looked at Xu Jingming urgently and said, "My name is Liu Yufeng. My father is called Liu Mangxing, and my mother is called Chiyan Shen."

After saying his name, he paused slightly.

"You're not rushing to kill me?"

The cloaked child's eyes held sarcasm and hatred, and then he looked in Xu Jingming's direction, "I believe you have guessed that my parents and I were just hunted down by a great enemy. My father, Liu Mangxing, cultivated step by step from a low-dimensional life to become a 'Half-Step Third Realm.' As a Half-Step Third Realm of the Heart Realm lineage, his fame spread far and wide. My mother, Chiyan Shen, was born a high-dimensional life, and she also reached the peak of the Eternal Realm."

"The two of them had me," the cloaked child said, "I was born a high-dimensional life, and I could enter the Heart Realm as soon as I was born."

"I am still very young now. According to my father, I am still in the 'early childhood' stage, far from adulthood," the cloaked child said, "My father and mother both dote on me very much and wholeheartedly protect my growth..."

"In the high-dimensional space, our family of three ventured together into dangerous places and saw countless landscapes," the cloaked child said, "A place that is terribly dangerous to other high-dimensional lives is not dangerous to me at all. With my father around, we have never encountered any danger."

Xu Jingming listened.

A Heart Realm lineage Half-Step Third Realm could return to his territory with a single thought. His ability to save his life was terrifyingly strong.

"However, an old enemy of my father broke through," the cloaked child had just said, "That old enemy broke through to the Third Realm."

Xu Jingming was shocked.

A Third Realm enemy?

"Even though my father has mastered six Half-Step Third Realm techniques and has been unmatched for many years, his old enemy broke through to the Third Realm... there was no way to resist," the cloaked child said, "Just now, I sensed that my father and mother are dead."

"My father sent me away at the first moment, isolating all my karma," the cloaked child murmured, "Father and Mother hope that I can live on."

"But... will that Third Realm let me go?" the cloaked child said, "And without Father and Mother, the world is really meaningless."

The cloaked child looked at Xu Jingming.

"After all, I am still young, and my father and mother did not give me too many treasures. They only gave me some interesting things to play with. The only thing that can be considered precious is a legacy used to build a foundation," the cloaked child said, "This foundation-building legacy is called *Bafang Tu* (Eight Direction Diagram), and it originated from the Third Realm existence Yu Huo Jun."

Yu Huo Jun?

Xu Jingming immediately thought of Gu Jinshi, who had lived for 150 Abyss epochs and had received guidance from two Third Realm existences.

One of them was Yu Huo Jun!

Yu Huo Jun was very willing to teach the younger generation, and he hoped that the weak could grow.

"My father said that Yu Huo Jun is very benevolent," the cloaked child said, "Yu Huo Jun considered why countless high-dimensional lives could not become the Third Realm. In the end, he believed that weak high-dimensional lives had too many shortcomings in their foundations. So Yu Huo Jun spent a lot of energy creating three thousand legacies."

"These three thousand legacies are all basic legacies, in order to give high-dimensional lives a more solid foundation. According to Yu Huo Jun's view of cultivating his legacy... the hope of becoming the Third Realm can also be greater."

"Each of the three thousand legacies has ten original copies! Yu Huo Jun spread them out, which also caused high-dimensional lives to compete for them."

"My father..."

"Unmatched below the Third Realm, he also won a legacy. My father was already a Half-Step Third Realm, and this legacy helped him a lot... My father later gave this original legacy to me."

"And now, I will give this original legacy to you."

"I am just a nascent realm, so I will not leave any tests. The original legacy of *Bafang Tu* and some of my playthings are hidden in the tree hole of this ancient tree."

The cloaked child pointed to the ancient tree not far away.

"Buzz."

The cloaked child suddenly had madness and unwillingness in his eyes, and his body immediately became much more illusory.

"I am dead, this is the remaining territory spirit," the illusory cloaked child looked at Xu Jingming, "That Third Realm still killed me after all. Actually, I have no attachment to this world."

"The only thing I am attached to is my father, my mother."

The cloaked child looked at Xu Jingming, with tears in his eyes, "I know that the hope of becoming the Third Realm is very, very slim, but, if... if you can really become the Third Realm and plan to resurrect me, please resurrect me and my parents together."

"If you are afraid of that Third Realm enemy and are unwilling to resurrect my parents, then there is no need to resurrect me."

"Just let me stay with my parents in the land of death."

"Father, Mother... I miss you so much!"

The cloaked child murmured, and the illusory figure also dissipated, and the entire illusion of heaven and earth disappeared.

Only the broken small territory ruins remained.

Xu Jingming sighed softly.

A high-dimensional life born with talent, still in the 'early childhood' stage, and completely dependent on his parents, encountered such a disaster.

His father was terrifyingly powerful, probably even more so than Gu Mo and Menhaddo! After all, he had mastered six Half-Step Third Realm techniques. The combination of the six techniques was likely to suppress Gu Jinshi.

He took his wife and children to stroll through some dangerous places.

At this point, there was no danger.

Who would have thought that an enemy of his would become the Third Realm!

"He is too powerful. The great enemy who can survive in front of him is probably not weak," Xu Jingming thought, "So even if you are invincible, you still need to be cautious and not make too many enemies."

Xu Jingming walked towards the ancient tree.

"I wonder if the original legacy and some treasures left by this child Liu Yufeng are still there." After passing through the previous eight territory ruins, Xu Jingming had already cultivated a normal state of mind.

It was normal not to get treasures in the territory ruins.

Getting treasures was a small probability event.

Being able to listen to some explanations from the 'owner of the ruins' across the long years was already a gain. Of course, this cloaked child Liu Yufeng was too young and had too little accumulation, so he did not explain the secrets of the evolutionary path.

Like those Eternal Realm existences, they would generally explain some of their own proficient moves, in order to help later generations, form a cause and effect, and increase a little hope of resurrection.

"Ancient tree."

Xu Jingming saw the ancient tree.

In the illusion, the ancient tree was towering, lush and verdant.

But the ancient tree in the ruins was dilapidated. It had no leaves anymore, and the dry, huge branches stubbornly pierced in all directions. The bark on the surface of the main trunk was also dry and shriveled.

"Hmm?" Xu Jingming sensed it and found the location of the tree hole.

The location of the tree hole was sealed and protected by the power of the Heart Realm.

"What, no life has been here? The treasure is still here?" Xu Jingming was overjoyed.

The previous eight territory ruins were all empty! Xu Jingming had become accustomed to it.

Suddenly encountering a 'not empty' one, Xu Jingming only felt extremely surprised.

"Is it because this high-dimensional life child died relatively recently? That's why I was the first to discover it. Or is it because his territory ruins are too small, and the probability of being discovered is much lower?" Xu Jingming secretly speculated.

He himself used the territory as the center and searched like a carpet.

Originally, he 'roughly' screened everything, but he failed to screen this territory ruins.

It was still a 'subtle' screening that finally screened it.

Without accurate coordinates, it was indeed very difficult for other high-dimensional lives in the Heart Realm to discover a 'small territory ruins.'

"Little one, it seems you and I are destined." Xu Jingming smiled and stepped forward, reaching out and gently touching it.

Boom!

The moment he touched the hole, the seal and protection naturally dissipated.

Liu Yufeng did not intend to set up any tests, after all, he was too weak and knew too little. Those who could enter the Heart Realm were generally those who could become Eternal Realm. Eternal Realm experts could completely forcibly break through his obstruction, so what was the point of him setting up a test?

"This is?"

Xu Jingming saw it.

There were two items in the tree hole. One was a thin book, with strange characters on the surface. He did not recognize the characters, but Xu Jingming naturally felt the information conveyed - *Bafang Tu*. The other item was a folded animal skin.

"This is what that little one called interesting playthings?" Xu Jingming looked at the animal skin in confusion.

That cloaked child, although he was a high-dimensional life, was still in the early stages of childhood. His 'mind' was still very weak. Xu Jingming estimated... in terms of mental age, the cloaked child was probably not even as old as a normal hundred-year-old human.

To Xu Jingming, who had experienced all kinds of mental tribulations, he was indeed a little one.

"Playthings?"

Xu Jingming reached out and picked up the animal skin.

He unfolded it.

The animal skin had doodled patterns of strange beasts, which were very ugly and had no use, but the animal skin contained a section of high-dimensional space.

"This is?" Xu Jingming sensed it, "This animal skin contains a section of high-dimensional space. Within this section of high-dimensional space, there are twenty small universes forming a game formation? And all kinds of playthings?"

Moving giant alien beasts, towering and peculiar towers, ancient mazes, a large number of puppets, a giant egg...

Twenty small universes formed a formation, like twenty marbles, one colliding with another, and the other continuing to collide. Eventually, the twenty small universes formed a collision cycle that never stopped.

All kinds of strange things floated in the high-dimensional space inside the animal skin.

This storage space was indeed a place of amusement.

"This is a place of amusement arranged by an invincible Half-Step Third Realm for his child?" At this moment, Xu Jingming immediately understood how poor he was.

Too poor!

No wonder the Dean, the Tower Master, and the Island Master all took the initiative to give to him, because they knew he was poor!

Sanan, one of the three thousand holy envoys, was only one of Menhaddo's three thousand holy envoys. The Dean and the others looked down on his little wealth. Not to mention comparing him with a Heart Realm lineage expert who had mastered six Half-Step Third Realm techniques.

"Little one, you think these playthings are not precious? The precious thing is this legacy?"

"You are wrong, to me, they are all precious!"

Xu Jingming calmed his excited mood and put away the animal skin. This was his biggest gain so far, and then reached out to take the book *Bafang Tu*.