Chapter 11

As a seventh-level Starry Sky lifeform, Xu Jingming possessed terrifying learning abilities. He flipped through the books in his hand, memorizing everything he saw with a quick glance, and pondering over each sentence multiple times.

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

"The higher the life level, the more astonishing the learning ability," Pang Ze, sitting beside him, exclaimed. "It's enviable."

"That's why those scholars with qualifications exceeding level 1 are already exceptionally talented, and after being elevated to Source Lifeforms! The Source Lifeform's brainpower, combined with scientific knowledge, allows one person's research capabilities to surpass that of a primitive civilization many times over. Each of them is an invaluable treasure to the cosmic human race," Xu Jingming said.

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

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

Swoosh! Swoosh!

Both of them entered the Apprentice World.

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

"Indeed, I'm a newbie," Xu Jingming laughed. "I haven't even taken a qualification exam."

"I've already bought you a course," Pang Ze opened his personal panel and quickly purchased a course. "Countless citizens of the universe encounter all sorts of life difficulties. Therefore, how to deal with 'Life's Difficulties' is a very popular course. The course I bought is taught by artificial intelligence! The teaching quality is recognized."

Xu Jingming nodded.

In the virtual world network, there are 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 nearing max level, guiding him, Xu Jingming could learn the knowledge he wanted with maximum efficiency.

"Hello, I'm your teacher for the 'Resolving Life's Difficulties' course!" A beautiful woman with crystal-clear skin and a red gemstone between her eyebrows said with a smile. "In the following time, I will be giving you one-on-one lessons."

Xu Jingming nodded.

The two sat on the grass.

The intelligent woman said, "As citizens of the universe, you will encounter all sorts of difficulties in your lifespan of several millennia! How to resolve these difficulties is a very important subject."

"To possess a strong ability to resolve life's difficulties, first, 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 are causing them! Then think about what conditions can be used, what conditions can be created, and ultimately resolve the difficulties," the intelligent woman said. "This all requires logical thinking ability."

"Therefore, this course requires you to have a foundation in science," the intelligent woman said. "Given that you are a seventh-level Starry Sky lifeform with no qualifications yet, I think we can spend six days on scientific learning."

"Oh," Xu Jingming said with mixed feelings.

He didn't expect that to learn a humanities course on resolving life's difficulties… the first step would be to study science.

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

Thus, Xu Jingming began his scientific studies, and the intelligent teacher provided him with the books he needed to learn.

"To solve a hundred kinds of life's difficulties, I have to learn mathematics first," Xu Jingming said, sitting 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 of categorizing numbers, such as prime numbers, rational numbers, irrational numbers, and so on.

"Flippity-flip-flip!"

Xu Jingming flipped through the basic mathematics textbook. With the learning speed of a seventh-level Starry Sky lifeform, he flipped through the pages quickly, memorizing everything with a single glance, and performing calculations thousands of times in his mind.

Number theory, algebra, basic geometry, higher-dimensional geometry…

This textbook focused on "geometry."

"Higher-dimensional geometry looks very difficult," Xu Jingming said. Books were piled up around him, and he finally stopped his mathematics studies. "According to the requirements, I only need to learn basic geometry. But I've already learned a good portion of higher-dimensional geometry." Xu Jingming looked up at the time: "I've spent more than three days studying mathematics?"

Of course, the learning that a seventh-level Starry Sky lifeform accomplishes in a little over three days is more extensive and in-depth than what a planetary lifeform learns in three years.

Xu Jingming looked around.

"Sofa, chairs, weapons…" Xu Jingming's gaze swept over the various items, all of which contained geometry and could be expressed with functions.

The length, shape, curves of the sofa he was sitting on… Three-dimensional patterns immediately appeared in Xu Jingming's mind, along with functions precisely expressing these shapes.

"There's also physics," Xu Jingming began studying physics.

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

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

"Let's stop here for now."

Xu Jingming looked at the time. "I spent a total of seven days on scientific studies. That's one day more than what the intelligent teacher asked for! I've also studied it more deeply."

"I should also learn some information science, as it also enhances logical thinking ability." Xu Jingming was a bit entranced by learning. After all, he had studied 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 begin the humanities studies. We'll start by looking at how others have resolved life's difficulties in individual life stories," the intelligent teacher began teaching.

Step by step!

As a seventh-level 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 full five-star rating."

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

"Okay," Xu Jingming nodded.

The course recommended by Mr. Pang was indeed of excellent quality, and Xu Jingming gave it a full five-star rating on the spot.

"Thank you for your rating," the female teacher bowed in gratitude and then dissipated.

Xu Jingming stood on the grass, looking around, feeling very good: "It really feels completely different."

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

"The so-called ability to predict and strategize from a thousand miles away… is actually a kind of reasoning," Xu Jingming understood. "Those top strategists have a clear understanding of the entire world and the various factions, understanding the various relationships and entanglements, and can ultimately deduce the answer based on various elements!" It's like a rich second generation gambling addict going to a casino run by a ruthless boss, it's easy to deduce that the rich second generation will likely go bankrupt.

Of course, that's just addition and subtraction level difficulty.

Warfare between countries! The difficulty is thousands of times higher.

It requires considering the entire world situation, the entanglements of relationships, the various military capabilities, the commanding styles of army commanders, the weather environment, food supply, morale, troop-leading ability… A comprehensive reasoning of many factors allows some to be military geniuses, capable of winning with the weak against the strong, winning every battle! While others are fools, leading troops to their deaths!

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

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

He had now reached this step.

"I should take a qualification exam," Xu Jingming wanted to test his own level.

Six hours later, the results were out.

Humanities: 320 points.

Science: 1020 points.

Qualification Level: 33

"Qualification level 33?" Xu Jingming nodded slightly. "I didn't take the time-consuming practical exam. If I had taken the practical exam, I probably could have gotten a few hundred more points, maybe one or two levels higher."

The higher the qualification level, the higher the points required.

For example, level 10 requires only 100 points.

Level 20 requires 300 points.

Level 30 requires 1000 points.

Level 40 requires 3000 points.

Level 50 requires 10,000 points.

Whether it's humanities or science, it's easier to learn in the early stages, and it gets harder as you go further.

The maximum full score for humanities (level 60) is only 30,000 points!

While the requirement for qualification level 100 is 3 million points! This shows that… to become a remarkable great scholar, one must take the path of science.

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

"It's countless times stronger than a planetary lifeform." "I studied for a little over eighteen days, which is more efficient than a planetary lifeform studying for a lifetime," Xu Jingming exclaimed.

This is the difference in life levels.

"I heard that eighth-level Starry Sky lifeforms, as long as they put in some effort, can generally reach qualification level 50," Xu Jingming thought to himself. Eighth-level Starry Sky lifeforms may not have high scientific research talent, but with their terrifying brainpower, they can reach qualification level 50 relatively easily. Of course, the "qualification level 100" that the cosmic human race values most is not something that can be achieved with brainpower alone; it also requires incredibly amazing scientific talent!

"I can explore the sixth planet again," Xu Jingming had undergone nearly 19 days of learning, and felt the transformation in himself. Both his thinking methods and logical thinking abilities had greatly improved.

Mysterious Land, Sixth Planet.

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

With a leap, Xu Jingming arrived at the first step.

The scene before him changed.

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

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

"Zhang Lei's predicament…" Xu Jingming felt the memories being transmitted again, which had given Xu Jingming a headache before.

But now, everything was as clear as peeling silk.

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

When poverty comes in the door, love flies out of the window.

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

"Let's begin."

Xu Jingming opened his computer browser and directly entered a small forum.

Soon, he contacted the other party.

As a 35-year-old programmer, Zhang Lei's programming skills were not bad, and he occasionally took "outsourcing" jobs in the forum.

"I'll take this job," Xu Jingming scanned the forum and took on 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 they hadn't heard of him having such strength.

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

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

The news of the bank wealth management thunder was temporarily kept from his family.

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

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

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

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

Zhang Lei's wife watched this scene in disbelief, was her husband so awesome?

Xu Jingming watched this scene.

"The first layer 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 not difficult, you only need to find the 'key' to the predicament, and then solve it. For us explorers, with a super information ability, it can be easily solved." Xu Jingming nodded, "However, if it was Zhang Lei himself, with his ordinary programming skills, it would be difficult to solve the predicament."

An ordinary person in every aspect, falling into such a predicament, and wanting to earn ten million, is inherently unlikely.

Letting an explorer do it makes the difficulty low.

"Zhang Lei himself, can only reduce all aspects of expenditure, even his children's tutoring fees have to be reduced. And try to improve his personal ability, if his ability is strong, he will naturally be able to find a good job in the programmer circle where technology speaks," Xu Jingming thought. In a peaceful and stable world, strong technology is strength.

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

If your strength is strong, the big storms are just a breeze.

Xu Jingming leaped onto the second layer of the black pyramid.

The scene changed, it was still Blue Star!

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

In a forest, fifteen wolf fox soldiers leaned against the tree trunks, drinking water and eating dry food, each 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.

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

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

"The enemy is chasing us, they may find us at any time, why don't we escape separately, maybe one or two of us can escape." A soldier whispered.

Xu Jingming sat there, receiving memories in his mind.

Now that the world was in chaos, with warlords fighting each other, he was a small soldier under Sun Da Shuai. Sun Da Shuai's army was defeated, and these dozen or so remnants escaped into the forest, with a large number of enemies outside.

Illusory words appeared before Xu Jingming's eyes: The second layer of the life predicament, the requirement to solve: Escape the pursuit, establish your own army in one year, and capture Wufang City. (Limited power and speed upper limit)

Xu Jingming pondered slightly.

"Escape separately?" 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 Xi Fan army has fought with us for so many years, there is a blood feud. The son of Pan Da Shuai of the Xi Fan army died on the battlefield.

The brothers who surrendered before were all shot! Pan Da Shuai's eyes were red, he didn't accept surrender, he wanted to kill everyone. Now they are chasing us." "We can't live." Someone whispered.

Everyone had long lost their morale.

"Then just treat us all as dead." Xu Jingming's eyes turned red, and he said, "We are all dead, let's find a way to fight! It's worth it to kill a few! If we are lucky enough to escape, then it's a big win."

"To be honest." Xu Jingming's eyes were filled with anticipation, "I still want to go back to my hometown of Wu'an! And 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 streaming down his face. "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 bitterly.

Xu Jingming looked at these soldiers: "If you give up, there is no hope at all. Let's fight, maybe we can really go back to Wu'an!"

The soldiers looked at Xu Jingming.

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

"Let's fight one more time." A soldier gripped his gun.

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

The soldiers gritted their teeth.

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

Although Xu Jingming limited his power and speed upper limit, with his powerful consciousness controlling the gun in his hand, he also became a sharpshooter.

Strengthening his own side, uniting his own side! Avoiding the real and attacking the weak!

Xu Jingming didn't fight with the Xi Fan army! After escaping the pursuit range, he headed all the way towards Wu'an, and also tried to absorb power along the way! In troubled times, there were still many people who wanted to join the army to get a full meal.

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

"Passed the second layer of illusion." Xu Jingming also rested, more than eight months in the illusion, and in reality, it was also half a day.

In the illusion, he schemed, 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.

For the army to reach Wu'an, the supply of grain along the way, the preparation of military expenses, and the prevention of other forces on the path, all required a lot of thought.

"It's much harder than the first layer of illusion," Xu Jingming thought to himself.

Swoosh!

With a leap, he came to the third step of the black pyramid.

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

In the freezing snow, a small beggar huddled in the corner of the wall, with a broken bowl in front of him. Seeing people dressed better, he kowtowed: "Kind sir, kind lady, please be kind and give me some food."

Suddenly, the little beggar was slightly stunned.

"Became a beggar?" Xu Jingming shuddered, "So cold, so hungry."

Memories also appeared in his mind.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a great famine, the people were living in poverty, and there were many rebellions. Li Ergou fled to Yu City.

In the freezing snow, with only rags on his body, and with hunger and cold, if there was no change, he would probably be frozen to death tonight.

Xu Jingming saw the illusory words appearing before his eyes: The third layer of the life predicament: Within one year, arrive in the capital alive. (Limited power and speed upper limit)

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

"Surviving in troubled times?" Xu Jingming realized that this was not easy. Rebels, bandits, fleeing people, all kinds of dangers, even the weather environment, illness, etc., could take his life.

Layer after layer of illusions.

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

But there were still accidents, and he would fail.

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

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

In order to survive, there must be a method. When the weather suddenly dropped sharply, the river water froze, and countless plants died, food was scarce. Xu Jingming led his tribe to migrate to find a water source to survive, it was really difficult.

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

"It's easy." Xu Jingming watched the illusion dissipate, "As long as after a year, we ensure that 3 people from the tribe survive, it will be considered a success. But it's really not easy." In order to migrate and survive, Xu Jingming was exhausted.

The one hundredth layer of life predicament: Space pirates arrive and slaughter Blue Star civilization! Please survive the slaughter and complete the revenge within one year. (Have the body in reality)

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

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

The space pirates slaughtered wantonly, leaving no one alive!

Countless people of the entire civilization died, and even though Xu Jingming had the body of a seventh-level Starry Sky lifeform, and had Blue Star's many high-tech weapons and equipment, he still felt despair.

In the end, Xu Jingming tried the last one hundredth layer of illusion eight times, and only succeeded on the eighth time.

"Congratulations on passing a hundred kinds of life's difficulties, however, reality is unknown, there is no chance to start over, so the best way to solve life's difficulties is to not let yourself fall into difficulties." The voice echoed in his mind, the final illusion dissipated, 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 of the tower, 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 more than a century. In this century, he had been an ordinary programmer, a small soldier in troubled times, a beggar,

bodyguard, killer, shopkeeper, fortune teller, leper, blind man, a seriously ill old man with only one year to live, hostage, the lord of a small country, a powerful general, a tribal chief, primitive People of different periods, different life predicaments.

If the previous eighteen days of learning was the accumulation of knowledge and the improvement of logical thinking. Then the "more than a century" of the subsequent hundreds of life's difficulties was a baptism of Xu Jingming's soul!

This baptism allowed Xu Jingming to truly transform!

Even those Starry Sky lifeforms who have lived for thousands of years have mostly not experienced such complex and difficult lives as these hundreds of life's difficulties.

"Perhaps the biggest help to me from the seven planets in this mysterious land is not being recruited by a certain force, but the trials in this process." Xu Jingming silently said, the later the trials, the greater his gains.

The trial of the neutron star allowed him to comprehend the flowing light 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, 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!