Chapter 1 Virtual World

Virtual world network, a mysterious place, the fifth planet: the neutron star.

Xu Jingming stood in an area covered by a protective shield, unaffected by the neutron star's gravity, temperature, and other harsh conditions, quietly experiencing the continuous improvement of his body.

"This is allowing me to experience each stage of the seventh-order Starry Sky life and eighth-order Starry Sky life body enhancement in advance." Xu Jingming's mind and consciousness could feel every cell constantly growing stronger.

The energy contained within the cells was also becoming increasingly terrifying.

Enhance, enhance, and enhance again!

As the cells grew stronger and the cosmic energy they contained increased, reaching a certain limit...

"Boom!"

Finally, he broke through that limit.

His body also underwent a qualitative change!

"This is an eighth-order Starry Sky life?" Standing within the protective shield, Xu Jingming's entire body uncontrollably emitted light, his hair stood on end, and a terrifying aura surged in all directions.

At this moment, Xu Jingming was like a man-made star, as if he would explode at any moment!

This also meant that Xu Jingming couldn't restrain his power.

"The body is energy, and energy is the body." Xu Jingming clearly felt the state of his body at this moment.

After a planetary life is promoted to a Starry Sky life, every cell in the body hides cosmic energy. Releasing cosmic energy can destroy everything in all directions.

Starry Sky life is divided into four stages: initial, intermediate, advanced, and perfect! In the first three stages, the body continuously becomes stronger, and the cosmic energy contained in each cell becomes more and more immense.

But the last stage, Starry Sky life Perfection, is when the body is completely energy-based. The terrifying body can be transformed into energy, and vast energy can also be transformed into the body.

Energization! It is a characteristic of the eighth-order Starry Sky life.

Only by reaching this step can the body exist more strongly and have a lifespan of ten thousand years!

Only with energization can one walk on a neutron star!

"A sufficiently powerful mind and consciousness are needed to perfectly guide the body and energize it." Xu Jingming thought to himself, "But now, the virtual world is forcibly enhancing the body."

"My body is still getting stronger." Xu Jingming felt silently.

Eighth-order Starry Sky life cultivation is divided into two aspects.

One is the physical body. The physical body can be transformed into cosmic energy with a thought. But there are thousands upon thousands of cosmic energies, and naturally, there are differences in quality! And the goal of every eighth-order life is Cosmic Source Power.

Cosmic Source Power can be approached! But in the eighth-order stage, it cannot be reached.

The other aspect is the mind and consciousness. Mental power needs to be constantly strengthened, strengthened, and strengthened again! When it is elevated to an unbelievable level, to the point of being able to leverage Cosmic Source Power, then it is considered a success.

At this time, leverage Cosmic Source Power with mental power to assist the physical body, allowing the physical body to truly become Source Power!

When truly Source Power-ized, that is a Source life!

A ninth-order Source life!

"My body is getting stronger now, and the energy I possess is becoming more and more majestic and heavy." Xu Jingming gradually felt the heaviness! Then he felt the weight! The body brought him more and more pressure.

"I'm standing inside the protective shield, and I can feel this body is extremely heavy?" Xu Jingming's expression changed.

Bang!

Xu Jingming couldn't help but kneel down, supporting himself with his hands, and bursts of light erupted from his body!

Another full five minutes passed.

"It stopped."

"Finally reached the limit of the eighth-order." Xu Jingming knelt, supporting himself with his hands, gritting his teeth to sit cross-legged.

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Xu Jingming felt so tired! His body was as heavy as a majestic mountain, and every cell was trembling. "Forget cellular control, even勉强controlling the body feels tiring." Xu Jingming felt too much pressure. This was the pressure brought by the terrifying body. Fortunately, he was already a seventh-order Starry Sky life! If his mind and consciousness were weaker, his mind and consciousness would probably have been crushed!

Just as Xu Jingming was familiarizing himself with this eighth-order limit body, suddenly—

A man appeared out of thin air beside him. He was 2.1 meters tall, had silver hair in an elaborate style, skin as white as snow, and soft blue eyes that always carried a smile. He looked at Xu Jingming, who was sitting cross-legged, with a grin: "From the Molu Star Alliance, Vick, greetings."

Sitting cross-legged, Xu Jingming barely managed to say, "From the Wugou Star Alliance, Wu Ming."

"Don't rush when you first arrive on the fifth planet." Vick, the Molu Star Alliance man with the elaborate hairstyle, said with a smile, "Being able to experience the body of an eighth-order limit in advance is also a rare opportunity. Get used to it slowly! First, be able to walk freely within the protective shield. After all, the protective shield is the normal neutron star environment. Walking on a neutron star is much more difficult."

"Thank you," Xu Jingming nodded.

"The key to walking on a neutron star is energization. Controlling the energization of the body is a new course for all of us," Vick said.

"Energization?" Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

"The neutron star is about 12 kilometers in diameter. Standing within the protective shield, we can see many places," Vick said. "We can see opportunities in many places on the neutron star! Even if we can't pass the neutron star test, we can still look at the opportunities, which is also a gain."

Xu Jingming had indeed noticed.

From the first to the fourth planets, the planets were very large. In areas outside the testing grounds, many places hid opportunities that needed to be slowly searched for.

But the fifth planet, the neutron star, was too small, and opportunities were easier to find! The only problem was that it was difficult to reach the opportunities! Most of the time, one could only stand within the protective shield and watch the distant opportunities.

"Alright, I'm leaving now. I hope you and I can both reach the sixth planet." Vick smiled slightly, then clicked on his personal panel, instantly reaching the eighth-order limit.

Only the first attempt requires slowly increasing from weak to strong.

In later attempts, one can choose to increase slowly or instantly reach the eighth-order limit through the personal panel.

"I hope we can both reach the sixth planet," Xu Jingming also said.

Vick then walked out of the protective shield.

Whoosh!

On the neutron star, which was like a giant iron ball, the surface temperature was terrifyingly high, and the gravity distorted space and time. Vick's figure, as seen with the naked eye, faintly emitted light and was distorted. But Vick still walked slowly, step by step.

Xu Jingming adapted for a moment inside the protective shield and then stood up.

"Since my mind and consciousness are too weak relative to this body, then I can't pursue subtle control." Xu Jingming thought to himself, "I have to get used to vaguely controlling the body! Guiding the body's instincts!"

Since embarking on the path of evolution, he had become accustomed to cellular control.

Now, he had to change his habits!

"Feels not bad."

Xu Jingming walked back and forth within the protective shield, without any energy leaking out, and his walking was relatively normal.

"First, change my clothes. Ordinary clothes are not suitable for walking in a neutron star environment." Xu Jingming clicked on his personal panel and changed into a set of silver-gray robes that would not be damaged in the neutron star environment and would be very light.

"Let's begin."

Xu Jingming walked to the edge of the protective shield and immediately stepped out.

What does it feel like to walk out of the protective shield and truly enter the environment of a neutron star? "Boom boom boom!!!"

Terrifying high temperatures, various kinds of radiation, and gravity that was unbelievably strong.

Of course, Xu Jingming's body at the eighth-order limit could ignore these temperatures of over a million degrees and the slight radiation, but the gravity, which was unknown how many billions of times stronger, still caused Xu Jingming's body to tremble.

Splat!

Xu Jingming's body suddenly couldn't support itself, and his entire body collapsed, turning into a piece of paper stuck to the surface of the neutron star.

At this moment, Xu Jingming's consciousness still existed.

"I was crushed into a piece of paper?" Xu Jingming was still alive.

But then the piece of paper completely decomposed, breaking down into countless energies, dissipating in all directions.

Xu Jingming's consciousness existed on those energies for a few seconds, and as the energy dispersed in all directions, his consciousness completely dissipated.

Whoosh!

Xu Jingming reappeared inside the protective shield.

"This gravity is too strong." Xu Jingming nodded slightly, "Eighth-order Starry Sky life can walk on neutron stars because of energization. Maintaining the energized state greatly reduces the influence of the neutron star's gravity."

Xu Jingming clicked on his personal panel, instantly raising his body to the eighth-order limit.

"Let's try again."

Xu Jingming stepped out of the protective shield.

Splat!

Turned into a piece of paper!

Splat! Splat! Splat!

Every time he went out, he became a piece of paper and then dissipated. Xu Jingming tried different methods.

Dashing out! Jumping out! Flying out!

"I have no experience with body energization at all. Vick is right, body energization is a new course for all of us." Xu Jingming sat cross-legged on the edge of the protective shield, carefully extended a finger, and stretched this finger out of the protective shield.

Buzz!

The other parts of the body were still inside the protective shield, only a finger was outside, affected by the neutron star environment.

Various kinds of radiation, high-temperature effects, and terrifying gravity acted on this finger. The finger was trembling and glowing, the entire finger was completely 'energized'. Seemingly maintaining the shape of a finger, it was actually an aggregation of energy.

After energization, the influence of gravity was much weaker.

"We Starry Sky life are used to controlling the body." Xu Jingming nodded slightly, "And the key to the fifth planet's test is to control the energization of the body."

Xu Jingming gradually extended two fingers, three fingers, and even his entire right hand. Xu Jingming slowly experienced it. "How wonderful."

"After the body is energized, it's like this."

Xu Jingming's eyes lit up, a brand new world appeared before his eyes. After all, for so many years, he had never had the experience of body energization.

Now he was learning in advance the problem encountered by the eighth-order Starry Sky life, how to more effectively control body energization!

With the mind and consciousness of a seventh-order Starry Sky life, he had to at least vaguely control the eighth-order limit body's entire body energy.

The difficulty was extremely high!

But those who could reach the fifth planet were all geniuses from various Star Alliances in the universe.

Observation space.

"Hey, what is that newcomer from your Wugou Star Alliance doing?" The short, fat man looked at Xu Jingming from afar, "Just stretching out a hand to feel the neutron star? Is he roasting his palm?"

"Without any experience in body energization, of course, he has to get familiar with it slowly." Observer Chang said, "Anyway, he can reach the fifth planet! His mental potential is high enough, at least he can become an eighth-order Starry Sky life and will not be weaker than you, Observer Grew!"

"Compare to me?"

The short, fat man snorted, "I'm not far from the eighth-order limit, can he compare to me?"

"Why can't he compare to you? Maybe he'll reach the eighth-order limit before you do." Observer Chang said. The two chatted casually, also observing the explorers from each other's Star Alliance.