As a seventh-level Starry Sky lifeform, Xu Jingming possessed an astonishing learning ability. As he flipped through the books in his hand, his eyes would scan and completely memorize the contents, pondering over each sentence multiple times.

In just five minutes, he had finished reading three books and gained a great deal of knowledge.

"The higher the level of life, the more amazing the learning ability." Sitting beside him, Pang Ze exclaimed admiringly, "It's truly enviable."

"That's why those scholars with Level 1 or higher academic qualifications are already incredibly talented, and after being elevated to Origin Lifeforms! The Origin Lifeform's brainpower, combined with scientific knowledge, allows one person's research capabilities to surpass that of a primitive civilization by countless times. Each one is a priceless treasure to the cosmic human race," Xu Jingming said.

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

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

Swoosh! Swoosh!

The two entered the Apprentice World.

"Apprentice World is a very famous virtual world." Walking on the wide street, Pang Ze said, "Among academic worlds, it ranks in the top ten in popularity. It's best suited for novices like you."

"I am indeed a novice," Xu Jingming said with a smile. "I haven't even taken an academic qualification exam."

"I've already purchased a course for you." Pang Ze opened his personal panel and quickly purchased a set of courses. "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 uses artificial intelligence for teaching! The teaching quality is widely recognized."

Xu Jingming nodded.

In the virtual world network, there were many "virtual worlds" available for learning. Which virtual world to go to? What kind of course to choose? What kind of teacher to have?

With the guidance of Pang Ze, a nearly max-level expert in "humanities," Xu Jingming could learn the knowledge he wanted with the highest efficiency.

"Hello, I am your teacher for the 'Resolving Life's Difficulties' course!" A beautiful woman with translucent skin and a red crystal between her eyebrows said with a smile. "In the following time, I will be providing one-on-one instruction."

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 tens of thousands of years! How to solve these difficulties is a very important topic."

"If you want to have an extremely strong ability to resolve life's difficulties, first, you must possess very strong logical thinking skills," the intelligent woman said.

"Logical thinking skills?" Xu Jingming nodded slightly.

"You need to analyze your difficulties, what factors led to them! Then, consider what conditions you can utilize and what conditions you can create to ultimately solve the difficulties," the intelligent woman said. "All of this requires logical thinking skills."

"Therefore, this course requires you to have a foundation in the sciences," the intelligent woman said. "Given that you are a seventh-level Starry Sky lifeform, but currently without any academic qualifications, I think we can spend six days on scientific study."

"Oh." Xu Jingming felt rather complicated.

He hadn't expected that studying a humanities course on resolving life's difficulties… would start with studying science.

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

So Xu Jingming began his scientific studies, and the intelligent teacher provided Xu Jingming with the books to study.

"I want to resolve a hundred kinds of life's difficulties, but I have to study mathematics first," Xu Jingming said as he sat on the sofa in his personal space, flipping through the textbook.

Based on numbers, there were concepts such as integers, decimals, fractions, and so on.

And there were also different ways to classify numbers, such as prime numbers, rational numbers, irrational numbers, and so on.

"Blast it!"

Xu Jingming flipped through the basic mathematics textbook. With the learning speed of a seventh-level Starry Sky lifeform, he flipped through the pages non-stop. His eyes scanned and memorized everything, and he performed the calculations in his mind thousands of times.

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

This textbook focused on "geometry."

"Higher-dimensional geometry looks very difficult," Xu Jingming said. He was surrounded by books, and he had finally stopped studying mathematics. "According to the requirements, I only needed to finish studying basic geometry. I've already learned a good portion of higher-dimensional geometry." Xu Jingming looked up at the time. "I spent more than three days studying mathematics?"

Of course, the amount that a seventh-level Starry Sky lifeform learned in three days was more than what a planetary lifeform could learn in three years, and they would learn it more deeply.

Xu Jingming looked around.

"Sofa, chair, weapon…" Xu Jingming's gaze swept over the various objects, all of which contained geometry and could be expressed using functions.

The length, model, and curves of the sofa… Xu Jingming immediately conjured up three-dimensional images in his mind, as well as functions to precisely express these models.

"And there's also physics." Xu Jingming then began to study physics.

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

When he learned about the knowledge of space tunnels called "wormholes," Xu Jingming found it increasingly difficult. He might have to think for an hour just to read one page.

"Let's stop here for now."

Xu Jingming looked at the time. "I spent a total of seven days studying science. That's one more day than the intelligent teacher required! And I studied it in greater depth."

"I should also study some information science. This will also enhance my logical thinking skills." Xu Jingming was a little obsessed with learning. After all, he had studied physics in college and was quite interested in science.

He spent another two days studying information science.

"With sufficiently powerful logical thinking skills, we can begin the next humanities study. We'll start by looking at how others have solved life's difficulties through individual life stories," the intelligent teacher began to teach.

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 and find 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 very high quality, and Xu Jingming gave it a full five-star rating on the spot.

"Thank you for your positive review." 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 of the situation of the entire Blue Star civilization had become much clearer.

"The so-called ability to predict the future and win battles from a thousand miles away… is actually a kind of reasoning," Xu Jingming understood. "Those top strategists have a very clear understanding of the entire world and of the various forces and organizations. They understand the various relationships and entanglements and can use various elements to ultimately deduce the answer!" It was like a rich second-generation heir with a gambling addiction going to a casino run by a ruthless boss. It was easy to deduce that the rich second-generation heir would most likely go bankrupt.

Of course, that could only be considered addition and subtraction level difficulty.

The stakes were a thousand times higher in a war between countries!

One needed to consider the overall world situation, the entangled relationships, the military capabilities of all parties, the commanding style of the army's commander, the weather environment, food supply, morale, commanding ability… The comprehensive reasoning of a large number of factors would lead some people to become military gods who could defeat the strong with the weak and win every battle! And some people would be fools who would lead their troops to their deaths!

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

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

He had now reached this stage.

"Go take an academic qualification exam." Xu Jingming wanted to test his own limits.

Six hours later, the results came out.

Humanities: 320 points.

Sciences: 1020 points.

Academic Qualification: Level 33

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

The higher the academic qualification, the higher the point requirement.

For example, Level 10 only required 100 points.

Level 20 required 300 points.

Level 30 required 1,000 points.

Level 40 required 3,000 points.

Level 50 required 10,000 points.

Whether it was humanities or sciences, it was easier to learn in the early stages and more difficult as one progressed.

The maximum score for the highest level (Level 60) in humanities was only 30,000 points!

And the requirement for Level 100 was 3 million points! From this, it could be seen that… if one wanted to become an outstanding scholar, they had to take the path of science.

"The higher the level of life, the stronger the brainpower! For example, as a seventh-level Starry Sky lifeform, my brainpower is ten times faster than when I 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." "The fact that I studied for a little over eighteen days is more efficient than a planetary lifeform studying for a lifetime," Xu Jingming exclaimed.

This was the gap in life level.

"I heard that eighth-level Starry Sky lifeforms can generally reach Level 50 academic qualifications if they put their minds to it," Xu Jingming thought to himself. Eighth-level Starry Sky lifeforms might not have high scientific research talent, but with their terrifying brainpower, they could reach Level 50 relatively easily. Of course, the "Level 100" academic qualification that the cosmic human race valued most could not be achieved by brainpower alone. It also required incredibly amazing scientific talent!

"I can explore the sixth planet again." After nearly 19 days of study, Xu Jingming felt his transformation. His thinking methods and logical abilities had greatly improved.

Mysterious Land, Sixth Planet.

Xu Jingming appeared at the base of the black pyramid and looked up at the towering pyramid. "Let's begin!"

With a leap, Xu Jingming reached the first step.

The scene before him changed.

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

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

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

But now, everything was as clear as peeling away silk.

"Zhang Lei's dilemma, the bank's wealth management products blowing up, the mortgage, the surgery fees, the unemployment… In fact, all these dilemmas are the same dilemma: money!" Xu Jingming thought to himself. "A stable social order where the only dilemma is money is not difficult for me, an explorer."

When a poor couple is beset by hardships, everything goes wrong.

Zhang Lei and his wife originally had a pretty good relationship, but because of the wealth management product blowing up, all their savings were gone! And then he lost his job, and the monthly loan and hospital expenses were pushing the family to the brink of collapse.

"Let's begin."

Xu Jingming opened the computer browser and directly entered a niche forum.

Soon, the other party contacted him.

As a 35-year-old programmer, Zhang Lei's programming skills were still good, and he occasionally took on "outsourcing" jobs in the forum.

"I'll take this job," Xu Jingming said after scanning around the forum and accepting a big job.

"Zhang Yu, 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 had never heard of him having such strong skills.

"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 bank's wealth management product blowing up was not told to his family for the time being.

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

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

After his reputation became large enough, he was invited to help successfully solve a problem for a large company and received a ten million yuan bonus! And the large company also offered a high annual salary and equity incentives to invite him to join!

"In addition to a 15 million yuan annual salary, we have also set up bonus incentives and equity incentives. We sincerely invite Mr. Zhang Lei. Our major shareholders have personally come to visit today because we value Mr. Zhang Lei's abilities. We believe that Mr. Zhang Lei will be able to lead our company to the next level!" The company's chairman, president, and major shareholders personally came to invite him.

Zhang Lei's wife looked at this scene in disbelief. Was her husband so amazing?

Xu Jingming watched this scene.

"The first level 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 actually not difficult. You just need to find the 'key' to the dilemma and then solve it. For us explorers, having strong information science skills can easily solve it," Xu Jingming nodded. "However, if it were Zhang Lei himself, with his ordinary programming skills, it would be difficult to solve the dilemma."

It was almost impossible for an ordinary person in every way to fall into such a dilemma and still earn ten million yuan.

Having an explorer do it made it low difficulty.

"Zhang Lei himself can only reduce all aspects of expenditure, even the children's tutoring fees. And he has to find a way to improve his personal ability. With stronger ability, he will naturally be able to find a good job in the programmer circle that values skill," Xu Jingming thought to himself. In a peaceful and stable world, strong skills were strength.

The weak could only drift with the tide.

With strong strength, even great storms were just a light breeze and drizzle.

Xu Jingming leaped and ascended to the second level of the black pyramid.

The scene before him changed, and it was still Blue Star!

It was an earlier era, a Blue Star in a time of war.

In a forest, fifteen wolf-fox soldiers leaned against the trunks of trees, drinking water and eating dry food, each lost in thought. Xu Jingming was one of them. "This gun?"

Xu Jingming noticed the rifle he had placed at his feet, as well as 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." One of the soldiers showed a look of despair.

"The enemy is hunting us down and may find us at any time. Why don't we split up and escape? Maybe one or two of us can get away." One of the soldiers said in a low voice. Xu Jingming sat there, receiving the memories.

Today, the world was in chaos, and warlords were fighting each other. As a small soldier under the command of Marshal Sun, their army had been defeated, and these dozen or so remnants had fled into the forest, with a large number of enemies outside.

A phantom text appeared before Xu Jingming's eyes: Second level of life's difficulties, resolution requirements: Escape the pursuit and establish your own army within one year and capture Wufang City. (Limited strength and speed上限).

Xu Jingming pondered slightly.

"Split up and escape?" Xu Jingming immediately stood up and looked at the surrounding soldiers. "Maybe none of us can escape! Are you willing to die like this?"

"Then what can we do? There are only a few of us." One of the soldiers retorted.

Xu Jingming said, "The Western Fan Army has been fighting us for so many years, we have a blood feud. The son of Marshal Pan of the Western Fan Army died on the battlefield,

The brothers who surrendered before were all shot! Marshal Pan went mad and refused to accept surrenders, wanting to kill everyone. Now they are hunting us down." "We can't live." Someone said in a low voice.

Everyone had long lost their morale.

"Then let's all treat ourselves as dead people." Xu Jingming's eyes turned red and he said, "We are all dead people, let's find a way to fight! It's worth it even if we can kill a few! If we can escape by luck, that's an even bigger win."

"To be honest," Xu Jingming said with anticipation in his eyes, "I still want to return to my hometown of Wuan! And see my old mother again.

"I also want to go back and see my son. He should be three years old this year." One of the soldiers 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!" One of the soldiers cried bitterly. Xu Jingming looked at these soldiers. "If we give up, there is no hope at all. Let's fight! Maybe we can really return to Wuan!"

The soldiers looked at Xu Jingming one by one.

"Return to Wuan," Xu Jingming said. "Return to our hometown."

"Let's fight again." One of the soldiers gripped his gun.

"If we don't fight, we die, so let's fight."

The soldiers gritted their teeth one by one.

Xu Jingming first united this group of people. Next, on the one hand, he gathered more scattered soldiers to strengthen his side. On the other hand, he scouted the surroundings, swallowing up small groups of enemies! Evading large groups of enemies!

Although Xu Jingming's strength and speed were limited, with his powerful consciousness controlling the gun in his hand, he also became a sharpshooter.

Strengthening his side, uniting his side! Avoiding strength and attacking weakness!

Xu Jingming didn't get into any entanglements with the Western Fan Army! After escaping the pursuit, he headed all the way towards Wuan, also trying to absorb strength along the way! In this chaotic world, there were still many people who wanted to become soldiers to get a full meal.

After eight months, Xu Jingming used the original Marshal Sun's team as a foundation, gathered the remnants, recruited new people, and pulled out a team of 30,000 people. Finally, with the help of the people of Wuan, he entered Wuan City bloodlessly at night, and in one night, he completely occupied Wuan City. When the dignitaries in Wuan City came to visit Xu Jingming, the new warlord, the illusion dissipated.

"I've passed the second level of the illusion." Xu Jingming also rested, more than eight months in the illusion, and more than half a day in reality.

In the illusion, he schemed against others, squeezed out those who were threatening, united those who could be won over, and increased his influence among the ordinary soldiers to ensure that the army was under his control.

The army was marching to Wuan, the supply of food along the way, the preparation of military expenses, and the prevention of other forces on the path, all of which required a lot of thought.

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

Swoosh

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

The scene changed, and it was Blue Star's feudal dynasty period.

In the freezing snow, a small beggar was huddled in the corner of a wall, with a broken bowl in front of him. Seeing people dressed better, he kowtowed: "Good-hearted sirs and madams, please be kind and give me some food."

Suddenly, the small beggar was slightly stunned.

"I've become a beggar?" Xu Jingming shivered. "It's so cold, so hungry."

Memories also appeared in his mind.

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

Under the freezing snow, wearing only ragged clothes, hungry and cold, if there were no changes, he would probably freeze to death tonight. Xu Jingming saw a phantom text appearing before his eyes: Third level of life's difficulties: Reach the capital within one year. (Limited strength and speed上限).

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

"Am I surviving in a chaotic world?" Xu Jingming realized that this was not easy. Rebels, bandits, refugees, all kinds of dangers, and even the weather, illness, and so on, could take his life.

One layer after another of illusions.

This was also a kind of practice, and gradually, he became more skilled in dealing with all kinds of difficulties.

But there were still accidents and failures.

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

The ninety-ninth illusion was Blue Star's primitive period.

In order to find a way to survive, the temperature suddenly dropped sharply, the river froze, countless plants died and food became scarce. Xu Jingming led the tribe to migrate in search of water sources to survive. It was really difficult.

Within a year, only 36 of the tribe's original 132 people were still alive, and they were still migrating.

It wasn't easy. "I succeeded." Xu Jingming watched the illusion dissipate. "As long as 3 people in the tribe are still alive after a year, it's considered a success. But it's really not easy." In order to migrate and survive, Xu Jingming racked his brains.

One hundredth level of life's difficulties: Space pirates arrive and slaughter Blue Star civilization! Please survive the slaughter and complete your revenge within a year. (Possess the body from reality).

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

When the terrifying space pirates appeared! The power of the space pirates exceeded the limits of Blue Star's civilization to resist.

The space pirates wantonly slaughtered everyone!

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

In the end, Xu Jingming tried a total of eight times in the one hundredth and final illusion, and he succeeded on the eighth time.

"Congratulations on passing a hundred kinds of life's difficulties. However, reality is unknown, and there is no chance to start over, so the best way to solve life's difficulties is to not let yourself fall into difficulties in the first place." The voice echoed in his mind, the final illusion dissipated, Xu Jingming looked up. Then, with one step, he leaped up.

Xu Jingming stood on the top of the black pyramid, looking at the micro-wormhole at the top, but he was calm.

A hundred kinds of life's difficulties, more than a hundred days had passed in reality, and the time experienced in the illusion exceeded a hundred years. In these hundred years, he had been an ordinary programmer, a small soldier in a chaotic world, a beggar,

bodyguard, killer, shopkeeper, fortune teller, leper, blind man, a critically ill old man with only one year to live, a hostage, the ruler of a small country, a great general who held power in the court, a tribal leader, a person from different periods, and different life's difficulties.

If the previous eighteen days of study were the accumulation of knowledge and the improvement of logical thinking, then the "over a hundred years" of the hundred kinds of life's difficulties were a baptism of Xu Jingming's soul!

This baptism made Xu Jingming truly reborn!

Even those Starry Sky lifeforms who had lived for thousands of years mostly did not have lives as complex and difficult as the "hundred kinds of life's difficulties."

"Perhaps the greatest help this mysterious land's seven planets gave me was not being recruited by a certain force, but the trials in this process," Xu Jingming said silently. The more he advanced in the trials, the greater his gains.

The trials of the neutron star allowed him to comprehend the Streamer Spear Dao.

The hundred kinds of life trials were a baptism of the soul.

"Seventh planet." Xu Jingming looked at the micro-wormhole in front of him.

At this moment, in the observation space.

Whether it was the 352 regional-level forces in the lower level or the seventeen top forces in the upper level, they were all looking at Xu Jingming!