Chapter 6 Sixth Planet

The sixth planet was a picturesque sight, an endless forest stretching as far as the eye could see. Within the forest lay flower seas and lakes, a beautiful and enchanting scene, and amidst it all stood a colossal, imposing structure.

It was a Black Pyramid!

The Black Pyramid soared over a thousand meters in height, and Xu Jingming could make out tiny human figures on its surface.

"What is the test on this sixth planet?" Xu Jingming opened his personal panel to view the challenge details.

The challenge on the sixth planet: Ascend the steps of the Black Pyramid and reach the summit!

Reaching the top is considered passing the challenge. Each step of the Black Pyramid is a layer of illusion. You must break the illusion to step onto a higher level.

Reminder: Each illusion represents a life's predicament! You must resolve one hundred different life predicaments to reach the top!

"A hundred different life predicaments?" Xu Jingming frowned slightly.

He moved his feet, transforming into a blur as he swiftly ran forward.

Passing through mountains, forests, and lakes, he reached the foot of the towering Black Pyramid in five minutes.

The pyramid was shaped like a regular tetrahedron, with stairways on all four sides! Each step was twelve meters high!

"Ascend this Black Pyramid?" Xu Jingming circled the Black Pyramid and clearly saw a total of 32 explorers on its four sides.

"At the same time, there are three batches of explorers in the exploration zone. If each batch is of similar size, then there are probably 180,000 people." Xu Jingming looked up at some of the figures on the Black Pyramid. "Approximately 180,000 explorers, and only 32 people are on the Black Pyramid?"

From the shattered First Planet, to the subsequent Zerg Planet, Ice Planet, Fallen Planet, Neutron Star… large numbers of explorers were eliminated.

"The first batch of explorers has been exploring for 330 days, estimated to end on August 8th! Today is already August 5th, so the first batch of explorers should have given up the challenge and gone to look for opportunities." Xu Jingming pondered, "From this perspective, it can be inferred that the 32 people on the Black Pyramid now are mainly from the second and third batches of explorers."

Xu Jingming instantly deduced the approximate ratio of those who reached the sixth planet.

A ratio of a few in ten thousand indicated that he was still quite excellent.

"A mental illusion?" Xu Jingming looked up at the Black Pyramid before him.

Whoosh!

With a leap, Xu Jingming jumped onto the first massive black step.

The moment he landed on the black step, the scene before him transformed.

Buzz!

The scene before him was a blue planet.

"Earth?" Xu Jingming immediately recognized the planet before him. It was his hometown.

At the same time, Xu Jingming's consciousness rapidly plummeted, falling into Earth, falling into 'Xia Country,' falling to a desk inside an office building.

"Huh?" Xu Jingming looked at the computer in front of him, somewhat dazed. "A computer? This old antique is something from decades ago."

At the same time, a memory flooded into his mind.

"My name is Zhang Lei. I am a 35-year-old programmer with a father, mother, father-in-law, mother-in-law, and grandfather, a total of five elders, a wife, and two children?" Xu Jingming blinked. "This sixth planet's test is truly powerful, actually constructing a background based on Earth's civilization history."

"According to the description, the illusions are all life's predicaments?" Xu Jingming was somewhat puzzled. He could only proceed step by step, observing everything within the illusion.

"Ding-ling-ling."

The phone rang.

Xu Jingming picked up the smartphone in his pocket.

The simple memory instilled in him allowed Xu Jingming to understand ‘Zhang Lei’s’ life over the past 30 years quite well. As a cosmic lifeform, his consciousness was so powerful that he naturally received all the memory information with ease.

Xu Jingming gently touched the phone: "Hello."

"Husband, remember the son's tuition fees! The tutor has already urged us. We don't have many class hours left." His wife urged him on the phone.

"Okay, okay, I'll pay today." Xu Jingming said immediately.

"Dudu—" The other end of the phone hung up.

As soon as he hung up, another call came.

"Huh?" Xu Jingming answered with doubts. It was a call from the bank.

"Mr. Zhang Lei, we are calling to inform you that the wealth management investment you made in our bank, the third-party company is unable to redeem the due amount…" The information inside the phone made Xu Jingming stunned.

…

Night fell.

Xu Jingming, who had been busy all day, drove a gasoline car and returned home. It was already ten o'clock when he got home.

The children were already asleep.

"You're back?" The old mother heated up the food and put it on the table. "Don't always work so late in the future."

"Yeah, I know." Xu Jingming nodded.

The old mother went back to the room, sleeping with her grandchildren.

The wife walked out of the bedroom at this time and sat opposite Xu Jingming.

"Did you pay the tuition fee?" The wife stared at Xu Jingming.

"Paid, paid." Xu Jingming immediately said, "Paid online, bought 180 class hours, and got 20 class hours as a gift."

"Remember the property fee for the community." The wife said, "If you don't pay it again… the car won't be able to enter the community."

Xu Jingming nodded.

You have to pay the property fee to refresh the car access card.

"By the way, do you know what day it is tomorrow?" The wife suddenly smiled and looked at Xu Jingming.

Xu Jingming was stunned.

"Pretending to be stupid?" The wife glared.

"Oh, wedding anniversary!" Xu Jingming immediately said, "I know."

"It depends on your performance." The wife smiled and went back to the house.

Xu Jingming sat at the table, looking lonely at the food in front of him.

Suddenly a phone rang.

Xu Jingming answered the phone.

"Lao Zhang, you should know that the company's game has not been able to go online, supporting two or three hundred people... the company has been spending money all the time, but there is no income! The company can't really hold on! Although I'm very sorry, the boss decided to close the company..." The boss's call brought another bad news.

Xu Jingming was stunned.

The bank wealth management exploded, and now the job is gone?

Is this Zhang Lei's life dilemma?

"Bang." Suddenly, the wife rushed out in a hurry.

"What's wrong?" Xu Jingming looked at his wife.

"Quick! My dad was admitted to the hospital urgently and needs immediate surgery. The surgery fee is 80,000 yuan!" The wife said anxiously with red eyes, "Take the money quickly! Let's go to the hospital now."

Xu Jingming was stunned.

"No money?" The wife immediately said, "First find a way to raise money, and pay it back when the bank's wealth management expires."

The bank's wealth management is gone, how to pay it back?

This month's mortgage is still more than 10,000 yuan! The job is gone again!

Xu Jingming didn't dare to say, and rushed out quickly with his wife.

Whoosh——

A piece of illusory text finally appeared in mid-air in front of Xu Jingming:

The first layer of life dilemma, the solution requirement: solve the dilemma encountered by Zhang Lei, within one year, make Zhang Lei's family harmonious and have tens of millions of assets. (It is forbidden to use martial arts)

…

Without the use of martial arts, Xu Jingming had no good way.

First, he and his wife raised money together and paid for the surgery. But the father-in-law was hospitalized, and the cost of the hospital was a bottomless pit, costing thousands of dollars every day! The Zhang Lei couple couldn't breathe.

The news that the job was lost was also known to the wife. Xu Jingming tried to find a job, but it was difficult to find a new job in a short time, so the wife could only go to work alone.

Medical expenses, mortgage pressure, the wife's pressure is getting bigger and bigger, and her temper is getting worse and worse.

When the news that the bank's wealth management exploded could not be concealed, the wife could no longer bear it! She collapsed and filed for divorce.

When the divorce was filed, the illusion dissipated!

"Failed?" Xu Jingming returned to the foot of the Black Pyramid again, opened his personal panel, and watched the time, "I spent half a month in the mental illusion, and only one hour has passed in reality?"

With the mental consciousness of a cosmic life, doing some simple things, the time acceleration of hundreds of times can be easily tolerated.

Moreover, in the dilemma of life, the time of sleep passes in the blink of an eye.

"It is forbidden to use martial arts, how to solve this life dilemma?" Xu Jingming also had a headache.

He practiced martial arts since he was a child, and entered the national team in college. In this life, his mind is mainly on martial arts!

Now that the use of martial arts is prohibited, wanting to solve 'Zhang Lei's life dilemma' made Xu Jingming a little annoyed. Although he had some ideas, to make Zhang Lei's family harmonious and have tens of millions of assets within a short year... he had no confidence at all.

…

Observation Space.

After Xu Jingming entered the sixth planet, the Permanent Observer naturally paid more attention.

After all, the further he goes, the greater Xu Jingming's potential!

And the probability of Xu Jingming joining the 'Seventeen Top Forces' is very low, and he will most likely accept the Permanent Observer's invitation, after all, they are all from the Wu Hook Star Alliance.

"The sixth planet has a hundred kinds of life dilemmas, which require a high degree of mind." The Permanent Observer looked at it, "If he can overcome a hundred kinds of life dilemmas, then, in his life... no matter what kind of dilemma, it is unlikely to defeat him!"

"Only by not being hindered by the dilemma of life can there be a glimmer of hope to become a ninth-order Source Life." The Permanent Observer thought to himself.

Of course, it's just a glimmer of hope.

Becoming a ninth-order is too difficult!

"Huh?"

The Permanent Observer was suddenly stunned.

Because Xu Jingming was excluded from the first layer of steps and fell to the bottom of the tower.

"What, he can't even stand on the first step?" The Permanent Observer was a little surprised. He glanced at the short fat man next to him. The short fat man was not paying attention to Xu Jingming at the moment, but was paying attention to some explorers in his hometown.

The Permanent Observer frowned slightly, looking at Xu Jingming at the bottom of the tower.

"Could it be that my fellow villager has little life experience?"

"Otherwise it shouldn't be, a hundred kinds of life dilemmas, the first layer is just a start! It's called despair and horror later." The Permanent Observer wondered.

…

Yes, Xu Jingming is only 31 years old! Compared with those cosmic lives who have lived for hundreds or even thousands of years, he has much less life experience.

Moreover, he has not been trained in 'life dilemmas'.

Xu Jingming temporarily withdrew from the Mysterious Land and returned to the personal space of the virtual world network.

Sitting on the sofa, Xu Jingming drank boiled water and pondered silently.

"How to solve the life dilemma?" Xu Jingming tapped lightly and began to collect information on the virtual world network.

Even cosmic citizens will encounter various dilemmas in their lives, so Xu Jingming found a lot of similar information!

"Solve the life dilemma? Does this belong to the humanities category?" Xu Jingming was stunned.

"Humanities?"

Xu Jingming's heart moved.

In the universe, the academic examination is divided into two categories! One is the science and technology category, which is the main category, and there is no upper limit. Not to mention the academic level of 100, there are even 120 and 130 levels. For example, Zhou Wu, the cosmic legend that Xu Jingming once knew, had an academic level exceeding 150, and was the highest academic level among human beings in the entire universe at that time.

The second is the humanities category. Even if the academic points in the humanities category are full in theory and practice, it is only level 60! But the humanities category is still very important.

As a separate category in the two major categories of academic qualifications, the 'humanities category' has a very significant impact on the continuation of civilization and the lives of individuals.

"Humanities category? The top talents in the humanities category are those who strategize and can predict things." Xu Jingming thought, "And we Earth happen to have such a person. He is still my agent!"

Soon—

In Xu Jingming's personal space, Pang Ze was invited to come.

"Mr. Pang, I have something to ask for." Xu Jingming said.

"What's the matter?" Pang Ze asked. For the most promising peerless genius in the entire Earth, Pang Ze is naturally willing to do his best to assist him.

"If you encounter a life dilemma, how should you solve it?" Xu Jingming asked.

"Can you explain the content in detail?" Pang Ze asked.

Xu Jingming was stunned.

How to say?

There's no way to say it! For example, in the first layer of dilemma, you will encounter various problems within a year.

"You may encounter many life dilemmas, all kinds of them." Xu Jingming said, "If you have to solve these life dilemmas?"

"Solve a lot of life dilemmas?" Pang Ze thought for a while and said, "I can help you find a way to solve one or two things, but if you want to solve a lot of dilemmas? You need to master the knowledge yourself."

"Master the knowledge?" Xu Jingming asked.

"Humanities knowledge is all-encompassing." Pang Ze said, "Solving life dilemmas is just one of the branches."

"Please teach me, Mr. Pang." Xu Jingming said, "I hope to master this skill as soon as possible."

Pang Ze nodded slightly.

As an existence that is almost full-level on the road of humanities, he naturally knows how to teach.

"These are the three books that I think are most worth reading to solve life dilemmas." Pang Ze quickly bought three books, "You should read the three books first! After reading them, I will send you to the 'virtual world' for learning, for half a month of study."

"Almost, you will have enough theoretical knowledge." Pang Ze said, "Half a month of theoretical study, followed by practice! Practice is the most important thing. Many people are just armchair strategists, and when they really encounter life dilemmas, they still fall into despair."

"How much you can learn and how much you can understand depends on your personal potential." Pang Ze said.

At that time, Pang Ze's learning environment was terrible. At that time, he used the virtual room of Earth civilization, and could only log in for a few hours a day, and no one pointed him, groping to learn. In just a few years, Pang Ze's humanities broke through level 50, and the Cosmic Human Alliance took the initiative to help him upgrade to 'Cosmic Life'.

Nowadays, with his outstanding achievements in humanities, Pang Ze can easily obtain high income in the virtual world, and has become Earth's richest man today.

He took a lot of detours at the beginning.

Now helping Xu Jingming is pointing out the fastest way.

"Okay." Xu Jingming believed in the other party very much. As the two people with the highest achievements in Earth civilization today, they also have a sense of mission. Earth civilization is about to rise... the two of them must unite and help each other.

Xu Jingming sat down and immediately began to read these three books and began to study in the humanities.

"Half a month of theoretical study, followed by practice, will be carried out directly on the sixth planet." Xu Jingming thought to himself, he still longed to enter the seventh planet.