Chapter 196 The Third Realm

The purple-robed man, Tu Tiemu, stood in the starry sky, watching the Yuanchu Armor carry Xu Jingming as he fled.

"Human Wu Ming lost consciousness, yet his high-dimensional treasure could carry him away at high-dimensional speed. Is that Yuanchu Armor Number 9?" The purple-robed man, Tu Tiemu, speculated. After all, the Void Divine Race had fought the human race for countless years, and they had intelligence records of some of the human race's most famous treasures.

"The dean of the Yuanchu Research Institute really values this human Wu Ming. But can you save him?" The purple-robed man looked forward to the story that would unfold.

High-dimensional lifeforms wouldn't interfere in the conflicts of 'low-dimensional lifeforms.'

If a high-dimensional lifeform from the human side dared to step in, it would incur the wrath of a group of 'Void Divine Race' high-dimensional lifeforms! Although they were wary of the human race's three supreme existences who wielded forbidden weapons, the Void Divine Race would not tolerate it if the humans broke the rules. They would have to start a war just to save face! In this vast universe, only the Void Divine Race bullied other races; no other race dared to provoke the Void Divine Race!

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Inside the Yuanchu Research Institute headquarters planet, deep within the mountain where countless Yuanchu Armors were stored—at the original location of Yuanchu Armor Number 9.

*Whoosh.*

A multicolored stream of light enveloped Xu Jingming and appeared here. Xu Jingming floated there, completely still.

"Secretary-General Heitian, Secretary-General Heitian." The multicolored stream of light emitted an anxious voice that echoed throughout the mountain.

Secretary-General Heitian appeared out of thin air, looking at Xu Jingming.

"Xu Jingming, what happened to him?" Secretary-General Heitian was somewhat puzzled. The unconscious Xu Jingming concealed an aura that made Secretary-General Heitian's heart tremble slightly.

"The aura within him?"

Secretary-General Heitian's expression changed drastically.

"The master was just finishing a transmission with his daughter on the tenth-order war star when an invisible mental attack invaded! I couldn't stop it at all! The master lost consciousness instantly," Little Nine said anxiously.

"Xu Jingming has reached the 11th level of mind power, and he has also taken the Abyssal Fire Lotus Seed, and he has your protection! To make him lose consciousness instantly… it must be a cosmic legend, and one skilled in mental attacks," Secretary-General Heitian said.

"Secretary-General Heitian, you have to save Master," Little Nine said anxiously.

"That cosmic legend's mental attack isn't important anymore." Secretary-General Heitian looked at Xu Jingming. After all, his true form was a high-dimensional lifeform. Even if he was only a splintered consciousness construct, he could still see a lot. "The key now is the other power within him. This power… within the Yuanchu Research Institute, perhaps only the dean can hope to save him. I already notified the dean at the first moment!"

"The dean is in high-dimensional space, very far from our universe. He can only send a splintered consciousness to descend," Secretary-General Heitian said. "We'll go to the Frost Palace first."

*Whoosh.*

Secretary-General Heitian disappeared with Xu Jingming.

Inside a seemingly ordinary palace on the Yuanchu Research Institute headquarters planet.

Secretary-General Heitian placed Xu Jingming on a hexagonal piece of ice. The moment Xu Jingming lay there, the terrifying coldness stopped the flow of time, and the cold also began to invade Xu Jingming's body.

*Whoosh!* Vice-Dean Chihmeng appeared beside them, revealing a look of shock as he looked at Xu Jingming lying there.

"What's going on?" Chihmeng also noticed Xu Jingming's condition.

"Vice-Dean Chihmeng," Secretary-General Heitian sighed, "I used the power of the Frost Palace to stop time in the area around Xu Jingming's body! And the Frost power is trying to freeze his body…"

"Stopping time combined with frost freezing—it's useless. Look, that terrifying aura is still transforming his body, transforming his mental power," Secretary-General Heitian said.

Chihmeng's expression was solemn. "Stopping time and frost freezing are useless? What power is this?"

"This is power that transcends 'time.' Let's wait for the dean," Secretary-General Heitian said. In fact, the moment he saw Xu Jingming, he had already made this judgment. Using the Frost Palace to suppress it was just a try. The result also proved his prediction.

"Logically speaking, there shouldn't be such power below high-dimensional lifeforms." Vice-Dean Chihmeng looked at Xu Jingming's body. Xu Jingming's skin tone was gradually darkening. With Vice-Dean Chihmeng's strength, he could clearly see that Xu Jingming's tenth-order origin life structure was being corroded and transformed.

The transformation of the life's fundamental structure was a fundamental transformation.

"He is no longer a tenth-order origin lifeform of the 'Heavenly Scale Evolution Method,' but another unknown origin lifeform," Vice-Dean Chihmeng said. "This is high-dimensional contamination, and it's contamination that ignores time stop." Although the two of them were strong, Chihmeng had yet to become a high-dimensional lifeform, and Secretary-General Heitian was only a constructed high-dimensional lifeform. Both of them lacked knowledge at the 'high-dimensional lifeform' level.

*Whoosh*—Suddenly, the temperature in the Frost Palace rose slightly.

Vice-Dean Chihmeng and Secretary-General Heitian turned their heads at the same time, only to see a short-haired, thin figure walking over with calm eyes. He looked at Xu Jingming.

"Dean," Vice-Dean Chihmeng and Secretary-General Heitian greeted him and breathed a sigh of relief.

The dean was far stronger than them in all aspects. After all, he had been an 'Eternal Realm' high-dimensional lifeform a long time ago. Having cultivated to this point, the three great high-dimensional lifeforms of the human race were able to match Gu Mo. Although the forbidden weapons played a role, they themselves were also terrifying.

The dean's thin face remained expressionless as he carefully observed Xu Jingming.

Low-dimensional lifeforms almost completely revealed themselves before him. He saw Xu Jingming's current physical transformation, mental power transformation, and that figure that shocked him.

"The figure in the robe!"

This didn't affect the dean. After all, he had even seen a real third-realm high-dimensional lifeform. Moreover, he had seen two of them that time!

"It's an image of a third-realm high-dimensional lifeform," the dean said. In an instant, he traced back time and saw everything that had happened before. He saw the purple-robed man, Tu Tiemu, crush that transparent crystal ball. "It's the Void Divine Race's cosmic legend, Tu Tiemu, deliberately releasing the image to completely contaminate Xu Jingming, wanting to make Xu Jingming a test subject for his path."

"A test subject? The Void Divine Race is playing such tricks again?" Vice-Dean Chihmeng's eyes flashed with anger.

"Images of third-realm high-dimensional lifeforms cannot be directly looked at," the dean said. "If a 'Nascent Realm' high-dimensional lifeform sees this image, it's just a small problem. But if a low-dimensional lifeform sees it, they will be completely contaminated."

"His body will become a眷族 *juan zu* (minion/dependent) of that third-realm high-dimensional lifeform! His mind and consciousness will also be completely influenced by that third-realm high-dimensional lifeform, becoming a loyal servant of that great being," the dean said. "Fortunately, the five 'third-realm high-dimensional lifeforms' corresponding to the five major inheritances that the Void Divine Race publicly shares have all died in the distant past."

"So Xu Jingming can still maintain his self," the dean said as he looked at Xu Jingming, silently using his power to try and dispel 'her' image. "How did third-realm high-dimensional lifeforms die?" Chihmeng asked curiously. "Didn't they say that third-realm high-dimensional lifeforms can change the past and lock onto the future? Even if they actively rush into the Yuanchu Star and burn to ashes, they can be resurrected? They can't die at all?"

"There's a saying circulating in high-dimensional space: If a third-realm high-dimensional lifeform doesn't want to die, they won't die. As for how they died, I don't know," the dean said as he looked at Xu Jingming lying there. "What's fortunate is that what Xu Jingming saw was the figure of a dead third-realm high-dimensional lifeform."

"The Void Divine Race wouldn't dare to let low-dimensional lifeforms exchange for images of living 'third-realm high-dimensional lifeforms.' That's a blasphemy, an offense!" Secretary-General Heitian said. "If a third-realm high-dimensional lifeform descends in anger, the entire Void Divine Race will be destroyed."

The dean nodded, looking at Xu Jingming and studying the power of erosion lurking within Xu Jingming's body.

"Dean, what should we do next?" Chihmeng asked.

"The physical contamination is a minor matter. The contamination and distortion of the mind and consciousness are the most troublesome," the dean said. "I've already notified Island Lord of Time and Space and Tower Lord of Eternity. They will arrive soon."

"Island Lord of Time and Space and Tower Lord of Eternity will also come?" Chihmeng and Secretary-General Heitian were shocked.

It was rare for the human race's three supreme existences to descend.

For example, under normal circumstances, Chih Tung could only see Island Lord of Time and Space three times in his life. This was still because of the relationship between a son and his mother.

This showed…

The three supreme existences would not easily send their splintered consciousness constructs back. This time, it was for Xu Jingming! The splintered consciousnesses of all three supreme existences of the human race had descended.

*Whoosh! Whoosh!*

Suddenly, two figures appeared.

Vice-Dean Chihmeng and Secretary-General Heitian looked over.

One of the two figures was a middle-aged, weathered man dressed in simple robes. He exuded a sacred and detached aura, and one could vaguely see the terrifying abyss behind him, but his own transcendence completely suppressed the darkness of the abyss.

The other was a woman. This woman's appearance was difficult to make out. Although she had already walked up close, Vice-Dean Chihmeng and Secretary-General Heitian felt that this woman was very far away from them, as if she existed in another dimension.

"Sorry for the trouble, asking the two of you to come back. I'll bear the cost of the descent," the dean said.

"Xu Jingming is a genius of our human race. We should naturally come back. This Void Divine Race is becoming increasingly unscrupulous, taking the geniuses of various races in the universe as their test subjects." Tower Lord of Eternity's voice carried anger.

"We shouldn't interfere in the battles of low-dimensional lifeforms." Island Lord of Time and Space looked at Xu Jingming lying there. "Dean Chu, have you tried everything? Even you can't dispel it?"

The dean nodded. "After seeing Xu Jingming, I tried seven types of high-dimensional flames, such as Pure Spirit Flame, Sinful Flame, and Karma Flame, but I couldn't dispel that image. The image of a third-realm high-dimensional lifeform is already so terrifying. The gap between us and the third realm is really too great."

"Let me try." Island Lord of Time and Space stepped forward. "I will draw on the water of the mother river from high-dimensional space to see if it can wash away his mind and consciousness."

The dean and Tower Lord of Eternity nodded and watched.