Chapter 23 Subsidiary Universe

Xu Jingming crossed the flame world area and approached the nearest patterned stone pillar.

The surrounding world turned dark again, but the temperature continued to rise.

"How strange."

"The closer you get to the patterned stone pillar, the higher the temperature, but the darker the world becomes." Xu Jingming looked back at the direction of the flame world, which was the brightest.

Xu Jingming looked remotely at the nearest towering patterned stone pillar in the distance. Although the distance was still far, the patterned stone pillar was 1.6 light-years high, such a majestic height… Xu Jingming could naturally see its appearance clearly.

It was carved with patterns. Although he couldn't feel any aura, there was an invisible sense of oppression.

This was a high-dimensional object, a natural suppression of low-dimensional universe creatures.

"Whoosh."

Xu Jingming approached with short-distance teleports. The closer he got to the center, the more dangerous it became. He was also afraid of teleporting too close, encountering big trouble and losing his life directly, so he used short-distance teleports.

Although he would be resurrected if he lost his life, that would be too embarrassing. Losing his life while exploring his own subsidiary universe? And losing his No. 9 Primordial Star Armor? Too embarrassing!

Hmm?

When Xu Jingming was about 100 billion kilometers away from the patterned stone pillar, he felt something was wrong.

This patterned stone pillar? Xu Jingming looked. The towering patterned stone pillar faintly overflowed with heat, and streams of heat surged and dissipated.

So the further out you go, the lower the temperature! The closer you get to the patterned stone pillar, the higher the temperature.

"So the heat of the subsidiary universe originates from the patterned stone pillar?" Xu Jingming looked up.

From such a close distance, he could see bursts of heat waves erupting from the patterns. The heat waves erupting every moment probably exceeded the heat released by a star in its entire life. Therefore, even when dissipated to the outermost area, it could nurture cosmic fruit trees and flame monkeys.

"How can there be such terrible energy?" Xu Jingming watched the patterned stone pillar continuously release heat.

"Hmm?"

In a trance, Xu Jingming felt that this patterned stone pillar was like a miniature Primordial Star.

"Yes, Primordial Star." Xu Jingming thought, "Secretary-General Blackheaven said that he determined that the cosmic fruit was related to the Primordial Star lineage after observing that cosmic fruit! He believed that the creator of the subsidiary universe was also a high-dimensional life studying Primordial Stars."

The Primordial Star is the greatest celestial body in high-dimensional space.

Among high-dimensional lifeforms, many are studying the Primordial Star, drawing strength from it.

"Continue to approach!" Xu Jingming wanted to feel it from a closer distance. 50 billion kilometers, 30 billion kilometers, 10 billion kilometers. The closer he got, the higher the temperature became, and there even began to be an invisible repulsive force.

Xu Jingming felt uncomfortable with the strong repulsive force when he reached a distance of 9.8 billion kilometers.

"The repulsive force is too great. If I get any closer, I won't be able to observe in peace." Xu Jingming looked up and watched. The feeling of watching the high-dimensional patterned stone pillar from 9.8 billion kilometers away was already very strong.

A stone pillar felt like an incredibly terrifying fireball—a miniature Primordial Star.

Hot, boundless, destroying everything!!

"It's different from 'Primordial Star Conjecture'." Xu Jingming watched the stone pillar. "The Primordial Star represented by the stone pillar seems to be transforming into a high-dimensional celestial body, even more solid! Heavier! Unstoppable!"

Xu Jingming watched like this, understanding the Primordial Star from another perspective.

After watching for a long time, Xu Jingming closed his eyes.

He visualized the Primordial Star in his mind.

This time, the visualized 'Primordial Star' absorbed some of the insights from the patterned stone pillar, and the Primordial Star also had a 'solid' meaning. It was the greatest celestial body in high-dimensional space, and also the most solid celestial body.

Xu Jingming felt that the 'Primordial Star' in his visualization was looking at him more closely, and it was also affecting his mind and consciousness, making his mind and consciousness more stable and solid.

"The Primordial Star path of the subsidiary universe represents another angle of the Primordial Star." Xu Jingming thought to himself, "It's made me understand it a little deeper."

"I'm closer to the real Primordial Star."

Xu Jingming understood.

Official members of the Primordial Star lineage learned the full version of 'Primordial Star Conjecture' from the first to tenth level when they received the inheritance. Therefore, Xu Jingming and the others would understand other core chapters to deepen their understanding of the Primordial Star.

But the stone pillars of the subsidiary universe were different from the nine core chapters.

"By the way, nine of the thirty-six stone pillars are broken and fallen." Xu Jingming thought, "Can I get closer to those broken stone pillars?"

Whoosh.

Xu Jingming immediately began to detour and approach a broken patterned stone pillar.

"The repulsive force of the broken patterned stone pillar is indeed weakened." Xu Jingming showed joy. He kept approaching, 6 billion kilometers, 3 billion kilometers, but when he approached about 1 billion kilometers, the repulsive force was still bearable, but an invisible mental influence began.

"Buzzing."

Invisible fluctuations affected Xu Jingming's mind and consciousness. He had a drunken feeling, and the broken patterned stone pillar in front of him was twisting and shaking in his vision.

He could only retreat. After retreating hundreds of millions of kilometers, the invisible fluctuations were weak enough to be ignored.

"After all, I am also the most top-notch lifeform in the real universe—a tenth-level Origin Lifeform, and I also have the Primordial Star Armor, but I still can't really get close to them." Xu Jingming sighed secretly.

"Can I get closer with other methods?" Xu Jingming stretched out his hand, and the Primordial Star Armor threads spread rapidly. "Primordial Star Armor threads are a special material and are not afraid of mental influence."

When the Primordial Star Armor threads extended to a position about a hundred kilometers near the broken patterned stone pillar, the invisible repulsive force was too strong, preventing it from getting closer.

"I don't believe it." Xu Jingming swooshed out of this space-time and entered the high-dimensional space.

Standing in high-dimensional space, Xu Jingming used the power of the Primordial Star Armor to condense a large hand, wanting to touch the patterned stone pillar.

"Whoosh!"

As soon as he descended from the high dimension and appeared at a position several hundred kilometers from the patterned stone pillar, the terrifying heat annihilated the power of the 'large hand' condensed by Xu Jingming, and the large hand turned into nothingness.

"Primordial Star Armor threads, directly descend to the surface of the patterned stone pillar." Xu Jingming tried again, but he couldn't descend at all. The invisible space-time repulsion was too strong.

Xu Jingming tried seven stone pillars out of the thirty-six stone pillars, some intact and some broken.

But Xu Jingming couldn't touch any of them.

"The cosmic spirit in that palace warned me not to get close. I can't even break through the range of these patterned stone pillars." Xu Jingming had already discovered that the internal area shrouded by the 36 patterned stone pillars had invisible forces that were too terrifying, and he couldn't penetrate it at all.

Xu Jingming couldn't even descend in high dimension, let alone space-time travel. He couldn't create a space-time wormhole leading to the palace nearby.

"Forget it."

"These patterned stone pillars are here and won't disappear. I'll study them carefully first. When my strength is strong enough, I'll naturally have a way to deal with them." Xu Jingming thought. The merit exchange within the universe human race would have some high-dimensional weapons.

Those high-dimensional weapons were also very large, but as long as he could control and use them, they could be large or small. Xu Jingming felt that when he mastered these patterned stone pillars, he should be able to shrink them.

"The thirty-six stone pillars are all different. They can be regarded as the thirty-six aspects of the Primordial Star." Xu Jingming began to focus on watching. The scenes of these stone pillars could not be photographed and recorded.

Xu Jingming could remember the parts he watched and understood, and he would forget the parts he didn't understand.

So he could only watch them over and over again, and his understanding of the Primordial Star was constantly deepening. Xu Jingming stayed in the subsidiary universe for half a month, and felt that he had gained a lot.

"In the end, there is no detailed inheritance. Although there are thirty-six patterned stone pillars to observe, I can't understand them thoroughly." Xu Jingming thought, "If I continue to study, I will only become more confused."

"I'll go back first, study 'Primordial Star Conjecture', accumulate more, and then come to observe."

The Primordial Star visualized in Xu Jingming's mind also incorporated some of the gains from the thirty-six patterned stone pillars. The visualized Primordial Star became more and more real, and his mental power also improved a lot, but he still didn't break through to the 11th level.

Whoosh!

Xu Jingming stepped out of the shackles of space-time and came to high-dimensional space.

Looking down at the entire subsidiary universe from the high dimension, Xu Jingming could see it more clearly. This subsidiary universe was completely centered on the palace.

The two high-dimensional fruit trees were two trees at the palace gate.

The 36 patterned stone pillars, on the one hand, guarded the entire palace, and on the other hand, provided a continuous stream of energy.

The dissipated energy...formed three flame worlds at the outermost edge, nurturing some cosmic fruit trees, flame monkeys, and the like.

"The patterned stone pillars, high-dimensional fruit trees, and the palace are the most important things in this subsidiary universe." Xu Jingming was very confident. After all, he had just entered the tenth level, and his knowledge accumulation was still weak. When his tenth-level accumulation was deep enough, he estimated that he would be able to crack a lot of it.

If he became a cosmic legend, he estimated that he would be able to completely control this subsidiary universe.

Xu Jingming, who had only cultivated for more than two hundred years, was very patient.

"Whoosh."

Xu Jingming used high-dimensional travel and left the patterned stone pillar area, and then returned to the real universe through the high-dimensional gate.

In the starry sky, Xu Jingming first checked the intelligence. After all, he had been away from the real universe for half a month, and he couldn't receive news from the virtual world network.

"Well, medium and large-scale plundering by the Prison Clan only happens once every one or two years. It didn't happen in the past half month." Xu Jingming nodded slightly. He also estimated that the probability of a medium and large-scale plundering happening recently was extremely low, so he went to the subsidiary universe for a longer time.

Whoosh.

Xu Jingming took a step, a super-long-distance space-time shuttle, and rushed to the headquarters of the Primordial Research Institute.

At the headquarters of the Primordial Research Institute.

On this quiet planet, Xu Jingming landed in front of Vice President Chimon's small building.

"Vice President Chimon." Xu Jingming walked into the living room on the first floor and saw that Vice President Chimon was already waiting. Before leaving, he had notified Vice President Chimon through the virtual world network.

"Have you harvested the cosmic fruits?" Vice President Chimon asked with anticipation in his eyes, smiling. "I harvested more than I expected." Xu Jingming asked, "Vice President, are 50 cosmic fruits enough?"

"50 are enough."

Vice President Chimon smiled,

"If you can't understand with 50 cosmic fruits, it won't make much sense to have more."

Xu Jingming nodded. With a wave of his hand, he constructed a small space, and the space contained black and red fruits, cosmic fruits of various sizes.

The smallest was 0.8 kilometers in diameter, and the largest was 2.7 kilometers in diameter.