That elliptical scale, over ten kilometers long and wide, was over 800 meters thick at its thickest point, and that was after being suppressed and shrunk.

Xu Jingming observed some of the subtle compositions of the scale.

He couldn't peek at the core "source power basic life structure," only at some shallow layers.

"Too perfect," Xu Jingming said, looking at it. "Even the shallowest structure of the scale is so perfect."

This shallowest structure was far more perfect than the life structure of the tenth-order source life he had been studying.

Its structure was like a vast and strict army! Countless parts worked together perfectly! This perfection left Xu Jingming breathless, making him look up in awe. He understood in his heart that this was a slight characteristic of a high-dimensional life.

"A glimpse of the leopard reveals the whole."

Xu Jingming also understood that he was only seeing the tip of the iceberg. From this, one could see how complex the life structure of a high-dimensional life form was. No wonder so few people in the history of the human race had become supreme beings.

As time passed, Xu Jingming gleaned more and more information, even peering deeper through the shallow layers.

*Chi chi chi*

Xu Jingming's eyes turned into vertical pupils, and a layer of black scales began to appear on the surface of his skin.

"Hmm?" Xu Jingming immediately woke up, controlling his own life structure. The layer of black scales that had condensed on the surface of his skin dissipated, and his eyes returned to normal.

Xu Jingming didn't take it to heart at all, because the Yuan Chu Research Institute's database had long recorded: contact with higher dimensions would also be affected by higher dimensions. The source of Xu Jingming's evolution method was the high-dimensional life Heavenly Python, so he was naturally easily affected by the scales of the Heavenly Python.

"I'm only affected by being engrossed in observation. The Prison race monarchs directly integrate high-dimensional objects into their bodies," Xu Jingming thought to himself with emotion. He wouldn't dare to integrate the Heavenly Python scales into his body, no matter how crazy he was.

If he really integrated them, he estimated that he would lose control.

"Collect." With a wave of his hand, Xu Jingming directly put the Heavenly Python scales into the miniature attached space carried by the Number Nine Yuan Chu battle armor. The miniature attached space was a spherical space with a diameter of over 30,000 kilometers. Even if the Heavenly Python scales weren't compressed, they could be stored.

Of course, very few tenth-order source lives possessed such a vast attached space.

"Stored in the attached space of the Yuan Chu battle armor, I can observe and comprehend it at any time." Xu Jingming's mental power could easily penetrate it.

"Return."

With one step, Xu Jingming traveled through space and time, returning to the distant Black Iron Star.

Black Iron Star was the garrison base guarded by him, Senior Brother Jian, and Senior Brother Yi Jiu. It needed to be kept secret and wasn't suitable to tell Senior Brother Saka and Mr. Lan Xie.

One of the stars in the vast territory of the Yuan Star civilization's royal family, one of the three major high-level civilizations of the human race in the universe. This star was also one of the stars bestowed upon Lu Na Xing by the royal family.

Lu Na Xing lived in seclusion here.

He was still in the accumulation stage after becoming a tenth-order at a young age and hadn't been dispatched to the front line. "Finally got it."

Lu Na Xing was in a large laboratory deep underground on the planet. He looked excitedly at the black mask in front of him. There was an embedded groove on the forehead of the mask. "I actually found this mask carrier."

A peculiar crystal slowly floated out from between Lu Na Xing's eyebrows. The black mask also flew up, actively welcoming the crystal.

When the crystal flew into the embedded groove, the black light on the surface of the entire mask greatly increased, emitting a rich dark aura.

"Whew."

The black mask was worn on Lu Na Xing's face and integrated into his skin.

"Master, I've finally found the mask carrier. The auxiliary ability is completely restored," a joyful voice sounded in Lu Na Xing's mind.

"Dark Twelve Masks! I actually obtained a complete one!" Lu Na Xing revealed a look of excitement. "Legend has it that a supreme being of the human race in ancient times, the Dark Mother, wanted to cultivate source life, so she created the Twelve Masks. Each of the twelve masks has magical effects. However, the human race has experienced many catastrophes, and history has been interrupted many times. The supreme beings of ancient times died one after another. Only two of the Twelve Masks have been passed down, one in the Space-Time Island and one within the Abyss Civilization's royal family."

"I didn't expect that I would coincidentally gather a complete Dark Mask." Lu Na Xing was very excited.

He had talent on his path of evolution, but he was able to achieve his current achievements because of a chance encounter when he was young. He obtained the core of the mask on a native planet by chance, but without the mask carrier, the core could only exert less than 10% of its power.

It could only operate fully with a carrier.

"With a complete Dark Mask, I hope to be able to borrow the power of high dimensions, right?" Lu Na Xing asked. "Master, I am best at the dark aspect. The most compatible with the *Yuan Chu Star Conjecture* is naturally the Dark Chapter in the core chapter. With the master's accumulation to reach the tenth-order level, I believe the master will soon be able to borrow the power of high dimensions," the Dark Mask responded.

The *Yuan Chu Star Conjecture* has nine core chapters! Xu Jingming obtained the inheritance of the Light Chapter! Lu Na Xing obtained the inheritance of the Dark Chapter!

The Yuan Chu Star, in addition to the light side, also has a dark side. Xu Jingming had already comprehended this at the eighth-order Starry Sky Life stage.

"After all, the Dark Mother is a high-dimensional life at the first level. Compared to the Dean, she is quite far behind," Lu Na Xing thought. "The Dark Twelve Masks and the numbered Yuan Chu battle armor created by the Dean are also a level apart."

"However, a complete Dark Mask would be worth at least 500 million merits if it were exchanged for merits."

"With its help, I am more likely to ascend the throne."

"After ascending the throne, I will be able to have more resources and have a better chance of impacting the universe's legends." Lu Na Xing also had ambition.

In terms of talent, he seemed to be very high, but he was far inferior to Xu Jingming, Chi Meng, and others. This was still on the premise that he had obtained the core of the Dark Mask very early. Without such help, the time it would take to become a tenth-order source life would probably be several times longer.

Therefore, Lu Na Xing was very self-aware and had to rely on external forces to make himself go faster.

On this day, the Eternal Academy of Sciences sent items to various places. The three strongest forces and the Cosmic Human Alliance would regularly exchange merits and distribute some items, so that human powerhouses would have the opportunity to master stronger powers and go further on the path of evolution.

However, even with the help of many external objects, very few universe legends were born in the human race, year after year.

Xu Jingming focused on all aspects of the path of evolution. Only when a mission arrived did he immediately set off to perform the mission.

Because of his deterrence, the Prison race only occasionally carried out small-scale looting in some marginal and remote areas. Those places were too remote, and it took Xu Jingming a long time to rush there.

Medium and large-scale looting was the main strategy of the Prison race.

"Medium and large-scale looting involves dozens of teams attacking hundreds of places at the same time, and I can only intercept one place."

Thirty-six years after the merit exchange at the Eternal Academy of Sciences, Xu Jingming was standing in the sky above a life planet that had been turned into ruins. His light enveloped the planet, incinerating the Prison race lord.

The Prison race generally acted alone now, so Xu Jingming could only intercept one at a time. He could only encounter two or three acting together on very rare occasions.

"The Prison race has also become more cunning. The looting time is shorter, and they immediately escape after taking the most valuable items," Xu Jingming thought. "I can only intercept once in each wave of looting."

After learning about Xu Jingming's methods, the Prison race naturally changed.

With hundreds of places being looted at the same time, the impact of Xu Jingming only being able to kill in one place was much smaller.

The Prison race was more cautious! This made the interception efficiency of the human tenth-order source lives and ninth-order source life teams very low. Fortunately, the number of human source lives was large enough, and they were scattered in various places. They could also intercept successfully when they encountered those who were nearby.

"Whew."

The first wave of action, the second wave, the third wave, the fourth wave, the fifth wave...

Because the losses were small, the Prison race continued to loot. Teams that suffered certain losses retreated, and teams that didn't suffer losses continued to loot.

The human side was also intercepting, but they would also encounter the Prison race's monarchs, so casualties would naturally occur. "It's the 79th wave."

Xu Jingming patiently waited for the next order in a cosmic starry sky.

"This time, it has lasted for 79 waves, which means that some Prison race teams have suffered very little loss in 79 consecutive waves of looting and are still continuing to loot." Xu Jingming had no way to do anything. Medium and large-scale looting was like this.

"Although looting thousands of life planets is like a drop in the ocean for the entire Heavenly Python Cosmic Domain, it is a catastrophe for each of those planets." Xu Jingming still worked very hard.

He tried his best to rush to each mission as quickly as possible.

He tried to deter those Prison race members and achieved a certain effect. Now, compared to before Xu Jingming's arrival, the degree of looting in the three cosmic domains bordering the Prison race has been reduced by about one-third.

"There's another mission." Xu Jingming waited in place for more than an hour and suddenly received another mission.

The Prison race was conducting its 80th wave of looting.

Each wave of looting was separated by a period of time. On the one hand, the Prison race had to travel, and on the other hand, it was to cool down the spacecraft so that it could escape faster.

After all, Xu Jingming was very familiar with intercepting at the border for more than a hundred years.

First, he used space-time travel to arrive near the destination, a few light-years away. Then, he used high-dimensional walking to descend near the target. Xu Jingming used high-dimensional walking every time to cautiously prevent the Prison race from ambushing him. In fact, the Prison race had ambushed him many times, wanting to remove Xu Jingming, this thorn in their side! But they failed every time. Xu Jingming was very cautious. He would turn around and leave if he detected danger with high-dimensional walking.

"Hmm?"

This time, during high-dimensional walking, when Xu Jingming was observing the 15.2-light-year range of the cosmic starry sky as a model, he didn't discover any Prison race ambush, but he did discover a peculiar field.

First, he descended, and endless light enveloped the area. He skillfully incinerated a Prison race lord and collected the spoils of war. Then, Xu Jingming immediately used high-dimensional walking again to break free from the shackles of this cosmic space-time and entered the high-dimensional space.

"What is that?" Xu Jingming stared at one place.

The light-year range of the cosmic starry sky was like a model, but this model was vaguely connected to a space-time. Xu Jingming could only see the connection point from the high-dimensional observation. As for the connected space-time, it was blurry and unclear.

"A normal cosmic space-time is still connected to a small space-time?" Xu Jingming was surprised. "High-dimensional observation can only clearly see the connection point?"

"Master, that is an attached universe space," Xiao Jiu said with surprise. "And I didn't see a high-dimensional gate. It should be an unowned attached universe space."

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