Chapter 1 The Beginning

Although Li Miaomiao and Xu Lixing were very worried, they also knew that they had no choice but to accept the human race's transfer order.

They didn't log into the virtual world network again, but instead spent quality time with Xu Jingming.

"The Tianmang Star Alliance is close to the Prison race, so it is often raided and attacked by Prison race source lifeforms." Xu Jingming sat in the courtyard, chatting with his daughter, "In the Tianmang Star Alliance, almost every life planet is likely to be attacked. Once a Prison race source lifeform arrives, it will be a catastrophe for those life planets."

"Almost every life planet?" Xu Lixing's expression changed slightly, "Is it that serious?"

"Because a star alliance is vast, with countless planets, some lucky ones may only encounter an attack once every 100,000 years! While the life planets on the front lines encounter an attack on average every few hundred years," Xu Jingming said.

Xu Lixing was still worried: "When Prison race source lifeforms attack, there's almost no hope of escape, right?"

"Yeah."

Xu Jingming nodded.

Even if there happened to be a human source lifeform present, it would generally be difficult to protect the people of a life planet. When an enemy attack arrives... it is an apocalyptic catastrophe for the people of the planet!

"That's terrible," Xu Lixing said softly.

"The Hunter Star Alliance is within the human territory and rarely experiences war. But some star alliances on the border have been constantly subjected to racial conflicts," Xu Jingming said. "My mission is to intercept those Prison race source lifeforms. The number of Prison race powerhouses is limited. If they are killed too many, they will naturally be afraid, and the looting will decrease."

Xu Lixing looked at her father and said softly, "Dad, you said you can guarantee your safety, right?"

"Hahaha..." Xu Jingming laughed, "Don't you know who your dad is? Your dad is the fastest genius in the contemporary human race to become a source lifeform! The Primordial Research Institute will naturally give me powerful technological weapons."

Xu Lixing nodded, "Dad, even with the most powerful weapons, you still have to be careful."

Xu Jingming could feel his daughter's concern.

"Time to eat," Li Miaomiao called from the dining room.

"Let's go." The father and daughter got up.

This dinner was cooked by Li Miaomiao herself.

...

Night.

Li Miaomiao lay in Xu Jingming's arms, silent for a long time, "Jingming, I feel uneasy."

"Life always has different stages. As a source lifeform, I must step into a new stage," Xu Jingming comforted her. "Miaomiao, you must also learn to grow. You must also take charge of Pearwood Group, which is also your new stage."

"Yeah."

Li Miaomiao responded softly, "I will definitely manage Pearwood Group well."

The couple enjoyed the rare time together. In the future, they would only meet in the virtual world network.

As for when they would meet again in reality? No one knew how many years it would be.

...

The next day at noon.

Li Miaomiao, Xu Lixing, Xu Hong and his wife, Li Chen'an and his wife, and Grandpa Xu gathered to see Xu Jingming off.

"If anything happens in the future, contact me on the virtual world network at any time," Xu Jingming said with a smile. "I'm always online."

"We won't be by your side when you go to a different place," Xu's mother instructed. "You have to take care of yourself."

"Okay, Mom," Xu Jingming looked at his mother with a smile.

Grandpa Xu walked over, patted his grandson on the shoulder, and said, "Grandson, when you go to the battlefield, be cautious and don't be reckless! Only by surviving can you have output. If you live to become a tenth-level source lifeform, a cosmic legend, your value will be ten times a hundred times stronger than it is now, right?"

"Got it, Grandpa," Xu Jingming nodded, "I definitely won't be reckless."

Xu Lixing rushed over and hugged Xu Jingming tightly, without saying a word.

"It's time to go."

Xu Jingming released his daughter.

Looking at his family in front of him, Xu Jingming smiled and said, "The next time we meet, I might be a tenth-level source lifeform. I'm leaving!" As he said that, he disappeared without a trace.

The family members stared blankly.

He just disappeared like that?

"Battlefield." Xu Hong muttered to himself. Having lived in a peaceful era since childhood, he had never experienced war. He didn't expect that in the cosmic era, his son would have to go to the battlefield.

"Our son is the most outstanding," Xu's mother said from the side, her eyes filled with hope, hoping that her son could survive safely on the alien battlefield.

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Xu Jingming stood in the starry sky, looking at the beautiful blue planet in front of him.

"I'm leaving."

Xu Jingming then began to travel long distances.

Although the Primordial Research Institute had equipped him with an ordinary standard spaceship, with the No. 9 Primordial Battle Suit, Xu Jingming was one of the few in the entire Primordial Research Institute whose battle suit's travel distance surpassed that of the spaceship.

"I've been studying the space-time wormhole model these days, and I have a deeper understanding. I can better utilize the 'space shuttle' function of the Primordial Battle Suit. The maximum distance I can travel at one time is 290 million light-years." Xu Jingming felt the surrounding space-time distorting, and instantly shuttled through it. When the surrounding space-time stabilized, he had already left the Wugou Star Alliance range and arrived in a dark area.

"It truly lives up to its reputation as the most escape-proficient Primordial Battle Suit in the entire Primordial Research Institute," Xu Jingming exclaimed. "According to Chief Secretary Hei Tian, in terms of escaping and saving lives, even Vice-Dean Chi Meng's No. 1 Primordial Battle Suit is not as good as No. 9. What I need to do is to maximize its power."

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Xu Jingming carried out long-distance space shuttles one after another. He only needed to confirm that the approximate area where he was landing was free of fatal dangers.

Wearing the No. 9 Primordial Battle Suit, he could walk on flat ground even inside a black hole. There were very few places that could pose a danger to him, and they were easy to avoid.

"Spaceships need time to start, ignite, and prepare for wormhole travel! After one travel, they need a long time to cool down."

"But the Primordial Battle Suit allows for instantaneous travel. After traveling, it only takes a few seconds to stabilize the surrounding space-time before the next travel can be carried out. The efficiency is much higher."

Xu Jingming traversed countless galaxies, endless dark regions, and one star alliance after another as an individual.

"I've arrived."

Xu Jingming's speed in space travel was enough to rival 99% of tenth-level source lifeforms. In just about ten minutes, he arrived at his destination—the Ansu Star Alliance in the Tianmang Star Alliance.

"The Ansu Star Alliance has a maximum diameter of 830 million light-years. I'll choose a life planet in the central area." Xu Jingming saw a blue life planet after two space shuttles.

"That's the one, Ji Water Star." With a thought, Xu Jingming rented a residence on Ji Water Star through the virtual world network, with the lease term tentatively set at ten years.

...

Tianmang Star Alliance, Ansu Star Alliance, Ji Water Star.

This was an ordinary life planet with a population of more than three billion. The 'Noble District' was located in the most prosperous area of the planet, with a population of over one hundred million. The powerful figures in the starry sky had almost all gathered here.

In the evening, the sky was filled with sunset clouds, turning half the sky red.

"This is it."

Xu Jingming was wearing a light gray close-fitting robe, which was also the traditional clothing of Ji Water Star. When Xu Jingming landed on the planet, he glanced at the clothing of countless people and made slight changes to his own.

On the edge of the Noble District, Xu Jingming arrived at a villa. The villa door opened automatically, and a smart robot greeted him.

"Lord Ming, welcome to Residence 1033 of the Beifang Group. For the next ten years, I will be at your service." The smart robot was humble and polite.

Xu Jingming nodded and walked in.

After touring the residence, Xu Jingming leisurely walked out of his residence to stroll around. After all, he would be stationed in the Ansu Star Alliance for a period of time and would be living here, so he should familiarize himself with his future residence.

He saw a street-facing sword hall in the distance, with a name on the front door.

"Four Seasons Sword Hall." Xu Jingming nodded lightly.

"Prison race source lifeforms raid and plunder, plundering various resources, including 'virtual hosts' as a key target." Xu Jingming knew this. "The Prison race's technological strength is far inferior to that of the human race. Although they can manufacture virtual hosts, the cost is dozens of times higher than that of the human race. As for buying them? Virtual hosts sold to alien races... are priced at least ten times higher."

"Therefore, 99% of the life planets in the Tianmang Star Alliance do not have virtual hosts."

"Ordinary planetary lifeforms don't dare to directly learn gene evolution methods, fearing gene collapse. So they have to learn some simplified training methods." Xu Jingming knew this.

With a virtual host, one can directly try evolution methods in the virtual world, trying again and again until successful.

Without a virtual host?

One has to learn simplified methods, progressing step by step from low to high, until finally mastering the evolution method.

"Even if it's simplified, even if it's divided into several steps for gradual improvement, there are still many failures. With failure, the light ones are injured, and the heavy ones suffer bodily collapse and death," Xu Jingming sighed secretly.

"So in the Tianmang Star Alliance, the vast majority of planetary lifeforms have to risk life and death to evolve from the very beginning."

"And schools that teach simplified training methods are everywhere, even forming many schools of thought," Xu Jingming thought to himself.

After all, too many people are researching 'simplified evolution methods', including source lifeforms. As time passes, many schools of thought naturally form.

The Four Seasons Sword School...

...is a relatively famous school of thought. The Four Seasons Sword Hall can be seen on many life planets in the Tianmang Star Alliance.

"Bring me your restaurant's signature dishes." Xu Jingming came to a nearby restaurant, asked the waiter to prepare dishes for him, and sat in a corner to wait.

Soon the food and drinks were served.

Xu Jingming ate, drank, and tasted.

"Not bad." Xu Jingming was pleasantly surprised when he saw a teenager with a sword bag walking out of the Four Seasons Sword Hall in the distance.

"Hmm?"

Xu Jingming glanced at him, "This teenager, about fifteen or sixteen years old, has already mastered the complete evolution method?"

The teenager, Qiu Qingke, carried his sword bag and was still thinking, "I still owe 900,000 in loans, but being able to borrow a virtual room once to take the last step and master the complete evolution method is all worth it."

"Borrowing a virtual room for an hour costs one million, so expensive." The teenager thought to himself, "Fatty has borrowed a virtual room for more than a hundred hours and hasn't mastered the complete evolution method. I succeeded after borrowing it only twice. It's a pity, I'm poor."

"Mom and Dad, you two are so carefree, selling the house and buying two cosmic travel tickets to go on a潇洒 trip, completely ignoring your son." The teenager carried his sword bag towards Fatty's house, "I have to be Fatty's sparring partner! Fatty's dad is really generous with money."

The teenager suddenly glanced at a customer in a street-side restaurant. It was a man wearing a light gray robe, who was looking at him.

The two made eye contact.

The man in the light gray robe nodded slightly.

"Who is this uncle? I come here every day and haven't seen this person before. Could he be from the Sinister Group? I heard from my master that people from the Sinister Group will capture people to participate in dark death matches." The teenager Qiu Qingke thought to himself, and then quickly left.

"This kid, is he a little afraid of me?" Xu Jingming was slightly puzzled, "I've suppressed my aura very well, I'm just an ordinary person."

After finishing his meal and drink in a few bites, Xu Jingming paid the bill and left.

"It's time to practice with the Primordial Battle Suit."

Whoosh.

Walking on the street, Xu Jingming disappeared silently, and the entire monitoring system of Ji Water Star did not detect any anomalies.

...

Dozens of light-years away from Ji Water Star, in a starry sky.

"I have to study the various functions of the No. 9 Primordial Battle Suit to improve my combat effectiveness when fighting Prison race source lifeforms." Xu Jingming had been patiently studying the space-time wormhole model before, but after receiving the transfer order, he aimed to 'increase combat power'.

"In terms of saving and escaping, it's already very strong. This is the biggest advantage of the No. 9 Primordial Battle Suit. It takes some effort to achieve good results. In terms of killing enemies, it requires more effort."

Xu Jingming stood in the starry sky and began to experiment.