Chapter 35 The Dark Side of the Primordial Star

"Already over a trillion universe citizen viewers?" Xu Jingming noticed the data and was quite surprised.

Although the entire human race of the universe has 34 cosmic regions, the number of cosmic citizens is astronomical, but 'a trillion cosmic citizens' already exceeds the population of some smaller star alliances.

It is very rare for a confrontation in the virtual world to attract so many cosmic citizen viewers.

With so many viewers, there are naturally crouching tigers and hidden dragons! Not to mention the children of high-level civilization families, there are even universe legends, alien spies, and some mysterious existences.

For various reasons, they came to watch this battle.

"Grandpa, Mom and Dad, Miao Miao and my daughter, as well as Master Liu Hai and AShuo, have all come to watch." Xu Jingming saw many specially marked friends, and many Starry Sky lifeforms from Xia Nation had come.

"Buzz."

A terrifying aura was approaching from afar.

Xu Jingming no longer paid attention to the outside world, looking at the figure flying from afar.

On this cold and desolate planet, a winged youth wearing gorgeous robes flew over, his appearance so beautiful that it was almost妖异 (yaoyi, bewitching).

"That's not right." Xu Jingming immediately realized something was wrong. "In the virtual world, appearances can be modified. I've seen countless handsome people, and I've long since gotten used to it. The reason he makes me feel bewitchingly beautiful isn't his appearance, but... his spiritual power!"

Diweifan flew over, his spiritual power subtly seducing living beings, causing them to have thoughts of沉沦 (chenlun, sinking).

"Boom." Xu Jingming's spiritual power also spread out, like a blazing sun, scorching the surroundings.

The spiritual power of the two sides collided.

In Xu Jingming's spiritual sense, Diweifan disappeared, leaving only a terrifying abyss with no bottom in sight. This dark abyss spread, attracting everything and devouring everything. The attraction and bewitchment Xu Jingming felt before was the attraction of this dark abyss.

"Abyss? My Light visualization technique has already reached the eighth level, but I didn't expect it to still affect me to some extent," Xu Jingming thought to himself. "This Diweifan has studied the *Notes on Abyss Research* to a very high level."

*Notes on Abyss Research*, one of the three highest inheritances of the human race of the universe, is also the strongest inheritance of the Eternal Academy.

"Many ninth-level Origin Lifeforms in your Eternal Academy only start trying to build an abyss," Chi Meng on the viewing platform said with a smile. "But this Diweifan's research on the abyss is already very deep. His spiritual power has already begun to construct an abyss. Once he achieves Origin Lifeform, he can quickly build his own abyss."

"His academic level has reached 99," Bai Yu said.

"His knowledge reserve is sufficient."

"Being able to construct an abyss, Diweifan is indeed slightly better in terms of spiritual power," Chi Meng nodded.

"It's just a slight advantage. How long has Wu Ming been cultivating, and how long has Diweifan been cultivating?" Bai Yu said modestly.

Diweifan stood in mid-air, looked at Xu Jingming, and smiled: "Brother Wu Ming, I won't hold back at all. If your strength hasn't improved significantly, then you're going to lose this time."

"Please go all out and let me see how strong an eighth-level Starry Sky lifeform can be," Xu Jingming said, holding his spear.

"Alright."

As soon as Diweifan finished speaking, endless surging cosmic power gathered, and a looming terrifying abyss began to appear behind him. Black mist wrapped around Diweifan's wings, wrapping around every part of Diweifan's body, making his body appear and disappear.

Diweifan's body seemed to partially exist in the abyss and partially exist in reality, which was extremely bizarre.

"An eighth-level Starry Sky lifeform can influence space to this extent by leveraging the power of the universe?" Xu Jingming felt it even more strongly when he saw it with his own eyes. He was also leveraging the power of the universe, and endless light gathered, and a gorgeous light robe was draped over his body, with scattered points of light around the robe.

Whoosh.

Diweifan silently arrived in front of Xu Jingming, and a black saber light slashed down.

"Boom." Xu Jingming concentrated his attention. He could sense the other party's movements, and blocked the saber in the first instance.

The weapons collided, and the two were also unloading and borrowing strength.

"Boom boom boom." The muffled sound of weapons colliding rang out. Diweifan's movements were ghostly and unpredictable, appearing around Xu Jingming. The two black sabers in his hands attacked obviously faster than Xu Jingming.

Faced with the continuous stream of saber light attacks, Xu Jingming could no longer see Diweifan's figure clearly.

In his perception, a dark abyss shrouded him, and dark saber lights continued to attack, wanting to engulf him. "So fast," Xu Jingming felt a sense of suffocation.

He had watched the other party's battle videos and had long realized the gap between them, but when he actually fought, Xu Jingming was still a little shocked.

The other party's strength was not strong, about the same as his own! After all, the Primordial Star lineage was inherently domineering and powerful, while the Abyss lineage of the Eternal Academy was known for its mystery. Being about the same strength as Xu Jingming already represented that the other party's accumulation was solid.

The other party's movements were even more ghostly, distorting space, and the attacks were faster and more dense, naturally engulfing him.

"Boom!!!"

After only a dozen breaths of exchanging blows, Xu Jingming couldn't defend himself anymore, and his entire body was sent crashing into the earth by a saber strike.

Rumble~~~

The impact on the earth was like an asteroid falling, and the entire earth sank, and the shock wave affected the entire surface of the planet.

"Boom boom boom boom boom boom!" Diweifan seized the opportunity to attack continuously in mid-air, and terrifying saber lights continuously enveloped him.

"So strong?"

After Xu Jingming crashed into the earth, he sensed the terrifying saber lights coming one after another, and he could only continue to drill deeper into the earth in a flustered manner! Using the obstacles of the planet's rock layer, he first avoided this wave of power.

While drilling towards the depths of the earth, Xu Jingming also prepared to circle around and rush out of the surface again, but even when he was underground, Xu Jingming felt that the terrifying saber lights seemed to have locked onto him, and they continued to track him.

"Since you're drilling into the ground, don't come out." Diweifan obviously wanted to defeat the other party in one fell swoop.

When he took action, he would not hold back.

Hiding underground?

Hiding underground was useless!

"Can't escape." Xu Jingming sensed with his spiritual power that even if the condensed dark saber lights passed through the rock layer, they would only weaken a small portion, and many saber lights were still extremely terrifying, covering all the angles he could escape from.

There was nowhere to escape!

He would eventually be swallowed by the dark abyss!

"Darkness devours, nowhere to hide." Xu Jingming's brain was also operating extremely fast, and he instantly judged that there was no hope of avoiding it. "I can only face it."

Xu Jingming looked up.

He saw the attacking black saber light. "Boom!"

Soaring into the sky, Xu Jingming transformed into a spear light, tearing everything apart, breaking through the black saber lights one after another, but Diweifan, as a scholar with an academic level of 99, his move calculations were very precise.

When Xu Jingming was about to rush out of the surface, he could no longer break through more saber lights. As the first black saber light cut through Xu Jingming's body, more black saber lights cut through him.

Bang~~~

In an instant, Xu Jingming's light body was completely shattered, turning into energy.

"Going to lose?" Tiarno, Qu Fang, Prince Luno and many others on the viewing platform were watching, including Li Miaomiao and Xu Lixing, who did not slow down, although at normal speed they could hardly see the detailed moves of the fight.

But they could judge the situation on the field. From the beginning, Wu Ming had been at a disadvantage, and now his body had been blasted apart.

"Condense!"

The physical body was energized, and if the energy did not dissipate, it was immortality. The scattered energy was gathering.

Diweifan watched this scene. "Energized the physical body? Destroy two or three tenths of your energy with one attack. How many times can you condense your physical body?"

At this moment, while Xu Jingming was condensing, his mind was also sensing the above, sensing the terrifying dark abyss.

"Darkness devours light..." Xu Jingming suddenly thought of the Primordial Star he saw when he accepted the inheritance.

The Primordial Star, the most magnificent and incredible celestial body known to mankind.

Its light is transmitted layer by layer to all directions and endless time and space. Its light fluctuates constantly, with small fluctuations causing the range of light transmission to be slightly larger or smaller. But with large fluctuations, the light can skyrocket billions of times at its strongest. At its most contracted, its volume shrinks more than ten thousand times.

"Light shines, and darkness is dispelled."

"Light shrinks, and darkness occupies a greater range." Light and dark... two sides of one entity? Coexisting with each other?

Xu Jingming sensed the dark abyss manifested by Diweifan, but felt that it was somewhat similar to the darkness around the Primordial Star.

At this moment, Xu Jingming had a deeper understanding of the Primordial Star.

"The Primordial Star is not just light, but also the surrounding darkness."

"I finally have some understanding of darkness."

Xu Jingming had a thought.

Just now, the newly condensed body, the gorgeous light robe on the surface of the body, aroused even more vast cosmic power! It's just that these cosmic forces are no longer condensed on the body, nor are they condensed on the robe, but... scattered around.

Xu Jingming had a dark territory around him, and a vast amount of power gathered in the darkness.

Xu Jingming's light robe power and dark power seemed to be two sides of one entity, making the overall power even greater.

"Hmm?" Diweifan, who was about to attack, changed his expression. He looked at Wu Ming at this moment.

There was a large area of darkness around the gorgeous light robe.

Everything was under Xu Jingming's control.

"What?" On the viewing platform, Bai Yu was a little surprised. "He actually realized the 'dark side of the Primordial Star' in the fight? Light and darkness can coexist?"

"The Primordial Star is a high-dimensional space celestial body." Chi Meng smiled. "Although Wu Ming has accepted the inheritance, it is difficult for him to understand its existence. He should have seen the dark abyss constructed by Diweifan and understood what the 'darkness' of the high-dimensional space is like."

"He figured it out during the battle, and then he knew how light and darkness coexist?" Bai Yu couldn't believe it. "What kind of talent is this?"

"That's why he can become an Origin Lifeform after 30 years of cultivating the evolution method. This is his talent in the Primordial Star lineage," Chi Meng said. "The Primordial Star is a high-dimensional space celestial body that we cannot touch. Human science's research on it is just speculation! Some people don't need to touch it. Just through some superficial understanding, or even the appearance of the abyss, they can understand the dark side of the Primordial Star. This is a genius."

Vice President Chi Meng was very expectant.

Bai Yu was very envious.

A monster!

This 'Wu Ming's future achievements are unknown, but at least before becoming an Origin Lifeform, he is more amazing than Vice President Chi Meng.

"But after becoming an Origin Lifeform, he will encounter more problems, and the path of evolution will be much more difficult," Chi Meng said. "His future is also uncertain, maybe he will only stop at the tenth-level Origin Lifeform."

"Don't be modest. Your Primordial Research Institute must be desperately cultivating him. Tenth-level Origin Lifeform? I bet you, he will be at least a universe legend," Bai Yu said.

"I won't bet," Chi Meng said, "Continue watching the game, it's almost over."

"Yes, it's almost over," Bai Yu also watched.

After Xu Jingming greatly increased the cosmic power he leveraged, Diweifan saw Xu Jingming's light robe and the large dark territory around him, and calculated: "The energy he controls is at least three times stronger. I can't compete with him head-on. I must use my advantages."

So he changed his battle strategy.

Instead of frontal crushing, he used extreme body movements and close-range assassination.

The sound of the weapons colliding was very weak.

They kept flickering and changing on the surface of the planet, and the aftermath of the battle left ravines and basins on the planet.

However, two minutes later, Xu Jingming pierced Diweifan's chest with a spear. While Diweifan's body exploded, he condensed again in the distance and continued to attack.

One minute later, Xu Jingming tore Diweifan's body apart again.

Diweifan stopped after condensing again.

"Not trying anymore?" Xu Jingming looked at him.

"Your moves are more powerful, and your defense is stronger. Even if my weapon hits you, you will only be slightly injured. But if your weapon touches me, my body will explode," Diweifan shook his head. "The Primordial Star lineage does have an advantage in frontal combat. I lost."

The three strongest inheritances are inherently specialized in different directions.

"I can break through just by fighting you," Diweifan looked at Xu Jingming. "I'm speechless."

"I also have to thank you," Xu Jingming said. Breaking through was not that easy. He had been confused about the 'light and dark unity' of the Primordial Star for a long time. Today's battle gave him some understanding.

"There's nothing to be ashamed of losing to a genius like you," Diweifan smiled. "Maybe I can brag about it in the future."

Diweifan knew very well how long Wu Ming in front of him had been cultivating. He was really a monster-level existence.

"By the way, after this battle, I will break through to become an Origin Lifeform," Diweifan said. "What about you? When are you planning to break through?"

"Since I've won, I can also break through," Xu Jingming said with a smile.

"Good! Contact me after the breakthrough," Diweifan said.

"Contact you later," Xu Jingming nodded.

After the breakthrough, the two of them can reveal their real identities in reality. At that time, it would be more appropriate for them to interact with each other.