Chapter 1 A Star Pirate Nest

On a star pirate nest planet, over 9.2 billion people had been asleep for hundreds of years, yet none of them showed any signs of aging, their complexions remaining quite good. Their consciousnesses continued to exist within the illusion constructed by Xu Jingming.

Xu Jingming sat on a chair on a balcony, an invisible force enveloping the entire planet, maintaining each person's body in its most perfect state.

This was far superior to freezing the body.

Under the protection of Xu Jingming, this cosmic legend, their physical aging had almost completely halted, whereas normally, a planetary lifeform would only live for about two hundred years.

"Although I've started cultivating *Xin Jie San Xian* (Three Threads of the Mind Realm), I've only just entered the basics. The illusory lifeforms I create are far inferior to these real ones," Xu Jingming said, shaking his head slightly. As a powerhouse of the Mind Realm lineage, he could create illusory worlds with a single thought, giving birth to countless illusory beings and bringing the entire world to life!

Those illusory beings were too fake, their emotions numb! They were like countless robots, countless puppets. Look at these real lives, they had joys, sorrows, desires, cared about face, and had things they cherished... Even in the process of survival, they would gradually grow and change.

Xu Jingming watched, fascinated. Every life was vibrant.

Every one was full of infinite possibilities!

"I want to create billions of illusory lives, each as real as a real lifeform. How is that possible? If I split my mind into billions! Simultaneously controlling billions of illusory beings, every second of the illusory world's operation would be too much of a burden on my mind," Xu Jingming said, shaking his head.

The Mind Realm lineage, any branch cultivated to a profound level was terrifying.

*Xin Jie San Xian* was an extremely common illusion school, yet its cultivation was still very difficult.

It simultaneously tested three aspects: the construction of the world, the control of the mind, and the comprehension of the world's rules.

One had to know that *Ba Fang Tu* (Eight Directions Chart) was only aimed at the mind! *Hong Lian Zhi Huo* (Red Lotus Fire) was also aimed at the mind. On the contrary, the most common *Xin Jie San Xian* targeted all three aspects.

The three Mind Realm techniques I've obtained, *Ba Fang Tu* is the most precious, it's foundational, and it holds the promise of elevating my mind to the Great Freedom Realm, greatly increasing my hope of reaching the third dimension.

*Hong Lian Zhi Huo* is an extremely powerful secret technique in terms of attack, its power can climb to the half-step third dimension, and it is the strongest means to protect myself and kill enemies.

And *Xin Jie San Xian* involves the widest range.

As *Xin Jie San Xian* is promoted, the constructed illusion will become more and more terrifying! Even theoretically, it will approach the real Mind Realm.

Of course, it's only theoretical. This inheritance is only divided into ten layers. Reaching the tenth layer is only at the peak level of the Eternal Realm of a high-dimensional life, not even half-step into the third dimension! Of course, if the inheritance was too precious, the dean and the others wouldn't be able to buy it.

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"Every one of them is vibrant, with their own emotions, each different. Hmm?" Xu Jingming had been observing the performance of the more than 9.2 billion real lives in the star pirate nest in the illusion for hundreds of years.

At this moment, his heart stirred. Each different? Different emotions? I understand the key to the Seven-Color Secret Art.

Xu Jingming's eyes lit up. *Ba Fang Tu* was just a foundational method, and the seventh level, the Color Realm, was still within reach for Xu Jingming, who already had a mind like a pure lotus. Once he understood the key to the secret method... he quickly mastered it. Using joy, anger, shock, panic, worry, contemplation, and sadness, these seven emotions constructed the Seven-Color Secret Art, with seven colors rotating, sometimes strong, sometimes weak.

Xu Jingming, sitting on the balcony, stood up and looked at the sleeping planet.

"It's time to go." *Whoosh.* Xu Jingming disappeared.

And the countless humans on this planet, which had been asleep for hundreds of years, also woke up one by one.

"Where is this?" A child stared wide-eyed at his surroundings.

"I am the Third Young Master of the Zhou family, the Old Ancestor of the Feng family..." Every lifetime's memory experienced in the illusion world completely awakened.

The 9.2 billion people on this planet all awakened with multiple lifetimes of memories.

People on the road looked at each other, their eyes strange and complex.

"From now on, this planet will be taken over by the Li Mu Group." A voice resounded throughout every part of the planet, and a figure stood in the high sky, radiating light, which shone on every part of the planet, including the other side. This was a guardian arranged by Xu Jingming!

These people, nurtured and cared for by Xu Jingming for hundreds of years, experiencing multiple lifetimes of memories, were still worth screening and cultivating once they woke up in reality. He couldn't let the star pirates continue to harm them.

Those heinous star pirates, after hundreds of years of slumber, would now face the punishment of the laws of the human race in the universe.

The ordinary natives of the planet, however, ushered in a bright future.

Blue Star. Xu Jingming was accompanying his wife in the living room, watching a program on the light screen. With a thought, an illusion world formed, spanning 12.6 light-years in diameter, enveloping the entire solar system, and even surrounding star systems.

"The construction of the world, according to the *Xin Jie San Xian* inheritance, is already very stable. Now it's the creation of illusory beings."

Along with Xu Jingming's thoughts, one illusory human lifeform after another was born. The living beings were built using the Seven-Color Secret Art in conjunction with the power of the Mind Realm. Each living being was a puppet of the Seven-Color Secret Art, yet also naturally had normal emotional expressions.

Ten, a hundred, even a thousand, ten thousand. Xu Jingming went from being unfamiliar at the beginning to becoming more and more familiar later on.

Every moment, hundreds of millions of puppet beings were created, each with the Seven-Color Secret Art as its core. When the number reached a trillion, Xu Jingming felt that the Mind Realm power being mobilized was too vast and was approaching its limit.

After all, the creation of each puppet being was very precise, with the Seven-Color Secret Art as its core and the power of the Mind Realm as its constituent.

"Now it's the third thread of the Mind Realm, to bring the world to life." With a thought from Xu Jingming.

In the vast illusory world, hundreds of billions of puppet beings each had their own identities and memories. With the Seven-Color Secret Art giving them various emotions, they naturally began to make their own choices.

Without Xu Jingming having to distract himself to control them, each living being would make their own choices.

In the past, when Xu Jingming constructed illusions, the illusory beings were all the same, like puppets. Now, they were still puppets, but with the addition of the Seven-Color Secret Art, each puppet came to life, and the world was different.

"This is the real illusion." Xu Jingming quietly guided the progress of the illusion world, and countless beings would function normally, making the world incredibly real.

*Buzz!* The illusion world naturally formed the power of the world, which was mysterious, vast, and powerful. Xu Jingming had once fought with Deputy Island Lord Fanxi and White Prison Town Warden. That time was the most rudimentary construction of the world, using the power of the world to suppress. But the illusion world constructed now was many times more precise and profound, and the power of the world was also much more terrifying.

"Hmm?" Xu Jingming reached out a hand.

The illusion world, which was originally 12.6 light-years in diameter, instantly shrank, shrinking to the size of a ping-pong ball, in Xu Jingming's palm.

"Jingming, what is this?" Li Miaomiao looked curiously at the hazy sphere in Xu Jingming's palm.

"This is a world." Xu Jingming smiled, looking at the sphere in his palm.

"A world?" Li Miaomiao asked, puzzled. "There are hundreds of billions of illusory beings living inside. Their emotions, their struggles, will make this world more and more real." Xu Jingming was full of anticipation. The illusory beings created in conjunction with the Seven-Color Secret Art had greatly improved the *Xin Jie San Xian* technique.

He had directly reached the third level of *Xin Jie San Xian* in one step, which made Xu Jingming full of interest in this technique.

"I feel like it's a bit scary." Li Miaomiao looked at the hazy sphere, feeling a little flustered.

"It is a bit scary." Xu Jingming smiled.

In terms of destructiveness, it was not as good as the Pure Lotus Fire, but in other aspects, this illusion world was much more dangerous.

"It was created by me, so don't worry." Xu Jingming comforted his wife.

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The border of the human race in the universe, the battlefield between humans and the Void God Race.

On a tenth-order war star, the human team had fallen into a desperate situation, and team members had died one after another.

"SOS. SOS." The 32 tenth-order source lifeforms of the human side were completely suppressed by the 8 tenth-order source lifeforms of the Void God Race.

Relying on the Undying God Crystal, the power that the Void God Race erupted with was extremely terrifying. With the successive deaths of team members, the human team was forced to send out a distress call.

"When will the rescue arrive?" The tenth-order source lifeforms of the human team were anxious and desperate.

Finally, a point of dark yellow firelight descended over the tenth-order war star.

The appearance of this point of firelight caused panic among the Void God Race.

"Quick, run!"

"Escape!"

"It's the human cosmic legend... Lan Zhu." The Void God Race had long known the information about the cosmic legends of the human race. Seeing this point of dark yellow light, they immediately knew the identity of the person who had come.

The eight members of the Void God Race did not hesitate and used all means to escape. However, with the exception of one who escaped quickly, the other seven were all stained with a trace of that firelight. When the light touched their bodies, the bodies of these members were silently burned into nothingness.

The dark yellow firelight transformed into a figure, a gaunt old man in a gray robe, like a skeleton. The old man stood in the void with a cold expression. "Lan Zhu, so ruthless even to tenth-order source lifeforms?"

A sneering sound rang out, and invisible wind gathered. The wind blew across the tenth-order war star, and the wind condensed into a silver-robed old man.

The tenth-order war star was, however, shielded by the dark yellow light, resisting the invisible wind.

"It's your Void God Race that has become increasingly ruthless lately, sending out teams with more members. Your cosmic legends also show no mercy," Gray-robed Lan Zhu said coldly. "Why should I show mercy?"

"Hahaha, very good, Lan Zhu. You were lucky to escape last time, but this time I have made full preparations to see how you escape," the silver-robed old man said with a smile, his eyebrows full of confidence, the divine crystal in his forehead shining brightly.

"Just you, Ke Mo Di?" There was a hint of sarcasm in Lan Zhu's eyes.

"I am enough." The silver-robed old man stretched out his hands, and the entire time and space seemed like an ocean, with waves surging, one wave of time and space sweeping towards Lan Zhu's location.

Lan Zhu waited intently: "Last time I almost died in his hands. This time I am fully prepared, and I can also summon Wu Ming at any time."