Chapter 9 Discovery

Xu Jingming began to comprehensively explore the ruins of this small territory, following its structure and quickly locating its core.

It was a drop of liquid radiating a strange luster.

It simply floated there.

*Buzz.* The moment Xu Jingming sensed it, it triggered a change in it.

The surrounding scenery transformed, becoming exquisitely beautiful. Beside the drop of liquid stood a child with a small unicorn. He wore a light red cloak, his little face full of worry.

"I might die too," the cloaked child whispered, gazing in a direction. Suddenly, his eyes showed despair, and he cried out shrilly, "Father, Mother! No..."

The cloaked child looked at Xu Jingming urgently. "My name is Liu Yufeng. My father is called Liu Mangxing, and my mother is called Chi Yan Shen."

After speaking his name, he paused slightly.

"You're not rushing to kill me?"

The cloaked child's eyes held mockery and hatred. He then looked at Xu Jingming. "I believe you've guessed it. My parents and I were just hunted down by a great enemy. My father, Liu Mangxing, cultivated step by step from a low-dimensional life to become a Half-Step Third Realm existence. As a Half-Step Third Realm of the Heart Realm lineage, his reputation is far-reaching. My mother, Chi Yan Shen, was born a high-dimensional life, and she also reached the Eternal Realm pinnacle."

"The two of them had me," the cloaked child said. "I was born a high-dimensional life, and I could enter the Heart Realm as soon as I was born."

"I am still very young now. According to my father, I am still in the 'early childhood' stage, far from adulthood," the cloaked child said. "My father and mother doted on me and were dedicated to protecting my growth..."

"In the high-dimensional space, our family of three ventured together into dangerous places and saw countless landscapes," the cloaked child said. "Places that are terribly dangerous to other high-dimensional lives posed no danger to me. With my father around, we never encountered any danger."

Xu Jingming listened.

A Half-Step Third Realm of the Heart Realm lineage could return to his territory with a single thought. His ability to protect his life was terrifyingly strong.

"However, an old enemy of my father broke through," the cloaked child began, "That old enemy broke through to the Third Realm."

Xu Jingming was shocked.

An enemy in the Third Realm?

"Even though my father mastered six Half-Step Third Realm methods and had been unrivaled for many years, when his old enemy broke through to the Third Realm... it was impossible to resist," the cloaked child said. "Just now, I sensed that my father and mother are dead."

"My father sent me away in the first instance, severing all my karma," the cloaked child murmured. "My father and mother hoped that I would live on."

"But... will that Third Realm existence let me go?" the cloaked child said. "Besides, without Father and Mother, the world is meaningless."

The cloaked child looked at Xu Jingming.

"After all, I'm still young, and my father and mother didn't give me too many treasures. They only gave me some interesting things to play with. The only thing that can be considered precious is a legacy for building a foundation," the cloaked child said. "This legacy for building a foundation is called *Bafang Tu* (Eight Directions Chart), which originated from the Third Realm existence, Yu Huo Jun."

Yu Huo Jun?

Xu Jingming immediately thought of Gu Jinshi, who had lived for 150 Abyss Epochs and had received guidance from two Third Realm existences.

One of them was Yu Huo Jun!

Yu Huo Jun was very willing to teach juniors, hoping that the weak could grow.

"My father said that Yu Huo Jun is very benevolent," the cloaked child said. "Yu Huo Jun considered why countless high-dimensional lives could not reach the Third Realm. In the end, he believed that weak high-dimensional lives had too many deficiencies in their foundation. So Yu Huo Jun spent a lot of effort creating three thousand inheritances."

"These three thousand inheritances are all basic inheritances, meant to give high-dimensional lives a more solid foundation. According to Yu Huo Jun's view, cultivating his inheritance... would increase the hope of reaching the Third Realm."

"Each of the three thousand inheritances had ten original copies! Yu Huo Jun spread them out, which also led to competition among high-dimensional lives."

"My father... he was unrivaled below the Third Realm, and he also obtained a copy of the inheritance. My father was already a Half-Step Third Realm, and this inheritance was of great help to him... Later, my father gave me this original copy of the inheritance."

"And now, I will give you this original copy of the inheritance."

"As a nascent-stage being, I won't set any tests. The original copy of the *Bafang Tu* inheritance, as well as some of my playthings, are hidden inside the tree hole of this ancient tree."

The cloaked child pointed to an ancient tree not far away.

*Buzz.*

The cloaked child's eyes suddenly showed madness and unwillingness, and his body immediately became much more illusory.

"I'm dead. This is the remnant spirit of the territory," the illusory cloaked child looked at Xu Jingming. "That Third Realm existence still killed me after all. Actually, I don't have much attachment to this world."

"The only thing I'm attached to is my father, my mother."

The cloaked child looked at Xu Jingming, tears in his eyes. "I know that the hope of reaching the Third Realm is very, very slim, but... if... if you really can reach the Third Realm and intend to revive me, please revive me and my parents together."

"If you are afraid of that Third Realm enemy and are unwilling to revive my parents, then there is no need to revive me either."

"Just let me stay with my parents in the land of death."

"Father, Mother... I miss you so much!"

The cloaked child murmured, and his illusory figure dissipated, and the entire illusionary world vanished.

Only the dilapidated ruins of the small territory remained.

Xu Jingming sighed softly.

A high-dimensional life born naturally, still in the 'early childhood' stage, encountered such a calamity while deeply attached to his parents.

His father was terrifyingly strong, probably even stronger than Gu Mo and Menhado! After all, he had mastered six Half-Step Third Realm methods. Combining the six methods, his strength could probably suppress Gu Jinshi.

He would take his wife and children to stroll through some dangerous places.

At that stage, there was no danger anymore.

Who would have thought that one of his enemies would reach the Third Realm!

"He is too powerful. An old enemy who can survive in front of him must not be weak either," Xu Jingming thought. "Therefore, even if one is invincible, one must still maintain a cautious heart and not make too many enemies."

Xu Jingming walked towards the ancient tree.

"I wonder if the original inheritance and some treasures left by the child Liu Yufeng are still there." After passing through the previous eight territory ruins, Xu Jingming had already developed a calm state of mind.

It was normal not to obtain treasures in territory ruins.

Obtaining treasures was a small probability event.

Being able to listen to the 'owner of the ruins' explain things across the long years was already a gain. Of course, the cloaked child Liu Yufeng was too young and had too little accumulation, so he didn't explain the secrets of the evolutionary path.

Like those Eternal Realm existences, they would generally explain some of their best moves, hoping to help later generations, form a karmic connection, and increase the hope of resurrection.

"Ancient tree."

Xu Jingming saw the ancient tree.

In the illusion, the ancient tree was towering and lush.

But the ancient tree within the ruins was dilapidated. It had no leaves, and its withered giant branches stubbornly pierced in all directions. The bark on the surface of the trunk was also withered.

"Hm?" As soon as Xu Jingming sensed it, he discovered the location of the tree hole.

The tree hole was protected by the power of the Heart Realm.

"What, no life has come here? The treasure is still here?" Xu Jingming was pleasantly surprised.

The previous eight territory ruins were all empty! Xu Jingming had gotten used to it.

Suddenly encountering one that was 'not empty' made Xu Jingming feel extremely surprised.

"Is it because this high-dimensional child died relatively recently? That's why I'm the first to discover it. Or is it because... his territory ruins are too small, so the probability of being discovered is much lower?" Xu Jingming speculated secretly.

He himself used the territory as the center and searched the area like a carpet.

He had not been able to find this territory ruin even after filtering through everything in a 'rough' manner.

He only found it after 'minutely' filtering.

Without accurate coordinates, it was indeed very difficult for other high-dimensional lives in the Heart Realm to discover a 'small territory ruin.'

"Little fellow, it seems you and I are destined." Xu Jingming smiled and stepped forward, reaching out to touch it gently.

Bang!

The moment he touched the entrance of the hole, the seal naturally dissipated.

Liu Yufeng had no intention of setting any tests, after all, he was too weak and knew too little. Those who could enter the Heart Realm were generally capable of becoming Eternal Realm existences. Eternal Realm experts could completely break through his obstacles by force, so what was the point of setting tests?

"This is?"

Xu Jingming saw it.

Two items were placed inside the tree hole. One was a thin booklet with strange characters on its surface. He didn't recognize the characters, but Xu Jingming naturally felt the information being conveyed—*Bafang Tu* (Eight Directions Chart). The other item was a folded piece of animal skin.

"These are the so-called interesting playthings of that little fellow?" Xu Jingming looked at the animal skin in puzzlement.

Although the cloaked child was a high-dimensional life, he was still in the early stages of childhood, and his 'mind' was still very weak. Xu Jingming estimated that... in terms of mental age, the cloaked child was probably not as old as a normal hundred-year-old human.

To Xu Jingming, who had experienced all kinds of mental tribulations, he was indeed a little fellow.

"Playthings?"

Xu Jingming reached out and picked up the animal skin.

He unfolded it.

The animal skin had doodled patterns of exotic beasts on it, drawn very ugly, and the patterns had no use at all. However, the inside of the animal skin contained a section of high-dimensional space.

"This is?" Xu Jingming sensed it. "This animal skin contains a section of high-dimensional space. Within this section of high-dimensional space, there are twenty miniature universes forming a game formation? And all kinds of playthings?"

Swimming giant exotic beasts, towering unique towers, ancient labyrinths, a large number of puppets, a giant egg...

The twenty miniature universes formed a formation, like twenty marbles. One collided with another, and the other continued to collide, eventually forming a collision cycle that never stopped.

All kinds of strange things floated in the high-dimensional space inside the animal skin.

This storage space was indeed a place for playing.

"This is a play area arranged for a child by an invincible Half-Step Third Realm existence?" At this moment, Xu Jingming immediately understood how poor he was.

Too poor!

No wonder the dean, the tower master, and the island master were all proactive in giving to him, because they knew he was poor!

Sanan, one of the three thousand holy envoys, was only one of Menhado's three thousand holy envoys after all. The dean and the others looked down on his wealth. Not to mention comparing it with a Heart Realm lineage expert who had mastered six Half-Step Third Realm methods.

"Little fellow, you think these playthings are not precious? That this inheritance is precious?"

"You are wrong. To me, they are all precious!"

Xu Jingming calmed his excited heart and put away the animal skin. This was his biggest gain so far. Then, he reached out and took the booklet *Bafang Tu*.