Chapter 1 High-Dimensional Calamity

For high-dimensional beings, time passed quickly, a mere blink, and fifty thousand years had gone by.

Within the Heart Realm Territory, above the cloud cluster was a desk and chair, and Xu Jingming sat before the desk.

He contemplated and practiced his moves while recording some of his insights. In his vision, the timeline was faintly visible, allowing him to glimpse many scenes.

Like an ordinary person, he could simply look up and see the distant scenery.

Xu Jingming, however, could open his eyes and 'see' the past and future of the timeline.

"I see it again." Xu Jingming suddenly stopped practicing. He 'saw' the near future: a cemetery with rows of graves, and him alone within the entire graveyard.

Those graves belonged to his grandfather, his parents, his wife, his daughter… all the loved ones he cared about.

"Their lifespans are nearing their limit, and I'm seeing these scenes more and more easily." Xu Jingming was expressionless. When he had just reached the half-step third realm, he had to deliberately observe the timeline to see the distant future.

As his strength increased, he could now casually see events tens of thousands of years into the future, like the scenes he was seeing now.

"Time is ruthless, and I am powerless." Xu Jingming shook his head gently.

Once, for over three hundred years, he had broken through continuously, his fame spreading far and wide. With a third-realm weapon in hand, he felt unstoppable.

But these fifty thousand years had made Xu Jingming realize… the gap between the half-step third realm and the third realm was too vast.

Both the Mind Weapon and Void Abyss lineages had inheritances, and he had been progressing over these fifty thousand years, but the third realm remained distant and unattainable. Meanwhile, the lifespans of his loved ones were drawing ever closer.

Xu Jingming looked up ahead, his gaze following the threads of karma to his wife, Li Miaomiao, in their new homeworld universe. Miaomiao was still at the Human Academy of Sciences. As a tenth-order Source lifeform, she had dedicated herself for tens of thousands of years and was now a competent scholar at the academy.

Li Miaomiao led a team of scholars who were observing the changes in high-dimensional forces.

"Hmm?" Li Miaomiao suddenly noticed Xu Jingming's figure appearing beside her.

"What brings you here?" Li Miaomiao asked in surprise.

"You haven't come to me in ages, so I came to find you," Xu Jingming said with a smile.

"I'm busy," Li Miaomiao said with a smile before returning her attention to the changes in high-dimensional forces.

"World Master?"

Several assistants in Li Miaomiao's scholar team were stunned. These assistants generally had education levels between 90 and 98; none had reached 100. Therefore, they needed to diligently learn from Li Miaomiao.

"Greetings, World Master," the assistants immediately said respectfully.

Everyone knew that the greatest existence in the human race of the universe was World Master!

Even the high-dimensional beings of the entire Nanting 3609 Domain knew that the greatest half-step third realm in the domain was Wu Ming! World Master 'Wu Ming's' several actions in the recent fifty thousand years had firmly established his status! Even Ancient Tree World Master was inferior to Wu Ming.

"Mm," Xu Jingming nodded with a smile.

"Your timing is perfect," Li Miaomiao suddenly said, her eyes lighting up. She pointed to the high-dimensional weapon in front of her. "Can you make the high-dimensional force operate more stably and slow down the flow of time even further? My instrument can only slow down the flow of time to one-tenth."

"Sure," Xu Jingming immediately cooperated. "How slow do you need it to be? One-hundredth the speed of time, one-thousandth, or complete time stop?"

"Do it in batches so we can record the experimental results," Li Miaomiao said.

Xu Jingming, as the most competent assistant, helped Li Miaomiao complete the high-dimensional force experiment.

Once the experiment was over,

Li Miaomiao said in a very good mood, "With your help, things are indeed much smoother. If we were to experiment slowly on our own, it would probably take several years to collect all the data. With your help, it's done in half a day."

"Alright, everyone, dismiss! Seven days of vacation," Li Miaomiao said with a smile.

"Thank you, Teacher."

"Goodbye, Teacher."

The assistants glanced at Xu Jingming beside her and excitedly bid farewell one by one.

"So you're a teacher now," Xu Jingming said with a smile.

"With the brain of a tenth-order Source lifeform, studying for more than eighty thousand years, even if I compensate with diligence, I'd still get a 105-level education. What's wrong with me being their teacher?" Li Miaomiao said with a smile. "I know you look down on me."

"I wouldn't dare," Xu Jingming said. "I've noticed that you're becoming more and more obsessed with science as you study it."

"It's different," Li Miaomiao said in amazement. "Explaining everything you see and all matter from a scientific perspective allows me to clearly understand the world. I'm nearly 'free from doubt' about many low-dimensional knowledge. It's only when studying high-dimensional forces that I find there are too many confusions."

"Because there are more dimensions," Xu Jingming said with a smile. "Adding one dimension increases the complexity by a billionfold, and countless lifeforms can't cross over to a higher dimension in their entire lives."

For low-dimensional lifeforms to become high-dimensional lifeforms, it was as difficult as ascending to the heavens, one in billions!

For high-dimensional lifeforms (four-dimensional lifeforms) to become third-realm (five-dimensional lifeforms), it was also one in billions! Monarch Featherfire had nurtured countless high-dimensional lifeforms for countless years, but he couldn't nurture even one.

"So we must have a reverent heart," Xu Jingming said. "Analyze and understand from more perspectives. Because the understanding of low-dimensional lifeforms is to 'low-dimensionally unfold' high-dimensional knowledge, manifesting it in a low-dimensional way. This leads to any high-dimensional force appearing incredibly complex in the understanding of low-dimensional lifeforms."

Li Miaomiao nodded slightly.

"Jingming, why do I feel like your personality has changed a bit recently?" Li Miaomiao said curiously. "You used to be very relaxed and happy, but now you seem more melancholic, as if something is bothering you."

"It's nothing," Xu Jingming said with a smile, shaking his head.

At over eighty thousand years old, his wife still had over ten thousand years of lifespan left—a very long time! She felt no signs of aging! Naturally, she wouldn't worry.

But when Xu Jingming opened his eyes and saw the timeline, he saw scenes of his loved ones dying, so naturally he was concerned about it.

"Hmm?" Xu Jingming's expression suddenly changed as he looked into the distance.

"What's wrong?" Li Miaomiao asked in surprise. It was rare for her husband to have such a drastic change in expression.

Xu Jingming looked solemnly into the distance. "The calamity has finally descended upon our original homeworld universe."

"The calamity has descended?" Li Miaomiao was stunned.

Their former homeworld—the Fengyi 97th Domain! Several half-step third realms in the domain had foreseen that a calamity would descend in the future. Moreover, similar scenes could be seen in multiple future branches, proving that the calamity was unavoidable.

That was why the great migration of the race had been carried out!

The information that the human race had purchased from Gu Mo at the time said that it was safe for ten thousand years, and the probability of a calamity occurring within a hundred thousand years was 0.012%. The calamity was likely to occur between 200,000 and 300,000 years.

But as a result, the calamity had descended before even a hundred thousand years had passed.

…

"The calamity has descended?" The dean, tower master, island master, and Chi Meng of Ten Thousand Star Island all felt it remotely. After all, they were born in their homeworld universe, and the entire human race originated from their homeworld universe.

They naturally felt the calamity facing their homeworld universe strongly.

"I can feel that our homeworld is facing a calamity, but I can't see any information," Chi Meng said.

"I can't see it either," the island master said. "Across such a vast domain, perhaps only those at the half-step third realm can see it. Jingming should know what exactly happened to our former home."

…

"What is this power?" Gu Mo also remotely looked in the direction of his homeworld. He could vaguely see two-colored forces annihilating everything, but it was too far away for him to see clearly.

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Xu Jingming's Heart Realm Territory was within the Fengyi 97th Domain.

Within the Heart Realm Territory, Xu Jingming looked outside and clearly saw the scene of the calamity descending.

Two vast forces intertwined, shattering everything.

One force was a fiery red power. When it appeared, it incinerated everything. Various high-dimensional substances, real universes, all kinds of living beings… everything became fuel. Even the high-dimensional space itself became fuel, burning! The burning scene grew larger and larger. Initially, it burned from a distant location, but as it spread, the burning range continued to expand, eventually covering the entire domain.

The other force was a cyan power! The cyan power was burning the 'timeline' where this domain was located. It slowly eroded this 'timeline.' In Xu Jingming's eyes, it seemed to erode very slowly. But once this 'timeline' was eroded,

It meant that this point in the entire domain's timeline was completely eroded and destroyed! Naturally, the entire domain would have no future!

Xu Jingming could see the timeline, but ordinary high-dimensional beings could not. Therefore, in their vision, they felt that cyan power appeared randomly everywhere in the entire domain. Over time, the cyan power increased. The red power did not interfere with it at all. Soon… the cyan power covered the entire domain.

The red power and the cyan power were clearly different in their methods of attack.

But on the surface, they seemed to be intertwined, yet they did not interfere with each other. But they both completely destroyed the entire domain.

"Ahhh…"

"No—"

"The calamity has come."

The vast majority of high-dimensional beings in the domain did not have the ability to 'migrate across domains,' so they could only despairingly welcome the calamity.

Countless races and creatures in some real universes faced great extinction without even realizing it. Because a 'real universe' had no power to resist in the face of these two-colored forces. It was completely annihilated in an instant, and the living beings inside were naturally gone.

The entire domain was annihilated, completely becoming part of the chaotic void, never to exist again.

The Fengyi 97th Domain! From then on, it became history!

Although the power of destruction was terrifying, it did not affect the Heart Realm in the slightest.

Within the Heart Realm Territory.

Xu Jingming looked outside, at the domain that had become a 'chaotic void.'

"When I traveled through endless domains, I passed through many chaotic voids and saw the terrifying dangers within. Who would have thought that the intact homeworld domain… would become a chaotic void like this?" Xu Jingming felt complicated. "I don't even know how the calamity descended."

He saw these two-colored forces, but where did these forces originate? Why did they descend? He knew nothing.

…

The Fengyi 97th Domain had become a chaotic void. The two-colored forces spread everywhere, and even a half-step third realm would be instantly annihilated if they dared to enter.

"What, you still won't admit defeat?"

"I only got a scratch!"

"Half your body has been blasted away by me, and you call that a scratch? Then let's continue!"