Chapter 117: World’s Top Three (1)

Translator: CKtalon

The martial arts arena in Xu Jingming’s personal space was set to the edge of a stellar system.

At the edge of the dark and silent stellar system, even the nearest star became extremely tiny.

Xu Jingming stood on a huge asteroid and stabbed out with his spear time and time again. He didn’t have any opponents; he simply stabbed into the void.

He was the only one in the silent world as he gathered his strength and stabbed out! Again and again! It was as if he wanted to pierce through the silent void of the universe!

He stabbed out more than 10,000 times a day for about eight hours. He wouldn’t stop unless there was a special reason.

Every time he stabbed out, Xu Jingming felt his entire body burn as the flames consumed his entire body. He mobilized all his strength and delivered the fastest and strongest strike! He could even unleash consecutive strikes in a bid to kill the enemy!

Xu Jingming was obsessed with this feeling of going all out and pursuit of maximum speed.

He had loved speed since he was a child. Perhaps it was because he favored science, but when he saw the speed of his spear gradually increase, he became more excited—15 meters per second, 15.3 meters per second, 15.6 meters per second, 16.1 meters per second… He also felt a greater sense of accomplishment from practicing his spear.

The appearance of the evolutionary method and the virtual world made Xu Jingming see more possibilities. The speed of his spear technique had broken through the speed of sound.

Possessing the cosmic legend, Xuan, made Xu Jingming understand how fast a spear could be!

If ‘Astral Spear’ represented Xu Jingming’s calm state, and practicing every move allowed his spearmanship to become more mature and perfect, then ‘Beam Transformation Spear Technique’ was a state of burning passion. He burned everything he had in pursuit of the fastest strike!

Swoosh.

A figure arrived at the martial arts arena in his personal space—it was Li Miaomiao.

“Jingming,” Li Miaomiao immediately said. “The fourth level’s Cosmos Ranking has appeared. Master Liu Hai has successfully cleared the fourth level.”

Xu Jingming stopped exhibiting his spearmanship. “Master cleared the fourth level?”

“Yes, it just happened.” Li Miaomiao nodded. “The Internet is in an uproar now. Countless streamers and countries are talking about this on the Internet. As the first expert in the world to clear the Cosmos Tower’s third level and the world’s first to clear the fourth level, the impact of the outcome is too great.”

“As expected of Master.” Xu Jingming smiled. “He didn’t participate in a single Global Crossfire battle and shocked the world the moment he showed himself. This is more convincing than any battle.”

“Yeah.” Li Miaomiao nodded. “Now, the entire Internet is saying how Liu Hai is indeed Liu Hai. He’s indeed the world champion. They are all guessing… how much stronger Master Liu Hai is than you.”

“Master is presently stronger than me.” Xu Jingming nodded. “I’ll try Cosmos Tower’s fourth floor again right now.”

“Alright.” Li Miaomiao nodded.

Xu Jingming tapped gently, and the edge of the stellar system dissipated, returning to a verdant valley scene. This was also the original scene of the martial arts arena.

“I’ll make a trip to Cosmos Tower first.” Xu Jingming immediately left.

Li Miaomiao didn’t leave; she waited in the martial arts arena and opened the spectator platform to watch the livestreams.

Everyone was in a frenzy, while China’s Internet was euphoric. After all, Liu Hai had never participated in Global Crossfire. The outside world questioned his strength, but the moment he appeared, he shocked the world.

Moments later.

Whoosh.

Xu Jingming returned to the canyon.

“How was it?” Li Miaomiao asked.

“I’m on par with the ape king, but its physique is stronger than mine, allowing it to withstand my blows,” Xu Jingming said with a frown. “Although I seriously injured it, it still killed me first.”

Beam Transformation Spear was a double-edged sword. Its offensive aspect was especially strong, but its defense was much weaker. Its ‘defense’ was also a thrust! It used offense as a replacement for defense. Therefore, Xu Jingming needed to rely on Astral Spear to defend.

Astral Spear’s realm was relatively lower.

“Improvements in spearmanship can’t be obtained in a short period of time. It needs to be slowly honed.” Xu Jingming looked at his personal combat strength interface and said, “I’ll practice my evolutionary method.”

Li Miaomiao sat to the side and watched her boyfriend practice his Heavenly Python Evolution.

Xu Jingming hadn’t deliberately practiced the evolutionary method before! He just normally practiced it a few times a day. Most of the time, he practiced spear and shield techniques. For example, he spent eight hours a day on Beam Transformation. Other than the eight hours of mental tempering, as well as the practice of Astral Spear and his shield technique, he still had to spend time with his family. It was indeed impossible for him to spend too much time practicing the evolutionary method.

As his control over his body increased, his evolutionary method would naturally slowly improve.

If his control over his body wasn’t high enough? It was useless even if he practiced the evolutionary method!

This time… Xu Jingming practiced seriously over and over again, pursuing the limits of the evolutionary method he could reach at this stage.

Li Miaomiao watched from the side and also tapped open the spectator platform to understand the situation outside.

Huh? Li Miaomiao looked at one of the livestreams and gently tapped it open. She also limited the volume to a volume that only she could hear without disturbing Xu Jingming, who was practicing his evolutionary method.

In the livestream, a streamer exclaimed in surprise, “Just 1 hour and 18 minutes after Liu Hai cleared Cosmos Tower’s fourth level, Tejano Xire—a peerless genius from the small country of Botswana in Southern Africa—also cleared Cosmos Tower’s fourth level and is now ranked second in the world.”

A screenshot of the Cosmos Ranking (4th level) appeared beside him, and it was clearly written:

Cosmos Ranking (4th level)—

World Number One: Liu Hai (China)

World Number Two: Tejano Xire (Botswana)

“Tejano Xire was previously known as the world’s number one genius,” the host exclaimed in surprise. “This is because he cleared Cosmos Tower’s third level very quickly and was ranked fourth in the world back then. The three people ranked ahead of him were all from the older generation, whilst he was only 20 years old! He didn’t even have any professional combat experience. After the virtual world’s launch, he rose rapidly.”

“He was fourth in the world last time, but he’s now second in the world! Moreover, he’s only slightly more than an hour slower than Liu Hai. It’s obvious that their strengths are on par.”

“Tejano hails from the small country of Botswana in Southern Africa, yet he has such achievements at the age of 20. He deserves to be the world’s number one genius,” the host exclaimed in surprise. “It’s no wonder Liu Hai and Tejano didn’t schedule any Global Crossfire battles. Perhaps the two of them think that the other contestants are too weak.”

“I’m also guessing how much weaker Xu Jingming is compared to these two,” the host said curiously.

Li Miaomiao closed this livestream and tapped open the other livestreams. After watching for a long time, she closed the spectator platform.

She gazed at her boyfriend.

Xu Jingming seriously practiced Heavenly Python Evolution. The heat waves surged, and the air distorted. The commotion caused by Xu Jingming practicing the evolutionary method was clearly quite great.

He practiced it repeatedly until… he stopped.

Xu Jingming slowly exhaled, and the surrounding temperature slowly returned to normal.

“This is the limit I can reach in a short time for the evolutionary method,” Xu Jingming said. He tapped open his personal combat strength interface and pushed the evolutionary method to its current limit—

Genetic Evolutionary Method: Heavenly Python Evolution (Transcendent 43%) (360 days of practice. No room for improvement)

Physique: 551

Technique: Beam Transformation Spear Technique (Lv. 4 47%), Astral Spear Technique (Lv. 4 23%), Footwork (Lv. 4 15%), Shield Technique (Lv. 4 16%)

Basic Combat Strength: 38570

Combat Bonus: 63%

Combat Strength: 62870

My Physique index has increased by 12 points, and my skills haven’t changed, Xu Jingming thought. This means that my speed and strength have increased slightly in every aspect.

Although 12 points wasn’t a lot, there was still a difference.

“Jingming,” Li Miaomiao said.

“What’s wrong?” Xu Jingming asked.

“Tejano Xire cleared Cosmos Tower’s fourth floor an hour ago,” Li Miaomiao said. “You were practicing the evolutionary method back then.”

“He also broke through?” Xu Jingming exclaimed in surprise. “He’s only 20 years old and comes from a small country in Southern Africa? What an amazing feat.”

Xu Jingming even wondered if Tejano Xire could receive any resources for grooming. After all, Botswana was much poorer than China.

Xu Jingming was surprised by his talent for reaching this level without receiving grooming with top resources. Of course, he could only look forward to it! The universe was vast, and there were countless experts. Xuan wasn’t even considered one of the strongest in the universe, so how weak was Earth’s civilization?

For a weak civilization on Earth, it would be better if there were ten times more people like them.

“I’ll try Cosmos Tower again.” Xu Jingming walked in front of his girlfriend and reached out to rub her head. “Wait for me here.”

Li Miaomiao nodded.

Whoosh.

Xu Jingming left and headed for the fourth floor of Cosmos Tower..