146: Chapter 146 Longing

Time passed leisurely, and a month later.

As a librarian, many of the academy's major events had nothing to do with Ji Yebai.

He was happy to be leisurely.

In his spare time, he read books and biographies of various figures.

Just like that, after his Physical Body's transformation returned to normal, Ji Yebai waited for a few days and finally prepared for a Breakthrough.

"Better change the location!"

After thinking about it, Ji Yebai turned and walked out.

The further he went, the more he couldn't control it; if he happened to lose control, a desolate place would be better than the academy.

After all, thousands of people were in the academy.

Ji Yebai took a step forward.

One second he was in place, the next he appeared on a street a kilometer away.

Ji Yebai took a look and then slowly walked out.

With every step, he crossed a distance of a kilometer.

From the Martial Arts Academy to outside the city, it was a distance of hundreds of kilometers, but at this moment, it was crossed in just a short time under Ji Yebai's feet.

Twenty minutes later.

Ji Yebai stopped in a mountain forest.

The planet beneath his feet was three times larger than the Blue Star of the former Solar System.

Moreover, on this planet, oceans only occupied fifty percent.

This also created more land and hills.

The hills in front of him were uninhabited, a primeval jungle.

Not a single person was there.

If a loss of control did occur, it wouldn't affect anyone's life.

Ji Yebai waved his hand, clearing a quiet spot, and then slowly sat cross-legged.

"Let's begin!"

Ji Yebai slowly closed his eyes.

The seventh layer of the Nine-Turn Soul Refining Path emerged in his mind.

Ji Yebai did not delay.

The Nine-Turn Soul Refining Path held no difficulty for him; he completed the seventh layer of cultivation as easily as drinking water.

However.

This was not the point at all.

The activated flesh-and-blood will made the transformation extremely intense in an instant.

Even Ji Yebai was on high alert.

In an instant.

The space around Ji Yebai began to fluctuate violently.

Ripples began to appear in the transparent space.

Ji Yebai's brow furrowed.

His vast Divine Sense spread out, firmly locking down the surrounding space.

Poof!

A stream of pure orange flame rose up.

Furiously burning Ji Yebai's Physical Body.

This layer of flame was exceptionally powerful; where it rose, it even caused the space to turn charred black.

However, this flame was still firmly locked by Ji Yebai, burning only around his body.

In fact, if a strong enough Martial Artist were here, they would probably be scared to death.

This was no flame; this was clearly some form of manifestation of the Law.

At this moment.

This Law power, which would be enough to make anyone in the Life and Death Realm explode and die with just a touch, turned into flames enveloping Ji Yebai's entire body.

But Ji Yebai was completely unharmed.

The flames burned fiercely, and Ji Yebai's brow furrowed deeper.

Even though he had used all his strength to seal it, the flames eventually broke through.

A tiny wisp of flame escaped.

Spatial ripples immediately arose.

Half of the mountain forest beneath his feet silently vanished.

As if swallowed by something.

Half an hour later.

The dramatic change began to subside.

Ji Yebai slowly opened his eyes.

His expression was neither joyful nor sad.

He sat cross-legged in the Void Realm, looking at the gap that had appeared in the dozens-of-meters-high hill below, and fell silent.

Suddenly, he felt somewhat fortunate that he had chosen this place.

If he were still in the library, the damage caused would likely have been even greater.

However.

Ji Yebai turned his head to look toward the horizon, his brow furrowing slightly.

"I have to leave!"

With a thought, Ji Yebai stood up and slowly landed on the ground.

Then he walked toward the city.

And just half an hour after he left.

A silver shuttle-like flying car appeared above.

The flying car's speed was extremely fast, reaching six hundred kilometers per hour.

Generally speaking, driving that fast was not allowed.

But these people could no longer care about that.

"Is this the place!?"

National Security Bureau Director Tian Lin hurriedly got out of the flying car.

Following closely behind were four people, one of whom was holding an instrument.

"This is the place!"

Looking at the instrument in his hand, he immediately looked at Tian Lin.

Tian Lin's Divine Sense expanded, and in just a moment, his eyes lit up as he locked onto a spot.

He flew directly forward.

The others behind him exchanged glances and used their movement techniques to follow.

When they approached, they were all greatly shocked.

"This... how did it become like this?!"

Although the hill was not high, above the mountainside, it actually looked like a steamed bun with its top bitten off.

Looking at this clearly abnormal shape, everyone's brains stalled.

The disappearance of the mountaintop before them was extremely eerie.

Half of the giant rocks at the boundary had also vanished.

Moreover, the cross-section of the giant rocks was not a flat surface but a curved surface, very smooth.

Gulp!

The people present subconsciously swallowed their saliva.

Smashing a mountaintop into pieces and making a mountaintop disappear are two different concepts!

The difficulty of the latter was simply beyond imagination.

Director Tian Lin slowly stepped forward, leaned down to touch the smooth cross-section of the giant rock, feeling its smoothness.

"The entire mountaintop has disappeared, incredibly smooth, and more importantly, the mountaintop is gone without a trace..."

Taking a deep breath, Director Tian Lin slowly suppressed the palpitation in his heart.

"This could only have been swallowed by space!"

Tian Lin was shocked and spoke subconsciously.

"Space..."

Hearing this, the others subconsciously looked at the instrument in their colleague's hand.

To ensure they wouldn't be invaded, Spatial Energy Monitors covering the entire globe had been deployed.

After all, in Cosmic Civilizations, many spatial methods were impossible to guard against.

This time, they had monitored the shaking of space here.

The intense peak even reached a level sufficient to break through space.

They had thought it was an invasion, but the monitor's alarm indicated that the energy had accumulated from the inside.

This extremely strange situation caused the Security Bureau to rush over.

"Director, could it be a natural spatial rift?!"

Someone guessed.

The monitor's alarm had already confirmed that it didn't come from the outside, but was energy accumulated inside the planet that then reached a peak.

And most importantly, no signs of life were found.

Space is stable, but it is also constantly flowing.

In nature, spatial rifts actually appear constantly.

It's just that under normal circumstances, the rifts are fleeting and even too small to be detected.

But there is a one-in-a-billion chance that this tiny rift will expand and then erupt.

Tian Lin slowly shook his head.

His Spiritual Sense told him that this was definitely not naturally formed.

"Search the surroundings!"

Director Tian Lin said slowly.

As soon as he said this, the others were stunned for a moment, and then they understood the Director's meaning.

Immediately, the group dispersed to check the surroundings.

Someone even operated a drone to begin searching the area.

High-precision monitoring lenses constantly scanned the surroundings.

Feedback soon came.

A footprint.

"Director!"

At the shout, everyone immediately rushed toward the footprint.

Seeing a single footprint appearing lonely on the ground, everyone looked at each other.

Finally, everyone looked at Tian Lin.

"Director, this..."

Tian Lin was silent.

He looked at this footprint and fell into deep thought.

After a long while.

He spoke: "Check the direction the footprint came from! Extend the distance."

Everyone immediately began to act.

Fortunately, there were drones.

Estimating the direction the footprint came from, they directly started cruise mode, and the drones immediately shot out.

Technology had also fused with Spiritual Qi, so the speed and endurance of the drones were greatly improved.

A moment later.

A second footprint was discovered.

Everyone fell silent.

That was a left foot, contrasting sharply with the right foot before them.

Someone asked tentatively: "Is this one step crossing a kilometer?!"

Everyone was silent.

Tian Lin looked calmly into the distance and waved his hand.

"Continue the investigation!"

Soon, reports appeared one after another.

Scattered footprints were found, basically at intervals of a kilometer.

Of course, there were also cases where no footprints were found in between.

It wasn't until they approached the highway that footprints could no longer be found.

At this, everyone fell silent.

Although the footprints were not continuous, it was basically confirmed that there was one every kilometer.

Someone said cautiously: "Is there a Martial Arts expert of the Life and Death Realm around?!"

So far, the person with the highest cultivation in human society was Bai Zhu, at the eighth layer of the Life and Death Realm, currently in seclusion for the ninth layer.

This ability to take one step and cover a kilometer, in their view, could only be achieved by the Life and Death Realm.

Director Tian Lin looked at all the summarized results, and his heart suddenly relaxed.

All kinds of evidence indicated that the one who caused all this was definitely human.

"Being able to cause spatial fluctuations is definitely not something an ordinary Life and Death Realm expert can do; even Bai Zhu, with all his strength, can barely reach the level of breaking through space. This person..."

Thoughts fluctuated.

Information on Life and Death Realm Martial Arts experts flowed through his mind, and he ruled them out one by one.

The most likely candidate, Bai Zhu, was also confirmed to be in seclusion.

Then who exactly was it?!

Sigh.

He sighed in his heart.

As the Director of the Security Bureau, Tian Lin's pressure was actually very great.

Despite the Blue Star Civilization still having this few-hundred-year newbie protection period.

But this only meant that Advanced Civilizations couldn't take the initiative to act.

In fact, private actions had never stopped.

The pressure was enormous.

Thinking of this, Tian Lin paused.

He suddenly thought of a person.

Ji Yebai.

Ji Yebai, who had disappeared from a cosmic battleship a few years ago.

The remaining video clips showed his strength exceeding that of conventional Life and Death Realm Martial Artists.

Could it be him?!

Tian Lin was suddenly stunned.

He was silent for a moment.

Whether it was him or not, this made him feel a bit better.

As long as experts were born, it was a good thing for the Blue Star Civilization.

"Seal this matter; do not reveal any information!"

Tian Lin's gaze was deep as he looked at everyone and said: "Mobilize people to level this mountaintop!"

Level it?!

Everyone subconsciously looked at the mountaintop that had eerily lost half its size.

They nodded with solemn expressions.

...

"Sigh, this seventh layer has already resulted in a loss of control; I'm afraid I'll need to be even more careful with the subsequent layers!"

Ji Yebai returned to his residence, looking at the surrounding buildings and frowning slightly.

Ji Yebai had not intentionally covered his tracks; at this moment, he didn't know his footprints had been discovered.

But even if he knew, he wouldn't care.

He just didn't like dealing with too many people.

Life returned to normal once again.

Ji Yebai's Physical Body was undergoing a violent transformation.

But these changes could already be suppressed.

From the outside, nothing could be seen at all, and it didn't affect his normal work and life.

In this way, time passed in silence.

Ji Yebai was immersed in a free and easy life.

For the next year or so, Ji Yebai basically just read books, did some cleaning, and focused on his work and life.

In his spare time, he went out to eat some special snacks.

Occasionally, he went to see the howling youth of the students.

However, some recent news on the Star Net caught Ji Yebai's attention.

A Legendary Civilization had been destroyed.

The one who acted was a Saint-level Lifeform.

It was said that while this Saint-level Lifeform's offspring was traveling, they were privately captured and studied by this civilization; in shame, the offspring directly detonated a trump card given by the Saint-level Lifeform.

This was what triggered the Saint-level Lifeform's wrath.

They directly descended upon that Legendary Civilization.

After seeing the offspring's miserable state, they directly entered slaughter mode.

That Legendary Civilization was said to have hundreds of top-tier Legends, but it was still to no avail.

Under the wrath of the Saint-level Lifeform, they were all killed one by one.

This caused a stir of discussion on the Star Net.

But it was merely a ripple of discussion.

Throughout the entire Universe, civilizations are destroyed from time to time.

Similarly, civilizations are discovered from time to time.

Just like human life and death.

Civilizations also have their extinction and birth.

This made Ji Yebai sigh for a while.

And although this news caused people to discuss it for a while, it soon faded into obscurity.

A new piece of news on the Star Net caught everyone's attention.

The Draiden Star Civilization wanted to come to New Blue Star for an academic exchange conference.

The Star Domain where humans are currently located is a small Star Domain under a large galaxy.

Number 357.

In this small Star Domain 357, there are three Legendary Civilizations.

One is the Pansi Civilization, one is the Blue Star Civilization, and the other is this Draiden Star Civilization.

The Pansi Civilization is highly aggressive, and the Blue Star Civilization came out of the Void Land, which is extremely mysterious.

Only this Draiden Star Civilization has no strong characteristics.

However, the Draiden Star Civilization, which has been able to stand on the opposite side of the Pansi Civilization for thousands of years, is also not simple.

Civilizations in the Universe are diverse.

Basically, the life born on every planet is different.

Of course, excluding the seeds of life scattered by others.

Although types of civilizations are strange and varied.

But their forms basically lean toward the humanoid shape.

According to the mainstream explanation of the current Cosmic Union, there is a mysterious imprint deep within the Laws of the Universe that makes the humanoid form the mainstream.

They speculate that in a long and unidentifiable era, a Supreme Venerable must have been born whose cultivation was beyond imagination, even to the extent of affecting the Laws of the Universe.

Ji Yebai was noncommittal about this speculation.

Currently, he hasn't even reached the level of a Cosmic Lifeform, and he knows even less about the higher stages.

Therefore, regarding this speculation, he really didn't know how to judge it.

"Perhaps there really exists an existence that can affect the operation of the entire Universe with a single word!"

Ji Yebai pushed the books and walked toward the bookshelf.

As his thoughts fluctuated, he even became somewhat dazed.

If a practitioner of that level really existed, what would they look like?

"Sigh! It's too early to think about these things; I haven't even reached the level of a Cosmic Lifeform, and I can't even survive in the Universe; it's too far from me, too far!"

Ji Yebai sighed with emotion.

"When I become a Cosmic Lifeform, I must travel the Universe with my Physical Body!"

"I imagine that kind of scene would be truly breathtaking, wouldn't it!?"

Ji Yebai's expression was full of longing.

He still remembered the joy of his first flight when he was promoted to the Innate realm.

If he could really roam the Universe with his Physical Body, it would probably be even more pleasant.

Unconsciously, Ji Yebai began to smile.