Chapter 1000: The Bones from the Stars! Noah Empire!

“Won! Xu Jingming won!”

“A ninth-rank at twenty? That’s insane!”

“When he returns, the entire Firewood World and Blue Star will tremble for him!”

“......”

In the Firewood World, outside the Breakthrough Tower.

A wave of stunned exclamations rose from the crowd.

They never imagined Xu Jingming could break through to ninth rank, let alone defeat Allen so easily!

“Jingming... he’s already ninth rank?”

Among the crowd, Zhou Ying, Song Qiuyun’s aunt, widened her eyes, then after a long moment, exhaled deeply:

“I originally planned to have Sister Su handle Hu Jinyu—now, Xu Jingming alone can take care of it.”

After confirming Xu Jingming was unharmed and had made great progress, Zhou Ying visibly relaxed.

All she needed to do now was wait for him to emerge and deliver the news.

Xu Jingming’s astonishing display had little impact on the psychics of the Firewood World.

It was merely the emergence of a prodigy even more talented than Allen.

But for Flame Divine Sovereign Lei Ding, who had personally trained Allen, it was entirely different.

In midair, Flame Divine Sovereign Lei Ding stared at the vision projected by Allen’s Fate Vision, his face dark and terrifying.

Failing to obtain the civilization’s legacy was bad enough.

What he could not accept was Allen’s crushing defeat!

Both possessed SSS-grade psychic abilities, yet Allen couldn’t even hold out for ten seconds against Xu Jingming.

It made him question whether his years of training Allen had gone wrong.

In contrast, Grand Priestess Allen saw Xu Jingming on the screen, her beautiful eyes shimmering faintly with unusual light.

She had guessed Xu Jingming would claim the slot, but never imagined he’d secure it in such a formidable manner...

Swish—

Inside the Breakthrough Tower, Black Feather’s wings swept, and a massive black teleportation portal appeared beside the palace.

“The Trial Tower will shut once the heir receives the legacy. Everyone, hurry to claim your rewards—no extensions.”

No sooner had Black Feather finished speaking than he vanished into a shadow and reappeared beside Xu Jingming, who had just exited the elemental state.

“Follow me.”

The shadow enveloped Xu Jingming, then vanished with a swift whoosh.

“How envious! He’s already received the civilization’s legacy!”

“Envy’s useless—we never had a chance at this slot.”

“True. Better hurry and claim our rewards.”

“......”

Countless voices of envy rose—they knew Xu Jingming had entered the palace to receive the legacy.

Meanwhile, Leo, a ninth-rank peak, sighed silently as he watched Allen, eyes vacant, as if his Dao heart had been shattered.

Allen’s confidence was badly damaged; he’d likely need a specialized ninth-rank psychic healer after returning.

Otherwise, this defeat would leave a permanent shadow in his heart.

Whoosh—

Xu Jingming’s consciousness blurred; when he came to, he was inside the palace.

The palace was vast and opulent, its ceiling resembling a dreamlike starry sky.

Beneath the ceiling stood twenty massive stone pillars.

Each pillar bore unique bas-reliefs, depicting different scenes.

Most showed humans battling other creatures, though only some of those creatures resembled ferocious beasts he recognized.

The rest were bizarre, alien forms he had never seen before.

Most astonishing of all was the skeleton at the palace’s center.

The skeleton stood over twenty meters tall and more than thirty meters long, vaguely resembling a wolf from Blue Star.

Yet its bones glowed a deep blue, radiating a luster like sapphire under the ceiling’s light.

Simultaneously, an indescribable pressure emanated from the corpse, making Xu Jingming feel faintly uneasy.

“This Moon Howling Beast came from the stars. Your inability to use psychic abilities is due to its aura.” The red-eyed raven chuckled wickedly.

Hearing this, Xu Jingming was stunned.

Merely the aura from a skeleton had rendered him—and even two ninth-rank peaks—unable to use their psychic abilities.

How powerful must this creature have been in life?

And what did “from the stars” mean?

As if sensing Xu Jingming’s confusion, Black Feather continued: “Don’t rush—I’ll explain everything.”

Boom!!

Black Feather exploded into a shower of endless black feathers, which gradually coalesced into a girl.

The girl had a delicate, fair face, her body sculpted beneath a tight black combat suit, her eyes as deep and vast as the stars.

Yet her ears were not human—they were slightly pointed, resembling elves from Western mythology.

“Let me reintroduce myself: I am Black Feather, the AI lifeform of the Noah Empire, tasked with managing this Trial Tower No. 1.

Of course, what stands before you is merely a negligible fragment of me.”

Black Feather smiled, extending a jade-like hand, her voice clear and melodious.

The sight of a squawking raven transforming into a sweet-voiced beauty left Xu Jingming dumbfounded.

Yet he quickly recovered and bowed respectfully: “Lord Black Feather.”

“Quite polite. Better than most native-world prodigies I’ve met.”

Black Feather nodded slightly.

She pulled out an apple from nowhere, took a bite.

Then waved her hand, and a vast star map appeared before Xu Jingming.

“You’ve probably guessed the Noah Civilization didn’t originate from Blue Star.

Congratulations—you’re right. Our civilization came from beyond the stars.

Precisely, from the Noah Empire, 4.47 million light-years away.”

Black Feather’s slender, snow-white finger traced lightly.

The star map shifted rapidly, revealing a completely alien region.

Countless star systems orbited within it, planets dense as grains of sand, too numerous to count.

Xu Jingming was utterly awestruck.

He had suspected Noah was an alien civilization—but never imagined it was this far from Blue Star!!

“Scared?”

Black Feather smiled, watching him with interest: “Four million four hundred seventy thousand light-years? In cosmic terms, that’s not far.”

“Not far?”

Xu Jingming swallowed hard.

A light-year is a unit of distance—light itself takes a full year to traverse one.

He didn’t know the top-tier flight speed, but the maximum speed of a ninth-rank peak psychic was only a dozen times the speed of sound.

Even assuming a top-tier’s speed was ten times that of a ninth-rank peak, it’d still be only a hundred times the speed of sound.

A hundred times the speed of sound: 34,000 meters per second.

Compared to light’s 300 million meters per second, it was negligible.

Four million four hundred seventy thousand light-years... just thinking of it was terrifying...

PS: Chapter 1000! After so much buildup, the stars have finally revealed a sliver.

The Blue Star arc will conclude; once we enter the stars, a far vaster world awaits—likely over four million words.

Of course, such a long epic is also a challenge for me.

I have a detailed outline ready—readers, please look forward to what’s next~~~