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In 2036, mankind steps foot on Mars for the first time.
In 2052, Earth holds the first World Martial Arts Tournament, a global martial arts competition watched by the entire planet.

Top professional gladiator, “Spear Demon” Xu Jingming, retires at the prime age of 26 with a body ridden with injuries. 

One day, the United Nations announces that mankind would be ushering in a new era for human evolution. Advanced technology had been found on Mars, a secret kept to this day. Research had been carried out to use science to augment human evolution.

All of mankind can now evolve themselves by partaking in this VR experience using the freely distributed VR headset. 

How will Xu Jingming use this opportunity for all mankind to his advantage?

Cosmic Professional Gladiator

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The gargantuan creature known as Hundred Tablet was a spectacle of torment and insanity, its countless eyes reflecting a struggle against the unseen. Its unusually elongated tentacles writhed in an unsynchronized dance, a visible sign of a mind ensnared in a realm of illusion, unable to regain its senses.

From a distance, Xu Jingming spotted the onslaught of the three Abyss Overlords.

A flicker of thought and he was there, employing his Heart Realm teleportation. He targeted the mightiest of the trio, Hundred Tablet, pushing it further into the deceptive abyss of illusion.

Sustaining the Abyssal Void, this world of illusion, was a mammoth task that strained Xu Jingming's mental faculties. He was at his limits, able to maintain only two at once!

Keeping Hundred Tablet ensnared had drained nearly half of Xu Jingming's psychic energy. Yet, in the same breath, he made a play for the colossal Spirit Cleansing Iceberg.

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