Chapter 10: A Journey to Higher Dimensions Chapter 11 A Focused Study
Xu Jingming opened a new page of "Eight Directions Map" and began to practice the fifth level.
In the book space, Yuhuo Jun's light shines everywhere, explaining the fifth level.
"The fifth level of the Eight Directions Diagram is the 'State of Great Joy'."
"Normal creatures pursue pleasure and avoid suffering."
"They pursue safer and more luxurious homes, they pursue gorgeous and comfortable clothes, they want to hear beautiful music, see pleasing scenery... all of these can be attributed to 'desire for comfort'."
"It is the instinct of living things to make themselves comfortable."
"The desire for comfort affects every aspect of life. Why are many creatures lazy? It is because of the influence of the 'desire for comfort'. Without enough external pressure, laziness... naturally makes people more comfortable."
“But whether it’s low-dimensional life or high-dimensional life, competition is cruel. If you are too lazy, even if you have a lot of resources, they will be stolen, cheated, or even robbed by other creatures!”
"How to better understand the desire for comfort, use it for your own benefit, and not be tempted by it, requires careful analysis and understanding."
Yu Huojun smiled and said, "The core of the Great Joy Realm is three desires. The first is the desire for comfort, the second is greed, and the third is the desire for superiority."
"Greed..."
"After getting one, one wants a second one. After becoming the strongest among low-dimensional life forms, one wants to become a high-dimensional life form. After becoming a high-dimensional life form, one still desires the 'Eternal Realm', the third realm, and even higher."
"Countless lives are affected by greed."
"Perfect control of greed can become the driving force for the evolution of living things."
"Indulging in greed will completely destroy oneself. Even if one becomes a higher-dimensional life form, even if one is a third-level being, one should know... what is within the scope of greed and what is outside the scope of greed! Going beyond the scope will only backfire on oneself."
Yu Huojun did not elaborate on greed, "As for the desire for superiority, it is a very complex desire. Desires like 'desire for power' and 'desire for comparison' can be considered its branches."
"For countless creatures, the desire for superiority may be their most persistent thing in their lives."
"In the low-dimensional life group, the creatures around me are all wearing beautiful robes, so I also pursue gorgeous robes, and even more precious robes. The creatures around me all live in solid houses that can protect me from wind and rain. I also pursue such houses, and even want better ones."
"It's the same with high-dimensional life. My companion uses a microcosm to support a group of low-dimensional life, and I want to use a small universe to support a group of low-dimensional life."
"My companion used the 'Eternal Realm Weapon' as the core to build his lair, and I want to use the 'Third Realm Weapon' to build a palace."
"Wanting to be better, wanting to be more respectable, this is also a desire for superiority."
Yu Huojun said.
"The desire for comfort, greed, and superiority, I have summarized them all into the fifth level, 'Great Joy'." Yu Huojun said, "These are all very good desires. If you control them, they can help living beings evolve to be better."
"But once it gets out of control..."
Yuhuo-kun shook his head.
“And if you want to become a third-level being, you must control them perfectly,” said Yuhuo Jun.
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In the beginning, Xu Jingming mastered the most basic appetite and lust by observing the desires of people on more than ten thousand test planets, as well as repeated experience in time, books and space for thousands of years.
The desire for comfort, greed, and superiority is even more complicated.
Xu Jingming also started trying again and again in the book space.
Even with sufficient theoretical experience and experience in observing and testing planets, Xu Jingming was stuck.
It took Xu Jingming just over a year to master the desire for comfort.
Greed, however, held Xu Jingming back.
"Am I expecting too much? I care about my tribe, my hometown, and my family. Sometimes, I have to take risks and fight." Xu Jingming watched the illusion disappear in front of him. "And according to the test of the Eight Directions Book, I think taking risks is wrong. I have to be able to endure!"
"Even if the tribe is destroyed, the hometown is destroyed, and the relatives die, we still have to endure it! Because, if we are strong enough, there are many ways to revive. But if we take risks, we may die completely and everything will be in vain." Xu Jingming murmured, "I understand the guidance of the Eight Directions Map, but sometimes I can't endure it."
One cannot perfectly grasp the scope of greed.
“I have to change my mindset.”
"It can't be the thinking of low-dimensional life, but the thinking of high-dimensional life." Xu Jingming thought, "Some special half-step third realms can make relatives become family members. The existence of the third realm has incredible abilities and can even change past history!"
The past cannot be changed?
wrong!
The existence of the third realm can change the past history. The creatures that died in the past are resurrected one by one and have their own life experiences in the past timeline. This indirectly affects the present, and the creatures that are alive now may disappear quietly.
The development of the entire timeline went in another direction because of the manipulation of the third realm.
Only the third realm exists by itself, they control their past, present and future. They are all unchangeable.
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Although his practice of the Eight Directions Diagram was stuck, Xu Jingming was doing very well in studying the rules of the universe.
"Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful." Xu Jingming was in the animal skin space, watching the 20 small universes colliding with each other non-stop. Each of these small universes had different rules, and they influenced each other, allowing Xu Jingming to learn a lot.
"There are many inheritances given by the dean and others, and I have learned the knowledge of opening up the universe in the body. There are also these 20 small universes prepared by the invincible half-step third realm for his children, and there are tens of thousands of real universes for me to observe. These learning conditions... are something that ordinary high-dimensional life forms in the newborn realm cannot envy." Xu Jingming was in a very good mood.
The clones scattered across nearly 2,000 territories can observe all the real universes in those territories.
There are tens of thousands of real universes, each with different operating rules.
Perhaps only the high-dimensional life forms of the power of the mind realm can have so many clones, scattered in so many territories, in order to observe so many real universes.
"The universe inside the bodies of high-dimensional life forms in the eternal realm is not that huge. Strictly speaking, they are more like microcosms." The focus of Xu Jingming's research is still on the 20 microcosms that collide with each other.
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The days of cultivation passed quickly.
Just like an ordinary person concentrating on painting, studying, reading novels, watching TV series... several hours may pass by unknowingly.
The concentration and energy of higher-dimensional life forms are countless times greater. Although Xu Jingming has a clone responsible for accompanying his wife and family and recording survival experiments, more than 99% of his energy is devoted to studying the universe and time and space!
Xu Jingming was obsessed with studying the universe and time and space and the endless gains he made.
A lot of things happened during the time Xu Jingming was immersed in his research.
For example, in the real universe where the No. 57 experimental planet is located, two low-dimensional life groups near Xu Jingming's location had a "genocide war". The high-dimensional life forms on both sides fought each other, and the low-dimensional life groups were also equally crazy.
As a result, the losing party had two of the three high-dimensional beings die, and one escaped! The entire tribe was wiped out.
On the victorious side, all higher-dimensional life forms were safe, but more than 70% of the population also died. After all, the aftermath of the battle among the higher-dimensional life forms was too horrific.
“Once the high-dimensional life forms in the Eternal Realm go crazy, they pose a huge threat to the low-dimensional life forms. Even though the high-dimensional life forms on the victorious side tried their best to protect them, most of the life forms still died.” Xu Jingming shook his head.
Higher-dimensional beings can tolerate partial losses.
Because it won't be long before the population will grow far beyond its current size.
The scale of the war was huge. Because Xu Jingming's heart realm lineage only protected one life planet, both sides of the war deliberately avoided Xu Jingming.
"In the 1298th year of the experiment, on the 57th test planet, neighboring tribes started a genocide war. The deeper reason may be a problem between higher-dimensional life forms."
"In the 3620th year of the experiment, the real universe where the 3021st experimental planet was located was attacked, and all the living beings in the entire real universe were sacrificed! And I, a high-dimensional life in the nascent stage, could only watch everything happen."
Xu Jingming could never forget that scene.
During the sacrificial ceremony, the shadow of the abyss descended and covered the entire real universe, and all living things in the universe were sacrificed.
"In the 5085th year of the experiment, a third-level weapon appeared in the real universe where the 9773rd test planet was located, causing a horrific war. The war continued from the universe to the high-dimensional space. The initial aftermath alone killed one-sixth of the creatures in that universe."
Xu Jingming is also not qualified to participate in such competition.
But he also saw how weak the low-dimensional life was. The aftermath of the initial stage was so terrifying. The later battle was in the high-dimensional space, and two people in the third realm of half-step participated in it.
"There were other fights, big and small, but I only heard about them and didn't see them."
Xu Jingming's clones scattered across many territories were all very low-key. Apart from survival observation experiments, they were devoted to studying the universe and time. He did not participate in any fights at all and lived cautiously.
"Seven thousand years."
Nearly 2,000 clones in many territories all smiled, "The survival observation experiment has been going on for 7,000 years, and I have been studying the universe and time for 7,000 years."
"Seven thousand years, it feels like just a moment has passed." Xu Jingming also had a complicated thought, "High-dimensional life's perception of 'time' is indeed different from that of low-dimensional life."
It took him more than 3,900 years to become a high-dimensional life. He went through a lot, and it was a very long time.
But the study of space and time that took 7,000 years felt like just the time it took to drink a cup of tea.
The sense of time is obviously different.
"No wonder they say that a high-dimensional life form may spend tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years in seclusion to concentrate on research." Xu Jingming sighed, "I have been concentrating on research for 7,000 years this time, and I have not felt the slightest mental fatigue. It is obvious that I have not reached the limit of my concentration on research. The reason why I stopped is because my research was successful and I have thoroughly understood the method of opening up the universe."
"Even if Miaomiao and the others have a lifespan of 100,000 years, it may only be enough time for me to study them once or twice in the future ?" Xu Jingming felt a little complicated at this moment.
He increasingly felt the difference between low-dimensional life and high-dimensional life.
