He wandered around the ruins of this vast territory, looking at the colorful lakes of lust, towering mountains, and numb birds and beasts. "Although the inheritances have all been plundered, what I've gained here is more precious than an Eternal Realm inheritance!"

Before coming to these territorial ruins, Xu Jingming was blind to the 152 factions of the Heart Realm.

Now, Xu Jingming understood what each faction's high-dimensional life forms were good at, what they feared, and how to deal with them. What was the core of this faction's cultivation path?

He understood everything.

He was confident, and his understanding of his own path was clearer.

"The cultivation of the Heart Realm lineage requires these lakes of emotional desire and sin," Xu Jingming said, looking at the colorful lakes. "They can all be used in the future."

Whoosh!

Xu Jingming flew away from the ruins, searching in the vast chaos for the next ruins.

"To a higher spatial layer region." As Xu Jingming flew, he suddenly traversed, entering a higher spatial layer.

The range he could explore was a spherical spatial range centered on his own territory.

At the same time, the 'spatial layers' of this spherical space were also within the scope of exploration.

"In the real universe, the size of space is three-dimensional: length, width, and height."

"But when you come to high-dimensional space, in addition to length, width, and height, there is also the dimension of 'spatial layer' and the dimension of 'timeline.' Ordinary high-dimensional life forms aren't qualified to cross timelines," Xu Jingming thought.

Low-dimensional life forms live in a single 'spatial layer.' In the eyes of high-dimensional life forms, it's like a 'pancake.'

And multiple spatial layers are countless spatial layers superimposed, like a mille-feuille! A ten-thousand-layer cake! A billion-layer cake!

There is no limit to the level of spatial layers!

Just like the 'length' of high-dimensional space has no limit, 'spatial layers' also have no limit!

"According to the understanding of human science, if low-dimensional life is three-dimensional life, then the nascent realm and the Eternal Realm are four-dimensional life. Their lives also occupy the dimension of 'spatial layer.'"

"And the existence of the third realm is a 'five-dimensional life.' In addition to the normal length, width, height, and spatial layer, they also occupy the dimension of 'timeline,' and they unify all their own timelines."

Xu Jingming thought, "The existences of the third realm, they lock different timelines into one; the past, present, and future are all locked into one. So no matter how the enemy kills them, their future is certain, and they are immortal."

The timeline is locked, the future is locked, and all possibilities are locked.

Naturally, they can't be killed.

Even if the strength of third-realm existences differs by several times or even more, even if they instantly annihilate all the avatars of the other party on one timeline, the countless timelines of the other party are the same life…

The countless avatars on other timelines will instantly revive the avatars on this timeline.

After all, they are all in the third realm. It is impossible to kill all the countless avatars in countless timelines.

So every existence of the third realm, if they don't want to die, they are immortal.

"No wonder there is such a big difference between the half-step third realm and the real third realm; after all, one is a four-dimensional life, and the other is a five-dimensional life." Xu Jingming thought as he continued to fly and explore.

....Although the territory opened up in the Heart Realm is small, it can also remotely sense some similar spatial layers.

These spatial layers are also areas that Xu Jingming needs to explore.

"The ruins of an Eternal Realm territory are very large. So when I explore, I can maintain a large distance," Xu Jingming thought. His exploration trajectory was like a huge 'sieve,' and the sieve had large holes.

But as long as it doesn't miss the territorial ruins, that's fine.

…

"Time passes so quickly." Xu Jingming drank a cup of coffee prepared by his wife.

"It's very fast." Li Miaomiao smiled. "It's been five hundred years since you became a Cosmic Legend."

"That's not what I meant." Xu Jingming's mood was complicated.

"I mean… I feel like these five hundred years have passed as quickly as five hours."

"Like five hours?" Li Miaomiao was stunned. "How many things have happened in these five hundred years? The younger generations of the Xu family have passed on for more than ten generations. You think it's like five hours?"

Counting from Xu Jingming as the first generation, the third generation of the Xu family were Xu Fangjin and Xu Biyun. They married and had children relatively late; those who married and had children before the age of twenty were considered fast! Now, the Xu family has reached the twelfth generation.

Although many married and had children very late after becoming Starspace lifeforms, the Xu family does indeed have more than ten thousand people.

This is already considered 'slow reproduction.'

"It really feels like five hours." Xu Jingming nodded. "Watching the younger generations reproduce, one having three or five children, and the children having children… It feels like watching a group of ants reproduce. Unknowingly, from a few ants to an ant kingdom."

"Those are our descendants," Li Miaomiao couldn't help but say.

Xu Jingming smiled. "Five hundred years like this, what about another five hundred years? How many people will the Xu family have? A hundred million people? Reproducing like ants. I'm not wrong."

"A hundred million?" Li Miaomiao shuddered at the thought.

"Cosmic races are like this. Some large families can occupy dozens of star systems, and the family population is in the 'trillions,'" Xu Jingming said. "The reason why I feel that time passes quickly is not because of these younger generations, nor because of the expansion of Blue Star Civilization's territory… but because, in five hundred years, I am still in the accumulation stage of 'constructing a high-dimensional life form.'"

The various methods of constructing high-dimensional life forms that the Dean and the others gave.

Xu Jingming had to carefully dissect them, and the process of dissection naturally accumulated experience.

But the 'construction method' of a high-dimensional life form is vast and boundless. At Xu Jingming's brain operation speed, after dissecting for five hundred years, the dissection progress was less than 50%. It is estimated that it will take several hundred more years to say…

I have analyzed everything once! This is the first detailed time! It belongs to the foundation of the accumulation period.

"It's not easy to become a high-dimensional life form in the first place," Li Miaomiao comforted.

"It's like focusing on solving an analytical problem. When less than half of the problem is solved, I look up, and five hundred years have passed." Xu Jingming sighed, "The stronger a life is, the longer its lifespan will be. Time will seem shorter and shorter."

A powerful high-dimensional life form, focused on thinking about a problem, in the process of thinking, a low-dimensional life form may have completed the entire process of 'from birth to old age.'

…"Jingming." Li Miaomiao held Xu Jingming's hand. "In your long lifespan, will my life also seem very short?"

"No."

Xu Jingming looked at his wife and said, "Your lifespan will be as long as mine."

The Xu family's children and grandchildren will become more and more huge over time, hundreds of millions, trillions…

Xu Jingming wouldn't even recognize the names of many people.

For the countless members of the Xu family, the most Xu Jingming could do was to establish fair internal competition rules for the clan. It was fundamentally impossible to have too much favoritism.

But for his wife, Li Miaomiao, his daughter, Xu Lixing, and other close relatives who were very important in his life, Xu Jingming's attitude was naturally completely different. He would do everything in his power to make his loved ones live better and live longer.

"The Tong lineage," Xu Jingming thought.

The method of allowing low-dimensional life forms to have lifespans comparable to high-dimensional life forms is not limited to the Tong lineage! But any kind of inheritance is priceless! Fortunately, Xu Jingming had already obtained the .

The broader his horizons, the clearer Xu Jingming became about the value of the and .

Especially since the was still the original inheritance! Just like what Island Lord, Tower Master, and Palace Head thought—they paid the price and prepared treasures for Xu Jingming, but after Xu Jingming took out the original , they made a huge profit!

Heart Realm.

With Xu Jingming's own territory as the center, within a spherical space with the extreme distance as its radius—including the spherical space of different spatial layers—Xu Jingming was slowly exploring.

"I have already 'roughly' explored all the spatial layers. Although there are loopholes in the rough exploration! But the 'Eternal Realm's territory ruins' range is large enough that it's impossible to miss them," Xu Jingming thought. "In other words, I have completely explored the ruins of the Eternal Realm and even more powerful territories."

"Now, a 'detailed' exploration might turn up some small territorial ruins," Xu Jingming thought to himself.

"After exploring for so many years, I have discovered a total of eight territorial ruins."

"Among them, there is one ruin from the half-step third realm, which is the ruin of Gu Jinshi's territory. The other seven are all ruins of Eternal Realm territories."

"The most regrettable thing is that all eight territorial ruins have been explored by other powerhouses, and there are no treasures or inheritances left," Xu Jingming said helplessly.

….This was also normal.

Most territorial ruins have a long history, and the probability of not being 'visited' is extremely low.

"Speaking of the gains from the eight territorial ruins, Gu Jinshi's guidance was the most helpful. The other seven combined couldn't compare," Xu Jingming was certain of this point. Gu Jinshi was like an encyclopedia.

Not only about the nascent realm and the Eternal Realm, but also about the existence of the higher third realm, there were many descriptions.

An old fellow who had lived for 15 Deep Abyss Epochs, had explored 32 third-realm territorial ruins, and had been personally guided by two living third-realm existences! Gu Jinshi was indeed very knowledgeable.

"This is also a characteristic of the Heart Realm lineage."

"The Heart Realm lineage only needs to find a way to obtain one or two inheritances to focus on! After that, one can explore a large number of territorial ruins to increase one's knowledge and experience," Xu Jingming thought.

Each major system had its own advantages.

Island Lord, Tower Master, and Palace Head's accumulation of high-dimensional information would be quickly surpassed by Xu Jingming.

As long as the high-dimensional life forms of the Heart Realm lineage lived longer and explored more ruins, they would all be very knowledgeable. This was something that other factions couldn't compare to.

"Huff."

Xu Jingming's Jing Sha avatar gradually explored the area in a 'detailed' manner according to the established rules.

Speaking of which, constantly exploring for so many years would also feel tiring and annoying for Source Lifeforms. But Xu Jingming had reached the Heart Realm of Purity, and hundreds of years of exploration was like a five-minute walk for him.

There was not a trace of fatigue; he didn't take it to heart at all.

He even split his mind in many ways. The cultivation of and the construction of high-dimensional life forms were what made him feel troubled and headache.

Exploring the Heart Realm? For him, it was relaxing.

"Hmm?"

Xu Jingming looked at a piece of land revealed in front of him, without any surprise. "New territorial ruins?"

He didn't rush to find the core of the territory; instead, he strolled around the edge of the territorial ruins.

"What small territorial ruins!" Xu Jingming frowned slightly. "Less than one ten-thousandth of the 'Dreamwalker's territory ruins,' less than one millionth of Gu Jinshi's territorial ruins. It should be the ruins of a nascent realm territory."

In the Heart Realm, more than 90% of the territorial ruins are left behind by the Eternal Realm.

Territorial ruins of the nascent realm are rare.

"They can all enter the Heart Realm, but died in the nascent realm?" This also made Xu Jingming vigilant. In the future, when he becomes a high-dimensional life form, he must also be careful. It would be too pitiful to die in the nascent realm like the master of the ruins in front of him.

宇宙职业选手 = Cosmic Professional Player
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