Chapter 157 Approaching the Arena

The sky was dark and the wind howled.

Seventeen members of the Giant Ape Clan bowed respectfully, "Your Majesty."

"The Myriad Races Arena will open in just one year." The one-armed Giant Ape King was the smallest in stature, but his aura was the most vast and unfathomable. "The Myriad Races Arena is located in the very center of the world. Even traveling by spacecraft, it will take a month to get there. Let's set off early."

"Yes," all the Giant Apes responded respectfully.

Soon a huge spacecraft arrived, and the one-armed Giant Ape King and the seventeen Giant Apes stepped into it.

Inside the large spacecraft's hall.

The one-armed Giant Ape King watched as the scenery outside rapidly became smaller, and the spacecraft quickly broke through the clouds and began to fly at super high speed.

"With experts from all sides heading there, I will be able to meet some old friends." The one-armed Giant Ape King thought. He was already a Half-Step Third Realm expert and knew many Half-Step Third Realm experts and abyss lords in the surrounding territories.

Therefore, the one-armed Giant Ape King also knew some of the top experts who had been transmigrated here.

"Your Majesty," suddenly, a golden-haired Giant Ape spoke, "Do we ordinary Giant Apes still have hope of getting out?"

"These years, we've been hunting down those weak races, but those weak races are getting stronger and stronger over time. Some of our Giant Ape Clan's higher-dimensional lives have been killed," said Luo Jin, a skinny Giant Ape. "With our strength, is there still hope of winning first place in the Myriad Races Arena?"

The golden-haired Giant Ape and the skinny Giant Ape were the two strongest experts in the Giant Ape Clan, second only to the king.

"Your hope is very slim."

The one-armed Giant Ape King looked at his subordinates. "I won't hide it from you. The first few Myriad Races Arenas are opportunities for powerful races, and even I have to fight desperately for them. Your chances of success are zero! In the middle and late stages, the advantages of weak races will become greater and greater, and you will have no chance either."

The Giant Apes were silent.

They tried every means to kill, hoping to increase their chances by a sliver. But they were all intelligent, and the more they fought against those weak races, the more they realized their own mediocrity.

"Your only chance... is lifespan," the one-armed Giant Ape King said.

"Lifespan?" The Giant Apes' eyes lit up.

"A powerful race also has an advantage, which is that their lifespans are generally very long. For example, the Five-Colored Dragon Race generally has a lifespan of 100,000 years, the Mountain Demon Race generally has a lifespan of 10,000 years, and our Giant Ape Clan generally has a lifespan of 1,000 years," the one-armed Giant Ape King said. "A thousand years is the basic lifespan. As you become stronger, you greatly slow down your aging and can live for tens of thousands of years."

"And those weak races, like the Ant Race, have a basic lifespan of 30 years. Even if their aging speed slows down hundreds of times, it would be amazing if they exceeded a lifespan of 10,000 years. The Human Race has a basic lifespan of 200 years, and it would be amazing if their aging slowed down a hundred times."

"Our bodies are too large, and it's even more difficult to slow down aging, but we can still manage thirty to fifty times."

"Like the Five-Colored Dragon Race, as long as the aging rate slows down by a few times, they can live for hundreds of thousands of years."

The one-armed Giant Ape King looked at them. "After living for tens of thousands of years, the experts of those weak races will be gone, your competitors will be fewer, and naturally, your chances will be greater."

"Of course, a large number of powerful races will be competing with you then," the one-armed Giant Ape King said.

The Giant Apes nodded.

Yes.

Living long enough, they could participate in the Myriad Races Arena tens of thousands of years later.

The one-armed Giant Ape King continued to look outside, thinking to himself, "I can feel that I am approaching the limit of my race. I have only improved one level in the last hundred years, and in the future, the improvement will be even slower."

"Powerful races can reach their upper limit more easily, so I must seize the first few opportunities to win first place. The longer I delay, the more experts will reach their upper limit, and the competition will become more and more intense."

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"The Myriad Races Arena will be held in a year. I have to see my future competitors with my own eyes." An Ant Race member, only twenty centimeters tall, had a stern look in his eyes as he sat in a small spacecraft.

"I, Ha Fucheng, have only reached level 43 after cultivating for more than three hundred years. In terms of physical toughness, I estimate that I am stronger than the level 60 Mountain Demon Race and Giant God Race. But my body is too small, and the power I can exert is less than one-millionth of that of a level 60 Mountain Demon Race." The Ant Race expert thought, "My body is getting tougher and tougher, and the density is getting higher and higher, and it is getting harder and harder to improve."

"Even if I reach level 60, it will be many times more difficult for me than for the Mountain Demon Race and the Giant God Race."

"Even in the early stages, I don't even have the qualifications to participate."

The Ant Race expert thought to himself.

"However, I am now able to perfectly hide my aura and can disguise myself as a noble in the Ant Race." The Ant Race expert thought. After a long period of reproduction, the Ant Race has three major categories.

The highest status is the Ant Race's royal family, who are all females. They are very large, up to three to five meters tall, and they reproduce countless Ant Race members.

The Ant Race's nobles are larger, up to twenty to thirty centimeters tall. Their intelligence is comparable to that of normal humans. The operation of the Ant Race's society is mainly maintained by the nobles.

Ordinary Ant Race members are only a few centimeters tall, work hard without complaint, and have low intelligence.

Abyss Lord 'Ha Fucheng' was in an ordinary Ant Race member's body when he first descended. After cultivating to level 43, his body size only reached 20 centimeters.

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The underground Demon Rat Empire.

"In one year, it will be the once-in-a-millennium Myriad Races Arena." A Demon Rat wearing a gray robe sat on a small sofa, watching the prosperity of the world center on the light screen. "I was born into the Demon Rat Race. I will completely give up on the first five competitions! Once I go... I am likely to be attacked and killed by powerful races." "I will first cultivate for five thousand years and then try to win the Myriad Races first place," the Demon Rat thought.

"Did the creator of the Myriad Races World do it on purpose? To throw me, a Half-Step Third Realm expert, into the Demon Rat Race." The Demon Rat expert was also quite aggrieved. In terms of body size, the Demon Rat Race can rank in the top five among the Myriad Races. Of course, it is much better than the Ant Race. The Ant Race is the smallest in size, ranking first among the Myriad Races.

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In a barren hilly area.

Xu Jingming had already returned to his true appearance in this world. His body was even taller and stronger than before, and the toughness of his body had reached an incredible level.

"Hoo."

Xu Jingming took a deep breath, and his low breath made the earth tremble.

"Ha!"

Suddenly exhaling, the breath exhaled from Xu Jingming's mouth broke through the resistance of the air, passed through a distance of several miles, and crashed into a small mountain more than a hundred meters high. The small mountain turned into powder, powder finer than sand on the beach.

"Eighth Direction Chart's seventh realm, 'My Dao Realm'."

"Surpassing life, practicing my Dao. Dao is not understood, but walked." Xu Jingming frowned slightly.

"I use the mysteries of the mind to explore the infinite potential of the flesh. After more than three hundred years, progress is getting slower and slower."

Xu Jingming looked southeast.

That was the center of the Myriad Races World and the location of the Myriad Races Arena.

"Buzz."

The watch suddenly rang.

Xu Jingming clicked it gently.

"Master Ming." Yu Yangwei's enthusiastic voice came, "Ying and I are preparing to go to 'World Center City'. Do you want to go with us?"

"You go first. I will arrive before the competition starts," Xu Jingming said.

"Then when we arrive in World Center City, we must get together. We have wanted to meet Master Ming for a long time, but we have never met," Yu Yangwei said.

"I also really want to see Master Ming," another enthusiastic voice said.

"Ming, then we'll see you in World Center City," Ying said.

Xu Jingming smiled and said, "Okay, see you then."

After closing the communication, Xu Jingming pondered, "It's time to go home. The last time I went back was more than fifty years ago."

Although he had been wandering and cultivating outside these years, he still went home every few decades, after all, his parents' lifespans were relatively limited.

"Hoo."

Soon a small spacecraft flew over and landed in front of Xu Jingming.

"Go home." Xu Jingming entered the spacecraft...

More than a month later.

The small spacecraft directly arrived at the capital of the Human Race's Seven Kingdoms, 'Dongyun Kingdom', Jianghan City, and landed in the courtyard of his parents' residence.

"Jingming, Jingming." Jing Yulong and Yuan Yu walked out of the house, calling out with joy.

"Dad, Mom." Xu Jingming said with a smile, but he was a little puzzled when he saw the baby held by his mother, Yuan Yu, "This is?"

"Oh, this is your younger sister," Jing Yulong said.

"How many is this?" Xu Jingming blinked.

"Our couple is healthy and lives long, so of course we have to have more children. This younger sister of yours is ranked ninth," Jing Yulong said. Yuan Yu said, "You, as the eldest, disappear outside for decades at a time, so of course we have to have a few more to keep us company."

"Okay," Xu Jingming said, speechless.

He didn't marry and have children, and his parents' persuasion was useless.

So his parents started having them themselves!

Because of the body refinement method, his father now had level 18 strength, and his mother also had level 15 strength. According to the current strength, they both had five to six hundred years of lifespan. At just over three hundred years old, they were in their prime.

"How long will you stay home this time?" Yuan Yu asked.

"It won't be just half a month again, will it?" Jing Yulong looked at his son.

This son made them proud, but in the last two hundred years, he had only returned a few times, and each time it didn't exceed a month.

"I'll stay for half a year this time before leaving," Xu Jingming said with a smile.

"Finally a longer time," Jing Yulong said with a smile. Yuan Yu asked, "Where do you plan to go this time?"

"To World Center City," Xu Jingming didn't hide it. "Isn't the Myriad Races Arena about to open soon?"

"Yes, the once-in-a-millennium competition. Your mother and I also plan to go," Jing Yulong also said excitedly, his eyes lighting up. "Many Human Race members don't get to see the Myriad Races Competition even once in their lives. But your mother and I have cultivated the body refinement method you created, and our lifespans have been greatly extended, so we have the opportunity to see the Myriad Races Competition. Of course, we have to go up close to watch this greatest event of the Myriad Races."

The Myriad Races Competition was of extraordinary significance.

During the period when it was held, even wars had to be suspended, and the Myriad Races would watch this competition.

"Watching the Myriad Races Arena with our own eyes is the greatest luck of our lives," Yuan Yu said, holding the baby. "The only pity is that the Myriad Races Competition... doesn't show our Human Race's figures."

"Only 300 people can make it to the official arena through selection," Jing Yulong said. "With so many powerful races, it's normal for the Human Race to not be able to make it to the arena."

Xu Jingming listened with a smile.

"Son, let's go together then," Yuan Yu said.

"Okay, let's go together," Xu Jingming nodded...

Time passed day by day, and the eyes of the entire Myriad Races World began to converge on the world center, all looking forward to the official opening of the Myriad Races Competition.

A medium-sized spacecraft was flying above the clouds.

Xu Jingming, Jing Yulong, Yuan Yu holding the baby, and a group of younger siblings were all in the spacecraft's hall.

"Boss, we will arrive at World Center City in five minutes," Assistant Ni Yun said.

Xu Jingming nodded, his eyes already gazing far away at the part of the building that broke through the clouds, which was the center of the entire world.

"A whole family is coming to watch the competition." Xu Jingming shook his head slightly, because too many people were coming, so he brought quite a few assistants and bodyguards.

"I see it, World Center City."

"We're here."

A group of younger siblings were very excited. Watching a Myriad Races Competition live was of extraordinary significance to every living being in the Myriad Races World.

Xu Jingming also smiled slightly. He could already sense one powerful aura after another. The current world center was full of experts!