Chapter 5 Fifth Realm

Xu Jingming opened a new page of the *Bafang Tu* (Eight Directions Chart) and began cultivating the fifth realm.

Within the book space, Lord Yu Huo’s light illuminated everything, explaining the fifth realm.

The fifth realm of the *Bafang Tu* is the Da Huanxi Realm (Great Joy Realm): normal living beings pursue pleasure and avoid suffering.

They seek safer and more luxurious dwellings, beautiful and comfortable robes, and want to hear pleasing music and see delightful scenery…

All of this can be attributed to the desire for comfort, as making oneself comfortable is the instinct of living beings.

The desire for comfort affects every aspect of a living being. Why are many living beings lazy? It is because of the influence of the desire for comfort. Without sufficient external pressure, laziness… is naturally more comfortable.

But whether low-dimensional or high-dimensional life, competition is brutal. If one is too lazy, even with abundant resources, they will be stolen, swindled, or even plundered by other living beings!

To better understand the desire for comfort, to use it for one’s own benefit without being tempted and indulging in it, one must carefully dissect and comprehend it.

Lord Yu Huo smiled and said, "The core of the Da Huanxi Realm lies in three desires: the desire for comfort, greed, and the desire for superiority.

Greed is wanting a second one after getting one. After becoming the strongest in the low-dimensional world, one still wants to become a high-dimensional life. After becoming a high-dimensional life, one still craves the Eternal Realm, the Third Realm, and even higher. Countless beings are influenced by greed.

Perfect control of greed can become the driving force for a living being's evolution.

"Unrestrained greed, however, will completely destroy oneself. Even if one becomes a high-dimensional life, even a Third Realm existence, one should know what is within the scope of enjoyment and what is beyond it. Exceeding the scope will only backfire."

Lord Yu Huo did not elaborate on greed. As for the desire for superiority, it is a very complex desire; things like the desire for power and the desire to compare can be considered its branches.

Countless beings may be most obsessed with the desire for superiority throughout their lives.

In low-dimensional life groups, if the surrounding beings are wearing beautiful robes, one will also pursue beautiful robes, even more precious ones. If the surrounding beings live in sturdy houses that shield them from the wind and rain, one will also pursue such houses, even wanting better ones.

The same is true for high-dimensional life. If companions use a micro-universe to raise a group of low-dimensional life, one will want to use a small universe to raise a group of low-dimensional life.

If companions build their lairs with Eternal Realm weapons as the core, one will want to use Third Realm weapons to build their palaces.

Wanting better things, wanting more face, this is also the desire for superiority.

Lord Yu Huo said, "I collectively classify the desire for comfort, greed, and the desire for superiority as the fifth realm—the Da Huanxi Realm. These desires are all good; controlling them allows living beings to evolve into something more excellent. But once they are out of control…" Lord Yu Huo shook his head.

"And to become a Third Realm existence, one must perfectly control them," Lord Yu Huo said.

Back then, Xu Jingming relied on observing the desires of people on over ten thousand experimental planets, as well as repeatedly experiencing trials in the book space for over a thousand years, to completely grasp the most basic desires of food and sex.

The desire for comfort, greed, and superiority are even more complex.

Xu Jingming also began to experiment again and again in the book space… Even with ample theoretical experience and experience observing experimental planets, Xu Jingming was still stuck.

Xu Jingming only spent a little over a year perfectly mastering the desire for comfort. Greed, however, stumped Xu Jingming.

"Am I expecting too much? I care about the clan, my hometown, and my relatives. Sometimes, I have to take risks, I have to fight," Xu Jingming watched the illusion in front of him dissipate. "But according to the test in the *Bafang Tu* book, taking risks is wrong; one must be patient!"

"Even if the clan is destroyed, the hometown is destroyed, and relatives die, one must still endure! Because if one is strong enough, there are too many ways to revive them. But taking risks might lead to complete death, and everything will be for naught."

Xu Jingming murmured, "I understand the guidance of the *Bafang Tu*, but sometimes I can't endure it."

He couldn't perfectly grasp the scope of greed. He had to change his thinking.

"It can't be the thinking of a low-dimensional life, but the thinking of a high-dimensional life," Xu Jingming thought. "Some special half-step Third Realm existences can allow their relatives to become dependents. Third Realm existences have even more incredible abilities; they can even change the past!"

The past cannot be changed? Wrong! Third Realm existences can change the past. The living beings who originally died in the past have their own life experiences in the past timeline. Revival indirectly affects the present, and the currently living beings might disappear silently.

The development of the entire timeline heads in another direction because of the Third Realm's manipulation.

Only the Third Realm existences themselves, who control their past, present, and future, are unchangeable.

Cultivation of the *Bafang Tu* was stuck, but Xu Jingming was very smooth in his research on cosmic rules.

"Wonderful, wonderful," Xu Jingming watched the 20 small universes crashing into each other non-stop in the beast hide space. Each of them had different rules, and they influenced each other, allowing Xu Jingming to learn a lot.

"With the many inheritances given by the Dean and the others, I learned the knowledge of opening up a universe within the body. There are also the 20 small universes prepared by an invincible half-step Third Realm existence for his child, and tens of thousands of real universes for me to observe. These learning conditions… are something other nascent high-dimensional lives can only envy." Xu Jingming was in a great mood.

The nearly 2,000 avatars gathered in numerous territories could not observe all the real universes in these territories. The tens of thousands of real universes all operated with different rules.

Perhaps only the high-dimensional lives of the Heart Realm lineage could have so many avatars gathered in so many territories to observe so many real universes.

"Eternal Realm high-dimensional lives do not have particularly large universes in their bodies; strictly speaking, they are more like small universes." Xu Jingming's research focus was still on the 20 small universes crashing into each other.

The days of cultivation passed quickly. Just like an ordinary person focusing on painting, studying, reading novels, or watching TV series, several hours might pass without realizing it.

High-dimensional life had a much greater focus and energy; although Xu Jingming had avatars responsible for accompanying his wife and family, and for recording survival experiments, he devoted more than 99% of his energy to studying the universe and time-space!

The continuous gains from studying the universe and time-space made Xu Jingming indulge in it. During the time Xu Jingming was immersed in research, many things also happened… For example, in the real universe where Experiment Planet No. 57 was located, two low-dimensional life groups near Xu Jingming had a "genocidal war." The low-dimensional lives on both sides fought fiercely. Low-dimensional life groups were equally crazy.

As a result, on the losing side, two of the three high-dimensional lives died, one escaped, and the entire group was annihilated.

On the winning side, the high-dimensional lives were all safe and sound, but over 70% of the group also died. After all, the aftershocks of high-dimensional life battles were too terrifying.

"Once Eternal Realm high-dimensional lives go crazy, they are too much of a threat to low-dimensional life groups. Despite the winning side's low-dimensional lives doing their best to protect it, the group still lost more than half," Xu Jingming shook his head.

The high-dimensional lives could tolerate some losses.

Because it would not take long for the group to reproduce and far exceed its current scale.

The scale of the war was very large. Xu Jingming, from the Heart Realm lineage, was only protecting one life planet, and both sides of the war deliberately avoided Xu Jingming.

In the 1298th year of the experiment, Experiment Planet No. 57's neighboring groups started a genocidal war. The deeper reason might still be a problem between high-dimensional lives.

In the 3620th year of the experiment, the real universe where Experiment Planet No. 3021 was located was attacked, and all the living beings in the entire real universe were sacrificed! But I, a nascent high-dimensional life, could only watch everything happen.

Xu Jingming could not forget that scene.

During the sacrificial ritual, abyssal shadows descended and enveloped the entire real universe. All the living beings in the universe were sacrificed.

In the 5085th year of the experiment, Experiment Planet No. 9773 was located in a real universe where a Third Realm weapon appeared, causing a terrifying war. The war extended from outside the universe to high-dimensional space. The initial aftershocks alone killed one-third of the living beings in that universe.

Xu Jingming was also not qualified to participate in such competition, but he also saw the power of high-dimensional lives. The initial aftershocks alone were so terrifying.

The later battles were in high-dimensional space, and two half-step Third Realm existences participated.

There were also other various large and small fights; he had only heard about them and had not seen them.

Xu Jingming's avatars gathered in numerous territories were all very low-key. Apart from survival observation experiments, he was single-mindedly studying the universe and time-space, not participating in any fights, and living cautiously.

"A thousand years have passed." The nearly two thousand avatars in numerous territories all showed smiles. "Survival observation experiments have advanced for a thousand years, and my research on the universe and time-space has also been going on for a thousand years."

"A thousand years feels like only a moment has passed," Xu Jingming also found it quite simple. "High-dimensional life's perception of time is indeed different from low-dimensional life's."

It took more than 3,900 years to become a high-dimensional life. He experienced many, many things, and it was very long.

But the 7,000 years of research on the universe and time-space felt like only drinking a cup of tea. The perception of time was obviously different.

"No wonder it's said that a high-dimensional life's closed-door research might last tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years," Xu Jingming sighed. "I focused on research for 7,000 years this time, and I didn't feel the slightest mental fatigue. Obviously, I haven't reached the limit of my focus on research. The reason I stopped was because the research was successful; I completely understood the method of opening up a universe."

"You guys, even with a lifespan of 100,000 years, might only experience one or two of my research periods in the future?" Xu Jingming's emotions were somewhat complex at this moment.

He increasingly felt the difference between high-dimensional and low-dimensional life.

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