Chapter 21 Excitement and Pressure

In reality, BinHai City.

Xu Jingming walked into his courtyard, sitting alone on a long bench. In the Blood Rain World, it was afternoon, but in reality, it was late at night. Stars twinkled in the sky, and the air was refreshingly cool.

"Kill!"

"No—"

Xu Jingming remembered clearly the scenes of killing those gang members in the Blood Rain World.

Some gang members were bloodshot and crazy before they died, while others were desperate and terrified. In the face of death, their intense emotions had a strong infectious power, and Xu Jingming could also feel their emotions. This was different from the battles in the 'Life Evolution' game, because death in the game was insignificant.

But in the Blood Rain World, those natives really believed everything was real, that death was real.

"Too real," Xu Jingming murmured.

"Jingming." Li Miaomiao received a smart notification that her husband had left the virtual chamber, and she immediately logged off as well.

"Why are you sitting in the courtyard so late?" Li Miaomiao asked, puzzled. Her husband cultivated very diligently and rarely sat alone in the courtyard at night, lost in thought.

Xu Jingming looked at his wife beside him, held her hand, and smiled. "I was a little stimulated."

"Stimulated?" Li Miaomiao was curious.

"Didn't I tell you? I recently took on a mission in the Blood Rain World," Xu Jingming said. "Today was the first time I went on a killing spree, and I fought a battle inside. I finally understand why the fighting in the Blood Rain World… hones one's mental will even more."

"Oh?" Li Miaomiao looked at Xu Jingming.

"Ordinary battles in virtual games are just ordinary battles," Xu Jingming said. "Even some top competitions only involve more emotion and stimulate the mind more deeply because of the attention of countless people. But the Blood Rain World… is truly close to 'reality.'"

"All the natives are real people," Xu Jingming said. "They have their real-world memories blocked, and they believe everything in the Blood Rain World is real, so those natives invest real emotions."

"They have joys and sorrows, greed, wild excitement, hesitation, fear…" Xu Jingming said. "And when we cosmic citizens enter, the cost is very high. It costs 100,000 cosmic coins to enter. And the longer we stay and the more we accumulate, the more afraid we are to die. We also cherish our lives."

"Today, when I was surrounded and attacked by those gang members, my body was very fragile, and I would die if I was hit by a knife. I had to be extremely careful," Xu Jingming said. "I've never been so cautious in previous competitions."

"I was very careful, very cautious. And those gang members were really fighting for their lives. The emotions in the face of death can also infect people," Xu Jingming said with emotion. "This battle has stimulated me as much as three or five world-class competitions."

Li Miaomiao said, "You make me want to go in too."

"The despair and screams in the face of death," Xu Jingming said, "even just facing it will make your heart tremble. If you're timid, you'll probably be scared stiff."

Although Li Miaomiao hadn't experienced it, she could imagine it.

"I also made a breakthrough in this battle today," Xu Jingming said, looking at the night sky. "I broke through to the sixth level."

"Sixth level?" Li Miaomiao was overjoyed.

"The sixth level is relatively simple," Xu Jingming said with a light smile. "If you rely on external forces to become a cosmic lifeform, taking it step by step from the first to the second to the third level, it will be very difficult to go from the fifth to the sixth level. But if you rely on your own evolution to become a cosmic lifeform, it will be very easy to reach the sixth level."

"Once you pass the 50% mark at the fifth level, you can learn the cosmic lifeform evolution method."

"After becoming a cosmic lifeform, you'll quickly reach 90% at the fifth level."

"After cultivating for a while… you'll naturally reach the sixth level," Xu Jingming said.

For cosmic lifeforms like Tino who rely on external forces, it will be very difficult to go from the fifth to the sixth level! It will be very easy for people like Xu Jingming, Liu Hai, and Tiger Fusen who rely on themselves.

"But after that, every little improvement will be extremely difficult," Xu Jingming said. "According to the data of countless citizens statistically in the universe, the proportion of breakthroughs from the sixth to the seventh level is less than 1%, and the proportion of breakthroughs from the seventh to the eighth level is also less than 1%."

"The proportion is so low?" Li Miaomiao was surprised. "According to this proportion, even if Blue Star Civilization gives birth to a thousand sixth-level experts through the evolution method, only a handful can become seventh-level?"

"Yes."

Xu Jingming nodded. "The path of evolution becomes more and more difficult as you go further, and the proportion of breakthroughs will become lower and lower. It is uncertain whether the entire Blue Star Civilization can give birth to an eighth-level expert, let alone the distant ninth level. To be honest, I am under great pressure. The more I understand, the greater the pressure."

"In the virtual world network, I have found that many weak civilizations are on the verge of collapse, and the misery after the collapse… makes me even more stressed," Xu Jingming said softly.

Some newly emerging and weak civilizations are 'bled dry' by those powerful cosmic civilizations. In the end, the weak civilizations collapse and are swallowed up by the powerful civilizations. At that time, the fate of the people of the weak civilizations will mostly be very miserable, because planetary lifeforms are not considered cosmic citizens! They can be exploited to a greater extent.

In that case, the lives of the Blue Star Civilization's people will be many times worse than they are now.

The higher-ups of the Blue Star Civilization are under great pressure and are trying every means to deal with it.

As the number one genius of the Blue Star Civilization, Xu Jingming is under even greater pressure! He has no one to rely on.

Pang Ze is very strong, but he is an academic talent! He is good at humanities, and he has not shown much potential in science. Therefore, it is extremely unlikely that Pang Ze wants to reach level 100 on the 'academic' path. It can be said that it is zero.

He, Xu Jingming, as a transcendent genius, is the only tall person in Blue Star! The only one who seems to have a chance to become a super expert in evolution.

"Yes, the path of evolution becomes more and more difficult as you go further," Li Miaomiao said, holding her husband's hand. "But no matter how difficult the road is, no matter how far the road is, you have to take it step by step. Don't worry, we'll take it slowly."

"Yeah." Xu Jingming nodded, looking at his wife and the child in her belly.

Even in the vast universe, there are countless experts and countless geniuses! He has to fight!

…

After chatting with his wife for a while and having a late-night snack, Xu Jingming re-entered the virtual world network.

He only needed to spend 12 hours a day in the Blood Rain World. Most of the other time, Xu Jingming was studying the upper volume of *Hua Guang*.

"Electromagnetic cannon array, start!"

Xu Jingming stood in the training ground. Countless metal blocks tore through the air at a terrifying speed of 'a hundred times the speed of sound', enveloping him with countless ear-piercing screams.

"Clang clang clang~~~"

Xu Jingming wielded the spear in his hand, and the shadow of the spear swept around. The terrifying metal blocks changed direction after touching the shadow of the spear and crashed everywhere.

"The upper volume of *Hua Guang* records all the cultivation content from the first to the eighth level. The cultivation in the planetary lifeform stage is relatively simple, and the cosmic lifeform stage is much more difficult!" Xu Jingming thought. "There are aspects of mind refinement, aspects of manipulating cosmic energy, and so on… Among them, the most critical are the five volumes of spearmanship. The previous five ultimate moves were just an introduction. These five volumes of spearmanship are the foundation for reaching 'ninth-level spearmanship.'"

Five volumes of spearmanship.

They were *Flowing Water*, *Starfire*, *Mountain Setting*, *Time-Space*, and *Hua Guang* respectively, which were much more profound than the previous five ultimate moves.

Xu Jingming pondered and practiced all five volumes. At present, he had the most gains from *Flowing Water*.

"My 'Water Flowing' spear intent is quite compatible with the *Flowing Water* volume. At least I have already entered the door," Xu Jingming was still very happy, because according to Xuan's description, entering any volume of the five spearmanship volumes required understanding the corresponding spear intent thought.

Of course, this was just the beginning! The path of cosmic lifeform evolution was indeed much more difficult than that of planetary lifeforms.

"Xuan, you mainly focused on the *Flowing Water* volume back then, and this volume also has the most content," Xu Jingming thought.

The amount of content recorded in the five volumes varied.

*Flowing Water* had the most content, *Mountain Setting* was slightly less, *Time-Space* and *Starfire* were even less, and *Hua Guang* had the least content recorded.

After practicing for a long time.

"Didi di—"

The countless falling meteorites in the training ground suddenly stopped.

"It's time to enter the Blood Rain World." Xu Jingming received a system notification that it was time to work, so he immediately opened the Blood Rain World and clicked lightly. His whole person entered it.