Chapter 10 The Great Joy Realm

Xu Jingming opened a new page of *The Octagonal Diagram* and began cultivating the fifth realm.

Within the space of the book, Lord Yuhuo illuminated everything, explaining the fifth realm.

The fifth realm of *The Octagonal Diagram* is the Great Joy Realm. Normal beings pursue pleasure and avoid suffering.

They seek safer and more luxurious residences, beautiful and comfortable robes, and desire to hear pleasant music and see delightful scenery…

All of this can be attributed to the desire for comfort, making oneself comfortable being a creature’s instinct.

The desire for comfort affects all aspects of a creature. Why are many creatures lazy? It is because of the influence of the desire for comfort. Without enough external pressure, laziness… is naturally more comfortable.

But whether it is a low-dimensional life or a high-dimensional life, competition is cruel. If one is too lazy, even if they possess a large amount of resources, they will be stolen, swindled, or even plundered by other creatures!

How to better understand the desire for comfort, use it for oneself, and not be tempted and sink into it, requires careful analysis and comprehension.

Lord Yuhuo smiled and said, "The core of the Great Joy Realm is three desires. First, the desire for comfort; second, greed; and third, the desire for superiority.

Greed means getting one thing and wanting a second. Becoming the strongest among low-dimensional beings, one still wants to become a high-dimensional life. After becoming a high-dimensional life, one still craves the Eternal Realm, craves the Third Realm, and even higher. Countless creatures are affected by greed.

Perfectly controlling greed can become the driving force for a creature's evolution.

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

Lord Yuhuo did not elaborate on greed. As for the desire for superiority, it is a very complex desire. Things like the desire for power and comparison can be regarded as branches of it.

Countless creatures may be most obsessed with the desire for superiority in their entire lives.

In low-dimensional life groups, when the surrounding creatures are wearing beautiful robes, one also pursues gorgeous robes, and even more precious robes. When the surrounding creatures live in solid houses that shelter them from the wind and rain, one also pursues such houses, and even wants better ones.

The same is true for high-dimensional life. If companions use miniature universes to raise a group of low-dimensional lives, one wants to use small universes to raise a group of low-dimensional lives.

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

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

Lord Yuhuo said, "I collectively summarize the desire for comfort, greed, and the desire for superiority as the fifth realm—the Great Joy Realm. These are all good desires. Mastering them allows creatures to evolve more excellently. But once out of control…" Lord Yuhuo shook his head.

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

Back then, Xu Jingming relied on observing the desires of people on over ten thousand experimental planets and thousands of years of experience in the book space to fully grasp the most basic desires for food and sex.

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

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

Xu Jingming only spent more than a year mastering the desire for comfort perfectly. But greed stumped Xu Jingming.

"Am I craving too much? I care about the clan, my hometown, and my loved ones. Sometimes, I have to take risks and fight," Xu Jingming watched the illusion in front of him dissipate. "According to the test of *The Octagonal Diagram*, taking risks is wrong and one must be patient!"

"Even if the clan is destroyed, the hometown is destroyed, and loved ones die, one still has to endure! Because if one is strong enough, there are too many ways to revive them. But taking risks may lead to complete death, and everything will be in vain."

Xu Jingming murmured, "I understand the guidance of *The Octagonal Diagram*, but sometimes I can't help but not endure."

He couldn't perfectly grasp the scope of greed and 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 loved ones to become dependents. Third Realm existences possess incredible abilities and can even change the past!"

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

The development of the entire timeline goes in another direction due to the manipulation of the Third Realm.

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

Cultivation on the *Octagonal Diagram* side was stuck, but Xu Jingming was very smooth in researching the universe's rules.

"Wonderful, wonderful." In the beast hide space, Xu Jingming watched the 20 small universes colliding and never stopping. The rules of each small universe were different and influenced each other, allowing Xu Jingming to learn a lot.

"With the many inheritances given by the院长 Yuanzhang and the others, I have learned the knowledge of opening up a universe within the body. There are also the 20 small universes prepared by the invincible half-step Third Realm for their children, and tens of thousands of real universes for me to observe. These learning conditions… are something other newly born high-dimensional lives can only envy." Xu Jingming was in a very good mood.

The avatars in nearly 2,000 territories could not observe all the real universes in these territories. 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 few avatars gathered in so few territories to observe so many real universes.

"The internal universe of an Eternal Realm high-dimensional life is not that vast. Strictly speaking, they are more like small universes." Xu Jingming's research focused on these 20 colliding small universes.

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

High-dimensional lives have vastly greater focus and energy. Although Xu Jingming had avatars responsible for accompanying his wife and family and for recording survival experiments, he spent more than 99% of his energy studying the universe and time!

Researching the universe and time brought a continuous stream of gains, making Xu Jingming addicted. During the time Xu Jingming was engrossed in research, many things happened. For example, in the real universe where the No. 57 experimental planet was located, two low-dimensional life groups near Xu Jingming’s location had a "genocidal war." The low-dimensional lives on both sides fought each other 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 clan was completely wiped out.

On the winning side, the high-dimensional lives were safe, but more than 70% of the clan also died. After all, the aftermath of the battle of high-dimensional lives was too terrifying.

"Once the Eternal Realm high-dimensional life goes crazy, it is too much of a threat to the low-dimensional life groups. The winning side's low-dimensional lives tried their best to protect them, but still most of the clan died," Xu Jingming shook his head.

High-dimensional lives can tolerate some losses.

Because it won't be long before the clan will reproduce far beyond its current scale.

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

In the 1,298th year of the experiment, a genocidal war broke out between the adjacent clans of the No. 57 experimental planet. The deeper reason may be the problem between the high-dimensional lives.

In the 3,620th year of the experiment, the real universe where the No. 3021 experimental planet was located was attacked, and all the creatures in the entire real universe were sacrificed! And he, a newly born high-dimensional life, could only watch everything happen.

Xu Jingming couldn't forget that scene.

During the sacrifice ceremony, a shadow of the abyss descended and enveloped the entire real universe, and all the creatures in the universe were sacrificed.

In the 5,085th year of the experiment, the No. 9773 experimental planet was located. A Third Realm weapon appeared in the real universe, causing a terrifying war. The war extended from outside the universe to the high-dimensional space. The initial aftermath alone caused one-third of the creatures in that universe to die.

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

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

There were also other various large and small fights, but he only heard about them and did not see them.

Xu Jingming's avatars gathered in many territories were very low-key. In addition to survival observation experiments, they were focused on studying the universe and time, and did not participate in any fights at all, carefully living in the cracks.

"A thousand years," nearly two thousand avatars in many territories all smiled. "Survival observation experiments have been going on for a thousand years, and I have also been studying the universe and time for a thousand years."

"A thousand years feels like a moment has passed," Xu Jingming was also very casual. "High-dimensional lives' perception of time is indeed different from that of low-dimensional lives."

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

But spending 7,000 years researching the universe and time felt like drinking a cup of tea. The feeling of time was obviously different.

"No wonder it is said that a high-dimensional life's closed-door research may be tens or hundreds of thousands of years," Xu Jingming sighed. "I have focused on research for 7,000 years this time, and I haven't felt any mental fatigue at all. Obviously, I have not reached the limit of my focused research. The reason why I stopped is also because the research was successful and I completely understood the method of opening up a universe."

"Xu Miao and the others, even if they have a lifespan of 100,000 years, may only have time for one or two of my future research sessions?" Xu Jingming's mood was a little complicated at this moment.

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

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