Chapter 1 The First Interracial Competition

The first Interracial Competition after the arrival of more than five million high-dimensional beings in the World of Races concluded, with the dragonkin powerhouse ‘Lei Jiaoshan’ winning the championship, while the runner-up, the one-armed giant ape king ‘Wu Shi,’ died in the arena.

The audience was teleported out of the arena, but Xu Jingming seemed to be in a daze.

“In the World of Races, our bodies are too fragile and we can easily lose our lives,” Xu Jingming thought, recalling how he almost shattered the head of the mountain demon Badi Shen with one palm, and how Badi Shen was only a hair's breadth away from death.

“When one's strength is weak, one should avoid putting oneself in such a dangerous situation.”

“Unless there is hope of vying for first place, there is no need to participate.”

Xu Jingming made a decision at that moment.

If there was no hope of winning first place, what was the point of participating? Just to get a clearer sense of the opponent's strength? For high-dimensional beings, their avatars in the outside world could easily conduct combat simulations, and they never had to worry about lacking combat experience.

“Hmm?” As Xu Jingming and his family walked down the street, he saw the mountain demon Badi Shen and the five-colored dragon clan talking in the distance.

The mountain demon Badi Shen even looked towards Xu Jingming.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

After the mountain demon Badi Shen separated from the five-colored dragon clan, he walked towards Xu Jingming.

“That mountain demon.” His parents and younger siblings exclaimed in alarm. The pressure from a 65-meter-tall mountain demon walking towards them was too intense.

“Mom and Dad, you guys go back first,” Xu Jingming said.

“Alright.”

His parents and family left. They weren't worried about Xu Jingming. On the one hand, the World Center City prohibited fighting, and on the other hand, if they really fought, Xu Jingming's strength was still above that of the mountain demon Badi Shen.

“Brother Jingming.” The mountain demon Badi Shen walked to the side, revealing a simple and honest smile. Although they were different races in the World of Races, in the outside world… they were all high-dimensional beings.

“Badi Shen,” Xu Jingming nodded. “What's the matter?”

“I want to ask, what is the maximum lifespan that your human race can extend to?” Badi Shen asked.

Xu Jingming thought for a moment and said, “The stronger the control over the body, the slower one can age. It is estimated that the limit of human lifespan should be around 20,000 years.”

The lifespan of ordinary humans was 200 years. Xu Jingming could now extend his lifespan by about 90 times. He estimated that if his strength continued to increase, he would be able to extend it to about 100 times.

This was also the limit of human lifespan.

Compared to those powerful races, such as the mountain demon race, which generally had a lifespan of 10,000 years, even slightly slowing down aging would far exceed that of the human race.

Therefore, relying on lifespan to delay, weak races could not compare with powerful races.

“Twenty thousand years?” Badi Shen nodded slightly. “I have communicated with contestants from the five-colored dragon clan, the giant god clan, the demon dragon clan, and other races, and found that the lifespan limit in this world is 108,000 years.”

“One hundred and eight thousand years?” Xu Jingming was surprised. “I heard that the five-colored dragon clan generally has a lifespan of 100,000 years.”

“I asked, and the five-colored dragon clan cannot slow down the aging of their bodies at all,” Badi Shen said. “Like me, as a mountain demon, I can only slow down the rate of aging by a maximum of 10 times, and the estimated lifespan is also 108,000 years.”

Badi Shen had a look of sadness in his eyes and sighed, “All high-dimensional beings have to compete within 108,000 years. Even if we delay until the final stage, there will still be a large group of competitors.”

“In the first competition, I was so mediocre. There is no hope in the early competitions, and there will be a group of powerful race competitors in the later stages as well,” Badi Shen sighed. “I have a premonition that this life in the World of Races may be my last period of life.”

“It's difficult in the early stages, but the difficulty will be lower in the later stages,” Xu Jingming said.

“No, in the later stages, everyone's strength will be cultivated to near the limit. And those of us with super-large bodies will be at a disadvantage,” Badi Shen said. Even among the powerful races, the mountain demon race was considered to have an overly large body. “In the later stages, the hope of the mountain demon race winning first place is very slim.”

“You are different, you still have hope.” Badi Shen looked at Xu Jingming, his eyes were very complicated, with envy and acceptance. He then strode away.

Xu Jingming stood there, looking around. Many of the high-dimensional beings who were leaving were quite dejected.

“In the past, everyone still had extravagant hopes for the first place in the World of Races.” Yu Yangwei, Ying, and Feng Ke walked over. Yu Yangwei said, “But this first competition completely made everyone understand the gap. Everyone is a high-dimensional being, and they can easily calculate… that the probability of winning first place is 0!”

“That's right, the limit of our human lifespan is only about 10,000 to 20,000 years, and we can't delay until the later stages at all. In the most competitive stage, we have no hope at all,” Ying also said.

“Lord Jingming, I'm going to wander around the world,” Yu Yangwei grinned. “Enjoy the next ten thousand years of life.”

“I'm also going to enjoy life,” Ying also said. “Cherish the last period of time.”

The fat Feng Ke didn't speak.

“Lord Jingming, we bid you farewell. See you again in the next competition. I will come to watch every competition,” Yu Yangwei said.

“See you next time,” Xu Jingming nodded.

Yu Yangwei, Ying, and the fat Feng Ke all left.

…

A large number of tourists were leaving the World Center City, but no attacks occurred outside the city.

Attacks by powerful races on weaker races were already happening less and less frequently, because the number of cases of weaker races ‘counter-killing’ was increasing.

“Attack? Those powerhouses who entered the main competition in the first competition, which one of them isn't far beyond us?”

“They are too much stronger than us.”

“Hahaha… In fact, we should have realized long ago that we, these newly born high-dimensional beings, were sentenced to death when we were captured into this World of Races, and we are just living a few tens of thousands of years longer.”

“I haven't even successfully refined an avatar, and I was dragged into the World of Races. I couldn't even say goodbye to my friends in the outside world.”

“Enjoy life in the World of Races.”

One after another, spaceships flew away from the World Center City.

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The Jing family's medium-sized spaceship left the World Center City, because the journey was long, and the return trip would take nearly a month.

On the fifth day of the return trip, inside the spaceship.

“Big brother, big brother, look quickly,” his second brother exclaimed.

“You are now in charge of the entire Jing family, and you are still so unsteady,” Xu Jingming shook his head. “What happened?”

His second brother immediately ran to Xu Jingming's side and pointed to the light screen on his watch, saying, “Look, the official website of the World Center City is publicly selling the body refinement method of the champion of this competition, the dragonkin powerhouse ‘Lei Jiaoshan.’”

“What?” Xu Jingming was shocked and immediately looked at the light screen.

He knew very well that Lei Jiaoshan should have already left the World of Races after winning first place.

“According to the official website of the World Center City, Lei Jiaoshan took the initiative to spread his body refinement method. Each copy only costs 100 million,” his second brother said. “It has only been publicly sold for three minutes, and more than 200,000 copies have already been sold, and it is still soaring rapidly.”

“100 million per copy isn't much.” Xu Jingming immediately clicked on the light screen on his watch and entered the official website of the World Center City.

The name of this body refinement method was very simple, called *Fire Body Refinement Method*.

“Lei Jiaoshan won first place and left the World of Races, and a few days later, his body refinement method was widely spread?” Xu Jingming thought to himself. “And it is being publicly sold through the World Center City.”

The World Center City represented the will of that third-realm existence.

Many thoughts flashed through Xu Jingming's mind, but he did not hesitate to choose to buy it. A copy of the *Fire Body Refinement Method* was quickly downloaded successfully.

“This *Fire Body Refinement Method*…” Xu Jingming clicked it open and began to watch. This body refinement method was most suitable for the 'dragonkin clan', but having cultivated to Xu Jingming's level, he was able to glimpse the true essence of this body refinement method.

“Amazing.”

“*Fire Body Refinement Method*, is the ‘fire’ here the fire of the heart? Isn't this the method of tempering the *xinling* (heart-mind) weapon? This senior Lei Jiaoshan transformed and adapted the method of tempering the *xinling* weapon, adapted it to the rules of this world, combined it with the talent of the dragonkin… and created a body refinement method for tempering the body,” Xu Jingming nodded slightly. “Ultimately, he raised his physical body to such a realm.”

“In terms of physical body alone, senior Lei Jiaoshan and the one-armed giant ape king are not much different.”

In terms of physical body, the one-armed giant ape king had a slight advantage. With eight arms, he had sufficient advantages in actual combat, forcing out Lei Jiaoshan's ultimate move.

“I am also on the path of integrating the heart-mind and the physical body, but I am far behind senior Lei Jiaoshan in walking on this path.” Xu Jingming immediately discovered the huge gap when he compared his own body refinement method with the *Fire Body Refinement Method*.

Xu Jingming's heart was burning.

“I should carefully absorb experience and improve my own body refinement method.” Xu Jingming had many ideas for improving his own body refinement method.

During the spaceship's return to the Seven Kingdoms of the Human Race, Xu Jingming spent most of his time alone, focusing on improving his body refinement method. He also rarely spent time with his parents and younger siblings.

His parents and younger siblings were in high spirits along the way, often watching network information.

Now, in the Seven Kingdoms of the Human Race, Xu Jingming's reputation had reached an unprecedented height, and countless people were praising him.

“Haha, my son, this is my son.” Jing Yulong grinned, happier than ever before.

…

Years passed.

Xu Jingming did not participate in the competition next time. When there was no hope of winning first place, he gave up on registration. However, he would still go to watch the Interracial Competition, which was held every thousand years, up close.

Although Jing Yulong and his wife obtained the more complete body refinement method created by Xu Jingming, they both died when they were over 800 years old. Later, his younger siblings also grew old and died one by one.

Cemetery.

Xu Jingming, dressed in black robes, stood in front of the cemetery. This was the cemetery of his parents, and next to it were the cemeteries of his younger siblings.

Xu Jingming looked at the cemetery.

What is real? What is fake? After all, he had spent hundreds or even thousands of years with his parents and younger siblings. Even though he knew that they were all creatures in the painting world, Xu Jingming still had feelings for them.

“Little Jiu lived the longest, living for more than 1,200 years, but he also died.”

“In the World of Races, I have no relatives anymore.”

Xu Jingming stayed in front of the cemetery for a long time before leaving alone.