Chapter 54: Apostle - 54
"How are you still alive?" She asked. "And why are you young?"
After thinking for a moment, Zhou Fan wasn't sure how to answer her. He was considering making up a lie, but he had no idea what would sound believable. Just as he was about to try to tell her the truth, an idea came to Zhou Fan's mind.
"Have you heard of god?" He asked.
"Of course. I'm even a devout believer. What does that have to do with anything?" She said.
"Well, when I was about to die not long after the war, he descended upon me and saved my life. He said that I was destined to be his apostle and took me in. Ever since then, I have been following him around and he even made me not age!" Zhou Fan said exaggeratingly.
When Fui Rong heard him, she let out a gasp. For a moment, she didn't believe it, but she soon realized that there was no other explanation. How else could he have lived so long without aging?
"What does he look like?" She asked with visible excitement on her face.
"He doesn't look too much like a human. Instead, he seems like a human-shaped ball of light." He answered.
Zhou Fan had already formulated a story in his head and made sure that there were no loopholes. After she got an answer, Fui Rong didn't stop. Instead, she continued to ask question after question, only momentarily stopping to take a sip of her tea which arrived not too long ago.
30 minutes passed before she stopped asking questions. At some point, she had took out a notepad and a pencil to take notes.
When she finally ran out of questions, she stood up, gave Zhou Fan a hug and a thank you, and ran out saying she had somewhere to be. It wasn't much of a run considering she needed a cane, but it was still surprisingly fast.
Watching her leave, Zhou Fan let out a sigh and stood up. It was likely that this would be the last time he met Fui Rong. As he looked at her with the Dao earlier, he could tell that her lifespan was coming to an end. She likely wouldn't last another year.
Zhou Fan walked down the stairs and nodded at the guard in passing before he went back to the cave.
Meanwhile, Fui Rong had gathered a big group of people in her yard. Her yard was big, yet it was nearly filled to the brim. One could only estimate that 1000 people had showed up after she released a world shaking piece of news.
She had met with God's apostle!
Only an hour after she had released it, thousands of people were in her yard, eagerly waiting.
When Fui Rong saw that the yard had filled up, she started to speak.
"Just a few hours ago, I met with the apostle of God at Lou's pavilion." She started. "We first met up because he was someone I knew from 60 years ago, yet he hadn't aged a day. When we started to talk, he revealed that he was an apostle of God and generously told me about him. I have gathered everyone here to share what I was told."
As the people listened to her, excitement was visible on their faces. Although they would be skeptical if someone else said such a thing, Fui Rong had a great reputation for helping those in need and being truthful.
"He told me that while God has the form of a human, he is made up of light. He also said that God blesses those that are kind and gives bad luck to those that are bad."
As Fui Rong continued her speech, more and more people arrived, and by the time she was done, more than ten thousand people had gathered. Many people wrote down what they heard and information started to spread.
Before long, the entire world knew of the events at Lou's pavilion.
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In the cave, Zhou Fan floated down to his house, only to not sense anyone nearby. Instead, people were gathered at one of the far sides of the cave. Curious, Zhou Fan flew over. When he did, he saw many elves and the rulers of the various races gathered around the casket.
When he saw such a sight, Zhou Fan felt his heart drop. He sped up and instantly appeared in front of the group.
As he looked at them, he could see many of the elves crying, while the rulers stood there with sadness visible in their eyes.
Zhou Fan didn't even have to ask who died when he saw the drawing beside the casket. The recognizable face of Yipeng was perfectly drawn on the piece of paper.
A single tear fell out of Zhou Fan's eyes.
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A couple days later, the mourning was concluded. As Zhou Fan sat in his room, he couldn't help but feel a large amount of sadness.
Yipeng was the closest thing he had to a friend. He regretted not being there in his last moments.
However, he recently learned that Yipeng lived a fulfilling life. While Zhou Fan was gone for 60 years, he gained a wife and even had a few children. Each of them was there at the funeral, and the oldest was already 40 years old.
Zhou Fan wasn't sure how to feel while looking at them. A lifetime had passed him by and he seemed to be the only one who didn't feel it. Old friends were either dead or old, and Zhou Fan was still the same as he was 60 years, besides much stronger and wiser.
He quickly got out of the stupor, however. Countless lifetimes would pass by, and Zhou Fan couldn't feel sad every time.
Finally back to normal, Zhou Fan started to think of what he needed to do before he went back into seclusion. First, he needed to study his current realm. Ever since he broke through, he hadn't paid it a bit of attention and forgot to see if he gained any new abilities.
Chapter 55: Divine Sense - 55
As Zhou Fan sank into his soul space, he got a weird feeling. It almost felt as if his soul could leave his body, but he knew that such a thing was impossible for him.
After all, he had the decision during his ascension to nascent soul but chose to have it fused. The thought didn't stop Zhou Fan from acting on the feeling as he let the feeling out of his body.
As he did so, a dome shaped and invisible sensation swept out of his body and covered the house. It felt as though his eyes were focusing on every single inch of the area. Without even opening his eyes, he could tell every detail around him.
As per usual, Zhou Fan quickly made up a name for this action.
Divine Sense.
He named it divine sense due to the fact that he felt like a divine being overseeing the area around him. He pushed his divine sense to the limit and it covered the entire house. Even though he was in his room, he knew that there were 4 ants on the table, 3 mosquitos around the house and a singular grasshopper under the cabinet.
As he saw them, an idea came to Zhou Fan's mind. He attempted to control his divine sense to attack one of the ants. As he tried, the invisible and non-existent divine sense seemed to congeal and push a pressure onto the ant.
Without resistance, the ant was smashed and died. The pressure that he could release through his divine sense wasn't much, but it was more than enough to kill an ant.
Zhou Fan didn't stop with the ant as he killed every pest in the house in order to learn how to better control his divine sense.
After the last kill, Zhou Fan was much better at controlling it. It was nearly effortless to control his divine sense now.
Even so, Zhou Fan was able to estimate that his divine sense could only exert 10 pounds of pressure. Although he could perhaps focus that pressure on someone's eye, he still felt that it was too weak to use.
Hopefully it would improve as he continued to cultivate.
After making sure that he wasn't missing out on any other new features, Zhou Fan started to focus on the next order of business.
He remembered mentioning that he would find a way to produce absorbable Qi without having to be there personally to Cao Lin. Zhou Fan had to sit there and ponder for a while in order to figure out how he could possibly do that.
After an hour of thinking, Zhou Fan came up with an idea. Zhou Fan walked out of his house and went to one of the edges of the cave. As he touched the wall, he sensed the area using metal Qi and soon found a fairly big piece of ore.
As soon as he felt it, he dragged it towards him by manipulating the earth and was able to see it. It was the size of a house and Zhou Fan used Wind Qi to keep it floating in the air. With the ore in hand, he compressed into a ball no bigger than his head.
He then squished it like dough and formed a square metal sheet with a thickness of 2 inches.
As he theorized earlier, Zhou Fan infused the metal with a fair amount of Qi and made it much stronger than before.
He proceeded to infuse Fire Qi on his finger and draw a horizontal line on the plate, which was infused with the Qi.
As he watched the line and waited for it to settle within the plate, Zhou Fan was feeling a bit worried. He had no idea if this would work and didn't know what to try next if it failed.
As he watched on nervously, the line soon settled and became a part of the plate.
When Zhou Fan saw this, he was ecstatic.
'It worked!'
Or at the very least, the first part worked. Moving onto the second step, Zhou Fan infused some Qi into the dormant metal plate that instantly lit up.
The metal plate acted as a conduit that transferred the Qi to the line which also lit up. When the line lit up, a horizontal flame appeared on the plate. The flame was hot and would have melted the plate if Zhou Fan didn't enhance it.
What was surprising was that the fire that lit up on the plate contained miniscule amounts of Fire Qi that was slightly released into the world. Although it wasn't even one thousandth of what Zhou Fan could produce, it still marked a major point of success.
Looking at it, Zhou Fan named it 'Formations'. He had a feeling that creating a fire wasn't all it could be used for.
As he watched on, the plate burned for 5 minutes before the Qi Zhou Fan put in was used up. Zhou Fan wasn't disheartened since he put an extremely small amount of Qi into the plate previously.
Since he used one ten-thousandth of his Qi the first time, he attempted to activate it with one hundredth this time. As soon as the Qi touched the metal plate, the plate exploded and sent out a burst of flame with it.
As Zhou Fan stood there with ash on his face, he shrugged his shoulders.
"At least it can be used as a bomb." He said optimistically.
Zhou Fan once again found a big ore and repeated the process, this time with Demon Qi. As he tested it with one thousandth of his Qi, the plate trembled, but didn't explode.
Once the line made with Demon Qi was activated, it released a sinister aura that would send a chill through any mortal's body. Although nothing materialized like the flame, he could sense the invisible existence of the Qi being released. If someone touched the line, they would be slowly drained of their life energy.
Now that he knew that both Demon Qi and Fire Qi worked, he needed to try it on a bigger scale and in different ways.
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