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.
Chapter 56: Metal - 56
Zhou Fan spent the next few days experimenting with formations. Throughout that time, he estimated that he used every bit of metal around the cave.
After a week, Zhou Fan was confident enough to make a lasting formation that could release a reasonable amount of demon and fire Qi.
Zhou Fan had managed to discover that different patterns and different amounts of Qi were able to induce different effects.
He had discovered some ways to attack, some ways to defend, and some ways to enhance abilities.
Sadly, the formations were not powerful enough to enhance his own abilities, but for someone in foundation establishment or early core formation, they could be very useful.
As Zhou Fan prepared to make a much more powerful formation using much more metal, he realized that he had used up all the big metal veins around the cave. All that remained were small deposits.
Zhou Fan first thought to go back to the mountain he had stayed on for a while since he guessed that there should be some metal there.
However, Zhou Fan didn't want to destroy the mountain or put the miners out of business.
As a result, Zhou Fan decided to go to the sword empire and collect all the metal on the biggest mountain there.
He naturally hadn't randomly chosen the mountain. From the books he read 60 years ago, he recalled that one of the biggest mountains in the world resided in the sword empire, or more accurately, the 2nd biggest.
Although the biggest mountain would be nice, it was inhabited by hundreds of thousands of humans.
If he took the metal out of it, the mountain may collapse and even Zhou Fan wasn't confident in saving 100,000 people in an instant.
As Zhou Fan confirmed his choice, he flew up and sped to the mountain at full speed.
It only took 30 minutes to get to the sword empire, which was 2 entire empires away.
Even Zhou Fan didn't expect to be so fast now that he was in soul formation. At this rate, it wouldn't be long before he could go around the world in a minute.
It only took 10 more minutes to reach the mountain. If his divine sense was bigger, Zhou Fan could quickly check if anyone was living there. Unfortunately, he was still too weak.
Zhou Fan inwardly lamented at the fact that he had to manually check the entire mountain. Of course, the option of not caring was there as well, but Zhou Fan wasn't a monster.
There was a 30% chance that the mountain would collapse after he took the metal away, and anyone on it would quickly die.
Therefore, Zhou Fan made sure that there was no one around or near the entire mountain, which took another 30 minutes, before he started.
Zhou Fan flew to the middle of the mountain where he felt that the metal was at its densest, and controlled some metal Qi to pull all of it out of the mountain.
The mountain quickly burst apart as a huge vein emerged. The vein reached from the top of the mountain to the bottom and from side to side. The people in the nearest kingdom were astonished to see the humongous mountain collapse in an instant.
It had stood tall since their grandparents' grandparents ancestors lived in the kingdom, and yet it fell without warning today.
They weren't the only ones alarmed. Zhou Fan too felt astonished at the events. However, he was less surprised about the mountain's collapse and more surprised about the amount of metal within it.
Contrary to his previous estimates, more than 50% of the mountain was made of metal. That was a long shot from the 5% he previously estimated.
There was a high likelihood that this was the biggest metal vein in the world! Zhou Fan suddenly didn't feel so bad about not being able to excavate the biggest mountain.
Zhou Fan didn't waste too much more time before he began to compress the metal. It took a lot more effort due to the fact that it was more than 100 times bigger than any of the other ores he messed with.
If there wasn't a huge sheet of dust from the mountains collapse, the people in the distance would be astonished to see an unimaginable amount of metal being 'shrunk' into a cube no bigger than an average person's head.
As for Zhou Fan, he was astonished to see that he couldn't compress the plate anymore. A head sized cube seemed to be the limit of his strength right now. Even so, Zhou Fan didn't lament.
With its current shape, Zhou Fan would be able to draw formations on each of the 6 sides. With the unexpected discovery, Zhou Fan felt a lot less disappointed about his strength.
Since he didn't plan to inscribe upon it here, Zhou Fan let the cube float beside him.
As he looked down at the destruction below him, Zhou Fan waved his hand and controlled the earth Qi to rebuild the mountain. Within a minute, it was good as new if you ignored the loss of metal.
Once he finished, Zhou Fan disappeared into a blur and moved towards the cave at his highest speed.
Not long after he left, the dust cleared up and the people from the nearby kingdom were flabbergasted to see the uncollapsed mountain. As their minds buzzed, a few people were able to connect the unexplainable event with God.
Once again, rumors of God spread around the world.
The next day, the sword empire announced that they were making godism their official religion. Although somewhat surprising, nobody could say that it was unexpected.
Although the sword empire had been stubbornly refusing to 'submit to god', God had just arrived at their doorstep.
In the face of the unexplainable, even they had to kneel. Of course, it was all a misunderstanding. Zhou Fan had no intention to scare them into practicing godism.
In fact, he still didn't know much about the spread of Godism throughout the world.
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