Chapter 65: Seclusion - 65
As the group followed Zhou Fan they continued to be amazed by everything in the Huang Long academy.
The buildings were huge, the air was cool, and everything was neat and clean.
As they made it to the dorms, they were appalled by the building that seemed more like a palace than a dorm room.
"This is where you will stay from now on. You can freely pick any room you want since they are all the same." Zhou Fan said.
The talents eagerly nodded and ran into the building. Although Zhou Fan said that all the rooms were the same, they still tried to find differences.
As they looked around, Zhou Fan led the workers to a different building. Although it wasn't half as grand as the student dorms, it was still the best place they would ever live in.
After telling them the basic rules, Zhou Fan told them to meet in the center of the academy tomorrow at 1:00pm for instructions on their job.
When Zhou Fan made it to the student dorms, everyone was already waiting outside. It seemed that they were eager to further explore the academy.
Therefore, Zhou Fan took them on a tour, showing them all the areas. Afterwards, he told them to come to the main building at 8:00 am tomorrow for their first lesson.
With a nod they went into their dorm rooms filled with anticipation.
Like that, the night passed.
The entire night, Zhou Fan had cultivated within the main building. He only stopped when the group of 10 entered.
"Welcome. Take a seat in front of me." Zhou Fan said.
The hall they stood in was fairly big, but not massive. It was about the size of a large throne room.
Zhou Fan sat at the end of the room on the slightly elevated floor, while the rest of the area was simply floor.
Unfortunately, the floor was concrete. Although the luxury array helped slightly, it would still be uncomfortable to sit on for a long time.
Zhou Fan had personally designed it this way to help them build up a resistance to sitting for long periods of time, and naturally, they wouldn't feel any discomfort at all once they broke through a few times.
As the students sat in front of him with their legs crossed, Zhou Fan spoke.
"Today will be the only time I teach you for a while. Since you all are the only ones here, it seems unfair to teach you about cultivation. Therefore, I will teach you about your duties, and I expect you to teach your future peers what you hear today." Zhou Fan said.
"Yes lord Zhou Fan." They all said in unison.
"Firstly, there will be a merit system once the school officially starts. You will get points based on how good your results are. You can use those points to exchange for weapons or luxury items. There isn't too much to say about merit points right now, but they will likely be very important in the future." Zhou Fan explained.
"Secondly, you all will have nothing to do for the next three or four years. Therefore, I have created a training area where you can test out different weapons. Once you find one you like, you can train yourself with it and have an advantage when the school opens." Zhou Fan continued.
Zhou Fan kept speaking for another hour before he let the students go. In that time, he told them a bit about cultivation, but not how to cultivate.
After meeting the workers and explaining their jobs, Zhou Fan led them to a room that was kept cold by a formation and had lots of food. It was an amount that would last them a while even if they decided to wait before hunting.
As for the problem of outside food, Zhou Fan used life Qi to speed up the animals reproducing, and with the oasis that takes up an area of 100 square miles, there would be no lack of food even with 1000 students.
With everything set up, Zhou Fan was ready for seclusion. This time, he wouldn't come out until he had broken through to the next level.
He made sure to double check that he had done everything he needed to before he moved to the top of the main building. Up there, he had his room. Only he had access to it and knew it existed. Therefore, there was no worry about being bothered.
Crossing his legs on the cold floor, Zhou Fan began to cultivate.
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A year passed very quickly. In that time, 100 more students had joined the academy. With the first ten explaining everything, there was no need for Zhou Fan to make an appearance.
With the warning words of the emperor, nobody caused a commotion or harmed anyone.
The only times there were fights was when the students sparred in the arena.
Since there was nothing to do but train your fighting skills or read the books in the library that Zhou Fan had taken form the mortaniel empire, training was the most popular thing to do.
At first, the first 10 students rained supreme. But soon, people with backgrounds in fighting and more talented students began to appear.
It wasn't long before they were equal with some of the other students.
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Another year passed in the blink of an eye. In that time, the academy had reached a total student count of 250.
Just a week ago, the academy was in an uproar over shocking news. The first person with the talent of 100 appeared.
Although 20 99 talents had appeared, this was the first time a 100 had come.
If Zhou Fan heard the news, he would have some interest in the student. After all, although 100 was the max talent that the formations he gave the emperor could read, there were still levels beyond that. Also, 100 was a crossing point into a whole new level of talent.
If the difference between a 98 and a 99 could be said to be the distance of a table, the difference between a 99 and a 100 would be the distance of a house.
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Before long, 2 more years passed and Zhou Fan opened his eyes.
Chapter 66: Void Traversing - 66
As soon as Zhou Fan opened his eyes, a bluish Qi covered his body.
It wasn't a Qi that Zhou Fan had comprehended, but a Qi that started being produced by him as soon as he broke into this new realm.
Along with the extreme increase in strength, the breakthrough gave him the ability to naturally create this Qi. It wasn't a Qi that could go outside the body, but a Qi that was slowly changing his human physique.
After a day of bathing in the Qi, it stopped covering his body and went to the depths of his soul. Zhou Fan tried to move it, but it remained dormant and unresponsive to his will.
Sighing, Zhou Fan gave up for now. More important than the Qi itself, Zhou Fan needed to check out the effects it had on his body.
As he felt around his body, he remembered why the Qi looked so familiar. It was space Qi!
Zhou Fan soon realized that it had been tempering his body, making it resistant to space!
As soon as he made the realization, Zhou Fan shot up from his seating position and flew to the boundary between earth and space.
Once he reached it, he nervously put his hand into outer space. He watched with narrow eyes as the space came into contact with his hand.
However, even after a few seconds, there was no reaction. Widening his eyes in delight, Zhou Fan flew into outer space for the first time.
Besides the lack of wind and sound, it felt the same as earth.
"Hello." Zhou Fan said in an attempt to speak in space.
Shockingly, he could hear himself speak! It seemed that the tempering of space Qi had also affected his voice.
Zhou Fan tried to use Qi in outer space and sure enough, it worked perfectly normal. Thinking back, he should have been powerful enough to go into space long ago, but he was worried that his Qi wouldn't work in space.
Although he couldn't prove his conjuncture, Zhou Fan was glad that he waited. Otherwise, he would only be able to stand in the endless space.
However, with his breakthrough he gained a much faster speed. In fact, he was hundreds of times faster. He was now confident that he could travel around the entire world within a minute.
Instead of testing that, Zhou Fan looked at the moon. He was very curious as to what it was made of and what it was like.
With his new speed, it only took 10 seconds to arrive. Luckily, he had broken through at night and the moon was directly above his head.
Otherwise, he would have to travel to the other side of the world before he could land on it.
As soon as his feet touched the ground, he felt a new Qi. It was a Qi he had never experienced before on earth.
Since he could feel that it was something unique to the moon, he called it lunar Qi.
As he named it, Zhou Fan had a realization.
'I can't breathe.' He thought to himself. Since he had entered space, he hadn't even attempted to take a breath.
However, he didn't feel the need to breathe.
'Perhaps I no longer need to breathe to survive?'
With that thought, Zhou Fan could truly say that he had broken from his human limits.
Although he could already destroy mountains and overturn seas, he at least had the function of a normal human, albeit much less.
Zhou Fan wondered if one day, he would stop having blood or even a body.
The mere thought made him shudder. Instead of thinking further, Zhou Fan changed the subject.
'I should be getting back.' He thought to himself. Now that he had broken through, it was time to start the school.
Before that however, he decided to comprehend the lunar Qi.
Due to his comprehension of the other elements and concepts, it only took another four days. By then, Zhou Fan was ready to return to earth.
As he was making his way back, Zhou Fan named the new realm 'Void Traversing'. It didn't take much thinking to understand why he named it that.
In a minute, Zhou Fan made it back to his room. It only took him a minute because he had to travel halfway around the world and pick up the mortaniel emperor first.
Luckily, he didn't die yet. He also left a note to the crown prince about his fathers absence from the throne and that he should take over.
Since information about the academy had spread far and wide in the last four years, he shouldn't be too confused.
When they arrived, the emperor was disoriented and confused. After all, he had just flown at a speed that neared the speed of light. If not for Zhou Fan's deliberate protection, he would have been grinded to dust by the friction.
"Get up. It is time for the opening of the academy." Zhou Fan said, clearing up the emperor's thoughts.
The emperor, Ao Shi, was woken up from his thoughts by Zhou Fan's words.
"Yes sir." He said.
Quickly standing up and getting himself together, the emperor followed Zhou Fan to the window.
Using Qi, Zhou Fan made both him and the emperor float in the air.
"All students report to the main building." Zhou Fan said.
Although he didn't scream, his words echoed throughout the entire academy. Everyone ran to the main building at their fastest speeds.
Meanwhile, Zhou Fan set up a more elaborate talent testing array. It was complete with an affinity tester as well as a new system of testing talent that Zhou Fan had created recently.
Instead of giving them a number, it would give a rank to their meridians.
The ranks were naturally created and named by Zhou Fan.
As of now, he had created 7 levels of meridians, with each one having a smaller rank of one through ten.
For example, the worst talent would be a rank 10 trash meridian, and the best would be rank 1 emperor meridians.
The specific order went: trash, weak, mortal, great, spirit, king, and emperor.
By his estimations, a 95 should be a rank 10 spirit meridian, while a 100 would be a rank 1 spirit meridian.
As for higher, their number would have still shown 100, but could have actually been a 101.
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