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.
Chapter 67: Talent Testing - 67
Before long, the entrance to the main building was swarmed by 500 people. They wanted to enter, but the doors were locked and they were unable to open them regardless of how strong they were.
Suddenly, one of the students looked up and pointed at the sky. Following his finger, the students surrounding the door looked into the air, only to see two people descend on the air.
The one in front was an unrecognizable face, while the one in the back was the most recognized face in the world.
In the middle of the crowd, 10 students suddenly kneeled on the ground. As the students looked at them in confusion, they spoke.
"We greet lord Zhou Fan." They said in unison.
To everyone's surprise, the one they were greeting wasn't the emperor, but the other man.
It only took a moment for everyone else to come to a conclusion. That must be the founder!
Quickly, all the students kneeled.
"Please stand. You are students at the Huang Long academy. There is no need to kneel to me." Zhou Fan said.
Everyone hurriedly stood up at his words and made way for him. Nobody dared to defy his orders. After all, besides his identity as the founder of the academy, he was also God himself!
As Zhou Fan landed on the ground with the emperor, he turned towards the doors and walked forward.
"Everyone follow me. I will be leading you to a higher level talent testing array. Now, you will truly know where you stand in the academy." He said.
The people following behind him had their faces light up. Although they had known their talent in comparison to their peers, they had no idea what the numbers actually meant.
As the group followed behind Zhou Fan, a natural order seemed to form. In the front, three people walked side by side. Those three were the only ones in the academy with a talent of 100.
Behind them, 30 people with a talent of 99 followed. The line continued as such until the 95 ranked talents, which took up a majority of the places.
It wasn't long before they came to a large room. It wasn't the same room that Zhou Fan taught the first 10 students in, but a completely different room.
Besides an array, the room was completely empty. The only scenery at all was a couple of windows to the left.
"This array will test your talent. It will rank your meridians as trash, weak, mortal, great, spirit, king, or emperor, along with a number 1-10, with 10 being low and 1 being high. It will also tell you your affinities. Also, spirit is the most likely talent for everyone in this room."
"Okay. You in the front, come stand on this array." Zhou Fan said, pointing at one of the 100 talents.
"Yes sir." He said. He walked to the array with confidence in his steps and soon stood in the center.
"What is your name?" Zhou Fan asked.
"My name is Wei Qi sir." He responded.
Nodding his head, Zhou Fan put some Qi into the array.
As soon as he did, the array lit up into a multitude of colors. Wei Qi felt as if his body was being invaded by a parasite. At first, he started to freak out, but he soon calmed himself.
After 10 seconds, Zhou Fan opened his mouth.
"Spirit root rank 1. Affinities: Fire, Metal, and Buddhist Qi. Congrats, you have great talent." Zhou Fan praised.
With a smile on his face, Wei Qi walked to the side and waited.
"Next." Zhou Fan said.
The next two to be tested also had a spirit rank 1 talent.
The first, Chen Zi, had the affinities of earth, metal, and wood.
The second, Pin Fi, had the incredible affinities of shadow, flower, and Yin.
When Zhou Fan saw Pin Fi's talent, he was surprised at her Yin affinity. Yin was one of the most powerful affinities there was, and Zhou Fan was excited to see her growth in the future.
The rest of the 500 people didn't have many surprises. Besides a boy with a spirit rank 3 meridian and a space affinity, the rest weren't that important. The boy's name was Gu Wu.
Once Zhou Fan finished testing everyone, he sent all the students except for Wei Qi, Chen Zi, Pin Fi, and Gu Wu to the dorms.
When they were the only five left in the room, Zhou Fan spoke.
"You all will be a part of an elite class. In there, I will pass on my martial arts to you. Of course, you will have to become strong enough to use them first." He said.
He had the idea of an elite class as he was testing everyone's talents. He felt that it would be wrong to put everyone in the same class, regardless of talent. If he did that, they may grow slower as a result.
Within the class, he planned to have the previous four and the beasts.
As he thought of the beasts, the door slammed open as the emperor of the mortaniel empire and five behemoths entered. Luckily the door was big enough to fit them.
As soon as the beasts saw Zhou Fan, they ran over and started to lick him. It was a while before he could pry them off.
"Guys, get on that array so I can test your talents." He said.
The beasts obediently listened after hearing his words. Although he had previously tested their affinities, he had never managed to test their talents.
Although they didn't have meridians and instead had a core, the formation should still theoretically work.
As soon as Zhou Fan turned on the array with Xiaolong inside, an explosion occurred. If not for Zhou Fan's quick acting, the entire academy would have been reduced to dust.
Zhou Fan smiled bitterly at the expected outcome. When the array exploded, he managed to confirm his previous theory. Although the array could test beast cores, it couldn't test THEIR beast cores.
That was because their talents were too high. He had previously concluded that after they managed to break through despite the pitiful amount of Qi Zhou Fan produced.
While the array could test meridians above emperor rank, it seemed that the beast's talents were far above that.
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