Chapter 69: Changes - 69
10 days later, Din Ren broke into foundation establishment. By that time, the beasts had also broken into foundation establishment.
As they continued cultivating, the difference in talent could be seen immediately. It took another 10 days for the beasts to break into the second level of Foundation Establishment, but it took Din Ren a month!
Zhou Fan had already stopped holding classes and let the students go free. He had long had nothing more to teach them. Only when they broke into later realms would they need his help.
Since he was no longer teaching, Zhou Fan started to research cultivation, formations, and arrays. He also began to look into weapon forging.
What would take others a year, Zhou Fan finished in a month and before long he had created an introductory class to weapon forging, formations, and arrays.
In the first few classes almost every student attended. As time passed, however, more students began to leave. After a month, there were about 30 students in each class. Most of them had low talent and were looking for another path.
A year passed very quickly.
In that time, the beasts had managed to break into core formation, which simply upgraded their cores due to the fact that they already had one, and Din Ren had broken into the 5th level of foundation establishment.
As for Zhou Fan, he was currently standing in a garden, sprinkling Life Qi onto a bunch of plants. A few months ago, a student had asked a question that got him thinking.
"Is it possible to make medicine with Qi?"
Since then, Zhou Fan had begun researching the idea and a week ago, he had succeeded.
After much trial and error, Zhou Fan concocted a pill that could instantly recover the injuries of anyone below core formation. It was a major success that started a new branch of study in the academy.
In such a fashion, yet another year passed.
By now, the beasts had broken into the 3rd level of core formation and Din Ren had just broken into core formation.
When he did so, Zhou Fan was there. He was interested in seeing what a normal human breaking into core formation would look like.
When Din Ren broke through, his elements coalesced and formed a 3 color core. There was a blackish blue for space, a black for dark, and a icy blue for ice.
Zhou Fan didn't notice anything special or interesting during the breakthrough. Everything went smoothly.
Before Din Ren even opened his eyes, Zhou Fan disappeared and reappeared in his room.
For the next ten years, Zhou Fan cultivated in his room. Although he occasionally went out to take a look, nothing much happened.
In that 10 years, Zhou Fan had broken into the 3rd level of void traversing. The beasts had broken into the 6th level of core formation and Din Ren had broken into the 3rd.
The entire academy was now running itself at this point. Students would make weapons or pills and sell them for contribution points, and new students would buy them.
Even without Zhou Fans interference, the academy would be perfectly fine.
Din Ren had taken up the position of grand elder and taught the new students about cultivation.
Zhou Fan had also appointed the more talented students in the arts of weapon forging, pill concocting and such to teach the subject.
They would also spend their free time researching deeper into the arts.
Also, Zhou Fan had passed down a couple of his martial arts which opened up a new section that was dedicated to creating and learning martial arts.
Although not a single one could compare to Zhou Fans, there were a couple of good ones.
There were now thousands of students. The effect of the academy on the outside world couldn't be measured. The academy was now the center of the world.
Many empires had built themselves on Zhou Fans oasis. Of course, they had permission. The only places left untouched were the beasts territories.
A few years ago, Zhou Fan decided to expand. Since he was much stronger, everything was 100 times easier. It only took a day for the entire wasteland to be renovated into an oasis. Thousands more empires popped up and the oasis became the center of the world. 80% of the population now lived there.
Looking at all the changes, Zhou Fan didn't know what to think. 10 years had passed and everything changed. He couldn't help but feel proud of himself.
He even estimated that other cultivation schools would be built in a few years. Those schools would be places for the less talented who wanted to cultivate.
Such a thing could only happen because of the formation and array classes he taught. By now, some of the more talented students were able to create Qi arrays. Of course, Zhou Fan had to help them in order for it to be possible. After all, they didn't have the ability to even sense Chaos Qi, much less break it into lesser Qi's.
Since he had come out of seclusion, Zhou Fan decided to take a tour around the world. It would be quick, but he wanted to see what had become of his old residences.
For the first time in a long time, Zhou Fan thought of the village where he was born. He chose to go there for his first visit. In mere seconds, Zhou Fan appeared there.
However, nothing was there. It seemed that after almost a hundred years, the village had been destroyed. From the looks of it, it was a tornado. After taking a brief glance at the place where his parents were buried, Zhou Fan disappeared.
In an instant, he appeared above Yang Lang city. There wasn't much change to it. Even his courtyard was still there. It was abandoned of course.
The tower was still tall and the area was still large.
Zhou Fan then ventured down into the caves. The entire area was now populated by snakes. Perhaps the crystals had somehow warded them off before. Even so, he could still see his old house and the place where Yipeng was buried.
After looking around for a minute, Zhou Fan sped off to the tree where he met the buddha. There was no tree, however.
Thinking one last time, that seemed to be all the places that mattered to him.
With a sigh, Zhou Fan appeared back in his room and began to cultivate.
Chapter 70: Chaos Crystal - 70
Yet another 10 years quickly passed. In that time, Zhou Fan broke into the 5th level of void traversing. His speed could now be compared to light.
The beasts had broken into the 9th level of core formation while Din Ren broke into the 5th level.
When Zhou Fan left his room, he first tested his new speed. As he sped up, the surrounding space began to warp and in a second, he traveled around the world 3 times.
When Zhou Fan stopped, he couldn't help but feel astonished. As he was moving at the speed of light, everything seemed to stop existing.
At first, the only thing he could see was light itself moving alongside him. As soon as he focused his eyes, however, he was able to once again see the scenery.
With his current level, he didn't follow the laws of physics. Even though a normal human and even other cultivators below his realm would need light to see, he had transcended that.
Since he was scared he might destroy the world, Zhou Fan didn't test his strength.
With a sigh, Zhou Fan looked at the stars. It was clear that he would need to leave the world at some point. Not only was it too weak, but Zhou Fan was actually a danger to it.
Perhaps the next time he breaks through, he will release a bit of energy. Although miniscule, that bit of energy could cause mass destruction.
In fact, the only thing stopping Zhou Fan from leaving was his speed. Although he could move at the speed of light, that wasn't even close to fast enough to go to another solar system.
He had considered moving to another planet in his solar system, but earth was the only one. All that remained was an asteroid belt circling the sun.
After some brief consideration, Zhou Fan decided to leave for the asteroid belt as soon as he said his goodbyes. After that, he would move into the vast universe. There was a high chance that once he left, everyone would be dead once he came back.
Even if they kept cultivating, there was a limit to their ability, or rather, Zhou Fans. With his current strength, he could only create a Qi producing array that would allow them to get to soul formation. After that, their cultivation speed would be horrifyingly slow. Perhaps a single small realm would take a hundred thousand years. By then they would already be dead.
With a single step, Zhou Fan disappeared from where he was standing and reappeared next to the beasts. Although they weren't gathered before, Zhou Fan gathered them all up in that single step.
He also brought along Din Ren and the other talents. Each of them had become successful in the last 20+ years.
Besides Din Ren, the other talents had managed to break into core formation not long ago.
"I will be leaving soon." Zhou Fan said.
Before they could react, he continued.
"It will be a long time before we see each other again. In fact, we may never see each other again." He said.
He paused after he said that, giving them time to react.
"What?!" Din Ren blurted out. Zhou Fan's words were too sudden and unbelievable.
The other talents couldn't believe it either. To think that he could deliver them such saddening news with such an impassive look on his face.
The beasts, on the other hand, had sad looks on their faces. They knew that Zhou Fan wouldn't lie.
Looking at the beast's faces, Zhou Fan almost clenched his fist. In the end, he simply let a sigh out.
Even with all his experience, he couldn't help but feel sad seeing the looks on their faces.
"I'll be right back." Zhou Fan suddenly said. He then disappeared before everyone's eyes.
The students and the beasts looked where he once stood with dumbfounded expressions.
'What is going on?' They all thought in unison.
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8 minutes later, Zhou Fan stood in front of the sun.
'This should be far enough.' He thought. As he was feeling helpless about the beast's sadness, an idea came to his mind.
The main reason that Zhou Fan knew they were going to die was because they couldn't split Qi.
Only those with Chaos Qi could do it. Since there was no one with Chaos Qi besides him, there was no way for them to grow further than soul formation.
Unless Zhou Fan's power was still there.
What if he managed to take a part of his powers and let them use it to split Qi in the future. In that case, they could simply make better arrays and use his power to activate it.
Therefore, Zhou Fan went out to the sun in order to try to take part of his power and crystalize it, which would let it be put in a Qi splitting formation.
Since he anticipated fluctuations in his power, he had moved out here. Otherwise, he may accidentally destroy the planet.
Zhou Fan put his hand in a grabbing motion in the air. His hands were shaped as if he was grabbing an invisible spirit stone. Suddenly, Qi began to pour from the void. Since he didn't bother to split it, it came out in its pure form. Chaos Qi.
With all his power, Zhou Fan controlled Chaos Qi to take the shape of a crystal. After 10 or so minutes, the Chaos Qi had formed a basic outline. Even so, the storm of Chaos Qi was still raging on.
If he had moved too close to the sun, it may have very well been injured by the endless Chaos Qi.
Suddenly, Zhou Fan removed one of his hands from the crystal and shoved his fingers into his heart.
He coughed blood out, but kept reaching his fingers in. He amalgamated some of his cultivation and blood essence within him to form a bead on his fingertips. As soon as the bead was successfully formed, Zhou Fan hurriedly shoved it into the Chaos crystal.
BOOM!
An explosion that could even be heard in space sounded out, sending a godly power to the surroundings.
Just as soon as it came, it went, absorbed into the crystal in Zhou Fan's hands.
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