Chapter 76: Life - 76
With the ocean now populated by microscopic organisms, Zhou Fan could move on to the next step. Before that, there was one more thing to do. Create an atmosphere.
The planet was completely lacking any sort of atmosphere whatsoever. There wasn't even air on the planet. If Zhou Fan wanted to make lifeforms similar to humans, they would need to breathe.
However, Zhou Fan wasn't sure how to create an atmosphere. He had seen earths atmosphere, but he hadn't paid any attention to it. Therefore, he would attempt to make an array that would fulfill that purpose. It would keep space out and keep air in, while still allowing other things to pass through it such as sunlight and humans.
Making it like that would also allow meteors to come through, so Zhou Fan considered making the array automatically defend against world ending catastrophes. Zhou Fan wasn't too sure if he wanted to do that, so he would simply build the array and maybe add a defense function afterwards.
Zhou Fan flew into the air and pointed his finger at the ground. As he did so, a blue light flew out of the tip of his finger. As soon as that light hit the ground, it flew apart like a drop of water and soaked into the ground.
Once the light was completely absorbed, lines of blue light started to cover the ground, forming a pattern only Zhou Fan understood. It first covered a small area before it expanded to a continent and finally the world.
Once the lines of blue light covered the entire ground, Zhou Fan pointed once again, then 5 more times until there were six places he pointed. Those places were the farthest points up, down, north, east, south, and west of the world.
A whirl formed at those points and six lights of blue light shot towards the core of the planet. It took mere seconds to reach the molten core of the world. Unlike earths, there was nothing special about this core. The lines shot into the core, piercing it, before they finally came to a stop, sticking out like a sword.
With that done, the array was finished. An invisible dome started to form on the world's surface before expanding upwards. It went past Zhou Fan and eventually stopped around 100 miles in the air.
As the final act of the first step, Zhou Fan waved his hand and an unimaginable amount of breathable air filled the world. The trees would recycle the oxygen and a cycle of air would keep the planet liveable.
As for what would keep the array powered, Zhou Fan hesitated for a while before he filled his sword with Qi and stabbed it into the planet's core. Although he liked it, he could always make another sword. It wasn't unique or anything.
With the amount of Qi he put in, the atmosphere array would last a hundred thousand years without any interference. The amount of Qi the array used was tiny.
As for after that, if the new species weren't able to maintain their own planet after a hundred thousand years, they could die for all Zhou Fan cared. It would be shameful to Zhou Fans name if a race he created was so weak.
With everything ready, Zhou Fan moved on to step 2. He grabbed out with his hand and lifted up a lake of water out of the ocean. He then made a hole in the center of the land and dropped it there. That area would be where he evolved the microscopic organisms into actual animals.
He started off by filling the entire lake with life Qi. The organisms started to reproduce and evolve at an extreme rate. However, they were taking too long. At the current speed, it would take ten thousand years to even get an insect.
Therefore, Zhou Fan grabbed a handful of water and retracted his powers. Instead of covering a large area, he would concentrate his Qi onto the water in the palm of his hand.
Zhou Fan covered his entire hand with half of all the Qi in his reserve. The amount of life Qi caused the organisms to reproduce at a rate in which a normal person couldn't even comprehend. In just an hour, they had reached an incredible state of evolution. At that point, they couldn't improve any further. Zhou Fan stared as they continued to repeat.
Even with all his Qi, these organisms would still take another year to get other forms such as an insect or a bird. Therefore, Zhou fan stopped supplying Qi and simply sat there, staring at the water in his hand.
After thinking for a while, Zhou Fan got an idea. He made the water float in the air which freed up his hands. He then filled the tip of his left pointer finger with all the life Qi he could muster, and cut it off. The finger, filled with life Qi and Zhou Fan's vitality, dropped into the floating water. Zhou Fan regenerated his finger and held the water once again.
Zhou Fan watched as the previously uncooperating organisms started to devour his finger. He dissolved the finger into the water so that they could do so easier. He then threw the handful of water back into the lake. This action caused his dissolved finger to become a part of the entire lake.
Although small, his finger held enough power to destroy an entire planet. Even the tip of it would be more than enough to fill the lake. The evolved microorganisms started to change rapidly with the addition of his finger.
They grouped up together and started to form other things. In mere minutes, a fish was swimming in the lake. In an hour, an entire ecosystem filled the lake. It was even expanding. Zhou Fan took a fourth of the lake's water and threw it into the ocean. Although the lake would be the main point of life creation, the ocean would now be able to do the same.
Chapter 77: Lesser Dao Creation Realm - 77
Although fish started to form in the lake, the evolution didn't stop there. While some of the fish species started to evolve towards water, some of them started to evolve towards land.
It only took an hour for a fish to grow a leg and another hour for it to walk on land.
After a month of observation, the sea life seemed to have evolved to its max. There were many different species of fish. There were also sharks, octopuses, eels, and even things that could only be described as mythical.
For example, there was a spot in the ocean where a giant octopus lived. It was hundreds of feet big and would easily destroy any ship on earth. It seemed that some micro organisms had better evolving talent than others. Another example was a great big shark. It was perhaps the only other sea creature that could go neck to neck with the giant octopus.
However, that was only if you ignored the giant water spider at the deepest depths of the ocean.
As for land animals, they were just starting to really evolve. An animal similar to the lion was created not too long ago, but things were still evolving.
As he observed this, he realized that all life had talent. And it wasn't just cultivation talent. Some life had the potential to evolve into huge predators, while some would stay as rabbits and mice.
Xiaolong and the other beasts were prime examples of peak existences.
Very quickly, a year passed. In that time, the land animals and sky animals stopped evolving. There were many different species with different variations. Some were similar to animals on earth while some were completely different.
Like in the ocean, a peak existence had been born on the land. However, there was only one. A giant creature with two wings and a scaly body which dominated the sky and the land. It slept in the world's biggest mountain and its territory was the entire land.
It had once attempted to expand its territory to the ocean, but was stopped by the giant octopus. Even so, it started to defeat it at some point. It only retreated when the giant shark, sensing a threat to its area, cooperated with the giant octopus to push the creature back.
While Zhou Fan watched, he decided to call the creature a dragon. Although it was very different from Xiaolong, there were too many similarities.
There was no doubt that they were both dragons, just different species of dragons.
As for who was stronger, there was no doubt it was this new dragon. After all, it was technically born from Zhou Fan. That caused it to be the size of a mountain. Even the ocean beasts would wipe the floors with the other beasts.
It was simply unfair. If Xiaolong had been born from Zhou Fan's finger, then it would be different. But he wasn't.
That didn't mean he would never win. With cultivation, their difference in strength would close up. Although Xiaolong would lose if they were both mortal beasts, he may not lose if they were both nascent soul realm cultivators.
After all, the advantage of being born from Zhou Fan would be lost as they continued to cultivate.
Although everything had evolved, Zhou Fan was disappointed. Even though there were mythical beasts, there was no race like humans. Thinking deeper, it was likely that the reason humans could be born was due to the Dao that resided in the world.
In that case, Zhou Fan would need to create a mortal Dao like the one on earth to be able to create a similar race. Unfortunately, that was impossible for the current Zhou Fan. Even if he had fully comprehended earth's mortal Dao, he wasn't strong enough to create his own.
He may not be too far, however. He estimated that if he broke through one more realm and comprehended the cosmic Dao as far as that realm allowed him, he would be able to create a mortal Dao!
It seems that he would be spending a while in the world. Not that he was complaining. The world Zhou Fan built was beautiful beyond measure. Not to mention that it was a planet bigger than earth. In fact, it was 5 times bigger than earth.
Since the biggest mountain range was occupied by the dragon, Zhou Fan decided to cultivate in the core of the world. When he saw his sword, he realized that another benefit of the mortal Dao was that it could power the array forever. With that, he would get his sword back.
Zhou Fan let out a quick smile before he started to cultivate.
100 years soon passed.
Zhou Fan broke into the 5th level of space shattering and his strength increased a lot. He didn't pause as he continued.
Another 300 years passed quickly.
Zhou Fan just broke into the 10th level of space shattering and stood up. He didn't know if there would be a big breakthrough, but he wasn't going to risk destroying the life he had just created.
Zhou Fan shot into space and moved 1000 lightyear's away before he started cultivating again.
500 years passed and Zhou Fan opened his eyes. He had just broken into a new realm. Because of what he was going to do, Zhou Fan named the realm 'Lesser Dao creation'.
There were no fluctuations when he broke through, but his current power was much, much greater. Although he was itching to test his powers, Zhou Fan stayed where he was and started to comprehend the Dao.
1000 years passed by. Such an amount of time was even significant to Zhou Fan. He had spent almost half of his life in his current seclusion. That didn't even include the previous time spent breaking through realms! Zhou Fan finally opened his eyes. A myriad of colors shot out and Zhou Fan's body seemed much more majestic than before.
That was due to his comprehension of the Dao that reached 5%.
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