Chapter 108: Break Time - 108
After searching for many hours, Zhou Fan found a place he considered suitable. There was a small city on the outskirts of the celestial lands that had a population of less than 500.
There was also not a single cultivator above foundation establishment in the village. Luckily, celestials were born with core formation bodies and could easily survive without cultivating even in a cultivation world.
Zhou Fan didn't think that the village was a suitable place because there was a secret or something special, but because of an idea he had.
When he made the trident and put it in the ground with the restrictions, he started thinking about doing it to other places as well. One difference, however, would be that he wouldn't make a legend saying the person that pulled it out was king.
Instead, he would allow the villagers to create their own legend about the weapon if they wanted one.
Zhou Fan walked to the center of the village and decided to place the weapon there. There were a couple villagers in the surroundings, so Zhou Fan decided to make a spectacle of placing the weapon.
He first temporarily made the area around him invisible, then pulled some rock from the earth and into the sky. He also flew to the sky and started to forge a weapon that would be placed in the rock.
Like the trident, Zhou Fan pulled gold from the deepest depths of the earth but shaped a sword. The trident and the sword would be made of the exact material.
Instead of giving it the power of water Qi and Gold Qi, Zhou Fan gave the sword the power of light Qi alone. He then put many formations on the sword that increased its overall stats and made it a growth weapon.
Finally, Zhou fan stabbed the sword into the stone, leaving out only the hilt and a bit of blade. He then added restrictions to who could pull the sword out, but they were different from the tridents.
First, the user had to have a high level of talent. Second, the user had to be good and pure of heart. Finally, the user had to have a light Qi affinity.
Although the requirements were high, only someone like that would be able to bring out the weapons full potential.
After he had completely finished forging the weapon, Zhou Fan stopped making the surrounding area invisible and instead only made himself invisible.
The villagers hadn't noticed the sword in the sky even after a few minutes, so Zhou fan created a light in the sky and the sword started descending to the ground, following a path of a pillar of light.
The unaware villagers quickly noticed the descending sword in stone and gathered around where it would land.
Before long, the sword had landed and the villagers stared at it in awe. Although they had seen many mystical things in their lives, they had only seen them from afar.
After only a minute, someone was trying to pull the sword out. Unfortunately, they completely failed to even budge it. After continuing to try for a while, they felt exhausted and gave up.
Someone else then went to try to pull the sword and the process of failing repeated until every single villager had tried.
In the meantime, Zhou Fan was making his way back to his palace. The world was still expanding and Zhou Fan had to wait it out somewhere.
Once he made it back to the palace, Zhou Fan changed his mind and descended to the ground, walking the path that previously led him to the village of beastmen.
Before long, he once again reached the village. Instead of only staying for moments before leaving, Zhou Fan decided he would leisurely spend the next few years there.
He first walked around the village, asking anybody about jobs, before he finally found one as a blacksmith's assistant. The pay would be 3 copper coins per hour, but Zhou Fan didn't mind. He had to start somewhere.
Time sped by and Zhou Fan quickly realized that the blacksmith was an extremely nice person, not only to him, but to everyone in the village regardless of looks or background.
Zhou Fan kept working as the blacksmith's assistant for a year before the blacksmith suddenly became bedridden.
Zhou Fan had visited him at the doctors many times, but it seemed he would die soon. Zhou Fan didn't interfere despite him being a nice person, letting him die peacefully and happily.
During the period of work, Zhou fan had long saved up a lot of money and now decided to buy a nice house with some of his savings.
After duplicating some coins and making himself 20 times richer than he was, Zhou Fan bought one of the nicest homes in the village, a two story manor with a balcony.
The rest of the money he had was more than enough to live peacefully for the next few years.
Like he planned, Zhou fan did live a great life for the next four years. As he was sitting in a reclining chair on the balcony while sipping a cold drink and wearing sunglasses, Zhou Fan felt the world finish expanding.
He stayed sitting and sighed before he reluctantly put his drink down and got up from his chair. He walked down the stairs and out of the house in the direction of the real estate company.
He put the house up for sale and it was sold in a matter of 2 days. Zhou Fan took his money and teleported back to the floating palace.
Below the palace, there were a group of people from each race trying to test their ability to move up.
Although Anna and the dragon king had stopped coming to the palace for a while, many others tried their luck and tested their strength with the stairs.
Zhou Fan went by them unnoticed and entered the palace. He then went to his room in the back and sat down in a meditative position.
Chapter 109: Explosion - 109
Zhou Fan quickly fell into a meditative state and time passed very fast.
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After only a thousand years, Zhou Fan was woken up from his meditation by an immense shaking that rattled the entire Zhou world.
It was as if someone had picked the planet up and threw it as hard as they could. Without sparing a second, Zhou Fan teleported out of the palace and into the sky to see what was happening.
After a quick look at the world, Zhou Fan saw that besides shaking, there was nothing else happening. He began to ask himself what had happened, but his questions were answered after a single look into the sky.
Zhou Fan could see an energy moving towards the Zhou World at an incredible speed. It was many colors, but the majority of the energy wave was blue.
Zhou Fan could instantly tell what had happened after seeing the energy wave. The solar system's blue star had exploded.
Zhou Fan actually believed that the action had a term. Supernova.
Some of the cultivators in the Huang Long academy had started theorizing that some stars at the end of their lifespan would explode, or go supernova.
It had not been proven, but it was in the starting stages of becoming an official theory.
Zhou Fan had only read it casually as he did his yearly reading of the entire library with his divine sense. He never thought he would actually encounter it himself.
While thinking to himself, Zhou Fan realized that he didn't have time to have an inner conversation and instead needed to salvage the solar system.
Luckily, the blue star that exploded wasn't the one that gave heat to the Zhou World.
Zhou Fan looked up at space and teleported out instantly. His first action was to lock the space surrounding the supernova down so that it couldn't destroy every planet in the solar system.
However, Zhou Fan left a small space in the lockdown so that the wave of destructive energy could reach the Zhou World.
Although he wouldn't let the planet get hit by the energy wave, even though the planet was strong enough to withstand it, he wanted to see how the people of the world would react.
After all, even Zhou Fan had to put in some effort to lock down the exploding star. He wasn't confident in doing so if he was at the space shattering realm.
Thankfully, he had long been in the lesser dao creation realm.
After looking around in space, Zhou Fan saw that someone else was coming up. Alongside that person were 3 more figures.
Zhou Fan hastily made himself invisible before they could see him and watched, curious as to what they would do.
As the figures got closer, Zhou Fan saw who they were. Unsurprisingly, they were the four rulers of the Zhou World.
Anna led the group while everyone else traveled behind her. They eventually reached space and stood next to each other while watching the exploded star.
"What should we do?" The titanosaur asked after watching the explosion for a while.
"What can we do?" Anna asked back rhetorically.
"Let's go back down and try to defend ourselves and our people to the best of our ability." Anna said in a defeated tone.
After one look, she already knew that she couldn't match up to the energy wave. Zhou Fan looked at the energy wave once again when they left and estimated that in only ten minutes, the destructive energy would reach the planet.
In the meantime, Zhou Fan decided to double check the array he had put around the Zhou world when he was still giving it life. He had once considered whether or not to create an array for times of peril, but he had eventually decided to.
Of course, that was before his mortal dao had integrated with the Zhou World. In the past, he had believed that he would leave the world after a couple of years, but he had stayed after all this time.
After looking at the array, Zhou Fan realized that he needed to expand it and make it automatically expand with the Zhou World.
In the past, he hadn't known the world would ever expand and made the array fixed to one point. It was now only covering a small percent of the Zhou world and Zhou Fan had never cared enough to notice.
With a wave of his hand, Zhou Fan fixed up the array and even powered it up to his current realm. Now, it would be able to block the supernova with ease, but Zhou Fan didn't want it to be so easy.
He chose to only have it activated at the last moment. That way, he could see what tricks the rulers had up their sleeves.
After fixing the array, Zhou Fan started to watch what the rulers did after seeing the energy.
Anna gathered the celestials at soul formation and higher and started to frantically create arrays around central city with them.
The titanosaur started to lead his species down to the dungeon that Zhou Fan created, an incredibly intelligent move that would allow them to survive even if Zhou Fan didn't interfere due to the arrays down there.
The dragon king led his subjects to the inside of his mountain and started to lay down arrays with them just like anna.
Finally, the monkey king and his people went to the floating palace and hid underneath it while creating arrays and formations on the sides, also an intelligent move that may allow them to survive if Zhou Fan didn't interfere.
As the energy wave was a few seconds away from the Zhou World, attacks shot up towards it in order to attempt to slow it down. They came from inside the hiding places as the rulers didn't want to risk getting injured outside.
The attacks were all extremely strong, but they had little to no effect on the raging energy pouring down from the skies.
Finally, the energy was feet away from the array that protected the Zhou World.
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