Chapter 120: 6th - 120
Although the old man had only been at the 3rd level of void traversing, he was able to do that much damage to someone at space shattering!
Luckily, only the old man could use that move. It was something born from an unnatural and insane comprehension. Even Zhou Fan had no confidence in doing what he had seen the old man do. In fact, it was likely that no one else in the universe would ever be able to do what he had just done.
As the rulers watched the grim reaper roll around on the ground, they started to attack. Each of them used their strongest attacks possible with what little Qi they had left, but the grim reaper didn't even have to look up as he sent the attacks flying back at them.
The rulers hastily dodged and decided to simply watch what was happening, although they couldn't understand it.
Zhou Fan, however, was able to tell. Part of the grim reaper's very existence had been erased. He was going through a pain ten times worse than any other pain that had ever been experienced in the universe.
After twenty minutes, the grim reaper started to regain his wits and try to heal himself. After another 20 minutes, the grim reaper stood up with anger visible on his skull. Although he had no skin or organs, everyone swore they could see him sweating.
Just as he was about to use every bit of his remaining power to inflict damage, an ice blue pillar of Qi shot up from the tallest tower in the central city.
The grim reaper looked up at it, and decided to retreat. After the damage he had taken and the Qi it took to heal himself, the grim reaper only had 5% of his Qi left.
Although it would be enough to deal with the first three rulers, Anna would be too much now that she had broken through. The grim reaper broke a hole in space and retreated at full speed, but a sword shot out from the tower towards his location as he was entering the hole.
The grim reaper dodged it and got sucked into the hole, taking him who knows where instantly. Anna flew out from the tower and stood in the air looking at the healing space hole. She knew she may not be able to survive if she went in and she may not catch up even if she did.
The space hole healed up and the grim reaper officially escaped. Anna looked around and saw the damage to the area, along with the injured rulers.
"That was dangerous. We must not let ourselves fall behind the grim reaper or we will all die." She said simply.
If she hadn't coincidently broken through, the grim reaper would have been able to sweep through the rulers despite the damage done to him. The situation was something they could never allow to happen again.
If not for the old man who had comprehended a way to sacrifice his life, the entire world may have died this day.
In the next few days, a funeral was held in honor of the old man. Every ruler attended while most of the world showed up. Afterwards, a giant statue was built in the place his tower once stood.
On it was a gold plaque that said : In honor of the man that saved the world.
Zhou Fan decided to hold back the grim reapers' progress a bit from then on. Otherwise, he would win the next time he showed up.
Now that he was done with the grim reaper for now, Zhou Fan chose to go back into seclusion. He wanted to break through as fast as he could so that the solar system could be in harmony.
Zhou Fan teleported to the floating palace and took one last look at the current world before he went into seclusion.
The mermaids had stayed in the deep ocean cave since he had first given them intelligence. They had made very little advancements in technology or cultivation.
The strongest had only just reached nascent soul. Without a leader, they were doomed to fail.
None of the opportunities had been taken. In fact, not a single one had even come close to being taken.
The ten planets that Zhou Fan had connected to his mortal dao were still growing and would soon reach incredible sizes.
Overall, the entire Zhou World was steady and peaceful. Zhou Fan closed his eyes and started cultivating.
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13,000 years later, Zhou Fan broke into the 6th level of the lesser dao creation realm. As per usual, his strength had increased greatly.
Without even taking a moment to check out the Zhou World, Zhou Fan teleported out into space. The ten planets had finished growing in the time since he entered seclusion.
The biggest of them had reached half the size of the Zhou World while the smallest was one twentieth the size of the Zhou World.
Although it was only a twentieth, the planet was bigger than the sun it flew around.
With his breakthrough, Zhou Fan could sense the planets, including the Zhou World, were about to start growing again.
Before then, Zhou Fan chose to try his earlier idea. He would attempt to connect his mortal dao to the sun.
Zhou Fan flew into it and traveled towards the center. Although he had no idea if it would be the same as a planet, he figured that there was only one way to find out.
Since he was taking in the sight and flying slowly, it took Zhou Fan twenty minutes to reach the center of the sun. Like almost the entire sun, it was in a gaseous state.
However, Zhou Fan could feel the vitality it was giving off. Only now did Zhou Fan understand just how much life stars had. If he were to reach his hand into the very center of the sun, a sphere no bigger than a foot in diameter, he may experience heavy burns.
Without a doubt, he had reached the sun's core.
Chapter 121: Sixty - 121
Without thinking too much, Zhou Fan started to input his power into the sun. He could tell that the process would be much harder than when he was connecting the planets.
While he was taking over the sun, the sun was also fighting back. Although it didn't have sentience, it was as if it was instinctually attacking.
Nevertheless, Zhou Fan easily took over the sun and connected it with his mortal dao. Like the Zhou World, the sun was directly connected to him. Therefore, it would grow much bigger than the other planets. Since it had already been so big, it will also grow bigger than the Zhou World.
If it wasn't directly connected to him and instead connected to the Zhou World, it would never be able to surpass it. With the addition of the growing sun, the solar system would soon be completely functional.
It would have no issues expanding as far as it needed to. As for the other suns, Zhou Fan had ideas for them later. Once he became stronger, he would use their essence to turn them into weapons.
The sun's essence was at its very center within the core. It was the main thing that Zhou Fan replaced when taking over the sun. The core was like the shell of the sun's essence.
Despite adding a sun to his mortal dao, Zhou Fan felt that he could add a couple more planets before he had to break through again. Zhou Fan went around the solar system and added ten more planets to the new solar system he was creating.
Now, there were twenty planets surrounding the sun. The next time he came out of seclusion, both the sun and the new planets would have grown as big as they could. Of course, they would also start expanding as soon as he came out of seclusion like the Zhou world was now.
While waiting for the Zhou World to finish expanding, Zhou Fan decided to name the solar system he was creating. It took mere seconds before he came up with the idea of the 'Zhou System'.
It is a basic and obvious name, but Zhou Fan felt it was fine. It also fit with just about everything else he had ever named.
Afterwards, Zhou Fan spent a few years floating in space while looking at the stars.
He had no idea what to do and felt too lazy to do the only things he could think of. He could bring the grim reaper out, but that was unnecessary and unproductive.
He could also add more opportunities, but he was drawing a blank. As more and more time passed, Zhou Fan started to think less and less.
After ten years, Zhou Fan fell asleep for the first time in tens of thousands of years. He didn't have a dream at all.
After a while, Zhou Fan opened his eyes. He felt as if he had time traveled. One moment he was floating in space and the next he was laying in some rock on an unidentifiable planet.
He quickly estimated that it had been a thousand years since he fell asleep. Although he was curious, all he had to do was use his divine sense to find out where he was.
He was on one of the planets that he had recently added to his connection. In the last thousand years, the planets and the sun Zhou Fan added had fully grown.
As expected, the sun was ten times bigger than the Zhou World. Compared to earth and its sun, the Zhou World and the sun didn't have that big of a difference.
Zhou Fan didn't stay on the planet for too long before he flew up and left towards the Zhou World. He had already sensed the entire area and knew that there was nothing special.
After making it back to the Zhou World, Zhou Fan looked around and saw that nothing much had changed. After all, it had only been a thousand years.
Since Zhou Fan was unable to connect any more planets to his mortal dao, he decided to go into seclusion and break through.
He teleported to his room in the floating palace and started to cultivate.
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15,000 years passed and Zhou Fan quietly broke into the 7th level of the lesser dao creation realm.
Without sparing a second, he teleported to space and went to the closest unconnected planet.
As he connected it to his mortal dao, the Zhou World, the sun, and all the other planets within the Zhou solar system began to grow. He spent three days connecting planets to his mortal dao and by the end he had managed to connect 60 planets in total.
He then moved them around the sun which increased the size of the Zhou solar system. Zhou Fan was able to guess that with his next breakthrough, he would be able to connect the final forty planets to his mortal dao.
At that time, he would be ready to give life to all of the planets and create an ecosystem. Before he did that, he wanted to create one or two structures in the space above the sun.
Specifically, he wanted to create a grand hall. It would be a place where the most powerful people of the Zhou solar system would convene.
Since it would be in space without any barriers to provide air, only cultivators at the void traversing level would be able to enter.
However, void traversing cultivators would soon be the second highest strength within the Zhou solar system. Zhou Fan glanced at Anna and saw that she was extremely close to breaking into the space shattering realm.
At that time, her authority would be set in stone for years to come. The dragon king was now at the tenth level of void traversing, but it would take him much longer to break into space shattering. Even so, he would soon be in the space shattering realm.
As for the monkey king and the titanosaur, they may never break into the space shattering realm at all.
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