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.
Chapter 122: To Kill or Not To Kill - 122
Zhou Fan flew above the sun and looked for the center most point. He planned to create the grand hall directly above the center of the sun, yet far enough that it was hardly affected by the heat.
He wasn't sure how big he would make it, but it wouldn't be colossal. He didn't mind how big it was as long as it fulfilled its singular purpose. Being a meeting place.
It would serve as the place that all leaders of each of the hundred planets would gather in, much like the palace in the center of Zhou World.
Like usual, Zhou Fan got all the materials from the center of the Zhou world. This time, the strongest materials were at the tenth level of space shattering. As Zhou Fans cultivation increased and the Zhou World expanded, the materials it had also grew stronger.
Zhou Fan estimated that within the next two breakthroughs, materials at the lesser dao creation realm would start existing.
Zhou Fan essentially cleared out every bit of space shattering 10 material within the Zhou World and teleported back to the area that he wanted to create the palace in.
The palace would be square shaped and a hundreth of the size of the current Zhou world. It would have a flat area in the front with pillars connecting to an overhanging ceiling and giant doors that ensure even a hundred titanosaurs could get in at the same time.
The entire outside of the grand hall would be white like marble. As for the inside, it would have carpets and chairs that looked like thrones. It would have banners hanging from the ceiling representing each of the planets or powerful groups.
For example, the Zhou world would have a banner but there would also be banners representing the most powerful groups of the Zhou World like the celestials and the supreme beasts.
With everything planned out, Zhou Fan started creating the building. It only took an hour before the giant structure was finished and furnished. It looked even better than Zhou Fan initially thought it would.
On the inside were a hundred sections that represented the hundred planets lined up on the sides in the air and a carpet leading towards a carpeted area with a throne.
The throne would be sat on by the most powerful person in the Zhou solar system. As of right now, that would be Anna.
Zhou Fan walked down the carpeted walkway and reached the throne. He didn't sit on it but put a book on top of the throne. Once one of the powerful members of the Zhou World discovers the area and finds the book, they would know exactly what was to be done with it.
As Zhou Fan was placing the book, a meeting between the 4 rulers of the Zhou World was taking place. They had convened after seeing the major movement within the space around them.
Naturally, the movement and growth of planets and the sun hadn't gone unnoticed in the Zhou World. Even the dumbest of cultivators realized that something weird was going on when a sun appeared and new planets were seen at night.
For a long time, the rulers had been convening about the movements, starting from when Zhou Fan first replaced the moon.
"Recently, more and more planets have begun circling around the sun. I believe it won't be long before each of the nearest hundred planets are doing the same. While that alone is not exactly a threat, it remains a question as to what is going on and if it is a threat to us." Anna said at the start of the meeting. "We have also seen more and more evolutions from the 10 other planets with life on them. Luckily, it has only been non-sentient life forms, which pose no threat to us. However, they may soon gain sentient life that may feel the need to go to war with us. Therefore, a course of action needs to be discussed."
"I say we kill all the life on the other planets before something unexpected happens. Who knows if they will ever quickly grow under our noses and strike at us. It is not worth the risk it may bring." The dragon king said.
Although it sounded dark, what he said was the most logical course of action. Otherwise, unnecessary threats could be born.
"It is completely unethical to wipe out life that poses absolutely no threat to us. Although what you said could be true, the odds of someone talented enough to grow faster than us, and without us noticing, being born is incalculable. Instead of killing all of the life on the planets, I propose that we help it grow and increase our own powers in case a real threat ever reaches us. That way, we can avoid the evil act of masacre and instead bring us even more benefits than the massacre would." The monkey king said, arguing against the dragon king's cruel suggestion.
"I have no opinion on the matter and will follow whatever consensus you all come to." The titanosaur briefly said. He hadn't cared about things outside of the dinosaur lands for a long time.
"Although I too am mostly neutral, I believe that the monkey king's idea is better for everyone." Anna said. " It will also help us increase our power with very little chance of a threat. Remember, we always have a real threat hanging above our heads. We cannot get too caught up in possible threats when we can help alleviate a current threat."
Obviously, the threat she was talking about was the grim reaper. He had always been a real and threatening existence to the Zhou World.
"Does anyone have anything else to say on the matter?" Anna asked after seeing that no one started speaking.
Not a single person moved as they continued to look at her.
"In that case, Let's vote. Raise your hand if you believe that we should follow the monkey king's suggestion and help the life on the other planets grow."
Hearing her, everyone, including the titanosaur and the dragon king raised their hands.
"In that case, let's discuss how we should go about nurturing them." Anna said.
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