Chapter 127: Crowning - 127
Although Zhou Fan would eventually help the life on the other planets evolve faster and gain a sentient race or two, he decided to first worry about giving the planets without any sort of life a way to gain life.
Zhou Fan first flew to the planet on the left of the Zhou World that didn't have any life. Starting there, he would give life to all the planets in the solar system.
Like before, Zhou Fan took an entire mountain from the Zhou World and gave the planet a layer of dirt, along with living animals and eventually an atmosphere.
He then went to the next planet and repeated the process. Due to the immense size of the Zhou world, a hundred mountains were barely noticeable. Therefore, Zhou Fan had no trouble filling up every planet in the solar system with dirt and life.
Some planets were ice planets, so instead of putting a bunch of dirt on it he simply melted away the ice and created a big water planet.
Afterwards, he took a bunch of water from the Zhou World and gave the dirt planets oceans and rivers.
Everything went so smoothly and Zhou Fan felt lucky that the planets were still so small compared to the Zhou World. All of them combined would only have the surface area of a thousandth of the Zhou world. However, that would eventually change as Zhou Fan broke through and the planets would one day become around half of the size of the Zhou World before staying at that mark.
After he gave each of the planets dirt, water, and life, Zhou Fan was ready to help the life on every planet in the solar system besides the Zhou World evolve.
Although he had done it before, Zhou Fan had never used life Qi on such a wide radius. In order to cover the expanded solar system completely, Zhou Fan would have to expend a lot of effort.
Even so, Zhou Fan felt that there was little to no difficulty in the process. Zhou Fan released a dome from his body that expanded throughout the entire solar system, excluding only the Zhou world and its sun.
After the dome covered everything else, Zhou Fan filled it up with all the life Qi he could produce. A green mist covered every single planet besides the Zhou world and all the life on those planets felt energized down to their cells. Changes quickly happened and Zhou Fan watched as life changed at a rapid rate.
After a year of constantly receiving life Qi, the life on the planets had changed rapidly. One of the planets had even shown signs of having sentient life. It was still too early to tell, but Zhou Fan had hope.
After five more years, the life had changed and grown even more. Now, 10 of the planets had gained sentient life. They mostly had humanoid features like the celestials and humans, but there were plenty of differences.
After ten more years, fifty of the hundred planets had gained some sort of sentient life. As more planets gained it, Zhou Fan saw many more variations exist. From one planet, there were bee looking beings that had become sentient. They were yellow with stingers, yet wore clothes and carried bags.
It was weird to even look at, but Zhou Fan quickly got over it. In the future, he guessed that much weirder life would appear.
After another twenty years, every single planet in the Zhou solar system had sentient life. The weirdest to Zhou Fan were still the bees, but there were plenty almost as weird.
In the last twenty years, the dragon king and the other rulers, besides Anna who was breaking through, had discovered that the planets had gained some sentient life. They were shocked as they expected it to be hundreds of thousands of years before such a thing happened, but they quickly started to venture out and meet the new species.
While they were doing that, Zhou Fan was looking at the deepest part of the Zhou World's ocean. Down there, a coronation ceremony was happening. On a throne made of gold sat a young looking mermaid male.
Zhou Fan decided to start calling male mermaids merman to avoid personal confusion.
An older merman was walking towards the young merman with a scepter while tens of thousands of other mermaids watched it happen in silence.
Once the older merman reached the boy, he knelt on the ground and held up a crown of pure gold inlaid with many rare jewels.
"Countless years have passed since our mermaid race was first born, yet we have stayed in our place without daring to go too far. We have long been too cowardly to explore the world and it has started to seep into our very bones. With you, however, we can enter a new era for the mermaid race. Finally, we have a king!" The old merman said while kneeling.
The surrounding mermaids erupted into a cheer after hearing the old mermans declaration. However, the young man suddenly stood up, silencing the crowd.
He took the crown from the old mermans hands and put it on his head. The boy picked up the golden trident standing against the throne and raised it up in the air.
"I solemnly swear that the mermaid race will never hide away at the bottom of the ocean again." He said with hope in his eyes.
The surrounding mermaids once again erupted in cheer. Eventually, they seemed to band together and started a chant.
"Long live the king! Long live the king! Long live the king!"
Their combined chants were so loud that the ocean floor shook and the ground above experienced slight movement.
If any of the rulers were still on the planet, or if Anna was paying any attention to the outside world, then they would have all felt the tremors and instantly understood what was going on. Coincidently, however, they were each occupied with their own business.
Chapter 128: Jack - 128
Before the new mermaid king could set off on his journey to become the king of the ocean, he needed to start cultivating.
Since cultivation had never been a big priority of the mermaid race, it was very rare for someone below the age of eighteen to start cultivating. Therefore, the new mermaid king, who was only ten, was a complete mortal. He didn't even have the strong body that all celestials had. In other words, he was near the very bottom in terms of strength in the Zhou World.
The only reason he was excluded from the absolute bottom ranks was because the mermaids naturally had strong bodies so that they could resist deep sea pressure, but they didn't have much and instead relied on their biological structure to survive the heavy pressure.
After the ceremony ended, the old merman led the new king to the palace of the mermaids. Although there had been a previous king, he had immediately relinquished his position to the merman boy after he heard the news of him pulling out the trident.
Once they reached the throne room, the old king, along with a few of his most trusted generals and advisors, were kneeling on the ground.
"We greet the mermaid king and the royal teacher" They said in unison as they kneeled.
The matter of the mermaid boy pulling out the trident was not to be underestimated. It had long been engraved into the minds of all mermaids that the one who pulled it out was the rightful and true king.
Even the old king, who was now kneeling, didn't feel any resentment at losing his position. He whole-heartedly believed that the boy was the rightful ruler and he was just warming the seat.
"Stand, we must make plans for the future." Finley, the old merman said.
The old king and the rest of the group stood up and sat at the seats at the side of the throne room.
The mermaid boy, Jack, went up to the throne and sat upon it while Finley stood beside him. Finley was both the most knowledgeable merman in the entire mermaid cave and Jack's mentor. Until Jack became old enough to rule wisely, Finley would teach him everything he needed to know and advise him on all of his choices.
Zhou Fan watched on, invisible.
"Hello. It is nice to meet you all. As you know, I, Jack, am the new king of the mermaid race." Jack said.
"It is our honor to meet you, your highness." The old king said from his seat, followed by a quick nod from the others in the group.
After saying that, Jack looked to his side at Finley. Finley knew that Jack didn't know what to say and spoke up.
"Before we do anything else, I will teach Jack cultivation and he will cultivate until he has reached a level of strength that can hold our race up. Until then, we expect you all and every other mermaid to cultivate with all your efforts. We must not drag King Jack down." He said.
"You are absolutely right sir Finley." The old king said. "Under you and King Jack's supervision, we will implement cultivation to all corners of the mermaid cave."
Finley nodded at the group and dismissed them, leaving only him and Jack.
"We must act in haste, Jack. Who knows what is happening in the outside world. You are the only one who can give our race safety and peace." Finley said. "Come. I will teach you the ways of cultivation, although I'm sure you will quickly surpass me."
Finley was only at the 5th level of nascent soul, although that did make him one of the strongest mermaids. He led Jack to one of the rooms in the back of the castle and spent a week teaching him everything there was to know about cultivation. Jack absorbed all the knowledge he was told the first time he heard it and was able to quickly understand it all.
As soon as he learned the necessary knowledge, Jack was urged into seclusion by Finley. He was told to not come out until he reached the nascent soul realm.
In five and a half years, Jack got out of seclusion. His body had clearly grown, but he mostly had the mentality of a ten year old. The biggest change was that his patience was at a whole new level. Of course, patience was something every cultivator gained.
Jack swam all the way up to the top floor of the tower and knocked on one of the doors.
"Who is it? What do you need?" An old voice asked.
"It's me Finley." Jack responded.
As soon as Jack spoke, a crash was heard, along with a groan and hasty footsteps. The door swung open and Finley looked at Jack with his jaw dropped.
"I expected you had more talent than any other, but I didn't think it would only take five and a half years for you to reach the same realm as me." Finley said after closing his jaw. "Let's go. I have much to teach you."
Jack followed Finley down the many steps of the castle and arrived in the same room he was first taught cultivation in.
"Now that you have reached my realm, there are some things to teach you." He said. " First, as soon as a mermaid reaches the core formation realm, they can transform their lower body and grow legs. Although most places in the mermaid cave have been created for people with fins, you have probably noticed that places like the castle are built with legs in mind."
Jack nodded as all of that was common knowledge. Although there weren't many people in the core formation realm, those who were often traveled on foot.
Finley continued to teach Jack things about cultivation as well as things about mermaids. Some of it was common knowledge while some was brand new, but Finley didn't miss out on a single detail.
A week of talking passed and Finley sent Jack back into seclusion until he reached a brand new realm that no mermaid had ever seen.
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