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17.94% The First Cultivator - Changing Existence / Chapter 129: The Difference - 129

Chapter 129: The Difference - 129

Jack stayed in seclusion for another year before he came out. This time, there was a group waiting for him.

As Jack exited the room, they all stood with held breaths. Even Finley was looking at Jack with hope and excitement. Jack was first stunned when he looked at the crowd, but he soon regained his wits and looked back at them.

"I have broken through to the soul formation realm." He said victoriously. When the group of mermaids heard his words, some jumped in the air while some smiled uncontrollably. Regardless, every single person there showed joy at Jack's breakthrough.

He was the first mermaid in history to ever break into the realm. The only reason they even knew what the realm was called was because all living beings of the Zhou World automatically knew that information.

Otherwise, they would have taken wild guesses at the name of every realm.

Zhou Fan watched the mermaids closely. Specifically, he was watching Jack. Jack had shown talent similar to Annas, and Zhou Fan felt that he had even more affinities than her.

After seeing him break into the soul formation realm, he decided he was finished watching Jack for now. The journey from soul formation would get slower and slower regardless of Jack's talent.

It wasn't only due to lack of talent, but lack of Qi. Despite Zhou Fan's best efforts, the ratio of absorbable Qi's to chaos qi was 1:50.

This meant that someone like Zhou Fan would cultivate much faster than others. That didn't mean that Zhou Fan was untalented without his chaos affinity, but that he wasn't held back like others.

In fact, with Jack's talent, even if he could absorb chaos Qi he would be thousands of times slower than Zhou Fan. After all, Zhou Fan too was held back.

Unlike everyone else, Zhou Fan had to create the path ahead. People like Jack and Anna were simply following a path he created.

It was like the difference in speed between someone cutting a path through a forest and someone going through that path. It would obviously be many times easier for the person going through a path already there.

Not to mention the fact that inventing new realms couldn't be compared to cutting a path in a forest. It was more like the difference between carving a tunnel through a mountain with a pebble and walking through that path.

Zhou Fan flew away from the deep sea and went to Anna's tower. Once he arrived, he entered through the wall and looked at her. Naturally, he was invisible.

Zhou Fan could tell that Anna was close to breaking through to the space shattering realm. She would successfully do it in around a thousand years. At that time, she would become the absolute being of the Zhou Solar system.

Sadly, that wouldn't last long with the dragon king not too far behind her and Jack starting his journey that will eventually lead him to catching up with her if he doesn't die.

Thinking of Jack dying, Zhou Fan had no intention of giving him any more help. If he was unable to survive and prosper with some of the greatest talent the universe has ever seen and a god-level weapon, Zhou Fan didn't care if he died.

He had already been given enough. After looking at Anna for a while, Zhou Fan left and checked out the situation in space. The rulers had spent the last few years making contact with the new sentient species, only to realize that they didn't even know what cultivation was.

Unlike people and things born on the Zhou World, the life born on other planets didn't have cultivation information implanted into their minds.

Therefore, it would be up to the rulers to teach them cultivation. Of course, they could also raise them like cattle without ever letting them know that something like cultivation exists, but Zhou Fan felt that doing that was bound to go wrong.

Even on earth there were stories of the weak rising up to the strong, much less in a place with something like cultivation. All it would take was one being to learn too much and he could teach every other member of his race.

As time passed, they would eventually give birth to a talented person who would fight back and usually win. However, it seemed that the rulers didn't plan on taking the oppression path.

Once they realized that the new life didn't know cultivation, they wrote a book similar to the first book Zhou Fan gave the first celestials and gave it to them. They then realized that the sentient beings couldn't read their language.

Luckily, the rulers were high level cultivators and language was no issue. Within a day, they had a full grasp of the speaking and writing of the new races language.

They then started to teach the new race the Zhou world language. It would take them a while, but they would learn quicker as their cultivation grew.

Until then, they translated their book into the new races language and gave it to them.

When Zhou Fan first saw the new race, he was shocked. Although there were slight differences, they had a striking resemblance to the demon race from earth. In fact, they even had a natural affinity with Demon Qi, so it would be weird to call them anything but demons.

Once the dragon king sensed their affinity and their natural tendency towards demon Qi, he started to become closer to them. Eventually, he and the other rulers decided that the dragon king would take care of the demon race, which is what they also called them.

The dragon king was satisfied since he had a high affinity with Demon Qi and he himself could be called a demonic dragon. That didn't mean that he would tenderly care for them, however. The demons would still get very little interference since the rulers had decided together that the life on other planets should be left to grow mostly on their own.


Chapter 130: Freedom - 130

After seeing the demon race, Zhou Fan went around to the other planets. There were many different species and some of them looked like species from earth. There were also species that weren't even humanoid like the bees.

Zhou Fan didn't bother with them for long as he had already seen most of the species. There would be no more evolutions or species that weren't already on the planet for a while since Zhou Fan had canceled the life Qi barrier.

After taking another look around the solar system and seeing that nothing had changed, Zhou Fan went to the grand hall. He arrived quickly and walked through the entrance, but there was nobody there.

With a single glance, Zhou Fan was able to tell that it had been explored, but not really used. The book was gone from its place on the throne and some of the couches had clearly been sat on. Whoever had visited had clearly been in humanoid form, or a celestial since the only couches that had been sat on were the small ones and not the huge ones.

Despite the size of the grand hall, it was designed for existences in humanoid form or existences simply small enough to walk around normally. Even the biggest furniture would only hold someone the size of a house. One issue was that the throne was too small for existences like the titanosaur that had huge humanoid forms.

It probably wouldn't matter since the only person with enough talent to maybe take the throne from Anna would be the mermaid boy, who was far too young. Overall, the grand hall was a comfortable and luxurious place, and Zhou Fan decided to rest there until enough time had passed for things to become interesting.

As of now, all the interesting people were either in seclusion or wandering around the solar system and talking to the new sentient species. To Zhou Fan, all of that was boring enough for him to want to enter seclusion himself, but all the interesting things would pass before he came out.

Anna would have broken through, the mermaid boy would have probably reached the 3rd level of void traversing, and the other rulers would have probably finished everything with the new species.

Therefore, Zhou Fan planned on relaxing in the grand hall for a year or two. Once that time passed, the mermaid boy would have started exploring the upper world and he could watch that.

Zhou Fan spent the next three years living in the grand hall. He would often look at the Zhou World and watch people go through their life journeys. Sometimes, he wished he hadn't been the first cultivator. If he hadn't, he may be able to work up from the bottom and eventually reach the peak instead of starting from the top and staying there.

Of course, Zhou Fan wouldn't actually prefer that. It was just a thought that crossed his mind every now and then.

At some point in the third year, Zhou Fan saw Jack at the entrance of the mermaid cave. He looked much more mature than before and only carried his trident with him as he left the mermaid cave for the first time. Not a single person followed him.

By now, Jack had reached the 9th level of soul formation. Despite Finley's persuasion, he decided that it was time for him to leave the cave and explore the world, and he wanted to do it alone. Zhou Fan teleported above Jack and started watching him on his journey.

As Jack left the cave, he started swimming around the bottom of the ocean. It was much darker than the mermaid cave that was lit up by many glowing stones and other light producing things. Luckily, Jack was at the soul formation realm and even if he didn't use his divine sense, he would be able to see just fine.

Jack spent a couple of days swimming around the bottom section of the ocean, seeing many species he had never even heard of and also many types of ores and rocks.

Despite the fact that he was a mermaid, Jack preferred to use legs. Therefore, instead of swimming up, he transformed his fins into legs and flew up. He broke through the bottom layer very quickly and arrived at the middle, then the top, and finally, Jack broke through the water and arrived in the air.

At first, he was completely unprepared and started to struggle to breathe. However, he soon got used to it and put his arms out, enjoying the air. Since he had been born, he had never once been out of water. To him, the air felt so free and peaceful. After relishing in the air for a bit, Jack started to actually look around. For thousands of miles, there was no land whatsoever, so Jack started flying in a random direction. He started off slow, but sped up faster and faster until he was going thousands of miles per hour.

Since he had never even left the cave before, he had never been able to move fast without running into a wall. Flying in the endless air gave him a feeling of freedom that was hard to describe. His initial homesickness was quickly replaced by happiness. With his speed, it didn't take long before Jack saw land.

What he saw was untouched land that was only occupied by roaming beasts, not to be confused with the beasts from the beast lands since most of the beasts at the place Jack arrived didn't have any real sentience, and those that did had very little of it.

Even so, Jack, who knew nothing of the world outside the cave, excitedly landed on the ground. He walked around the terrain, which was a forest, and looked at all the new things. The first thing he interacted with was the ground. The dirt was so dry and hard, unlike the little bit of dirt in the mermaid cave.

The next thing he was interested in was the trees.


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