Chapter 135: Return - 135
Within the floating palace, Zhou Fan sat with his legs crossed. He was preparing himself for seclusion. Once he finished breaking through, he would be two steps away from an entirely new realm.
Zhou Fan calmed his breath and cleared his mind before he started to cultivate.
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20,000 years later, Zhou Fan opened his eyes. He had reached the 9th level of the lesser Dao creation realm.
Although the difference in strength was immense, it hardly mattered to Zhou Fan. There wasn't anything that he needed more physical strength to do.
The best part about breaking through would be the increase in Qi. Even so, it too didn't matter much.
Since so much time had passed, Zhou Fan was ready to take a look outside. He hadn't expected to take 20,000 years to break through, so Jack's cultivation would have likely gone past the 3rd level of void traversing.
Zhou Fan appeared above the floating palace and scanned the entire Zhou World with his divine sense. Surprisingly, neither Jack nor Anna was on the planet.
Once noticeable thing, however, was that the mermaid race was no longer living at the bottom of the ocean. In the center of the ocean, at the farthest place from land on the Zhou World, there was an entire oasis of buildings and mermaids.
The population exceeded a million and the buildings were uncountable. Overall, the city took up ten thousand square miles of land, with even the ground having multiple caves for mermaids to live in.
Although there were no city gates, there was a giant floating sign that said: The City of Atlantis. It was inlaid with many powerful gems and ores. Some had even reached the tenth level of void traversing.
Such a luxury was hard to find within even the richest areas of the Zhou World.
After looking over the rest of the Zhou World and seeing that, although there were some changes, nothing much had truly changed, Zhou Fan expanded his divine sense to cover the rest of the Zhou Solar system. Only then did he find Anna, Jack, and the other rulers.
Anna was still at the 1st level of space shattering, but the dragon king was too. Both the monkey king and the titanosaur were at the 9th level of void traversing.
Finally, Jack had reached the 4th level of void traversing. As expected, his speed was still incredibly fast.
While the rulers were currently dealing with other races, Jack was on one of the water planets that Zhou Fan had made.
After watching him for a bit, it seemed that Jack hadn't revealed himself to the Zhou Solar System. It was likely that he had spent the last 20,000 years quietly cultivating.
Now, he was much more mature and less flashy. He walked around one of the underwater cities wearing a dark cloak and the trident was underneath it.
Although he gained some attention by walking instead of swimming, it was a somewhat common thing for high level cultivators to walk on the water planet.
Therefore, people minded their business and avoided him. After so many years, Jack's appearance had changed considerably.
He was still devoid of facial hair and his hair was now short and brown. He was 6 foot and 5 inches tall, muscular, and overall seemed like a king.
Although appearance was easy to change for a cultivator at Jack's level, Zhou Fan was able to tell that it was his natural appearance. Of course, all beings looked good once they started cultivating, but it was still good that Jack looked more kingly than handsome.
Zhou Fan watched as Jack entered an inn and headed to his room. He then laid down and slept. Zhou Fan didn't look at him for any longer and turned his attention to anna.
Right now, she was in a meeting with a couple of other races on one of the bigger planets, Zhou Fan had terraformed. It was soon to get bigger once it started expanding, but everyone had long been used to the planets expanding seemingly without reason.
Zhou Fan eavesdropped on their conversation and heard nothing but boring political things. He listened in on the other rulers' conversations and discovered that they were talking about the same things.
After he had checked up on everything, Zhou Fan summoned the grim reaper. He thought of how to introduce him, and quickly got an idea. In one of the gaps between planet and sun in the Zhou Solar system, a giant blue portal appeared.
It sat there for a minute, but not a single person had noticed it. All of a sudden, a ship that appeared to be made of bones sailed out from it. It resembled a pirate ship without the masts or the flags.
Although it seemed somewhat small from a distance, the ship was 10 miles long, and each foot was packed with skeletons.
Some skeletons were carrying weapons, some wore cloaks, and some were weaponless and cloakless.
However, one skeleton that stood at the front of the ship, not surrounded by any other skeleton, stood out. Obviously, it was the grim reaper, wearing a cloak and carrying a scythe.
Now, it had reached the second level of space shattering. Although the difference in strength between each small breakthrough increased as the realm got higher, the Grim Reaper at the second level of space shattering was much easier to defeat with two level one space shattering experts than a 1st level space shattering grim reaper and bunch of void traversing cultivators.
Even so, it wouldn't be an easy battle. It was also a battle that Jack would be unable to participate in with his current strength.
Although the ship had gone unnoticed at first, it was eventually noticed by a nearby planet's void traversing cultivator and reported through the use of communication talismans.
Word quickly spread that the grim reaper had returned, and he had come with an army. His destination was undoubtedly the Zhou World.
As soon as the news was reported, the rulers flew towards the Zhou World at top speed.
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