Chapter 139: Jacks Adventure - 139
100 years ago, a void traversing cultivator from the demon race snuck into the spider king's palace and stole a very important weapon. Since then, he had been hunted down by every single spider race member in the Zhou solar system. Since he had broken the treaty of the hundred planets, even the demon race had no plans to protect him. However, it seemed as if he had disappeared into thin air.
Surprisingly, a sighting was reported just a month ago on the planet Jack was on, causing a mission to be produced at the Zhou Sects branches in the water planet. The mission that Jack had accepted was to capture the demon dead or alive, and return the weapon he stole.
The reason the mission was so highly rated was not only because of the 2nd level void traversing cultivation of the person, but because he was spotted at the lair of the strongest being on the water planet, a 3rd level void traversing squid, who was known to attack anything he saw in his territory. As for why he didn't attack the demon race traitor, nobody knew.
After he had traveled around a fourth of the planet, Jack arrived at a red corral field. The coral field surrounded the squid's entire domain and acted as a warning sign to wanderers. Jack didn't bother with it and passed it quickly, officially entering the squids domain.
Before he had even walked a mile, a giant being was seen in the distance quickly moving towards him. Without a word, Jack took his trident out and readied it. Due to the squid's low strength and Jack's talent, he knew it would be a quick battle. As soon as the squid reached Jack, it shot a blast of water towards him. The blast would have reduced any 1st level void traversing cultivator to a pile of meat, but jack moved to the left and let it go right past him.
A shockwave was caused by the blast, but Jack didn't move an inch. At that moment, Jack took out a formation plate and put some Qi into it before dropping it on the ground. As soon as he did, a barrier extended and covered the area within ten miles.
"Do you think that a formation would give you a chance to defeat me? Prepare to d..." The squid attempted to talk, but a spear of light Qi formed above his head and shot down on him, pinning him to the ground and killing him instantly.
"I can sense your presence. Come out now and I'll kill you quickly." Jack said. Even after he talked, nothing in the area changed.
"Fine." He said before he pointed his finger at a sudden area and shot a thin beam of light Qi towards it. The beam pierced through a rock before a loud shout was heard.
"OUCH!"
Jack swiftly moved to the area behind a rock, only to find a demon with a head full of gray hair rolling on the ground while clutching his shoulder. On his shoulder was a small hole that was burning from the power of light Qi.
"Where is the weapon?" Jack calmly asked.
"I'll die before I tell you!" The demon screamed at him.
Not responding to him, Jack grabbed the old man by the arm and used his free hand to grab the man's wounded shoulder, before he squeezed.
"AHHHHH!" The old demon screamed. Still, he looked like he wouldn't tell Jack a thing.
Sensing his defiance, Jack grabbed his trident and pierced a hole in the old demon's left leg, then his right, and finally, Jack cut off his foot.
"Fine...Fine... I'll tell you." The old man said after enduring Jack's interrogation methods. "Just promise you'll kill me instead of turning me in."
"Agreed." Jack said before letting the old demon down.
"Go to that direction for a mile, then dig down and you'll reach a base. The weapon is there." He said while pointing.
Jack extended his divine sense towards that direction, but saw nothing. Just as he was about to interrogate the demon again, the demon spoke.
"It's hidden by a divine sense blocking formation. Only those at the 5th level of void traversing and above can sense it."
Jack nodded, then chained the old demon to the ground with Light Qi and moved towards the direction the old demon had pointed him in. Just as he had said, there was a small base exactly a mile away and a thousand feet deep, hidden by a formation.
Jack was able to quickly find the weapon, a greatsword that had reached the level of a 5th level void traversing weapon. Despite its power, Jack had no interest in it and returned to the demon after grabbing it. Without any words, Jack used the great sword to decapitate the demon and brought his body back to the Zhou Sect branch.
When he walked into the building and returned the weapon, along with the demon's body, he received a round of applause from the members of the Zhou Sect. The receptionist asked him to stay in town for a couple days and wait for the spider king to personally visit in order to reward him and thank him.
Since he wasn't busy and had no plans, Jack agreed and waited ten days for the spider king to arrive. In that time, news of the grim reaper's defeat had spread and Jack gained even more respect for the rulers of the Zhou World.
Even now, he was excited for the day he could reach their level and bring his race up to new heights. After eating dinner with the spider king and receiving his reward of ten top grade spirit stones, Jack left the planet and headed to the one next to it.
He planned to go around every planet in the Zhou Solar system, and by the time he returned he would be strong enough to be considered a ruler.
After watching the quick journey, Zhou Fan stopped watching Jack and got ready to enter seclusion.
Chapter 140: 10th Level - 140
Before he officially entered seclusion, Zhou Fan checked the solar system one more time. As expected, nothing important was happening with Anna, Jack, or any of the rulers. In fact, the most interesting thing in the solar system was the expansion of the planets.
Zhou Fan quickly stopped watching and entered seclusion.
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17,500 years later, Zhou Fan felt that he was about to break into the 10th level of the lesser dao creation realm. From his experience, he knew that it would happen in seconds.
As expected, Zhou Fan felt himself breakthrough 20 seconds later. As he did, a new feeling entered his body. It was similar to when he created a separate space, but also much different.
It was as if the separate space was within him. As if it was a part of his body, mind and soul. However, it wasn't complete. It was as if it was almost completed, but needed an entirely new thing to finish.
Even with his breakthrough, Zhou Fan was unable to determine what the next realm would be. He understood that an independant space was starting to form inside of him, but he had no clue what its final form would be.
No matter, Zhou Fan was excited to find out. He would do everything he needed to do, but like last time, he wouldn't wait for the worlds to expand before going into seclusion. That decision was partly because he was looking forward to the next realm, and partly because the world's expansions were taking too long for Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan had almost decided to watch the solar system before he cultivated again last time, but felt that it would be dangerous to bore himself to death. Therefore, he would do what he needed to do this time before he hurried back into seclusion again.
Firstly, Zhou Fan looked at Anna and Jack's cultivation level. Surprisingly, Anna was still at the 1st level of space shattering, and she had barely made any progress. It seemed that with her talent, reaching the lesser dao creation realm would prove to be hard, at least in the current environment.
As for Jack, he had reached the 6th level of the void traversing realm. He was also very close to reaching the 7th level. Despite the similar progress, Zhou Fan came to the conclusion that Jack's talent was higher than Annas.
Not only his cultivation talent, but even his affinities were better than Annas. Both had a space affinity, anna also had ice Qi, cold Qi, and snow Qi as her affinities, but they were mostly the same. Jack, on the other hand, had Gold Qi, Light Qi, Water Qi, and metal Qi, along with his space Qi.
Each of Jack's affinities were different, while Annas complemented each other. Even so, Jack's affinities overtook Annas in both usefulness and number.
Right now, both Anna and Jack were in seclusion. As for the Dragon king, he seemed to have stopped cultivating too much and instead focused on taking care of the solar system. Therefore, many of the planets saw Anna as a placeholder and the dragon king as the true ruler of the Zhou solar system, although not in a rebellious way.
Overall, the dragon king's life was much more relaxing than annas. She had to constantly improve and make sure she was number one, but the dragon king had long known that he would never be number one.
In fact, he had given up his passion for power a while back. Everything he did now was for his people. Compared to tens of thousands of years ago, he had become a better king. Still, he was conflicted.
In his mind, the supreme beats deserved a powerful and ambitious king, but he was no longer that. Although none of his subjects had said anything, he could tell that they missed the old days of power and war.
Unfortunately, there had never been someone even close to the dragon king's talent in the supreme lands. Otherwise, he would have nurtured him to become ruler and he would take a position as a grand elder or something similar.
At this point in time, the dragon king was on a journey to have offspring. Perhaps they would have enough talent to take over his throne. The biggest problem, however, was that supreme beasts couldn't have offspring. It wasn't a lack of power, but the fault in their genetics.
After looking for thousands of years, the dragon king was starting to turn to miracles. He had been scrounging the Zhou World for something that could help him.
Just by looking at him, Zhou Fan felt pity. Therefore, he decided to intervene. As the dragon king was searching a cave, he felt an instinctual pull. It wasn't like someone was dragging him, but more like he felt that he had to go in that direction.
After resisting the urge for ten minutes, the dragon king gave in and flew out of the cave, heading in the direction he felt he needed to go.
After flying for a minute, he had gone around half of the Zhou World and saw a building he had nearly forgotten. The building was the floating palace. After so many years, the village next to it had stopped existing, and the only thing below it was a forest.
The dragon king prepared to fly past it, but he soon felt the feeling pulling him towards it. Cautiously, the dragon king transformed into his humanoid form and landed in front of the stairs.
Despite the overgrown forest, the floating palace and its stairs were completely untouched. Therefore, the dragon king had a clean view of the entire thing. Just as he was about to start climbing it, he saw an old man appear at the bottom of the steps.
The dragon king, who was unable to tell how the old man appeared, jumped back and created a barrier in front of him.
"Who are you?" He asked.
"I am the only one who can help you." The old man responded.
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