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.
Chapter 141: Loss of Cultivation - 141
"What do you mean?" The dragon king asked. Hearing the old man's words, he felt confused. He had never seen the old man in his life.
'How could someone like him help someone like me?' He asked himself. After all, he was still the second most powerful being in the Zhou Solar system, as far as he knew.
"You've been searching for a way to reproduce, right? What if I told you I have a way to help you." The old man said with a smile.
"???!" The dragon king was shocked hearing the old man's words. How could he possibly help?
Despite his confusion and wariness, the dragon king was desperate enough to listen.
"And how would you do that?" He asked.
"Not me, I won't personally help you. Instead, I have an item that will help you. More accurately, a drink." The old man said.
"And you're willing to give it to me?" The dragon king asked, suspicious of the old man's intentions.
"No, not give. I am willing to make a trade." The old man said. Naturally, Zhou Fan wouldn't give him it for free. If he wanted it, he would have to earn it.
"Regardless of what you want from me, how do I know that the drink will actually help me?" The dragon king asked.
As he finished speaking, the old man put his hand behind his back, before bringing it back out. Now, a golden droplet was floating above his hand. It gave off waves of light and an intense amount of life energy.
As soon as the dragon king saw it, he felt that it was special.
"This drop is free. It won't give you the ability to reproduce from just this drop, but I'm sure you will be able to feel something change inside of you." The old man said.
Then, the floating golden droplet flew towards the dragon king.
"It's up to you if you want to drink it. I'm sure you can feel that it will not harm you, but if you don't want it, I won't force you." He continued.
Hearing him, the dragon king hesitated and struggled in his mind. He didn't want to risk it being poison since the old man in front of him was clearly powerful, but he felt that this would be his only chance to have an heir.
After just a few moments, the dragon king finally decided and swallowed the droplet. As soon as he did, he felt his body changing rapidly.
Specifically, he felt his genetics changing. As the transformation continued, it suddenly stopped.
"That's all you'll get from a single drop. Are you interested in hearing my proposition?" The old man asked.
The drop was something that Zhou Fan had created while the dragon king was traveling towards the stairs. Although it was simple to him, it required an immense understanding of life and a high cultivation level to be able to create the drop.
If he drank the entire thing, the dragon king would not only be able to have an heir, but be able to permanently reproduce.
"I am willing." The dragon king said after he felt the effect. Naturally, he was unable to resist the temptation of the drop. "What do you want?"
Hearing his question, the old man smiled.
"I want your cultivation." The old man said.
As the dragon king comprehended his words, his face turned unsightly.
"What do you mean!? How dare you ask such a thing!" The dragon king yelled.
Still, the old man didn't react and stood there smiling.
"Fear not, I do not want all of your cultivation. I just want to take enough to bring you back to void traversing. With my special powers, I will be able to do it cleanly so that you will be able to reach the space shattering realm once again. Still, I simply want to see how determined you are." The old man explained
Zhou Fan was doing the dragon king a favor. If he wasn't willing to sacrifice some of his strength for the ability to reproduce, he wasn't deserving of Zhou Fans help.
After hearing the old man's explanation, the dragon king calmed down. From his words, the dragon king felt that the deal was actually quite reasonable.
It's not like he had much room to improve anyways. It might actually be fun breaking through again. However, he had just one question.
"What are you going to do with my cultivation?" The dragon king asked.
"Nothing really. Your cultivation is too little to affect me in any way whatsoever. I will most likely just let it disperse in the air and increase the quality of the Qi in the Zhou World, although I doubt it will have even a .001% effect." The old man said.
Although many of his words were hurtful, the dragon king didn't ask any more questions like how powerful he was or how he knew so much, and agreed to the deal.
Both the old man and the dragon kin reached out to shake hands. As soon as they did, the dragon king felt something leave him, then he felt himself weakened to the tenth level of void traversing.
Although the dragon king felt sad at the loss, the feeling was replaced by excitement and hope when a bottle of golden liquid appeared in his hand.
He looked at it with happiness, but as soon as he looked up, the old man had disappeared.
"Thank you." The dragon king said before bowing his head and walking off with the potion.
As he left, Zhou Fan appeared inside the floating palace. Since he had helped the dragon king with a major problem of his, he felt quite happy with himself.
Also, he didn't reveal too much about a higher strength being present in the Zhou World. After all, he didn't want Anna and the rulers, including the dragon king, to start getting too suspicious.
At most, the dragon king would keep the event to himself and have some slight suspicions. Luckily, he hardly cared about cultivating anymore and wouldn't feel any pressure regardless.
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