Chapter 145: Changes - 145
For the first time in more than 100,000 years, Zhou Fan stood up. After taking a couple of deep breaths and stretching, he teleported outside of the sun.
As he took his first look at the solar system in more than a hundred thousand years, Zhou Fan couldn't help but be slightly disappointed. From his single look, he could tell that no extreme progress had been made by the habitants of the Zhou Solar system.
At the very least, there were no new structures like the grand hall that were visible within the solar system. Still, Zhou Fan couldn't say whether or not there had been zero progress until he expanded his divine sense around the entire solar system, which he promptly did.
Instantly, Zhou Fan caught sight of all the rulers and Jack, along with a couple thousand others, all gathered within the grand hall.
After the explosion had torn apart much of the sun and the space around it, including the grand hall, before it receded and everything went back to normal, every void traversing cultivator within the Zhou Solar system ran to the grand hall as fast as possible.
Since Zhou Fan had spent a while recovering, most of them had been able to reach it before his divine sense expanded. The only ones that didn't were those at the first and second level of the void traversing realm, although they were still rushing.
Inside the grand hall, everyone was looking at the figure on the throne. Even after a hundred thousand years, Anna was still sitting on it. Now, she had reached the 3rd level of the space shattering realm.
As for the dragon king and the other original four rulers, the dragon king had reached the second level of the space shattering realm, while the titanosaur and the monkey king were stuck at the tenth level of void traversing.
Surprisingly, Jack was only watching from the sides, in one of the hundred viewing boxes. A cloak covered his body as if he didn't want anyone knowing of his existence.
After so much time, Jack had led the mermaid race to become the fifth land of the Zhou world. Despite that, everyone was under the impression that he was at the same level as the monkey king and the titanosaur.
It seemed that after a hundred thousand years, Jack had become somewhat of a hidden master. He only revealed enough of his strength to deter others from looking down upon him or his race.
What the others in the room, besides Anna who kept quiet after sensing his strength, didn't know was that Jack had reached the 2nd level of space shattering. Based on his talent, he was even stronger than the dragon king!
For the first time since the creation of the Zhou world, the second place position had been switched! What was even crazier was that not a single person besides Anna seemed to even notice the change in hierarchy.
As for why Anna kept quiet, she simply didn't want to offend Jack. From what she had seen, his talent was at the very least equal to hers. In fact, there was a good chance his talent was higher.
Therefore, it would be foolish to antagonize him by revealing his secrets.
As for killing jack before he overtook her in strength, such a thought never crossed the righteous annas mind.
After a moment of waiting, Anna spoke.
"People of the Zhou World, you may be under the impression that I know something you all do not. Unfortunately, I must admit that I am as clueless as you all are as to what happened." She said. "If it was just an explosion, we could attribute it to a reaction from the sun, but what followed is unexplainable."
Around her, every single person was silent.
"Therefore, I can only assume that this was some mystical event. Perhaps it was some sort of reaction from the galaxy, or even the universe itself. Regardless, there is no point in trying to figure it out. Let's just be grateful we are alive." She said before standing up and teleporting to her room within the grand hall.
After the grim reaper battle long ago, she and the other rulers had managed to recreate teleportation, along with other techniques like the soul escaping technique and the soul trapping technique.
After Anna left the main area of the grand hall, the room was filled with voices. Despite Anna saying that there was no point in talking about it, they couldn't help themselves.
Still, some disappeared after Anna did. Among them was Jack, the titanosaur, the monkey king, and the dragon king, who had attended with his son.
The son the dragon king had brought with him wasn't his first child. In fact, the child had hundreds of older brothers and sisters. The problem was that none of them had enough talent.
Even breaking into the space shattering realm within ten million years would be a miracle for any of them. Luckily, the dragon king had finally gotten a good heir just a hundred years ago.
His talent was one rank higher than his fathers at immortal king 6. Although he would never surpass Anna or Jack, he would surpass his father and likely become a better king, while the dragon king could just hang back and spend his years relaxing.
The dragon king's son, Ao Tu, was also a dragon like his father, but slightly different. While his father could be called a demonic dragon, Ao tu was a pure fire dragon.
As of now, he was at the void traversing realm. It would take him a while, but it was inevitable that he would reach the space shattering realm.
Besides the changes in the important people of the Zhou solar system, there were also changes at the lower levels, along with changes in the lands.
Within the Zhou Solar system, there were now 10,000 void traversing realm cultivators. 9,000 were within the first three levels, 800 were at the fourth to sixth levels, 195 were at the seventh through ninth levels, and five were at the tenth.
As for space shattering cultivators, Jack was the only new addition.
Chapter 146: Return to the Huang Long Academy - 146
After the meeting dispersed, Zhou Fan stopped using his divine sense. Since he had made sure that the entire solar system wasn't destroyed and that the people within it hadn't changed that much, Zhou Fan was ready to leave the solar system for a while.
After so many years, he was ready to visit earth again. Although he wanted to make guesses on its state, Zhou Fan didn't. Instead, he started to fly towards earth.
Since he was controlling his speed, it would take him a minute to reach it. Of course, he was still moving at a speed that was much faster than light.
Now that he had broken through to the inner world realm, he felt that he had completely exceeded the galaxy. Although the energy within it slightly outclassed his Qi, it wasn't by much. He estimated that he would exceed the galaxy in overall Qi by the time he reached the third level of the inner world realm.
Still, he had already become fast enough to reach other galaxies in a timely manner. Although it may take a month of traveling to reach other galaxies, even with his current strength, the closest galaxy was actually easily reachable.
If he started flying towards it at his full speed right now, he would reach it in around 3 hours. Although he could shorten the travel time by teleporting, he wasn't strong enough yet. If he tried to, he would suffer from Qi exhaustion before he even reached the halfway point.
While he was thinking about galaxies, Zhou Fan felt himself nearing earth. He braced himself for the worst, and eventually saw the earth and the space surrounding it.
After seeing it, Zhou Fan's first reaction was awe. Floating around the earth, which was still intact, were many giant buildings. If average humans were to live in them, the buildings could comfortably house millions.
Floating around earth were hundreds of such buildings. Some were shaped like circular towers, while some took the form of dragons or even mountains.
Regardless of the design, there was a big entrance leading to each of them. A bridge extended outwards, and eventually, what seemed like a bubble wall led into the buildings. That bubble wall was clearly there to separate the air and the harsh space.
After his initial feelings of awe, Zhou Fan started to feel excited. The main reason he felt so excited was because one of the buildings was designed to look like a yellow dragon. It was the biggest among all of them by many times, and above the entrance was a plaque that read "Huang Long Academy".
Seeing it, Zhou Fan couldn't help but feel nostalgia. It had been a long time since he had even thought about the Huang Long academy. Although the time he spent there was miniscule compared to the time he spent on the Zhou world and in the Zhou solar system, the huang long academy still had a small place in his heart.
After all, it was one of the first things he had ever created. After looking at it, Zhou Fan looked at the other buildings. A common theme among them was the word sect.
It seemed that all of the buildings belonged to important people or organizations. He had already guessed that such things would form after he left, so Zhou Fan wasn't that surprised by it.
Despite all his happy feelings, he also felt sad. It was clear that the cultivators of the Zhou world were too weak to reach other solar systems, but too strong to be contained on the tiny planet of earth.
Before he did anything to change their situation, Zhou Fan wanted to visit the Huang long academy. He flew down to the dragon structure's mouth, which had a tongue sticking out, and landed on the tongue.
The tongue happened to be the entrance to the entire Huang long academy. He started walking down the tongue and into the mouth, but as soon as he passed the bubble that separated space and air, Zhou Fan was met by a group of five guards dressed in golden armor holding spears that were pointed at him.
"Who are you, state your name and reason for entry." The one in the middle of the five said.
Although the guards were acting brave, they were secretly sweating. One had to know that very few people had reached the void traversing realm in the time Zhou Fan had left. Specifically, only 111 had. Therefore, only a hundred and eleven people had the ability to fly in space without any special armor or vehicle.
That meant that Zhou Fan was either one of those hundred and eleven people, who were easily recognizable since they were all sect masters, or someone unknown.
"My name is Zhou Fan. Does that ring a bell?" Zhou Fan responded.
Out of the five guards, four of them looked confused and shook their heads. The one in the middle, however, widened his eyes when he heard the name.
Although it was difficult to believe him from a few words, the guard didn't believe that someone at the void traversing realm would stoop so low as to impersonate their founder.
"Sir, please wait here. I will call down one of the grand elders." He said before pulling out a talisman.
Zhou Fan was surprised when he saw the talisman since he had never invented it before he left, and the people of the Zhou world had also invented it, but he didn't say anything. It seemed that formations and arrays would naturally inspire someone to create talismans, no matter the race or location.
Just seconds after the guard used the talisman, a powerful presence at the 3rd level of void traversing descended.
"Who dares impersonate our founder!?" The voice roared. Although Zhou Fan had never heard the voice before, he couldn't help but smile.
Soon, an old man dressed in yellow robes with a gray mustache that reached his knees and a gray beard that reached the floor barged through the door into the big hallway.
He was seconds away from screaming in anger, but when he saw Zhou Fan's face, his anger deflated in an instant.
"....!?!?"
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