Chapter 147: Divine Physiques - 147
"Father!?" The old man in yellow said.
Hearing him, Zhou Fan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He had never expected that Xiaolong, who he had treated like a pet, treated him like a father.
"Don't call me that." Zhou Fan responded before he held his arms out. Without hesitation, Xiaolong ran forward and gave him a hug.
Although it was weird having an old man hug him, Zhou Fan felt less weird after remembering the old times with Xiaolong.
"We thought you would never come back. Where have you been?" Xiaolong asked.
"Not too far, but not that close for you all." Zhou Fan responded after thinking for a bit.
"How have you all been while I was gone?" Zhou Fan asked.
"Would you like to know everything or just the basics?" Xiaolong asked before he responded.
"Tell me everything, I've got plenty of time." Zhou Fan responded.
"In that case, I'll lead you to a more comfortable place." Xiaolong said.
He then moved at his full speed and almost instantly appeared in a room. He looked behind him to see if Zhou Fan was able to follow him, but was surprised to see Zhou Fan directly next to him.
'I guess he hasn't been idle.' Xiaolong thought.
"Take a seat." He said before he took one. Zhou Fan looked around the room. It was a carpeted room with a chimney not far away. There were two red seats and a table in between them.
Zhou Fan sat down across from Xiaolong and got comfortable.
"When you first left, everything stayed the same. After around a hundred years, the sect era started. Old Students from the Huang Long academy would open up sects across the world, eventually ending the mortal era. Each of the top ten empires kept their land and simply renamed their empires to sects. The other empires, however, were replaced by sects. As time passed, some sects stayed while some were forgotten or even destroyed. However, there were some sects that remained. The Huang long academy was one of them, of course. Some others were the demon sect, the barbarian sect, the fire sect, the water sect, and many others that represented races or elements." Xiaolong said.
"While some were stronger than others, the Huang long academy always remained at the top. Even if there were wars, we never interfered, unless we were provoked to do so. Eventually, people got stronger, and the earth stopped being big enough. Thanks to the chaos crystal you gave us, we were able to provide Qi for both the earth and the space surrounding it, but we all had our limits. Around 50,000 years ago, many who had reached bottlenecks or limits started to research other things. One of the greatest inventions was the floating buildings, which is what all the top sects live in above the earth, and the transportation ships that let those below the void traversing realm reach them. Since then, we have all been cultivating. Some died from exhausted lifespans, like din ren and the other first generation huang long academy students, but a couple people like me and the other three, survived." Xiaolong continued.
"Wait." Zhou Fan said before Xiaolong could continue. "What do you mean the other three?"
"Ohhhh. Right." Xiaolong started. "You weren't here for that. Instead of explaining, I'll let you see it yourself."
After saying that, Xiaolong pulled out a communication talisman and sent three messages. Soon after, 3 people entered through the door.
The first to reach, a woman with red hair and a fiery aura, looked at Zhou Fan with shock.
"Father?!" She said.
Once again Zhou Fan didn't know whether he should laugh or cry.
"Don't call me that. Come here." He said before opening his arms.
Zhuque imitated Xiaolong and gave him a hug.
By that time, two more people had entered the room. One was an old man with a head full of white hair. The other was a fairly young looking man with a head of half white and half black hair.
"Father?!" They said in unison.
This time, Zhou Fan was too stunned to respond. He was instead looking at the fairly young looking man.
"You have combined!" Zhou Fan said "Also, don't call me that."
It only took a couple of seconds, but Zhou Fan was able to tell that Xuanwu and Hanglu had combined into a single entity. It made sense since they had always stuck together and even had the same talent and affinities. It seemed that they were destined to end up this way.
"Indeed they have." Xiaolong said. "We don't know why, but they woke up like this one day. They have each other's memories, but are one person. Still, we just call him Xuanwu now."
"I think I know why." Zhou Fan said incredulously.
After he had looked at them for a while, he sensed something special. It wasn't quite affinity or talent, but something different within him. After a minute, Zhou Fan appeared next to him and looked closer.
He couldn't believe his eyes. After so long, he had discovered a new variable to cultivation. He decided to call them "divine physiques". They were something similar to talent and affinities, but also different. After he saw Xuanwus divine physique, he couldn't help but question if he had one.
"I think I know why they combined." Zhou Fan said, gathering the attention of everyone in the room. "It is the first one I have ever seen, but I believe they had a divine physique."
"What is a divine physique?" Xiaolong asked.
"I believe it is something like talent and affinity, but is more like a unique talent. Theirs should have been some divine physique that combined their minds, bodies, and souls into one." Zhou fan explained.
After hearing him, all of the beasts nodded. It was the first time they had heard an explanation that made sense.
As for what use the divine physique had, Zhou Fan was unaware for now. He could only guess that it increased fighting power or something similar.
Chapter 148: Planning - 148
After getting over the initial shock of discovering the divine physique, Zhou Fan and the beasts sat down and talked about the past.
Although there were some things that happened in between, what Xiaolong had said was basically all that had happened.
In the present, there were 108 top tier sects. Each of the sects had a building floating around the earth, and each either had a sect master at the void traversing realm or a grand elder at the void traversing realm.
Zhou Fan also talked with them about the invention of the space flying ships. They were the main reason that buildings could be built around the earth.
He was also told about how the chaos crystal he had given them was in the center of the earth, but they were unable to improve the formation around it any further.
After talking for a bit longer, they came to the subject of the original members of the Huang Long Academy.
Besides the beasts, everyone had died from old age. After all, not a single one had the talent to become a void traversing cultivator besides din ren. In fact, even din ren had a very low chance of it, which was why he died.
His lifespan had ended right before he could break through. Speaking of lifespan, Zhou Fan hadn't really paid much attention to it before.
The known and proven lifespan times were, 3000 years for a nascent soul realm cultivator and 100,000 years for a soul formation cultivator. As for those before that, they were too insignificant to care about.
Although Zhou Fan could guess that a void traversing cultivator could survive for ten million years, he had no way to prove it. As for above that, Zhou Fan had no clue. He could only feel that he had used up less than 0.1% of his lifespan.
After hearing that Cao Lin, Cao mizu, Din Ren, and the rest of his students died peacefully, Zhou Fan was satisfied.
From then on, the conversation moved from the events of the past to the events of the present. For about an hour, the beasts complained about the lack of Qi, which had severely limited them.
Otherwise, around 200,000 years would be enough for them to at least be in the 10th level of void traversing, if not the 1st level of space shattering. They may even be higher.
Now that he was stronger, Zhou Fan could more clearly sense the beast's talent. Before, he had said that Annas and the dragon king's talent should be higher than theirs, but now, he felt he was wrong.
If Anna's talent was immortal king 5 and the dragon kings was immortal king 7, then the beasts were at immortal king 1. After sensing their true talent, Zhou Fan was both surprised and proud.
Unsurprisingly, they all had the same talent level.
After an entire day of conversing, Zhou Fan was ready to change the earth's situation.
"I have a question for all of you." Zhou Fan said, causing the beasts to listen up. "Would you rather the earth be moved into another section of the galaxy that has cultivators and entire planets of different races, or would you rather I change the earth and create a separate area for you?" Zhou Fan asked.
After hearing his words, the beasts were both shocked at the fact that there was another area with cultivators, and serious.
The decision they made would affect the entire planet and everyone on it.
"Before we make such a decision, can we see what the other place looks like?" Xiaolong asked, speaking for the entire group.
"Sure." Zhou Fan said. "Hop into this."
As Zhou Fan said that, a bubble appeared with a couple of chairs.
Although the beasts were confused at first, they eventually got in without asking questions.
Before they could react, both Zhou Fan and the bubble appeared in a different area. The beasts were shocked, but soon realized that they were moving through the galaxy at an astonishing speed.
Although Zhou Fan was holding back, they reached the Zhou Solar system in a matter of seconds and appeared above the grand hall. Only then did Zhou Fan let the beasts out of the bubble.
As the beasts looked at the solar system and the grand hall, they couldn't be more shocked. They couldn't believe that there was an entire civilization near them.
"Would you like to see the planets, or is this enough?" Zhou Fan asked.
After thinking, the beasts spoke. "Let's see the rest before we decide."
In less than a second, the beasts were in the Zhou World. They had seen its sheer size earlier, but they were still shocked. Not only was the Qi thousands of times more abundant, but the planet was many more times bigger.
After adventuring around and discovering the celestial lands, they came to a conclusion.
"We would like the earth to be moved to this area, but we would like to be outside of the solar system if possible." Xiaolong said.
"Of course it's possible. You said there are 108 top sects right? I'll give you guys a star and a hundred and eight planets." Zhou Fan said.
He had still not done anything with the remaining 13 stars from before the Zhou solar system and was ready to use them now that he had found a use.
After hearing him, the beasts couldn't help but awkwardly laugh. It was as if a rich man told his poor friend that he was giving him a mansion and 108 houses.
"Unfortunately, it will take a while for them to be ready. I'll let you guys stay in the earth's area for around 500 years. By then, everything should be fairly sized." Zhou Fan said.
Since he had just broken through, the planets and the sun in the Zhou solar system had started expanding once again. This time, it would take them around 350 years.
He was also upgrading a new sun and another 108 planets. They would take about 500 years in total.
He also planned to expand the earth and make it like the Zhou world, while the other planets would be under it like the rest of the planets are to the Zhou world.
He would bring in the earth after the other 107 planets and the sun were done upgrading, before he let the earth upgrade among them. After it grew, he would make the planet's subsidiaries to the earth.
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