Chapter 157: Collision - 157
Due to his recent boredom, Zhou Fan decided to take a couple thousand years to fully master runes before he continued traveling.
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7,000 years later, Zhou Fan was finished. Both the strength of the runes and the speed at which he created them had increased drastically in the last seven thousand years.
He had also discovered more runes during the time.
Since he had done all he could do with runes for now, Zhou Fan continued traveling towards the cluster of galaxies.
After a thousand years, Zhou Fan felt some progress. He had helped an uncountable number of planets evolve life and let that life cultivate.
After so long, Zhou Fan felt that he had traveled at least 5% of the journey. Still, he had a lot of traveling ahead of him.
After 10,000 years, Zhou Fan confirmed that he had reached the halfway point. Now, the cluster of galaxies had become much bigger and clearer.
He had long lost count of how many planets he had helped. He only knew that it surpassed ten thousand. Despite that, it would take a while for the planets to gain true sentient life that could actually cultivate.
Without stopping, Zhou Fan continued forward.
After another ten thousand years, Zhou Fan had finally reached the cluster of galaxies. Although he called it a cluster, the galaxies were not directly next to each other. They only looked that way from far away.
However, the galaxies were extremely close compared to other galaxies. The average distance was the same as the distance between Zhou Fans galaxy and the red galaxy.
The craziest part was that he hadn't even reached the center point. He had only arrived at one of the many legs of the main part of the galaxy cluster.
At the main part, the galaxies would be much closer. Perhaps some would have even collided.
Zhou Fan was excited to see such a spectacle once he arrived. Therefore, he didn't stop despite reaching the lesser part of the cluster. Instead, he followed along the leg.
During the travel towards the main body that took 3 thousand years, Zhou Fan helped more planets then he had on his entire earlier journey.
Soon, he had arrived at the main part. As expected, the place was chaotic. Everywhere you looked, there was another galaxy. Even colliding galaxies were not uncommon.
After looking around for a bit, Zhou Fan saw two galaxies that had been colliding for a while.
The collisions were not a quick process, but one that took hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years.
However, the collision in front of him was at its peak stage. Zhou Fan estimated that the black holes in the center of the galaxies would collide in the next thousand years.
Despite being curious about the rest of the galaxy cluster, he couldn't help but want to see the collision of black holes.
Since he was unsure how dangerous the collision would be, Zhou Fan stayed extremely far away. He was so far away that a thousand galaxies could fit between him and the galaxies he was watching.
In fact, three galaxies were actually in that space. Luckily, Zhou Fan could see through them.
After a hundred years of watching them get closer, Zhou Fan realized that they were speeding up. The black hole's gravities must have touched each other, causing them to pull towards each other.
After 200 years, the galaxies were moments away from colliding. The rest of the black holes galaxies were in shambles. Half of each of the galaxies were already destroyed in the process of the black holes simply moving towards each other.
After just a couple seconds, it happened.
BOOM!
The moments the black holes touched each other, they moved at a speed that exceeded even Zhou Fans in an instant. They fully collided and an enormous wave of energy and Black hole Qi shot out from it.
Instantly, the rest of the two colliding galaxies remaining stars and planets were disintegrated. In fact, all the galaxies within a million lightyears, were instantly destroyed.
Even from farther away, Zhou Fan felt the impact shake his body and injure him. Although he may be able to destroy a galaxy, he did not have the durability of one.
He instantly spat out a large amount of blood and shot away. He traveled at extreme speeds before he collided with a planet in a galaxy millions of lightyears away from the explosion.
After the planet was destroyed by his body, he stopped flying backwards and floated in space. In just a minute, he had healed himself back to nearly full health.
Although he was heavily injured by the impact of energy and the black hole Qi, it was nothing too major. Unless his entire body and soul were destroyed, he would be able to quickly heal.
Still, he was very close to death for a moment. He had luckily shielded himself with chaos Qi, causing most of the damage to be blocked. However, the slight amount that got through was able to do that to him.
Looking at where the black holes collided, Zhou Fan saw a new one, much bigger than the other two. Zhou Fan was able to quickly understand what had happened.
The two cosmic dao strands, along with the black hole's power, had instantly attacked each other with their full power. During the attack, the two black holes, as well as the cosmic dao strands, merged, causing the ensuing explosion.
Zhou Fan estimated that the power of the explosion reached either the 10th level of the inner world realm, or a whole new realm.
After seeing it happen and being injured by it, Zhou Fan decided to put off visiting the center of the galaxy cluster. Just the power of two colliding galaxies was more than enough to kill him. If he found something dangerous at the center, he may not even know how he died.
Despite everything that happened, the collision of the black holes gave him a couple new ideas for the future.
Chapter 158: Upgrades - 158
Since there were many galaxies that could collide at any moment, Zhou Fan decided to temporarily move out of the main area of the galaxy cluster.
He would stay far away from any galaxies that would collide within a hundred thousand years.
After a bit of traveling, Zhou Fan reached a fairly empty part of the universe. There was no galaxy within ten thousand lightyears, and the ones that were past that were far away from each other.
Zhou Fan felt some shame hiding away, but the power difference between him and colliding galaxies was ridiculous.
He could always grow stronger as long as he was alive. If he was dead, there was obviously no chance he could grow stronger.
Zhou Fan took the pagoda out from his spatial ring and let it float in space. It still had the arrays and formations Zhou Fan had created floating around it. Even the two yellow dragons were still there.
Since he had some free time, Zhou Fan decided to add some runes to his pagoda. He first created a white wall that had runes flowing within it.
The wall was strong enough to stop anyone below the inner world realm from entering. However, it would freely let anyone that comprehended all the runes on it in.
Although he had no plans to let someone in, it was a feature of runes he wanted to try out. After the white wall was finished, Zhou Fan added some attack runes to the pagoda.
He blended them in with the white wall. Therefore, anyone who tried to enter without comprehending the runes would be both stopped and attacked.
After that, Zhou Fan was done with adding runes. Although they could do many things, Zhou Fan didn't want to add too many unnecessary things.
Zhou Fan went to the top floor of his pagoda and started to cultivate.
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After 150,000 years, Zhou Fan reached the third level of the inner world realm. Nothing crazy or new happened, but his inner world and his overall strength increased greatly. Still, there was no chance of surviving a collision between black holes. Therefore, Zhou Fan continued to cultivate.
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After 200,000 years, Zhou Fan broke through to the 4th level of the inner world realm. Once again, his strength increased greatly. At the distance he was previously at, Zhou Fan was confident in not taking any damage from the two black holes collisions.
Of course, he would still be decimated if he was too close. However, his talent gave him strength exceeding his own realm. At the least, he could be compared to someone at the 6th level of the inner world realm. At best, he could probably defeat someone at the 7th level of the inner world realm.
Of course, it also depended on their own talent.
For example, the black hole collision gave off black hole Qi, which was one of the strongest Qi's Zhou Fan had ever encountered.
If it was simply an explosion containing fire, it wouldn't do half as much.
Sadly, most things within the universe were extremely strong within their realm. The idea of being able to exceed his own realm could only really apply to living beings.
Therefore, if the black hole's collision produced power at the 10th level of the inner world realm, Zhou Fan would have to be at the ninth or tenth level to survive it.
Despite all of that, Zhou Fan didn't immediately go back into seclusion. Now that he had broken through so many times, he could upgrade his sword.
He estimated that he could fit an entire other galaxy into his sword. He would also have to use less strength than the last time.
Zhou Fan left his pagoda and flew to the nearest galaxy. He had looked at it before he left and determined that it would be a good addition to his sword.
Its size was also perfect for his current strength. After he arrived, Zhou Fan put a barrier around the black hole in order to protect it, and imitated the same process he had used on the last galaxy.
He put a barrier around it and started bringing everything together. Soon, he once again had a ball of stars and planets. Like last time, Zhou Fan began to compress it.
He didn't have any trouble whatsoever until it reached the size of his sword. The hard part was compressing it into the sword without letting the sword lose its original shape.
Zhou Fan inserted the sword into the center of the ball and compressed the ball equally on all parts
Despite his increased strength, the ball was barely compressed. Zhou Fan had to use up nearly all of his Qi 5 times before he finally completed the compressing.
The sword almost looked the same, but there were now more stars on its space-like surface. The sword's strength had also increased greatly.
In order to test it, Zhou Fan moved far away from his pagoda. He traveled at his full speed for an entire day before he stopped at another mostly empty part of the universe. Even if he used his full power, nothing would be affected.
Zhou Fan once again held the sword above his head. He used all his strength, power, and talent before he swung down on the empty space.
Immediately, the entire area around him shattered. Even Zhou Fan could barely see anything but shards of space. It was as if he was in a mirror maze. After attacking the space this time, something new happened.
It seemed his attack had broken through the last layer of space. In a spot no bigger than three feet, where his sword struck down directly, was something with no color or feeling.
It was completely different from the emptiness of space. Zhou Fan felt that if he touched it, he would simply disappear from existence.
He couldn't completely understand the feeling, but it overwhelmed him to the point of nearly running away.
Fortunately, he quickly came back to his senses and used his full power to add space to cover up the hole.
Unfortunately, the power he had left was all used up, causing him to pass out from Qi exhaustion.
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