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.
------------------------
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.
-------------------------
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.
Chapter 159: The Unknown - 159
After 30 days of floating, Zhou Fan woke up. He had recovered all his Qi and had healed from the effects of Qi exhaustion.
After looking around, he realized that the cracked and shattered space was still there. Luckily, the hole in space was patched up.
Zhou Fan wasn't quite sure what it was, but he realized the danger it posed. In places like the Zhou World and the entire Zhou solar system, the space had been strengthened by his mortal dao. Therefore, it would require more strength than Zhou Fan had in order to completely break it.
In other places, however, the space was in its original form. It could be broken by almost any attack that focused on one point if it was from something or someone powerful.
One thing that confused Zhou Fan was that the black hole's collision didn't break past all the layers of space. In fact, it didn't hurt the space at all.
After thinking for a while, Zhou Fan could only come to two conclusions. First, his chaos Qi was the reason he could break through all the layers of space with his current strength.
Second, something that was born and created by space, such as galaxies, black holes, planets, and nebulas, could not break it as easily.
In fact, it seemed that space had a certain resistance to the things born in it. Zhou Fan and other living beings didn't count since they were born on a planet with an atmosphere instead of space.
As for breaking through the final layer of space, it seemed that only Chaos Qi could do it. To those without chaos Qi, either they couldn't, or their strength would have to surpass the entire universe.
If the normal layer of space was the equivalent to the skin of the universe, and the rest of the layers were equivalent to bones, blood, veins, and organs, then the final layer of space would be the very existence of the universe. In a more understandable way, the final layer of space was its soul.
It is also what separates the rest of the universe from whatever that blankness was.
'Chaos Qi is far too dangerous. Unless I must, I should not use Chaos Qi. At the very least, I must wait until I am strong enough to survive that thing.' Zhou Fan thought to himself.
Before leaving his galaxy, he had thought himself invincible. Only now did he realize how foolishly arrogant he was.
In the time that he had left, he had discovered three things that could easily kill him. Colliding black holes, the thing beyond the final layer of space, and the great attractor at the center of the galaxy cluster.
Although he had yet to confirm the danger of the great attractor, he had no doubt it could kill him if it wanted to.
Not only did Zhou Fan need to increase his own strength, he needed to increase the fabric of spaces' strength. Otherwise, he may accidentally destroy everything.
In that split second that the thing beyond space was exposed, it seemed as if it was growing by devouring space, similar to a black hole.
His patching up had only stopped it enough for the final layer of space to regrow. If the final layer of space didn't grow back, the very universe may have been destroyed by him.
The strength of the thing beyond the final layer of space also had Zhou Fan thinking of something else.
'Could my Chaos Qi have won against that? Could it compare?' Zhou Fan asked himself.
His entire life, he was under the impression that everything was below Chaos Qi. The blankness beyond the final layer of space, however, made him think otherwise. It may have been on the same level as Chaos Qi!
Unfortunately, he didn't know. He hadn't even thought of using his Chaos Qi to go against the thing beyond space. Even if he did, it may not have been an even match. It seemed that the thing beyond the final layer of space was much higher level than him.
After finally calming down, Zhou Fan decided to name the thing beyond space ' The Unknown'.
He had considered both the unknown and the blank, but the unknown seemed more fit since he didn't know if it was actually blankness, or just another form of space.
Although he had planned to go and explore more at first, Zhou Fan was too restless. He decided to bring out his pagoda and cultivate some more after he had healed up the surrounding space.
Since he had fully recovered, the healing process was quick. It only took around an hour to clean the entire thing up.
Afterwards, Zhou Fan stayed in the same area and brought out the pagoda. On the top floor, Zhou Fan cultivated.
---------------------------
250,000 years later, Zhou Fan reached the 5th level of the inner world realm. As usual, his strength and the inner worlds power increased greatly.
After so much time had passed, he had completely calmed down from the incident. He was now ready to go back out and explore some more.
Zhou Fan left the pagoda soon after breaking through. Although he didn't go to the center of the galaxy cluster, he went around it. He helped every single planet with potential for life, even if the galaxy they were in was on the verge of destruction.
In ten thousand years, Zhou Fan had been to almost every galaxy on the main part of the galaxy cluster. Although there were other planets and galaxies still moving in, it would be a waste of time to go to them.
Although Zhou Fan was unaware how many planets he had helped, he knew that if they all successfully evolved into cultivation worlds, there would be trillions and quadrillions of living beings within just years.
Eventually, he would involve the Zhou World and the rest of the solar system with them, but they would remain on their own for now.
By the time the Zhou Solar system connected with them, there would very likely be many more people more talented than anna, jack, and the beasts, simply from the sheer numbers.
Weekly Power Status
200+ Power
Ranking 
121 Power
stone 
Paragraph comment