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.
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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.
Chapter 160: Starfield - 160
Despite helping so many planets in so many galaxies, there were some that Zhou Fan avoided.
Those were the galaxies closest to the center. They were so close and piled up that Zhou Fan couldn't even see beyond them. Of course, that wasn't all they were doing. Zhou Fan could normally see through any solid object with either his divine sense or just his normal eyes.
However, there was a force blocking either thing from seeing past the galaxies. It didn't feel intentional. Instead, it felt as if whatever was behind the galaxies held so much power that he wasn't worthy of even seeing it.
Zhou Fan had pondered over what it could be. The biggest possibility would be the cosmic dao. The great dao. But that seemed unlikely the more Zhou Fan thought about it.
With his comprehension, Zhou Fan had a feeling that he would at least be able to somewhat sense the cosmic dao. However, he didn't exactly feel that from within the galaxies. He did feel something like the cosmic dao, but it gave off a feeling similar to the strands within black holes.
Perhaps the strand was the cause of the galaxy cluster, or perhaps it was simply coincidently there. Regardless, Zhou Fan would only know in the future.
After lingering near the wall of galaxies for a while longer, Zhou Fan left the packed together area. Although he couldn't enter the center of the cluster of galaxies, Zhou Fan wasn't forced to stop doing things until he was strong enough to.
Zhou Fan flew to the clearest place he had found so far and looked upon the many existences. Far away, there were other galaxy clusters and even things bigger than that. Farther away, there were things bigger than the things bigger than the galaxy cluster Zhou Fan was in.
His galaxy cluster consisted of many galaxies, but a single percent of some of the things far away may consist of more galaxies.
He wasn't sure if they were galaxy clusters, or clusters of galaxy clusters, or anything else. All that mattered was that there is more.
Even with Zhou Fan's strength, the universe could only be called infinite. He had been focusing on a small group of things, but there were many more out there.
Although some spots in the universe seemed empty, Zhou Fan knew that even more lied beyond the darkness. He wasn't sure quite how long it would take, but Zhou Fan knew that, unless he died, he would transcend all of it.
After thinking, Zhou Fan decided to fly to the nearest thing. Otherwise, he would spend millions of years traveling.
With his full speed, Zhou Fan flew to what seemed like a field of stars.
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10,000 years later, Zhou Fan reached the 10% point between the field of stars and the galaxy cluster. Although the distance was far, Zhou Fan didn't mind.
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90,000 years later, Zhou Fan reached the entryway to what he had named the starfield.
Ahead, Zhou Fan only saw a mixture of gasses and stars. It seemed that there were no black holes, planets, or galaxies within the entire thing.
Zhou Fan could only guess that the starfield was held together by the stars within it. The star's gravity acted as a chain that connected to other stars, stopping them from moving away.
As for what was in the middle, Zhou Fan would only find out by going in.
After entering, Zhou Fan felt the difference from the empty void. Without being within a galaxy, everything was colder and darker. Now that he had entered a starfield, Zhou Fan felt better. It seemed to share some of the same effects as a galaxy.
As Zhou Fan ventured through the starfield, he came across many unique things he had never seen before. The first was a pink star. The second was a green star. The third was a weirdly shaped star. It slightly resembled a snake or tube.
As he continued to move towards the center of the starfield, Zhou Fan saw more and more weird stars. Overall, the amount of normal stars still outnumbered the weird stars by a lot.
After a year of travel, Zhou Fan felt that he was getting closer to the center. Although the starfield was small to him, it was still bigger than many galaxies combined.
Before long, Zhou Fan saw what was in the center of the star field. In front of him, a giant red star much bigger than any other he had ever seen was floating in space.
Its gravity was the main reason why the entire starfield was held together. To put it into perspective, if the Zhou solar system's star was multiplied by a thousand times and put next to the star in front of him, it would barely reach 1% of its size.
Even Zhou Fan almost felt himself being affected by the gravity despite being more than a lightyear away from the star.
It was burning with a heat that Zhou Fan was unconfident in resisting. The giant star completely outclassed the current Zhou Fan. He didn't even have the guts to get too close to it without using Chaos Qi, which he couldn't do.
Once again, Zhou Fan felt just how weak he was compared to something in the universe. After admiring the star for a bit longer Zhou Fan used his comprehension of the cosmic dao to look at the space around him.
With it, he was able to see how the gravity of all the stars linked up and formed a chain. As for the big star, it was the main link. It personally connected to the gravity field of more than ten thousand stars.
As for the others, it still affected them in some ways. The giant star acted as the ruler of all the other stars within the star field. Zhou Fan couldn't help but admire it more than he feared it. After all, his fear was nearly non-existent.
As long as he stayed away, the star wouldn't harm him at all.
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