Chapter 174: The God Realm - 174
Although it was a problem, it could only be solved once he was stronger. Zhou Fan stopped thinking about it and once again started cultivating.
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800,000 years later, Zhou Fan reached the tenth level of the inner world realm. The overall increase in power couldn't even be compared to the previous times he broke through. He was many times stronger.
Before he had reached the tenth level, he had hoped that it would give him a hint about the next realm.
Luckily, his expectations were met. As he reached the level, he felt something within his inner world change. It was hard to describe, but it felt more complete. More final. He wasn't sure why, but it gave off a familiar feeling.
He thought long and hard, but still struggled to remember. No matter how good his memory is, sifting through millions of years of existence was extremely difficult.
Finally, it clicked. He had felt a similar feeling in the core formation, nascent soul, and soul formation realms. His inner world was going to assimilate with him!
It was just like his soul had long ago. He wasn't sure if it was because of the decision he had made to keep his mind, body, and soul as one, but there was surely some reason.
Perhaps if he had chosen to not make his mind, body, and soul one, he would be able to take out his inner realm and have a whole world of chaos Qi with incredible power at his command.
He wasn't sure which would be better. Although his inner world could only be described as a part of him, it could still be distinguished. It was much like his heart was a part of him, but it was still a heart.
If he and his inner world truly became one, however, that would change everything. His inner worlds power would no longer grow, but Zhou Fan's power would.
The decision he had made long ago may have chosen his entire cultivation path.
Although Zhou Fan was able to deduce that his inner world would become one with him, he didn't believe that merging would be the only part of the new realm. It would be more like something that happened when he broke through. The new realm would be something else entirely.
He thought for a while, but he would likely only find out when he got there.
Zhou Fan then closed his eyes and fell back into cultivation, ready for the change.
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A million years later, Zhou Fan hadn't broken through.
'This is ridiculous.' He thought to himself. 'I've just reached the 10% point! My inner world has just begun to move. How long is this da*n realm going to hold me off.'
Despite it being his longest seclusion time ever, he had only reached the ten percent point of his breakthrough. Not only had his inner world not combined with him, it had just moved for the first time.
'Perhaps it is because such a large change is about to happen?' Zhou Fan thought. 'Whatever, I've got plenty of time to waste.'
Another million years later, Zhou Fan reached the 20% point. In the last million years, his inner world began to crack. It had started shaking and was being destroyed. Zhou Fan didn't know if everything was going ok, but he didn't plan on stopping.
500,000 years later, his inner world finally broke. The very essence of the Chaos Qi within it had begun to seep into his body. As it did, it became one with him. The power was slowly increasing his strength.
After another 3 million years, the Chaos Qi within his inner world was almost completely within him. His power had increased by more than ten times, and his breakthrough was only 55% over.
After 2 million more years, the Chaos Qi within the inner world had been completely absorbed by him. Now only its shell was left. Zhou Fan was confused as to how the breakthrough was only 75% finished, but he cultivated patiently.
He soon got the answer to his question. The shell, or walls, of the inner world began to collapse and be sucked into him. He felt his strength once again increasing.
2.5 million years later, the inner world was completely gone. Now, only Zhou Fan remained. He had completely become one with his inner world and it was no more.
However, his breakthrough wasn't finished. He had thought it would be over, but it seemed that he had miscalculated.
Before he could think for too long, a change happened within him. Like space Qi had, once he reached the void traversing realm long ago, he felt a new power being produced by him.
It filled his body, mind, and soul. Zhou Fan couldn't tell much about it, but he could tell that like every other thing about him, it was gray. It wasn't Chaos Qi, but it took the color of it due to his affinity.
It also gave him a feeling. It was a feeling of superiority, and he almost couldn't control it.
The only word he could think of was 'Divine'. It gave off a similar feeling to his divine sense. He decided to call the new power within him 'Divinity'. As he started looking at that power, he felt something else change. It was his realm.
He had finally broken through once the divinity spread through his entire existence. He didn't know why, but he started remembering the past. It was a weirdly specific memory.
He recalled the time when a war between the truth empire and the boundless empire was ongoing. He also remembered when he stepped in and ended the battle, although not with strength.
Out of everything he remembered, he recalled standing on the city walls and hearing the people in the battle say something. It was a name for him.
'God'.
Perhaps it was because of the divinity, but he felt that the name god was actually very good. Therefore, he decided to name the realm after it.
After breaking through, Zhou Fan reached the first level of the god realm.
Chapter 175: Divinity - 175
Although he had planned to remain in seclusion for a long time, he felt it would be a waste to not explore the god realm.
It gave off a much different feeling compared to the inner world realm. Even if one ignored the obvious gain of divinity, the powers he could exert changed.
He decided to go and test his new strength and power out somewhere else. If he did anything too crazy in his spot, he would disturb its peacefulness that had lasted for so long.
After thinking, he felt the best option would be to go to a galaxy cluster. Not one of the ones too far away, but one of the three he had already been to.
Out of the three, the least important to Zhou Fan was the silver river galaxy cluster. He didn't wait long before he flew off towards it.
As he flew there at speeds that exceeded any speed he had ever gone before, he created more clothes out of chaos Qi. Although Chaos Qi was dangerous, Zhou Fan felt that he could at least make himself some clothes from it.
The clothes were gray and looked like normal pieces of clothing. Most people wouldn't be able to tell them apart from any other piece of clothing.
With his breakthrough to the god realm, Zhou Fan's speed was many many times faster. Reaching the galaxy cluster was a matter of less than ten thousand years.
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7,000 years later, Zhou Fan arrived at the silver river galaxy cluster. It hadn't changed much despite all of the time he had been away.
Zhou Fan didn't worry about it too much. He continued flying into the silver river galaxy cluster. He planned to perform his tests around a fourth of the way through it. That way, he was both far away from the entrance and far away from the center of the galaxy cluster.
In what felt like a short time, he reached his destination. There was nothing familiar around since he had simply chosen a random area, but there weren't that many galaxies around. As usual, the galaxies within the silver river galaxy cluster were mostly silver.
Now that he had reached a fairly good place, Zhou Fan began to experiment. First, he had felt that he could use his divinity, but he wasn't quite sure how.
He tried grabbing onto it with his Qi and dragging it out of his body, but it didn't work. Next, he tried a more patient approach. He sat on the ground and crossed his legs. He then closed his eyes and tried to sense the divinity within him and focus on it. While the divinity was technically taking up his entire existence, it could only be found in a small area within his body.
After just a moment, Zhou Fan was able to focus on it. Drawing it out was likely to be similar to trying to learn how to use a new body part. Zhou Fan tried many things to get it to move once he focused on it, but none of them worked.
After around a hundred attempts, Zhou Fan finally felt it move a little bit. He remembered the exact sensation and tried it again. Once more, the divinity moved.
After he was sure that he had full control over the feeling, Zhou Fan dragged some of the divinity within him out of him. The area he had dragged it out on was his palm.
The divinity seemed very similar to Qi, but it had a few different properties that made it something slightly different. Still, it bore a 99% similarity to Qi, so Zhou Fan felt that there wasn't any need to worry about the 1% too much.
Zhou Fan tossed the divinity around on his palm for a little bit before he threw it out into space. It had no reaction whatsoever, so Zhou Fan brought it back to him.
He really couldn't figure out the use for the divinity. After a couple more experiments, Zhou Fan chose to try a different approach. Perhaps the divinity would have more of an effect on life.
It just so happened that he was near one of the galaxies with a planet with potential for life. Zhou Fan quickly flew over there and arrived at the planet with potential for life.
Actually, it should just be called a planet with life now. Looking down, Zhou Fan saw a couple of small things moving around. Although the most advanced life on the planet was worms, it had life at least.
Zhou Fan flew down to the planet and landed next to one of the worms. Not only was it not big, but it was even smaller than a common worm back on earth.
Still, life was life. If it affected non sentient life like the worm, then his divinity should affect sentient life such as celestials or humans. At the very least, it was worth a try.
Zhou Fan picked up the worm and let it move around on his palm. As it was doing so, Zhou Fan covered it with some of his divinity.
After a minute, Zhou Fan stopped and observed the worm. First, its color had slightly changed. Instead of just being the brownish pink it was before, it now had some lines of gray on it. The lines were extremely bright and eye-catching. They were also very rectangular and uniform.
As for its behavior, it seemed to stop mindlessly moving around. It raised its upper body and looked around, seemingly observing its surroundings.
Seeing it, Zhou Fan couldn't help but be disappointed.
'This breakthrough is hardly for me. Others won't have Chaos Qi and can't really change or affect life too much, but this divinity gives them the ability to start messing with life. In other words, this divinity may be useless to me.' Zhou Fan thought.
He was hoping that there were other uses, but it didn't seem likely. Zhou Fan threw the worm back on the ground and flew back to space. He still had more to do before he started to purely cultivate again.
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