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.
Chapter 176: Increasing Comprehension - 176
Once Zhou Fan got back into the same area within the silver river galaxy, he began to consider what he should do next. The obvious answer was to increase his comprehension of both the cosmic dao and the immortal elements.
He didn't know if he would be able to find the position of the true cosmic dao once he did, but he was sure to at least get a clue. At least, he hoped so.
Zhou Fan crossed his legs and started to comprehend the dao. He could have gone back to his previous area between the galaxy clusters, but he decided that it would be a waste of time.
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200,000 years later, Zhou Fan's comprehension increased by 5%, reaching a total of 55% comprehension. While it increased his strength a fair amount, it wasn't really worth mentioning or even thinking about.
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250,000 years later, Zhou Fan's comprehension reached 60%. His strength had increased once again, and this time it was worth mentioning. Still, it didn't really change his entire power level.
He could also feel his understanding of life, the universe, and mostly everything else increasing steadily. After all, the Dao, especially the cosmic dao, was literally everything.
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300,000 years later, Zhou Fan's comprehension reached 65%. It wasn't that much different from the other increases, but his strength increased more than the last 5%.
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750,000 years later, Zhou Fans comprehension reached 75%. This time, he felt a qualitative change within his overall power and understanding. Once he reached 100% understanding, his strength would likely increase by five or ten times. That would be an extremely huge power gain.
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2.1 million years later, Zhou Fan's comprehension of the eternal, cosmic dao had reached nearly 100%. there was only 5% more to go before it happened. Now, every time his comprehension increased by 1%, it was the equivalent of 5% when he was at 85% comprehension.
Zhou Fan was glad that he decided to comprehend the cosmic dao before doing anything else.
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600,000 years later, Zhou Fan was 1% away from fully comprehending the cosmic dao. He felt he was inches away, but he also felt like he had not gotten any closer. It was a hard feeling to explain, but he felt it would be a bit longer than expected before he could comprehend the final 1%.
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500,000 years later, Zhou Fan felt that he was truly close to reaching 100%. In fact, he believed that it could happen any second.
After a while, Zhou Fan felt something.
'Here it comes!' He thought to himself.
Clink!
In an instant, he reached 100% comprehension. However, in that very same instant, he felt something horrifying. His excitement was instantly replaced by indescribable fear.
Perhaps it was his body moving for him, or his instincts taking over, but he sealed his memories of that final 1% before emptying his Qi in order to teleport as far away as possible. He wasn't even sure how it had happened, as if it wasn't him that did it. Yet he knew it was him.
Before he passed out from Qi exhaustion, Zhou Fan only had time to think one more thought.
'Why?'
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10,000 years later, Zhou Fan opened his eyes, fully recovered. He sat for a while, trying to remember, but he couldn't no matter how hard he tried.
'Wait, I sealed myself. I'm sure I can unseal it.' He said to himself.
Just as he was about to try and unseal his memories of that final 1%, he realized something.
'Wait! If I'm the one who sealed my memories, then there is surely a good reason why. It's not like I'm an idiot or something.' Zhou Fan thought to himself.
He wasn't sure what happened or why he needed to seal his memories, but he had absolute trust in himself.
After thinking for a while, Zhou Fan found something etched within his body. He hadn't noticed it before, but it seemed like his handy work.
Zhou Fan used his divine sense to read it.
'WAIT UNTIL YOU ARE MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH STRONGER BEFORE YOU UNSEAL THOSE MEMORIES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO INCREASE YOUR COMPREHENSION OF THE COSMIC DAO BEFORE THEN. DO NOT REMEMBER!' The etching read.
Now, Zhou Fan was feeling truly creeped out and worried. Not only was he afraid of what was supposed to happen when he unsealed those memories, but he was scared of whatever could have possibly scared him into moving so fast just to avoid it. In fact, it didn't have to be something. Zhou Fan had absolutely no clue what happened, but he planned on heeding his warning.
Although the etching warned against comprehending the cosmic dao, it said nothing about comprehending the elements. They too were sitting at 50%.
Although the cosmic dao was mysterious and dangerous, the elements were a little more straight forward. Still, he would exercise caution just in case. He did not want a repeat of the previous events.
Zhou Fan crossed his legs in the same spot and began to comprehend the immortal elements.
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After 200,000 years, Zhou Fan's comprehension of the immortal level elements increased by 5%.
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After 250,000 years, the immortal elements increased by another 5%.
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After a couple million years, Zhou Fan's comprehension of the immortal elements had reached 99%. Once again, he had felt that the next 1% would take a very long time.
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As expected, it took 500,000 years for it to happen, but Zhou Fan was extremely close to reaching 100%.
After a few days, Zhou Fan felt it was about to happen. He was feeling a mixture of excitement, worry, and fear. He still wasn't sure that nothing would happen.
In an instant, it happened. As it did, Zhou Fan felt more fear than anything else, but nothing bad happened. Instead, he felt his comprehension of everything going through a drastic change. He would go so far as to say it was a metamorphosis. In his vision, it seemed he was flying down a rainbow tunnel with every single color to ever exist. Even ones that Zhou Fan hadn't seen. Many of the colors were impossible to see for even space shattering cultivators.
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