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.
Chapter 177: Understanding of Creation - 177
After what felt like both an eternity and an instant, Zhou Fan's vision returned. He felt an immense amount of power flowing through his veins. It wasn't that his cultivation had become stronger, but he could now do many things he hadn't been able to before.
As for what exactly he could do now, Zhou Fan was about to test it out. Far in the past he remembered creating a wooden cage for a snake, but that snake escaped because he couldn't truly create wood from nothing but wood Qi.
Zhou Fan moved his arm outwards with his palm facing upward. On it, a wooden cage slowly formed. It was an exact copy of the cage he had made that day. This time, however, it was true wood. It would last nearly forever.
It would last until it decayed from erosion, and since it was made out of Zhou Fans wood Qi and was much more powerful than any other wood in the universe, it would take billions, if not trillions of years to erode away.
That was the power that comprehending the immortal level elements gave him. He could now truly create something from nothing but himself and his power.
Along with his new power, he felt something else. It wasn't technically something gained from reaching 100% comprehension in immortal level elements, but something gained from having the power to truly create.
Zhou Fan understood true creation. Although he was still unable to create life from non-life, this understanding allowed him insight into all of the creation he had encountered. More specifically, the life.
He understood the limits of normal life, cultivator or not, that he had surpassed. For example, even if a normal cultivator reached the god realm, they would never be able to comprehend the immortal level elements to 100%. In fact, they would be lucky to reach 10%.
Zhou Fan was special, and in more than one way. With his understanding of creation, he knew that it wasn't only chaos Qi that made him who he was, but also something else.
He had only seen it once before despite all the life he had encountered. A divine physique. It was the main reason why he didn't have meridians, but could still cultivate. He realized he had the ability to name the physique since it had never existed and would likely never exist again.
He decided to name it simply, 'Chaos Physique'. It wasn't fancy or flashy, but the name fit its use.
Zhou Fan wasn't sure exactly what it did, but he knew that it acted as if his entire body was meridians, and without any negative side effects.
Yet another use of his understanding of creation was the ability to tell the lifespans of other things, besides himself. It wasn't really a magical ability that predicted when someone would die, but when someone's natural lifespan would end. In other words, it could tell the age that someone would die of old age at.
Now, he knew the lifespans of cultivators at different realms. A void traversing cultivator could live for ten millions years. A space shattering cultivator could live for 500 million years. A lesser Dao creation realm cultivator could live for five billion years. Finally, an inner world cultivator could live for an astonishing 100 billion years.
As for a god realm cultivator like himself, he could only tell that he would find out when he broke through to the next realm.
That seemed to be it for the understanding of creation that he had obtained besides the increased clarity he had gained, but that wasn't really special. It just seemed like he had polished his eyes so that he could see clearer.
Although he had finished with the things obtained from his understanding of creation, he was nowhere near finished with what he had obtained by reaching 100% comprehension in the immortal level elements. Although he hadn't obtained another new power, the rainbow tunnel had opened his horizons. He realized just how many different Qi's there were.
He had been under the assumption that he knew every Qi for the longest time, but he was now going to try again.
Zhou Fan sat down in his spot in space and started to increase the power of the space surrounding him. If he didn't, his experiment may be disastrous. He took special care and used all his might to strengthen the space before finally being ready. Every millimeter of space around him for 100 light years was strengthened.
Only then did he produce a bit of chaos Qi. It had been a while since he had used it in fear of accidentally breaking through the final layer of space, but as long as he didn't try and use it to attack, he should be perfectly fine.
Once he had the Chaos Qi floating above his palm, he closed his eyes and began to try and find insight into the various Qi's he had missed last time.
He used the myriad of colors in the rainbow tunnel as he tried to create new Qi's. After just a day, he had created a new Qi that he had missed a long time ago. He called it golden blood Qi.
There were many weird types of Qi, but not a single person could say that there was not a right Qi for a certain situation. From demonic buddha Qi to poop Qi, there was absolutely everything. In a year, Zhou Fan had discovered about 365 different Qi's.
In a hundred years, he had discovered 36,500 different Qi's, with each one being weirder than the last. He spent a long amount of time comprehending the new Qi's. Although progress slowed down as he moved on, he still spent only ten thousand years to truly master all of the Qi's. He wasn't quite sure how many Qi's he had learned, but it was surely in the millions.
He had spent a long time doing that, but he didn't feel tired or fatigued at all. In fact, he hadn't felt so energetic in a while.
Next, for the first time in a long time, he wanted to test out his martial arts.
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