Chapter 188: Array Master - 188
Although one second would be an extremely long amount of time in a battle for someone like him, Zhou Fan didn't plan on using such things in battle anytime soon.
Even if he really was going to use them in battle, he would pre make them so that he could activate them in a second.
As he continued to think down that road, he began to have ideas about different ways of using formations and arrays in battle. After a while, he simply shook his head and focused. He was becoming a master in arrays now. Thoughts about the use of formations and arrays in battle could wait until later. Besides, talismans were already a way to use formations in battle, although there were some flaws.
Zhou Fan was now ready to start studying core formation arrays. It was at that level that arrays started showing their various uses.
Zhou Fan spent exactly a month studying core formation arrays. After that month, he had completely mastered them. As he had said before, arrays started showing their use at the core formation level.
Not only were they stronger, but there were more ways to use them. For example, there were now flying formations that assisted you in flying. If you weren't a celestial that could already fly as a child without core formation cultivation, then such an array was very useful. Not only could they help you fly faster, but they could help you get used to flying and learn at a faster rate.
Despite their new uses, Zhou Fan knew that the arrays one could learn at nascent soul would be much stronger. Before that, however, he needed to increase his speed in making rank 3 formations.
It only took two days before he got them to the standard speed of one second.
Once again, this was not his speed at his current cultivation level, but his speed when only using the power of a core formation cultivator. Therefore, a one second creation speed was very useful.
Naturally he would be millions of times faster when using the power of his 2nd level god realm cultivation.
As he was done with core formation arrays, Zhou Fan moved on to the nascent soul level arrays. He had quickly comprehended them when it came to formations, but it took two months to comprehend them now.
He was a full fledged 4th rank array master. There were many new arrays that were not only stronger than the core formation arrays, but had different uses.
The best example was the talent testing array. Since the nascent soul realm was the first time one's true soul bloomed, it was only natural that core formation arrays couldn't fully detect talent.
That didn't mean that one had to be at the nascent soul level to have their talent tested. In the situation where there were only nascent soul arrays were available, one may have to be at the nascent soul realm, but even a soul formation array or a void traversing array could test the talent of anyone. Even a newborn child.
Therefore, the nascent soul talent array wasn't all that useful, but it was still able to do some things that core formation arrays and below couldn't do.
There were other uses of the nascent soul arrays, but Zhou Fan moved on to his speed training. The speed training was less about speed, and more about familiarity with the arrays. It was the same with formations. It's not like he would ever be back at the nascent soul realm. Why else would he upgrade his speed?
Once he reached the one second mark, Zhou Fan moved on to soul formation arrays. Like he had previously mentioned, there were things that the soul formation arrays did better than nascent soul arrays.
The main example was the talent testing array. Before, it could only test a nascent soul realm cultivator's talent, but it could now test anyones. That included newborn children.
It had taken Zhou Fan around six months to become a master in the soul formation arrays. He was now a 5th rank array master. After a bit longer, he had also increased his 5th rank array creation speed to one second.
The qualitative changes from a 4th rank to 5th rank array master wasn't limited to talent testing arrays. There was also a great change in soul attack arrays.
Although there were some soul attack arrays at the 4th rank, they were extremely limited in what they could do. Even if a tenth level nascent soul cultivator who was also a 5th rank array master tried to make a soul attack array, an average 3rd level nascent soul formation cultivator would be relatively unharmed.
It was only at the 5th rank and the soul formation realm that the soul attack arrays did true damage and were actually dangerous.
For example, even when limiting his cultivation to the 10th level of the soul formation realm and only using the knowledge of a 5th rank array master, Zhou Fan was able to produce a soul attack powerful enough to severely injure an 8th level soul formation cultivator in a single second.
If he spent a really long time on it, around three days, he would be able to create a soul attack array strong enough to kill even a ninth level soul formation cultivator and injure a tenth level soul formation cultivator.
Under the right circumstances, even killing a tenth level soul formation cultivator wasn't out of the picture.
Even if you ignored the difference in talent testing arrays and soul attack arrays, there were still many other much better arrays. Even the basic ones like fire attack arrays were much stronger.
Arrays such as soul healing arrays and soul boosting arrays were only possible once one broke into the soul formation realm. That was because they required immense knowledge of the soul. While it was technically possible to create one as a nascent soul realm expert, it was extremely hard and nearly impossible.
After becoming a 5th rank array master, Zhou Fan was ready for another step up in his rank.
Chapter 189: 7th Rank Array Master - 189
After five years, Zhou Fan mastered the void traversing level arrays. The biggest difference between them and 5th rank arrays, besides their overall strength, was the fact that void traversing arrays could work in space.
Unlike 5th rank arrays and below, they could survive the harshness of space due to the bit of space Qi in void traversing cultivators body's. Besides their ability to survive in space, 6th rank arrays also had some ability to manipulate space. While it was very minor, it was still something that 5th rank arrays could not do. Unless, of course, someone who had already reached the void traversing realm and had a high comprehension of space was setting up the 5th rank arrays.
Despite the 6th rank arrays' ability to survive in space, Zhou Fan had practiced by laying them out on the world like he had with all the other arrays.
Since many of the arrays got bigger as they ranked up, although many also remained small, a thousandth of the world was now covered in arrays. It was as if an artist grabbed a world and started painting on it. While it was a tiny fraction of the world, that tiny fraction was many times bigger than the earth before Zhou Fan mortal dao evolved it.
Now that he had reached the 6th rank arrays, Zhou Fan was starting to experience the same increase in power as he had earlier. Although arrays power increased majorly as their realm increased, the realm was based on the cultivator and not the array.
Therefore, like it was with formations, the difference between a 6th rank array and a 10th rank array made by the same person was around three times.
Since he had basically been using nascent soul and soul formation rank arrays before, his overall array power had increased by a slight amount since he had reached the 6th rank.
It wasn't really worth mentioning since it was around 0.1x so far, but that increase would grow higher as his array rank increased.
Without taking any sort of break, Zhou Fan trained his array creation speed until his 6th rank array creation speed reached one second. It hadn't taken nearly as long as mastering the 6th rank arrays had, but he could feel the lengthening time as he continued to practice.
Zhou Fan was ready to continue forward to the 7th rank arrays, but he was starting to feel tired from the constant learning that he had been doing.
He was by no means physically tired, but somewhat mentally tired. Rather than mentally tired, Zhou Fan was feeling bored since he had been doing essentially the same thing for so long.
In his personal opinion, spending so much time learning and inventing was much harder than spending all that time working or cultivating.
He didn't plan on taking an extremely long break or anything, but he simply wanted to rest for a day.
'I'm somewhat human after all.' He said to himself.
Zhou Fan began to walk around and explore the world once again. Since he was doing it at a mortal speed this time, he wasn't getting very far. Thankfully, he didn't need to look far to find a refreshing area.
It was about a two hour walk from the last array he had created before reaching one second creation time of 6th rank arrays.
In front of him was a long and rushing river. Every now and then, a fish would jump out of it and land back in the water.
This not only made for the area to seem more peaceful, but it also surprised Zhou Fan. He had not expected that the world would have already made fishes. They were a little different from the most basic fishes on earth, but they were pleasing to the eye since they were a mixture of red and yellow.
The rushing river was about thirty feet wide and 6 feet deep, which would have made it hard to relax in if not for the rock in the middle of it. It wasn't sticking out of the river, but it was only two feet below the water. Therefore, Zhou Fan would be able to sit and relax on it as the water rushed past him.
Zhou Fan dissipated his clothes before he jumped up in the air and landed directly on that rock in the river. Once his feet were planted, he sat down on the rock and crossed his legs. He didn't exactly plan on cultivating at the river, but simply meditating. It would allow him to rest and clear his mind at the same time.
The last time he had simply meditated without cultivating was when he was under the tutelage of the buddha. Back then, it allowed him to reach an extremely high understanding in the mortal dao. Even now, he incorporated some of the buddhas meditation lessons into his normal cultivation.
'That man was truly transcendent.' He said to himself, admiring the Buddha even now.
As Zhou Fan meditated, he felt the water rushing past him, the fishes jumping out of the water and landing back in, and what felt like the very breath of the world. It was an extremely peaceful moment that Zhou Fan had rarely ever had the opportunity to encounter.
After exactly a day had passed, Zhou Fan stood up from his meditation position. Both his skin and his soul were feeling better than ever. As for his mind, it was naturally feeling better. After forming some more gray clothes, Zhou Fan walked back to the last array he had created before taking his break.
Without thinking too much, he began his comprehension of 7th rank arrays. After 50 years, Zhou Fan became a 7th rank array master. After another 3 years of practicing his speed, he was a full fledged array master.
The space shattering arrays, sticking to their name, began to be able to break space. It was simply a stronger level of manipulating space, but it was still a clear upgrade. While he could have always made arrays that could shatter space, these arrays were able to shatter space even when only being created by a first level space shattering expert.
Zhou Fan was barely confident that he could have done that when he was at the first level of space shattering, although his chaos Qi slightly changed things.
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