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.
Chapter 190: Forever in my Shadow? - 190
Zhou Fan had been laying down formations for so long, but he had yet to activate even a single one. He had now covered nearly a fiftieth of the entire planet in unactivated arrays.
The arrays also didn't have an automatic power source like most arrays that were made. That was because Zhou Fan had no use for them besides laying them down. Taking the extra effort to give them a power source would not only not increase his understanding of arrays, but it would waste unnecessary time.
Although it wasn't like they couldn't be activated. They simply needed someone to directly input Qi into them. In other words, they basically functioned like normal arrays, they simply needed to be personally activated.
Along with the arrays that could break space, there was now a new array that Zhou Fan had never used before. It was called a teleportation array. He had never even thought of creating such an array since he had nobody he needed to teleport that he couldn't teleport personally.
However, the teleportation array was definitely possible to create and theoretically very useful. It simply wasn't that useful to Zhou Fan.
The only reason the people in the Zhou world and the other places hadn't created teleportation arrays was because Zhou Fan had never invented them.
They were limited by the knowledge Zhou Fan had given them. Once he thought of that, Zhou Fan realized that even if he left the Zhou World and all the worlds he had connected to his mortal dao alone, they would be limited without his help.
Although he had given the celestials information in the back of their mind and had made it so that anything born in the mortal dao would also have such information, the information was old. It basically stopped at the lesser dao creation realm.
Zhou Fan thought it would be a big problem for a second, but he soon realized that he could simply make the changes to his mortal dao within him and it would automatically change his mortal dao everywhere else.
In other words, it only took a thought to give the things born within his mortal dao access to knowledge.
Although it was technically giving them direct knowledge, it wasn't like they were born omniscient. What he was giving them was the possibility to advance further.
There were surely many out there that had thought of a teleportation array before him, but they couldn't create it. The only reason for that was that Zhou Fan had never created it. Therefore, it was impossible for them to create.
It was less a matter of thinking and more a matter of Chaos Qi. Zhou Fan didn't wish such a fate on them, but it was the price of their creation. Once he was stronger, he hoped to truly make life that could advance without having to follow in his footsteps. Sadly, that was impossible for the current him.
All life in the universe was connected to him. As far as he was aware, the only life that wasn't was the people on earth before he was born.
In the ways of creating life, he could only admit his inferiority to the cosmic dao. At least it could create life with true potential.
Like the cosmic dao once was, he was the father of all life. Unfortunately, he seemed to be a much worse parent.
As of now, the life he had created was completely within his shadow, and they were completely unable to move forward unless he too took a step.
Zhou Fan decided to upload all the information about arrays, and formations that he had learned as soon as he was done with all of the arts. That way, the people of the Zhou Galaxy would get the information all at once.
As for going there personally, Zhou Fan had no plans to. He still wanted them and the rest of the three galaxy clusters to develop on their own so that they could surprise him.
As for the planet he was currently messing with, he would clean it up once he was done so that there was no trace of him or his arrays left behind.
As thoughts flew through his head, Zhou Fan shook and cleared his mind. He was so close to finishing arrays. No need to get distracted now.
The next rank was 8th rank arrays. Now, he was truly stepping into a new realm of learning. The lesser dao creation realm felt like a much bigger leap than all of the other realms before it.
After an astonishing hundred and fifty years, Zhou Fan mastered the 8th rank arrays. He then spent ten years making sure his speed was up to date.
Like the arrays before it, 8th rank arrays had some new uses. One of the biggest was that some 8th rank arrays could somewhat manipulate the mortal dao of its creator, but only if the creator allowed it. There were a couple of rules for such arrays, but they could do a lot of a lesser dao creation realm cultivators work for him.
To Zhou Fan, and anyone at the inner world realm, such an array was simply useless, but he was sure that 9th rank arrays would be more useful for inner world realm cultivators. Even 9th rank arrays that could manipulate the mortal dao of its creator would have more uses.
Still, even a tenth rank array that helped manipulate its owner's mortal dao was useless to Zhou Fan. Anything it could do he could do better and faster.
For someone more pathetic, however, it may have some uses. The word pathetic seemed harsh, but if one hadn't outgrown mortal dao controlling arrays by the time they reached the god realm, they truly were pathetic.
Some arrays simply faded into uselessness after a while. A prime example was flight arrays. Anyone at the space shattering realm, or even the void traversing realm, had zero use for them. They would hardly increase flying speed at all. Simply useless.
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