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.
Chapter 191: There's Always An Exception - 191
Even if flight arrays did give a good boost, who in the world would continue to use them. Flight arrays worked at a hundredth of their usual effectiveness in space, and 99% of travel worth building an array to speed it up happened in space. Perhaps that would change once the worlds under his mortal continued to grow more and more, but they truly were useless now.
Eventually, Zhou fan stopped thinking about flight arrays and continued onto the next rank of arrays. 9th rank, or inner world arrays.
Based on the previous ranks' array effects, he assumed that the inner world level arrays would have something to do with his inner world, but he wasn't sure what they could possibly do.
After 5,000 years, Zhou Fan mastered the 9th rank arrays. It was an extreme leap in time, but he didn't care too much. He was more worried about how long 10th rank arrays would take, but he sucked it up and looked at the 9th rank arrays he mastered.
Out of all of them, there was only one array that had anything to do with the inner world, and it was essentially useless. It increased the speed that one could take power out of the inner world. There was no major increase, but an increase of 1.001x. Zhou Fan even felt disgraceful learning it, but he did it anyway.
Besides the inner world manipulating array, if you could call it that, another new array was the star connecting array. This was the first time an array really really interested Zhou Fan. It seemed that once someone reached the inner world level arrays, extremely magical things would be possible.
Formations were slightly different in that aspect, as they continued to focus on the basics, but arrays were essentially another version of formations. It was like how both English and Demonic were languages. They fell under the same category, but they were completely different in many ways.
If he had to give them a definition, formations were smaller and focused on the basics, while arrays were bigger and connected to things such as water, air, earth, space, and now stars.
The star connecting arrays could be linked from five to 1000 stars. From those stars, it would draw out the star's power and shoot a laser in a pre decided direction.
Due to it being a 9th rank array, the amount of stars was limited to the thousand, but it could still exhibit great power. It may not seem like it, but if the full life span of a thousand stars was used up by the array in an instant, the array would produce an amount of power similar to that of a galaxy.
Of course, the array would be completely destroyed after that. To Zhou Fan, this was simply an interesting array. However, this would shake the entire Zhou Galaxy if information about it was released.
Sadly, this was an array most could not create. A horrid amount of Qi, similar to that of an average 1st level god realm cultivator, was needed to set up the array. As for activating it, don't dream of it without a god realm cultivator.
If one wanted to be able to instantly drain the life of a thousand stars and use the power of an entire galaxy, they would need strength similar to the current Zhou Fans.
Zhou Fan was not only a 2nd level god realm cultivator, but an extremely strong one. A second level god realm cultivator as powerful as him would never exist again.
Therefore, this array was mostly useless unless there were extremely special circumstances.
For example, if a large number of tenth level inner world cultivators were to sacrifice their lives, the array may be able to be fully activated. All that mattered was the amount of Qi. If someone were to find a way to store Qi somewhere and then use it all at the same time to activate the array, even a lesser dao creation level cultivator could activate it.
Unfortunately, that was an extremely hard task due to the natural dissipation of unrestrained Qi.
Besides the star connecting arrays, there were a couple of similar arrays, but none were quite as interesting. However he felt that if he were to break into the 11th realm, he would be able to create more arrays at the lower levels, so it was possible that he wasn't truly discovering all the 9th rank arrays. That was only a theory regardless of the truth, but he always seemed to find that there were no absolutes in the universe. There was always an exception.
After raising his 9th rank array creation speed to one second, Zhou Fan began to start on tenth rank arrays.
It was highly likely that he had gotten lucky with comprehending the first formation at the god realm before, because it took 700,000 years to fully master the tenth rank arrays. Also, like formations, he had barely mastered them. There were many theoretical arrays that he was yet to be able to lay out due to his low strength. Of course, they were only theoretical.
Zhou Fan practiced for an entire hundred thousand years before he was able to create god realm arrays in a second. They were much harder since they were on the same level as him, but he was still a genius regardless of cultivation level.
After so long, Zhou Fan was finally a complete master of all the arrays. There was always more when he grew stronger, but they would have to wait.
The next thing Zhou Fan decided to study was talismans. He assumed that they would be very easy since they were not exactly an entirely new art. If one looked closely, even a child could tell that talismans were simply one time formations on paper instead of ores.
They were also usually weaker than normal formations or arrays, but they required little Qi to activate and their effect could be seen instantly. However, the best use of talismans was that weaker cultivators could use talismans above their level, although they couldn't create them.
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