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.
Chapter 192: The Power Of Talismans - 192
The process of making a talisman was extremely easy. Zhou Fan simply created a rectangle piece of thin, yellow paper on his palm. That piece of paper contained Qi throughout it.
The next, and also last step, was to add a formation onto the piece of paper. He did this with some ink and a brush, both with his Qi within them. There was really no point in starting from the lower levels and going higher, but he did it anyway.
Since there was nothing to really comprehend, it only took a month for Zhou Fan to master god realm talismans. As for creation speed, it did take a while.
Zhou Fan took almost ten years to create talismans in half a second, similar to his formation creation speed.
In order to test the talismans out, Zhou Fan flew around the world until he found a large mountain. There, he took out one of the talismans he had created and threw it out into the air in front of him. Once the talisman reached ten feet away from him, it suddenly dissolved into thin air, leaving only a floating formation behind.
That floating formation didn't stay in the air for long. In less than a second, a dragon made of fire shot out from the formation. It headed straight forward, in the direction of the mountain. Once the full body of the dragon had left the formation, the formation dissolved like the talisman had.
The dragon of fires' body was a hundred feet long and 8 feet wide. At a fairly fast speed, it charged towards the far away mountain. Despite it being hundreds of miles away, the fire dragon reached the mountain in only three seconds.
As soon as it made contact with the mountain, the fire dragon exploded, leaving behind an extremely large amount of flames that covered the entire mountain even when the mountain was thousands of times bigger than the fire dragon.
In about twenty seconds, the mountain had been reduced to a pit of lava and the flames finally ceased.
Zhou Fan looked at the pool of lava with satisfaction. Despite the fact that his mortal dao made the mountain extremely strong, the space shattering level talisman was able to easily burn it into lava.
The only reason the flames didn't spread any further was that the talisman slightly reduced the strength of the formation. The slight amount was around 50%, but it was still a fair amount considering that the talisman could be carried around easily and deployed instantly.
Deciding to test one more talisman, Zhou Fan flew around the world once again until he found another mountain. This mountain was twice as big as the first!
After thinking for a moment, Zhou Fan decided to once again use a space shattering level talisman to level this mountain. While the formation on the last talisman was average among the space shattering level formations, the one he planned on using now was one of the strongest.
Zhou Fan rummaged through his spatial pocket and found the one he planned on using. Without hesitation, he threw the talisman out towards the big mountain.
Like last time, the paper part of the talisman dissolved as soon as it reached ten feet from him, but the attack didn't come out instantly.
Instead, another formation written on the talisman took effect. That formation shot the main formation to the sky above the mountain before it collapsed. Once the main formation reached the sky above the mountain, its effect started to show.
Clouds seemingly gathered from nowhere in an instant, and the formation ominously dissolved into the air.
The instant it did, a giant lightning bolt shot down from the clouds and collided with the peak of the mountain. It completely disintegrated the peak without even stopping and continued down to the base of the mountain.
As the lightning went through every bit of the mountain, a shockwave shot out. That shock wave destroyed much of the mountain, leaving behind only a slanted crater where the mountain once was.
The crater wasn't at ground level, and was instead made up of what was once the outer layer of the mountain. Zhou Fan flew into the air and looked down upon the crater.
The entire center part of the mountain had been destroyed. The only thing left was the walls of the crater created by the shockwave. Its performance that seemed lesser than the fire dragons was expected because it was a single, focused attack, while the fire dragon was a wide ranged attack. Perhaps if it was a normal formation and not a talisman, the mountain would have been completely destroyed without even an inch of it left. Still, the talisman was undoubtedly a powerful tool for any cultivator and it had clearly proved that with those two testings.
Now that he was done with talismans, Zhou Fan went to a non-destroyed mountain peak and prepared to study the next art on his list.
Pills. His next art to practice was the art of pill making. Back on the Zhou World, pill concocters were somewhat rare and treated with respect. That was because pill creators were both the holders of great wealth and the holders of great power. They were second only to talisman creators in terms of status.
Most of that power had come from the alchemy union, but that was irrelevant to his current situation. Another reason for the power was the abilities that the pills had.
One was to speed up the process of cultivation or rather the speed at which one attracted Qi, and the other main one was the ability to heal.
While there were healing formations, arrays, and talismans, none were as easy to use and create as pills.
The hardest requirement that pill creation required was herbs. Powerful herbs with Qi were needed to make pills, and certain types and amounts needed to be merged perfectly in order to create a pill.
Overall, the difficulty was fairly high and use was fairly great. Sadly, like many good things, they were mostly useless to Zhou Fan.
The first use of pills, drawing in Qi faster, was impossible for him to have due to the fact that no pill could draw in chaos Qi. Pills could not even be created with Chaos Qi.
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