Chapter 195: Living Plants - 195
After looking at the mountain of high grade plants, Zhou Fan turned his gaze to the rest of the planet. He hadn't expected such a successful evolution.
There was no longer any ocean or any body of water left on the planet. From head to toe, with not a single blind spot on it, the planet was covered in plants.
As he stared at the entire world with his divine sense, he noticed an abnormality. Covering what was once a plain was a 15 foot deep pile of vines and other plants. However, interrupting the flat layer of plants was a slight curve. It only poked up a few feet, but it was clearly noticeable.
Even more odd, the curve was perfectly symmetrical. It seemed as if some sort of dome was in the middle of the plants.
Zhou Fan sent his divine sense deep into the little hill of plants that poked up. As soon as he reached a depth of three feet through the walls, the space opened up into a dome like area.
Astonishingly, there were houses and tents within the little dome. Zhou Fan covered the entire dome with his divine sense, and was shocked by what he saw. Within the houses and tents, there were living plants. Not living in the sense that all normal plants were, but living in the sense of an animal or human.
They took many shapes and forms, but they were undoubtedly sentient beings. That much could be guessed from the houses they lived in.
Needless to say, this discovery shocked Zhou Fan. He had never expected the evolution of the world to lead to an entirely new species that Zhou Fan had never seen before.
After looking at them for a while, he noticed that they didn't survive on water. It was expected since the entire world had evolved to not need water, but it was still weird to Zhou Fan.
Eventually, he stopped looking at the plants and withdrew his divine sense. The planet's evolution had far exceeded his expectations.
Besides the living plants, Zhou Fan had also been able to tell what rank and how many plants there were in the world. The majority of plants were at the fifth rank, but there was no shortage of 6th rank, 7th rank, and 8th rank plants. As for 9th and tenth rank, Zhou Fan still found few of those.
Those that did exist lived at the deepest depths or the highest peaks of the world. The living plants he had seen were actually the weakest of all the plants in the world. They did not know how to cultivate and were born at the Qi gathering realm.
Luckily, they had an innate ability to manipulate most plants at the 5th rank and below. That was the only reason they were able to survive so long.
Now, with more materials, Zhou Fan started to work on 6th rank pills once again. After 300 years, he mastered 6th rank pill creation.
6th rank pills had many different uses compared to the 5th rank pills. One of them even allowed a non-void traversing realm cultivator to survive in space.
That was one of the most interesting pills in the 6th rank. There were still some others, but Zhou Fan didn't waste any time with them.
Despite the fact that the world had evolved, Zhou Fan was still using an immense amount of plants each and every day. Therefore, the life Qi rain had continued. Luckily, the life Qi wasn't an actual liquid. If it was, the entire world would have surely flooded by now.
Zhou Fan reached through space and grabbed a couple of 7th rank plants before he continued with his pill making.
A thousand years later, he had finished with 7th rank pills. The pills were largely similar to 6th rank pills with only a few new ones. Even though there were new ones, they were extremely boring and Zhou Fan didn't even bother thinking about them too much.
After grabbing a handful of 8th rank plants through space, he continued on to eight rank pills.
Mastering the 8th rank pills took five thousand years. For the first time since the start, the three times increase rule was broken.
There were more new pills in the 8th rank than there were in the 7th rank. For example, one helped temporarily improve the fine control of one's mortal dao. Of course, like the formation, it was useless to Zhou Fan.
There were a couple more new pills that were interesting to Zhou Fan. He had named one the self destruction pill. Although it had technically existed in the lower ranks of pills, it went through an entire metamorphosis in the 8th rank.
Previously, it would simply burn up all the Qi inside a person or animal's body, causing an explosion that was bigger or smaller depending on their cultivation.
The new self destruction pill, however, would do more than simply blow someone up. It would take up all their Qi, but a giant flower, its color or colors depending on the person's affinities, would instantly bloom from them. Before that flower exploded itself and dealt damage like the previous pill, it would let out a burst of life or death Qi depending on the user's intentions.
This made the pill not only a self destruct pill, but possibly a self sacrifice pill. Theoretically, if there was someone to contain the explosion that followed, this pill could be used to revive someone from a near death state. In fact, depending on the users and the receivers strength, it could revive thousands of people from near death. Sadly, it was unable to actually bring back the dead.
Now done with 8th rank pills, Zhou Fan was ready to move on to the 9th rank pills. Unfortunately, the issue of plants was once again present.
While there were technically 9th rank plants in the world, they could be counted in the hundreds. That would last Zhou Fan less than a day.
Therefore, it seemed that he would have to personally strengthen the plants once again. While it would cause him to take more time, it was necessary.
Chapter 196: New Arrays/Formations - 196
Zhou Fan reached through space and grabbed a large amount of 8th rank plants before strengthening them. They were still fairly common within the world, so he had gained more than enough.
After twenty thousand years, Zhou Fan mastered the 9th rank, or inner world rank, pills. It felt like a much more arduous and time taking process than the previous ranks, but Zhou Fan was still relatively good.
The hardest part was now directly in front of him. Not only would gathering the materials needed be harder, but the level of difficulty would finally reach the same realm as him. He expected it to be twenty times harder at least, but who knew what would happen.
A million years later, Zhou Fan completely mastered tenth rank pills. As he had expected, it was quite a bit more difficult. It was much more than twenty times more difficult. If not for his talent, he doubted that he would ever be able to comprehend pill making to the tenth rank as a 2nd level god realm cultivator.
As expected, there were new pills at the tenth rank. The most interesting of the new pills were the ones that involved divinity. While the main focus was recovering divinity faster, there were also some that could speed it up.
There was little use to speeding it up since it was already fast enough to handle just about anything in the universe, but the pill would be there if someone ever needed it.
Of course, even a god realm cultivator would find it difficult to make or acquire such a pill that involved divinity. One must not underestimate the amount of skill and plants it took to make a pill that involved divinity. One of the main ingredients was actually one's own divinity, so only a god realm or above cultivator could even fulfill the requirements.
As for the plant requirement, it required around a hundred tenth rank plants in order to successfully attempt to make it. Since even Zhou Fan sometimes failed when making a tenth rank pill, although that was only once every hundred attempts, others were sure to struggle to make such high grade pills.
Now that he was done with pill making, Zhou Fan could move on to the last art he planned on practicing. Although there were many sub arts such as poisoning, cloth making, and designing, they were really just branches of the five main arts.
Those arts were formations, arrays, talismans, which could also be called a sub art, alchemy, and forging.
He planned to go through forging which would likely be extremely easy due to his experience in other arts, but he first wanted to go through what he had learned in the last long years.
As he planned, Zhou Fan spent the next hundred years digesting all of the information that he had learned during his studies of the arts.
When he came out, he did not come out without gains. After remembering all his experiences with arts, he actually came up with a few more formations and arrays. They were ones he had overlooked or simply not thought of.
One example was the hidden void piercing arrow. As soon as it was released from its array or formation, it would hide behind the layers of space it was strong enough to hide behind, and silently sneak up on the target.
Once it was inches away, it would unhide itself and instantly defeat the enemy. While some parts of it required more strength than void traversing or space shattering, so that it could hide behind more layers of space, it was still possible to create at the void traversing realm.
Another one that he had overlooked was a god realm array that could only be created by someone at the god realm. It would take your divinity and the element of your greatest affinity, although Zhou Fan hadn't allowed it to use his chaos Qi, and combine them to make an extremely strong attack.
The best part of the attack was that, while it utterly destroyed all sorts of buildings, materials, and other non living things, it would deal no damage once it hit a living thing. Instead, it would cause them a great deal of pain in an instant, the type of pain depending on the affinity.
For example, a fire element and divinity combo would give them the feeling of their very soul burning. Yes, this array gave the soul pain. Any self respecting cultivator should know that soul pain was thousands of times worse than any other pain there was.
Even damage equivalent to a papercut on the soul would cause pain equivalent to your entire arm being slowly shredded to pieces.
Therefore, this array that only causes pain, and soul pain at that, was an extremely useful tool. It could kill beasts from the pain alone, allowing you to fully harvest their materials without a single bit of damage happening to them.
While killing beasts without harming their physical bodies could also be done via soul attacks, the array was naturally a much better torturer than any other array he had.
While he definitely wouldn't call it the greatest array, it was a very interesting and possibly useful array.
Regardless of its usefulness, Zhou Fan had no plans to use it. It simply wasn't his way of conducting himself.
He would much rather use the million swords array or the great explosion array than use such a pathetic method that could only be used for torture unless the opponent was many realms below you.
Next, Zhou Fan was ready to forge. He had previous experience in creating weapons, but compressing a galaxy into a sword shape and forcing it to stay that way wasn't exactly the proper way. The proper way usually included fire of some sort, although, like pills, there were many ways to forge.
Forging wasn't limited to swords and other weapons, but it could also be used to create armor or other metal/ore made things.
Nevertheless, he had no interest in clothes or weapons that were not swords.
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