The animals and Zhou Fan spent the entire day playing chutes and ladders. The victor of the final game was the butterfly who had only won twice the entire day.
The only reason the animals stopped playing was because Zhou Fan had stood up and announced that dinner would commence soon.
Unlike before, Zhou Fan could create life and would be able to make food without going to another galaxy, finding a planet with potential for life and speeding up an organism's evolution until it became big enough to eat.
He wouldn't have had to go to another planet regardless since there were microorganisms already in the manor, but they had died while being frozen since Zhou Fan hadn't protected them.
Zhou Fan told the animals to wait outside his house while he began the process of creating an organism and evolving it.
In the meantime, the animals sat outside of his door and talked while waiting.
"What do you think he is doing in there?" The mole asked.
His question got the other animals thinking.
"I bet he has a room filled to the brim with food somewhere in the back. He may not want us to know that it is there due to fear that we will eat everything." The chicken said with confidence.
"That's a stupid theory." Said the fox. "He must be simply creating it by using his immense powers."
The rest of the animals, excluding the chicken, nodded at the fox's theory.
"What if he is doing something evil back there?" The butterfly asked.
"Yeah right. Brother Fan is great and righteous." The chicken instantly spoke up, defending Zhou Fan. "Only weak and cowardly people are evil. Are you saying that brother Fan is weak or cowardly!?"
Hearing the chickens aggressive questions, the butterfly shrunk back.
"Of course not! I was just saying it's a possibility. You don't have to be so mean!" She said sadly.
Seeing the poor and innocent butterfly with tears in her eyes, the rest of the animals felt the urge to beat the chicken up.
Before they could, Zhou Fan walked out holding two plates with six more plates and a piece of raw meat floating behind him.
"Sorry for the wait. I'm back."
Suddenly forgetting the previous interactions, the butterfly and the other animals curiously looked at the food.
"Who's that piece of raw meat for?" The deer asked.
"It's for the koi." Zhou Fan answered as he walked towards the waterfall area. The animals all followed behind him.
Once they reached the area in front of the waterfall, Zhou Fan gave the animals their plates and threw the meat in the pond.
The koi thankfully took the meat and swam back down to the bottom of the pond.
"What food is this?" The chicken asked curiously while looking at the plate of food in front of him.
"It's called a burrito. I've never had it either, but I casually saw someone create it a long time ago and remembered how to make it." Zhou Fan responded.
The specific time he had seen it being created was when he was at the celestials central city and covered it in his divine sense.
It was only a piece of casual information he had picked up, but he remembered it even now.
Not even Zhou Fan himself could remain unsurprised at such a great memory. The animals wouldn't have been that unsurprised if they heard the entire story, but they simply took it as a somewhat recent event.
Therefore, without questioning his words, they quickly devoured the burrito. Zhou Fan looked down at his burrito and retrieved a fork and a knife from his spatial storage.
His was specially made with queso cheese on top, so he needed to use a fork to pick it up and a knife to cut it.
Once they were all done, they gave Zhou Fan resounding praises for the good meal. Zhou Fan himself felt the same way.
As they went their separate ways and Zhou Fan and the chicken walked back to the house, Zhou Fan looked at the starry sky.
He didn't know how long it would be before he saw the animals again, but he knew he was sad to leave them regardless.
As he made it to the door, Zhou Fan patted the chicken on the head and said goodnight. The chicken responded in kind and laid against the wall next to the door.
As Zhou Fan closed the door, he stood still and closed his eyes, preparing to freeze the manor.
"Freeze."
In an instant, the entire manor froze and Zhou Fan teleported out of it. As he began to fly away, he took one last look at it.
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After only ten years, Zhou Fan finally made it to the randomly selected galaxy. It was one of the bigger galaxies connected to his mortal dao, but it wasn't that huge.
Zhou Fan connected his divine sense to his mortal dao and got a really good view of the entire galaxy.
The galaxy was one of the very few that had two planets with potential for life in it. Now that the entire galaxy was covered in his mortal dao, however, it hardly mattered.
Soon, every planet within the galaxy would have life on it unless it was a complete wasteland.
By wasteland, he did not mean unliveable, but completely dead and useless. Even a planet covered in ice or lava would be useful. Only dead planets would be completely useless.
Zhou Fan first decided to take a look at the two planets with some life on them. They had been developing well since he had put his mortal dao on them.
The first planet's most advanced lifeform was a lizard. Its biggest was a fish similar to a tuna.
The first planet seemed similar to earth in terms of habitat, but the second was quite different.
As far as the eye could see, it was covered in mountains and valleys. There was very little green on the entire surface. It wasn't quite a wasteland, but it sure seemed like it.
The second planet was so similar to a wasteland that Zhou Fan had to use his divine sense to find any living creatures. The only animal level race was a large group of mole-like animals deep below the surface.
They survived off of the sole body of water on the entire planet. Just using his divine sense, he was able to find out everything about the mole like creatures and their home.
The mole-like creatures were surprisingly intelligent for non-humanoid creatures. They had managed to develop basic architecture skills.
The mole-like creatures lived in individual caves that were extremely small, but they seemed to be contained to a certain area solely for housing.
The cave they lived in gave Zhou Fan a slight sense of deja vu. It seemed quite similar to the caves back on earth that contained the many races.
On the ceiling of the cave was not one big crystal, but a bunch of small, yellow rocks that glowed.
After processing the rest of the information, Zhou Fan took his divine sense off of the mole-like creature's cave.
In just a moment, he developed a plan to bring life to the entire universe. First however, he would deal with the mini consciousness.
Zhou Fan flew outside the edge of the galaxy and stood above it. It was hard to tell even for him, but there was a clear dome of light orange covering the entire galaxy.
First, Zhou Fan connected to that dome, which was his mortal dao. Then, he split his own consciousness, or soul, into two. The two parts were not even, but the part that had been chipped off was about one percent of his consciousness.
If it had been split in two equal parts, Zhou Fan would likely die, or some other unforeseen event would happen. Regardless, he was not stupid enough to carelessly mess around with his consciousness.
If he wanted to test theories about it, he would use other people first.
Despite his high cultivation, Zhou Fan felt an immense amount of pain as the consciousness was cut off. Luckily, he had become strong enough to heal most wounds to his soul without consequence.
Fighting through the pain, Zhou Fan grabbed the cut off part of his consciousness and wrapped it in his Qi, preventing it from dissipating.
He kept it in a non moving state until the wound to his soul had been fully healed. Luckily, there was no issue and he could continue on as normal.
Zhou Fan closely examined the part of consciousness in his hand. It was completely gray without any hint of another color.
Such a color was normal to Zhou Fan since it was based off of his Chaos Qi affinity, but he needed the small bit of consciousness to be completely wiped.
He mobilzed all of his power and instantly crushed the bit of will in the bit of consciousness, causing a bit more pain to him, but not as much as last time.
Next, he wiped the fragments' memories, intelligence, and every other thing about it related to Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan luckily did not lose any memories or anything. The bit of consciousness was so small that his mind had no issue ignoring the fact that it was gone, except for the pain.
Once Zhou Fan was done clearing the bit of his consciousness, it became a completely white color without any sort of blemishes. It was by far the purest white Zhou Fan had ever seen.
Although it may not work on a universal scale, cutting off a bit of his consciousness would be enough to make a mini consciousness that covered a galaxy.
Still holding the white consciousness, Zhou Fan imprinted a seal onto it. The seal was a completely gray circle, representing Zhou Fan. It did not affect the white consciousness in any way besides giving Zhou Fan complete control over it.
Next, Zhou Fan was going to try and separate the mortal dao covering the galaxy from the rest of his mortal dao. That would cause the chain between all the areas of his mortal dao to be broken, but they would heal in an instant.
It was a momentary struggle, but Zhou Fan was able to easily cut off the section of mortal dao from the rest once he understood what he needed to do. The next part was the real challenge.
Zhou Fan was planning to make the disconnected section of his mortal dao have a sub owner. That sub owner would be the white soul.
It would have complete control over the mortal dao, minus a very small amount of features.
1. It wouldn't be able to change the mortal dao's size. That meant that it could not expand or shrink the mortal dao like Zhou Fan could.
2. Its powers could be taken away by Zhou Fan in a single instant.
Those were the main and most important differences in control between the white soul and Zhou Fan.
In order to appoint the white soul as a sub owner, it needed some sort of knowledge or intelligence. Since Zhou Fan had been covering it in Qi, it had not experienced anything at all.
Zhou Fan gathered his power over the section of the mortal dao into a circle with an empty space in the middle. He then threw the white soul into the empty spot.
In an instant, the slight orange glow of the mortal dao shined bright and became visible to anything or anyone looking at it.
As it glowed, Zhou Fan stepped back into the galaxy and the mortal dao. Just a second after entering, a small white glow about the shape of a human shined in front of Zhou Fan.
It seemed to imitate his appearance.
Then, it suddenly spoke.
"You... Are you my father." It said in words no language covered.
Zhou Fan managed to understand the light despite that.
"I suppose I am." He said in english.
"And who am I?" It asked in no language.
"That makes you my child. Does it not?"
"Yes..... But who am I?"
That question made Zhou Fan think for a moment. He was no newcomer to making names.
"You are....." Zhou Fan said, contemplating a name.
"Heaven."
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