Chapter 208: Heaven's Form - 208
Heaven stood there, floating, its form changing every single second. At one point, it seemed like a drop of water that had splattered on the ground, and at another, it had a human-like form.
Zhou Fan watched as it stood there in silence. After almost an entire minute, heaven's form stopped changing.
It had settled into a somewhat familiar form. It had taken the form of an eye. The eye's color was blue, and it was huge. It would be about the size of Zhou Fan if it was vertical instead of horizontal.
"What do you think of my form father?" The eye asked.
Zhou Fan paused for a moment after hearing the question.
"To be honest. Kind of weird." He said honestly.
In just a moment, the entire scene turned awkward.
"Umm... I can change it if you really don't like it." Heaven said.
"No no. It's only weird because you're calling me father." Zhou Fan said while waving his hands.
"Here." Zhou Fan said as he pointed his finger towards heaven.
Next to heaven, a human body appeared. It wasn't made up of only living matter, but also some extremely strong materials that Zhou Fan threw together in an instant.
"What's that?" Heaven asked.
"A body for you. Only your soul form is an eye. You are yet to have a body form. This can be your body until you grow up. We can change it then." Zhou Fan explained.
"Alright. How do I get in?" Heaven asked.
"Just walk into it. You should feel something reach out towards you. Grab it when you feel it." Zhou Fan explained.
"The combination of your body and soul will also birth a brain. It won't have much use to you besides helping you control the body since you are already so powerful in soul form. But you will need to make sure it doesn't accidentally get harmed or you will be injured."
"Ok." Heaven said before he went inside of the body.
Zhou Fan watched closely as it happened. He wanted to make sure he understood everything about a new soul connecting to a body as well as possible.
As expected, heaven connected to the body smoothly and formed a brain. Once the body opened its eyes, Zhou Fan felt it was much more full of life.
"Hello again father." Heaven said.
Zhou Fan nodded before he decided to get down to business.
"Do you know why you were created?" He asked.
"No. I don't." Heaven answered.
"You were born to watch over and control this section of the mortal dao." Zhou Fan said. "You will ensure the development of all life and strive to keep this galaxy intact."
Heaven listened on patiently.
"You will almost never directly interfere, but you will make sure that nothing too evil or destructive plans to take over the galaxy. Or at least, you will do what you can without directly interfering." Zhou Fan explained.
Before he could continue further, heaven spoke.
"How would I do any of that without directly interfering?" Heaven asked.
"Good question." Zhou Fan said. "There are some ways to do it, but the most likely to succeed would be to create someone special. A hero specifically."
"You would help them chance upon powerful weapons or pills, and subtly help them speed up their cultivation as much as possible." He explained.
"However, that may not always be enough. Perhaps the leader of the evil is too powerful or talented. Then, you will give him bad luck and make sure he doesn't have too many good encounters."
Heaven interrupted again. "And what if that doesn't work?"
"If even that doesn't work, I suppose it would be a situation you cannot deal with. While you are not evil yourself, you cannot simply go around purging all evil. Evil is necessary sometimes." Zhou Fan explained.
"If nothing else works, I will look over the situation personally and decide what to do next." He said.
"Wait. You said I should almost never use direct power to influence anything. In what case should I if even evil winning doesn't constitute it?" Heaven asked.
"The only situations you should use direct power in are, when someone directly challenges you and wants to destroy you, or when they have the ability to destroy nearly everything and plan on doing it." He said, making sure that heaven heard him.
Although there would always be unforeseen situations, these were the most likely and important ones to understand.
"I understand father." Heaven said. "But what is my power?" He asked.
"That would depend on your affinity." Zhou Fan answered. "Your power, or cultivation, will depend on the strength of those within the area you control and, of course, me."
Heaven's power would change depending on the number of people in each cultivation realm and the power that Zhou Fan deemed him necessary to have. There was a possibility that a single cultivator could gain strength above heaven since heavens power increase wouldn't be that much from one person, but such a situation was unlikely.
As of now, heaven's power depended solely upon the power that Zhou Fan gave him. His current power was at the 1st level of the inner world realm.
It would be higher if Zhou Fan hadn't completely erased everything off of the fragment of his soul, but since he did, the fragments' cultivation was also completely erased.
Before he spoke further, Zhou Fan checked heavens affinity. It wasn't the same as Zhou Fans since, once again, he erased everything off of the soul fragment.
"Your affinity is lightning, life, and death." Zhou Fan said.
Heaven simply nodded as he didn't have much understanding of what lightning, life, and death were.
"Before I set you off on your own, I will explain some things and help you understand what you need to do to succeed." Zhou Fan said.
Zhou Fan then grabbed heaven by one of his arms and teleported above the first planet. Although heaven's power was enough to almost instantly travel around a single galaxy, Zhou Fan still dragged him around.
This planet should be pretty easy. You just need to give it some life rain and introduce cultivation to the life on the planets.
Your first goal should be to develop a humanoid or very intelligent species
Chapter 209: Heavenborn Race - 209
Heaven stood still and nodded while Zhou Fan continued to talk about what he should do.
Heaven's body was the size of a 5 or six year old child. His head reached Zhou Fan's waist. He had white hair and blue eyes, similar to his soul form.
The rest of his body was mostly the same as normal human children. Despite looking the same, the power hidden beneath his skin was countless times higher than any other human child.
As for his brain, it was countless times more powerful than anyone else's in the entire universe, besides Zhou Fan of course.
"....the life born inside of this galaxy will be essential to your growth and my experiment. Do you understand everything I just told you?" Zhou Fan asked, finishing up his lecture.
"Yes father. I will get right to it." Heaven responded.
"Not yet." Zhou Fan interrupted. "There is still another planet."
Before heaven could react, Zhou Fan grabbed his arm and teleported him above another planet. This planet was much less full of life and seemed to be a wasteland.
Without Zhou Fan needing to say anything, heaven released his divine sense and covered the planet with it.
He was then able to see and understand everything about the world's structure and the life inside it. He even mentally developed a plan. Once Zhou Fan explained what he should do, he would see how close it was to his idea.
"This world seems a lot more difficult on the surface, but it should be fairly simple to fix up. I've temporarily given you some of my ability to evolve and control the evolution of life. SInce you don't have divinity, you'll be using some of mine." Zhou Fan said.
"Here are some microorganisms." Zhou Fan said as he handed heaven a bottle with a nearly clear liquid in it. "You will use this to create more variations of life. As for the state of the world, you will need to use life rain and some water. There is water and ice on many planets in this galaxy. Just grab some from them. You can always repay it back later."
Heaven continued to nod as Zhou Fan spoke. The plan he had developed earlier was somewhat similar to Zhou Fans. Unfortunately, he hadn't known about the microorganisms or divinity before he made his plan.
"Now. Implement these ideas and add a twist of your own. I'll be watching until I can trust that you understand your duties." Zhou Fan said before seemingly fading into the darkness.
Although heaven could not sense or see Zhou Fan, he still let out a yes sir and got to work. The first thing he did was cast life rain on the two planets. Since he was strong enough to easily travel the galaxy, the time it took to move around was negligible.
After a day of waiting, he brought some ice from an ice giant not too far away and put it on the wasteland planet.
After some thinking, he made three giant lakes that could be described as oceans. They were perfectly circular and took up half of the surface area of the planet.
He then left the second planet alone for a while. It needed some time before he could move on to the next part of his plan.
At the first planet, heaven manipulated the genetics of many of the species. Unfortunately, he was nowhere near the level of Zhou Fan. He was unable to easily create any sort of humanoid species.
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A hundred thousand years later, Zhou Fan lazily watched heaven move around while in the void. He had to admit that he was surprised by his ability. It seemed he had a natural talent for such things.
Although a long time had passed to some, both Zhou Fan and heaven were very powerful beings. The time seemed to pass in an instant to both of them.
All of a sudden, heaven shouted out in victory and raised both of his arms. Zhou Fan paid a little more attention to his progress on the first world and couldn't help but internally clap.
After so long, heaven had managed to create a humanoid race. They were very intelligent and their talent was on par with the celestials. Although Zhou Fan was much weaker than heaven when he had created the celestials, it was still an achievement that he could match the lesser dao creation realm Zhou Fan, even if he was using the god realm Zhou Fans powers to achieve it.
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It didn't take too long before heaven came up with a name for his newly created race.
"I shall call you the heavenborn race." He said triumphantly.
He then decided to do something Zhou Fan had never done with the early celestials. Show himself.
Although he had thought of descending in his body, he felt that it wouldn't give as much of an impact. He truly was Zhou Fan's child.
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On the first planet, an elegant looking middle aged man was staring at his hands. He was still in the very beginning stage of life, despite being fully grown.
Naturally, he couldn't have been born as a baby due to the fact that he was the first heavenborn.
He was just beginning to have thoughts such as who am I, and what am I, but a sudden energy gathered far above his head. Despite being a mortal, although his body was as strong as a golden core cultivator due to the power of the heavenborn race, he was able to sense the energy above him.
It wasn't that he was very special, but that the energy fluctuation was just so strong.
As he looked up, he saw an unforgettable scene. A giant blue eye floated in the sky. It seemed to cover up the sun and the clouds. It peered down in the manor of a god.
"My child." It said in a deep and dignified voice. "You are a heavenborn, created by heaven. You are the first. Your duty is to serve heaven and the beings under heaven. Do you accept."
Naturally, there was no room for negotiation.
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