"I have also not slacked off in my cultivation either." Tian Ren said.
Heaven took a deeper look at him and found his words to be true. Despite surely spending a long time to build the gigantic city, he had managed to reach the first level of the void traversing realm.
Sadly, such a realm no longer meant too much. With the size of the worlds under Zhou Fans mortal dao increasing, even a tenth level void traversing realm cultivator would take many years to simply circle around a world.
As for doing something incredible like destroying a world, that was only slightly possible for lesser dao creation realm cultivators.
With Zhou Fan's mortal dao now covering the entire galaxy, every planet in the galaxy could technically expand and reach a huge size comparable to the heaven world and the other planet.
Unfortunately, such an expansion would make the galaxy also expand. As previously experienced, the cosmic dao would not allow such a thing. Therefore, Zhou Fan had decided to let heaven pick a few planets and those would grow while taking over the planets near them.
"Your increase in power and this city has exceeded my expectations." Heaven stated. "I am proud of you my child."
Hearing heaven's words, how could Tian Ren not be happy?
"Now. I will give you the gift I have prepared." Heaven continued.
Without Tian Ren understanding how, a bunch of small blue dots started moving around near him. He watched as they gathered together and formed something.
Once the blue dots were completely aligned, they shone so bright that Tian Ren had to shield his eyes despite being in the void traversing realm.
As he managed to finally open them again, he saw something, or someone, similar in looks to him.
However, there were a few differences. The person had long, white hair and black eyes. She also seemed to have a different physiology compared to him.
"This is the first female heavenborn." Heaven announced. "With her, you shall increase the population of heavenborns throughout the heaven world."
Although he was unsure of much of what heaven had said, Tian Ren nodded eagerly. He was feeling excited at the thought of following heaven's commands.
"I shall take my leave soon. Before then, have you decided on a name for this city?" Heaven asked, curious of Tian Ren's naming ability.
"Yes heaven. With your permission, I would like to call it the heaven sect." Tian Ren said. "I learned of the existence of sects from the book you passed down to me and aspire to create one for you."
"Very well." Heaven said before he faded away.
As he watched heaven leave, Tian Ren finally paid attention to the woman near him.
"Hello. What is your name?" He asked curiously.
Unfortunately, the lady had no idea what he was saying as she had only been thinking for a total of 2 minutes.
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Above the heaven world, heaven appeared once again. He had decided to add some animals to the heaven world before focusing more on the 2nd world.
He had not added animals because the heavensborns could survive just from Qi even at foundation establishment due to their special body.
Now, however, he felt that it was time for the heavenborns to gain some sort of awareness that other things do exist.
Using a tiny amount of the microorganisms Zhou Fan had lent him, heaven created a hundred animals of fifty different species. He also implanted knowledge on beast cultivation that he had also borrowed from Zhou Fan.
Within ten thousand years, most of the planet would be filled by cultivation beasts.
In the meantime, Heaven decided to focus on the 2nd world.
When he arrived, he found that it was much more lively than before. There was nothing living on the planet besides the native species still residing in the caves below, but there were many plants and trees.
Heaven began to make thousands upon thousands of animals, belonging to the land, sky, and sea, and threw them all around the world. He didn't plan on making a humanoid race within the second world until it was fully developed.
However, he did already give the beasts the ability to cultivate like he had on the heaven world.
After some trial, error, and luck, Heaven even managed to create some supreme beasts. There were three in total. One giant shark, one giant bird, and a giant lion.
After thinking for a while, heaven decided to do two things with the supreme beasts. One, give them the ability to reproduce like Zhou Fan had, and two, make a couple more and add them to the heaven world.
It only took a month for heaven to crack the code of giving the supreme beasts the ability to reproduce. He then realized that he wouldn't have to make some more as the ones on the second world would already create more.
As time passed, there would also be more variations and species. Heaven patiently waited a thousand years for the first child of a supreme beast to be born. It was extremely similar to the dinosaurs on the Zhou World long ago.
Instead of traveling to the heaven world again, heaven threw the supreme beast inside of a giant rock and threw the rock at the heaven world. He made sure that the supreme beast would survive the explosion and that the heaven world wouldn't suffer too much damage from the rock.
He then once again paid attention to the 2nd world, completely ignoring the rock he threw.
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Back on the heaven world, Tian Ren was standing on the highest balcony of the castle. He had spent the last month teaching the woman heavenborn everything he knew, but he wasn't even close to done.
Just as he was about to turn around and go inside, he saw a flaming ball of fire appear in the sky and start crashing down to the heaven world.
Tian Ren was stunned for a moment, but simply chalked it up to heavens doing. He watched as it hit the ground and a giant silhouette roared at the sky.
"What in the world???"
Heaven stared at the second world with his full attention as he watched it grow and change. He stayed sitting for an entire ten thousand years before he moved.
His previous calculations were extremely far off. In the ten thousand years that had passed, the animals had only occupied a third of the world. He would have preferred to continue his watch as it gave him knowledge about living beings and was quite interesting, but he needed to go take a look at the heaven world.
Between the two worlds he was focusing on, the heaven world was by far the more important one.
Heaven quickly arrived at the heaven world and began looking at it from afar. After a few moments, he felt satisfied at the current progress.
He decided to once again meet with Tian Ren.
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In the heaven world, Tian Ren was sitting on a throne of marble and gold. In front of him were three old men kneeling on the floor. As they were in the nascent soul realm, their lifespans were nearly over. They were each born 2,800 - 2,600 years ago.
Nascent soul realm cultivators had an average lifespan of 3,000 years, but it wasn't rare for one to die at the age of 2,800
"You three have served the Heaven sect well." Tian Ren stated. "Unless you wish to be buried elsewhere, I will honor your work by burying you in the elder burial field despite your low cultivation."
Hearing him, each of the three men were joyful. It was a rare honor for someone to be buried in the elder graveyard at all, much less with such a low cultivation. They had already made funeral arrangements with their families, but they would much prefer to be buried in the elder burial ground.
"We wish to be buried in the elder burial ground." The three men said in unison.
"Very well." Tian ren responded. "As of now, you three will officially retire and can relax with your loved ones until the end of your lifespan."
"Thank you lord sect master." The three men said while standing up. "We will be forever grateful."
"Long live heaven." The three men and Tian Ren said together. Such a saying had long become a standard farewell.
As the three men left the throne room, Tian Ren looked up at the night sky. In order to feel more connected with heaven, he had the roof removed. When it rained, an array blocked it, but that was the only thing there at all.
'There are too few talents in the heaven sect.' Tian Ren said to himself.
In the last ten thousand years, he and his wife had populated the heaven world to 300,000 people. Naturally, most were not directly from them, but the numbers were still a result of their work.
The only reason the number wasn't in the high millions was the fact that heavenborns could not reproduce as easily as humans. Especially those with more powerful cultivation levels.
'Of the 300,000 heavenborns, only 100,000 have reached or have the talent to reach the core formation realm. As for nascent soul realm cultivators, there are only ten thousand.'
The expansion of the heavenborn race was still a burden placed upon Tian Ren's shoulders. He had recently broken through to the 10th level of the void traversing realm, but the second most powerful heavenborn, his wife, was only at the first level. With her talent, the hope for reaching even the 8th level of void traversing seemed unlikely.
If he had more time to cultivate, he may have reached the space shattering realm, but he simply didn't have that much time. Ignoring the 8 hours of cultivation that replaced sleep, he only had four hours of cultivation a day. Managing an entire sect took way too much time. Luckily, he had some elders to assist him.
As he continued to look at the sky, he seemed to see it ripple like still water that had just been touched.
He was about to look closer, but an eye suddenly appeared. In an instant, Tian Ren was on his knees.
Not only him, but the entire population of the heaven sect fell to their knees. They had long been told of heaven's form.
"Hello my child." Heaven said while looking at Tian Ren.
As for the other heavenborns, they were left ignored for now.
"Heaven!" Tian Ren shouted. "Can you see it? I have bred heavenborns onto your world!"
"Of course. You have not disappointed me." Heaven responded. "I have only come to check up on you this time. Are there any troubles you are experiencing? You can feel free to tell me."
Tian Ren hesitated for a moment, wondering if he should bother heaven with such trivial matters, but he eventually decided to speak.
"There are some minor troubles. Nothing that you need to worry about dealing with. Would you like to hear about them?" Tian Ren asked.
"Hmm."
Heaven considered his offer, but talking out loud in front of so many people seemed weird.
"Yes, I would my child. I trust you enough now. Close your castle and I shall personally descend upon you." Heaven decided.
Hearing him, the excitement Tian Ren felt could not be described. It was as if everything he ever dreamt of was happening.
With his full power, he pulled materials out of his spatial ring and patched every single hole in the castle besides the door.
Not ignoring the door, he put an array on the entire room that would ensure that nothing got in or out. Not even sound.
Everything was completed in a matter of seconds, and Tian Ren jumped off of his throne and onto a seat below it.
The throne was elevated slightly above the rest of the floor.
As he waited eagerly, a figure appeared in the middle of the throne room. Tian Ren stared at it with so much focus that he felt his eyes were going to pop.
When he finally faced the figure of his dreams, he ignored the childish form.
"Heaven! Finally!" He said with tears nearly streaming out of his eyes.
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