Chapter 212: Heavens Descent - 212
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.
Chapter 213: The Beast World - 213
Zhou Fan sat hidden behind space as heaven and Tian Ren met each other. Although it wasn't something that he had done or would do with his creations, it was much more interesting to see heaven go down his own path without strictly following Zhou Fans.
He continued to watch what was starting to feel like a story with interest.
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"Heaven! Finally!" Tian Ren said in reverence.
Heaven stood there, his child form with white hair and blue eyes looking like the statue of a god to Tian Ren.
"Get up child. We have much to talk about." Heaven said.
In a few moments, Tian Ren was able to stand up and clear his mind from the overpowering reverence of heaven.
"Go ahead. Speak about your troubles." Heaven stated as he sat on the throne.
"Yes. My biggest worry is that the heavenborn race has disappointed you. Each and every one of their talents are little to none. I've been wondering if I'm doing something wrong." Tian Ren said.
"It's nothing that you or I can control. Although being such a high ranking race gives a better chance to get higher talent, it still takes time for someone with true talent to be born." Heaven responded.
"Do you mean that not even you can control talent?" Tian Ren said with his eyes widening.
"No I cannot." Heaven answered. "In fact, as far as I am aware, nobody in the entire universe can. Well, there may be one but I'm not too sure."
"What?! Is there someone even more powerful than you?" Tian Ren said with his jaw dropping.
"Yes there is. I also have troubles of my own. I often wonder if I will be able to live up to his expectations." Heaven answered.
In just these brief moments, Tian Ren's entire world was turned upside down. He felt no less reverence for heaven, but the revealing of someone greater than the one he thought the greatest was truly overwhelming.
After digesting the shocking information, he felt that heaven's situation was similar to his. He too wanted to live up to someone's expectations and wondered if he could.
"Do you think there is a chance you become greater than him?" Tian Ren asked curiously.
"No chance." Heaven said, sounding defeated.
A sudden silence took over the room after that.
"Anyway, is there anything else you're feeling troubled about?" Heaven asked.
"Not really. Talking to you has helped me feel a bit clearer. Thank you heaven." Tian Ren said while bowing.
"Goodbye then Tian Ren. I shall see you again." Heaven said as his body turned into light and he disappeared.
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Above the second world, heaven was watching everything closely. After a long amount of time, 99% of the 2nd world had become occupied by beasts. The rest of the planet was too dangerous to occupy.
In the last tens of thousands of years, Heaven had watched as the world's inhabitants grew more powerful and knowledgeable despite being beasts.
At some point, he even decided to call the planet the beast world. He would no longer introduce a humanoid race to the planet and would instead let it continue as it is.
One of the most interesting developments was the creation of language by the beasts. Although there were many types, there had also been one universal language developed that all beasts used to speak to each other.
While heaven could understand them, he decided to mess with the entire planet's minds and unknowingly make the universal language they spoke english. He found it funny that they didn't even notice.
The planet had been split up into three main sections for each type of animal and many different smaller sections. Each smaller section represented a certain species of animal or beast. The lions had their land, the sharks had theirs, the birds had theirs, which was also the biggest and most united, and the tigers had theirs.
Occasionally, wars would break out between the planet's inhabitants. The biggest rivalry was between the lions and the tigers. Among the part of the world belonging to land beasts, those two were considered the strongest.
Although at one point the lions had the only supreme beasts among all the species, the tigers had gotten theirs soon after.
Although he had some interest in the world's affairs, heaven decided not to interfere. The planet would be left to evolve on its own and its inhabitants with it.
This was not only the best decision in heaven's mind, but also an experiment. He wanted to see the differences between a planet left to its own troubles and a planet with an overseer.
The results would be an interesting thing to see.
As far as heaven was concerned, the initial development plan for the beast world was finished. Once the heaven world followed, it would be time to expand everything.
Heaven arrived back at the heaven world and began the final observation.
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Still hiding behind space, Zhou Fan stood up. Heaven seemed to have gained enough intelligence in the last few thousands of years to handle the galaxy's situation on his own.
He planned on watching the rest unfold, but he was getting bored sitting around all day. He decided to begin a further study of cultivation itself.
If he could find every single tiny detail and tune it to bring out its maximum potential, cultivation would be easier and bring better results.
However, that was not the main goal of his study. He had noticed his ability to manipulate cultivation itself once he received the understanding of creation.
As he had previously mentioned, the lesser dao creation realm was completely changed by him instinctually. Zhou Fan wondered if that was the only thing changed by him.
He also wondered if the correct term was changed. He had once spoken of his difficulty being equivalent to carving a path through a mountain, but perhaps he had been creating the mountain all along.
Regardless of the possibilities, he knew that he needed time and effort to achieve his goal.
Unknown to heaven, heaven had just become a slightly more grown up child in Zhou Fan's eyes.
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