Chapter 229: The Chaos Era - 229
The fiendcelestial named pangu had actually been born later than all of the other fiendcelestials.
However, despite being only seven years old and starting cultivation just a month ago, he had managed to reach the first level of the foundation establishment realm.
Due to everything Zhou Fan had set up within the mortal dao, such a speed of advancement had never been seen before in heavens galaxy.
Speaking of setting up things within the mortal dao, Zhou Fan was actually starting to work on an outline for cultivation.
As it currently is, cultivation is unpredictable and it was hard to tell if reaching the foundation establishment realm in a month was even impressive.
Therefore, he was setting up the outline.
By the time he was done, everyone would keep their current cultivations, but future cultivation would be very different.
This was the first step to setting up a universal consciousness. Bringing order to the most important thing in the universe, cultivation.
Otherwise, unpredictable changes would occur that would likely end up causing mass destruction.
Once he was finished, the first era of true cultivation would be unleashed upon the universe. Before that, he would need to test it out on heavens galaxy.
Naturally, nobody else knew about such changes happening. Even heaven himself had ended up being kept in the dark. Zhou Fan decided to only tell him once the outline was actually complete as he had no idea how long such a thing would take.
For the next five years, Heaven continued to watch the five races develop, while still keeping an eye on the heavenborn race and the beast race.
In those five years, not much had happened with the races as a whole, but Heaven was still paying attention to pangu.
Now, Pangu had reached the age of 12. Just a year ago, he had decided to use an axe as his main weapon. Heaven felt that it was weird that he didn't choose a sword like most people, but he felt that he must have had his reasons.
In those five years, pangu had also reached the 5th level of the nascent soul realm, once again proving the chaotic state of the current path of cultivation.
Even at a glance, Zhou Fan could tell that his talent was higher than Anna's from long ago, yet he took much longer than her to cultivate.
It was as if cultivation speed was based on pure chance with little regard to talent.
Zhou Fan had also taken an interest in pangu, but it was mostly to help him progress in his building of the outline of cultivation.
Pangu could be used as a reference for extremely talented cultivators. Of course, the speed of cultivation would be nowhere near the same.
Zhou Fan felt that reaching such a high level in only five years was a little unnatural for multiple reasons.
In order to bring order to cultivation, he would need to make it slow and steady for everyone, with talented people only being somewhat faster than everyone else, but not reaching the nascent soul realm in five years fast.
The exact speed would have to be decided later, but the observation of Pangu would surely help.
After another 5 years, Pangu was able to break into the 10th level of the soul formation realm.
According to the previous experiences, the difficulty of cultivation would increase greatly and the journey from void traversing and upwards would be hundreds of thousands of times longer.
This was the prime example of what Zhou Fan wanted to avoid. From nascent soul to the tenth level of the soul formation realm in just five years was ridiculous.
At that point, Zhou Fan stopped paying attention to pangu. Any further growth would take extremely long and he wanted to focus his efforts on fixing cultivation.
Heaven also stopped paying much attention to pangu, as well as the rest of the races. He knew that getting a space shattering cultivator would take an extremely long time and he could do many more things instead of lazily watching.
He didn't have that much interest in pangu anyway.
'How could someone like him possibly reach the same level as me.' Heaven thought to himself.
As everyone focused on their own things, ten thousand years passed quickly. Even now, none of the five races had a space shattering realm cultivator. Pangu was the closest at the 7th level of void traversing, and the other 4 races all had someone at the 3rd or 4th level.
Within the final world, Tian Ren and Bi Chong had started to slowly expand their territories after fully occupying them. They were going so slow that it would take a million years for them to occupy another ten percent of the world, but they were satisfied knowing that progress was taking place.
Both Bi Chong and Tian Ren were at the 10th level of the space shattering realm. Despite the much lower requirements to reach the lesser dao creation realm, it was still no easy feat at all. It would likely take them at least 500,000 years.
Zhou Fan and heaven were still doing their own things, hardly affecting much on the surface, but below it, major changes were brewing.
Unknown to anyone besides Zhou Fan himself, the greatest change that had ever happened since the birth of the universe and the birth of Zhou Fan was about to finish.
Naturally, it was caused by Zhou Fan's outline of cultivation. For millions of years, the universe and cultivation itself had been in a chaotic state with little order.
The universe had some order due to the cosmic dao, but it rarely changed anything whatsoever.
As for cultivation, Zhou Fan was the first one to embark upon it, and he was going to be the first to change it.
With his knowledge of cultivation, the universe would experience great change. Even Zhou Fan was unaware of how big that change may be.
Finally, the Chaos era was ending.
Chapter 230: Explanations - 230
150,000 years later, Zhou Fan held a light in his hand. The light was multiple colors. In fact, it was every color to ever exist.
Each color was made up of a different Qi. In total, every single Qi ever, excluding chaos Qi, was present upon Zhou Fan's hand. Even the light of time Qi, which he had zero ability to use even now, was contained on Zhou Fan's hand.
Obviously, the light was the physical form of the outline of cultivation. For a better name, Zhou Fan referred to it as "Cultivation 1.0".
It had taken a lot of thinking to build such a thing, but order would finally be brought to the universe. Well, the galaxy for now.
Zhou Fan made sure that it was stable in place and sought out Heaven. Before he changed cultivation, he decided to find him and explain the process to him so that he was both knowledgeable of the changes and prepared for them.
After finding Heaven, Zhou Fan dragged him to the shack so that he could multitask.
"So... Just to be clear... You are saying that you are about to change cultivation, right?" Heaven asked, reasonably confused.
Zhou Fan answered while setting up arrays around the room.
"Yes. In case you haven't noticed, it isn't exactly stable." Zhou Fan explained.
"I'll explain everything in a moment. Just let me finish with these arrays." Zhou Fan said as he continued to quickly move around the room.
Heaven recognized a couple of arrays and had some questions, but he decided to wait in silence and let Zhou Fan finish his work.
After 3 minutes, Zhou Fan was finished.
"Before you ask, the arrays are for you. Before I reset cultivation, I am going to temporarily take yours away and was setting up arrays that ensured you would survive in the middle of space. Don't worry, you'll get it back once I'm finished." Zhou Fan explained.
"As you are heaven, the ruler of everything in this galaxy, and hopefully more if you work out, I should explain what is going to happen and the changes that will take place."
Heaven nodded and began to seriously listen.
"The most important thing you understand is that everything is variable. Nothing, especially not cultivation, is set in stone. If I did something like remove the randomness of cultivation, I would ruin its entire purpose." Zhou Fan said, emphasizing his words heavily.
"Just remember, nothing I am about to tell you is absolute and you may often see things happening differently from the way I explain them."
"Now, everything will be centered around you, the galaxy consciousness. At least, it will seem that way. In the eyes of a cultivator, heaven will be limiting them. That may change in later versions of cultivation, but we will see." Zhou Fan explained.
"Cultivation will be limited in order to stop ridiculous growth rates from occuring. For example, no matter how talented one is, excluding the exceptions, if a person sits in a cave and cultivates in order to breakthrough, the fastest one can breakthrough each level of the Qi gathering realm has been decided. Ignoring reaching Qi gathering in the first place, reaching the second level from the first will take one day. From the 2nd level to the 3rd it will take two days. From the 3rd level to the 4th level it will take 3 days, and so on. It can be longer, but not shorter." Zhou Fan explained.
"A similar rule applies to the foundation establishment realm. Now, no matter how much talent you have, it will take 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, and so on. As for how talented one would be to have to reach such speeds, it would be emperor level meridians."
"For core formation, the rule goes by a month increase, nascent soul, a five year increase, soul formation, a 20 year increase, and at the void traversing realm, anything is fair game." Zhou Fan explained.
"Of course, to reach such a high speed, much higher than emperor rank meridians would be needed." Zhou Fan explained.
"Any questions so far?" Zhou Fan asked heaven.
Hearing him, heaven raised his hand, indicating he had a question.
"So are you saying that no more rules or limits are at the void traversing realm?" Heaven asked.
"No. Not quite. It is just that there is no upper limit to speed. Mostly because there is no need for such a limit. I have never seen talent that would be able to casually zoom through the void traversing realm. Especially not with the new rules in place." Zhou Fan explained.
"What rules?" Heaven asked.
"The difficulty of cultivation in the void traversing realm and past it has also changed. A person with King rank meridians would take from ten thousand to fifty thousand years from the first level to the second level. It slightly increases further through the realm, but not quite as mathematically as before." Zhou Fan said. "Once again, I am excluding exceptions. Remember, exceptions exist and always will exist."
"What about further realms?" Heaven asked.
"Cultivation 1.0 only allows cultivators to reach the first level of the inner world realm before they reach a blockade. Once someone reaches that high, or possibly before then, I will update it. For the space shattering realm, someone with emperor level meridians could take anywhere from 500,000 year to a million years to go from first level to second level. Higher talent is going to be more of a requirement in cultivation 1.0." Zhou Fan explained.
"What about the highest talent?" Heaven asked.
"The highest talent I have categorized is immortal king. They would take around 30,000 to 70,000 years from the first to second level of space shattering. As for someone with immortal king meridians in the lesser dao creation realm, going from the first level to the second level would likely take 1 million to 5 million years. Naturally, thats ignoring however long they take before reaching the lesser dao creation realm from the space shattering realm." Zhou Fan explained.
"That's all I'll explain for now. It is time to put these changes to the test."
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