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."
Chapter 231: The River of Cultivation - 231
Finally done speaking, Zhou Fan walked away from where heaven sat on the floor.
In just a few steps, he was in front of the glowing light.
"Although I don't have enough strength to affect the entire universe even if I want to, affecting every galaxy covered by my mortal dao should be no problem. Regardless, your galaxy will be the only one affected right now." Zhou Fan said as he cupped his hands under and around the light.
As he grabbed the light, Zhou Fan disappeared. Heaven was shocked, but he simply sighed and remained sitting, awaiting the loss of his cultivation.
As soon as Zhou Fan grabbed the light, he teleported himself to an area that he had previously made. The area was far outside the galaxy and was once the most desolate place in the entire tree-like galaxy cluster, which also happened to be near enough to heavens galaxy that Zhou Fan could teleport to it.
In what was once the most desolate place in the tree-like galaxy cluster, a giant river created by Zhou Fan flowed. The river was not made up of water, but of every single Qi besides chaos Qi itself.
The giant river was not actually there, however. Instead, it was in an isolated space. The space worked similar to Zhou Fan's pocket space that he stored items in.
Zhou Fan stood at the start of the river that seemed to flow on forever. He had decided to name the river, "The river of cultivation". Essentially, this was where the physical and spiritual manifestation of cultivation would be.
Any changes that Zhou Fan made would affect the river and the space it was contained in.
Besides the river, everything seemed to be an endless black with no light or distant stars. Only the sound of the flowing river and a faint twinkle that resembled wind chimes could be heard.
Around the entire isolated space were arrays that even Zhou Fan would struggle to get past. They made sure that the cultivation river was fully protected both defensively and offensively.
The arrays were mostly a formality since nobody outside of the god realm could even sense the isolated space, but Zhou Fan planned to take absolutely no chances.
The river was not just a random symbolic symbol that Zhou Fan had chosen. He wanted cultivation to take some of the characteristics of a river.
An endless group of water drops moving unpredictably and nonstop, yet contained within the walls of river banks. Despite the river banks, a water drop or two might occasionally splash out. That was Zhou Fan's design.
One must not misinterpret the importance of the river's creation, as well as its function. The river was the first physical and spiritual manifestation of cultivation to ever exist. Such an achievement could not be replicated or understood.
Zhou Fan planned to give control of the river of cultivation to the universal consciousness once it was completed.
Of course, the changes it would be able to make would be extremely limited and, even if it tried, it would be unable to harm the river in any way.
As for the last important detail, any great event that was so important or big that it could have a major impact on the future, such as heaven being born or someone with incredible talent being born, would also slightly affect the river.
The level of the event would change the level at which the river reacted.
For example, if another Zhou Fan was born, then the river would shake and spill as if a 10 magnitude earthquake was hitting it.
If someone with talent exceeding the immortal king rank was born, a slight starlight may momentarily appear over the river, or some event of similar level.
It was just another feature that Zhou Fan had thought of.
After taking in the beauty of the river of cultivation, Zhou Fan kneeled down in front of it.
As he did so, he lowered his arms and gently placed the light he held inside the river. As he did, the light began to diffuse into the river as if it was a ball of sand. In a couple of seconds, the ball of light was gone and the river was even brighter than before.
The ball of light had been the main component of the river that would make the biggest changes. Now that it was inside the river, only the key step remained.
Before that, Zhou Fan waved his finger and cut off Heavens cultivation, essentially turning him into a mortal for a moment.
Once he did that, he was ready.
The next step was the simplest, but theoretically the most dangerous yet.
Zhou Fan drew out some of his Chaos Qi that had remained locked away for a while. He knew that Chaos Qi was extremely dangerous, but it was the final component needed to finish the river.
Only with Chaos could order be born. Zhou Fan formed the Chaos Qi into a ball. The density and power of it actually took half of Zhou Fans Qi to form.
Luckily, that was the last step that required Qi until the river of cultivation was activated.
Like he did with the light, Zhou Fan slowly lowered the ball of Chaos Qi into the river. As it dissolved, the color of gray momentarily took over the entire river.
Luckily, it receded after a moment, forming a definite and fine gray strand that covered the span of the entire, seemingly infinite river.
As the last bit of Chaos Qi dissolved, a major change seemed to shake the entire galaxy, its significance almost shaking the entire universe.
Every living being in the three galaxy clusters, whether it was a human, a celestial, or a worm, as long as it had intelligence, it instinctually looked towards the heaven galaxy without knowing why. The same went for even those that had reached the lesser dao creation realm.
As for those within the heaven galaxy, they all felt the shaking of the galaxy. Panic took over at first, but everyone seemed to suddenly stop moving. Those on the ground began to slightly float in the air, and everyone's eyes turned into a myriad of colors.
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