Chapter 232: Effects of Cultivation 1.0 - 232
The eyes of everyone had temporarily changed into a myriad of colors due to the change in cultivation. Technically, anyone who had ever absorbed a tiny bit of Qi would experience this, and every living being naturally absorbed Qi, regardless of whether or not they cultivated.
For a moment, the entire heaven galaxy was silent. From within the river, Zhou Fan swiped his finger and wiped out all the cultivation of every member of the five races.
The only people that would not have their cultivation changed would be the beings born on the heaven world and the beast world.
It had taken some thought, but Zhou Fan felt that the cultivators of the five races had not spent enough time cultivating to really feel the effects.
He also just wanted to see pangu's growth after cultivation 1.0 was established.
While resetting every member of the 5 races cultivation sounded bad, it actually brought many major benefits. Those who had been stuck at the same realm would be able to recultivate and not make as many mistakes as before.
After resetting all members of the five races cultivation, Zhou Fan waited as cultivation 1.0 permeated throughout the heaven galaxy.
Replacing cultivation was not a simple process. It had taken more than a hundred thousand years to plan such a thing out, and that was after Zhou Fan had accumulated more than hundreds of thousands of years of knowledge.
At any moment, something could go horribly wrong, and Zhou Fan needed to stay alert for that very moment.
Luckily, he was a genius. For the next three days, everything went smoothly. On the dawn of the fourth day, the beings suspended in the air fell back down into their original positions. Many didn't even realize that something had happened until they checked their clocks and noticed the position of the sun.
Some people, those at the void traversing realm and above, were able to tell that something was about to happen moments before it did.
Despite that, they had no idea what had happened until they started cultivating. A difference could be felt immediately.
Naturally, this was the situation of those in the heaven world and the beast world. Members of the five races were facing a much bigger and more obvious problem.
Within a day of cultivation 1.0 being implemented, even mortals were aware that cultivation had been reset for everyone.
Some people felt burdened and saddened as they had to work many years and used to enjoy their superiority over those with more talent but less time to cultivate.
Many of the younger cultivators were overjoyed at the news, knowing they would no longer have to bow to anyone with lower talent than them.
Even pangu was thrilled hearing the news. He had been born late and was suppressed by others due to his talent, causing him to cultivate even slower than he should have.
He wasn't exactly looking for revenge as he wasn't directly suppressed and only lost opportunities and pills, but he was not going to let anyone get off scot free.
In the last day, Heaven had gotten his cultivation back and was going over the worlds within his galaxy. He did not enjoy the feeling of being a mortal.
While the five races' entire history had been overturned, the beast world and the heaven world were testing out the new cultivation, and heaven was enjoying being powerful again, Zhou Fan was thinking hard, still within the river of cultivation.
As of now, he was in a state of recovery. The entire process of changing cultivation had taken his Qi. He nearly fell into Qi exhaustion, but everything stopped before then.
Most of his thoughts were filled with heaven. Although he wasn't disappointed with heaven, he was disappointed with himself.
While Heaven had definitely been a partial success and was doing the best he could with what he had, he wasn't quite what Zhou Fan had originally wanted him to be.
To start off with, he had a personality. Zhou Fan had envisioned an indifferent, neutral, and almighty ruler.
Secondly, he was not powerful enough. Zhou Fan had wrongly assumed that Heaven would be able to completely see the entire galaxy at once.
Sadly, a major miscalculation was made. Heaven was not Zhou Fan. He had neither the talent of Zhou Fan nor the power.
If Zhou Fan was at the 1st level of the inner world realm, being able to fully see an entire galaxy at one would be no issue.
But, once again, heaven was not Zhou Fan. If Heaven was going to see the entire galaxy at once, he needed to at least be in the god realm.
As Zhou Fan was in the god realm, that was not possible.
It was annoying, disappointing, and could almost be considered a failure at testing a universal consciousness, but all the blame rested on Zhou Fan's shoulders.
He was too weak and too soft. At any moment he could have or could eliminate heavens personality and make him similar to a robot with a human mind. However, Zhou Fan hadn't thought of such a thing at the beginning, and liked heaven too much to do it now.
As for the lack of power, that should explain itself.
Zhou Fan sighed before standing up, fully recovered as his thoughts were spanned over multiple days.
The only course of action was to continue letting things play out and hopefully be surprised.
In the worst case scenario, he would make another heaven when he was stronger and make the current heaven his subordinate or something.
That was only in the absolute worst case.
As Zhou Fan exited the isolated space that the river of cultivation was contained in, he took in a deep breath of fresh space.
Although the new cultivation had zero effect on him, it was still pretty nice to be around it.
He would continue cultivating as normal since he obviously couldn't change cultivation on the same realm as himself. Even if he did, it would once again not affect him. He was one of the exceptions that he had told Heaven about over and over again.
Although not all exceptions would be able to bypass cultivation 1.0, there was a possibility of one being born.
Chapter 233: Providence - 233
Zhou Fan thought for a while and decided to watch pangu cultivate. He would use pangu as proof that cultivation 1.0 worked properly before he began to think of new ideas.
While Zhou Fan was recovering, Pangu had managed to reach the 3rd level of the Qi gathering realm.
Zhou Fan had spent three days recovering, and as pangu's talent easily reached the threshold of the fastest possible cultivation within the Qi gathering realm, he was doing well.
He wasn't the only one doing well. Within each of the 5 races, there was at least one person who had reached the maximum cultivation speed in the Qi gathering realm.
It wasn't an extravagant requirement as one only had to have emperor realm meridians or above, but it was still unlikely based on the odds.
Within the Fiendcelestial race, there were three people who could cultivate with the maximum speed. Both of the other two had god realm meridians, which was undoubtedly good, but they were far away from pangu.
At the very least, Pangu had immortal king 1 meridians. It also wasn't unlikely for them to be higher, but Zhou Fan wanted to feel some entertainment.
Otherwise, he would have long known what level Pangu's meridians were. Just in case, he decided to name another rank of meridians. Above immortal king rank meridians would be immortal emperor meridians.
Seeing pangu's talent had sent Zhou Fan into a wave of thought. It wasn't hard for one to notice how at least one member of every race had extremely high talent.
Anna from the celestials, Jack from the mermaids, the dragon king from the supreme beasts, Tian Ren from the heavenborns, and so on.
At some point, it could no longer be called a coincidence. Especially with the odds of someone with even immortal rank meridians being born, much less immortal king rank meridians.
If Zhou Fan's calculations were correct only one in a quadrillion people would be born with immortal rank meridians. One could imagine how rare immortal king rank meridians were.
As he thought about it more and more, Zhou Fan's focus wavered from Pangu to the subject of talent. There was simply no way that it was coincidental.
'Fine! I'll figure it out.' Zhou Fan said to himself as he felt his inability to keep his mind off of the topic.
In an instant, he disappeared from his spot and reappeared next to the cultivating pangu. Before Pangu could open his eyes, Zhou Fan put him to sleep.
He then grabbed one of the other fiendcelestials with god rank talent through space and put him to sleep next to pangu.
Then, Zhou Fan studied them intensely. As he wasn't sure what he was looking for, he went through every individual possibility and compared the two.
Once Zhou Fan reached the talent and Qi sector, he found something interesting that he had simply put off before.
Radiating off of Pangu's meridians and Qi was a slightly golden and hard to see mist-like substance.
Long ago, he had seen it radiating off of people like Anna and Jack, but he casually dismissed it as a testament to their power.
However, Pangu was at the Qi gathering realm, and he happened to share something in common with Anna and Jack.
Talent. More specifically, the highest talent in their races.
Odds are that it isn't a coincidence.
On another note, Zhou Fan felt that the only reason he could sense it so long ago was due to his Chaos Qi. Otherwise, one would likely have to be in the god realm to sense it even slightly.
Now that he had sensed and paid attention to the energy, Zhou Fan felt it was time to attempt to manipulate it.
After trying a couple of different methods, Zhou Fan got the golden energy to move. He didn't take it away from Pangu as he wasn't sure what affects it would have, but he cut of a miniscule snipet so that he could observe it.
Perhaps it wasn't sentient or it felt that Zhou Fan was far too powerful, but the golden energy did not react after a part of it had been snipped off.
Holding it in his hands, Zhou Fan closely examined it with his eyes and his divine sense.
It took a few minutes, but Zhou Fan eventually was able to sense two things in the golden energy. One, part of the entire Fiendcelestial race was contained in the golden energy. He wasn't sure how to describe it.
Two, he was able to feel a bit of the cosmic dao. Not only that, but it felt like that bit of the cosmic dao was somewhat mixed with a power that seemed to originate from Zhou Fan. It was a slight part of Zhou Fan's mortal dao.
If Zhou Fan was only interested before, he was now extremely interested. Now that he had sensed it, he could control the part of his power, but he had no idea it was in existence before this very moment.
He assumed that the bit of cosmic dao was the same. It was so miniscule that it wouldn't react instinctively and had little power.
It seemed that the golden energy was secretly in existence, as if it had silently existed all these years.
Zhou Fan decided to name the golden energy.
It would be called "Providence".
It seemed that a providence was born each time a race was created and grew in power and effect based on the number of members, the talent of those members, and the amount of time the race had existed. That providence would attach to a member of the race it was born from and have an effect similar to high luck. In fact, luck was just one of its features.
The most important feature in Zhou Fan's opinion was one that had not been proven, but he could assume it existed.
The ability of providence to increase talent. It was the only explanation as to why there was always an extremely talented person in a race.
Additionally, although he could sense that it had no effect on him, Zhou Fan seemed to contain the providence of the human race.
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