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.
Chapter 234: The Human Race's Providence - 234
Zhou Fan was surprised that he had never noticed it before. He wasn't one to observe himself that often, but he assumed that he would be able to detect if a foreign substance attached to him.
A possible explanation was that the providence was so similar to Zhou Fans Qi and humans that it couldn't be considered a foreign substance.
If he had to estimate, he would guess that it had attached to him after he started teaching humans about cultivation. That allowed it to be born in the first place.
Knowing that he had the human's providence and that it had no effect on him, Zhou Fan was tempted to give it to another human. Without the providence of the human race, the humans in the Zhou galaxy were probably struggling a fair bit.
In order to prevent a huge detour in his study of pangu, Zhou Fan decided to transfer the providence through his mortal dao to a random human in the process of being born in the Zhou Galaxy. Even if that person were to die, the providence would just find another human as Zhou Fan was too far away.
With pangu and the other fiendcelestial still unconscious, Zhou Fan ripped the providence of the human race off of him and transferred it through the mortal dao.
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As expected, the human race had been struggling. Without an extremely talented being leading their race, the humans were essentially among the weakest of all races in the galaxy.
For a while, humans had been treated with some sort of respect as the eldest race in the galaxy. They also didn't exactly lack talents. However, as time passed and the history of humans was forgotten by others, other races began to push humans back and back. Eventually, they were contained in an area similar in size to the original earth.
Although it used to be considered fairly sized, it was now similar to a dog cage that contained 50 trillion humans. The strongest member of the human race was at the 1st level of the space shattering realm, but his talent was not high enough to go any further.
Essentially every race had at least one person in the space shattering realm, so the man wasn't exactly that good of an asset.
On a throne in a castle, the man sat there. He had long white hair and white facial hair. Although he always put on an act of indifference in front of anyone, he couldn't help but feel immense sadness when alone.
He felt disappointment towards himself.
The human race had once ruled the world. The Huang Long academy had been populated by almost entirely humans, and was now the strongest academy in the galaxy.
However, there was no longer a single human in attendance. If not for a couple of old, powerful beings that remembered the old human race and respected them, the last of them would have been snuffed out.
As he remembered the legends of humanity in the past, the old man could help but silently tear up. Although he was stronger than any of them could have ever imagined, he wasn't even half of Lu bing the freedom king, the Buddha, or even a simple philosopher like confucius.
Just as he was about to cry to himself, a golden light appeared in one of the territories of the human race.
In an instant, the old man, assuming the human race was under attack, sped out of his castle and appeared in the skies.
Just as he was about to rush forward, he realized what the golden light was.
As he looked forward, he saw a thousand golden buddhas of varying looks surrounding something. In the middle of them, a golden beam shot down.
In an instant, the man's tears dried off of his face and he traveled towards the golden beam.
As he arrived, he saw that the three void traversing cultivators of the human race had arrived before him and were speechlessly looking in front of them.
Turning his gaze, the old man saw a baby bathed in gold. It was clear that it had been born no more than seconds ago, but it seemed to contain more potential than anything the old man had ever seen.
"Finally!! A talent appears in our human race!! God has finally shown himself!!" He said as he looked at the sky, tears going down his face.
Despite all the hardship, the humans continued their belief in god, never once wavering. Towards someone that hadn't appeared in millions of years, it was an unprecedented amount of faith.
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Just as Zhou Fan sent the providence through the mortal dao he sensed a change in the river of cultivation.
In an instant, he appeared at its base. As he looked, he saw a water droplet momentarily fly up as if someone had thrown a small stone in a river.
"Oh. I didn't expect it to have that much of an effect." Zhou Fan said as he watched the water droplet fall back down.
Despite the terribly small movement of the river, the water drop signified that a talent at least similar in talent to pangu had appeared.
It surprised Zhou Fan, but it was the obvious outcome.
The longest existing race that had given birth to someone like Zhou Fan was bound to have an extremely great providence.
Even with the fiendcelestial races providence, the birth of someone like pangu was extremely good luck. Just the fiendcelestials providence alone wasn't nearly enough to make someone like pangu.
For the human race's providence, however, someone on the level of pangu was expected. In fact, it was the lowest possible threshold.
If Zhou Fan was to know about the human race's suffering over the last millions of years, he would have felt immensely guilty. Luckily, they seemed to be on the uprise.
After chuckling a little bit, Zhou Fan returned to the knocked out pangu and the other fiendcelestial.
He woke them both up before making himself invisible. After so many detours, he could once again put his plan of watching pangu into motion.
He still needed to see the effects of an extremely talented person under the influence of cultivation 1.0, and there was nobody better than Pangu to watch.
Even Tian Ren and Bi Chong were below him.
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