Chapter 262: Growing Seeds - 262
The young hydra curiously looked around as the supreme beast led him around the room. Behind them both, Chin Hong followed silently.
While Chin Hong was the 5th strongest supreme beast, the man leading the young hydra was the 3rd strongest.
Although they were both at the 10th level of the void traversing realm, Chin Hong had absolutely zero confidence in killing the supreme beast war general himself, Hei Nan.
Besides the supreme beast king himself, Hei Nan was the oldest supreme beast alive. He had led so many wars that the number could not be counted on the hands of a hundred octopuses.
Within the large open room, there were 5 sections. The one they were just in was the instruction area. That was where all knowledge and theoretical things were taught.
Besides that, there was the sleeping section, the training section, with lots of room and heavy things all around, the battle section, where all spars were fought, and the martial art section, where martial arts and such things were taught.
The hydra asked about the rooms and the hallway before the room, and Hei Nan said that they were rooms that led to teleportation arrays, as well as some storage.
The tour did not take long at all, and Hei Nan led the young hydra to the sleeping section once he was finished with the tour.
"The young master has traveled all the way here, as well as used a teleportation array. You must be tired. Please, take a rest and we will start tomorrow." Hei Nan said.
The young hydra nodded as he fell asleep on one of the carpeted sections of the room.
As he fell asleep, Hei Nan and Chin Hong walked around the facility. They spoke about various matters for a couple of hours before stopping in front of the training area.
They both watched as the young supreme beasts trained. Although they all showed great talent, there were three that stood out.
One was a young lion with an icy blue body that seemed to give off coldness.
Another was a blue pig that gave off a feeling of lightning.
The last was a large bat that seemed to have a darkness affinity.
This facility was specially made for the young hydra, but it was also used to train the young hydra's future comrades.
Each one of them was extremely talented and guaranteed to reach the soul formation realm if no lethal accidents happened.
Chin Hong nodded as he spoke. "It is time for me to leave. Remember, the hydra will be the savior of our supreme beast race. If need be, sacrifice all of these supreme beasts' lives, as well as your own before letting him get scratched."
Without a second passing, Hei Nan responded. "Naturally. I know his worth just as much, if not more than you."
"I'm just making sure." Chin Hong chuckled as he walked away. He then entered the hallway and left through a different teleportation array than before.
Hei Nan looked at one of the walls solemnly. There were many things that Chin Hong was unaware of. But nothing was left out of Hei Nan's information.
As Hei Nan turned his gaze to the sleeping young hydra, his look of solemness became even deeper.
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In a red galaxy, in the Zhou galaxy cluster, on a planet near the edge of the galaxy, a world with plants and trees silently existed.
Many millions of years ago, plants, trees, and rivers were born on it. However, no true life had been born.
This planet was the first one that Zhou Fan had ever touched with his mortal dao outside of the Zhou Galaxy.
On this planet, a leaf fell from a tree, slowly descending to the ground. In a few seconds, it reached the ground and stayed there.
Suddenly, the leaf moved a bit. Yet, there was no wind anywhere near the leaf.
After a moment, the leaf slightly moved again. Then, a moving thing moved from under the leaf.
It was an ant. To be more specific, an ant queen. A living, breathing, eating thing.
It moved around the ground, living.
Not too long later, on another planet, this one filled with sand as if it was an endless desert, a bit of sand fell and formed a hole. From within that hole came an insect with three pairs of wings and a thin body.
It was some sort of dragonfly.
On another planet, this one made up of an endless ocean, a tiny plankton moved around the bottom of the ocean.
These three planets, all within a somewhat small time frame, gained their first life.
After millions and millions of years, Zhou Fan's seeds of life had begun to germinate.
Meanwhile, on one of the few planets outside of the Zhou solar system that had a name, two people were playing chess.
They were the only living beings on this planet. Out of all the beings in the Zhou galaxy, both of them were in the top ten.
Both of them had reached the lesser dao creation realm long ago.
As they played their game of chess, they spoke.
"I heard the human race gave birth to an incredible talent." One of them said. By her looks, it was clear that she was a celestial.
"I heard something about that as well." The man across from her said. He too was a celestial.
"I was thinking. Should we intervene at all?" The celestial woman asked. She was conflicted.
"You know that our relationship with the human race is good. We naturally shouldn't hurt the kid." The man said. "Regardless, we have all the time in the world. Even if he reaches the 10th level of the space shattering realm, it doesn't matter. Everyone below the lesser dao creation realm is an ant."
The woman nodded in agreement.
"At the very least, we can observe his personality and protect him from other lesser dao creation realm cultivators. If he proves to be unlikeable, we can simply stop guarding him. The others won't be able to stop themselves from killing him at that point." The woman added.
Chapter 263: Ying Xiong - 263
As the two lesser dao creation realm celestials were talking, a group of people on earth were staring at a two or three year old child.
Whether it was the strongest member of the human race or the wisest elder, each and every individual's eyes were locked on this child.
The child's name was Ying Xiong. He was born a few years ago, and his very birth caused a thousand buddha phantoms to appear.
No such event had even been theorized. Throughout the entire history of the Zhou galaxy, not a single birth had caused such a thing.
Despite being around three years old, the child was completely bald. It was likely that he would be bald his entire life.
The child stared at the men and women around him. Despite his great talent, he was nothing but an innocent child.
Any one of the people in the room had the power to end his life a thousand times in a single second. Of course, not a single person would do that.
As the child played around on the ground, the strongest human, a first level space shattering cultivator, walked up to him and put a talisman on the child.
The talisman glowed before disappearing and imprinting on the child's skin, making a slightly visible golden circle.
"That is the protection talisman we spent the last years creating. If this cannot stop someone from hurting him, then nothing we have can." The strongest human sighed.
The others in the room nodded. Although they tried to hide the existence of the child, a thousand buddha phantoms were impossible to cover.
Luckily, they still had some protection from being eradicated.
As the child played around on the ground, the people in the room looked at the thing on his back.
From the moment the child was born, there was what seemed to be a painting on his back. The painting was of a giant golden tree with a thousand bald men in silk clothes meditating around it.
Not a single person in the room had any idea why the painting was there or what it did, but none of them bothered to try and find out too much.
This was the only thing that had remained unknown to the outside world. If it became known, someone who knows something may try and kill the child.
Although they had no clue if it was anything special, it was better to leave it be.
After a few more minutes, a woman in the group dressed in a purple robe walked up to the child and began to carry him.
This was the child's mother. Before the child was born, she and her husband were nothing but ordinary commoners. Although all members of the human race with any sort of talent had to cultivate due to the dangerous circumstances, they were of the weakest besides the complete mortals.
Yet, with the birth of the child, the woman and her husband's status shot through the air and became equal to the strongest member of the human race in status.
Despite the great increase in the women's lifestyle, she cared for nothing more than her child. It was absolutely clear just from the look in her eyes.
It was unknown if she had always been a true loving mother, or if the child's providence had affected her. Regardless, it was good luck.
Sadly, the child's father had died not too long ago. He had already been at the end of his lifespan for a while, but a year after the child was born, he finally passed away.
He had only been at the Qi gathering realm with 200 years of lifespan. The fact that he lived to 204 was quite lucky.
The child's mother, however, was only around 50.
Due to the resources provided by the people around her after her child's birth, she was able to reach the foundation establishment realm, but she still only had 300 years of lifespan.
That meant, in 250 years, she would die.
Even with all the luxury around her, knowing she only had 250 years was enough to make her ignore them. She would much rather be a good mother and watch her child grow at the speed of light.
The people in the room silently watched as she took the child and exited the room.
Once she left, they began to speak.
"How has the accumulation of resources gone?" The strongest member of the human race asked.
He was old and had gray hair.
"Good so far. We have ten times the necessary resources for the child's journey from Qi gathering to the nascent soul realm." A lady spoke.
"As for resources at the soul formation realm, we have five times the necessary resources. For void traversing, the expected amount. And little to nothing for the space shattering realm." She finished.
The old man nodded.
"Work on getting more resources at the soul formation and the void traversing realm. As for the space shattering realm, I will take care of that once he reaches the soul formation realm." The old man said.
After a little more conversation, the group left the room and the old man was alone.
Although he seemed calm on the surface, he was a little worried for the future.
'To get those resources, I will probably have to work as a bounty hunter or do some things for other space shattering cultivators.' He thought to himself.
Despite the hardship he would have to face, the old man was ready to do it in a second. The sole hope for the human race was depending on him.
When they had tried to test Ying Xiongs talent, it was unable to be detected. That meant one of two things.
The child's talent was at the immortal king level, or the child's talent was above the immortal king level.
'If his talent is truly above the immortal king level, which would not be ridiculous based off of the buddha phantoms his birth created, then he would likely be the first in the entire Zhou galaxy.' The old man said to himself.
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