Chapter 333: The Human Race's Creation - 333
It did not take Zhou Fan long to reach the most concentrated point of the tree-like galaxy cluster. Although the entire trunk had many galaxies, there was one point that was clearly more concentrated.
Zhou Fan could not see into it due to the thousands of galaxies crowding around it, but he knew what was behind it.
Zhou Fan flew into the galaxies. Soon, he had traveled past a few of them and entered the most concentrated area, where collisions between space objects was an every hour occurrence.
Before long, Zhou Fan broke past the last point and entered into a large spherical space.
Not too far away was what appeared to be a giant golden tree. It looked exactly like the tree-like galaxy cluster from afar. Even though Zhou Fan had seen many great attractors, this one still shocked him.
He had never seen such an interesting looking one. Surprisingly, the great attractor was in the lower levels of the true god realm. Since there were three in the Zhou supercluster, he had expected them to be weaker than normal ones.
However, the first one did not disappoint.
Zhou Fan went near it, and one of its branches grew in size and lashed at him. He caught the golden branch, and the great attractor pulled its branch back. After that, it no longer attacked him and simply floated in space.
Since his curiosity was fulfilled, Zhou Fan flew out of the tree-like galaxy cluster and headed to the silver river galaxy cluster.
He soon found the greatest concentration of galaxies and entered the deepest part. Another spherical space seemed to be carved out, and in the center was a silver great attractor that seemed to be flowing like water.
It seemed like an endless wave locked in place. Zhou Fan went near it, and a large amount of water Qi and metal Qi shot towards him in a spike.
Zhou Fan swatted it away, and the great attractor settled down.
Zhou Fan soon left the silver river galaxy cluster and entered the place where it all started.
The Zhou galaxy cluster seemed the same as always. Zhou Fan found its most concentrated point, the area at its center, and entered it.
Another spherical space was empty of anything, and in the center was a shocking great attractor.
A giant humanoid figure many times bigger than Zhou Fan himself floated.
It seemed to have normal skin, but it had no eyes, mouth, or any other distinguishing features.
It floated in space with its arms slightly away from its body and its legs slightly spread apart.
On its back was a golden spine-like thing that seemed attached to its neck.
Zhou Fan never expected the great attractor to look like that. Seeing it made him want to ask a lot of questions.
Were humans based off of it, or was it based off of humans. In order to answer such questions, he would have had to go back in time and see, but he naturally did not have such capabilities.
Zhou Fan began to near it, but even after reaching a point that usually caused a great attractor to react, nothing happened.
Soon, Zhou Fan was standing a few feet away from it. The humanoid figure was twenty times bigger than Zhou Fan, but it was the smallest great attractor he had ever seen.
When it was first created, it was probably the size of a normal human, but it likely grew in size as it sucked things in, like a black hole.
Zhou Fan reached out his hand and touched it, but even then the great attractor did not lash out.
Suddenly, a tree branch grew from the hand of the humanoid figure he was touching, and it wrapped around Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan could feel no ill intent coming from it, so he stayed still. The great attractor wrapped around him as if it was hugging him. It almost felt motherly to Zhou Fan.
'Is it because I was born in the Zhou galaxy cluster?' Zhou Fan asked himself.
Despite not being injured, he could feel the great attractor sending life Qi through its branches in an attempt to heal him, as if it was worried he was injured.
The motherly aura it gave off covered Zhou Fan as he grew his body size to match the great attractors.
Sensing his increase in size, more tree branches shot out from the great attractors "skin" and wrapped around him.
It then pulled him into a full embrace, although its limbs did not move.
Zhou Fan was thoroughly stunned. He had only grown his body size out of interest, but did not expect such a reaction.
The great attractor seemed almost intelligent. It seemed to truly believe that it was his mother. Based on its looks, it was not impossible that it was what created humans.
Zhou Fan's curiosity reached new peaks. He felt as if he had to know what was going on. There was no chance that it was some simple coincidence. It was an impossibility. Somehow, human beings were connected to the great attractor of the galaxy cluster.
There was literally no doubt.
Zhou Fan took some of his divinity and tried to cover the humanoid figure. He was going to attempt to give it intelligence.
Perhaps then he could find out the truth behind everything. Unsurprisingly, trying to give intelligence to a being no less powerful than himself was a struggle. Luckily, he was able to temporarily give it the smallest amount of intelligence and ability to speak.
"Child?" A voice echoed through space.
"There is not much time." Zhou Fan said. "What is the relation between me and you?"
The humanoid figure struggled, but soon, its left hand was held up. It seemed like a normal hand, but half of its pinky was gone. It looked like an action figure that had its finger ripped off.
"Long ago, a few particularly large galaxies entered my space at the same time. I began to devour them, but they all collided and powerfully exploded." The voice slowly said, taking breaks every now and then.
"My finger snapped off and flew far away. I tried to search for it, but it entered a small galaxy on a small planet. It came into contact with some colorful fragment in the center of that planet." It explained.
'A piece of the cosmic dao.' Zhou Fan identified.
"My finger changed. It dissolved, and in its place were two tiny beings similar looking to I". It explained.
Chapter 334: Superiority - 334
"They were what you would call the first humans." The great attractor said.
"They grew and became smarter, and over the years, many things were developed and grown. I believe it was about 50,000 years after them that you were born." The great attractor explained.
"How do you know when I was born?" Zhou Fan interrupted.
"How could I not have. I could feel you were different from birth, but I did not know why. I watched you grow. Before long, it became clear to me." The great attractor said.
"When I started cultivating?" Zhou Fan asked.
"Indeed. Now look at you. Even stronger than I, and without any limit." The great attractor said almost nostalgically.
Zhou Fan pondered over the great attractors words for a moment.
"When you said I seemed different, were you referring to my talent? Or could you somehow sense my future?" Zhou Fan asked.
"I naturally had no idea you would become so strong. I think it was the way you acted that drew my attention." The great attractor responded.
"Explain." Zhou Fan said.
"Well. Do you remember when you learned of your parents death?" The great attractor asked.
"Not really. It was a long time ago. Even then it did not change much for me." Zhou Fan answered.
"Exactly. When a young child's parents die, how many of them react like that? When a child's parents die, their world and everything they know crumbles around them. They are forced into the real world to work instead of play and fight to survive. But what about you?" The great attractor said.
"What about me?" Zhou Fan asked curiously.
"When you learned that your parents had died, I could not sense any sadness within you. Instead, you gave off a sense of superiority. It seemed as if the fact that they died disgusted you. You felt disdain for them." The great attractor explained.
"Really?" Zhou Fan asked. He could not remember such a thing.
"You may not have noticed it back then. There seemed to be no basis for you to feel superior before, but once you began to cultivate, you were truly superior to everyone around you. Feeling superior was the natural response then." The great attractor said.
"That's interesting." Zhou Fan said with a hand on his chin.
Before he could ask anything else, the great attractors given intelligence fell apart.
Zhou Fan moved and flew not too far away from it. Although the great attractor watching him long ago was interesting, he was more curious about the answer to the human race's creation.
'If its finger was able to mix with the cosmic dao and form life, then are the great attractors made from divinity? It would not be ridiculous since they have power equivalent to the true god realm, but they don't seem like they cultivated.' Zhou Fan thought to himself.
The great attractors were different from cultivators. They simply had pure and raw power, similar to a black hole. The fact that they could even slightly use Qi was interesting. Zhou Fan had never noticed it before, but upon looking closer, he could see that the branches that came from the great attractor were not giving out true life Qi, but an imitation made from Chaos Qi.
It was similar to how, although trees were made of Chaos Qi before he split the Qi's, they were still trees, not Chaos.
Zhou Fan took a much closer look at the humanoid great attractor with his divine sense, but he could not feel any divinity.
'It must have something to do with this particular great attractor. I can't mess with it too much since I might destroy the galaxy cluster by accident, but I should be able to take a closer look.' Zhou Fan thought as he got closer.
Before Zhou Fan even reached his target, he slapped his hand on his forehead.
'Like black holes, these things are also made from the cosmic dao.' He thought to himself.
He had become so used to the cosmic dao's presence that he had overlooked it.
If the cosmic dao could not create life, then what could?
Zhou Fan turned around and exited the center of the galaxy cluster.
Since he was so close to the Zhou galaxy, he decided to stop by for a visit. When he arrived, he was not surprised to see that its size had increased greatly. Even from far away, the Zhou world was clearly visible.
Zhou Fan flew into the galaxy, but soon stopped when he saw a flash of green light on one of the planets he had flown past.
Zhou Fan descended down to the planet in interest and soon stumbled upon an interesting scene.
Two cultivators at the lesser dao creation realm were playing chess on a giant chessboard.
The chessboard took up a tenth of the space on the entire planet.
One of the cultivators was a woman wearing jade clothing, while the other was an elegant looking man wearing white clothing.
As Zhou Fan floated above them, they looked up.
"Is that a new lesser dao creation realm cultivator? We've been away for a while, but I'm surprised to see a new one so soon." The woman in jade said to the man in white.
"He probably saw us down here and wanted to say hi. Let's not be rude." The man said before looking at Zhou Fan. "Hello friend. Come down, let's talk." He yelled.
Zhou Fan descended and floated on the same level as them. They were far apart to the eye, but for cultivators at their level, it was whispering distance.
"I've never seen you before. Who are you and where are you from?" The man asked.
"My name is Zhou Fan. I was born on earth." Zhou Fan said.
"Oh. Another lesser dao creation realm cultivator from earth. That's 3 now. They really are making a comeback huh." The man said with a laugh.
"You said you were born on earth, but are you a part of their faction?" The woman interrupted.
"I'm more of a wandering cultivator." Zhou Fan responded.
"So only 2 still. Guess that keeps things more equal." The man said.
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