Chapter 358: Leaving - 358
The next month was entirely composed of the children playing around or relaxing on Zhou Fan's mountain.
Ying Xiong was beginning to get impatient, so Zhou Fan sent the two children away.
When he was alone with Hei Ren, he began to speak.
"I doubt that I will stay here much longer. I am getting both complacent and bored." Zhou Fan said. "The question is, do you want to go with me, or stay here?"
"I would like to go with you." Hei Ren said without any thought.
"Let me explain it first. I will likely be in seclusion for the next 10 billion years after leaving. That means that, aside from occasional guidance, you will sit in a void and be completely alone." Zhou Fan explained.
"But it would benefit me more to go with you, right?" Hei Ren asked.
"I suppose. In the long run, it will likely help you more, but you only have a single life, and if you come with me, your entire youth will be wasted." Zhou Fan said.
He was aware that Hei Ren didn't really care, but he would still feel somewhat bad if he made him spend so much time away from other beings.
"Let me put it this way, would you mind if you faced such a situation?" Hei Ren asked.
"No. It would actually be pleasant, but I'm not like normal humans." Zhou Fan answered.
"Do I seem to be like normal humans?" Hei Ren questioned.
Zhou Fan sighed and patted Hei Ren's head.
"I know, I was just making sure." Zhou Fan said as he stood up.
"Now, let's train." He said as he pulled out a sword.
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Nearly 10 years later, 2 children burst through Zhou Fan's doors. Both Zhou fan and Hei Ren looked over.
When Feng Liu and Lu Zhong saw them, they didn't even seem that excited.
They dropped to their knees, before falling face first onto the ground.
"Uncle Zhou Fan, I really can't take it anymore." Feng Liu said as her face was planted on the ground.
"Please, Uncle Zhou Fan, Teacher Ying Xiong deserves death." Lu Zhong said.
Ying Xiong just sighed and shook his head from behind them. He didn't even know why he was the only one who deserved to die. Tong and Pangu were there as well.
"Alright, get up. You are free now." Zhou Fan said.
"Just let me sleep right here for a moment." Feng Liu said.
"Same." Lu Zhong said.
Zhou Fan just shook his head and looked at the two.
They could no longer be called children. They were fully grown cultivators. Hei Ren was as well.
Feng Liu still had long white hair and wore a blue dress, while Lu Zhong still had long black hair and wore yellow clothes. Although they seemed to grow, they didn't change much.
Feng Liu had grown up to be very pretty, while Lu Zhong had grown up to be very handsome.
Zhou Fan looked at his own disciple, and Hei Ren did not lack compared to them.
He had short black hair that seemed to absorb the light around it and wore black clothes.
Zhou Fan let the two sleep until they recovered, and a year passed by as they relaxed on the mountain. After seeing their exhausted state, Ying Xiong was not in a hurry to make them cultivate again, so he did not bother them at all.
As they spent a day fishing, Zhou Fan broke some news.
"I'll be leaving the cosmic sect soon, and I won't be back for a long time." He said.
Lu Zhong and Feng Liu both dropped their fishing rods and froze in disbelief.
"WHAT!" They shouted at the same time.
"I'm sorry, but I have my own things to do. I would love to accompany you all more, but I must go." Zhou Fan explained.
"Y-You can't leave us. What would we do?" Feng Li said.
"I simply must go. Perhaps, as you continue to follow the path of cultivation, you will one day understand." Zhou Fan said.
Lu Zhong suddenly stood up and bowed his head.
"I understand Uncle. Thank you for staying with us all this time." He said with maturity.
Neither Hei Ren nor Zhou Fan expected such a reaction from him, so they both sat shocked for a brief moment.
Feng Liu looked unwilling and desperate, but she soon sighed and did the same thing.
Neither of them wanted to burden Zhou Fan, even if they were selfish and greedy.
"Don't worry. I'll stay for another half a year." Zhou Fan said.
Time flew by as half a year passed.
On the outer ring of the cosmic sect, Hei Ren and Zhou Fan floated in space.
"We'll miss you, Uncle." Feng Liu and Lu Zhong said.
"I'll miss you guys too." Zhou Fan said as he turned to Ying Xiong.
"I'll come back once I exit seclusion. Make sure these two cultivate hard." Zhou Fan said.
"I will." Ying Xiong solemnly nodded.
Zhou Fan turned to Pangu and Tong.
"You two cultivate well. I expect both of you to enter the inner world realm by the time I return." Zhou Fan said.
"We will not disappoint you." Pangu and Tong responded.
"Alright. I'll make sure to capture any talented youths I find." Zhou Fan said.
"Please do." Ying Xiong chuckled.
"Goodbye." Zhou Fan said as he put his hand on Hei Ren's back and the two of them disappeared.
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When Zhou Fan finally stopped moving, he was at the edge of the Zhou Galaxy cluster.
"I thought we would never leave." Hei Ren said.
"I'm not one for all that sad goodbye stuff." Zhou Fan said as he began to fly to the center of the Zhou supercluster.
It did not take long for them to arrive.
As soon as Hei Ren felt the space around them, he shuddered.
"Don't worry, the formation on you will last until you enter the lesser dao creation realm. I also split the Qi in this area so that it is possible for you to cultivate." Zhou Fan said as a large bubble, bigger than a galaxy, appeared.
"Thank you master." Hei Ren bowed.
"Don't worry. I'll be cultivating up there. I'll check on you after a hundred years." Zhou Fan said as he disappeared and reappeared outside of the bubble.
He crossed his legs and began to cultivate.
Chapter 359: Outer World Realm - 359
100 years later, Zhou Fan momentarily put his cultivation to a freeze. He entered the bubble and saw Hei Ren training.
Zhou Fan had already explained that he only needed to cultivate for 18 hours a day to get the full effects, so 6 hours a day were spent training.
Clearly, Zhou Fan had stopped cultivating during one of those 6 hour periods.
Zhou Fan watched Hei Ren move around for a moment, but he soon moved forward and began to guide him. If he spent too much time away from his cultivation, it would be difficult to keep his cultivation's momentum going.
After an hour, Zhou Fan returned to his spot above the bubble and began to cultivate again.
1000 years later, he momentarily left once again.
10,000 years after that, the same thing repeated.
100,000 years later, the same thing repeated.
A million years later, Zhou Fan once again stopped cultivating to guide Hei Ren, who was becoming stronger and stronger.
Ten million years later, Zhou Fan stopped cultivating and guided Hei Ren. He could now look upon the once child with some pride.
A hundred million years later, Hei Ren's personality hadn't really changed that much. Despite being alive for so long, he was simply in an endless dark space with the only things visible from afar being galaxies, galaxy clusters, and distant lights far far away.
It seemed like time was flowing by fast for him, and his maturity had hardly increased, though he was mature enough already.
A billion years later, Zhou Fan guided Hei Ren once again.
Three billion years later, Zhou Fan momentarily stopped cultivating to watch as Hei Ren entered the inner world realm.
He couldn't watch it from start to finish, but he could tell that Hei Ren was going to successfully break through.
After all, breaking through was not much of a challenge for someone with high talent.
After 3 billion more years, Zhou Fan felt signs of his breakthrough.
He could feel a violent energy build up and sent Hei Ren far away while surrounded with a bubble.
Hei Ren was confused, but as he saw Zhou Fan's body burst with Qi, he watched on in excitement and curiosity.
The violent feeling continued to bubble within Zhou Fan for 3 hours, before the three main energies of his body seemed to float out of him.
On one side was his Qi, another his divinity, and the last the energy of his mortal dao.
They spun around each other before mixing and forming a gray sphere. The gray sphere simply floated for three more hours, before it collapsed and the three energies, each more refined than before, re-entered his body.
The gray sphere had shrunk when the energies left, but about half of it still remained, a completely new energy.
The gray sphere slowly moved towards Zhou Fan's chest, before entering his body and stopping in the very center of his chest.
Zhou Fan was about to check what the energy was, but it suddenly burst, and a gray field extended from his body, destroying anything and everything around him besides the final layer of space.
Still, the final layer of space was cracking and trembling, ready to be destroyed at any moment.
The gray field continued to extend faster than Zhou Fan could previously fly. It only stopped when its size was comparable to a galaxy cluster.
Hei Ren was within the field, but Zhou Fan's bubble that was made with his full power was able to withstand it.
Still, sweat poured out of Hei Ren's body and an instinctual terror filled his very being.
Soon, Zhou Fan regained control and de-activated the gray field, causing it to instantly disappear as if it teleported and return to the center of his chest.
He looked over at Hei Ren, but focused on looking at the changes before going over to him.
Firstly, there was the gray sphere in his chest. It resembled his inner world from when he was in the inner world realm.
The only difference was that it was not an inner world anymore, but an outer world. Truthfully, he felt like the god realm and true god realm were simply preparing for him to enter this new realm.
He decided to name it the outer world realm. He would have to test it more, but he knew that it was capable of much more than it had shown when he broke through.
That had been it in its passive state, without any of his Qi supporting it. He felt that it could completely change once he inputted Qi.
Besides the change which was his "Outer world", there was also the incredible leap in power that came with every breakthrough.
Every single aspect that made him up had been strengthened immensely. It even felt like it proportionally strengthened him more than any other realm before it.
His Qi, divinity, and mortal dao had also been strengthened. He felt like an entirely different being.
Zhou Fan was ready to test it out, but he remembered that Hei Ren was still floating in the bubble.
Zhou Fan appeared in front of him and examined him.
"You've grown." Zhou Fan said.
"Thank you master. You too have tremendously increased your power." Hei Ren complimented.
"Indeed. I need to test out my new power on my own. I'll send you to the cosmic sect for now, but I'll be there soon." Zhou Fan stated.
Hei Ren nodded and Zhou Fan grabbed him.
The next thing Hei Ren knew, he was in the cosmic sect.
With Zhou Fan's new power, he could instantly teleport throughout the entire Zhou supercluster.
Even just flying, he would be able to move from one end of the supercluster to the other in less than an hour.
If he decided to fly to the purple star sea, it would take him around 3 months. His strength had increased greatly.
Now alone, Zhou Fan was ready to test his strength. He was about to start, but decided that he should leave the supercluster before that.
He teleported to the edge of the Zhou supercluster and soon flew far away from it.
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