Chapter 363: Changes in the Mortal Dao - 363
Zhou Fan continued to explore the universe, marking down any large areas he came across and their great attractor.
It took him around 30,000 years to explore what he marked as a filament. Before long, he had marked down 5 filaments, and his desire to explore was gradually calming down.
He decided to take a brief break from exploring and attempt to expand his mortal dao. He had not done so since he broke through, and he felt that he would be able to expand it much farther than before.
Zhou Fan found a random large area and sat down on what resembled a planet. He crossed his legs and connected to his mortal dao.
He could feel that his mortal dao was big, but it was not nearly big enough. Zhou Fan felt that way even more as he mapped out larger areas of the universe.
His first goal was to cover all three galaxy clusters. With his current strength, he felt that he should be able to easily cover such a large area.
Unsurprisingly, all three galaxy clusters were soon covered. Then, surprisingly, even the entirety of the Zhou supercluster was covered.
Zhou Fan stopped his mortal dao's expansion once it reached that point. Covering any more would be covering pointless space.
Instead, he decided to try to cover the entire purple star sea.
As he watched it expand, his jaw nearly dropped. Without any issue, the entire purple star sea was covered.
Even Zhou Fan had not expected such a large change. As he had not covered any area in any of the other large areas, he needed to return to the Zhou filament to continue expanding his mortal dao, something that he did not even hesitate to do.
Although he had traveled far, it would not take that long to once again return to the same area. After all, he had not been traveling in a straight line, but instead a spiral that extended outwards.
In his mind, it did not take long to return to the Zhou filament. From there, it did not take long to arrive at the great earth area. This was a place that Zhou Fan had always found interesting.
He put some of his mortal dao inside of it, and it soon expanded to cover the entire great earth area.
Like the Zhou supercluster and the purple star sea, the great attractor in the center of the great earth area did not even react.
Zhou Fan covered the forbidden land and 3 other large areas before he finally felt some pressure and stopped expanding his mortal dao.
Unlike usual, he prevented anything within the 7 large areas from expanding. It would cause too much destruction to allow them to do so. Instead, he planned on personally dealing with such things.
He went back to the Zhou supercluster and felt that having so much empty space between the galaxy clusters was pointless.
As if he was a god, which he essentially was, he instantly put the 3 great attractors under his control, preventing them from affecting anything.
He then spread out the many galaxies around the entire Zhou supercluster.
Within one galaxy, Ying Xiong and everyone from the cosmic sect felt as if an overwhelming power was covering them and everything around them.
As they looked around, the far away space began to shift and move.
Nearly everyone was panicking inside. Ying Xiong was the only one who was completely calm. He stood with his hands behind his back and sighed.
"You truly are almighty." Ying Xiong mumbled under his breath.
With Zhou Fan's outer world realm power, it only took a thousand years to put everything into place.
To mortals, many generations would have passed, but to any powerful cultivators, it was as if a single year had passed.
Zhou Fan looked upon the Zhou supercluster. In those thousand years, he had not only moved things around, but allowed many things to expand in size.
The Zhou galaxy had been taken out of the Zhou galaxy cluster and placed in the upper center of the entire supercluster.
It was thousands of times bigger than before, and the planets in it were also thousands of times bigger.
The Zhou world was now especially huge. As a single planet, it was bigger than any galaxies before Zhou Fan had expanded them.
Even lesser dao creation realm cultivators would struggle to explore it all.
The 3 galaxy clusters had changed as well, but Zhou Fan had not changed their base properties.
The tree-like galaxy cluster, which was once condensed and golden, had spread out far. Its trunk was countless times larger and its branches were no longer confined to a certain area.
Instead, its branches were long and moved around the entire Zhou supercluster.
The silver river galaxy cluster was no longer so small, and its river of galaxies moved around the entire Zhou supercluster.
As for the Zhou galaxy cluster, it still had the same golden spine-like look , but was many times larger.
Altogether, the Zhou supercluster was much more beautiful, similar to a painting. The only issue was that, with so much of the Zhou supercluster being taken up, it was natural that there were large spaces in between galaxies that did not look right.
In order to change that, Zhou Fan would need to create galaxies, something that he did not believe he had the ability to do.
It would be one thing to have the materials to create a galaxy, and another to create one from nothing. He was not nearly strong enough.
The Zhou galaxy was so much bigger than any other that it did not matter if there were galaxies near it.
As he finished designing and expanding the Zhou supercluster, he began to make its space much stronger. He did not know how much more time would pass before someone was capable of breaking through the final layer of space.
He spent a lot of time and Qi strengthening the space, but after nearly 100,000 years, he managed to make the space so strong that only a 3rd level true god would be able to break the final layer without Chaos Qi or immense talent. This was under the expectation that the 3rd level true god was someone with great talent.
Ying Xiong would be able to do it at the second level of the true god realm, but he would need a long time to reach that far.
Chapter 364: The Center of the Universe - 364
Although he had made great changes in the Zhou supercluster, he did not plan on changing anything within the other large areas. After all, they barely had any life in them, and that was if they had life at all.
Zhou Fan planned to once again leave the Zhou supercluster in order to continue exploring the universe, but he decided to go back to the cosmic sect for a moment before that.
He didn't plan on staying too long, it would just be a brief visit. As soon as he returned, Ying Xiong appeared in front of him and began to ask questions.
Most of them were concerning the changes in the Zhou supercluster. When Ying Xiong learned that the Zhou galaxy had been moved far away from him, his face changed a bit.
Although he had spent a lot of time at the cosmic sect and considered it his home, the Zhou Galaxy was still where he was from. There was also the Buddhist sect.
"Don't worry about that. I'll set up a teleportation array so that you can travel back and forth." Zhou Fan said when he heard Ying Xiong's concerns.
Only then did Ying Xiong manage to stop worrying about the changes. Since Zhou Fan had asked him before he had left, Zhou Fan handed the man two maps.
One was a map of the new Zhou supercluster, while the other was a map of the now explored universe.
"I don't think that you'll be able to do anything with the universe map, but since you were interested, here." Zhou Fan said. "Also, the entire supercluster is now explorable if you are interested."
Ying Xiong nodded, thanked him and walked away, allowing everyone else to finally meet with Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan talked with all of them for a while, including Hei Ren, before sending them away and leaving the cosmic sect once again.
It wasn't long before he was standing far away from the Zhou supercluster. He liked looking at it before, but it was much more beautiful now.
Zhou Fan was able to reflect on his cultivation journey thus far.
He had started as a simple mortal, became the first cultivator, and grew stronger and stronger.
He had gone from someone who could not even destroy a tree with a punch to someone who could rearrange an entire supercluster, and if he put in a bit of time and effort, destroy it as well.
"Cultivation truly is a wonderful thing." Zhou Fan couldn't help but say to himself.
After a few minutes, Zhou Fan flew away from the Zhou supercluster and made his way towards more unexplored regions of space.
An unexplainable feeling had been welling up within him. It was as if he was being urged to continue, as if he was nearing the end of all known things.
Although he felt that there was a possibility of the universe being infinite, the urge within him seemed to be informing him otherwise.
After nearly 40,000 years, he had marked down yet another filament of space. As he continued moving, he suddenly began to feel an attraction.
One could even call it a great attraction. No, beyond even that.
Zhou Fan shot forward at full speed. Within him, the urge was saying that he was going the wrong way, but Zhou Fan could not resist himself. The attraction he felt was similar to that of a great attractor, but clearly much different. Much stronger.
He flew past what he imagined to be another filament before it finally came into sight. A giant white sphere, similar to a star, but bigger than anything Zhou Fan had ever seen.
As he laid eyes on it, Zhou Fan knew.
"This is the center of the universe." He said in wonder.
There was no other way to describe the feeling. It simply felt as if the giant white star was the center of it all.
It gave even Zhou Fan a feeling of danger, but not quite a feeling of death. If he was correct, it would be in the lower levels of the outer world realm in terms of power.
As Zhou Fan stared at it and got used to the majestic feeling it gave off, he finally realized that while he was right, he was also wrong.
The giant white star was, with no doubt, at the very center of the universe. Nothing could tell Zhou Fan otherwise.
However, it was not the peak of all power. There was no special feeling that the cosmic dao gave off. The cosmic dao was the true supreme existence of the universe.
Still, there was no doubt that the giant white star was the single greatest celestial body that Zhou Fan would ever come across within the universe. Its size was similar to that of an entire filament. It was truly unimaginable.
Still, the universe could survive without it. The cosmic dao was the hidden ruler of the universe, and the white star was merely its false appearance.
Of course, that was all metaphorically speaking. The cosmic dao was not sentient or intelligent. At best, it was like a wild beast running off of instinct, but Zhou Fan felt that it was more like a program or a robot.
Otherwise, it would have already killed Zhou Fan due to his potential and strength.
Zhou Fan decided to name the white star, "The Greatest Attractor". It was a simple name, but it accurately described it.
He did not plan on doing too much with the greatest attractor at this point in time. After all, the feeling within him had not been quenched at all, and had instead grown stronger.
Zhou Fan turned around from the greatest attractor and began to travel in a straight line, taking only the minimum amount of time to note down the areas around him.
Since the feeling within him was not quenched when he saw the center of the universe, perhaps he needed to reach the end of it.
Zhou Fan traveled at his peak speed.
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