Chapter 371: Leaf - 371
Over the next year, Zhou Fan spent his time in the cosmic sect. He created the system that would allow great talents to receive Ying Xiong's invitation, and helped add additions to the teleportation hub.
He also spent more time with Ying Xiong. Ever since their last battle, Ying Xiong had sought out Zhou Fan more. He had asked many questions and received help many times.
As a result, Ying Xiong's strength was undergoing drastic changes.
For others, Zhou Fan may not be willing to help them so much, but Ying Xiong was different. He was truly talented, and he deserved respect from even Zhou Fan.
Unsurprisingly, when everyone else saw Zhou Fan helping Ying Xiong so much, they began to seek him out more.
At some point, Zhou Fan barely had a moment of peace. He ended up putting down rules that someone could only visit him for help once a year, excluding Ying Xiong.
This caused Zhou Fan to once again live peacefully in his courtyard. Once, Zhou Fan pulled up a fish in the lesser dao creation realm.
They awkwardly looked at each other for a moment before Zhou Fan lowered his rod and put the fish back where it came from.
Zhou Fan got up and left the mountain. He felt that the fish was a sign for him to leave.
He left the cosmic sect with waving people behind him. He had chosen to leave Hei Ren in the cosmic sect, and not take him with him anymore.
Although he was satisfied with his disciple, he had essentially reached his peak. It was highly unlikely for him to reach the god realm, and even if he did, he would stop there.
Zhou Fan needed to think about requirements for accepting disciples in the future. At the very least, they would have to have talent beyond Ying Xiong's.
Yet, even after so much time had passed, Ying Xiong was still the most talented person in the universe besides Zhou Fan.
It would likely be a very very long time before Zhou Fan was able to accept another disciple.
Zhou Fan moved out of the cosmic sects galaxy and went to the top of the Zhou supercluster.
He took a deep breath and prepared to enter seclusion for the foreseeable future. Hopefully, someone truly talented would be born during that time. If that happened, he would take them before the cosmic sect did.
Just short of 700 billion years later, Zhou Fan's eyes opened. He was at the peak of the outer world realm. He was not yet ready to reach another realm, and planned to do some things before that.
Excitedly, Zhou Fan took out a block of ice. In it was a single 5 year old child. This child was not human, or even humanoid. Zhou Fan laughed to himself as he looked at it. Not only was it not human, but it was not beast either.
In fact, many people would debate whether or not its species was even truly alive.
Inside the ice block was a tiny sapling, a young tree, just 5 years old. It had 0 intelligence. It simply existed and grew.
Still, this tree had meridians. And they were not low level meridians. It was a level of talent that was an outlier amongst the entire universe, just how Ying Xiong was.
Zhou Fan instantly moved to a planet in the nearest galaxy. It had produced many species, and the environment was similar to earth.
Zhou Fan carefully melted the ice and created nutrient-filled dirt beneath the saplings' roots.
The roots quickly took place in the floating dirt and absorbed nutrients.
Zhou Fan created a dome around him and the sapling that prevented any living being from interacting with him or the sapling.
He carefully poured life Qi out and nurtured the tree. It slowly experienced an increase in cultivation and intelligence. Over the period of nearly 10 years, Zhou Fan spent every moment perfectly caring for the tree.
One day, the tree, which was still a sapling that looked no different from before, began to wave its small branches.
It acted as if it was searching for something, or someone. When it touched Zhou Fan the branches wrapped around him and embraced him as if he was the saplings parent. In some way, he was.
Zhou Fan decided to name the sapling "Leaf".
Leaf's cultivation had not increased by much. It was only at the peak of the foundation establishment realm.
Zhou Fan had spent most of his effort carefully nurturing its intelligence. Although it was easy for him to grant things intelligence and cultivation, there were many side effects, especially once it reached the higher realms.
Although it would have a miniscule, or even 0 effect if he raised Leaf's intelligence and cultivation to its current state speedily, he did not want to take any risks.
Instead of forcefully giving it intelligence and cultivation, he had simply guided it and did very little himself.
In its current state, Leaf was essentially a human child in terms of intelligence.
His talent was above the immortal god rank. It was a new rank, named the immortal Godking rank. He was not low leveled within the immortal Godking rank.
Leaf had immortal Godking 1 ranked meridians. Even Zhou Fan found such a level of talent completely shocking.
Leaf also had many affinities, all of them relating to nature in some way, and a divine physique, though Zhou Fan had almost no clue what it did.
Within the dome that Zhou Fan created, Leaf happily entwined around him, showing its affection in a way that plants apparently did.
Although Leaf could not speak or understand words, Zhou Fan still felt an urge to speak to it, just like a parent spoke to a newborn.
"There was a joke that Ying Xiong told me. I can't remember most of it, but the punchline went, "Leaf me alone, I'm bushed!"" Zhou Fan said.
Leaf could not understand him, but it seemed happy to hear him speak at all. As he played around with Leaf, Zhou Fan could not help but think of how he would take Leaf with him in the future.
After all, he would absolutely not leaf him alone.
Chapter 372: Mini-World - 372
As he thought more and more over the matter, Zhou Fan's thoughts began to reach a conclusion.
The best thing to do would be to create some sort of mini-world. It would be a world contained in a very small area, something that Zhou Fan would be able to take with him anywhere he went.
With his mastery of space, such a thing would not be very difficult. In some ways, it shared similarities with creating a spatial ring, although it was much more complicated than that.
Zhou Fan thought for a moment before creating a sword. The sword was very powerful. Zhou Fan managed to enhance the metal until it was at the true god realm, though that took a bit of time and Qi.
Zhou Fan planned to make the mini-world within the sword, or rather, the mini-world itself would be the sword.
He chose a sword since it was easy to carry around and didn't stand out too much. He could simply put the sword on his back and he would never be far away from Leaf.
The process was complicated without a doubt, but explaining it was simple enough.
The outer shell of the sword, which everyone would see, would be essentially the atmosphere of the world. Inside the sword would be compressed space. By entering that compressed space, one would see a large world.
Zhou Fan first excavated the inner parts of the sword, leaving only the outside shell. Then, he grabbed some space and locked it within the sword. He then added more space to that space, compressing it. With a couple arrays and formations, a large and stable space could be entered just by charging your Qi through the sword.
That space would be empty and the only thing one would see would be far off walls, or the inner wall of the sword.
Zhou Fan temporarily left sapling alone, putting a large amount of natural dirt, water, and air into his separate space before entering the sword mini-world.
He created a large layer of dirt covering the bottom half of the sword's mini-world. The mini-world was extremely large, taking up as much space as earth before Zhou Fan ever expanded it, just flat.
Next, Zhou Fan added rivers within the mini-world, using the extra dirt to create some hills.
Finally, he released air, bringing vibrance to the mini-world. He had brought in natural dirt and water so that he did not have to create the tiny creatures and nutrients within them himself.
Next, Zhou Fan used sun Qi in order to form a sun in the air that gave off heat, light, and a feeling of life.
After that, Zhou Fan made a blue sky and created a natural system of clouds and weather.
Finally, he created some trees to accompany Leaf. After all, he would have to spend large amounts of time alone, although he would likely not feel it much as he was a tree.
Zhou Fan was done with the creation process. Next was the enhancement process. He did not need to enhance it, but he wanted the best environment for Leaf.
He spread out his divine sense, and every single part of the ecosystem was perfectly refined in a way that only a top tier cultivator could do.
He also spread out life Qi all around him in order to help Leaf grow. Naturally, there was already Qi inside the mini-world.
Zhou Fan left the mini-world and appeared next to Leaf. Sensing his presence, Leaf began to sway and reach out for him. Zhou Fan played around with Leaf for a bit before bringing him to the sword's mini-world.
When they appeared, they appeared in the very center of the mini-world. Feeling the environment, Leaf's roots began to move in a bout of excitement.
Zhou Fan sat him down, and Leaf instantly rooted himself in the ground before beginning to breathe Qi.
Plants cultivated differently from humans, and while somewhat similar to beasts, their systems were also completely different.
As he had said, plants would breathe Qi instead of absorbing it. They would naturally take the Qi into their bodies, and it would flow within them, before finally leaving.
During the process, they would absorb a tiny amount of Qi. This would make their cultivation much slower, which was why powerful plants were a rarity on most planets.
This meant that talent was usually unimportant to plants. After all, they would cultivate slowly no matter what. Even Leaf, with immortal godking meridians, would cultivate slower than a normal, untalented human.
However, Leaf's talent would allow him to almost never reach a bottleneck, which plagued many cultivators. Even Ying Xiong suffered from them. Only Zhou Fan was an exception.
With Leaf's talent, even Zhou Fan did not know how far he would go. Regardless, it would take an overwhelming amount of time.
Zhou Fan even had a feeling that Leaf's divine physique would cause him to cultivate slower, though that was only an instinctual feeling.
Luckily, plants' lifespans were also different from humans. In the same realm, they could live from hundreds of times longer to millions of times longer than a human. The exact amount was unknown and random.
Zhou Fan watched as Leaf happily absorbed the Qi around him and was relieved. If Leaf didn't enjoy the process of cultivating, then Zhou Fan had no idea how he would feel when Zhou Fan spent billions of years in seclusion.
Zhou Fan exited the swords mini-world, and Leaf appeared next to him. Leaf could uproot at any time, so leaving the mini-world was never an issue.
With Zhou Fan's guidance, Leaf moved onto his back, before wrapping around him. Wherever Zhou Fan went, Leaf would follow.
Zhou Fan moved through space, while protecting Leaf of course, and soon arrived at the cosmic sect.
He instantly noticed how much it had changed from before. The outer area of the cosmic sect was bustling, and the inner section also seemed to be active, although less so.
There were more buildings in the inner section, as there must have been a lot of new students over the last 700 billion years.
Zhou Fan was soon spotted, and a few people flew towards him.
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