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.
Three people flew towards Zhou Fan. One held a spear and seemed like a guard, while the other two seemed younger and looked like students.
"Halt. Who are you to enter the inner area of the cosmic sect?" The man who looked like a guard asked.
"Zhou Fan." Zhou Fan said.
The guard did not seem to recognize the name, but the two people behind him certainly did.
One put a hand on the guard's shoulder to stop him from speaking further, while the other bowed to Zhou Fan.
"Our apologies for not recognizing you, Sir origin god." The student said.
Zhou Fan looked at him with confusion.
"Origin god? Do you have the right person?" Zhou Fan asked.
"Of course. Zhou Fan, the origin god, the first cultivator. Now that I take a closer glance, it is obvious." The student said. "I'll go get the sect master."
Zhou Fan waited. He assumed that the origin god was a title given to him. He just did not know who would give it to him.
Soon, Ying Xiong arrived in front of Zhou Fan.
"The origin god, huh." Zhou Fan said.
"Lu Zhong and Feng Liu decided to give you that title. There is also a statue of you. Your disciple Hei Ren created it." Ying Xiong said.
"Whatever." Zhou Fan said as he began flying towards the center of the Cosmic Sect. "Let me see the statue."
Ying Xiong nodded and brought Zhou Fan towards a large building. It was a temple.
As he entered through two large doors, he saw a marble floor and white walls. There was gold everywhere, lining everything within the temple.
Far ahead was a statue of Zhou Fan made out of stone. He had to admit, it looked just like him.
Still, he was dumbfounded by the design of the temple itself. He did not even consider that Lu Zhong and Feng Liu would do such a thing. He did not know how to feel, so he decided to just ignore it.
"What is that plant wrapped around you?" Ying Xiong finally asked after staring at Leaf for an entire minute.
"His name is Leaf. You can consider him my disciple, though he seems to treat me like a father." Zhou Fan said.
Ying Xiong was confused, but like Zhou Fan had with the temple, he decided to ignore it.
"Call Hei Ren over." Zhou Fan said.
Ying Xiong nodded and sent a message to Hei Ren. In just a second, Hei Ren appeared in front of Zhou Fan and knelt.
"Hello master." Hei Ren said.
"It's good to see you again. This is your junior brother." Zhou Fan said as he pointed to one of Leaf's branches.
Hei Ren looked stunned and confused as Leaf waved at him.
"Um. Hi." Hei Ren said.
"Anyways." Zhou Fan clapped his hands. "I have a request."
"What do you need, master?" Hei Ren asked.
"Look at me closely." Zhou Fan said.
Hei Ren lifted his head and did so.
"Remake the statue, but add Leaf." Zhou Fan said seriously.
Once again, Hei Ren was stunned.
"Alright." He said as he left the temple.
"And make him colored!" Zhou Fan shouted.
His statue was made out of gray stone and did not have any color, so he made sure to tell Hei Ren that Leaf should have color.
Soon, Hei Ren returned and replaced the statue in the temple.
Zhou Fan looked the same, but there was a brown and green sapling wrapped around his body, just how Leaf was.
Zhou Fan nodded, the statue was much better than before.
"Alright, I did not come here to play around. Tell all of the sect's disciples, and even everyone in the outer area, to gather." Zhou Fan said before he disappeared.
He floated in space, waiting for everyone to gather. Soon, there were around 20,000 people in front of him, the entirety of the cosmic sect.
Few were disciples. Many were wearing some suits that allowed them to be in space without being in the void traversing realm. Some were descendants of disciples and some were family members descended from the group once brought with the shipment of disciples from long ago.
With the new system in place, families would no longer be brought, but the damage had already been done, causing many ordinary cultivators to live in the cosmic sect.
As Zhou Fan surveyed the people, it was clear that they all recognized him as the origin god.
There was probably more than just a single temple.
"Alright. I have a serious request for all of you." Zhou Fan said as a wooden box appeared in front of him. Painted on its side was the phrase, "Complaints and suggestions".
Zhou Fan waved his hand, and a large amount of paper appeared around everyone.
"If anyone has any complaints or suggestions, or even something that could be refined, about cultivation or the universal structure, please write it down and put it in this box." Zhou Fan said.
Everyone present was stunned, including Ying Xiong and the disciples of the sect.
"I will leave boxes around the cosmic sect. At any time that an idea occurs to you, please write it down and put it in a box. Thank You." Zhou Fan said as he disappeared, leaving a box floating in his place.
Zhou Fan did not believe that he alone could perfectly design cultivation and the universe. He was not that creative. It would be interesting to see what others thought about the matter.
He did not concern himself with what happened around the cosmic sect for the next year or so. He spent his time relaxing on his mountain and watching Leaf grow.
It seemed that, no matter how much time passed, Leaf never grew or increased its cultivation.
It would take a very long time for changes to occur within Leaf, especially due to his divine physique.
Finally, after around 5 years passed, Zhou Fan collected all the papers within the boxes. He piled them into a small mountain in his yard and began to read them.
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