Chapter 374: The Sage Realm - 374
Zhou Fan grabbed the first piece of paper and read it.
"I want my son to love me again."
Zhou Fan looked at the letter, stunned for a moment, before tossing it away.
"I want Daisy to fall in love with me."
Zhou Fan tossed the piece of paper away again.
"I want to find my lost necklace."
Zhou Fan threw the paper away.
'I may not have been clear enough.' He thought to himself. Still, he did not stop reading the papers, hoping to find a few good ones.
"I think it would be cool if cultivation was easier."
Zhou Fan was relieved to finally find an ok piece of paper, but he did not plan on putting it into effect.
After 10 more useless papers, Zhou Fan pulled out another one related to cultivation.
"I would like it if there were more people to kill. There seems to be no enemies anymore."
'Probably because you're living in the cosmic sect.' Zhou Fan thought before tossing the paper away.
Many more useless papers later, another one on the topic of cultivation was found.
"I wish there were ways to get talent without being born with it."
This one interested Zhou Fan. He felt that it had some merit. After all, there was essentially no way for someone without talent to reach a high cultivation realm. That was why the cosmic sect had all of the inner world cultivators in the universe. Talent was the basis for reaching such a realm.
Zhou Fan noted the last paper down and continued.
None of the remaining papers gave too many good ideas. Around 95% of them were unrelated to cultivation at all.
Zhou Fan waved his hand and collected the suggestions boxes. They would not be of much further use within the cosmic sect.
It was about time for him to continue cultivating. With Leaf around him, he said goodbye to the people within the cosmic sect.
Soon, he was far away from the Zhou supercluster, floating in the endless dark space.
He put Leaf in the sword's mini-world, but made sure that he could enter and leave any time he wanted.
Luckily, Leaf was still a plant. The passing of time did not affect him that much.
Zhou Fan crossed his legs, closed his eyes, and began to cultivate.
500 billion years later, Qi pulsed out of his body in waves. Its power was enough to completely obliterate space, but for some reason, it did not.
Zhou Fan opened his eyes. He had entered "the sage realm". Besides the increase in everything that naturally came with a breakthrough, there was only one new thing.
He called it, one with the universe. Now, unless he had the intention of doing so, his attacks, no matter how strong, would not break space.
It was a very useful ability, and he was glad that it existed.
Along with the excitement of having such an ability, he was also excited by the possibilities that such an ability would add when used with arrays.
He immediately began to practice the 5 main arts to the 13th rank. Each took 20 billion years, for a total of 100 billion years.
The first thing that Zhou Fan did when he finished his seclusion was to check on Leaf. When he looked inside the mini-world, he saw Leaf happily swaying while breathing Qi. He was in the nascent soul realm.
Zhou Fan was astonished to see just how slow his growth was. It was actually terrifying. He would be less shocked if someone cultivated to the inner world realm in 1000 years than he was right now.
Zhou Fan shook his head and sobered up from his shock. He looked around, and the plants near Leaf were also swaying, following his movements. Most of them did not have intelligence, but it seemed that Leaf still managed to affect them.
Zhou Fan walked up to Leaf, who happily greeted him and wrapped around him.
Zhou Fan played with Leaf. He realized that Leaf cultivating slowly may not be a bad thing. It likely signified that Leaf's lifespan would be horrifyingly long. After all, he had lived for 600 billion years in the nascent soul realm.
That was as shocking to Zhou Fan as the fact that he was only in the nascent soul realm.
Zhou Fan left the mini-world with Leaf wrapped around him.
He planned on going to the cosmic sect, but he first wanted to expand his mortal dao. He felt that it could increase in size, and not just slightly.
From the large areas that his mortal dao covered, it began to expand. It expanded fast, and went far without any sign of slowing down.
Zhou Fan watched in amazement as the entire Zhou filament was covered. It was a level of growth he did not expect, not even for a second.
Covering all 5000 large areas in the filament was one thing, but all the space between them was incomprehensible.
It was not as if the large areas were next to each other, or even near each other. The difference between the space between the large areas and the large areas was more than a ratio of 1000 to 1.
While he was shocked, Zhou Fan did not stay shocked for too long. He did not even know what to do with so much space.
Soon, he and Leaf arrived at the cosmic sect. Just as he arrived, Ying Xiong met him. It seemed that he had been waiting for him.
"I am ready to make a breakthrough." Ying Xiong said.
"To the god realm?" Zhou Fan asked.
"Yes." Ying Xiong replied.
"I was waiting for you so that I could avoid any possible complications in my breakthrough. Now that you are here, I can finally start." Ying Xiong explained.
"Sure, I don't mind that, but let me do something first." Zhou Fan said as he turned to leave.
With the new abilities of 13th rank arrays, he needed to change something.
Firstly, he reverted all the space that he had ever strengthened to its natural state. Every cultivator at the space shattering realm and above felt the change, but it vanished quickly.
Zhou Fan had affected the entire Zhou supercluster with a 13th rank array that incorporated the special ability of the sage realm, "One with the universe", as well as the power of his mortal dao.
Chapter 375: Tribulation - 375
In essence, the array did not truly change much. It only made things more natural. Instead of forcibly increasing space's strength, it simply increased the resistance that space had against attacks.
Each layer of space had a certain level of resistance, and it was nearly impossible for anyone to even reach the final layer. Even Ying Xiong would be unable to.
Soon, Zhou Fan returned to the cosmic sect. Ying Xiong had been waiting, and upon seeing Zhou Fan give a nod, flew out of the galaxy and began to breakthrough.
Zhou Fan was the only one near him, watching him start his breakthrough. As he watched, Zhou Fan felt that it was too easy. It would be much more logical if there was some sort of interference or challenge to breaking through.
Zhou Fan sent Ying Xiong a voice transmission. Ying Xiong's face changed, but he nodded in agreement.
As he went through the process of breaking through, lightning began to flash above him. Ying Xiong looked up, ready for it, and a lightning bolt struck down.
It hit Ying Xiong, but he did not even react. The next bolt began to flash, and Ying Xiong felt power from this one. He covered himself with his bell before the bolt struck down.
Bang!
His bell was struck and rang out, but it was only slightly charred. Another, and the final bolt began to prepare to descend. Ying Xiong felt some danger to this one, and as the bolt fell down, a cosmic buddha's palm met it.
The two attacks dispersed each other. Soon, Ying Xiong successfully broke through.
"What was that for?" Ying Xiong asked immediately. He did not even check out his new strength or test out the divinity within him, but instantly questioned Zhou Fan.
"I'm considering adding "Tribulations" during certain breakthroughs. It would finally create a challenge to prevent anyone with talent from breaking through." Zhou Fan explained.
"But that was pretty weak." Ying Xiong stated bluntly.
"I'm still working out the specifics. Plus, do you think everyone who reaches the god realm would be as talented as you?" Zhou Fan asked.
"Probably." Ying Xiong responded.
Zhou Fan relented. "Fine. In that case, prepare for a real tribulation."
Lightning began to flash above Ying Xiong, who immediately broke through space and ran away.
"Just kidding." He said shamelessly.
Zhou Fan shook his head and returned to the cosmic sect, Leaf still wrapped around him.
As he returned, he saw Ying Xiong telling all of his disciples about his breakthrough. They looked at him with clear admiration.
Zhou Fan was about to ignore the group and go past them, but someone suddenly pointed at him.
"Is that the origin god?" He said.
Everyone's attention turned away from Ying Xiong and focused on Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan waved and began to walk away, but before he could, he was surrounded. Everyone surrounding him bowed and greeted him.
"It's an honor to meet the origin god." The majority of them said. Others said a variation of that.
Zhou Fan assumed this was the part where he acted cool.
"It is an honor for me to meet the future cultivators of our universe. I hope that each and every one of you can reach the god realm." Zhou Fan said.
Many of the disciples were excited by his encouragement.
It made for a weird sight considering that many took on an elderly appearance fitting for their age. Luckily, there were a few people that kept young faces.
Zhou Fan soon excused himself and entered his mountain, where he rested with Leaf for the next few days. Soon, he left the mountain.
It was time to change cultivation society, and Zhou Fan had many ideas. He had considered testing his power, but there was really no point. He would experience nothing interesting.
Zhou Fan left the Zhou supercluster and entered the forbidden land. Long ago, he had considered creating a race that could survive such conditions, but not only would it have been difficult, but he did not have much interest at the time.
Unfortunately for humanity and all other races, he had understood something while staying within the cosmic sect.
There was really no point in cultivating for most people. At some point, it would likely be better to just give up. Increasing lifespan was one of the few benefits, and authority was as well.
However, some could argue that there was truly no need for cultivators to exist within the universe. They lived for one simple reason, to live.
People like Ying Xiong stopped others from doing bad things out of boredom or desire, but that only served to once again lower the incentives of cultivating.
Zhou Fan did not really consider himself a part of humanity. That allowed him to look at everything from a much different point of view. A neutral point of view. Long ago, for the Zhou Galaxy, he had created the grim reaper.
What he planned on doing now would be for the same purpose, but much different than before. This time, he would not do it for the sole purpose of creating a common enemy.
This time, he would create a true race with free will, just as humans, celestials, beasts, and others did.
In other words, he would not stop these beings from destroying humanity, as long as they earned it.
He would not prefer such a thing, but if it happened, he could only blame humans and other such races.
Within the forbidden land, Zhou Fan began to design the race. Technically, there would be multiple races, but the first one would be the race that signified destruction.
In simple terms, they would be humanoid black holes. This was one of the only ways that Zhou Fan could create a race that could survive in the forbidden land.
Each member of the race would be born at the void traversing realm. Luckily, they would have a low reproduction rate, but not too low. There would be plenty alive.
First things first, creating the first member of the race. As he moved his fingers, he felt nostalgia.
Long ago, Tian Ren was the first Heavenborn. There were also the first celestials.
This time, he would be creating a race that could be considered polar opposites of those two.
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