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.
Chapter 376: The Destruction Race and The Great World- 376
Soon, a humanoid figure stood in front of Zhou Fan. He was the first among the race of humanoid blackholes.
His entire body was one big swirl, with black lines and gray background. As the first of its kind, this one would be different. It would be very intelligent. Still, it would have the urge to destroy and harm, but it would be smart about it.
Even to the point of making long plans in order to cause the most damage. It stood still, floating in space as Zhou Fan created other members.
The next one looked exactly like the previous one, but as soon as it was born, it began to run around and attempt to cause destruction.
"Silence." A voice said, causing the new creature to become stiff and still.
The one who had spoken was the first humanoid blackhole. As an intelligent being, he held absolute control over those of his species without intelligence.
"I, Lin Zhenwu, the first member of the destruction race, hereby command you to kneel." The voice said.
Without thought or hesitation, the 2nd member of the destruction race knelt down in the first member's direction. Soon, more and more began to pop up, and every new one would kneel.
Creation of the destruction race only stopped when their total numbers reached 100. Among those 100, only 1 was intelligent.
"I, the king of the destruction race, Lin Zhenwu, hereby command each and every one of you to reproduce." The first member of the destruction race announced.
Without thought or hesitation, the members of the destruction race listened. They were different from humans when it came to reproduction.
The members of the destruction race ran into blackholes at full speed and self detonated. The explosion, although weak, seemed to resonate with the blackhole, which then shrunk.
When it finally stopped shrinking, there were two humanoid blackholes. Members of the destruction race reproduced by dying in a blackhole. They had to choose their blackhole's carefully, as ones too powerful would only devour the members of the destruction race.
Only the king did not reproduce.
As long as there were blackholes, members of the destruction race would be able to reproduce. Even if they one day ran out of blackholes, if even a single member gained the ability of understanding of creation, there would be no end to the amount of destruction race members that could be created.
As the creation process was taking place, the king left. As he was not far away from it, he soon saw the great sight of the great attractor. It was a blackhole.
"One day, I shall surpass you." He said before turning around and returning.
The king sat back on his self created throne and solemnly watched as new members were created.
Soon, he began to cultivate. The king's talent was not to be underestimated. He had immortal god 1 rank meridians, though his only affinity was blackhole Qi.
He also had a blackhole divine physique.
Meanwhile, Zhou Fan had returned to the cosmic sect. He had considered creating other races, but he had outdone himself with the destruction race.
They would be plenty of a threat all by themselves.
He soon left the cosmic sect, ready to create another thing.
After traveling for a while, Zhou Fan arrived at his destination. The 25 patch great area was right in front of him. With a wave of his hand, all of the dirt that made up the great patch area began to deform and flow towards Zhou Fan.
Soon, a giant ball of dirt was formed from 50% of the dirt and other minerals from the 25 patch great area.
The rest was still coming towards him.
At this time, the great attractor flared up. A giant burst of flame was sent towards Zhou Fan. Zhou Fan flicked his finger, and the great attractor was erased from existence.
He found it a pity to do so, but he had always wanted to see what would happen. Space destabilized, and a great explosion ensued. Even bits of cosmic dao could be seen.
That was all, just an explosion. Zhou Fan soon left with all of the dirt. As he moved, he collected every bit of dirt he came across, though it was not too much compared to what he gained from the 25 patch great area.
Before long, he arrived outside of the Zhou supercluster.
He waved his hand, and the dirt flattened out and formed a giant piece of land. It was essentially a flat world.
Although it seemed very thin, the depth of the dirt went down farther than a galaxy in every area.
Its total land size was even bigger than an entire galaxy cluster in size, even including the space between galaxies.
A few people noticed the giant landmass appear as it was very hard to miss. Zhou Fan waved his hand again, and life blossomed on the planet.
Grass and trees grew rapidly, mountains formed and sea's quenched the ground. An atmosphere soon formed and a giant artificial sun began to slowly revolve around the flat world.
Before long, the piece of land was completely suitable for human life. Zhou Fan grabbed through space, his hand reaching the Zhou galaxy. He took a hundred random people and spread them across the edges of the circular flat world in pairs of two.
They would reproduce, and their children would eventually fill the land.
Zhou Fan named this place "The Great World". Although he had created it on a whim, it would be the place of gathering for all of humanity, as no space blocked people from traveling, despite it being bigger than an entire galaxy cluster.
The outside of the great world, around which he had thrown the humans, was the safest area with little danger. Even mortals could survive with minimal luck.
Zhou Fan planned on making the center of the great world desirable, which would cause all the strongest beings to get as close to the center as possible.
The first thing that came out his mind was Qi density.
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