Chapter 377: Ways to Increase Talent - 377
Well, not exactly Qi density, but cultivation speed. There was no lack of Qi in the universe. The purpose of cultivation pills was to enhance the rate at which you absorb Qi, not the amount of Qi around you.
Zhou Fan split the great world into 4 regions. The mortal realm, the outer realm, the inner realm, and the core realm. The core realm was the biggest, and took up a third of the entire great world. The inner realm and outer realm were equally big.
Each took up a fourth of the great world. Finally, the mortal realm took up a sixth of the great world. While the mortal realm sounded small, it was so big that a mortal could not even dream of traversing it. It would take them billions of years to do so.
The core realm was the biggest since the most powerful cultivators would live there. The entire core realm was on a higher altitude.
In other words, the entire core realm was on top of a flat mountain. The mountain was so high that mortals could not see the top, either because their sight did not reach that high or the clouds blocking their view. It was as tall as a galaxy.
For the mortal realm, cultivation would be at the same speed as everywhere else. Within the outer realm, cultivation would be 1.1x faster. Within the inner realm, cultivation would be 1.3x faster. Within the core realm, cultivation would be 1.5x faster. This would only take place once a cultivator reached the void traversing realm.
The effects would be in place until one reached the peak of the god realm.
Next, Zhou Fan scattered beasts and normal animals around the great world. They would grow, reproduce, and eventually cultivate.
Zhou Fan planned on giving the world plenty of time to naturally develop. By the time mass migration took place, the world would be inhabited by beasts, plants, and the few humans.
Zhou Fan left the great world, intent on coming back in a few billion years. As he was leaving, he saw Ying Xiong standing at the edge of the supercluster, curiously looking at him and the great world.
Ying Xiong had become strong enough to traverse the supercluster fairly quick, especially with the many teleportation arrays in place.
"You can leave the supercluster now. Anywhere you can reach with your cultivation has already been covered by my mortal dao." Zhou Fan said from far away.
"I know, but it would take me too long to reach that new piece of land even if I left." Ying Xiong said. "Would you be interested in adding a teleportation array nearby?"
"You can do that yourself. As a god, you should do things without asking others for help."
"Well said." Ying Xiong agreed.
"This place is off limits for now. You can create a teleportation array near it, but don't go inside." Zhou Fan said.
"Alright. It sure looks interesting." Ying Xiong said.
"It won't be too late for you to learn about it later." Zhou Fan said as he disappeared.
"Whatever." Ying Xiong said as he made his way towards the great world.
Zhou Fan had a lot of free time for the next billion years or so. He was startled when he realized that a billion years felt like a short time, but that would only increase when he got stronger.
As he moved, Zhou Fan remembered the suggestion he had gotten. A way to increase talent.
The biggest question that a person could ask would be, is life fair? In a cultivation world, the answer was absolutely no. Talent was more important than anything else. Luck was a close second. It could actually be considered number 1 if you believed that luck decided talent.
Zhou Fan planned on creating some way to increase talent, whether through a legendary fruit or a cultivation technique. There would still be a degree of luck necessary, but it would not be a one time chance like when talent was decided.
Zhou Fan connected to his mortal dao. For every region that had life, such as the Zhou galaxy or the Heaven galaxy, he set up a chance of a talent increasing fruit appearing. Every 1000 years, there was a 0.1% chance of such a fruit appearing.
At most, three could exist in one area. The fruits would appear in a completely random location each time. It could be in the middle of space, or in a deep undiscovered cave.
He did the same thing with a special technique. By absorbing the blood of people a realm stronger than you with higher talent, you could increase your talent.
The technique had the same odds of appearing as the fruit, though the technique could be taught to others.
He did not know what sort of evil the technique could cause, but he did not care either. This was a way for people to defy luck and fate. Those born without talent would finally have a chance of increasing that talent and becoming strong.
Such techniques would be very useful, especially with the incoming enemies.
It should also be noted that neither the fruit nor the technique could be found with divine sense.
For a while, Zhou Fan spent some time floating in space and staring at the distance. Occasionally, Leaf would want to play around, and Zhou Fan would oblige.
Before he had even realized it, a thousand years had passed. He snapped out of his trance and moved. He left the Zhou supercluster, bringing with him 4,997 pairs of humans, one man and one woman.
He planned on throwing some of them in the remaining large area's and seeing what would happen. He had left the great earth area alone when collecting dirt in order to not have to destroy anymore large areas.
As he passed by, a pair of people found themselves in a dome. Outside was an inhuman environment where they could not survive, but the dome kept them safe. It had trees, animals, and everything else that they and their descendants would need to survive. Hopefully, they would give birth to a talented cultivator that would lead them out of the dome.
Such a process was repeated 4,996 times. Nearly every large area in the filament had two humans living on it. He had done it to introduce an element of the unknown. Who knew what would happen to those people.
Chapter 378: City - 378
With everything he could think of done, Zhou Fan returned to the Zhou supercluster. He had at least a billion years to waste, and he did not plan to go into seclusion or cultivate.
He had spent the vast majority of his life cultivating, and he wanted to spend an extremely long time actually living.
He began to wander around the Zhou galaxy. Eventually, he found himself at city gates. After waiting in line, he was asked to prove his identity, but he could not.
"I'm a visitor from another kingdom." Zhou Fan said, hoping that kingdom's and empire's were still in fashion.
"Alright then, here's a temporary pass. It will allow you to stay in the city for a week. After that, you can either pay a fee weekly, or buy permanent residence in the city." The guard explained before waving him through.
Zhou Fan walked into the city and saw bustling streets with carriages and humans. The streets were lined with either shops or other streets. Farther away were houses, inn's, apartments, and so on.
Zhou Fan felt that nothing much had changed over the last hundreds of billions of years. This place was almost exactly the same as Lang Yang city from long long ago.
"In that case, I wonder if there is a library." Zhou Fan muttered to himself as he walked along the roads. Soon, he really did find himself a library, though it was much smaller and more humble than the large library he had known before.
The library had three floors, and each floor was only a hundred feet wide and long. While it was still one of the larger buildings, this was the only place where knowledge and books were stored in the entire city.
"Are you looking for a job?" Someone suddenly said behind him.
Zhou Fan turned around and was greeted by a woman holding a stack of papers. One of the papers was being held out towards Zhou Fan.
He nodded, grabbed the paper, and read it. It was a job advertisement. The library needed librarians.
As long as one had the most basic of knowledge, they would get the job. It felt different than before, but still very similar. If he recalled correctly, there seemed to have been some sort of competition for the librarian positions in the Lang Yang library. In this city, it seemed that the library had to hand out papers to even get people to think of having such a job.
"Sure. I'll take the job." Zhou Fan said.
His current appearance was different from his usual one. His hair was shorter and his face seemed rougher. After all, he would easily stand out with his previous long hair and face.
His hair was still gray, which stood out as he was not old, but it was simply a single unusual thing.
In the past, cultivators had not existed. Now, someone who had bright red hair would simply be considered a fire Qi cultivator.
Although cultivation was widespread, few people in the city had cultivation bases at all, and those who did had low cultivation.
Even the current city lord was no doubt below the core formation realm.
"That's great!" The woman said. "Follow me."
She walked quickly into the building and led Zhou Fan to a front desk. An old man with wrinkles and short gray hair was reading a book. He was a librarian, perhaps the head librarian.
"Is this young man applying for the librarian position?" He asked after briefly raising his head.
"Yes!" The woman answered with unnecessary excitement.
"Alright." The old man said before asking a few questions to Zhou Fan.
Luckily, they were all common sense questions.
Soon, Zhou Fan was a librarian. He was in charge of half of the 2nd floor.
He would start working tomorrow. As Zhou Fan wandered out of the library, he began to walk around again.
He saw many food stalls serving unique foods and stores selling things from mortal weapons to low quality healing potions.
As the sun fell down and was replaced by the moon, he wandered across a forested area within the city. He did not have a house, and did not plan on buying one. He went into the forested area and slept on the grass.
It was a surprisingly refreshing sleep. When he woke up, birds had landed on him and a few spiders were crawling across his body.
When he moved, the birds flew away. He smacked the spiders off of him and walked to the library.
He did not know what time it was or when he was supposed to start working, so he could only hope that he was not late.
It seemed he had woken up early, as the streets were nearly empty and a morning fog still covered the surroundings.
Zhou Fan came across the library, but it was not open yet. He sat down and leaned on a wall near a door and closed his eyes.
When he came to, the old man from yesterday was tapping on his head.
"You're early, I like your commitment." The old man said jokingly.
"Come inside. I bought a little extra breakfast when I saw you here." The old man said as he unlocked the door to the library.
Zhou Fan nodded and followed the old man through the door. They entered and sat down at one of the many tables on the first floor. Out of a brown bag, the old man pulled a tray and 4 white buns.
"Hot Buns. Bun outside, meat in the middle. Believe it or not, I've eaten one of these every morning for the last 12 years. And it's only twelve because I woke up late once. Ha!" The old man said.
"Thank You." Zhou Fan said as he grabbed one of the buns and ate it. It seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember if he had eaten one before.
"You don't seem to be from around here. Where did you come from?" The old man asked as Zhou Fan ate.
"I came from Lang Yang city." Zhou Fan answered.
"Never heard of it." The old man commented.
"It's in another kingdom." Zhou Fan said.
"That makes sense then." The old man nodded.
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