Chapter 399: Technique Pathways - 399
What were techniques? This was a common question asked by all and answered by many. The most common answer was, "A way to display strength".
However, what if a person went deeper into it. To Zhou Fan, most techniques were simply different ways of shaping Qi. There was hardly any actual difference if one ignored size and Qi cost. However, there were many variations with different uses, and many could do things that others couldn't. Some people could also display greater power with certain techniques due to resonating with them or having an affinity.
Only techniques that were created with the profoundness of the mortal or cosmic daos had any true difference in them. Otherwise, most were just different ways to use Qi.
What Zhou Fan wanted to create was a true way for techniques to be different in their very essence.
As for how, his inspiration was from meridians, the most important organ in humans.
Meridians were like tunnels in the body, and he planned on creating billions of tiny branches of these tunnels.
They would be called technique pathways. This was not a short term project, and its effect would nearly be on the same level of the creation of the river of cultivation, which it would be a part of.
These technique pathways would have to perfectly resonate with both the bodies of all creatures, as well as the universe and Qi itself in order for the project to be successful. The most important part was making sure that this was not an outside power, but a power that a human truly controlled and could not simply be taken away from them. It would also need to be possible for people to use techniques the same as now. The technique pathways would simply be a deeper study into the usage and creation of techniques.
In short, Zhou Fan was creating what could be called an organ on the level of meridians.
Zhou Fan closed his eyes as his mind moved rapidly. At the same time as he closed his eyes and thought, a portion of his thoughts had been split off in order to observe the creation of worlds.
Even Ying Xiong and Heaven moved out in order to create worlds. Although they were his friend and son respectively, he had no plans to freely reward them, especially after helping Ying Xiong reach the true god realm, something that he may never have done himself.
As for what the rewards were, they could be anything. Increased talent, weapons, materials, techniques. The possibilities were endless with Zhou Fan.
A billion years passed, and Zhou Fan realized just how big the projects he was taking on were.
The creation of worlds was naturally something huge and incomparably far reaching. Progress would take forever. He would also need to populate those worlds, though that could be done at a later time. At some point in the last billion years, he also began transporting true god realm cultivators around the filament using his power. This way, the creation of worlds would spread out in an even greater size. As of now, he was containing it to the filament, but it would absolutely expand in the future, though it would be very very far in the future.
As for the creation of technique pathways, he had made essentially zero progress. He was not making something loosely. This was going to be one of the masterpieces he would be proudest of for all of eternity.
Therefore, every part had to be perfected by him. As his strength increased, he would also update the technique pathways with the river of cultivation and the expansion of his mortal dao. Their profundities would always be on the same level as his cultivation.
100 billion years passed and Zhou Fan felt that he was 1% complete, though he had no idea if that was accurate. He could be done in another billion years, or it could indeed take 10 trillion years.
The creation of worlds was going well. Having a thousand true god cultivators was indeed useful. There were also 50,000 god realm cultivators helping as well, though they mostly designed the worlds after their creation.
With just a little effort from Zhou Fan, the universe could indeed become a completely different place. From 2 god realm cultivators to 50,000 in a billion years.
Imagine if someone had invested in god realm stocks before that.
As of now, the total land created was multiple times more than the great world, though it was simply many much smaller areas. Despite being called small, all of them could compare in size to a galaxy.
Most were desolate, with simple dirt, water, and a star or two around them. Some had grass and basic life. Some had been completely turned into a new world with beasts and some humans.
All of them would be completed later. As of now, the foundation of it all was being completed like a wave.
Zhou Fan closed his eyes as a trillion years passed. Much had changed, but to all the god realm cultivators and above, it was but a small fraction of their lifespan. God realm cultivators could live for a quadrillion years, while true god realm cultivators could live for a quintillion.
In comparison, a trillion years was a thousandth of a god realm cultivator's life span and a millionth of a true god realm cultivator's lifespan.
At this time, Ying Xiong and Heaven came to see him with a suggestion. Most of the worlds all stood on the same level, and they both believed that there should be a sort of higher realm for god realm cultivators and above. Zhou Fan had this idea as well, though he had imagined it on a larger scale.
He personally moved out, and soon, at the top of the filament, endless clouds appeared. Inside those clouds was a whole different world with 5x the cultivation speed. It was the size of a galaxy cluster, just like the great world, though it was almost entirely made from clouds.
The only way to enter was by being in the god realm. Zhou Fan gave this place a name.
"The upper realm."
Chapter 400: Lu Wei's Challenge - 400
Zhou Fan appreciated the hard work that all of the true god realm and god realm cultivators had put in over the years.
As a result, he brought all of them together for the grand opening of the upper realm. For now, it was more of a lounge area and cultivation area instead of a higher world, but it was simply a hastily made prototype.
After all, around 90% of the ground was made of clouds. That did not mean that there was no dirt. The size of the land in the upper realm was bigger than multiple galaxies.
All of the cultivators marveled at the upper realm. After a few years of relaxing, they all got back to work. There was no point in any of them cultivating.
Before leaving, Ying Xiong made a branch of the cosmic sect. He named it the upper cosmic sect.
As they all left and continued creating, Zhou Fan sat far above them all and watched while working on technique pathways.
Leaf had been wrapped around him the entire time. After cultivating during the era of infinite cultivation with a 10,000x boost and the time since then, he had reached the peak of the nascent soul realm. Just the nascent soul realm. Zhou Fan could barely comprehend the speed given Leaf's talent.
Throughout all of time, no cultivator, whether human, beast, or plant, had ever taken as long to cultivate as Leaf. Not even a fraction.
Zhou Fan had a feeling that Leaf's lifespan was even greater than his. He played with Leaf for a while while observing the creation of worlds. Soon, he was working on the technique pathways once again.
He had truly thought of a great idea.
A trillion years passed. Zhou Fan felt as if he was getting closer to the end, but it was hard to put a percentage on it due to the many different sections of development. Some were completed in a few years, while some may take even longer than a trillion years.
The comprehensions that went behind this were not something that a normal person could comprehend.
Many great talents had been born in the trillions of years that the worlds had been created, though they did not experience the era of infinite growth.
Ying Xiong had halted his work on worlds every time that a new student joined the cosmic sect.
Sadly, Zhou Fan had not seen any talents worthy of becoming his disciple. Perhaps once the creation of worlds finished and creatures were spread throughout the entire filament it would be easier to find worthy disciples. It would also be easier for the cosmic sect. After all, if the creation of worlds went as planned, then countless living beings would be born every single second. It would be a difference of millions of times, billions of times, or even greater.
Another trillion years passed, and another, and another, for 3 trillion years.
The cosmic sect had gained many more disciples, not many of which would ever reach the god realm.
Lu Wei came and met Zhou Fan at this time. Lu Wei had been one of the people who had entered the true god realm during the era of infinite cultivation.
Today, he came to challenge Zhou Fan.
"Uncle, I've been waiting a long time for this day. I challenge you to break my barrier." He said with a smile.
"If you insist. Start." Zhou Fan said.
Lu Wei rolled his die, and received a bunch of Qi.
"Sorry. Next time." Lu Wei said as he rolled his die again with the Qi he had regained.
His muscles bulged as his physical strength doubled.
"Sorry. Next time." Lu Wei said as he cultivated for a few minutes to get his reserves above the halfway point.
"Alright. Here we go." Lu Wei said as he rolled his die again.
This time, a barrier appeared around him. As a cultivator in the true god realm, it was extremely sturdy.
Zhou Fan reached out and put his finger on it. He used the strength of a peak true god realm cultivator, but there was not even a reaction.
Next, he used the physical strength of a peak outer world realm cultivator. The barrier rippled and began cracking, but it seemed as if it would hold for a while.
"You may have the greatest innate gift ever. It provides the most incredible defense I've ever seen, as well as doubled strength and instant Qi." Zhou Fan said, complimenting Lu Wei.
He then used the basic physical strength of a 1st level sage realm cultivator, and the barrier around Lu Wei shattered into pieces. He had not even used Qi.
Lu Wei seemed saddened, but he had expected it.
"As long as you know how great I am." Lu Wei said as he left happily.
As Lu Wei left, Zhou Fan wondered how powerful he was. He was now in the sage realm, and he had never truly tested his strength. In fact, he had not done so in a while.
If he had not strengthened space, then any of the true god realm cultivators could have completely destroyed space, much less him.
Due to the changes at the sage realm, he could use infinite strength without breaking space, but there had never seemed to be any reason to test his strength.
He sighed and shook his head. He would test his strength when he fought the cosmic dao.
A few years later, a report reached Ying Xiong's ears. In a far off supercluster, a god realm cultivator had died.
He was shocked beyond understanding and went off in that direction.
He headed towards the forbidden land, the home of the destruction race. Long ago, during the era of infinite cultivation, they had not been excluded at all.
However, instead of seeking Zhou Fan, they hid within the forbidden land and waited for one moment. The moment that the king of the destruction race faced the great attractor of the forbidden land.
The king of the destruction race did not reproduce by going into the black hole, but had instead shown power greater than it, although he did not attack or destroy it.
Ying Xiong and the other true gods and the gods had never entered the forbidden land as it was not in the direction they had first begun developing in.
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