Chapter 406: Reincarnation - 406
Zhou Fan quietly thought as 10 trillion years passed. In that time, many assemblies had taken place in the upper realm and contribution points were spent.
Surprisingly, Ying Xiong had yet to buy anything ever since the first meeting. He had also stopped working with technique pathways and instead began to frantically create worlds. It was clear that he had a large request for Zhou Fan that was not something listed in the exchange.
Zhou Fan did not pay much attention to it. As usual, the creation of worlds was not yet finished, and it would not be for a long time despite many advancements in the area.
For example, some people had created techniques to speed up their creation. When using them with Zhou Fan's power, they were able to boost their speed greatly.
Unsurprisingly, Ying Xiong was the number 1 pioneer in this area.
Zhou Fan slowly stood up and stretched. He decided to explore the rest of the universe since he had nothing better to do.
Even for him, moving around the universe was a long task, but after a billion or so years, he had mapped out everything. There were not any surprises. The greatest attractor was the only thing that Zhou Fan really paid attention to in the entire universe.
With the entire universe mapped out, Zhou Fan finally had an accurate view of all of existence.
There were 8 universal sectors. Within them were filaments, and within filaments were superclusters or supercluster-like areas.
Universal sector 1, where the Zhou filament was located, held 11 filaments. Each one was about the size of the Zhou filament. He did not name them. He was satisfied with the Zhou filament. He would leave the rest to future cultivators.
Since he seemed to have a theme, he went ahead and named the universe, "The Zhou Universe".
It would take a long time for the universe to be populated, as seen by the current creation of worlds.
At the current rate, it would be a nearly infinite amount of time.
Zhou Fan wished that he had found some sort of bump in the sphere that was the universe, but there was none. The universe was a perfectly enclosed sphere.
There was nothing special out there, just the universe. The cosmic dao was not found, but Zhou Fan had long guessed that he could simply not see it.
Zhou Fan returned to the Zhou filament and began to cultivate. Since he had so much free time, it would not hurt to go ahead and reach the peak of the sage realm.
3 trillion years later, Zhou Fan entered the 2nd level of the sage realm.
61 trillion years later, Zhou Fan stopped cultivating. He had underestimated the sage realm. It had taken him this long to simply reach the 5th level.
This was by far the longest he had ever cultivated at once.
A lot had changed, but at the same time, nothing had. The creation of worlds was still ongoing, and progress had definitely been made, but it was not yet finished.
It was soon after he stopped cultivating that Ying Xiong came up to Zhou Fan and requested something with his contribution points.
"Really now. What a great idea, but do you really think that your current contribution points are enough for such a thing?" Zhou Fan asked.
"I don't know how difficult it would be for you." Ying Xiong asked.
"If you want everything, work hard for another hundred trillion years, as well as create more techniques to speed up the creation of worlds. Then, although the contribution points would still be too low, I will make an exception, just for you." Zhou Fan said.
"Thank you." Ying Xiong bowed solemnly and left.
When he was out of earshot, Zhou Fan laughed.
"As expected of Ying Xiong."
Zhou Fan shook his head and began to cultivate again in order to pass some time. Nothing needed his attention.
160 trillion years later, Zhou Fan stopped cultivating. He had entered the 7th level of the sage realm.
He had cultivated a bit over the hundred trillion year mark, but he was sure that Ying Xiong would understand. Especially since this was more of a favor than a reward.
When Zhou Fan descended from the sky, he saw Ying Xiong waiting for him.
"I'll assume you've taken care of everything you need to do." Zhou Fan said.
"I have. Everything will be handled upon my death." Ying Xiong said in a serious tone.
"Alright. Just to be clear. You want me to reincarnate you with better talent?" Zhou Fan asked.
"Yes." Ying Xiong responded.
"Alright. For that, I will set meridians ranked immortal god 2 and above on a scale and it will be randomly chosen from there. Second, you want to keep your divine physique?" Zhou Fan asked again.
"Yes. It is a part of me." Ying Xiong nodded.
"Alright. And finally, you want your memories. No can do. That's barely even reincarnation. How about this? You will be born with the name Ying Xiong and have a buddhist affinity. Upon reaching the god realm, and under the condition that you do it without my help, you will receive pieces of your memories." Zhou Fan negotiated.
"That works for me." Ying Xiong said.
"Alright then. Well. I guess this is goodbye." Zhou Fan said as he held out his hand.
Ying Xiong reached out his hand and firmly shook Zhou Fan's.
"It was nice knowing you. Thank you for all you've done." Ying Xiong said with a smile.
Zhou Fan smiled and a green spiraling portal appeared at his side.
Ying Xiong continued to smile as his body was dragged into the portal and he "Reincarnated".
He was born on a random planet, and his birth caused a phenomenon, though it was unseen by anybody who would recognize it as the painting on Ying Xiong's back.
Just like that, Ying Xiong died and was reborn, all in the pursuit of greater cultivation.
Chapter 407: New Ying Xiong - 407
Zhou Fan admired Ying Xiong's dedication to cultivation. He was even willing to die for a chance to grow stronger.
Although the Ying Xiong that Zhou Fan knew was gone, he would return in not too long. The reborn Ying Xiong would have pieces of the old Ying Xiong's memories, though he would have merely pieces and would be a different person.
Zhou Fan closed his eyes and began to cultivate. A trillion years later he opened his eyes.
"Ying Xiong" was right in front of him.
"Zhou Fan. The origin god." Ying Xiong said as he looked at Zhou Fan.
"That's me. It seems you don't remember much."
Ying Xiong's gaze was different than before. It used to be familiar and, on some level, the gaze of looking at an equal.
Now, Ying Xiong was looking at him like everyone else. Like he was a god.
"I don't have that many memories. I came to greet you." Ying Xiong said.
"I see. You have hair now." Zhou Fan stated as he looked at Ying Xiong's head.
"I suppose I was bald before then." Ying Xiong said.
"Alright. You can leave."
Ying Xiong nodded and left.
Ying Xiong had gotten quite lucky. His meridians were immortal godking rank 10.
He was the second being to ever receive godking rank meridians, right after Leaf.
Still, he was currently one of the weakest members of the Cosmic sect. It would take him a long time to reach the true god realm.
Zhou Fan wondered how his strength compared to the old Ying Xiong at the same level. For one, he no longer had the yellow piercing sword finger that he had used to defeat Yao Mun.
He had already re-learned the Buddha's palm and the cosmic support art, but it would take him a while to fully re-learn everything he had learned in the past.
Before reincarnating, Ying Xiong had left behind instructions for the cosmic sect. They had long received Ying Xiong and fueled him with all of their resources. Even a large amount of the true gods had come back to the cosmic sect in order to help him.
He had never understood this until he regained some memories. He would regain more upon entering the true god realm, but it would still be a tiny fraction of his life.
He would never be the Ying Xiong that he had been in the past.
Zhou Fan sighed at the last of his friends gone. Only Heaven and Leaf remained, but they were more like his children.
Zhou Fan refocused and considered going into seclusion. However, he realized that, if he went into seclusion until he reached the peak of the sage realm, all of the god realm cultivators would have died of old age.
He sighed again as he realized that they had spent so many years of their life working for him and his goals.
He sent a notice to all of the gods, besides Ying Xiong, to go to the upper realm. 10 years later, he appeared in front of them.
When he looked down, he saw all of the gods' excited gazes. Their belief, respect, and reverence in him had only grown over the years. Zhou Fan did not even understand why or how himself.
"You all have worked hard over the many years, yet I feel that I have neglected you. As many of you know, inner world realm cultivators have a lifespan of 5 trillion years, and gods have a lifespan of 1 quadrillion years. Believe it or not, that time will soon be upon us. Therefore, I have decided to change that. With my power, the lifespan of inner world realm cultivators has been extended to 100 trillion years, and the lifespan of god realm cultivators has been increased to 10 quadrillion years." He declared.
The god realm cultivators were all old, so they did not cheer or jump for joy, but they were all excited and thankful.
Each one of them bowed their heads to Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan nodded and spoke again. "Do not feel the need to work for me any longer. You will still get rewards if you want to work, but I request that, unless it is truly what you want, you go and live your lives freely. Otherwise, I will not be able to help but feel immense shame."
Zhou Fan attempted to reason with them and get them to relax and enjoy their lives.
Each of them had spent nearly a quadrillion years working for him. He was unspeakably thankful and could only show it in this way.
The god realm cultivators nodded and showed that they understood.
Zhou Fan left the upper realm, and the god realm cultivators dispersed. Many continued to work, while others went out and enjoyed near invincibility.
Zhou Fan sat in the Zhou filament and watched the people below. He had begun to enjoy simply overseeing the universe as it moved, even if he had nothing to do but cultivate.
A few trillion years later, alarm bells rang within the cosmic sect, the heaven sect, and any other organization that had a true god realm cultivator.
Ying Xiong's biggest worry about reincarnating had come true. The destruction race had attacked, and he was no longer enough to protect the Humanoid races.
In an instant, all of the true gods moved towards the forbidden land. The destruction race had just left, so many would be able to catch them before they destroyed anything.
When Lu Wei arrived, 10 true gods were waiting back while watching the destruction race travel.
There were a hundred true gods, with the king of the destruction race being nearly as powerful as Ying Xiong.
Lu Wei spoke as soon as he arrived. "We can stop them from advancing if we move out now. There are plenty of people just behind me."
The 10 true gods looked at each other with firm gazes before unconcealing themselves and shooting towards the hundred true gods of the destruction race.
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