Chapter 512: Questions - 512
Zhou Fan went to the top of the universe. The universe was a sphere, and the top seemed no different from the rest of it.
Zhou Fan drew a line that extended throughout the entirety of the top of the sphere. Although it was only a small amount of the universe, not even being a percent of a percent, this was the area he had claimed and would stay at until he was able to either leave the universe or expand it.
For the first time in a long time, he decided to build a residence, and this one would be near permanent.
A giant mansion with a green roof and many plants. He built it like a rich person's mansion on advanced mortal planets, but that was only its basic appearance. Countless arrays and formations made this the most advanced residence in the universe by far.
In addition, with his newfound control over his power, the power of cultivation, his cultivation speed would be completely different from before.
The Time bubble could also not be ignored. Leaf sat in the center of the garden that was attached to Zhou Fan's house.
Zhou Fan sat down inside. Finally, after a long time, it was time to look over everything he had and organize it.
Firstly, the River of Cultivation had completely transformed from before. In the past, it had been a placeholder that exhibited rules over the cultivation universe and prevented too much Chaos.
Now, it had become one with Zhou Fan, a part of him that was inseparable. It was the source of Zhou Fan's power, and as long as he lived, it could not be destroyed.
This also changed how he cultivated. He no longer cultivated using the power of Qi, but the power of cultivation. How this worked, he wasn't quite sure himself. He needed to figure it out.
The best way to test it was to actually test it. Zhou Fan sat down and began to cultivate, but not using Qi.
As he cultivated, he felt a power flow towards him. It was not a power that existed, but one that he created as he cultivated.
So, simply put, it seemed like he created the power of cultivation by cultivating. Sounds simple enough, even though it felt like some sort of paradox.
Now, he needed to test his cultivation speed. Zhou Fan activated the time bubble, which was completely maintained by arrays around his house and fueled by the power of cultivation turned into Qi. The exchange rate was such that even a drop from the river would last nearly an infinite time.
Time was also something he needed to address after this.
Within the Time Bubble, Zhou Fan spent a million years cultivating. With the time bubble speeding up time by 3 million times in the High Sage realm, Zhou Fan had spent less than a year cultivating on the outside.
It was an incredibly fast cultivation speed. Zhou Fan felt that he had reached the maximum limit in the 1st level of the High Sage realm. He could no longer permanently absorb the power of cultivation. Any more that he absorbed would dissipate into nothing after a period of time.
Zhou Fan observed the River of Cultivation. Different from before, it was now raging, filled with the power of cultivation.
It too had reached its limit, as its limit was the same as Zhou Fan's. Before, when Zhou Fan reached this point, all he needed to do next was breakthrough. However, with the realization of his power, the power of cultivation, it was no longer so simple.
There was no more unconscious carving of the path of cultivation. He had exited the tutorial stage, and now, he had to do everything manually.
Zhou Fan sat cross legged and looked within himself. What was breaking through? There were countless questions that Zhou Fan needed to ask himself before he could continue breaking through on his cultivation journey.
Perhaps he would even need to change how cultivation worked.
Zhou Fan envisioned cultivation like the process of water moving through a tunnel. For each level, there was one tunnel. Every ten levels, there was a new type of tunnel, different from before. Blocking these two tunnels was what was known as a bottleneck. A bottleneck's strength depends on the talent of a cultivator. For someone like Zhou Fan, the bottlenecks simply didn't exist. He still needed a certain amount of accumulation to reach the newer tunnels, aka, breaking into a new realm, but there was no trouble. He felt this clearly while recovering.
Now, what happens when all of a sudden, the tunnels end?
The first thought that popped into Zhou Fan's mind was, of course, digging further and creating more tunnels. It seemed simple, but this was just a metaphor. In reality, he could not simply build more tunnels.
What he could do was take inspiration from this. But he was stumped. For now, he would move on. Zhou Fan stopped cultivating, hoping that he would gain some sort of inspiration by the time he came back to it.
Now, he looked at time. What was time? Zhou Fan felt he was asking too many questions now, but they needed to be answered.
Time is what dictates the flow of the universe. Space is just as important. Without time, there would be no movement, and without space, there would be nowhere to move.
Zhou Fan could see time. It was like space, but unseeable to others. Zhou Fan felt like time could not affect him any longer, as long as he willed that it couldn't.
In other words, if time had no meaning, then was he immortal? It didn't feel like he was truly immortal, even if he could separate himself from time. It was more like delaying life.
In addition, Zhou Fan could see past time. He watched events over the course of the last hundred quintillion years. He saw many geniuses, and many fights.
Zhou Fan felt as if he was in a space of his own now. To put it simply, he felt like a god capable of doing anything.
It was at this time that a thought sprang up within Zhou Fan.
"What if I created my own universe?"
Chapter 513: Chest Universe - 513
This thought made Zhou Fan's mind move in a different direction. Looking through time, Zhou Fan could even see the formation of the universe itself.
The very origin of all time began when the universe appeared into existence. There was no logic behind how it existed. It simply did.
To cultivators, this was an acceptable answer.
To create a universe, Zhou Fan needed space. Technically, there was the nothingness that existed outside of the universe, but that was currently untouchable.
Instead, Zhou Fan felt that it was more logical to make a universe inside of his body. With his current power, space was like a toy that could be played with.
Zhou Fan began this little experiment. Firstly, he used Time and Space Qi to create an area in the center of his chest. He then covered it in a film of Chaos Qi. It was about the size of a heart, but inside it was about the same size as a filament.
This process took a while, totaling about 10 years. Then, using his understanding of creation, Zhou Fan turned the Time and Space Qi that formed the universe into genuine Time and Space. Combined with the power of Chaos, Zhou Fan now had an empty universe in his chest.
It sounded extremely simple, but it was only due to Zhou Fan's overwhelming power that it could be done at all.
In this universe, there were no stars or planets. It was just empty space.
Zhou Fan used star Qi and his understanding of creation to create stars. Over a period of a year, countless stars were born.
He then used Earth Qi to create planets. These were not diverse planets like in the current universe. He had no plans to do too much to the universe within him. He was merely testing everything out.
Next, he created black holes. These created Galaxies. Next were Great Attractors. These needed to be made one by one, something that Zhou Fan had no desire to waste his time on.
So, if he did not do it, he would get someone, or something to do it. One of Zhou Fan's oldest projects was the creation of a universal consciousness.
This idea was no longer impossible, or even necessarily difficult, at all.
In fact, Zhou Fan could do it in a few ways. He could create it like a robot that followed commands and only responded to predicted situations, or he could do one of many other things.
Considering this was an experiment with no consequences, Zhou Fan decided to go with the idea of creating something close to life, but had no emotions or desires at all.
It was similar to a robot with intelligence. Naturally, giving it emotions was out of the question. This wouldn't be another Heaven, but a governing system.
With no life to govern over yet, this universal consciousness first task would be to create diverse great attractors throughout the universe.
As for how exactly to create it, Zhou Fan had a few ideas. After deliberating to himself, Zhou Fan created a new lifeform, the likes of which had not really been seen.
This beings form was that of a green, ethereal light. From afar, it looked similar to the northern lights in the arctic regions of earth from long ago.
This being had intelligence, but no emotions at all. There was no instinct and no will to live or exist.
It simply sat in space floating, going wherever the universe would take it. While it could freely think, it had no reason to think.
Zhou Fan gave it purpose. As if some sort of machine being given power, the universal consciousness moved. Zhou Fan had given it power over the universe within his chest. It knew its objective and it had the means to complete it.
Zhou Fan would wait and see where this experiment would take him. In the meantime, there was more to do.
Zhou Fan stopped paying attention to the universe within his chest and began to instead look at himself. During his time with Zhu Yi, he had questioned his identity as a human.
After much thinking, he concluded that he no longer felt the need to be human. It was simply of no help to him.
Instead, he decided to create his own race, and he would be the only member. It didn't take long before Zhou Fan knew what he wanted to do. All he needed now was to figure out how to do it.
Unlike interacting with the outside universe, Zhou Fan's body was as great as his power. Not only his body, but his mind and soul as well.
Changing any of these was no small task at all. Even with his power, he needed to find a way.
He first examined the essence of a human. Skin, blood, bones, muscles, veins, organs, etc. He looked at all of it and decided that it was a great design. Instead of making himself inhuman, he could simply base his new race off of the form he was most familiar with, the human form.
He started at the deepest level, the bones. The River of Cultivation became visible and flowed through his body. Its only target was Zhou Fan's bones.
It washed over the bones as if it was cleaning them. As it did so, it changed the essence of them.
No longer were there pure white bones, but bones pulsing with the power of cultivation. They were still somewhat white, but gave off a permanent green glow.
The River of Cultivation came out of the other side of Zhou Fan's body, carrying with it a white powder. Although it seemed as if it was simply washing over, Zhou Fan's bones had been ground up and replaced.
It was painful, but Zhou Fan could endure it. Next, Zhou Fan looked at the muscles and veins in his body. The River of Cultivation entered his body once again, and a similar situation repeated. Everything was destroyed and created anew. Zhou Fan felt his body resonating with the River of Cultivation even further as it came out the other side.
Similar to his bones, his muscles and veins now had a green glow to them, made with the power of Cultivation.
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