Chapter 514: A New Body and a New Realm - 514
The River of Cultivation entered his body once again. This time, it targeted his organs and the other parts that allowed a normal body to function.
They gained a similar green glow.
The River of Cultivation entered again, targeting his inner skin. It received a similar transformation, just as every other part of his body.
Everything that came now would alter Zhou Fan's appearance, which he did not really want. He had spent countless years in this body, and even though he had changed it a bit, it still felt that same. Changing his appearance, however, would be different, and entirely unpleasant.
Luckily, it was his power and his body. The River of Cultivation enlarged and submerged Zhou Fan's body. As it did so, the River of Cultivation began to affect his mind and his soul.
After an entire year, the River of Cultivation shrunk again and rotated around Zhou Fan's body. He looked the same as always, the only difference being that he now had green pupils.
His body, mind, and soul had now been completely transformed. With this, Zhou Fan had reached true perfection.
One loss was that he no longer had the Chaos Divine Physique, but Chaos Qi was something he could now control regardless.
In addition, he now had a new Divine Physique, the Cultivation body. Everything about Zhou Fan had now become focused on cultivation.
Zhou Fan once again began to focus on increasing his cultivation.
Since he was simply increasing the level and not the realm, Zhou Fan felt that it was not too hard.
After a few years of thought, Zhou Fan attempted to reach the 2nd level of the High Sage realm.
The power of cultivation began to move wildly within his body as he attempted to forge a path forward.
Soon, the power of cultivation covered his entire body and began to sink into his mind, body, and soul. At the same time, the power of cultivation violently rotated around him.
It stopped after a few weeks of breaking through. The power of cultivation once again returned to Zhou Fan's body as he took a deep breath.
He had increased his cultivation to the 2nd level of the High Sage realm. With his breakthrough, the River of Cultivation was also affected. It could absorb much more of the power of cultivation compared to before.
Zhou Fan's mind, body, and soul had been strengthened greatly, and his upper limit of absorption had also increased.
He was now confident in breaking through levels without any issues.
Looking at the vast universe, Zhou Fan saw his hastily made reinforcements to the universe's boundary slowly being eroded. If left for a long time, it would collapse and the universe would be devoured by the nothingness.
This was not a difficult problem to solve. With just a little bit of the power of cultivation, the boundary became countless times stronger. The universe would be fine for a long time.
Zhou Fan could not think of anything else that he needed to handle for now. He could focus on cultivation in the time bubble.
He cultivated for three million years inside of the time bubble before breaking through to the third level.
It took around ten million years to reach the fourth level.
30 million years to reach the fifth level.
Nearly a hundred million years to reach the sixth level.
It took around 350 million years to reach the seventh level, and a billion to reach the 8th level.
3 billion to the ninth level and finally, 10 billion years to reach the 10th level of the High Sage realm.
All together it took him around 14.5 billion years to reach the peak of the High Sage realm.
Outside of the Time Bubble, less than 5,000 years had passed. It truly was an incredible technique.
Now, Zhou Fan needed to understand how to break through a realm. It shouldn't be too hard, but it was a hurdle that would take some time to jump.
A realm was an entirely different thing than a level. Here, a transformation could occur. Zhou Fan already had a transformation in mind, he just needed to successfully break through.
Zhou Fan first began to accumulate the power of cultivation. It took him nearly 30 billion years to fully fill his cultivation to the limit.
He then began to work out the breakthrough process. For the most part, it seemed that it would be similar to breaking through a level. However, as it completed, he would use the power of cultivation to create a change.
Zhou Fan didn't waste any time, instantly beginning the process of breaking through. Like in all of the other breakthroughs in the High Sage realm, the power of cultivation began to surround Zhou Fan's body.
It filled his body, mind, and soul.
Zhou Fan felt himself transforming, reaching a higher realm. He had already named this realm in advance.
The Great Dao realm. Like the Outer World realm accompanied the Inner World realm, the Great Dao realm accompanied the Lesser Dao Creation realm.
Zhou Fan felt his breakthrough stabilize as his Mortal Dao began to change. Everyone in the universe could feel it clearly. For a moment, all movement stopped.
The Mortal Dao that had existed, covering all life for countless years, was changing. Even someone like Ying Xiong could not tell what was happening.
Heaven, due to his connection with Zhou Fan, was able to guess a little bit.
All of a sudden, as if a useless organ was suddenly gaining function, countless cultivators felt a new possibility within their bodies.
Ying Xiong used this new power, and a Mortal Dao burst out of his body, covering a large area.
Now, with Zhou Fan's Mortal Dao evolving, Mortal Dao's could exist within his Great Dao.
It created countless possibilities for cultivators all over the universe, but Zhou Fan did not care much about it. It didn't concern him any longer.
As Zhou Fan's Mortal Dao evolved, the universe seemed to be filled with the vibrancy of life, as if a worthy ruler had taken power.
Within his Great Dao, Zhou Fan felt even more invincible than before. He felt as if he could instantly crush the entire universe in an instant.
Chapter 515: Peak of the Great Dao Realm - 515
As he reached the Great Dao realm, Zhou Fan could clearly feel that many new possibilities had opened up.
Unfortunately, he could instantly tell that he was still unable to leave the universe. The nothingness was still something far beyond him.
With his breakthrough finished, Zhou Fan looked at his chest universe. Many years had passed by within the Time Bubble, and the universal consciousness had created enough Great attractors.
Superclusters and other similar structures were strewn throughout the universe.
At this moment, Zhou Fan essentially had a perfectly formed universe within him. Over the time within the Time Bubble, Zhou Fan had made many ideas.
He created new life within his universe. Each one was like Chaos Beasts, simply an accumulation of a certain type of Qi, mixed with the power of cultivation.
Countless beings were created, with every single Qi being involved, including Chaos Qi. Of course, without the power of the Cosmic Dao, Chaos Beasts weren't created, but something different entirely.
Each of these beings were huge, made up of countless amounts of one Qi and bigger than any galaxy. Each being had a divine Physique attuned to its Qi.
Watching over all of these beings was the universal consciousness, who had received a new order from Zhou Fan.
Direct each of these beings to gain complete mastery over their Qi. This would of course be assisted by Zhou Fan's power.
Zhou Fan didn't quite have a perfect goal or idea for these beings, he was just trying some things out seeing where they would take him.
Zhou Fan watched as Mortal Daos burst out from each of these beings, creating their own territory. Each being was at the Sage realm and immensely powerful.
In giving these beings such power, Zhou Fan had also opened a path of advancement for the rest of the universe, the peak of it being the Sage realm.
Whatever this caused, Zhou Fan didn't pay any attention to it. His Great Dao did not only cover the universe, but also the universe within his chest.
In other words, he had an instant method of control for whatever he wanted to do in the future. These beings were also able to somewhat sense the existence of his Great Dao, letting them know in advance that there was an existence above them.
As the universe filled up with countless colors, Zhou Fan stopped paying attention and let it develop on its own.
Zhou Fan began to cultivate again. Under the influence of the Time Bubble, time moved extremely fast.
After around 1.4 quadrillion years within the Time Bubble, Zhou Fan reached the 10th level of the Great Dao realm. After another two quadrillion years, he was theoretically ready to break through.
However, it was here, where for the first time, he reached a true limit in his cultivation. With the Time Bubble now speeding up time by ten million times, Zhou Fan had only spent 340,000,000 years cultivating to the outside world. It seemed like a lot, but it was just the blink of an eye.
Zhou Fan was truly confused this time. Before, he at least had the idea of what to do, but now, something was wrong. It was as if he simply could not advance any further, as if his mind, body, and soul had reached their absolute limit of growth.
With cultivation, this was something that was simply not supposed to happen. It was created with the purpose of allowing infinite growth, but all of a sudden, it ended here.
It was not like before. This time, it felt just like trying to go past the universe. There was nothing beyond it, and so he could not go past it.
This was more than a simple bottleneck, or some sort of simple blockage, he had reached the end.
Of course, he refused to accept this. Calmly, he began to study within the Time Bubble. As long as he understood just a bit, he would be able to surpass this hurdle.
A quadrillion years passed inside of the Time Bubble. However, Zhou Fan was still lost.
A quintillion years passed within the Time Bubble. Nothing.
A sextillion years passed by.
"Damn It!" Zhou Fan shouted as he slammed his hand down. In his rage, half of universal sector 4 was decimated.
His power shook the universe, but still, this one hurdle was unsurpassable. He had studied every atom in his body. Every individual proton, neutron, and electron. He had learned knowledge that nobody else could even fathom. Even if he was a mortal, he could create a weapon capable of decimating a supercluster given enough time.
However, nothing made this seem any more possible. There wasn't fault with the human body, nor the mind or soul. There wasn't fault with any species, including the Cultivation race.
All could theoretically reach this point, but beyond it, there seemed to be nothing.
Around 111 trillion years had passed outside.
Zhou Fan began to wonder if his path was somehow wrong, or flawed. Perhaps it was his state of mind. Maybe it was an error to cut connection with the life of the universe. Maybe, just maybe, there was a chance that changing would help solve this problem.
Zhou Fan thought, but he knew deep down that none of these were the reason. He was simply insufficient, or perhaps the time he had spent was insufficient.
In a fit of anger and slight madness, Zhou Fan began to bend time. The Time Bubble was an application of time, but with his current power, Zhou Fan could do whatever he wanted to do with time. All the time in the universe came to a halt. There was no difference between Ying Xiong, Heaven, a random mortal, or the universe in his chest. Everything stopped.
Although Zhou Fan did not care about the life of the universe any longer, there was a miniscule chance that he would receive some sort of inspiration from any of the countless beings.
In that case, it was better to keep things as he was familiar with them.
Time moved for nobody except Zhou Fan. He spent countless years, far beyond the life of the universe, thinking and theorizing.
He was truly a god, and the universe simply a toy.
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