As he slept, Zhou Fan only saw the events happening in places within his Great Dao. He watched as countless beings lived and died. Zhou Fan only woke up countless years later when the universe was now full.
Of course, some areas were far denser than others, but each universal sector had a large population.
Looking at time, a sextillion years had passed. Zhou Fan looked at the Zhou Filament, and saw a few familiar people.
Heaven, Ying Xiong who had reached the Outer World Realm, Zhu Yi who had reached the Outer World Realm, Chen Jie who had reached the Outer World Realm, Progenitor Ke, Pangu, and Lu Wei who had preserved themselves in cryopods in case of future wars, and Yao Mun was probably hiding somewhere.
Elsewhere, there were also other powerful beings. With such a large universe, countless incredible talents had been born. Among the entire universe, not including Heaven, Ying Xiong, Zhu Yi, or Chen Jie, there were 7 other Outer World Realm cultivators.
It seemed that a new era was starting. And this was only in the Zhou universe. In the Mini universes, countless beings had been born, and countless new species existed. Of course, without cultivation, these beings were all rather weak. However, they were developing. Some could even exist in space and destroy planets despite being mortals. Zhou Fan looked forward to the future development.
As for the remaining universes not covered by his Great Dao, there were plenty of unique species, far weirder than anywhere else. Zhou Fan decided to leave them alone.
Finally, Zhou Fan looked at the Buddha. Sensing his gaze, the Buddha looked back. The Buddha could not see Zhou Fan, only sense him.
Although the Buddhist path was a path, it was nowhere near as versatile as cultivation. He could hardly manipulate any space, and time was forbidden even for him.
The Buddha was at Rank 9 of his path. This was one rank below Rank 10, the equivalent of the Great Dao realm for cultivators.
The Buddha had progressed fast. Theoretically, he could have already reached Rank 10, but he was always going around teaching others and helping out.
Even Ying Xiong and Heaven treated him with as much respect as Zhou Fan. Countless beings practiced the Buddha's path along with cultivation, though not many could get far.
Ying Xiong, due to his past abandonment of Buddhism and constant reincarnations, couldn't even get past the 3rd rank of the Buddhist path. Heaven did not bother with it at all.
Zhou Fan created a circle and invited the Buddha to his residence. The Buddha stepped through and looked around again. He could sense a far different feeling from the last time he was here. Every single array here posed a serious threat to him.
He was once again reminded of Zhou Fan's power.
"Are you ready to reach Rank 10 of the Buddhist path?" Zhou Fan asked.
The Buddha nodded. He had been waiting for Zhou Fan before breaking through. After all, he had been guided by Zhou Fan, giving him a chance to actually create a path.
Thinking of this, the Buddha bowed to Zhou Fan. "Thank you for this opportunity."
Zhou Fan waved him off. "Don't worry about it. You're helping me more than I'm helping you."
The Buddha nodded and sat down. Crossing his legs, a golden glow shone on his body. This was the power of the Buddhist path, Buddhism.
Taking literal form, the Buddha created the power of Buddhism. It wrapped around his body.
Zhou Fan could hardly tell what was going on, but he paid attention. He needed all the information he could get.
After a few years, the golden glow died down. The Buddha stood up, his power much greater than before. He had entered rank 10, the peak of the Buddhist path.
His power, theoretically, was equivalent to Zhou Fan's. Of course, Zhou Fan still felt as if he could kill the Buddha, it would only be slightly challenging.
Zhou Fan had waited for this moment for a long time. The Buddha closed his eyes for a moment before opening them.
"I see nothing further than this."
Zhou Fan sighed. As expected.
He never had hope for the Buddha to see something new. This was only to widen his horizons, and it had. Many new ideas popped into his head while watching the Buddha's path.
There was only one thing that Zhou Fan found faulty. The Buddha's lifespan. Despite reaching the equivalent of the Great Dao realm on his own path, his lifespan was only a nonillion years. For reference, this is less than the lifespan of a sage realm cultivator.
In order to stop the Buddha from dying while he was still useful, Zhou Fan handed him a pendant. The Buddha looked at it, but could not tell what it was.
"You do not have the ability to manipulate time. Wearing that will essentially stop you from aging, and your lifespan from affecting you."
The Buddha sighed but nodded. If it was up to him, he would rather die eventually, but he owed Zhou Fan this much.
"When I'm no longer useful to you, let me know. I would like my story to have a conclusion at some point." The Buddha said.
Zhou Fan nodded. He admired the Buddha's willingness to die. To be honest, he did not want to die. The thought made it seem that everything he had done would be useless. What was the point of it all if he was dead?
The Buddha returned to earth, where he had never really left. His lifestyle would probably not undergo any major changes. Meanwhile, Zhou Fan meditated while waiting for someone special to appear.
The Buddha's path had already given him a new direction of thinking. If more new paths could appear, Zhou Fan felt as if breaking through was a definite possibility.
Countless years passed by as he thought. Meanwhile, in a universe not covered by Zhou Fan's Great Dao, a yellow triangle was born.
After countless years, Zhou Fan still sat under Leaf, thinking of everything he was able to learn from the Buddha.
Suddenly, a crack in space formed near him. Zhou Fan looked over in shock.
From beyond it, a yellow triangle with one eye and a top hat flew through. "Well Well Well. What do we have here?"
The triangle's voice was weird, somewhat sort of a high pitched, synthesized sounding voice.
He looked around, and then at Zhou Fan.
"Woah! What a strong guy. And this place sure seems interesting. What's your name fella?"
Being looked at by this triangle, Zhou Fan felt nothing but excitement. There was no power of cultivation in this existence's body. With no doubt, it had created a new path.
"My name is Zhou Fan. What is yours?"
The triangle spoke. "The name's Will. Will Decipher, but you can call me your eternal overlord for the rest of time."
"Interesting. I suppose you must've come from one of the random mini-universes. Welcome to the true universe." Zhou Fan said.
Will was surprised and looked around. "Hmm. Yes, this is quite big. There is also some sort of energy here. You know what, nice to meet you."
Will held out his hand to shake Zhou Fan's. As he did, a blue flame appeared, covering his entire arm.
Zhou Fan wasn't stupid. Whatever this was, it was a part of his power.
Seeing Zhou Fan not shake his hand, Will put it down. "Well aren't you unfriendly. I suppose I'll go and conquer this universe. See you later."
Another spatial crack appeared, but Will was suddenly unable to move. His head snapped over, his careless expression replaced by shock.
Will yelled. "What are you doing? Let me go. Now!"
Will's body turned red as an incredible power bursted out from within him. He had reached a level of power equivalent to the Great Dao realm.
However, it was not enough. Zhou Fan's outer world appeared, and Will was unable to move within the formless pressure.
"Wait! Wait! Wait! We can talk this out. No need to kill me!" Will shouted.
"Don't worry. You're too interesting to kill. And trust me, we will be talking this out." Zhou Fan said.
Will held out his hand, the blue flame appearing again. "Is it a deal?"
"Stop trying that stupid trick. Put away your hand."
Will dejectedly lowered his hand as the pressure disappeared.
"Why don't you talk about yourself." Zhou Fan said.
Will sighed and began to talk. "When I was born, I won an award for cutest baby ever… They were just holding me back… I destroyed everyone in my home universe… Opening a rift, I found myself in a new universe… Path? I guess my path is the path of deals. That is how I gain my strength anyway… I had to nearly destroy that last universe to get out, and here I am today." Will explained.
A lengthy story, clearly showing that Will was insane. Whatever kind of mental disability Will had to make him so crazy, Zhou Fan wasn't interested in it.
After a bit more talking, Zhou Fan understood Will's power of deals. He couldn't imitate it. Different from cultivation and the Buddhist path, Will's path was unique. It was more like a Divine Physique or innate talent. However, without cultivation to guide it, Will was able to use it to create his own path.
Despite Will being insane, Zhou Fan admired him, just like he admired the Buddha. Will's power of deals seemed to have a path to grow higher by making more deals, but Will felt nothing further either.
However, by making more deals, and with access to cultivators, Will's strength would be able to grow, even if he couldn't technically make a breakthrough.
Zhou Fan looked forward to this. "Alright, you can go now. Don't do too much, or I'll have to kill you."
Will nodded in understanding, but Zhou Fan had come to understand that he was clearly insane. Regardless, there was no damage that Zhou Fan couldn't fix.
As Will left, so did Zhou Fan. He found Will's home universe, cleaned it up, and created a new one in its place. Otherwise, it would simply be an uninhabitable space. After this, he returned to his residence. With Will as an example, Zhou Fan felt that it wouldn't be bad to create some more mini-universes.
Setting out, Zhou Fan created a thousand more universes. He wanted to create more, but the universe began to shake. Zhou Fan could sense the issue. It seemed that there was some sort of weight limit to the universe, or the equivalent of that to adding space.
Simply put, creating more universes was not the best idea. Zhou Fan destroyed a hundred universes to make room in the universe's "Storage".
This was because other beings could create spatial rings, or even mini universes like Zhou Fan's, which would possibly harm the universe. Will was the most likely to try and create his own universe, though Zhou Fan didn't know if he had the ability.
With this, the universe was at full capacity. All that remained was to wait. He hoped that it wouldn't be long before more path creators like him, the Buddha, and Will were born.
Luckily, he had a lot to do. While Will had talked, Zhou Fan had been looking at him and observing his path. Along with the Buddha's path, Zhou Fan still needed to think.
Returning to his residence and sitting under Leaf, Zhou Fan began to think as time passed.
Only a quadrillion years later, Zhou Fan heard a voice being transmitted to his brain. It was a distress message from Will.
Zhou Fan looked over just in time to see Will killed with a single punch. Surprisingly, he had been killed by a mortal, on earth, in some place called "Ore Is Gone".
Zhou Fan was so shocked that he didn't even know how to respond. Looking through time, Zhou Fan saw that Will's death had been caused by an invention called a memory gun. One of Will's abilities was to enter the mind, and using this weak gun, Will had been killed by the person's mind he was in being erased.
Zhou Fan shook his head and ignored the death of Will. What kind of almighty being would lose to mortals? It was ridiculous.
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