Chapter 140: 10th Level - 140
Before he officially entered seclusion, Zhou Fan checked the solar system one more time. As expected, nothing important was happening with Anna, Jack, or any of the rulers. In fact, the most interesting thing in the solar system was the expansion of the planets.
Zhou Fan quickly stopped watching and entered seclusion.
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17,500 years later, Zhou Fan felt that he was about to break into the 10th level of the lesser dao creation realm. From his experience, he knew that it would happen in seconds.
As expected, Zhou Fan felt himself breakthrough 20 seconds later. As he did, a new feeling entered his body. It was similar to when he created a separate space, but also much different.
It was as if the separate space was within him. As if it was a part of his body, mind and soul. However, it wasn't complete. It was as if it was almost completed, but needed an entirely new thing to finish.
Even with his breakthrough, Zhou Fan was unable to determine what the next realm would be. He understood that an independant space was starting to form inside of him, but he had no clue what its final form would be.
No matter, Zhou Fan was excited to find out. He would do everything he needed to do, but like last time, he wouldn't wait for the worlds to expand before going into seclusion. That decision was partly because he was looking forward to the next realm, and partly because the world's expansions were taking too long for Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan had almost decided to watch the solar system before he cultivated again last time, but felt that it would be dangerous to bore himself to death. Therefore, he would do what he needed to do this time before he hurried back into seclusion again.
Firstly, Zhou Fan looked at Anna and Jack's cultivation level. Surprisingly, Anna was still at the 1st level of space shattering, and she had barely made any progress. It seemed that with her talent, reaching the lesser dao creation realm would prove to be hard, at least in the current environment.
As for Jack, he had reached the 6th level of the void traversing realm. He was also very close to reaching the 7th level. Despite the similar progress, Zhou Fan came to the conclusion that Jack's talent was higher than Annas.
Not only his cultivation talent, but even his affinities were better than Annas. Both had a space affinity, anna also had ice Qi, cold Qi, and snow Qi as her affinities, but they were mostly the same. Jack, on the other hand, had Gold Qi, Light Qi, Water Qi, and metal Qi, along with his space Qi.
Each of Jack's affinities were different, while Annas complemented each other. Even so, Jack's affinities overtook Annas in both usefulness and number.
Right now, both Anna and Jack were in seclusion. As for the Dragon king, he seemed to have stopped cultivating too much and instead focused on taking care of the solar system. Therefore, many of the planets saw Anna as a placeholder and the dragon king as the true ruler of the Zhou solar system, although not in a rebellious way.
Overall, the dragon king's life was much more relaxing than annas. She had to constantly improve and make sure she was number one, but the dragon king had long known that he would never be number one.
In fact, he had given up his passion for power a while back. Everything he did now was for his people. Compared to tens of thousands of years ago, he had become a better king. Still, he was conflicted.
In his mind, the supreme beats deserved a powerful and ambitious king, but he was no longer that. Although none of his subjects had said anything, he could tell that they missed the old days of power and war.
Unfortunately, there had never been someone even close to the dragon king's talent in the supreme lands. Otherwise, he would have nurtured him to become ruler and he would take a position as a grand elder or something similar.
At this point in time, the dragon king was on a journey to have offspring. Perhaps they would have enough talent to take over his throne. The biggest problem, however, was that supreme beasts couldn't have offspring. It wasn't a lack of power, but the fault in their genetics.
After looking for thousands of years, the dragon king was starting to turn to miracles. He had been scrounging the Zhou World for something that could help him.
Just by looking at him, Zhou Fan felt pity. Therefore, he decided to intervene. As the dragon king was searching a cave, he felt an instinctual pull. It wasn't like someone was dragging him, but more like he felt that he had to go in that direction.
After resisting the urge for ten minutes, the dragon king gave in and flew out of the cave, heading in the direction he felt he needed to go.
After flying for a minute, he had gone around half of the Zhou World and saw a building he had nearly forgotten. The building was the floating palace. After so many years, the village next to it had stopped existing, and the only thing below it was a forest.
The dragon king prepared to fly past it, but he soon felt the feeling pulling him towards it. Cautiously, the dragon king transformed into his humanoid form and landed in front of the stairs.
Despite the overgrown forest, the floating palace and its stairs were completely untouched. Therefore, the dragon king had a clean view of the entire thing. Just as he was about to start climbing it, he saw an old man appear at the bottom of the steps.
The dragon king, who was unable to tell how the old man appeared, jumped back and created a barrier in front of him.
"Who are you?" He asked.
"I am the only one who can help you." The old man responded.
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