Chapter 125: Pillars - 125
After sensing that the black hole had a part of the cosmic dao within it, Zhou Fan backed up and didn't mess with it anymore in case it started attacking him. Although he had become very strong since he had last seen it, he didn't feel completely safe encountering it.
It was something beyond his comprehension and Zhou Fan felt that even a part of it would be enough to harm him. Perhaps once he broke into the next level he wouldn't have to worry about a fragment and instead just stay away from the main body, although he was unable to find it even if he looked.
Although he had backed away, Zhou Fan continued to observe the black hole from afar. Very quickly, Zhou Fan noticed something terrifying. Although very slowly, the black hole was expanding. Its progress was so slow that it was expanding a little less than a mile a year, but it was possible that it would grow quicker as time passed and eventually devour the galaxy.
Despite the fact that a hundred thousand years could pass without any major change happening, Zhou Fan still didn't feel comfortable leaving the black hole to freely grow.
Of course, he couldn't just destroy it. Besides the fact that a piece of the cosmic dao was within it, there was also the fact that it held the entire galaxy together.
Even with his current strength, Zhou Fan had no way to hold the galaxy together himself without focusing all his energy on it. He also knew that he would be unable to create a black hole or something similar to control the entire galaxy's gravity.
Therefore, Zhou Fan thought of another plan. It was possible that he could create a formation or array that would stop the black hole from growing any further than it had.
It would be the most complicated formation he had ever made since it needed to cover such an immense amount of space and do its job with perfection, but Zhou Fan felt that he could do it.
First, he needed to come up with a way to keep the black hole from growing. He considered making a barrier or having an attack formation shave away part of it like it was trimming a beard. After thinking for a while, he felt that the best course of action was using a combination of both methods.
He then needed to decide what type of Qi would work best. Although his first thought was to use chaos Qi, it was far too dangerous to use casually. Instead, he could use an element that was calmer than chaos Qi yet still powerful.
After a few moments, Zhou Fan came to the conclusion that lightning Qi was the way to go. It was more powerful and stronger than an element like fire, but not as chaotic as chaos Qi. With the use of lightning Qi, Zhou Fan felt there was a high chance of success.
The next thing to think about was the exact use of the formation. Zhou Fan felt the best way would be to have a barrier of lightning Qi surrounding the black hole and stopping its expansion, while also having some lightning shave down bits of the black hole in order to completely halt its advances.
If what he was doing was compared to a haircut, it would be as if the lightning Qi barrier was a comb that held the hair, or the black hole, and the lightning that attacked was the pair of clippers that cut the hair, or the black hole.
Theoretically, the formation was simple, but when tried practically, there were some problems. The biggest was the sheer size that the formation would have to be. The black hole was thousands of times bigger than the Zhou Solar system's sun, which had previously been the biggest thing he had seen in the galaxy. The formation would span many lightyear's.
The second problem was the Qi needed to power the formation. Even Zhou Fan felt that he was lacking in Qi to support such a powerful and big formation. Therefore, he would need to find another method to power it.
For the first problem, Zhou Fan thought that he should link multiple formations and arrays together in order to make one that would cover the black hole. As for how to do that, Zhou Fan felt that four really big pieces of rock would be needed. The four rocks would be almost as tall as the black hole itself and be positioned in the four directions of it. They would be arches and they would be covered from head to toe in formations.
After planning it in his head, he felt that the idea should work. The biggest issue would be getting all that rock. Luckily, there were plenty of useless planets in the galaxy that Zhou Fan could use and he could also expand the rocks to their fullest potential, reducing the necessary amount by three times.
Zhou Fan started by collecting the planets closest to the black hole. Like every other planet in the galaxy besides earth and the Zhou World, the planets were useless with no potential for life. Since they would have been devoured by the black hole anyway, Zhou Fan didn't feel too bad.
After an entire month of collecting and expanding, Zhou Fan had many light years worth of rock. Luckily, Zhou Fan barely had to pay attention to width and only look at the height of the arches, although they still had many miles of length.
Zhou Fan split the rock into four different piles and shaped them how he wanted them. They were like giant pillars with a small curve to adjust to the black hole's roundness.
He didn't place them around the black holes just yet and instead began to think of solutions to the second problem. After a while, Zhou Fan felt that the only way to power the formations was to use the immense Qi of the black hole itself.
Chapter 126: Completed - 126
Although the black hole was weaker than Zhou Fan overall, it had an amount of Qi similar to his. If Zhou Fan was able to collect most of the Qi the black hole was giving off, he would be able to completely power the array. However, taking too much Qi would weaken the gravity that the black hole gave off.
Therefore, Zhou Fan could only safely take away enough Qi to power half of the array. For the rest, he would have to find another source. Using his own Qi would be ridiculous as he would be constantly using at least a fourth of his reserves. That would slow down his cultivation speed and decrease his strength.
The only possibility would be to harness some of the Qi that the bit of cosmic dao was producing. Although it would be a bit complicated, Zhou Fan felt that it was very possible. The biggest difficulty would be getting the Qi out of the black hole. It was constantly sucking up every bit of Qi the bit of cosmic dao was producing, which was also the main reason the black hole was always expanding.
Zhou Fan thought for a while before he had a great idea. Instead of trying to drag the energy out of the black hole himself and risking the bit of cosmic dao attacking him, he could power up the formation with his own Qi and add a formation that would drag the Qi out of the bit of cosmic dao.
With the combination of the black holes Qi and the cosmic daos' Qi, the formation would power itself completely. Now that he had planned everything out, Zhou Fan started to inscribe formations on the four pillars. Along with the attack formations and the barrier formations, he added the Qi grabbing formation that would power the entire thing.
It took him many hours since he was focusing heavily, but Zhou Fan quickly got the job done. With the formations done, Zhou Fan placed the four pillars in the four directions around the black hole. He used his Qi to keep them in place until they were activated and Powered them up.
The four pillars all shined with a purple light that eventually covered every bit of them. With that, Zhou Fan let go of them and they floated without moving. After a moment, purple lightning shot out from the top of the four pillars towards the center point above the black hole and met. At the same time, the bottom of the four pillars shot out a streak of purple lightning that went under the black hole and met at the bottom.
Once the two points were there, the black hole seemed to have a four line cage covering it. The array wasn't completed, however, as from the two points of collision, four more vertical streaks of lightning covered the space in between the four lines, forming an eight line cage of purple lightning. Still, the formation wasn't finished.
From the sides of the four pillars, more purple lightning shot out and formed a horizontal circle around the black hole. Once that was done, an ethereal purple light filled the space untouched by lightning, creating a perfect barrier around the black hole.
Now, the attack section and the barrier section of the array were finished deploying. All that was left was the Qi gathering part. From the four pillars, a suction force grabbed hold of the black holes Qi. It made sure that it didn't touch enough to affect the gravity it gave off, but it grabbed every bit of energy that wasn't needed. From the same suction force, some Qi from the bit of cosmic dao was sucked into the array.
Zhou Fan stopped sending his Qi into the array and watched on as it functioned perfectly. After a while, Zhou Fan knew that it had worked. He happily sat down and meditated to quickly recover the Qi he used to activate the array.
After a while, he opened his eyes and once again looked at the black hole. It seemed like it would stay stable for a long time. Since there was nothing left to do, Zhou Fan checked his map and went back to the Zhou World. It had nearly been fifty years since he had left and it was time to go back.
He quickly returned and saw that nothing had changed while he was gone besides the size of the planets and the sun. He quickly made his way back to the floating palace and started cultivating. He was eager to break through so that he could finally finish adding all the planets to his mortal dao. After he did that, he would finally have a complete Zhou solar system.
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18,000 years passed and Zhou Fan broke into the 8th level of the lesser dao creation realm. He didn't stay in the floating palace but teleported out into space and started adding planets to his mortal dao. The process was very quick since he had long been used to it and soon, the Zhou Solar system had a hundred planets.
Zhou Fan moved the planets to circle around the sun. Looking at the hundred planets, Zhou Fan couldn't help but feel proud of himself. It took nearly a hundred thousand years of work, but he had done it.
The next step was giving life to the planets he had yet to mess with. Although he had done it to the first ten planets he added to the Zhou Solar System, he had decided to wait until he had gotten all the planets to add life to the rest. Speaking of life on the other planets, they were evolving quite well without his assistance.
Although they weren't exactly improving since they had come from the Zhou Worlds own living beings, they were starting to change in looks and gain their own distinct differences. Even so, none of it mattered until the planets gained a sentient race like the celestials or the humans.
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