Chapter 156: The Great Attractor and Runes - 156
The thing that Zhou Fan called a galaxy cluster was bright yellow. In the darkness of space, it seemed like a world light.
Zhou Fan divided it into two parts based on its looks. One was the main part, which seemed like a cylindrical capsule. It was solid yellow without a single bit of space in between.
The other part was lines that seemed like they were being sucked towards the main part.
It almost resembled a centipede. Although he couldn't accurately calculate from his distance, it seemed to contain millions, or hundreds of millions of galaxies.
What Zhou Fan could guess, however, was that something was in the center of it. Otherwise, there was no reason so many galaxies would be in one spot, or be being attracted towards that spot.
Zhou Fan considered a black hole, but the galaxies on the main part didn't seem like they were moving.
For now, Zhou Fan would call it the great attractor, despite not knowing what it was.
While moving in that direction, Zhou Fan didn't plan on ignoring the galaxies he saw along the way. As usual, when he saw a planet with potential life, he would evolve the lifeforms, connect the planet and sun to his mortal dao, and give them a way to cultivate.
In around a year of travel, Zhou Fan helped more than a thousand planets with potential for life. Despite all the traveling, there was not a single planet with life already on it, if you exclude the micro organisms. Zhou Fan was starting to feel like earth was the creator of the first life in the universe.
In that year of travel, Zhou Fan had barely gotten closer to the cluster of galaxies despite moving at speeds that far exceeded light.
Therefore, Zhou Fan decided to take a break from traveling and break through. That way, he could travel much faster.
Zhou Fan took the pagoda out of his spatial ring and let it float in the empty void. Thanks to its strength, even the space outside the galaxy was unable to hurt it.
Zhou Fan flew to the top floor and started to cultivate. He didn't plan on stopping until he reached the next level.
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120,000 years later, Zhou Fan successfully broke into the 2nd level of the inner world realm.
He carefully observed his inner world in order to see what happened. As expected, the boundary of the inner world expanded, while its power increased and its Qi multiplied.
Since the inner world was a part of Zhou Fan like his organs, his power increased and his Qi multiplied, although it already did that anyway.
Not much else changed besides the inner world's expansion and his increase in strength. Luckily, his speed increased with his strength.
After putting the pagoda back into his spatial ring, Zhou Fan used his full power and Qi in order to move forward as fast as possible.
His speed had increased by almost 4 times and he soared through space much faster.
After another year, he had helped more than a thousand planets once again. The process hadn't changed and his mortal dao hadn't even reached a cap, surprisingly.
Despite his new speed, Zhou Fan had barely shortened the distance from the cluster of galaxies ahead. He had accepted that the trip would take a while no matter what he did, so Zhou Fan took another break. Instead of breaking through, which would probably take longer than reaching the galaxy cluster, Zhou Fan started experimenting with the usages of Qi once again.
He believed the last time he had done so was at the original Huang Long academy before he had even left earth. With his new strength and comprehension of the Dao and elements, he felt that he should be able to discover another use.
After nearly a hundred years of experimenting, Zhou Fan finally found it. When he infused a certain amount of Qi, along with an understanding of the cosmic dao into his finger and wrote symbols in the air, different things would happen as a reaction.
It was similar to formations and arrays, but could be done without any sort of foundation whatsoever. It also had much higher requirements and much higher power.
Even Zhou Fan struggled at first, but he soon got the hang of it. He decided to call them runes.
When used the correct way, for example, runes could produce stronger fire for less Qi. The substitute would be one's understanding of the dao. Of course, an understanding of the cosmic dao couldn't be consumed. It was more like a catalyst.
After a while, Zhou Fan was also able to use his mortal dao to make runes, although they were both weaker and not cost efficient.
Like formation and arrays, the runes would last until they decayed or were used. However, its longevity was longer. Therefore, he could draw an invisibility rune with a fireball rune and set it to attack the first person it senses.
It would send an attack as soon as someone came near it. It was a great trap.
Another use for runes that Zhou Fan came up with was a restrictive wall. Using a special combination of runes, a milky white wall would form that blocked any entering from someone weaker than the runes.
However, Zhou Fan was able to make an exception that allowed those who comprehended the runes on the wall to enter.
Therefore, the wall could be used to block out unworthy people while allowing worthy people in.
That was just one of the many uses Zhou Fan came up with for runes. The best part was that the more you comprehended the cosmic dao, the more powerful your runes were.
With Zhou Fan's current strength and understanding of runes, along with his comprehension of the cosmic dao, he could create an attack that could destroy nearly a half of a very small galaxy.
Although it was weaker than his full strength with his sword, especially now that he had broken through, that was only because he hadn't practiced with runes very long.
Runes were very hard to fully comprehend. Simply the precision required would take thousands of years to master.
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Chapter 157: Collision - 157
Due to his recent boredom, Zhou Fan decided to take a couple thousand years to fully master runes before he continued traveling.
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7,000 years later, Zhou Fan was finished. Both the strength of the runes and the speed at which he created them had increased drastically in the last seven thousand years.
He had also discovered more runes during the time.
Since he had done all he could do with runes for now, Zhou Fan continued traveling towards the cluster of galaxies.
After a thousand years, Zhou Fan felt some progress. He had helped an uncountable number of planets evolve life and let that life cultivate.
After so long, Zhou Fan felt that he had traveled at least 5% of the journey. Still, he had a lot of traveling ahead of him.
After 10,000 years, Zhou Fan confirmed that he had reached the halfway point. Now, the cluster of galaxies had become much bigger and clearer.
He had long lost count of how many planets he had helped. He only knew that it surpassed ten thousand. Despite that, it would take a while for the planets to gain true sentient life that could actually cultivate.
Without stopping, Zhou Fan continued forward.
After another ten thousand years, Zhou Fan had finally reached the cluster of galaxies. Although he called it a cluster, the galaxies were not directly next to each other. They only looked that way from far away.
However, the galaxies were extremely close compared to other galaxies. The average distance was the same as the distance between Zhou Fans galaxy and the red galaxy.
The craziest part was that he hadn't even reached the center point. He had only arrived at one of the many legs of the main part of the galaxy cluster.
At the main part, the galaxies would be much closer. Perhaps some would have even collided.
Zhou Fan was excited to see such a spectacle once he arrived. Therefore, he didn't stop despite reaching the lesser part of the cluster. Instead, he followed along the leg.
During the travel towards the main body that took 3 thousand years, Zhou Fan helped more planets then he had on his entire earlier journey.
Soon, he had arrived at the main part. As expected, the place was chaotic. Everywhere you looked, there was another galaxy. Even colliding galaxies were not uncommon.
After looking around for a bit, Zhou Fan saw two galaxies that had been colliding for a while.
The collisions were not a quick process, but one that took hundreds of thousands, if not millions of years.
However, the collision in front of him was at its peak stage. Zhou Fan estimated that the black holes in the center of the galaxies would collide in the next thousand years.
Despite being curious about the rest of the galaxy cluster, he couldn't help but want to see the collision of black holes.
Since he was unsure how dangerous the collision would be, Zhou Fan stayed extremely far away. He was so far away that a thousand galaxies could fit between him and the galaxies he was watching.
In fact, three galaxies were actually in that space. Luckily, Zhou Fan could see through them.
After a hundred years of watching them get closer, Zhou Fan realized that they were speeding up. The black hole's gravities must have touched each other, causing them to pull towards each other.
After 200 years, the galaxies were moments away from colliding. The rest of the black holes galaxies were in shambles. Half of each of the galaxies were already destroyed in the process of the black holes simply moving towards each other.
After just a couple seconds, it happened.
BOOM!
The moments the black holes touched each other, they moved at a speed that exceeded even Zhou Fans in an instant. They fully collided and an enormous wave of energy and Black hole Qi shot out from it.
Instantly, the rest of the two colliding galaxies remaining stars and planets were disintegrated. In fact, all the galaxies within a million lightyears, were instantly destroyed.
Even from farther away, Zhou Fan felt the impact shake his body and injure him. Although he may be able to destroy a galaxy, he did not have the durability of one.
He instantly spat out a large amount of blood and shot away. He traveled at extreme speeds before he collided with a planet in a galaxy millions of lightyears away from the explosion.
After the planet was destroyed by his body, he stopped flying backwards and floated in space. In just a minute, he had healed himself back to nearly full health.
Although he was heavily injured by the impact of energy and the black hole Qi, it was nothing too major. Unless his entire body and soul were destroyed, he would be able to quickly heal.
Still, he was very close to death for a moment. He had luckily shielded himself with chaos Qi, causing most of the damage to be blocked. However, the slight amount that got through was able to do that to him.
Looking at where the black holes collided, Zhou Fan saw a new one, much bigger than the other two. Zhou Fan was able to quickly understand what had happened.
The two cosmic dao strands, along with the black hole's power, had instantly attacked each other with their full power. During the attack, the two black holes, as well as the cosmic dao strands, merged, causing the ensuing explosion.
Zhou Fan estimated that the power of the explosion reached either the 10th level of the inner world realm, or a whole new realm.
After seeing it happen and being injured by it, Zhou Fan decided to put off visiting the center of the galaxy cluster. Just the power of two colliding galaxies was more than enough to kill him. If he found something dangerous at the center, he may not even know how he died.
Despite everything that happened, the collision of the black holes gave him a couple new ideas for the future.
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