Eventually, Zhou Fans' admiration died down. Although it was great, it was only a star. It would not grow and it would eventually die. That didn't make it less great, but it couldn't be compared to someone like Zhou Fan.
After exploring the rest of the starfield and making sure he hadn't missed anything, Zhou Fan left. He headed in the direction of another interesting thing.
He wasn't quite sure what it was, but it looked like a golden tree from where Zhou Fan looked. It was likely a coincidence, but Zhou Fan still wanted to check it out.
Luckily, it was one of the closer things to Zhou Fan. After only ten thousand years of travel, Zhou Fan reached it. As he had gotten closer, he had realized that it was another galaxy cluster. Unlike the other galaxy cluster that looked yellow from afar but contained many different looking galaxies, the tree shaped galaxy cluster only had golden and yellow galaxies.
When Zhou Fan first saw them, he felt amazed. He hadn't seen so much gold and yellow since the time he had visited the gautama kingdom.
The galaxies gave off the feeling of elegance and royalty. If there was ever a cluster of galaxies solely for the rich in the future, this would undoubtedly be it.
After getting used to its looks, Zhou Fan started to explore it. Compared to the other galaxy cluster, it was much smaller. Zhou Fan estimated that it contained only 100,000 galaxies in total. Since they were all so close together, the galaxy cluster barely reached 30 billion lightyears in size. Although difficult for others to traverse, Zhou Fan had long reached an ungodly speed.
It only took him ten years to explore the entire thing. Of course, that also included the time it took to connect the planets with potential for life and their suns to his mortal dao.
Even after he had finished, Zhou Fan didn't leave. The galaxy cluster was so beautiful, he wanted to create a base. Although he couldn't do it in the center since whatever held the galaxy together was there, he could settle for a branch of the tree-like galaxy cluster.
Like his galaxy cluster, the attractor in the center of the tree-like galaxy cluster was covered by a thick layer of galaxies. He had also avoided them in order to stay safe.
Compared to the amount of galaxies that covered the great attractor in his galaxy cluster, the amount covering the attractor in the tree-like galaxy cluster was very small. Zhou Fan estimated that it was only covered by 5,000 galaxies.
As for his galaxy cluster's great attractor, it was covered by more than a hundred thousand. More galaxies than the entire tree-like galaxy cluster had.
That was why he only called whatever was in the center of the tree-like galaxy cluster an attractor, while he called the thing in the center of his galaxy cluster the great attractor.
After looking for a bit, Zhou Fan decided to make his base in the center of one of the galaxies on the very edge of the tree-like galaxy cluster.
Since it didn't have any planets with potential for life, Zhou Fan assumed that it would remain untouched for a very long period of time.
After all, Zhou Fan was the only person who had the ability to even leave a galaxy, much less go to another one.
It would be many millions or even billions of years before any sort of life explored beyond galaxies. Although one could leave a galaxy at the lesser dao creation realm, they wouldn't be able to reach another one without many years of travel in normal circumstances.
The red galaxy and the Zhou galaxy were exceptions since they were much closer than ordinary galaxies.
The distance between the galaxy he chose and every other galaxy was many times bigger than the distance between even normal galaxies, much less close galaxies like the Zhou Galaxy and the red galaxy.
Zhou Fan quickly reached the galaxy he had chosen and went to its center. Naturally, there was a black hole. Zhou Fan planned on building his residence over it.
He got the materials from a couple thousand nearby planets. He compressed them all, although not to the same density as his sword, and increased their level.
After getting a few more thousand of such planets, Zhou Fan had enough materials to build a good residence. Although he had focused on single building houses in the past, Zhou Fan decided to build more of a manor instead. It would still be one structure, but it would contain many side buildings and land.
Zhou Fan first started with the array to prevent his manor from being sucked in by the black hole. It was pretty important in the construction process.
After he had completed it, Zhou Fan went ahead and created attack and defense arrays around the place his house would be.
Once all the arrays were finished, Zhou Fan started with the actual construction. He started with the foundation. He used dirt and grass, shaping them into a square. The square was fairly large, although miniscule when compared to the black hole, and 50 feet deep.
Next, Zhou Fan used wood and stone for the buildings. In the center of one of the sides, he built a small house with only a bedroom and a small living room.
After the main building was done, Zhou Fan created paths and other buildings within the space of the dirt square. He had a small creek, a waterfall, and even a couple living trees.
By the time he was done with construction, he had a garden, a small pond with a waterfall flowing into it, three side buildings, and a tiny cave. Decorated with plants he had evolved, the place was quite good looking. Of course, he had created a bubble to keep air in for the plants.
The next thing he needed to do was make a way the place could stay nice and clean while he was gone.