After looking at the mountain of high grade plants, Zhou Fan turned his gaze to the rest of the planet. He hadn't expected such a successful evolution.
There was no longer any ocean or any body of water left on the planet. From head to toe, with not a single blind spot on it, the planet was covered in plants.
As he stared at the entire world with his divine sense, he noticed an abnormality. Covering what was once a plain was a 15 foot deep pile of vines and other plants. However, interrupting the flat layer of plants was a slight curve. It only poked up a few feet, but it was clearly noticeable.
Even more odd, the curve was perfectly symmetrical. It seemed as if some sort of dome was in the middle of the plants.
Zhou Fan sent his divine sense deep into the little hill of plants that poked up. As soon as he reached a depth of three feet through the walls, the space opened up into a dome like area.
Astonishingly, there were houses and tents within the little dome. Zhou Fan covered the entire dome with his divine sense, and was shocked by what he saw. Within the houses and tents, there were living plants. Not living in the sense that all normal plants were, but living in the sense of an animal or human.
They took many shapes and forms, but they were undoubtedly sentient beings. That much could be guessed from the houses they lived in.
Needless to say, this discovery shocked Zhou Fan. He had never expected the evolution of the world to lead to an entirely new species that Zhou Fan had never seen before.
After looking at them for a while, he noticed that they didn't survive on water. It was expected since the entire world had evolved to not need water, but it was still weird to Zhou Fan.
Eventually, he stopped looking at the plants and withdrew his divine sense. The planet's evolution had far exceeded his expectations.
Besides the living plants, Zhou Fan had also been able to tell what rank and how many plants there were in the world. The majority of plants were at the fifth rank, but there was no shortage of 6th rank, 7th rank, and 8th rank plants. As for 9th and tenth rank, Zhou Fan still found few of those.
Those that did exist lived at the deepest depths or the highest peaks of the world. The living plants he had seen were actually the weakest of all the plants in the world. They did not know how to cultivate and were born at the Qi gathering realm.
Luckily, they had an innate ability to manipulate most plants at the 5th rank and below. That was the only reason they were able to survive so long.
Now, with more materials, Zhou Fan started to work on 6th rank pills once again. After 300 years, he mastered 6th rank pill creation.
6th rank pills had many different uses compared to the 5th rank pills. One of them even allowed a non-void traversing realm cultivator to survive in space.
That was one of the most interesting pills in the 6th rank. There were still some others, but Zhou Fan didn't waste any time with them.
Despite the fact that the world had evolved, Zhou Fan was still using an immense amount of plants each and every day. Therefore, the life Qi rain had continued. Luckily, the life Qi wasn't an actual liquid. If it was, the entire world would have surely flooded by now.
Zhou Fan reached through space and grabbed a couple of 7th rank plants before he continued with his pill making.
A thousand years later, he had finished with 7th rank pills. The pills were largely similar to 6th rank pills with only a few new ones. Even though there were new ones, they were extremely boring and Zhou Fan didn't even bother thinking about them too much.
After grabbing a handful of 8th rank plants through space, he continued on to eight rank pills.
Mastering the 8th rank pills took five thousand years. For the first time since the start, the three times increase rule was broken.
There were more new pills in the 8th rank than there were in the 7th rank. For example, one helped temporarily improve the fine control of one's mortal dao. Of course, like the formation, it was useless to Zhou Fan.
There were a couple more new pills that were interesting to Zhou Fan. He had named one the self destruction pill. Although it had technically existed in the lower ranks of pills, it went through an entire metamorphosis in the 8th rank.
Previously, it would simply burn up all the Qi inside a person or animal's body, causing an explosion that was bigger or smaller depending on their cultivation.
The new self destruction pill, however, would do more than simply blow someone up. It would take up all their Qi, but a giant flower, its color or colors depending on the person's affinities, would instantly bloom from them. Before that flower exploded itself and dealt damage like the previous pill, it would let out a burst of life or death Qi depending on the user's intentions.
This made the pill not only a self destruct pill, but possibly a self sacrifice pill. Theoretically, if there was someone to contain the explosion that followed, this pill could be used to revive someone from a near death state. In fact, depending on the users and the receivers strength, it could revive thousands of people from near death. Sadly, it was unable to actually bring back the dead.
Now done with 8th rank pills, Zhou Fan was ready to move on to the 9th rank pills. Unfortunately, the issue of plants was once again present.
While there were technically 9th rank plants in the world, they could be counted in the hundreds. That would last Zhou Fan less than a day.
Therefore, it seemed that he would have to personally strengthen the plants once again. While it would cause him to take more time, it was necessary.