It did not take Zhou Fan long to reach the most concentrated point of the tree-like galaxy cluster. Although the entire trunk had many galaxies, there was one point that was clearly more concentrated.
Zhou Fan could not see into it due to the thousands of galaxies crowding around it, but he knew what was behind it.
Zhou Fan flew into the galaxies. Soon, he had traveled past a few of them and entered the most concentrated area, where collisions between space objects was an every hour occurrence.
Before long, Zhou Fan broke past the last point and entered into a large spherical space.
Not too far away was what appeared to be a giant golden tree. It looked exactly like the tree-like galaxy cluster from afar. Even though Zhou Fan had seen many great attractors, this one still shocked him.
He had never seen such an interesting looking one. Surprisingly, the great attractor was in the lower levels of the true god realm. Since there were three in the Zhou supercluster, he had expected them to be weaker than normal ones.
However, the first one did not disappoint.
Zhou Fan went near it, and one of its branches grew in size and lashed at him. He caught the golden branch, and the great attractor pulled its branch back. After that, it no longer attacked him and simply floated in space.
Since his curiosity was fulfilled, Zhou Fan flew out of the tree-like galaxy cluster and headed to the silver river galaxy cluster.
He soon found the greatest concentration of galaxies and entered the deepest part. Another spherical space seemed to be carved out, and in the center was a silver great attractor that seemed to be flowing like water.
It seemed like an endless wave locked in place. Zhou Fan went near it, and a large amount of water Qi and metal Qi shot towards him in a spike.
Zhou Fan swatted it away, and the great attractor settled down.
Zhou Fan soon left the silver river galaxy cluster and entered the place where it all started.
The Zhou galaxy cluster seemed the same as always. Zhou Fan found its most concentrated point, the area at its center, and entered it.
Another spherical space was empty of anything, and in the center was a shocking great attractor.
A giant humanoid figure many times bigger than Zhou Fan himself floated.
It seemed to have normal skin, but it had no eyes, mouth, or any other distinguishing features.
It floated in space with its arms slightly away from its body and its legs slightly spread apart.
On its back was a golden spine-like thing that seemed attached to its neck.
Zhou Fan never expected the great attractor to look like that. Seeing it made him want to ask a lot of questions.
Were humans based off of it, or was it based off of humans. In order to answer such questions, he would have had to go back in time and see, but he naturally did not have such capabilities.
Zhou Fan began to near it, but even after reaching a point that usually caused a great attractor to react, nothing happened.
Soon, Zhou Fan was standing a few feet away from it. The humanoid figure was twenty times bigger than Zhou Fan, but it was the smallest great attractor he had ever seen.
When it was first created, it was probably the size of a normal human, but it likely grew in size as it sucked things in, like a black hole.
Zhou Fan reached out his hand and touched it, but even then the great attractor did not lash out.
Suddenly, a tree branch grew from the hand of the humanoid figure he was touching, and it wrapped around Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan could feel no ill intent coming from it, so he stayed still. The great attractor wrapped around him as if it was hugging him. It almost felt motherly to Zhou Fan.
'Is it because I was born in the Zhou galaxy cluster?' Zhou Fan asked himself.
Despite not being injured, he could feel the great attractor sending life Qi through its branches in an attempt to heal him, as if it was worried he was injured.
The motherly aura it gave off covered Zhou Fan as he grew his body size to match the great attractors.
Sensing his increase in size, more tree branches shot out from the great attractors "skin" and wrapped around him.
It then pulled him into a full embrace, although its limbs did not move.
Zhou Fan was thoroughly stunned. He had only grown his body size out of interest, but did not expect such a reaction.
The great attractor seemed almost intelligent. It seemed to truly believe that it was his mother. Based on its looks, it was not impossible that it was what created humans.
Zhou Fan's curiosity reached new peaks. He felt as if he had to know what was going on. There was no chance that it was some simple coincidence. It was an impossibility. Somehow, human beings were connected to the great attractor of the galaxy cluster.
There was literally no doubt.
Zhou Fan took some of his divinity and tried to cover the humanoid figure. He was going to attempt to give it intelligence.
Perhaps then he could find out the truth behind everything. Unsurprisingly, trying to give intelligence to a being no less powerful than himself was a struggle. Luckily, he was able to temporarily give it the smallest amount of intelligence and ability to speak.
"Child?" A voice echoed through space.
"There is not much time." Zhou Fan said. "What is the relation between me and you?"
The humanoid figure struggled, but soon, its left hand was held up. It seemed like a normal hand, but half of its pinky was gone. It looked like an action figure that had its finger ripped off.
"Long ago, a few particularly large galaxies entered my space at the same time. I began to devour them, but they all collided and powerfully exploded." The voice slowly said, taking breaks every now and then.
"My finger snapped off and flew far away. I tried to search for it, but it entered a small galaxy on a small planet. It came into contact with some colorful fragment in the center of that planet." It explained.
'A piece of the cosmic dao.' Zhou Fan identified.
"My finger changed. It dissolved, and in its place were two tiny beings similar looking to I". It explained.