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.