The building was very big. Bigger than an entire city. Despite its size, there were only a few teleportation arrays.
"Although construction is complete, we have only added 5 teleportation arrays. One in each of the four directions of the galaxy: East, South, West, and North, and one that leads just outside of the cosmic sect." Ying Xiong explained.
"If you look underneath the building, you'll see an uncountable number of spirit stones. Those are a temporary power source until I manage to set up a greater one." Ying Xiong explained.
His words lead Zhou Fan to thinking. Spirit stones, although they had begun to naturally form on almost all planets, were essentially useless for stronger cultivators.
Even as simply money, they could no longer be used in transactions, especially between those above the space shattering realm.
Zhou Fan made a mental note to create a new type of spirit stones in the future.
"The teleportation hub will be especially useful in the future due to how spread out galaxies are now." Ying Xiong added.
Zhou Fan stopped and thought for a moment, before deciding that it wouldn't hurt him to help Ying Xiong.
He did not need much time. He connected to his mortal dao and created 3 teleportation arrays leading to the silver river galaxy cluster, the tree-like galaxy cluster, and the Zhou Galaxy.
He placed all three in the teleportation hub.
"There you go. I expect that plaque to be pristine and constantly clean." Zhou Fan said.
Ying Xiong nodded, happy that he did not need to make a long journey.
"As for a power source, you can figure out that yourself. I can't do everything for you." Zhou Fan said.
"I know. Most of the Qi cost will be paid by the people who use them anyway. Still, we will be making a great profit no matter what." Ying Xiong said.
Zhou Fan did not know how he planned to get money since spirit stones were useless to Ying Xiong, but he just assumed he was thinking about items or techniques.
"Oh right." Zhou Fan said before grabbing inside his separate space and pulling out a large piece of paper.
"Here's a map of the universe. Though most of it remains unexplored, I know the size and have divided up the sections. Feel free to make this common knowledge." Zhou Fan said.
Ying Xiong looked at the map, and stood stunned for a while.
"I think I'll just make a map of a single filament public. If people see how big the universe truly is, they may begin to despair." Ying Xiong said.
Anyone who dreamed of reaching the peak, even Ying Xiong himself, would feel a bit disheartened at seeing just how far away they were.
"I understand. It's up to you." Zhou Fan said.
Once Zhou Fan was finished touring the teleportation hub, Ying Xiong brought him back to the cosmic sect.
"It's been a while, but can I request that you spar with everyone and give them some pointers?" Ying Xiong asked.
"I don't mind, I'm not exactly in a rush." Zhou Fan said.
Ying Xiong nodded and ran off to collect everyone in the cosmic sect. Meanwhile, Zhou Fan went to the eastern side of the galaxy.
Everyone in the cosmic sect had long reached the void traversing realm, so there would be no issue fighting in space.
Although space was becoming stronger, Zhou Fan made sure that the first layer could always be shattered by a space shattering cultivator.
Otherwise, the space shattering realm would be reduced to an empty name.
Before long, Zhou Fan was staring at multiple people.
"All those below the inner world realm, come at me now." Zhou Fan said.
Many of the new disciples charged towards Zhou Fan at the same time. He limited his cultivation to the peak of the lesser dao creation realm, but none of them could match him.
For people who qualified to enter the cosmic sect, reaching the lesser dao creation realm was no issue, and each of them were in that realm.
After around 5 minutes, the group of beaten and bruised disciples moved away. Despite being injured, they were all clearly excited. Zhou Fan's casual pointers would help them a lot.
They were also eagerly waiting for everyone else to be beat up.
"Feng Liu, Lu Zhong, both of you attack at the same time." Zhou Fan said as he increased his cultivation from the peak of the lesser dao creation realm to the 1st level of the inner world realm.
They did not hesitate, and immediately attacked at the same time.
Zhou Fan condensed a ruler from sword Qi and moved forward. Feng Liu waved her fan, and millions of tiny icicles were launched at Zhou Fan.
"Sloppy. The range is too large. Are your eyes working? Do you see multiple of me?" Zhou Fan asked.
He then waved the ruler. It cut through space and slapped Feng Liu's wrist.
By that time, Lu Zhong was stabbing his spear at Zhou Fan's side.
Zhou Fan easily moved the ruler next to the spear's tip and casually moved it away.
"Are you holding back because I'm your uncle, or did you simply forget to practice with your spear?" Zhou Fan mocked.
Before he even realized what happened, a red mark in the shape of a rectangle appeared on Lu Zhong's face, knocking him backwards.
Although Feng Liu and Lu Zhong treated Zhou Fan as their uncle, they were truly enraged at the moment.
Lu Zhong charged forward, stars covering his body, while Feng Liu raised her fan and held it so that the edge was facing Zhou Fan.
Stars began to revolve around her body, as well as her fan.
She swung down, and a blade of ice surrounded by rotating stars fell onto Zhou Fan.
At the same time, Lu Zhong was closing in fast.
Zhou Fan sneered. "You two have only fought straightforward opponents in your life. It's about time that you fight someone with tricks up their sleeve."
In the next second, Zhou Fan disappeared and reappeared where Lu Zhong had been standing.
Likewise, Lu Zhong appeared where Zhou Fan had been standing.
He looked up and hurriedly blocked the attack with a spear thrust covered in rotating stars.
"Teleportation art: replacement." Zhou Fan said as the two attacks clashed.