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73.02% The First Cultivator - Changing Existence / Chapter 517: The Buddhist Path - 517

Capítulo 517: The Buddhist Path - 517

Zhou Fan silently waited five hundred years. He did not watch in this time, only waited patiently.

To say he was not anxious would be a lie. This was extremely important, and if the Buddha couldn't succeed, then perhaps nobody could.

After five hundred years, he finally decided to check in. A blue circle appeared in front of him, showing the Buddha.

He was sitting under a tree, meditating. Around him, there were thousands of people. Some were cultivators, even up to the Core Formation realm, while others were mortals.

Others could not see, but Zhou Fan could tell at a glance that the Buddha had succeeded. Zhou Fan heaved a sigh of relief. He took a closer look at the Buddha. 

Within his body was a golden heart. Around his body was a visible golden color. This was the color of Buddhist Qi. Using Buddhist Qi as a medium, the Buddha had done something that no other had ever done. He had created a path.

He was the only one that could lead this path. Even Zhou Fan could not properly help him.

This path seemed similar to some techniques, but it was in fact completely different. Even without cultivating, the path that the Buddha had created could be endlessly grown, perhaps even reaching the same level as Zhou Fan.

Zhou Fan looked at the Buddha's meridians, but they were untouched. Zhou Fan was surprised. By not utilizing the meridians, even cultivators could follow the Buddha's path.

Zhou Fan stood up and stepped through the circle. He soon sat next to the Buddha. The Buddha opened his eyes.

"You've succeeded." Zhou Fan said.

Surprisingly, the Buddha shook his head. "In my opinion, yes, but my path is different from cultivation, but it lacks Lifespan."

Zhou Fan took an even deeper look. As the Buddha had said, practicing this path would not increase the Lifespan of an individual.

Zhou Fan thought about this for a moment.

"If practiced with cultivation, do you believe that your path could reach the same heights as without cultivation but with a high Lifespan."

The Buddha shook his head. "Although this path can be cultivated along with cultivation, there will be a limit. My path requires absolute dedication to it alone. It is the Buddhist path."

Zhou Fan began to calculate. After experiencing a near infinite amount of years with the universe's time stopped, he felt as if everything that could possibly be done was much clearer.

After a moment, he spoke again. "Your path has strength enhancing properties, but no life enhancing properties. You can change this rather simply. It's more like a matter of essence."

Although the Buddha's path utilized Buddhist Qi, it created a completely different type of power within him, much like the power of cultivation to Zhou Fan. 

"I understand what you say, but would you change the path of cultivation to simply fix a simple shortcoming?" The Buddha said.

"My path of cultivation doesn't have any shortcomings. On the other hand, your Buddhist path has a flaw that can be clearly seen. Even if you change it a bit, it will still be perfectly suited to you, much like cultivation to me." Zhou Fan explained.

"In my mind, your path of cultivation's lifespan is a flaw. Living so long, doesn't it all become meaningless at some point."

Zhou Fan shook his head. "You are misunderstanding something. As incredible as it is that you created your own path, the precursor of its existence is still me."

Zhou Fan snapped his finger, and all the Buddhist Qi surrounding him disappeared.

Those who had been in deep meditation around the Buddha woke up in confusion. 

"I am the one who split the Qi's and I can merge them back together. Your path has flaws, this is yet another one. My path doesn't."

The Buddha remained unperturbed.

"How long did it take you to be able to produce the power of cultivation? At some point, I believe that I will be able to freely produce my power as well. It is simply a matter of time." The Buddha said.

Zhou Fan returned the Buddhist Qi to the surroundings. "Sorry. I didn't catch that last part. What was that again?"

"It's a matter of time." The Buddha repeated.

"I see. And how much time do you have left compared to how much you need?"

The Buddha remained silent without changing his expression.

Zhou Fan laughed and stood up. "I'll call this one my win. You need help changing your path?" 

The Buddha sighed and the golden glow around him disappeared. It also disappeared from those in the surroundings. "I'll handle it."

Zhou Fan nodded and left. The Buddha would have to restart his path, but at least he would be able to live long enough to complete it more.

The Buddhist path was one that could be created through belief, resolve, enlightenment, and will. It would probably be much easier for the Buddha to create his own power from nothing than it was for Zhou Fan. That was since the power of cultivation only became a true thing later on. Before, it had simply been the act of cultivating.

The Buddha already had his power within him. As he sat down, Zhou Fan looked at the universe within his chest. Perhaps he could experiment on the Buddhist path with another universe later on. 

It would naturally be impossible for anyone to surpass the Buddha, a great feature that came with creating your own path, but he could see if changing it in any way would help.

Of course, the Buddhist path had a long way to go before then. Zhou Fan sat and waited for the Buddha to progress.

While he did so, Leaf wrapped around him. The Time bubble did not only affect Zhou Fan, but the whole manor. In other words, Leaf had been cultivating for more than a sextillion years, up until Zhou Fan completely stopped time.

Leaf was now at the True God realm, and its power was incredible. Zhou Fan had big plans for Leaf in the future. 

For now, he upgraded his meridians. Above immortal GodKing was Immortal venerable, and above Immortal Venerable rank meridians were Peak meridians. These were the Final meridians until Zhou Fan reached a new realm.

Leaf had Peak rank 1 meridians.


Capítulo 518: Development - 518

500 years passed, and Zhou Fan left Leaf to cultivate as he met the Buddha. The Buddha was still in the same spot, though the people around him had changed a bit. Some were no longer there, while many others had joined.

The Buddha had succeeded in making a lifespan factor with his path. However, it was nowhere near the amount of lifespan that cultivation gave. 

In addition, this lifespan factor did not affect cultivators.

Luckily for the Buddha, it was faster to progress on his path than it was for cultivation.

Cultivation was the slow accumulation of Qi, while the Buddhist path focused on tempering the heart and the will of a person to reach enlightenment. Different from the Buddha's original buddhism, this would also strengthen an individual's body through the use of Qi and eventually the Buddha's own power.

Seeing that the Buddha did not need his help, Zhou Fan left. It seemed that the Buddha would be able to create a new path for the universe. Of course, despite leaving, Zhou Fan had left defensive measures in case anyone tried to kill the Buddha.

Since the Buddha's path was now being developed, Zhou Fan needed to continue. There was no guarentee that the Buddha alone would be able to help him. There was a high chance that he would need to see others develop paths, however so they would do it.

And for that, it was time to reappear.

Leaf wrapped around Zhou Fan as Zhou Fan stepped through space. He arrived at the Cosmic sect.

It had been abandoned long ago, but with the war over, it was once again the strongest force in the universe.

Here, Zhou Fan found Heaven and Ying Xiong. Heaven was here to see Ying Xiong, while Ying Xiong was cultivating. Seeing Heaven reminded Zhou Fan that he couldn't cultivate.

As Heaven sat and waited for Ying Xiong, he suddenly felt a new level of power build within him. He instantly reached the peak of the Outer World realm. Although the limit was the Sage Realm, nobody would be going near that anytime soon. 

Feeling his cultivation rise, Heaven understood that Zhou Fan was here. Ying Xiong, feeling the uncontrollable burst of power from Heaven, was able to guess the same thing. Ying Xiong came out of seclusion and stood next to Heaven as Zhou Fan appeared.

"No need to focus on cultivation for now. Increase the population of all life in the universe and spread it around. Fill up the entire universe." Zhou Fan said before leaving. 

Ying Xiong sighed. He wanted to cultivate, but Zhou Fan's orders were absolute. He got to work. Heaven did as well.

Zhou Fan, meanwhile, went to the other side of the universe. One universe wasn't nearly enough for his future plans. Although he couldn't expand the universe, he could infinitely produce space. 

With just a little bit of work, a gate appeared in space. Walking through it, one would enter a small, unseeable universe similar to the one in Zhou Fan's chest. It was the size of a filament, but did not take much space in the Zhou universe.

Zhou Fan once again reappeared in the Zhou Filament. Over countless years, many weird and unusual creatures had been born. Many were defective, unable to either think properly or cultivate, but they showed a new possibility.

Zhou Fan grabbed a bunch of them and threw them in the new universe. He repeated his actions, sometimes with weird creatures and sometimes with humanoid or intelligent life.

He only stopped after creating a thousand mini universes each the size of a filament. Even for him, it was taxing work. Thousands of years had passed since he started, but time was becoming increasingly more ignorable to Zhou Fan. 

Taking a break, Zhou Fan began to manipulate his Great Dao. In an instant, it pervaded throughout all of the universe and the mini universes. As it finally covered the last universe, Zhou Fan sensed his limit. He had almost forgotten about it. The Great Dao couldn't cover an endless disatance.

Zhou Fan sighed and continued to do what he planned on doing. The Great Dao covering the universe began to slightly change. A feeling of desire and lust pervaded every single thing that could reproduce. 

This would help a lot in the efforts of increasing the population of the universe. With more beings born, there was a higher chance that someone like Zhou Fan and the Buddha was born.

Efficently, this was all that Zhou Fan could do. Any more created would not be covered by his Great Dao.

However, after thinking about it for a while, perhaps an element of unknown was needed. Perhaps something that Zhou Fan did not interfere with needed to be born.

Zhou Fan stood up again. After a long time, he created a thousand more mini universes, throwing random beings into them, and letting them develop completely outside of his control.

Perhaps something interesting would appear. 

Zhou Fan returned to his manor and let Leaf off. Everything now was a matter of time. He sat against the now Tree sized Leaf and fell asleep. He had never been so carfree before.

He could not do anything else to increase the probablity of a new path appearing. While making countless new mini-universe might help, Zhou Fan would not be able to keep an eye on all of them. There was a chance that a being would create a path, and die without ever being known. As it is, this was the best way to do things and keep them within control. 

Thoughts slowing down, Zhou Fan drifted into sleep. In his dreams, he seemed to watch the entire universe develop. He watched as Zhu Yi developed into an even more invincible being. He watched as Zhu Yi achieved his life long dream of defeating Chen Jie at the same level. He saw Chen Jie laughing, feeling the joy of finally being defeated.

He watched as Heaven and Ying Xiong worked tirelessly to increase the population of the universe. They biased humanoid races, but Zhou Fan's mini universes took care of that aspect.


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