Zhou World - 78

With his new breakthrough, Zhou Fan was confident in creating a mortal Dao. Although eager to test his strength, the knowledge of the Dao was filling his entire mind. He was unable to resist the urge to express that knowledge by creating a mortal Dao.

He instantly appeared at the core of the world he gave life too. He stretched out his hand and grabbed the core. He then crushed it into dust, maintaining the coreless word with his own power.

He then used all of his power and knowledge in order to form a small gray sphere where the core once was. As he poured more Qi and knowledge into it, the gray core started to expand.

Before it reached half of the size of the old core, Zhou Fan was nearly depleted of Qi. In a frenzy of desperation and slight madness that the knowledge filling his mind caused, Zhou Fan opened his mouth and started to suck Chaos Qi from the universe. A storm was caused by the rapid absorption of Qi by Zhou Fan. If not for his subconscious protection, the world would have been grinded to dust.

Blood started to pour from Zhou Fans' cracked skin and his eyes as he attempted to form the Mortal Dao. He was almost on his last breath when he finally stopped. In an instant, the cracked space and the storm fixed itself and ceased.

Zhou Fan was panting on the ground as he stared at the big gray core floating in the center of the world. He was unable to even heal himself as he slowly slipped into unconsciousness.

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Zhou Fans' closed eyes snapped open. He had spent the last year unconscious and healing due to his heavy injuries. It was a miracle that his cultivation wasn't hurt.

Zhou Fan stood up and looked at the gray core floating in the air. He felt a connection with it that he had never felt in anything else before. It was as if the core was a literal part of him.

Even with just a glance, Zhou Fan was able to tell that he had full control of the core, as if it was his arm. Even so, he let it float there. He had nothing to do with it and even if he did, he would endanger the structure of the world now that it had fused with it.

Zhou Fan looked forward to the future of the world now. Since it had fused with his mortal Dao, it was something that would grow as Zhou Fan did. That also meant that he needed to protect the world. If it was ever destroyed, he would be seriously injured. Far more injured than he was previously.

Another thing to note was that the core was identical to his. It seemed that he instinctually made it the same. Of course, it was much stronger than his core.

After staring at the core for a while, Zhou Fan laid hundreds of formations around it. Although he had said that he would be injured if the world was destroyed, it was more accurate to say that he would be injured if the core was destroyed. Also, as long as the core was intact, the world would live on.

Before leaving the core, Zhou Fan decided to name the planet. It would likely be with him for a long time. After thinking, he decided to call it the Zhou world.

He then left the core and journeyed to the top. For some reason, the journey up took much longer than before. Zhou Fan even sped up when he didn't reach the top after a minute had passed.

He eventually decided to release his divine sense and teleport to the surface. When he appeared, the sight that greeted him was unexpected. Vast lands expanded past eyeshot. Great trees stood near Zhou Fan.

The only problem was that trees that big had never existed on the Zhou World. Zhou Fan once again released his divine sense across the world, this time taking a moment to see what was happening.

In an instant, Zhou Fan was dumbfounded. The Zhou World which once could only be considered a medium size planet had grown much bigger. The stars that once towered over the planets were now only equal in size to the Zhou World.

With his new breakthrough, such a size wasn't something too incredible for him. Even so, Zhou Fan couldn't get over the fact that the planet had grown so much. Naturally, only one thing could have caused it. Zhou Fans mortal Dao.

The planet must have grown in size because it wasn't able to hold that much power within it. Although astonished, Zhou Fan quickly accepted it. Unusual occurrences weren't uncommon to Zhou Fan at this point.

Not to mention, the world getting bigger was the only unusual occurrence. There were still only four great creatures and they hadn't grown or anything. None of the animals had gotten much bigger, nor had there been any new species.

The only difference with the animals was that the populations had increased. The increase wasn't anything outstanding either. In fact, Zhou Fan would need to personally act in order to fill the world with animals. Most of the current world was empty due to the sudden increase in size.

The supreme beasts were having a blast with the increased size, however. After looking around and admiring the beauty of the new world, Zhou Fan got to work.

He first tested his new power after breaking into the lesser Dao creation realm. He was now able to move at 10,000 light years a minute! Although tempted to explore the rest of the galaxy, Zhou Fan didn't. He had too much to do on the Zhou World.

As for his strength, Zhou Fan didn't even test it. He may end up destroying the solar system if he did. The next order of business was to increase the world's population. Once again, the world was covered in life Qi, sparing only the four supreme beasts.