Afterwards - 106

Despite the fact that the battle lasted less than an hour, the damage done had exceeded the last battle by a large amount.

Many mountains had been destroyed and there were plenty of holes and cracks in the ground. During the entire battle, the ground had shook enough to kill many core formation cultivators in minutes.

Luckily, the only people who came were nascent soul cultivators and above and they had even managed to get far away from the battle. Only the minorest of injuries were sustained by them.

The main four battlers, however, suffered some major injuries. Especially the dragon king who was heavily injured during the very beginning of the battle.

At first, the soul formation cultivators who had attended the meeting had tried to assist in the battle, but they instantly realized that they would only be killed if they were near it.

Therefore, the void traversing cultivators blocked the shockwaves and escorted them away. The void traversing cultivators didn't even have time to return before the battle was over.

Although it could be said to be a victory, no lasting damage was done to the grim reaper while the four rulers all had some sort of injuries.

The monkey king, who had summoned the buddha, was now laying on the ground in a comatose state. The battle had taken a lot out of him and caused him to be depleted of all his Qi.

Luckily, he would not die. Instead, he would likely wake up in less than a week at full strength.

On the other side of the Zhou World, Zhou Fan stared at a new area being formed. The expansion of the world had already started, and Zhou Fan estimated it would take 5 years to finish.

As he watched the terrain change, Zhou Fan started to think of ideas to increase the vitality of the universe. He had remembered the other planets in the solar system that the Zhou world existed in and considered giving life to them as well.

He could create another new humanoid race like demons or even just recreate humans. However, he wanted to first be able to connect them to his mortal Dao. If he could form a sort of chain that connected all the planets through his mortal Dao, giving life to the worlds would give him many benefits.

Unfortunately, such a thing was too complicated for him right now. He would consider trying again once his cultivation reached the 5th level of lesser Dao creation.

The expansion of the world would take a bit longer to complete, so Zhou Fan decided to add some more opportunities. He checked earlier and as expected, both opportunities were still there.

The sword in the ravine had not been found at all, and the shield protected by challenges had only been recently discovered.

A couple dinosaurs had attempted the challenge, but none had gotten past the 3rd level. Zhou Fan estimated that within the next ten thousand years, challenging the cave would be a dinosaur tradition.

After all, the people who had made it through the first level had received rewards. Even if they didn't plan on telling anybody, it would be revealed eventually.

After increasing the strength of the formations surrounding the challenge, Zhou Fan went away in order to place a new opportunity.

He moved along the Zhou World until he came across an ocean. It was huge and extended farther than the eye could see.

Zhou Fan considered putting an opportunity there. However, he had no idea what opportunity would fit the ocean.

After thinking for a bit, he chose to make a special whip. He would place it in the deepest area of the ocean and put deadly formations around it. He would still leave a path through, but it would be invisible and one would need to be extremely lucky to get it.

Once they got their hands on the whip, they would be able to pass through the formations unharmed. Therefore, they could also use it to hide if they were in trouble.

After confirming the idea, Zhou Fan started to move towards the deepest part of the ocean. It was many miles away and Zhou Fan had to look for a while before he found it.

The point was 200,000 feet deep and the pressure would be unbearable to anyone below foundation establishment. In fact, even 10th level foundation establishment cultivators would struggle to survive so deep. The only way they would be able to is if they had a water affinity.

Zhou Fan continued towards the sea floor, but just as he was about to touch it, his foot fell right through it. Surprisingly, what he thought was a sea floor was actually a layer of dust and debris.

When Zhou Fan got below the layer, he saw something incredible. There were glowing lights and swimming fish everywhere. The pressure was still incredible, but they were moving around as if it was nothing.

They weren't even cultivators! The most common sight was worms of different shapes, sizes, and colors.

Some were blue and gave off electricity while some were yellow and hid under rocks. There was also coral and unmoving life throughout the area. Some of the things at the bottom even seemed edible and even delicious. Overall, it was as if there was another world at the bottom of the ocean.

Zhou Fan started to move around the area in curiosity and found many more interesting things. One finding in particular gave Zhou Fan an immense shock.

There was a fishlike being that had a head similar to a humans swimming by. It had a tail of a fish but the upper body of a human.

Zhou Fan instantly scanned it and was disappointed to find out that it had little to no intelligence.

However, that was something that could be fixed. Zhou Fan decided that before he created an opportunity, he would give the being that swam past him intelligence and make it a new race.