The Great Attractor and Runes - 156

The thing that Zhou Fan called a galaxy cluster was bright yellow. In the darkness of space, it seemed like a world light.

Zhou Fan divided it into two parts based on its looks. One was the main part, which seemed like a cylindrical capsule. It was solid yellow without a single bit of space in between.

The other part was lines that seemed like they were being sucked towards the main part.

It almost resembled a centipede. Although he couldn't accurately calculate from his distance, it seemed to contain millions, or hundreds of millions of galaxies.

What Zhou Fan could guess, however, was that something was in the center of it. Otherwise, there was no reason so many galaxies would be in one spot, or be being attracted towards that spot.

Zhou Fan considered a black hole, but the galaxies on the main part didn't seem like they were moving.

For now, Zhou Fan would call it the great attractor, despite not knowing what it was.

While moving in that direction, Zhou Fan didn't plan on ignoring the galaxies he saw along the way. As usual, when he saw a planet with potential life, he would evolve the lifeforms, connect the planet and sun to his mortal dao, and give them a way to cultivate.

In around a year of travel, Zhou Fan helped more than a thousand planets with potential for life. Despite all the traveling, there was not a single planet with life already on it, if you exclude the micro organisms. Zhou Fan was starting to feel like earth was the creator of the first life in the universe.

In that year of travel, Zhou Fan had barely gotten closer to the cluster of galaxies despite moving at speeds that far exceeded light.

Therefore, Zhou Fan decided to take a break from traveling and break through. That way, he could travel much faster.

Zhou Fan took the pagoda out of his spatial ring and let it float in the empty void. Thanks to its strength, even the space outside the galaxy was unable to hurt it.

Zhou Fan flew to the top floor and started to cultivate. He didn't plan on stopping until he reached the next level.

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120,000 years later, Zhou Fan successfully broke into the 2nd level of the inner world realm.

He carefully observed his inner world in order to see what happened. As expected, the boundary of the inner world expanded, while its power increased and its Qi multiplied.

Since the inner world was a part of Zhou Fan like his organs, his power increased and his Qi multiplied, although it already did that anyway.

Not much else changed besides the inner world's expansion and his increase in strength. Luckily, his speed increased with his strength.

After putting the pagoda back into his spatial ring, Zhou Fan used his full power and Qi in order to move forward as fast as possible.

His speed had increased by almost 4 times and he soared through space much faster.

After another year, he had helped more than a thousand planets once again. The process hadn't changed and his mortal dao hadn't even reached a cap, surprisingly.

Despite his new speed, Zhou Fan had barely shortened the distance from the cluster of galaxies ahead. He had accepted that the trip would take a while no matter what he did, so Zhou Fan took another break. Instead of breaking through, which would probably take longer than reaching the galaxy cluster, Zhou Fan started experimenting with the usages of Qi once again.

He believed the last time he had done so was at the original Huang Long academy before he had even left earth. With his new strength and comprehension of the Dao and elements, he felt that he should be able to discover another use.

After nearly a hundred years of experimenting, Zhou Fan finally found it. When he infused a certain amount of Qi, along with an understanding of the cosmic dao into his finger and wrote symbols in the air, different things would happen as a reaction.

It was similar to formations and arrays, but could be done without any sort of foundation whatsoever. It also had much higher requirements and much higher power.

Even Zhou Fan struggled at first, but he soon got the hang of it. He decided to call them runes.

When used the correct way, for example, runes could produce stronger fire for less Qi. The substitute would be one's understanding of the dao. Of course, an understanding of the cosmic dao couldn't be consumed. It was more like a catalyst.

After a while, Zhou Fan was also able to use his mortal dao to make runes, although they were both weaker and not cost efficient.

Like formation and arrays, the runes would last until they decayed or were used. However, its longevity was longer. Therefore, he could draw an invisibility rune with a fireball rune and set it to attack the first person it senses.

It would send an attack as soon as someone came near it. It was a great trap.

Another use for runes that Zhou Fan came up with was a restrictive wall. Using a special combination of runes, a milky white wall would form that blocked any entering from someone weaker than the runes.

However, Zhou Fan was able to make an exception that allowed those who comprehended the runes on the wall to enter.

Therefore, the wall could be used to block out unworthy people while allowing worthy people in.

That was just one of the many uses Zhou Fan came up with for runes. The best part was that the more you comprehended the cosmic dao, the more powerful your runes were.

With Zhou Fan's current strength and understanding of runes, along with his comprehension of the cosmic dao, he could create an attack that could destroy nearly a half of a very small galaxy.

Although it was weaker than his full strength with his sword, especially now that he had broken through, that was only because he hadn't practiced with runes very long.

Runes were very hard to fully comprehend. Simply the precision required would take thousands of years to master.