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Since there were many galaxies that could collide at any moment, Zhou Fan decided to temporarily move out of the main area of the galaxy cluster.

He would stay far away from any galaxies that would collide within a hundred thousand years.

After a bit of traveling, Zhou Fan reached a fairly empty part of the universe. There was no galaxy within ten thousand lightyears, and the ones that were past that were far away from each other.

Zhou Fan felt some shame hiding away, but the power difference between him and colliding galaxies was ridiculous.

He could always grow stronger as long as he was alive. If he was dead, there was obviously no chance he could grow stronger.

Zhou Fan took the pagoda out from his spatial ring and let it float in space. It still had the arrays and formations Zhou Fan had created floating around it. Even the two yellow dragons were still there.

Since he had some free time, Zhou Fan decided to add some runes to his pagoda. He first created a white wall that had runes flowing within it.

The wall was strong enough to stop anyone below the inner world realm from entering. However, it would freely let anyone that comprehended all the runes on it in.

Although he had no plans to let someone in, it was a feature of runes he wanted to try out. After the white wall was finished, Zhou Fan added some attack runes to the pagoda.

He blended them in with the white wall. Therefore, anyone who tried to enter without comprehending the runes would be both stopped and attacked.

After that, Zhou Fan was done with adding runes. Although they could do many things, Zhou Fan didn't want to add too many unnecessary things.

Zhou Fan went to the top floor of his pagoda and started to cultivate.

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After 150,000 years, Zhou Fan reached the third level of the inner world realm. Nothing crazy or new happened, but his inner world and his overall strength increased greatly. Still, there was no chance of surviving a collision between black holes. Therefore, Zhou Fan continued to cultivate.

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After 200,000 years, Zhou Fan broke through to the 4th level of the inner world realm. Once again, his strength increased greatly. At the distance he was previously at, Zhou Fan was confident in not taking any damage from the two black holes collisions.

Of course, he would still be decimated if he was too close. However, his talent gave him strength exceeding his own realm. At the least, he could be compared to someone at the 6th level of the inner world realm. At best, he could probably defeat someone at the 7th level of the inner world realm.

Of course, it also depended on their own talent.

For example, the black hole collision gave off black hole Qi, which was one of the strongest Qi's Zhou Fan had ever encountered.

If it was simply an explosion containing fire, it wouldn't do half as much.

Sadly, most things within the universe were extremely strong within their realm. The idea of being able to exceed his own realm could only really apply to living beings.

Therefore, if the black hole's collision produced power at the 10th level of the inner world realm, Zhou Fan would have to be at the ninth or tenth level to survive it.

Despite all of that, Zhou Fan didn't immediately go back into seclusion. Now that he had broken through so many times, he could upgrade his sword.

He estimated that he could fit an entire other galaxy into his sword. He would also have to use less strength than the last time.

Zhou Fan left his pagoda and flew to the nearest galaxy. He had looked at it before he left and determined that it would be a good addition to his sword.

Its size was also perfect for his current strength. After he arrived, Zhou Fan put a barrier around the black hole in order to protect it, and imitated the same process he had used on the last galaxy.

He put a barrier around it and started bringing everything together. Soon, he once again had a ball of stars and planets. Like last time, Zhou Fan began to compress it.

He didn't have any trouble whatsoever until it reached the size of his sword. The hard part was compressing it into the sword without letting the sword lose its original shape.

Zhou Fan inserted the sword into the center of the ball and compressed the ball equally on all parts

Despite his increased strength, the ball was barely compressed. Zhou Fan had to use up nearly all of his Qi 5 times before he finally completed the compressing.

The sword almost looked the same, but there were now more stars on its space-like surface. The sword's strength had also increased greatly.

In order to test it, Zhou Fan moved far away from his pagoda. He traveled at his full speed for an entire day before he stopped at another mostly empty part of the universe. Even if he used his full power, nothing would be affected.

Zhou Fan once again held the sword above his head. He used all his strength, power, and talent before he swung down on the empty space.

Immediately, the entire area around him shattered. Even Zhou Fan could barely see anything but shards of space. It was as if he was in a mirror maze. After attacking the space this time, something new happened.

It seemed his attack had broken through the last layer of space. In a spot no bigger than three feet, where his sword struck down directly, was something with no color or feeling.

It was completely different from the emptiness of space. Zhou Fan felt that if he touched it, he would simply disappear from existence.

He couldn't completely understand the feeling, but it overwhelmed him to the point of nearly running away.

Fortunately, he quickly came back to his senses and used his full power to add space to cover up the hole.

Unfortunately, the power he had left was all used up, causing him to pass out from Qi exhaustion.