Universal Consciousness? - 201

Zhou Fan's plan was to make some sort of consciousness that would rule over the entire universe.

It would not only keep order, but it would also make sure that nobody destroyed everything. Zhou Fan had only developed a rough idea of his plan.

His first thought was arrays and formations. Theoretically, he could create a bunch of arrays or formations that would be able to accomplish his goal.

After thinking for a while, however, he realized that the success of such a thing was very unlikely. Even if he did succeed, it would have to be very poorly made.

After he continued thinking, he suddenly had an idea. He could use his mortal dao as the foundation of the universal consciousness. Once he became strong enough, it would completely overthrow the cosmic dao and control the universe.

As for how to manipulate his mortal dao to begin such a process, Zhou Fan had no idea. He would have to try a couple things, but he was sure that he could do it.

Zhou Fan continued sitting in the middle of the three galaxy clusters and began to sense the mortal dao within him. Like always, it was a mix of gray and orange. Zhou Fan assumed that the orange was based off of the center of the world, while the gray was obviously due to his Chaos Qi.

Zhou Fan had manipulated his mortal dao so many times before that he was actually quite used to it. Unfortunately, he was trying something completely different today.

First, Zhou Fan dragged his mortal dao out of his body and held it in his palm. It sat on his hand similar to a sun. 

For the first time, Zhou Fan tried to send his divine sense into it. As soon as they connected, Zhou Fan felt as if a bunch of options were laid out in front of him. 

The options held a sense of familiarity, but Zhou Fan didn't know why. There were hundreds of thousands, if not millions of them, so he randomly picked one.

As soon as he did, he felt as if he had grown a third eye. Although he could see the nearly empty space of the void between the three galaxy clusters, he could also see a new area.

It seemed like a stony and barren planet. He could view it from any point within a thousand mile radius of the planet's edge.

As he looked closer, he noticed that his mortal dao had taken over the random planet. Instantly, he understood why the options were so familiar. Each of them were different planets that he had connected to his mortal dao.

Zhou Fan felt stupid that he hadn't previously guessed what they were at first, but he then realized that he was looking at a planet so far away that it would take him at least a thousand years to reach it. Well, a thousand years before he broke through, but regardless, it was a very far away planet.

For a second, Zhou Fan was thrilled by this discovery. Then he realized that it had little use to him as of now and it wouldn't help him complete his idea.

'However, it may have some sort of use in the future.' Zhou Fan thought to himself.

As he was thinking of possible future uses, he remembered that he had used his divine sense to use his mortal dao and look at the planet.

Based off of that, it was possible that he could manipulate the planet, despite being an uncountable number of miles away from it.

It felt ridiculous to even try, but Zhou Fan attempted to use his divine sense to affect something on the planet.

He tried, but he didn't get the sensation of anything moving. For a second, he was disappointed, until he realized that his mortal dao covering every inch of space throughout the planet suddenly moved.

Zhou Fan was confused for a second, but he once again tried to manipulate his divine sense, this time paying more attention to the mortal dao.

As he moved his divine sense, he noticed that a bit of his mortal dao seemed to extend a tendril in the direction he was trying to use his divine sense.

He then realized that he was trying wrong. The next time he used his divine sense, Zhou Fan used it to reach the mortal dao on the planet. Once he did, he felt a new connection. 

From that point, he was able to use his mortal dao covering the planet as if it was his divine sense.

Zhou Fan was shocked by the discovery. This meant that not only would he have full vision of whatever was going on in the planets, but he would also be able to silently manipulate anything in the planet.

Now this was useful!

Zhou Fan immediately made his mortal dao hit a mountain with force. The mountain immediately tumbled down without resistance.

He tried to use it to produce some sort of elemental attack, but it wasn't working well. Still, he felt that it was possible, just not now with his current strength.

With his new discovery, Zhou Fan felt the idea of making a consciousness to control every planet under his control, and eventually the universe was possible.

However, there was one big problem. He could not always control his mortal dao, and using it at the same time on millions of planets was far beyond his current power.

In order to do that much, he would need something else. A central controller that completely followed his commands and had very little will of its own. Something like a robot, but a robot would not fulfill his needs without direct order.

He needed something that could adapt to an unknown situation without any sort of command. In other words, he needed some sort of living thing completely under his control.

Zhou Fan only had one idea. No living thing that he could create now, and possibly for a long long time would have the ability to control so many planets simultaneously.

The idea he had theoretically worked, but it fell under the category of pure evil.