Manor's Return - 204

After a moment of caution, Zhou Fan looked at the new areas of his mortal dao. Each and every one was now at least a thousand lightyears in diameter. As for the last one, it was a million lightyears in diameter. 

Zhou Fan was extremely satisfied with the expansion. While it was nowhere near enough to completely form a universal consciousness, it was a much better starting place than before.

Expanding the range of his mortal dao wasn't the only thing that Zhou Fan wanted to accomplish in preparation for the true creation of the universal consciousness. 

Before he actually formed it, he planned on doing a test run. He would pick a random galaxy that had his mortal dao throughout it and build a mini consciousness. 

That would not only allow him to figure out how he was going to build a universal consciousness, but it would allow him to test for flaws in advance.

The mini consciousness definitely wouldn't be as strong as the universal consciousness, meaning it would not be able to do as much, but it would be a great prototype. 

Zhou Fan thought of testing it out with the Zhou galaxy, but he decided to randomly pick a galaxy through the use of his mortal dao and see where that led him. 

Zhou Fan connected his divine sense to his mortal dao without even bringing it out, and metaphorically spun a wheel containing all of the galaxies connected to his mortal dao.

After a moment, the chosen galaxy was revealed to be one on the edge of the tree-like galaxy cluster. It wasn't near the place where he had made the manor, but on the other side.

Despite being on the other side of the tree-like galaxy cluster, Zhou Fan would pass by the manor if he went straight. Since he was going by it, he decided it wouldn't be a bad idea to have some dinner with the animals before he continued on his journey.

Once he made up his mind, Zhou Fan shot up from his position and soared to the tree-like galaxy. His speed was ten times faster than the last time he had moved throughout the galaxy clusters.

In only a hundred years, he reached the edge of the tree-like galaxy cluster. That edge was fairly close to the galaxy where the manor resided. Zhou Fan excitedly flew forward and reached the manor in three days.

As the third day passed, he saw the manor in the distance. He flew even faster, and arrived in front of the giant block of ice in only an hour.

Once he got there, Zhou Fan first covered the entire manor in his divine sense. In just a moment, he was able to confirm that the animals were still alive and in a state of complete freeze without any sign of issue.

Zhou Fan let out a sigh of relief before he got himself ready for the next part. Despite his much higher strength, unfreezing the manor would be a somewhat difficult process. 

That was because he had to do it in a very specific way so that none of the animals would die from the sudden heat or the aftereffects of being frozen. 

Luckily, with his higher strength, the failure rate was nearly zero. Zhou fan focused all of his attention on the ice in front of him, before instantly heating up the entire area to an astonishing temperature. 

The heat lasted less than a nanosecond, but the entire block of ice instantly unfroze. Zhou Fan was left panting while standing in space.

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Within the manor, a very stupid chicken was looking around in confusion. It was only a slight feeling, but he felt like he had just woken up from a long nap.

He thought he was going crazy for a minute, but the other animals soon poured into the yard in front of Zhou Fan's house.

"Do you all feel like you just woke up from an extremely long nap?" The chicken questioned.

"Kind of." The fox responded. "But I would describe it as a very long dream passing in an instant." 

"I agree with sister fox." The butterfly said. "Her explanation seems more accurate."

The rest of the animals nodded in agreement. Ignoring the fact that his words had been rebuked, the chicken turned around and knocked on the door behind him.

"Brother Fan! Are you awake!" The chicken loudly squaked at the door.

After not receiving an answer for a while, the chicken started to feel a little worried. 

"Are you ok brother Fan?! Did something happen?!" He said, his worry clearly increasing. "If you don't answer me in five seconds, I'm breaking down this door!"

"5!"

"4!"

"3!"

"2!"

"1!"

"Here I come!" The chicken said, winding up his feet for a starting boost.

Just as he was about to move, he heard a voice from above.

"I'm here, don't worry." He said as he descended from the sky.

"Brother Fan! Did you go out last night? How come you didn't take me?" The chicken asked.

Hearing his words, Zhou Fan couldn't stop himself from cracking a little smile. 

"Yeah, something like that." He said.

As he touched the ground, the butterfly flew up to him and landed on his shoulder.

"Where did these new clothes come from Brother Fan?" She asked.

Only then did Zhou Fan remember that he had created new clothes for himself.

"I made them while I was outside. The old ones got destroyed somehow." He responded.

"Did something injure you?" The fox asked.

"No, the clothes just disappeared. I'm not quite sure what happened to them." Zhou Fan said, lying through his teeth.

"Who cares what happened to the clothes." The chicken said. "At least we know that brother Fan is safe and sound. I thought that something had happened when he wasn't answering the door."

Zhou Fan let out a little chuckle under his breath and walked towards the chicken. Once he reached the chicken, he instantly scooped him up and started walking towards the instruments.

"It feels like it's been a while since I played. Care to join me?" He asked with a smile.

As he and the animals started playing music, they all seemed to forget the feeling they woke up with.