Progenitor Ke - 411
The cultivation method used by all beings in the universe would not work well for the hundred people following the different path once they reached the nascent soul realm.
Luckily, Zhou Fan was so powerful that creating a cultivation method for the soul disconnect path was a matter of seconds.
He sat in space and watched as the hundred humans developed. The world that they were in, although called a world, was not a planet. Instead, it was essentially an entire supercluster of its own. Many of the cultivators in the universe, as well as Zhou Fan, had taken to calling one ecosystem or large area a world, no matter how big it was. In a way, even the universe was a world.
The most notable "Worlds" were the Zhou supercluster, and at a lower scale, the Zhou Galaxy and the Heaven galaxy. Still, most things would be called by what they were, such as "Galaxies", or "Superclusters".
The difference between them and "Worlds" was that the "Worlds" were all connected on a close basis. From afar, the world that the hundred people were in looked like three layers of dirt shaped into disks and stacked on top of each other, but it was the size of an entire supercluster.
It was obvious that this world was one of the masterpieces of the universe, likely taking trillions of years from more than one true god to build.
Without guidance and only a cultivation method, the people below were taking a long time to grow. They had mortal disputes, and fights, before some sort of hierarchy was established.
Even after generations passed, the strongest cultivator in history had been at the foundation establishment realm.
Every single human seemed to focus only on status, and almost completely neglected cultivation. Although only 10,000 years had passed, many talents had died due to the constant wars.
The current population was about 200,000 people. There would have been millions if not for the wars.
Eventually, Zhou Fan realized that he either needed to step in, or wait for possibly millions of years before things changed.
He waited another 10,000 years, and just a few years before he was going to step in, someone emerged from the civilization.
At this point, the strongest cultivator was at the peak of the core formation realm.
After being born, he quickly cultivated to the peak of the foundation establishment realm. It had to be noted that, due to the people in the world not caring about cultivation, there was almost no help along the way.
In the Zhou Galaxy, even planets with the strongest cultivator at the foundation establishment realm had a much greater foundation and cultivation history.
Although this person was only at the peak of the foundation establishment realm, he soon found the strongest cultivator and challenged him.
Zhou Fan watched as he not only won with a single attack, but humiliated the opponent without even moving.
The battle could be described like this.
The cultivator at the peak of the foundation establishment realm, a very skinny boy at the age of 20, stood still as the peak core formation realm cultivator attacked him.
Every time he was attacked, his body would grow a little bit more buff. After nearly 10 attacks, the skinny boy had transformed into a huge, buff cultivator.
The now not so skinny boy grabbed the hand of the peak core formation realm cultivator as he was attacking him, and punched out.
When his punch connected, the peak core formation realm cultivator was sent flying back like a ragdoll with a big hole in his chest.
After punching out, the skinny boy became skinny again, but this time, nobody looked down on him.
Everybody thought that he would take reign over the world, but he did not. Instead, he created a sect. He advertised cultivation, and the world's standard began to increase.
The skinny boy called himself "Progenitor Ke". His special technique was called store and release. It was created by him when he was only in the Qi gathering realm, a feat that surprised even Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan watched as Progenitor Ke stepped into the nascent soul realm.
Once he did so, he was able to disconnect his soul from his body and move it around. Due to nobody being in the nascent soul realm or above, he was completely undetectable in that state.
Zhou Fan could disconnect his soul from his body, as could any true god or god, or some even lower.
What was interesting was that he could do it at the nascent soul realm, a cultivation level considered not enough to even truly touch upon the aspect of affecting a soul.
Along with that, Progenitor Ke's soul abilities would grow even greater as he advanced. Over the years, he managed to use techniques while in soul form, although they were slightly different and only affected the soul.
Progenitor Ke was a great talent in both body and soul, but his meridians would limit him. He made it to the void traversing realm, passing down many inheritances and preaching cultivation to others, before finally reaching a plateau. He would no longer be able to advance with his talent.
Of course, that relied on whether Zhou Fan would allow such a genius to die.
As Progenitor Ke stopped cultivating altogether, he one day disappeared from the world.
That same day, he appeared in front of Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan took the form of a wise and powerful old man. It always seemed to work the best, especially with people who did not have any connection to the outside universe.
At this point, Progenitor Ke was merely 100,000 years old. He still had 9.9 million years before the end of his lifespan.
As an old man, Zhou Fan spoke. "You are Progenitor Ke."
Progenitor Ke looked around confused before finally focusing on Zhou Fan.
"That is me. Where am I? And why am I here?"
"I am the origin god. I have come to offer you a chance at growth." Zhou Fan said.
"Growth? As in cultivation?"
Zhou Fan nodded while stroking his beard. "Yes. I can give you better meridians and take you to a new place with countless race's and cultivators. Many are powerful enough to kill you with the wave of a hand, or even a simple thought."
As Zhou Fan and Progenitor Ke spoke, Progenitor Ke's entire world was being flipped over.