Complaints and Suggestions - 373

Three people flew towards Zhou Fan. One held a spear and seemed like a guard, while the other two seemed younger and looked like students.

"Halt. Who are you to enter the inner area of the cosmic sect?" The man who looked like a guard asked.

"Zhou Fan." Zhou Fan said.

The guard did not seem to recognize the name, but the two people behind him certainly did.

One put a hand on the guard's shoulder to stop him from speaking further, while the other bowed to Zhou Fan.

"Our apologies for not recognizing you, Sir origin god." The student said.

Zhou Fan looked at him with confusion.

"Origin god? Do you have the right person?" Zhou Fan asked.

"Of course. Zhou Fan, the origin god, the first cultivator. Now that I take a closer glance, it is obvious." The student said. "I'll go get the sect master." 

Zhou Fan waited. He assumed that the origin god was a title given to him. He just did not know who would give it to him.

Soon, Ying Xiong arrived in front of Zhou Fan.

"The origin god, huh." Zhou Fan said.

"Lu Zhong and Feng Liu decided to give you that title. There is also a statue of you. Your disciple Hei Ren created it." Ying Xiong said.

"Whatever." Zhou Fan said as he began flying towards the center of the Cosmic Sect. "Let me see the statue." 

Ying Xiong nodded and brought Zhou Fan towards a large building. It was a temple. 

As he entered through two large doors, he saw a marble floor and white walls. There was gold everywhere, lining everything within the temple. 

Far ahead was a statue of Zhou Fan made out of stone. He had to admit, it looked just like him. 

Still, he was dumbfounded by the design of the temple itself. He did not even consider that Lu Zhong and Feng Liu would do such a thing. He did not know how to feel, so he decided to just ignore it.

"What is that plant wrapped around you?" Ying Xiong finally asked after staring at Leaf for an entire minute.

"His name is Leaf. You can consider him my disciple, though he seems to treat me like a father." Zhou Fan said.

Ying Xiong was confused, but like Zhou Fan had with the temple, he decided to ignore it.

"Call Hei Ren over." Zhou Fan said.

Ying Xiong nodded and sent a message to Hei Ren. In just a second, Hei Ren appeared in front of Zhou Fan and knelt.

"Hello master." Hei Ren said.

"It's good to see you again. This is your junior brother." Zhou Fan said as he pointed to one of Leaf's branches. 

Hei Ren looked stunned and confused as Leaf waved at him. 

"Um. Hi." Hei Ren said.

"Anyways." Zhou Fan clapped his hands. "I have a request."

"What do you need, master?" Hei Ren asked.

"Look at me closely." Zhou Fan said.

Hei Ren lifted his head and did so.

"Remake the statue, but add Leaf." Zhou Fan said seriously.

Once again, Hei Ren was stunned.

"Alright." He said as he left the temple.

"And make him colored!" Zhou Fan shouted.

His statue was made out of gray stone and did not have any color, so he made sure to tell Hei Ren that Leaf should have color.

Soon, Hei Ren returned and replaced the statue in the temple.

Zhou Fan looked the same, but there was a brown and green sapling wrapped around his body, just how Leaf was.

Zhou Fan nodded, the statue was much better than before.

"Alright, I did not come here to play around. Tell all of the sect's disciples, and even everyone in the outer area, to gather." Zhou Fan said before he disappeared. 

He floated in space, waiting for everyone to gather. Soon, there were around 20,000 people in front of him, the entirety of the cosmic sect.

Few were disciples. Many were wearing some suits that allowed them to be in space without being in the void traversing realm. Some were descendants of disciples and some were family members descended from the group once brought with the shipment of disciples from long ago.

With the new system in place, families would no longer be brought, but the damage had already been done, causing many ordinary cultivators to live in the cosmic sect.

As Zhou Fan surveyed the people, it was clear that they all recognized him as the origin god. 

There was probably more than just a single temple.

"Alright. I have a serious request for all of you." Zhou Fan said as a wooden box appeared in front of him. Painted on its side was the phrase, "Complaints and suggestions".

Zhou Fan waved his hand, and a large amount of paper appeared around everyone.

"If anyone has any complaints or suggestions, or even something that could be refined, about cultivation or the universal structure, please write it down and put it in this box." Zhou Fan said.

Everyone present was stunned, including Ying Xiong and the disciples of the sect.

"I will leave boxes around the cosmic sect. At any time that an idea occurs to you, please write it down and put it in a box. Thank You." Zhou Fan said as he disappeared, leaving a box floating in his place.

Zhou Fan did not believe that he alone could perfectly design cultivation and the universe. He was not that creative. It would be interesting to see what others thought about the matter.

He did not concern himself with what happened around the cosmic sect for the next year or so. He spent his time relaxing on his mountain and watching Leaf grow.

It seemed that, no matter how much time passed, Leaf never grew or increased its cultivation.

It would take a very long time for changes to occur within Leaf, especially due to his divine physique.

Finally, after around 5 years passed, Zhou Fan collected all the papers within the boxes. He piled them into a small mountain in his yard and began to read them.