Leaving - 206

The animals and Zhou Fan spent the entire day playing chutes and ladders. The victor of the final game was the butterfly who had only won twice the entire day.

The only reason the animals stopped playing was because Zhou Fan had stood up and announced that dinner would commence soon.

Unlike before, Zhou Fan could create life and would be able to make food without going to another galaxy, finding a planet with potential for life and speeding up an organism's evolution until it became big enough to eat.

He wouldn't have had to go to another planet regardless since there were microorganisms already in the manor, but they had died while being frozen since Zhou Fan hadn't protected them. 

Zhou Fan told the animals to wait outside his house while he began the process of creating an organism and evolving it.

In the meantime, the animals sat outside of his door and talked while waiting.

"What do you think he is doing in there?" The mole asked.

His question got the other animals thinking.

"I bet he has a room filled to the brim with food somewhere in the back. He may not want us to know that it is there due to fear that we will eat everything." The chicken said with confidence.

"That's a stupid theory." Said the fox. "He must be simply creating it by using his immense powers."

The rest of the animals, excluding the chicken, nodded at the fox's theory.

"What if he is doing something evil back there?" The butterfly asked.

"Yeah right. Brother Fan is great and righteous." The chicken instantly spoke up, defending Zhou Fan. "Only weak and cowardly people are evil. Are you saying that brother Fan is weak or cowardly!?" 

Hearing the chickens aggressive questions, the butterfly shrunk back.

"Of course not! I was just saying it's a possibility. You don't have to be so mean!" She said sadly.

Seeing the poor and innocent butterfly with tears in her eyes, the rest of the animals felt the urge to beat the chicken up.

Before they could, Zhou Fan walked out holding two plates with six more plates and a piece of raw meat floating behind him.

"Sorry for the wait. I'm back."

Suddenly forgetting the previous interactions, the butterfly and the other animals curiously looked at the food.

"Who's that piece of raw meat for?" The deer asked.

"It's for the koi." Zhou Fan answered as he walked towards the waterfall area. The animals all followed behind him.

Once they reached the area in front of the waterfall, Zhou Fan gave the animals their plates and threw the meat in the pond. 

The koi thankfully took the meat and swam back down to the bottom of the pond.

"What food is this?" The chicken asked curiously while looking at the plate of food in front of him.

"It's called a burrito. I've never had it either, but I casually saw someone create it a long time ago and remembered how to make it." Zhou Fan responded.

The specific time he had seen it being created was when he was at the celestials central city and covered it in his divine sense.

It was only a piece of casual information he had picked up, but he remembered it even now. 

Not even Zhou Fan himself could remain unsurprised at such a great memory. The animals wouldn't have been that unsurprised if they heard the entire story, but they simply took it as a somewhat recent event.

Therefore, without questioning his words, they quickly devoured the burrito. Zhou Fan looked down at his burrito and retrieved a fork and a knife from his spatial storage.

His was specially made with queso cheese on top, so he needed to use a fork to pick it up and a knife to cut it.

Once they were all done, they gave Zhou Fan resounding praises for the good meal. Zhou Fan himself felt the same way.

As they went their separate ways and Zhou Fan and the chicken walked back to the house, Zhou Fan looked at the starry sky.

He didn't know how long it would be before he saw the animals again, but he knew he was sad to leave them regardless. 

As he made it to the door, Zhou Fan patted the chicken on the head and said goodnight. The chicken responded in kind and laid against the wall next to the door.

As Zhou Fan closed the door, he stood still and closed his eyes, preparing to freeze the manor.

"Freeze."

In an instant, the entire manor froze and Zhou Fan teleported out of it. As he began to fly away, he took one last look at it.

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After only ten years, Zhou Fan finally made it to the randomly selected galaxy. It was one of the bigger galaxies connected to his mortal dao, but it wasn't that huge.

Zhou Fan connected his divine sense to his mortal dao and got a really good view of the entire galaxy. 

The galaxy was one of the very few that had two planets with potential for life in it. Now that the entire galaxy was covered in his mortal dao, however, it hardly mattered.

Soon, every planet within the galaxy would have life on it unless it was a complete wasteland. 

By wasteland, he did not mean unliveable, but completely dead and useless. Even a planet covered in ice or lava would be useful. Only dead planets would be completely useless.

Zhou Fan first decided to take a look at the two planets with some life on them. They had been developing well since he had put his mortal dao on them. 

The first planet's most advanced lifeform was a lizard. Its biggest was a fish similar to a tuna.

The first planet seemed similar to earth in terms of habitat, but the second was quite different.

As far as the eye could see, it was covered in mountains and valleys. There was very little green on the entire surface. It wasn't quite a wasteland, but it sure seemed like it.