406 Reincarnation - 406

Zhou Fan quietly thought as 10 trillion years passed. In that time, many assemblies had taken place in the upper realm and contribution points were spent. 

Surprisingly, Ying Xiong had yet to buy anything ever since the first meeting. He had also stopped working with technique pathways and instead began to frantically create worlds. It was clear that he had a large request for Zhou Fan that was not something listed in the exchange.

Zhou Fan did not pay much attention to it. As usual, the creation of worlds was not yet finished, and it would not be for a long time despite many advancements in the area.

For example, some people had created techniques to speed up their creation. When using them with Zhou Fan's power, they were able to boost their speed greatly.

Unsurprisingly, Ying Xiong was the number 1 pioneer in this area.

Zhou Fan slowly stood up and stretched. He decided to explore the rest of the universe since he had nothing better to do.

Even for him, moving around the universe was a long task, but after a billion or so years, he had mapped out everything. There were not any surprises. The greatest attractor was the only thing that Zhou Fan really paid attention to in the entire universe.

With the entire universe mapped out, Zhou Fan finally had an accurate view of all of existence.

There were 8 universal sectors. Within them were filaments, and within filaments were superclusters or supercluster-like areas.

Universal sector 1, where the Zhou filament was located, held 11 filaments. Each one was about the size of the Zhou filament. He did not name them. He was satisfied with the Zhou filament. He would leave the rest to future cultivators. 

Since he seemed to have a theme, he went ahead and named the universe, "The Zhou Universe".

It would take a long time for the universe to be populated, as seen by the current creation of worlds. 

At the current rate, it would be a nearly infinite amount of time.

Zhou Fan wished that he had found some sort of bump in the sphere that was the universe, but there was none. The universe was a perfectly enclosed sphere.

There was nothing special out there, just the universe. The cosmic dao was not found, but Zhou Fan had long guessed that he could simply not see it.

Zhou Fan returned to the Zhou filament and began to cultivate. Since he had so much free time, it would not hurt to go ahead and reach the peak of the sage realm.

3 trillion years later, Zhou Fan entered the 2nd level of the sage realm.

61 trillion years later, Zhou Fan stopped cultivating. He had underestimated the sage realm. It had taken him this long to simply reach the 5th level.

This was by far the longest he had ever cultivated at once.

A lot had changed, but at the same time, nothing had. The creation of worlds was still ongoing, and progress had definitely been made, but it was not yet finished.

It was soon after he stopped cultivating that Ying Xiong came up to Zhou Fan and requested something with his contribution points.

"Really now. What a great idea, but do you really think that your current contribution points are enough for such a thing?" Zhou Fan asked.

"I don't know how difficult it would be for you." Ying Xiong asked.

"If you want everything, work hard for another hundred trillion years, as well as create more techniques to speed up the creation of worlds. Then, although the contribution points would still be too low, I will make an exception, just for you." Zhou Fan said.

"Thank you." Ying Xiong bowed solemnly and left.

When he was out of earshot, Zhou Fan laughed. 

"As expected of Ying Xiong."

Zhou Fan shook his head and began to cultivate again in order to pass some time. Nothing needed his attention.

160 trillion years later, Zhou Fan stopped cultivating. He had entered the 7th level of the sage realm.

He had cultivated a bit over the hundred trillion year mark, but he was sure that Ying Xiong would understand. Especially since this was more of a favor than a reward.

When Zhou Fan descended from the sky, he saw Ying Xiong waiting for him.

"I'll assume you've taken care of everything you need to do." Zhou Fan said.

"I have. Everything will be handled upon my death." Ying Xiong said in a serious tone.

"Alright. Just to be clear. You want me to reincarnate you with better talent?" Zhou Fan asked.

"Yes." Ying Xiong responded.

"Alright. For that, I will set meridians ranked immortal god 2 and above on a scale and it will be randomly chosen from there. Second, you want to keep your divine physique?" Zhou Fan asked again.

"Yes. It is a part of me." Ying Xiong nodded.

"Alright. And finally, you want your memories. No can do. That's barely even reincarnation. How about this? You will be born with the name Ying Xiong and have a buddhist affinity. Upon reaching the god realm, and under the condition that you do it without my help, you will receive pieces of your memories." Zhou Fan negotiated.

"That works for me." Ying Xiong said.

"Alright then. Well. I guess this is goodbye." Zhou Fan said as he held out his hand.

Ying Xiong reached out his hand and firmly shook Zhou Fan's.

"It was nice knowing you. Thank you for all you've done." Ying Xiong said with a smile.

Zhou Fan smiled and a green spiraling portal appeared at his side.

Ying Xiong continued to smile as his body was dragged into the portal and he "Reincarnated".

He was born on a random planet, and his birth caused a phenomenon, though it was unseen by anybody who would recognize it as the painting on Ying Xiong's back.

Just like that, Ying Xiong died and was reborn, all in the pursuit of greater cultivation.