Worlds - 252

After reading the mayor's mind, Zhou Fan was met with a surprise. He had no idea that there was a huge cave or a dragon below his city.

Zhou Fan had felt that there was a 99% chance the mayor would know about it considering that the cave was so huge that it was the size of half of the city.

But he had no clue.

Zhou Fan could only look at the cave again and think about the possibilities. The cave was completely enclosed, leaving no room for the dragon to escape, so it must have formed the cave itself.

Such an event would easily cause a huge earthquake that could ravage the entire city.

Therefore, it was likely that the dragon had been living in the cave before the city was even created.

If that was the case, then the dragon should have been immensely powerful. Zhou Fan had learned in the library that the city was 5,000 years old, outdating even a few of the kingdoms in the demon world.

The city had gone through multiple mayors and multiple battles, but the dragon had remained under it the entire time.

5,000 years without moving an inch. Not every existence could do that.

Although Zhou Fan was interested in the dragon, he decided to leave it be without looking into it any further. The dragon was clearly reclusive and Zhou Fan had no reason to bother it.

Zhou Fan flew above the demon world and circled it a few times, taking into account most of what he saw. In the end, he left after only three days.

He had severely overestimated how interesting the demons were.

Next, he made his way to the barbarian world. Even from afar, it was clear that the planet was nothing more than a giant wasteland with few plants, rivers, and oceans.

It was a miracle that the barbarian race could even survive. Luckily, they had evolved to need little food, and they did not need that food to be healthy.

There were a surprisingly large amount of animals in the barbarian world, giving them all the meat they needed.

Even with the cultivation reset, food was easily taken care of.

Of course, once the barbarians reached the core formation realm, the worry of food was completely irrelevant. 

Even at the foundation establishment realm food could be mostly ignored. It was nothing more than a delicacy for those who liked to eat.

Unlike most other races which did not follow a certain style of cultivation, the barbarians focused on their bodies.

Earth and metal affinities were the most common and the most useful to barbarians.

Fire gave explosive strength and movement, giving barbarians good fighting ability, and water allowed the barbarians to move flexibly.

They were quite a unique civilization. They focused little on combat style and put everything into a few punches. If the battle did not end there, it was usually called a draw.

There was not much politics in the barbarian world. Although, in a way, strength ruled in all worlds, it was even more so for the barbarians.

Even the son of an emperor would be treated as a commoner unless proved to have great strength. Talent was essentially disregarded when considering someone's position.

Even if the holder of the barbarians' providence were to show talent that could allow them to exceed someone else's strength in a few days, they would still be treated worse than that person, until their strength was higher.

Zhou Fan considered the barbarians to be the most straightforward and honorable race. He even liked them a bit.

Lying was extremely uncommon and tricks were not only frowned upon, but illegal in some areas. 

If Zhou fan felt like it, he could start as a nobody and show more strength, eventually becoming an emperor, not out of fear, but out of respect and merit, in just a few days.

He would not show off godly power, nor a high level background, but the barbarians would wholeheartedly accept him as their leader despite not knowing him a week ago.

Such was the allure of a true strength based society.

Sadly, there were always bad things to match the good. In return for a great mindset and good body talent, the barbarians were extremely stupid. While a genius would emerge every now and then, he would eventually become dumb as he was influenced by those around him.

The odds of a barbarian focusing on arrays or formations was one in a million.

Luckily, a space shattering realm barbarian would still be able to use the teleportation array. 

All the array required was the Qi of such a cultivator and it would automatically activate. Otherwise, the barbarians may never leave their home planet.

After going around the planet a few times, Zhou Fan left it as well, heading to the final planet containing the most unique race among the five.

The spirit race.

As he came towards it from afar, he saw the foggy planet. It seemed like a giant, ethereal cloud covered the entire world.

This was the spirit race world.

Zhou Fan descended on the world and landed on a foggy hill. The ground was half real and half illusory. The laws of physics seemed to barely apply to such a place. Occasionally, he saw spirits roaming around the place. They seemed to have essentially zero intelligence.

Spirits were actually more similar to beasts than humanoid creatures. They were born with little intelligence and gained power by unconsciously absorbing the Qi in the surroundings, or by devouring other spirits.

Once they reached the foundation establishment realm, they gained a bit of intelligence. It wasn't much, putting them on the same level as a 5 year old human.

At the core formation realm, they would have intelligence similar to that of a 10 year old child.

At the nascent soul realm, they would truly develop their intelligence, having above average intelligence for an adult human. From there, it shot upward, although not quite at the level of a normal cultivator.