The Difference - 129

Jack stayed in seclusion for another year before he came out. This time, there was a group waiting for him.

As Jack exited the room, they all stood with held breaths. Even Finley was looking at Jack with hope and excitement. Jack was first stunned when he looked at the crowd, but he soon regained his wits and looked back at them.

"I have broken through to the soul formation realm." He said victoriously. When the group of mermaids heard his words, some jumped in the air while some smiled uncontrollably. Regardless, every single person there showed joy at Jack's breakthrough.

He was the first mermaid in history to ever break into the realm. The only reason they even knew what the realm was called was because all living beings of the Zhou World automatically knew that information.

Otherwise, they would have taken wild guesses at the name of every realm.

Zhou Fan watched the mermaids closely. Specifically, he was watching Jack. Jack had shown talent similar to Annas, and Zhou Fan felt that he had even more affinities than her.

After seeing him break into the soul formation realm, he decided he was finished watching Jack for now. The journey from soul formation would get slower and slower regardless of Jack's talent.

It wasn't only due to lack of talent, but lack of Qi. Despite Zhou Fan's best efforts, the ratio of absorbable Qi's to chaos qi was 1:50.

This meant that someone like Zhou Fan would cultivate much faster than others. That didn't mean that Zhou Fan was untalented without his chaos affinity, but that he wasn't held back like others.

In fact, with Jack's talent, even if he could absorb chaos Qi he would be thousands of times slower than Zhou Fan. After all, Zhou Fan too was held back.

Unlike everyone else, Zhou Fan had to create the path ahead. People like Jack and Anna were simply following a path he created.

It was like the difference in speed between someone cutting a path through a forest and someone going through that path. It would obviously be many times easier for the person going through a path already there.

Not to mention the fact that inventing new realms couldn't be compared to cutting a path in a forest. It was more like the difference between carving a tunnel through a mountain with a pebble and walking through that path.

Zhou Fan flew away from the deep sea and went to Anna's tower. Once he arrived, he entered through the wall and looked at her. Naturally, he was invisible.

Zhou Fan could tell that Anna was close to breaking through to the space shattering realm. She would successfully do it in around a thousand years. At that time, she would become the absolute being of the Zhou Solar system.

Sadly, that wouldn't last long with the dragon king not too far behind her and Jack starting his journey that will eventually lead him to catching up with her if he doesn't die.

Thinking of Jack dying, Zhou Fan had no intention of giving him any more help. If he was unable to survive and prosper with some of the greatest talent the universe has ever seen and a god-level weapon, Zhou Fan didn't care if he died.

He had already been given enough. After looking at Anna for a while, Zhou Fan left and checked out the situation in space. The rulers had spent the last few years making contact with the new sentient species, only to realize that they didn't even know what cultivation was.

Unlike people and things born on the Zhou World, the life born on other planets didn't have cultivation information implanted into their minds.

Therefore, it would be up to the rulers to teach them cultivation. Of course, they could also raise them like cattle without ever letting them know that something like cultivation exists, but Zhou Fan felt that doing that was bound to go wrong.

Even on earth there were stories of the weak rising up to the strong, much less in a place with something like cultivation. All it would take was one being to learn too much and he could teach every other member of his race.

As time passed, they would eventually give birth to a talented person who would fight back and usually win. However, it seemed that the rulers didn't plan on taking the oppression path.

Once they realized that the new life didn't know cultivation, they wrote a book similar to the first book Zhou Fan gave the first celestials and gave it to them. They then realized that the sentient beings couldn't read their language.

Luckily, the rulers were high level cultivators and language was no issue. Within a day, they had a full grasp of the speaking and writing of the new races language.

They then started to teach the new race the Zhou world language. It would take them a while, but they would learn quicker as their cultivation grew.

Until then, they translated their book into the new races language and gave it to them.

When Zhou Fan first saw the new race, he was shocked. Although there were slight differences, they had a striking resemblance to the demon race from earth. In fact, they even had a natural affinity with Demon Qi, so it would be weird to call them anything but demons.

Once the dragon king sensed their affinity and their natural tendency towards demon Qi, he started to become closer to them. Eventually, he and the other rulers decided that the dragon king would take care of the demon race, which is what they also called them.

The dragon king was satisfied since he had a high affinity with Demon Qi and he himself could be called a demonic dragon. That didn't mean that he would tenderly care for them, however. The demons would still get very little interference since the rulers had decided together that the life on other planets should be left to grow mostly on their own.