The River of Cultivation - 231

Finally done speaking, Zhou Fan walked away from where heaven sat on the floor.

In just a few steps, he was in front of the glowing light.

"Although I don't have enough strength to affect the entire universe even if I want to, affecting every galaxy covered by my mortal dao should be no problem. Regardless, your galaxy will be the only one affected right now." Zhou Fan said as he cupped his hands under and around the light.

As he grabbed the light, Zhou Fan disappeared. Heaven was shocked, but he simply sighed and remained sitting, awaiting the loss of his cultivation.

As soon as Zhou Fan grabbed the light, he teleported himself to an area that he had previously made. The area was far outside the galaxy and was once the most desolate place in the entire tree-like galaxy cluster, which also happened to be near enough to heavens galaxy that Zhou Fan could teleport to it.

In what was once the most desolate place in the tree-like galaxy cluster, a giant river created by Zhou Fan flowed. The river was not made up of water, but of every single Qi besides chaos Qi itself. 

The giant river was not actually there, however. Instead, it was in an isolated space. The space worked similar to Zhou Fan's pocket space that he stored items in.

Zhou Fan stood at the start of the river that seemed to flow on forever. He had decided to name the river, "The river of cultivation". Essentially, this was where the physical and spiritual manifestation of cultivation would be.

Any changes that Zhou Fan made would affect the river and the space it was contained in.

Besides the river, everything seemed to be an endless black with no light or distant stars. Only the sound of the flowing river and a faint twinkle that resembled wind chimes could be heard.

Around the entire isolated space were arrays that even Zhou Fan would struggle to get past. They made sure that the cultivation river was fully protected both defensively and offensively.

The arrays were mostly a formality since nobody outside of the god realm could even sense the isolated space, but Zhou Fan planned to take absolutely no chances.

The river was not just a random symbolic symbol that Zhou Fan had chosen. He wanted cultivation to take some of the characteristics of a river.

An endless group of water drops moving unpredictably and nonstop, yet contained within the walls of river banks. Despite the river banks, a water drop or two might occasionally splash out. That was Zhou Fan's design.

One must not misinterpret the importance of the river's creation, as well as its function. The river was the first physical and spiritual manifestation of cultivation to ever exist. Such an achievement could not be replicated or understood.

Zhou Fan planned to give control of the river of cultivation to the universal consciousness once it was completed. 

Of course, the changes it would be able to make would be extremely limited and, even if it tried, it would be unable to harm the river in any way.

As for the last important detail, any great event that was so important or big that it could have a major impact on the future, such as heaven being born or someone with incredible talent being born, would also slightly affect the river. 

The level of the event would change the level at which the river reacted.

For example, if another Zhou Fan was born, then the river would shake and spill as if a 10 magnitude earthquake was hitting it.

If someone with talent exceeding the immortal king rank was born, a slight starlight may momentarily appear over the river, or some event of similar level.

It was just another feature that Zhou Fan had thought of.

After taking in the beauty of the river of cultivation, Zhou Fan kneeled down in front of it.

As he did so, he lowered his arms and gently placed the light he held inside the river. As he did, the light began to diffuse into the river as if it was a ball of sand. In a couple of seconds, the ball of light was gone and the river was even brighter than before.

The ball of light had been the main component of the river that would make the biggest changes. Now that it was inside the river, only the key step remained.

Before that, Zhou Fan waved his finger and cut off Heavens cultivation, essentially turning him into a mortal for a moment.

Once he did that, he was ready.

The next step was the simplest, but theoretically the most dangerous yet.

Zhou Fan drew out some of his Chaos Qi that had remained locked away for a while. He knew that Chaos Qi was extremely dangerous, but it was the final component needed to finish the river.

Only with Chaos could order be born. Zhou Fan formed the Chaos Qi into a ball. The density and power of it actually took half of Zhou Fans Qi to form.

Luckily, that was the last step that required Qi until the river of cultivation was activated.

Like he did with the light, Zhou Fan slowly lowered the ball of Chaos Qi into the river. As it dissolved, the color of gray momentarily took over the entire river.

Luckily, it receded after a moment, forming a definite and fine gray strand that covered the span of the entire, seemingly infinite river.

As the last bit of Chaos Qi dissolved, a major change seemed to shake the entire galaxy, its significance almost shaking the entire universe.

Every living being in the three galaxy clusters, whether it was a human, a celestial, or a worm, as long as it had intelligence, it instinctually looked towards the heaven galaxy without knowing why. The same went for even those that had reached the lesser dao creation realm.

As for those within the heaven galaxy, they all felt the shaking of the galaxy. Panic took over at first, but everyone seemed to suddenly stop moving. Those on the ground began to slightly float in the air, and everyone's eyes turned into a myriad of colors.