There's Always An Exception - 191

Even if flight arrays did give a good boost, who in the world would continue to use them. Flight arrays worked at a hundredth of their usual effectiveness in space, and 99% of travel worth building an array to speed it up happened in space. Perhaps that would change once the worlds under his mortal continued to grow more and more, but they truly were useless now.

Eventually, Zhou fan stopped thinking about flight arrays and continued onto the next rank of arrays. 9th rank, or inner world arrays.

Based on the previous ranks' array effects, he assumed that the inner world level arrays would have something to do with his inner world, but he wasn't sure what they could possibly do.

After 5,000 years, Zhou Fan mastered the 9th rank arrays. It was an extreme leap in time, but he didn't care too much. He was more worried about how long 10th rank arrays would take, but he sucked it up and looked at the 9th rank arrays he mastered.

Out of all of them, there was only one array that had anything to do with the inner world, and it was essentially useless. It increased the speed that one could take power out of the inner world. There was no major increase, but an increase of 1.001x. Zhou Fan even felt disgraceful learning it, but he did it anyway.

Besides the inner world manipulating array, if you could call it that, another new array was the star connecting array. This was the first time an array really really interested Zhou Fan. It seemed that once someone reached the inner world level arrays, extremely magical things would be possible.

Formations were slightly different in that aspect, as they continued to focus on the basics, but arrays were essentially another version of formations. It was like how both English and Demonic were languages. They fell under the same category, but they were completely different in many ways.

If he had to give them a definition, formations were smaller and focused on the basics, while arrays were bigger and connected to things such as water, air, earth, space, and now stars. 

The star connecting arrays could be linked from five to 1000 stars. From those stars, it would draw out the star's power and shoot a laser in a pre decided direction.

Due to it being a 9th rank array, the amount of stars was limited to the thousand, but it could still exhibit great power. It may not seem like it, but if the full life span of a thousand stars was used up by the array in an instant, the array would produce an amount of power similar to that of a galaxy.

Of course, the array would be completely destroyed after that. To Zhou Fan, this was simply an interesting array. However, this would shake the entire Zhou Galaxy if information about it was released. 

Sadly, this was an array most could not create. A horrid amount of Qi, similar to that of an average 1st level god realm cultivator, was needed to set up the array. As for activating it, don't dream of it without a god realm cultivator.

If one wanted to be able to instantly drain the life of a thousand stars and use the power of an entire galaxy, they would need strength similar to the current Zhou Fans.

Zhou Fan was not only a 2nd level god realm cultivator, but an extremely strong one. A second level god realm cultivator as powerful as him would never exist again.

Therefore, this array was mostly useless unless there were extremely special circumstances.

For example, if a large number of tenth level inner world cultivators were to sacrifice their lives, the array may be able to be fully activated. All that mattered was the amount of Qi. If someone were to find a way to store Qi somewhere and then use it all at the same time to activate the array, even a lesser dao creation level cultivator could activate it.

Unfortunately, that was an extremely hard task due to the natural dissipation of unrestrained Qi.

Besides the star connecting arrays, there were a couple of similar arrays, but none were quite as interesting. However he felt that if he were to break into the 11th realm, he would be able to create more arrays at the lower levels, so it was possible that he wasn't truly discovering all the 9th rank arrays. That was only a theory regardless of the truth, but he always seemed to find that there were no absolutes in the universe. There was always an exception.

After raising his 9th rank array creation speed to one second, Zhou Fan began to start on tenth rank arrays. 

It was highly likely that he had gotten lucky with comprehending the first formation at the god realm before, because it took 700,000 years to fully master the tenth rank arrays. Also, like formations, he had barely mastered them. There were many theoretical arrays that he was yet to be able to lay out due to his low strength. Of course, they were only theoretical.

Zhou Fan practiced for an entire hundred thousand years before he was able to create god realm arrays in a second. They were much harder since they were on the same level as him, but he was still a genius regardless of cultivation level.

After so long, Zhou Fan was finally a complete master of all the arrays. There was always more when he grew stronger, but they would have to wait. 

The next thing Zhou Fan decided to study was talismans. He assumed that they would be very easy since they were not exactly an entirely new art. If one looked closely, even a child could tell that talismans were simply one time formations on paper instead of ores. 

They were also usually weaker than normal formations or arrays, but they required little Qi to activate and their effect could be seen instantly. However, the best use of talismans was that weaker cultivators could use talismans above their level, although they couldn't create them.