Young Man - 254

Although Heaven could not fill the role of the universal consciousness, it could still oversee some area in the universe.

Depending on its power, Zhou Fan would adjust the size of that area when the time comes. Of course, he was still a long way away from creating a universal consciousness.

Zhou Fan had already developed a good idea. Once his mortal dao evolved, he would be similar in level to the cosmic dao, although he wasn't sure that is what he would call it.

At that point, mortal dao's would be able to exist within his dao's domain. Since heaven was at the 1st level of the inner world realm, he had a mortal dao, although it was sorely undeveloped.

Heaven would be able to create a domain of his mortal dao. It could be called the heaven domain or the heavenly dao or something similar. 

That would be where heaven ruled. It would likely take up multiple galaxy clusters if everything went right.

Still, there would be much more room outside the heavens mortal dao than inside. That would be where Zhou Fans evolved mortal dao would be.

He would create the impartial and emotionless consciousness there, which would rule over the universe.

It was a very simple plan, similar to what he had done with heaven but on a bigger scale.

The area within heaven's mortal dao would be more lawful, but protected. Outside heavens mortal dao would be essentially lawless, allowing anyone to do anything, with more freedom and the ability to release a mortal dao.

There would be both benefits for being inside heavens mortal dao and being outside.

Zhou Fan gradually formed a plan in his mind of what the future of the universe would look like. 

As he was deep in thought, he was awoken by a pat on the shoulder.

Opening his eyes, Zhou Fan saw a young man with blond hair looking at him worriedly.

"Are you ok sir? You've been standing still for a while." The young man asked. 

Zhou Fan could practically see the goodness in his eyes flowing out.

"I am fine." Zhou Fan spoke with his old man voice. "It's just been hard on the path and I've become tired."

As Zhou Fan finished, he could see the young man look deep in thought and seem to be hesitating.

"Well…" He said after a while. "If you wouldn't mind, I can take you the rest of the way. If I go fast, we will reach the nearest city in 5 hours." 

"Would you really do that?" Zhou Fan, the old man asked.

"Yes yes. Don't worry. Hop on the cart." The young man said as he helped Zhou Fan walk.

Before long, Zhou Fan was riding on top of his small cart as the young man strugglingly ran on the path. He was clearly in a hurry.

As Zhou Fan rode, he remembered one of the reasons why he had come to the heaven world.

"Young man. Your kindness is truly unmatched." He spoke in his old man voice.

"Don't sweat it." The young man responded. "I just try to help out whenever I can."

"Haha. You are a good young lad. Would you answer this old man's question?" Zhou Fan asked.

"Sure!" The young man said with a smile as he struggled to pull the cart.

"If you had the option, would you rather live a peaceful life of no worries as a mortal, or get the opportunity to become the strongest cultivator, although there would be a high risk to your life?" Zhou Fan asked.

The young man didn't answer for a moment, likely deeply thinking about the question.

"It would be a hard choice, but I think that I would choose to become the strongest cultivator." The young man responded.

"Could I ask why?" Zhou Fan asked.

"So that I can help more people." The young man stated simply.

Zhou Fan nodded at his answer. The young man seemed to have great resolve.

Sadly, the young man was still a mortal. His meridians were trash rank. If he spent all his life cultivating and chanced upon some great opportunities, he may become a foundation establishment cultivator at the end of his lifespan.

Clearly, the young man hadn't decided to do such a thing.

When Zhou Fan saw that the young man at least had some meridians, he sighed in relief. He was not very confident in creating meridians yet. Even if he could, they would not be very good.

Even just upgrading the rank would normally be difficult, but things had changed since the past.

The current cultivation used by the everyone was Zhou Fan's invention. He had full control over it.

Although meridians were something naturally created in humanoid life forms, Zhou Fan could easily change them with the help of the river of cultivation.

Zhou Fan pointed two fingers at the young man's head, and a golden beam of light hit the young man's head.

Instantly, the young man passed out. He fell face first on the ground and the cart came to a stop.

Zhou Fan hopped off of it and teleported himself and the cart elsewhere.

As the young man woke up, he felt changes within himself.

Zhou Fan had given him god rank meridians. Naturally, that would not be enough to let him reach the level of Tian Ren, so Zhou Fan gave him a little something else.

Although only Zhou Fan could see it, a golden aura was surrounding the young man. The light was given off by providence. Zhou Fan had become able to emulate the effects of providence.

He had specially made this one so that when the young man died, the providence would forever disappear.

While the providence was on him, his meridians would slowly be upgraded. After ten thousand years, he would have immortal rank meridians.

Those, along with providence, would allow the young man to at the very least become the strongest below Tian Ren in the world.

Zhou Fan had teleported to another area of the heaven world. It was essentially on the other side of the world from where he met the young man.