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BOOMM!

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After the explosion subsided and Zhou Fan was able to think again, he opened his eyes.

The first thing he noticed was the exploded cave behind him. It seems that when his soul exploded, he unconsciously released his cultivation. Luckily, he had also subconsciously moved it towards the back wall so that the dragon cave wouldn't be majorly affected.

Clenching his fist, the air around him exploded and a huge gust of wind poured out towards all directions, shaking the entire dragon cave.

Seeing the result, Zhou Fan was astonished. Had breaking into the new realm increased his strength by so much? Not to mention, that was only his physical body's strength.

Thinking to himself, Zhou Fan felt that if he used Qi, a casual slap could destroy a mountain. No! A mountain range!

While still feeling astonished, Zhou Fan checked his soul.

When he looked, it no longer was filled with gray solid matter. In fact, the size of the soul had decreased tremendously. If it once was the size of a huge mountain, it now fit the size of his body perfectly.

Just as Zhou Fan was about to see what it could do, the soul started to pull towards him.

Although the soul had been in his soul space the entire time, it looked as if it was a couple feet away.

Now, however, it was coming towards him incredibly fast. Before he could finish another thought, the soul collided with his view and he felt an enormous push.

FSHSH!

When Zhou Fan opened his eyes, he was floating in the air.

Or rather, on second look, he was sitting on the ground in a meditative position. Looking down at his hands, he saw an ethereal gray energy in the shape of his arm.

Moving his arm around, he saw it acted like a stick on fire, leaving a trail behind where it moved.

Coming to a conclusion, Zhou Fan had only one explanation, this was his soul! And that was his body sitting on the ground!

All of a sudden, Zhou Fan felt as if his brain was tearing in two. Two ideas popped into his mind. Each one able to set his future path.

The ideas were, 1. detached soul. He felt the possibility of going back to his body, yet being able to call out his soul and use it as a puppet. He would also be able to send his consciousness into the soul.

The other idea was to fuse his soul with his body. In that case, he wouldn't be able to call out his soul at all, but he would be one, a single and complete entity.

Although he could have sat there and thought for a while, Zhou Fan had long lost the moronic idea of hesitation.

He instantly chose the idea that sounded the best, the one that he instinctually liked.

His view started to shorten as his soul returned to his body and fused.

Clearly, Zhou Fan had chosen the second idea.

Although the possibility of moving through walls and sending the soul out instead of going himself sounded cool, Zhou Fan didn't like the idea of being seperated. The entire idea seemed wrong.

Therefore, he had chosen the idea that sounded better.

When the soul had fully fused, Zhou Fan felt his strength increase once again. Now, it seemed that he had fully broken through.

After feeling his strength, Zhou Fan was convinced he made the right decision. If there was doubt before about being able to destroy a mountain range with a casual attack, there was none now.

Of course, the mountain range couldn't be too big.

For example, the world's biggest mountain range, the endless mountains, were far too big for Zhou Fan to destroy. When he said he could destroy a mountain range, he only meant the smallest ones, with around 20 or so mountains.

With his breakthrough finally over, Zhou Fan walked outside the cave he made. Looking at the ceiling of the cave, he noticed that it was fragmented and many pieces had fallen down.

Flying up to the center, Zhou Fan dragged the pieces from the ground, reconstructed them with fire Qi, then merged them back with the ceiling using the same method.

He then flew back to his house. When he made it back however, he was surprised to see a couple of unexpected guests.

Specifically, the elf queen, the dark elf king, the shadow queen, and 6 more people he hadn't seen before.

Even though he hadn't seen them, he could guess who they were.

The 6 foot walking mass of muscle with tanned skin was likely the barbarian king of the first ranked barbarian race, the blond haired girl with small, furry wings was likely the queen of the 5th ranked angel race, the evil looking, red skinned man with a tail was likely the king of the 6th ranked devil race, which were very different from the demon race, the salamander on legs was probably the king of the 8th ranked lizard race, the blond man with a third eye was likely the king of the 9th rank third eye race, and finally, the big green man with a monocle and a wooden crown was clearly the king of the 10th rank hobgoblin race.

Besides them, Cao Lin and Yipeng sat on Bainu and Xuanwu respectively.

When Zhou Fan flew down from the sky, every member of the 10 races knelt.

"We greet sir cultivator." They said in unison, before standing back up.

Zhou Fan looked at Cao Lin and Yipeng with a slight smile. "It seems you've been busy while I was gone."

"Hahaha, indeed." Said Cao Lin with a proud look on his face.

Zhou Fan then looked the 6 newcomers up and down with slight surprise. When he envisioned meeting them before, he expected a lot less politeness.

It seems that either the beasts or seeing him flying was enough to convince them to behave.

"Why did you all come here?" Zhou Fan asked.

"We simply came to greet sir." Said the barbarian races king while stepping forward.

"Yeah right." Cao Lin interrupted, "You all just refused to believe what we told you about him."

After hearing Cao Lin, the barbarian king just stood there with an awkward smile on his face.