Entering Seclusion - 143
Zhou Fan started with a defensive array. He covered his entire pagoda and the space a hundred miles away from it with the array.
Since Zhou Fan layed it with all of his strength, it had the ability to block attacks from a tenth level lesser dao creation realm cultivator.
Next, Zhou Fan layed out an attack array. Like the defensive array, it covered the entire pagoda and the space within a hundred miles of it. Also like the defensive array, Zhou Fan layed it with all his power, giving it the ability to injure tenth level lesser dao creation realm cultivators.
After the attack and defense arrays, Zhou Fan layed out a couple more arrays that provided the pagoda with things such as a air conditioned interior and a mystical feeling.
After he had laid out all of the arrays, Zhou Fan activated them. Instantly, a barrier appeared that covered the entire pagoda and the space within a hundred miles of it.
The barrier was caused by the defense array, but the attack array took a different form. Inside the barrier, two golden dragons that Zhou Fan had used as ornaments seemed to come to life and circled the pagoda.
From afar, the appearance of the red and black pagoda being circled by two giant golden Xiaolong type dragons was beautiful and domineering.
Even if someone managed to reach the center of the sun without Zhou Fan noticing, they may not have the guts to try and enter it with its new appearance.
After proudly looking at the pagoda for a while, Zhou Fan went inside and sat on the top floor, overlooking the entire solar system. As expected, nothing important or interesting was happening.
Zhou Fan wasn't sure what else he could do before entering seclusion. He had been trying to delay the seclusion as much as possible since he didn't have any idea how long it would take him to break through, and he absolutely wouldn't stop cultivating until he broke through.
Although he wasn't sure, Zhou Fan guessed that it would be longer than 50,000 years, and perhaps even longer than 100,000. Although he could easily deal with any threats or happenings within the solar system, Zhou Fan didn't want to stop cultivating until he reached the new realm, even if that meant letting everything he had created be destroyed.
Therefore, if a black hole were to suddenly appear in the center of the solar system and start devouring, Zhou Fan wouldn't stop cultivating.
Unless he actually looked outside of the barrier, he wouldn't even notice that such a thing was happening due to the defensive barriers strength. In fact, even if the sun disappeared he wouldn't notice it due to the array regulating temperature.
Overall, Zhou Fan didn't know of a single thing that could possibly break through his barrier and disturb him, and he wouldn't be coming out of seclusion early unless something did destroy his barrier.
After making himself comfortable, Zhou Fan closed his eyes and started to cultivate.
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10,000 years later, Zhou Fan felt the separate space within him start to grow. From being the size of a small dot, it quickly expanded to become the size of a fingertip.
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Another 10,000 years later, the separate space within Zhou Fan had expanded and reached the size of three fingertips.
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Another 10,000 years later, the separate space had grown to become the size of a child's fist.
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After 20,000 more years passed, Zhou Fan felt the separate space move. It, which had reached the size of two palms, started to wriggle around within him.
Technically, the separate space wasn't within him, but within his soul, along with his core.
The separate space didn't really look like a separate space, but more like a ball of golden light. Suddenly, the ball of golden light that was the separate space started to have ripples within it like it was made of water.
Then, the separate space dispersed into specks of golden light, before quickly reforming into a thread of golden light.
Suddenly, that thread of golden light moved around the space of his soul and wrapped around his core.
Seconds after that, it turned from a golden light to gray light, taking on a similar shade as his core and his hair.
Clearly, the separate space had been influenced by his Chaos Qi. After a moment, the core within him started to change. Like the thread, it turned into a sphere of gray light, unlike its previous self which was just a gray that gave off no light.
Eventually, the difference between the core and the thread wrapped around it disappeared. From that moment, his core and the thread had turned into a ball of gray light that was his separate space.
However, Zhou Fan hadn't broken through. He could feel that he was at most halfway done with his cultivation, so he continued on.
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After 10,000 years, Zhou Fan was able to tell why he hadn't broken through. His separate space hadn't really finished growing. Although it barely increased in size, the separate space had started to grow stronger and denser.
Despite his strength, Zhou Fan had no idea what the separate space was changing into. However, he was able to tell that it was affected by both his affinity and his talent.
Therefore, he could assume that if others ever broke into the realm, their separate space would take the color or colors of their affinity and be stronger or weaker depending on their talent.
Overall, Zhou Fan had no idea what was happening.
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Another 10,000 years later the separate space continued growing stronger without delay or interruption. Besides that, nothing else was happening.
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10,000 years later the separate space didn't stop becoming stronger and nothing new had happened.
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After another 10,000 years, nothing had changed.
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Despite his best guesses, Zhou Fan's separate space did not stop growing in power after another 10,000 years had passed, reaching a total of 100,000 years since he had entered seclusion.
Although he seemed like he didn't care about the solar system earlier, he was hoping that nothing bad had happened after 100,000 years.