New Ying Xiong - 407

Zhou Fan admired Ying Xiong's dedication to cultivation. He was even willing to die for a chance to grow stronger.

Although the Ying Xiong that Zhou Fan knew was gone, he would return in not too long. The reborn Ying Xiong would have pieces of the old Ying Xiong's memories, though he would have merely pieces and would be a different person.

Zhou Fan closed his eyes and began to cultivate. A trillion years later he opened his eyes.

"Ying Xiong" was right in front of him.

"Zhou Fan. The origin god." Ying Xiong said as he looked at Zhou Fan.

"That's me. It seems you don't remember much."

Ying Xiong's gaze was different than before. It used to be familiar and, on some level, the gaze of looking at an equal.

Now, Ying Xiong was looking at him like everyone else. Like he was a god. 

"I don't have that many memories. I came to greet you." Ying Xiong said.

"I see. You have hair now." Zhou Fan stated as he looked at Ying Xiong's head.

"I suppose I was bald before then." Ying Xiong said.

"Alright. You can leave." 

Ying Xiong nodded and left.

Ying Xiong had gotten quite lucky. His meridians were immortal godking rank 10. 

He was the second being to ever receive godking rank meridians, right after Leaf.

Still, he was currently one of the weakest members of the Cosmic sect. It would take him a long time to reach the true god realm. 

Zhou Fan wondered how his strength compared to the old Ying Xiong at the same level. For one, he no longer had the yellow piercing sword finger that he had used to defeat Yao Mun.

He had already re-learned the Buddha's palm and the cosmic support art, but it would take him a while to fully re-learn everything he had learned in the past.

Before reincarnating, Ying Xiong had left behind instructions for the cosmic sect. They had long received Ying Xiong and fueled him with all of their resources. Even a large amount of the true gods had come back to the cosmic sect in order to help him.

He had never understood this until he regained some memories. He would regain more upon entering the true god realm, but it would still be a tiny fraction of his life.

He would never be the Ying Xiong that he had been in the past.

Zhou Fan sighed at the last of his friends gone. Only Heaven and Leaf remained, but they were more like his children.

Zhou Fan refocused and considered going into seclusion. However, he realized that, if he went into seclusion until he reached the peak of the sage realm, all of the god realm cultivators would have died of old age.

He sighed again as he realized that they had spent so many years of their life working for him and his goals.

He sent a notice to all of the gods, besides Ying Xiong, to go to the upper realm. 10 years later, he appeared in front of them.

When he looked down, he saw all of the gods' excited gazes. Their belief, respect, and reverence in him had only grown over the years. Zhou Fan did not even understand why or how himself.

"You all have worked hard over the many years, yet I feel that I have neglected you. As many of you know, inner world realm cultivators have a lifespan of 5 trillion years, and gods have a lifespan of 1 quadrillion years. Believe it or not, that time will soon be upon us. Therefore, I have decided to change that. With my power, the lifespan of inner world realm cultivators has been extended to 100 trillion years, and the lifespan of god realm cultivators has been increased to 10 quadrillion years." He declared.

The god realm cultivators were all old, so they did not cheer or jump for joy, but they were all excited and thankful. 

Each one of them bowed their heads to Zhou Fan.

Zhou Fan nodded and spoke again. "Do not feel the need to work for me any longer. You will still get rewards if you want to work, but I request that, unless it is truly what you want, you go and live your lives freely. Otherwise, I will not be able to help but feel immense shame." 

Zhou Fan attempted to reason with them and get them to relax and enjoy their lives.

Each of them had spent nearly a quadrillion years working for him. He was unspeakably thankful and could only show it in this way.

The god realm cultivators nodded and showed that they understood.

Zhou Fan left the upper realm, and the god realm cultivators dispersed. Many continued to work, while others went out and enjoyed near invincibility.

Zhou Fan sat in the Zhou filament and watched the people below. He had begun to enjoy simply overseeing the universe as it moved, even if he had nothing to do but cultivate.

A few trillion years later, alarm bells rang within the cosmic sect, the heaven sect, and any other organization that had a true god realm cultivator.

Ying Xiong's biggest worry about reincarnating had come true. The destruction race had attacked, and he was no longer enough to protect the Humanoid races.

In an instant, all of the true gods moved towards the forbidden land. The destruction race had just left, so many would be able to catch them before they destroyed anything.

When Lu Wei arrived, 10 true gods were waiting back while watching the destruction race travel.

There were a hundred true gods, with the king of the destruction race being nearly as powerful as Ying Xiong.

Lu Wei spoke as soon as he arrived. "We can stop them from advancing if we move out now. There are plenty of people just behind me."

The 10 true gods looked at each other with firm gazes before unconcealing themselves and shooting towards the hundred true gods of the destruction race.