Determination - 340
The water was dark, so it was hard to see what was happening inside, but Ying Xiong could make out a shadow of a man standing absolutely still.
It was at this exact time that Jack arrived. He had gotten the news as well. He looked up just as the wave ended and the spear-wielding man appeared once again, completely uninjured by the attack.
Even Ying Xiongs face changed. He would have to use Qi to resist the attack at least, but the spear-wielding man simply stood there.
The darkness immortal felt a cold sweat cover his entire body as the spear-wielding man moved for the first time.
"Threat detected. Self-defense protocols activated." A robotic voice sounded out.
The spear in the man's hand was simply waved at the darkness immortal, yet the moment that the spear completed its movement, a horrifying amount of Qi shot out and formed a giant black spear.
The spear moved just like the man's real spear, and a large amount of Darkness Qi instantly obliterated the space outside the galaxy. The destruction only stopped moving when it reached the entrance to the galaxy.
The darkness cleared and the space slowly healed. Soon, a robot-like man could be seen standing the same as before, but no trace of the darkness immortal remained.
There was no lack of shock from any person that had watched the scene. Even Ying Xiong could not help but feel that he would lose in a fight against the man.
Among the crowd, only two people could guess where the robot-like man came from.
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'I should probably cultivate to the next realm soon.' Zhou Fan thought to himself.
There was not much left that he could do in the true god realm. Only in the next realm would things really have a possibility of changing.
Before that, Zhou Fan wanted to mess with cultivation 1.0. It would not take Ying Xiong long to break into the 1st level of the inner world realm, and that is where he would stay unless cultivation 1.0 upgraded.
Zhou Fan had thought of many possible additions and changes he could make, but actually adding and changing things would take a very long time.
In the millions of years at least.
Luckily, Zhou Fan did not have much to attend to at the moment.
Zhou Fan flew to the river of cultivation and began to make changes to it. Those changes would heavily affect the future.
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350 million years later, Zhou Fan was still making changes.
However, in the Zhou galaxy, a grand event was taking place. To mortals, this was a once in a million generation spectacle. To cultivators, it was no less incredible.
At the top of the Zhou Galaxy, far below the robot-like man, a group of lesser dao creation realm cultivators, space shattering cultivators, void traversing cultivators, and even a few cultivators at lower realms who had powerful relatives or backers were standing far away from a single man cultivating in space.
For the first time in the history of the universe, as far as the general galaxy was aware, a cultivator was attempting to break through to the realm after the lesser dao creation realm.
Although they had never seen or heard of a cultivator on that level, they all instinctively knew the name of the next realm. The inner world realm. As for what that meant, only the man in front of them would know, if he successfully broke through of course.
Even Jack watched from afar with an accepting expression on his face. He had accepted his inferiority long ago.
After an entire year of waiting, movement could be seen around Ying Xiong, a sign that he was breaking through.
Due to Zhou Fans river of cultivation, breakthroughs no longer caused damage to the area around the person breaking through, no matter the realm.
Still, faint bits of Qi could be seen moving around Ying Xiong.
After 5 years of watching, a miniscule amount of time to almost any cultivator, Ying Xiong stood up.
The moment that he did, a horrifying pressure burst out of his body. It did not cause any sort of damage, but the vast difference in strength was clearly displayed just by the amount of Qi he possessed.
The pressure only lasted a second before it disappeared, and the bald Ying Xiong smiled at those around him.
"Since everyone is here, please listen to my announcement. I will be leaving the galaxy soon. I leave the buddhist sect to my disciple. I will return, but it may be far in the future. Please, out of respect for me, do not move against the buddhist sect." Ying Xiong said, the threat behind his tone clear.
Not a single person around dared to act pompously around Ying Xiong even before, but especially now that he was an entire realm above them.
Be it demonic cultivators or righteous cultivators, or even Jack, every single person's head lowered as they stated their agreement.
It could be said that at this time, nothing could stop Ying Xiong from killing everyone present in an instant.
After 100,000 years passed, Ying Xiong departed from the galaxy. He had hesitated for a while, but he eventually gave in. His disciple was at the lesser dao creation realm, and he had many allies that would help defend the buddhist sect, as well as earth.
Not only had he repaid the past actions of the people who helped him, but he had done it with high interest.
There was absolutely nothing tying Ying Xiong to the galaxy. Only his own emotions attempted to.
Surprisingly, the thing that gave him the final push was Zhou Fan's words. The feeling of hearing someone call you a bug, and knowing that they are absolutely right was a feeling not easily forgotten.
Ying Xiong decided that he would prove Zhou Fan wrong. He too would become someone so legendary that their name was not even recorded in history.
The biggest hurdle would be the fact that he could feel he could no longer increase his cultivation, but he would either wait for something to change, or change it himself!
The second biggest hurdle was that, outside the galaxy and the reaches of Zhou Fans mortal dao, Qi could no longer be absorbed. Only the Qi previously stored inside the body would remain, so he would have to hop from galaxy to galaxy that Zhou Fan had covered with his mortal dao.