Silver River Galaxy Cluster - 171

After staring at the manor for a little while longer, Zhou Fan started flying away. He had spent plenty of time within the tree-like galaxy cluster and was ready to leave.

After going so long without using his powers, it felt a little weird at first, but he soon got used to it again. As usual, he flew at an astonishing speed. He soon exited the tree-like galaxy cluster.

Despite spending what felt like a lifetime inside, it hadn't changed a single bit. Even with his superior mind, he couldn't spot even the tiniest difference from when he entered the galaxy cluster. Perhaps it was because he was too far away, or perhaps it was because it truly hadn't changed a bit.

Zhou Fan flew off towards the closest thing to the tree-like galaxy cluster. From afar, it looked like a silver river of stars. It seemed to be bigger than the tree-like galaxy cluster, and nearly as, if not as big as his galaxy cluster.

He flew forward at full speed. Once he got closer, he started to see more details of what Zhou Fan decided to name the silver river galaxy cluster.

It appeared that the silver river galaxy cluster was flowing away from him. In other words, he would arrive at the entrance to the silver river galaxy cluster, and going forward past that he would travel down the theoretical river.

200,000 years later, Zhou Fan arrived.

Although he had spent more than a thousand times the time he had spent in the manor flying towards the silver river galaxy cluster, Zhou Fan felt it was much faster. It seemed that he would naturally fall into a sort of unconscious state while endlessly flying.

In just a few moments, Zhou Fan floated near the first star of the silver river galaxy cluster. It had no planets around it, but it gave off a silver hue. In fact, the entire galaxy gave off a natural silver hue like the red galaxy gave off a red hue and Zhou Fans galaxy gave off a purple hue. The hue is what made the silver river galaxy cluster more than a river.

That star was one of the rare cases of a lone star outside a galaxy. Past that star, there were endless silver colored galaxies forming the river shape. Zhou Fan traversed through them, while adding the planets he came across to his mortal dao.

Even after he had added so many planets, he hadn't reached his limit. He had added two entire galaxy clusters worth of planets with potential for life, and was now starting on a third, without ever having to stop.

Zhou Fan didn't question it and continued forward. He had planned on going through the galaxy cluster like he had the other two, but after going through just 10% of the galaxies, he finally felt his limit.

Until he broke through, he would be unable to add a single planet to his mortal dao.

After thinking for a moment, Zhou Fan took out his pagoda and placed it in the middle of nowhere. He wouldn't continue moving through the galaxy cluster until he broke through.

Zhou Fan sat on the top floor and began to cultivate.

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After 350,000 years passed, Zhou Fan broke into the 6th level of the inner world realm. Yet again, his strength increased greatly in many ways.

The most important one in his current situation, his mortal dao, also increased. As if nothing had happened, Zhou Fan put away the pagoda and began to once again add planets to his mortal dao.

After a long time, he had moved through what appeared to be a third of the silver river galaxy cluster. Only after so much time did he finally find anything interesting.

Although there were different shapes for different galaxies, they rarely went outside of a circle or sphere. The galaxy he had come upon, however, was one of the very few that didn't conform to the normal standards.

The galaxy had a black hole at its center like all galaxies, but the galaxy wasn't fully around it. Instead, the stars, planets, and other space things were lined up on both sides of the black hole.

It was like the ends of two swords were forged onto opposite sides of a ring, making a spinning stick with a hole in the middle. In this case, the hole was the black hole and the swords were the planets, stars, and the other things.

Also, the parts of the galaxy were spinning faster than normal galaxies. Normally, the parts that made up a galaxy would slowly spin around a black hole, but it would be so slow it was nearly unnoticeable. In this galaxy, however, the non black hole parts were spinning ten times faster than normal. While still nearly unnoticeable, it made quite a difference in the grand scheme.

Zhou Fan looked around the galaxy and tried to discover what was special about it, but he failed to find it. It seemed that it was simply a natural occurrence. At least, it was as natural as most other things within the universe.

Zhou Fan continued through the silver river galaxy and soon found another abnormality. Floating down the theoretical river was what seemed like a huge cloud. It was made up of debris from stars and planets, and looked somewhat like a nebula.

The most special thing about it, however, was its color. It was the exact same color that the galaxy looked like from afar. Although he had seen other things that were silver, none of them were so similar to the galaxy's color as the space cloud.

Zhou Fan decided to go in and at least sight-see. As soon as he entered, he felt that the environment was similar to the nebula that he had visited. Somewhat sticky and dense. It was as if one was walking through a cloud of syrup, but likely a little less sticky.

It wasn't enough to hinder Zhou Fans, or most anythings, movement speed, but it was quite uncomfortable.