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10 days later, Din Ren broke into foundation establishment. By that time, the beasts had also broken into foundation establishment.

As they continued cultivating, the difference in talent could be seen immediately. It took another 10 days for the beasts to break into the second level of Foundation Establishment, but it took Din Ren a month!

Zhou Fan had already stopped holding classes and let the students go free. He had long had nothing more to teach them. Only when they broke into later realms would they need his help.

Since he was no longer teaching, Zhou Fan started to research cultivation, formations, and arrays. He also began to look into weapon forging.

What would take others a year, Zhou Fan finished in a month and before long he had created an introductory class to weapon forging, formations, and arrays.

In the first few classes almost every student attended. As time passed, however, more students began to leave. After a month, there were about 30 students in each class. Most of them had low talent and were looking for another path.

A year passed very quickly.

In that time, the beasts had managed to break into core formation, which simply upgraded their cores due to the fact that they already had one, and Din Ren had broken into the 5th level of foundation establishment.

As for Zhou Fan, he was currently standing in a garden, sprinkling Life Qi onto a bunch of plants. A few months ago, a student had asked a question that got him thinking.

"Is it possible to make medicine with Qi?"

Since then, Zhou Fan had begun researching the idea and a week ago, he had succeeded.

After much trial and error, Zhou Fan concocted a pill that could instantly recover the injuries of anyone below core formation. It was a major success that started a new branch of study in the academy.

In such a fashion, yet another year passed.

By now, the beasts had broken into the 3rd level of core formation and Din Ren had just broken into core formation.

When he did so, Zhou Fan was there. He was interested in seeing what a normal human breaking into core formation would look like.

When Din Ren broke through, his elements coalesced and formed a 3 color core. There was a blackish blue for space, a black for dark, and a icy blue for ice.

Zhou Fan didn't notice anything special or interesting during the breakthrough. Everything went smoothly.

Before Din Ren even opened his eyes, Zhou Fan disappeared and reappeared in his room.

For the next ten years, Zhou Fan cultivated in his room. Although he occasionally went out to take a look, nothing much happened.

In that 10 years, Zhou Fan had broken into the 3rd level of void traversing. The beasts had broken into the 6th level of core formation and Din Ren had broken into the 3rd.

The entire academy was now running itself at this point. Students would make weapons or pills and sell them for contribution points, and new students would buy them.

Even without Zhou Fans interference, the academy would be perfectly fine.

Din Ren had taken up the position of grand elder and taught the new students about cultivation.

Zhou Fan had also appointed the more talented students in the arts of weapon forging, pill concocting and such to teach the subject.

They would also spend their free time researching deeper into the arts.

Also, Zhou Fan had passed down a couple of his martial arts which opened up a new section that was dedicated to creating and learning martial arts.

Although not a single one could compare to Zhou Fans, there were a couple of good ones.

There were now thousands of students. The effect of the academy on the outside world couldn't be measured. The academy was now the center of the world.

Many empires had built themselves on Zhou Fans oasis. Of course, they had permission. The only places left untouched were the beasts territories.

A few years ago, Zhou Fan decided to expand. Since he was much stronger, everything was 100 times easier. It only took a day for the entire wasteland to be renovated into an oasis. Thousands more empires popped up and the oasis became the center of the world. 80% of the population now lived there.

Looking at all the changes, Zhou Fan didn't know what to think. 10 years had passed and everything changed. He couldn't help but feel proud of himself.

He even estimated that other cultivation schools would be built in a few years. Those schools would be places for the less talented who wanted to cultivate.

Such a thing could only happen because of the formation and array classes he taught. By now, some of the more talented students were able to create Qi arrays. Of course, Zhou Fan had to help them in order for it to be possible. After all, they didn't have the ability to even sense Chaos Qi, much less break it into lesser Qi's.

Since he had come out of seclusion, Zhou Fan decided to take a tour around the world. It would be quick, but he wanted to see what had become of his old residences.

For the first time in a long time, Zhou Fan thought of the village where he was born. He chose to go there for his first visit. In mere seconds, Zhou Fan appeared there.

However, nothing was there. It seemed that after almost a hundred years, the village had been destroyed. From the looks of it, it was a tornado. After taking a brief glance at the place where his parents were buried, Zhou Fan disappeared.

In an instant, he appeared above Yang Lang city. There wasn't much change to it. Even his courtyard was still there. It was abandoned of course.

The tower was still tall and the area was still large.

Zhou Fan then ventured down into the caves. The entire area was now populated by snakes. Perhaps the crystals had somehow warded them off before. Even so, he could still see his old house and the place where Yipeng was buried.

After looking around for a minute, Zhou Fan sped off to the tree where he met the buddha. There was no tree, however.

Thinking one last time, that seemed to be all the places that mattered to him.

With a sigh, Zhou Fan appeared back in his room and began to cultivate.