The Beast World - 213
Zhou Fan sat hidden behind space as heaven and Tian Ren met each other. Although it wasn't something that he had done or would do with his creations, it was much more interesting to see heaven go down his own path without strictly following Zhou Fans.
He continued to watch what was starting to feel like a story with interest.
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"Heaven! Finally!" Tian Ren said in reverence.
Heaven stood there, his child form with white hair and blue eyes looking like the statue of a god to Tian Ren.
"Get up child. We have much to talk about." Heaven said.
In a few moments, Tian Ren was able to stand up and clear his mind from the overpowering reverence of heaven.
"Go ahead. Speak about your troubles." Heaven stated as he sat on the throne.
"Yes. My biggest worry is that the heavenborn race has disappointed you. Each and every one of their talents are little to none. I've been wondering if I'm doing something wrong." Tian Ren said.
"It's nothing that you or I can control. Although being such a high ranking race gives a better chance to get higher talent, it still takes time for someone with true talent to be born." Heaven responded.
"Do you mean that not even you can control talent?" Tian Ren said with his eyes widening.
"No I cannot." Heaven answered. "In fact, as far as I am aware, nobody in the entire universe can. Well, there may be one but I'm not too sure."
"What?! Is there someone even more powerful than you?" Tian Ren said with his jaw dropping.
"Yes there is. I also have troubles of my own. I often wonder if I will be able to live up to his expectations." Heaven answered.
In just these brief moments, Tian Ren's entire world was turned upside down. He felt no less reverence for heaven, but the revealing of someone greater than the one he thought the greatest was truly overwhelming.
After digesting the shocking information, he felt that heaven's situation was similar to his. He too wanted to live up to someone's expectations and wondered if he could.
"Do you think there is a chance you become greater than him?" Tian Ren asked curiously.
"No chance." Heaven said, sounding defeated.
A sudden silence took over the room after that.
"Anyway, is there anything else you're feeling troubled about?" Heaven asked.
"Not really. Talking to you has helped me feel a bit clearer. Thank you heaven." Tian Ren said while bowing.
"Goodbye then Tian Ren. I shall see you again." Heaven said as his body turned into light and he disappeared.
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Above the second world, heaven was watching everything closely. After a long amount of time, 99% of the 2nd world had become occupied by beasts. The rest of the planet was too dangerous to occupy.
In the last tens of thousands of years, Heaven had watched as the world's inhabitants grew more powerful and knowledgeable despite being beasts.
At some point, he even decided to call the planet the beast world. He would no longer introduce a humanoid race to the planet and would instead let it continue as it is.
One of the most interesting developments was the creation of language by the beasts. Although there were many types, there had also been one universal language developed that all beasts used to speak to each other.
While heaven could understand them, he decided to mess with the entire planet's minds and unknowingly make the universal language they spoke english. He found it funny that they didn't even notice.
The planet had been split up into three main sections for each type of animal and many different smaller sections. Each smaller section represented a certain species of animal or beast. The lions had their land, the sharks had theirs, the birds had theirs, which was also the biggest and most united, and the tigers had theirs.
Occasionally, wars would break out between the planet's inhabitants. The biggest rivalry was between the lions and the tigers. Among the part of the world belonging to land beasts, those two were considered the strongest.
Although at one point the lions had the only supreme beasts among all the species, the tigers had gotten theirs soon after.
Although he had some interest in the world's affairs, heaven decided not to interfere. The planet would be left to evolve on its own and its inhabitants with it.
This was not only the best decision in heaven's mind, but also an experiment. He wanted to see the differences between a planet left to its own troubles and a planet with an overseer.
The results would be an interesting thing to see.
As far as heaven was concerned, the initial development plan for the beast world was finished. Once the heaven world followed, it would be time to expand everything.
Heaven arrived back at the heaven world and began the final observation.
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Still hiding behind space, Zhou Fan stood up. Heaven seemed to have gained enough intelligence in the last few thousands of years to handle the galaxy's situation on his own.
He planned on watching the rest unfold, but he was getting bored sitting around all day. He decided to begin a further study of cultivation itself.
If he could find every single tiny detail and tune it to bring out its maximum potential, cultivation would be easier and bring better results.
However, that was not the main goal of his study. He had noticed his ability to manipulate cultivation itself once he received the understanding of creation.
As he had previously mentioned, the lesser dao creation realm was completely changed by him instinctually. Zhou Fan wondered if that was the only thing changed by him.
He also wondered if the correct term was changed. He had once spoken of his difficulty being equivalent to carving a path through a mountain, but perhaps he had been creating the mountain all along.
Regardless of the possibilities, he knew that he needed time and effort to achieve his goal.
Unknown to heaven, heaven had just become a slightly more grown up child in Zhou Fan's eyes.