Providence - 233

Zhou Fan thought for a while and decided to watch pangu cultivate. He would use pangu as proof that cultivation 1.0 worked properly before he began to think of new ideas.

While Zhou Fan was recovering, Pangu had managed to reach the 3rd level of the Qi gathering realm.

Zhou Fan had spent three days recovering, and as pangu's talent easily reached the threshold of the fastest possible cultivation within the Qi gathering realm, he was doing well.

He wasn't the only one doing well. Within each of the 5 races, there was at least one person who had reached the maximum cultivation speed in the Qi gathering realm.

It wasn't an extravagant requirement as one only had to have emperor realm meridians or above, but it was still unlikely based on the odds.

Within the Fiendcelestial race, there were three people who could cultivate with the maximum speed. Both of the other two had god realm meridians, which was undoubtedly good, but they were far away from pangu.

At the very least, Pangu had immortal king 1 meridians. It also wasn't unlikely for them to be higher, but Zhou Fan wanted to feel some entertainment. 

Otherwise, he would have long known what level Pangu's meridians were. Just in case, he decided to name another rank of meridians. Above immortal king rank meridians would be immortal emperor meridians. 

Seeing pangu's talent had sent Zhou Fan into a wave of thought. It wasn't hard for one to notice how at least one member of every race had extremely high talent.

Anna from the celestials, Jack from the mermaids, the dragon king from the supreme beasts, Tian Ren from the heavenborns, and so on.

At some point, it could no longer be called a coincidence. Especially with the odds of someone with even immortal rank meridians being born, much less immortal king rank meridians.

If Zhou Fan's calculations were correct only one in a quadrillion people would be born with immortal rank meridians. One could imagine how rare immortal king rank meridians were.

As he thought about it more and more, Zhou Fan's focus wavered from Pangu to the subject of talent. There was simply no way that it was coincidental.

'Fine! I'll figure it out.' Zhou Fan said to himself as he felt his inability to keep his mind off of the topic.

In an instant, he disappeared from his spot and reappeared next to the cultivating pangu. Before Pangu could open his eyes, Zhou Fan put him to sleep.

He then grabbed one of the other fiendcelestials with god rank talent through space and put him to sleep next to pangu.

Then, Zhou Fan studied them intensely. As he wasn't sure what he was looking for, he went through every individual possibility and compared the two.

Once Zhou Fan reached the talent and Qi sector, he found something interesting that he had simply put off before. 

Radiating off of Pangu's meridians and Qi was a slightly golden and hard to see mist-like substance.

Long ago, he had seen it radiating off of people like Anna and Jack, but he casually dismissed it as a testament to their power.

However, Pangu was at the Qi gathering realm, and he happened to share something in common with Anna and Jack.

Talent. More specifically, the highest talent in their races. 

Odds are that it isn't a coincidence.

On another note, Zhou Fan felt that the only reason he could sense it so long ago was due to his Chaos Qi. Otherwise, one would likely have to be in the god realm to sense it even slightly.

Now that he had sensed and paid attention to the energy, Zhou Fan felt it was time to attempt to manipulate it.

After trying a couple of different methods, Zhou Fan got the golden energy to move. He didn't take it away from Pangu as he wasn't sure what affects it would have, but he cut of a miniscule snipet so that he could observe it.

Perhaps it wasn't sentient or it felt that Zhou Fan was far too powerful, but the golden energy did not react after a part of it had been snipped off.

Holding it in his hands, Zhou Fan closely examined it with his eyes and his divine sense.

It took a few minutes, but Zhou Fan eventually was able to sense two things in the golden energy. One, part of the entire Fiendcelestial race was contained in the golden energy. He wasn't sure how to describe it.

Two, he was able to feel a bit of the cosmic dao. Not only that, but it felt like that bit of the cosmic dao was somewhat mixed with a power that seemed to originate from Zhou Fan. It was a slight part of Zhou Fan's mortal dao.

If Zhou Fan was only interested before, he was now extremely interested. Now that he had sensed it, he could control the part of his power, but he had no idea it was in existence before this very moment.

He assumed that the bit of cosmic dao was the same. It was so miniscule that it wouldn't react instinctively and had little power. 

It seemed that the golden energy was secretly in existence, as if it had silently existed all these years.

Zhou Fan decided to name the golden energy. 

It would be called "Providence".

It seemed that a providence was born each time a race was created and grew in power and effect based on the number of members, the talent of those members, and the amount of time the race had existed. That providence would attach to a member of the race it was born from and have an effect similar to high luck. In fact, luck was just one of its features.

The most important feature in Zhou Fan's opinion was one that had not been proven, but he could assume it existed.

The ability of providence to increase talent. It was the only explanation as to why there was always an extremely talented person in a race.

Additionally, although he could sense that it had no effect on him, Zhou Fan seemed to contain the providence of the human race.