Zhou Fan was extremely curious about the floating object. It was very unexpected to find such a thing.
As Zhou Fan moved closer, the core seemed to sense his existence and an explosion occurred on the core.
The wave of energy shot towards the unsuspecting Zhou Fan and almost knocked him off his feet.
However, Zhou Fan quickly regained his balance as he realized what happened. With a wave of his hand, a shield was formed in front of him, completely blocking the 'attack'.
As Zhou Fan looked closer, he understood that the previous action couldn't be called an attack. Instead, it was more like a natural reaction to something approaching it.
For a second, Zhou Fan considered if it was sentient, but the theory was quickly thrown away as soon as Zhou Fan looked at it with the Dao.
With the Dao, he saw the Dao itself pouring out of and into the core. It seemed that this was the source of the mortal Dao itself. However, it wasn't creating, but recycling.
If his theory was right, a bit of the cosmic Dao should have hit this planet and formed this core.
Perhaps Zhou Fan was staring at the source of all life on earth. Including his own!
Once Zhou Fan realized that the core could have been formed from a bit of the cosmic Dao, he didn't dare approach any further.
If he moved against it rashly, there was a chance that the entire planet would explode.
Although curious, Zhou Fan didn't feel like dying today.
Therefore, after a bit of internal struggle, he went around the core and continued moving around the inside of the earth, collecting metal and other ores.
After 3 more hours of collecting, Zhou Fan had an extremely large amount of metal, each bit condensed to a level more than the previous formation cube.
With the current amount of metal, he could create a campus a mile wide.
Of course, he didn't mean a single building a mile wide, but an entire section of the paradise he created.
The metal would only be the foundation, however. Zhou Fan also needed to make strong wood and other materials that could be used to build the main building and the rest of the campus
As he left the inside of the earth, Zhou Fan estimated that he used around a tenth of the metal on the planet. If he hadn't condensed it, he may have been able to lay a sheet of metal over the entire world.
Once he left, he went to a huge forest. It was one of the forests in the outer empires and it was the biggest in the world.
Zhou Fan reached the forest and cut down a few trees with some sword Qi. He then tried to use the same method of compressing in order to strengthen the wood.
Unfortunately, the wood fell apart as soon as he tried. It seemed that Zhou Fan would need a different technique in order to make the wood stronger.
It wasn't long before an idea popped into his head. Perhaps if he poured an extreme amount of wood Qi into the wood, the wood would naturally get stronger.
Not only would that solve Zhou Fan's problem, it would also save the forest from deforestation.
The first time he tried, the wood instantly exploded. He realized that he had put too much Qi at once and tried again.
The second time, he started much slower and the tree was quickly filled to the brim with wood Qi. As it filled, the wood began to absorb the wood Qi. Looking at it, Zhou Fan estimated it would take it a day to absorb it, and even then, he would have to repeat the process.
While Zhou Fan would love to find a quicker way, he had no other ideas. Therefore, he made it rain wood Qi all over the forest.
Zhou Fan then went off to plan a design for the school.
Everyday, he would come back and repeat the process, strengthening the wood exponentially.
After a month, the wood had reached its limit. By now, Zhou Fan estimated it could take a full powered punch from an early core formation cultivator.
Now he was finally done with preparations. Since the wood had taken so long to grow, he had spent the last few days finding and enhancing other materials needed for construction.
All that was left was the actual building, and with Zhou Fan's powers, it would be a piece of cake.
Before that however, he needed to hire people to manage the building. That included cleaners, cooks, guards, and helpers. He decided against teachers since nobody knew cultivation better than him. It wouldn't be too hard to teach the classes himself.
Instead of doing all that himself, he flew to the mortaniel empire and ordered the emperor to do it.
Why would he do it himself if he had the most powerful emperor as his subordinate?
Naturally, the emperor was delighted to follow his commands and promised to gather them all up in a month. He would prepare the greatest in every category.
Zhou Fan felt relieved that his foresight was so good. Who knew how long it would have taken him to gather up good workers by himself.
With every bit of preparation done, Zhou Fan was completely ready to build Huang Long academy. After he built it, he would have to put formations around for defense, temperature, and maybe cultivation, but building the academy itself was the biggest and most important task.
Zhou Fan made his way to the paradise area. When he made it there, he saw the mountain of materials piled up.
With his powerful mind, Zhou Fan didn't have to move a muscle to build the academy. All he had to do was imagine how he wanted it to look, and the rest would do itself.
Zhou Fan pictured a huge castle-like building in the center of the paradise, followed by a side building for things like eating, showering, and living. The main castle would be the school part.
Zhou Fan then envisioned an area of commerce. In the future, he would make a merit system where students could buy things with points earned from efforts in studying and cultivation.
Before long, the majestic Huang Long academy was built.