As soon as Zhou Fan opened his eyes, a bluish Qi covered his body.
It wasn't a Qi that Zhou Fan had comprehended, but a Qi that started being produced by him as soon as he broke into this new realm.
Along with the extreme increase in strength, the breakthrough gave him the ability to naturally create this Qi. It wasn't a Qi that could go outside the body, but a Qi that was slowly changing his human physique.
After a day of bathing in the Qi, it stopped covering his body and went to the depths of his soul. Zhou Fan tried to move it, but it remained dormant and unresponsive to his will.
Sighing, Zhou Fan gave up for now. More important than the Qi itself, Zhou Fan needed to check out the effects it had on his body.
As he felt around his body, he remembered why the Qi looked so familiar. It was space Qi!
Zhou Fan soon realized that it had been tempering his body, making it resistant to space!
As soon as he made the realization, Zhou Fan shot up from his seating position and flew to the boundary between earth and space.
Once he reached it, he nervously put his hand into outer space. He watched with narrow eyes as the space came into contact with his hand.
However, even after a few seconds, there was no reaction. Widening his eyes in delight, Zhou Fan flew into outer space for the first time.
Besides the lack of wind and sound, it felt the same as earth.
"Hello." Zhou Fan said in an attempt to speak in space.
Shockingly, he could hear himself speak! It seemed that the tempering of space Qi had also affected his voice.
Zhou Fan tried to use Qi in outer space and sure enough, it worked perfectly normal. Thinking back, he should have been powerful enough to go into space long ago, but he was worried that his Qi wouldn't work in space.
Although he couldn't prove his conjuncture, Zhou Fan was glad that he waited. Otherwise, he would only be able to stand in the endless space.
However, with his breakthrough he gained a much faster speed. In fact, he was hundreds of times faster. He was now confident that he could travel around the entire world within a minute.
Instead of testing that, Zhou Fan looked at the moon. He was very curious as to what it was made of and what it was like.
With his new speed, it only took 10 seconds to arrive. Luckily, he had broken through at night and the moon was directly above his head.
Otherwise, he would have to travel to the other side of the world before he could land on it.
As soon as his feet touched the ground, he felt a new Qi. It was a Qi he had never experienced before on earth.
Since he could feel that it was something unique to the moon, he called it lunar Qi.
As he named it, Zhou Fan had a realization.
'I can't breathe.' He thought to himself. Since he had entered space, he hadn't even attempted to take a breath.
However, he didn't feel the need to breathe.
'Perhaps I no longer need to breathe to survive?'
With that thought, Zhou Fan could truly say that he had broken from his human limits.
Although he could already destroy mountains and overturn seas, he at least had the function of a normal human, albeit much less.
Zhou Fan wondered if one day, he would stop having blood or even a body.
The mere thought made him shudder. Instead of thinking further, Zhou Fan changed the subject.
'I should be getting back.' He thought to himself. Now that he had broken through, it was time to start the school.
Before that however, he decided to comprehend the lunar Qi.
Due to his comprehension of the other elements and concepts, it only took another four days. By then, Zhou Fan was ready to return to earth.
As he was making his way back, Zhou Fan named the new realm 'Void Traversing'. It didn't take much thinking to understand why he named it that.
In a minute, Zhou Fan made it back to his room. It only took him a minute because he had to travel halfway around the world and pick up the mortaniel emperor first.
Luckily, he didn't die yet. He also left a note to the crown prince about his fathers absence from the throne and that he should take over.
Since information about the academy had spread far and wide in the last four years, he shouldn't be too confused.
When they arrived, the emperor was disoriented and confused. After all, he had just flown at a speed that neared the speed of light. If not for Zhou Fan's deliberate protection, he would have been grinded to dust by the friction.
"Get up. It is time for the opening of the academy." Zhou Fan said, clearing up the emperor's thoughts.
The emperor, Ao Shi, was woken up from his thoughts by Zhou Fan's words.
"Yes sir." He said.
Quickly standing up and getting himself together, the emperor followed Zhou Fan to the window.
Using Qi, Zhou Fan made both him and the emperor float in the air.
"All students report to the main building." Zhou Fan said.
Although he didn't scream, his words echoed throughout the entire academy. Everyone ran to the main building at their fastest speeds.
Meanwhile, Zhou Fan set up a more elaborate talent testing array. It was complete with an affinity tester as well as a new system of testing talent that Zhou Fan had created recently.
Instead of giving them a number, it would give a rank to their meridians.
The ranks were naturally created and named by Zhou Fan.
As of now, he had created 7 levels of meridians, with each one having a smaller rank of one through ten.
For example, the worst talent would be a rank 10 trash meridian, and the best would be rank 1 emperor meridians.
The specific order went: trash, weak, mortal, great, spirit, king, and emperor.
By his estimations, a 95 should be a rank 10 spirit meridian, while a 100 would be a rank 1 spirit meridian.
As for higher, their number would have still shown 100, but could have actually been a 101.