Zhou Fan looked at the crystal. It was completely gray and extremely beautiful.
As for Zhou Fan, he was currently pale and seemingly injured. With a closer look, it could be seen that his cultivation went down! His previous state of void traversing 5 had turned into void traversing 4!
Zhou Fan didn't care about the slight decrease in cultivation. He had expected that much before he started. In fact, he had expected it to be a little worse.
Zhou Fan disappeared from his spot and reappeared back at the academy. Due to the decrease in cultivation, the journey took him 30 minutes instead of the previous eight.
Even so, Zhou Fan was too excited to care about the little things. Without stopping, he gathered the beasts and the talented students.
Zhou Fan told them to make the best Qi producing array possible. Although confused, they didn't hesitate long before they got to work.
Since arrays were the most popular category of study, everyone in the room knew at least a little. Chen Zi had even become the greatest master of arrays in the academy besides Zhou Fan himself.
With him leading the charge, an incredible Qi producing array was created in an hour.
However, it couldn't produce Qi. Although they had made the structure, they lacked the ability to split Chaos Qi. Just as they were about to ask why Zhou Fan had them do this, Zhou Fan placed the crystal in the middle of the array.
With the addition of the crystal, Chaos Qi started to pour into the array. It took a path through the array and eventually went into the Chaos crystal.
When it came out the other side, it was no longer Chaos Qi, but more absorbable Qi's. Although the array wasn't strong enough to support every type of Qi or produce an amount similar to Zhou Fans, it marked a starting point for other cultivators.
Not to mention, they would naturally be able to make stronger Qi producing arrays as they studied deeper and grew in cultivation.
As for the Chaos crystal, it didn't seem to be used up at all. After all, Zhou Fan even sacrificed his cultivation to create it.
Instead of a Spirit Stone, it acted like an artifact. As long as there were spirit stones to power it, it would work until it decayed.
Speaking of spirit stones, Zhou Fan also taught them how to make them. It was a quick and easy process for someone at their level.
With that, all that was left to do was say goodbye. Although they may not die now, it would still be a long time before Zhou Fan ever sees them again. He didn't plan to come back within a hundred thousand years if he didn't need to.
After hugging the beasts, Zhou Fan silently disappeared from the academy. It would be a long time before anyone outside of those 10 found out he left.
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After an hour-long journey, Zhou Fan made it to the meteor belt. He found a fairly big meteor and sat on top of it. This would be where he cultivated until he gained enough speed to leave the solar system without traveling for a thousand years.
The view from the meteor was nice. The scene of the huge sun next to the earth that was tiny in proportion was beautiful.
After staring at it for a while, Zhou Fan closed his eyes and began to cultivate. It took 5 years to regain his previous cultivation level of void traversing 5.
It took another 7 years to break into the 6th level, and 9 more to break into the 7th.
Even with the constant increase in strength, Zhou Fan was no more confident in his speed.
It took 10 more years to break into the 8th level. By now, Zhou Fan was more than a hundred times faster than light.
It took 23 more years to break into the 10th level of void traversing.
Although excited for another realm, Zhou Fan knew it would take a long time. He took one more look at the sun and earth before he went back into seclusion.
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60 years passed in what seemed like a blink of an eye to Zhou Fan.
Suddenly, Zhou Fan's eyes shot open as an immense power poured out of him. His full strength was uncontrollably released as space itself started to shake.
After a minute, space stopped shaking. Instead, it started to crack! Zhou Fan's power was destroying space!
Within seconds, the meteor below him was grounded to dust. In a minute, half of the meteor belt was gone. Gravity itself was broken as the meteors started to hurl away from their previous path. Just before the entire meteor belt was destroyed, Zhou Fan was able to reign in his power.
The cracking space and shaking solar system stopped breaking in an instant. With a sigh of relief, Zhou Fan thought back to how he almost didn't leave earth.
If he had chosen to stay, his breakthrough just now would have destroyed the world. His power was that strong!
Instead of thinking for too long, Zhou Fan checked his breakthrough. His power had increased a hundred times compared to his power in the 10th level of void traversing.
Even so, he wasn't sure that he was fast enough.
Standing up, Zhou Fan decided to test it. In an instant, he disappeared from where he stood and appeared on top of the sun. To his surprise, he could now travel to any place in the solar system in less than a second.
Suddenly, an idea came to Zhou Fan's mind. Remembering how he had cracked space with his breakthrough, he wanted to try to do it himself.
Getting in a punching stance, Zhou Fan powered up his punch before punching out with all his power upwards.
Space cracked instantly as a sort of suction force started to suck Zhou Fan in. Unfortunately for it, he was able to resist it with ease.
The same couldn't be said for the sun, however. Zhou Fan quickly waved his hand and used Space Qi to meld the crack in space.
'Wait!' Zhou Fan thought. 'Did I just use space Qi?'