After 30 days of floating, Zhou Fan woke up. He had recovered all his Qi and had healed from the effects of Qi exhaustion.
After looking around, he realized that the cracked and shattered space was still there. Luckily, the hole in space was patched up.
Zhou Fan wasn't quite sure what it was, but he realized the danger it posed. In places like the Zhou World and the entire Zhou solar system, the space had been strengthened by his mortal dao. Therefore, it would require more strength than Zhou Fan had in order to completely break it.
In other places, however, the space was in its original form. It could be broken by almost any attack that focused on one point if it was from something or someone powerful.
One thing that confused Zhou Fan was that the black hole's collision didn't break past all the layers of space. In fact, it didn't hurt the space at all.
After thinking for a while, Zhou Fan could only come to two conclusions. First, his chaos Qi was the reason he could break through all the layers of space with his current strength.
Second, something that was born and created by space, such as galaxies, black holes, planets, and nebulas, could not break it as easily.
In fact, it seemed that space had a certain resistance to the things born in it. Zhou Fan and other living beings didn't count since they were born on a planet with an atmosphere instead of space.
As for breaking through the final layer of space, it seemed that only Chaos Qi could do it. To those without chaos Qi, either they couldn't, or their strength would have to surpass the entire universe.
If the normal layer of space was the equivalent to the skin of the universe, and the rest of the layers were equivalent to bones, blood, veins, and organs, then the final layer of space would be the very existence of the universe. In a more understandable way, the final layer of space was its soul.
It is also what separates the rest of the universe from whatever that blankness was.
'Chaos Qi is far too dangerous. Unless I must, I should not use Chaos Qi. At the very least, I must wait until I am strong enough to survive that thing.' Zhou Fan thought to himself.
Before leaving his galaxy, he had thought himself invincible. Only now did he realize how foolishly arrogant he was.
In the time that he had left, he had discovered three things that could easily kill him. Colliding black holes, the thing beyond the final layer of space, and the great attractor at the center of the galaxy cluster.
Although he had yet to confirm the danger of the great attractor, he had no doubt it could kill him if it wanted to.
Not only did Zhou Fan need to increase his own strength, he needed to increase the fabric of spaces' strength. Otherwise, he may accidentally destroy everything.
In that split second that the thing beyond space was exposed, it seemed as if it was growing by devouring space, similar to a black hole.
His patching up had only stopped it enough for the final layer of space to regrow. If the final layer of space didn't grow back, the very universe may have been destroyed by him.
The strength of the thing beyond the final layer of space also had Zhou Fan thinking of something else.
'Could my Chaos Qi have won against that? Could it compare?' Zhou Fan asked himself.
His entire life, he was under the impression that everything was below Chaos Qi. The blankness beyond the final layer of space, however, made him think otherwise. It may have been on the same level as Chaos Qi!
Unfortunately, he didn't know. He hadn't even thought of using his Chaos Qi to go against the thing beyond space. Even if he did, it may not have been an even match. It seemed that the thing beyond the final layer of space was much higher level than him.
After finally calming down, Zhou Fan decided to name the thing beyond space ' The Unknown'.
He had considered both the unknown and the blank, but the unknown seemed more fit since he didn't know if it was actually blankness, or just another form of space.
Although he had planned to go and explore more at first, Zhou Fan was too restless. He decided to bring out his pagoda and cultivate some more after he had healed up the surrounding space.
Since he had fully recovered, the healing process was quick. It only took around an hour to clean the entire thing up.
Afterwards, Zhou Fan stayed in the same area and brought out the pagoda. On the top floor, Zhou Fan cultivated.
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250,000 years later, Zhou Fan reached the 5th level of the inner world realm. As usual, his strength and the inner worlds power increased greatly.
After so much time had passed, he had completely calmed down from the incident. He was now ready to go back out and explore some more.
Zhou Fan left the pagoda soon after breaking through. Although he didn't go to the center of the galaxy cluster, he went around it. He helped every single planet with potential for life, even if the galaxy they were in was on the verge of destruction.
In ten thousand years, Zhou Fan had been to almost every galaxy on the main part of the galaxy cluster. Although there were other planets and galaxies still moving in, it would be a waste of time to go to them.
Although Zhou Fan was unaware how many planets he had helped, he knew that if they all successfully evolved into cultivation worlds, there would be trillions and quadrillions of living beings within just years.
Eventually, he would involve the Zhou World and the rest of the solar system with them, but they would remain on their own for now.
By the time the Zhou Solar system connected with them, there would very likely be many more people more talented than anna, jack, and the beasts, simply from the sheer numbers.