Zhou Fan had been laying down formations for so long, but he had yet to activate even a single one. He had now covered nearly a fiftieth of the entire planet in unactivated arrays.
The arrays also didn't have an automatic power source like most arrays that were made. That was because Zhou Fan had no use for them besides laying them down. Taking the extra effort to give them a power source would not only not increase his understanding of arrays, but it would waste unnecessary time.
Although it wasn't like they couldn't be activated. They simply needed someone to directly input Qi into them. In other words, they basically functioned like normal arrays, they simply needed to be personally activated.
Along with the arrays that could break space, there was now a new array that Zhou Fan had never used before. It was called a teleportation array. He had never even thought of creating such an array since he had nobody he needed to teleport that he couldn't teleport personally.
However, the teleportation array was definitely possible to create and theoretically very useful. It simply wasn't that useful to Zhou Fan.
The only reason the people in the Zhou world and the other places hadn't created teleportation arrays was because Zhou Fan had never invented them.
They were limited by the knowledge Zhou Fan had given them. Once he thought of that, Zhou Fan realized that even if he left the Zhou World and all the worlds he had connected to his mortal dao alone, they would be limited without his help.
Although he had given the celestials information in the back of their mind and had made it so that anything born in the mortal dao would also have such information, the information was old. It basically stopped at the lesser dao creation realm.
Zhou Fan thought it would be a big problem for a second, but he soon realized that he could simply make the changes to his mortal dao within him and it would automatically change his mortal dao everywhere else.
In other words, it only took a thought to give the things born within his mortal dao access to knowledge.
Although it was technically giving them direct knowledge, it wasn't like they were born omniscient. What he was giving them was the possibility to advance further.
There were surely many out there that had thought of a teleportation array before him, but they couldn't create it. The only reason for that was that Zhou Fan had never created it. Therefore, it was impossible for them to create.
It was less a matter of thinking and more a matter of Chaos Qi. Zhou Fan didn't wish such a fate on them, but it was the price of their creation. Once he was stronger, he hoped to truly make life that could advance without having to follow in his footsteps. Sadly, that was impossible for the current him.
All life in the universe was connected to him. As far as he was aware, the only life that wasn't was the people on earth before he was born.
In the ways of creating life, he could only admit his inferiority to the cosmic dao. At least it could create life with true potential.
Like the cosmic dao once was, he was the father of all life. Unfortunately, he seemed to be a much worse parent.
As of now, the life he had created was completely within his shadow, and they were completely unable to move forward unless he too took a step.
Zhou Fan decided to upload all the information about arrays, and formations that he had learned as soon as he was done with all of the arts. That way, the people of the Zhou Galaxy would get the information all at once.
As for going there personally, Zhou Fan had no plans to. He still wanted them and the rest of the three galaxy clusters to develop on their own so that they could surprise him.
As for the planet he was currently messing with, he would clean it up once he was done so that there was no trace of him or his arrays left behind.
As thoughts flew through his head, Zhou Fan shook and cleared his mind. He was so close to finishing arrays. No need to get distracted now.
The next rank was 8th rank arrays. Now, he was truly stepping into a new realm of learning. The lesser dao creation realm felt like a much bigger leap than all of the other realms before it.
After an astonishing hundred and fifty years, Zhou Fan mastered the 8th rank arrays. He then spent ten years making sure his speed was up to date.
Like the arrays before it, 8th rank arrays had some new uses. One of the biggest was that some 8th rank arrays could somewhat manipulate the mortal dao of its creator, but only if the creator allowed it. There were a couple of rules for such arrays, but they could do a lot of a lesser dao creation realm cultivators work for him.
To Zhou Fan, and anyone at the inner world realm, such an array was simply useless, but he was sure that 9th rank arrays would be more useful for inner world realm cultivators. Even 9th rank arrays that could manipulate the mortal dao of its creator would have more uses.
Still, even a tenth rank array that helped manipulate its owner's mortal dao was useless to Zhou Fan. Anything it could do he could do better and faster.
For someone more pathetic, however, it may have some uses. The word pathetic seemed harsh, but if one hadn't outgrown mortal dao controlling arrays by the time they reached the god realm, they truly were pathetic.
Some arrays simply faded into uselessness after a while. A prime example was flight arrays. Anyone at the space shattering realm, or even the void traversing realm, had zero use for them. They would hardly increase flying speed at all. Simply useless.