The area in front of Zhou Fan was half the size of the purple star sea. In front of him were 20 giant balls of dirt so big that even the biggest galaxy he had ever seen could not compare.
There was a large amount of space between each ball, but each one was a tenth the size of a galaxy cluster.
In the center, there was another ball of dirt that didn't seem different from the rest, but it gave off the distinct feeling of a great attractor, though all the balls of dirt seemed to attract in one way or another.
Even from afar, Zhou Fan could see large amounts of dust and debris being sucked onto the balls.
Despite being in the shape of a sphere, they really could not be called planets. Each one was simply a ball of dirt with nothing else. There was no grass or atmosphere. Nothing.
Zhou Fan quickly flew onto the closest "planet" and checked it out. The moment that he landed on it, he could feel a large gravity bear down on him. It was a hundred times the gravity of normal planets like earth.
There was also a formless suction that reached out from the planet and brought any space dust or floating dirt down to the planet and layered it on the rest.
Based on the rates that the planets were growing, they were likely ancient. Each one should be as old as earth, if not older.
Zhou Fan had yet to see anything in the universe that had been in existence that much longer than earth, leading him to believe that the universe was fairly new. That would also explain why there was no other life.
Zhou Fan covered the entire planet in his divine sense, but it truly was nothing more than a clump of dirt pushed together by gravity for many years.
Zhou Fan could not cover such a large landmass that was bigger than any galaxy with his mortal dao, but the 20 planets had much potential in Zhou Fan's eyes.
It did not take him long to come to a decision.
'When I break into a new realm, I will come back here and cover all of these planets in my mortal dao.' He declared.
Zhou Fan flew around the entire area that contained 20 planets, but there was nothing unexpected. Every now and then there was a star, but no other planets.
After just a year, Zhou Fan flew to the center planet. He got the same feeling of power as the great attractor in the purple star sea, but he was not attacked no matter how close he came to the planet.
When he landed on it, he realized that the great attractor was at the core of the planet. He flew down, and soon came upon an empty space.
Not far away, in the center of the space, was a large clump of dirt. Zhou Fan could tell that it was the great attractor. This one bore the appearance of a planet.
Despite coming close to it, it still did not attack. Only when Zhou Fan touched it with his hand did a spike of earth shoot at him. Zhou Fan dodged and backed off. Since the great attractor did not seem to want any trouble and acted like a turtle, Zhou Fan left it alone and flew away.
He soon left the center planet, and before long, the large area that he had named the Great Earth Area.
Off to the side was another large area. Zhou Fan decided to create a map of all of the surrounding areas.
The closest area seemed like a rainbow river. As Zhou Fan entered and investigated, he discovered that the river-like scene was made from flowing energies. The entire area was covered in soft and colorful energy that acted like water but was more or less a liquid form of stars.
He decided to name it the rainbow river.
Near to that was another dark area that seemed to be in the shape of a horse. It was like the purple star sea but with black stars, and interesting sight to see.
Over the next 800,000 years, Zhou Fan explored many large areas in the universe. Some were the size of the Zhou supercluster, while some were ten times smaller, and others were twice bigger.
Zhou Fan wanted to see if they would stop at some point and there would be a large gap like at the end of galaxy clusters, but there were far too many places to explore.
Even on the map, there was a large to be continued area. Zhou Fan had explored in a cube around the Zhou supercluster, and in total had went through 163 of such areas, each one having a great attractor, though none was more powerful than the one in the forbidden land and there was no area with 3 like the Zhou supercluster.
Zhou Fan floated above the Zhou supercluster as he looked around. Now, everything did not seem so unfamiliar. Unlike before, when he looked into the sky, names would appear in his mind and he would think of the interior of those areas.
From his searches, he had discovered that great attractors essentially embodied the area they were in. Some looked like giant balls of magma, while others took the shape of a cylinder or black hole.
While they were not fixed to look like sphere's, they definitely seemed to lean towards such a configuration.
Now, with all of his exploration done, the Zhou supercluster could be considered the most unexplored area in the surroundings since he had never seen its great attractors.
Now, Zhou Fan was ready. He had seen many other great attractors, but never the ones he was born closest to.
He hoped nothing bad happened, but in the absolute worst case scenario, such as the great attractors exploding, Zhou Fan would protect the surrounding areas.
At the very least, he would not be harmed. Zhou Fan stopped sitting and flew straight down, in the direction of the tree-like galaxy.