Zhou Fan left the cosmic sect and flew towards the Heaven galaxy. He entered quietly, and Heaven did not even notice him.
He soon found a random planet and descended upon it. As he fell, he found himself in a large plains. The grass had grown up to his shoulders and he could barely see a hundred feet away without using his power.
He wandered around the grassland for a while before finally exiting the area of large grass. He found himself in a shaded environment with many trees. He wandered around, and night soon fell. Using the power of a mortal, Zhou Fan made a sharp stick and killed a boar.
He slowly skinned it and cooked it over a self made fire, before eating his food and going to sleep. He continued to wander around the world for nearly a hundred thousand years. There were no human or humanoid species on the planet.
The smartest animals were nothing but wild beasts as well. Luckily, there was not much cultivation in the world.
The strongest existence had barely entered the foundation establishment realm. After a hundred thousand years, Zhou Fan had reached the highest peak and descended to the lowest depths.
He had seen and explored every inch of the world. It was an interesting feeling, wandering around with no purpose whatsoever.
Zhou Fan went to another world, and another, and another, and another, experiencing different situations each time and living different lives.
Soon, 70 million years passed. Zhou Fan had visited tens of thousands of worlds. It had only been 100 million years since he had decided to wait a billion years. Even Zhou Fan felt bored.
There were truly not many interesting things to do. Zhou Fan found Heaven and got him to play chess against him.
The chess board was many times bigger than a normal chess board used by mortals. After Zhou Fan beat him 30,000 times in a row, Heaven refused to play again. He said he had things to do, and Zhou Fan left.
Zhou Fan found a random empty planet and decided to test just how bored he was. He stood still, and every time the sun reached its peak, once every 24 hours, he took a step. It took him many years to go around the entire world.
He then left that world, and after many failed attempts to find something interesting, admitted defeat. He entered the sword mini world and sat next to Leaf.
He sat there and meditated while Leaf absorbed Qi. With him there, Leaf was much happier than usual. Zhou Fan continued meditating for 880 million years. It was then that the billion years officially passed.
Zhou Fan returned to the great world once again. Over a billion years, it had changed immensely. There were many beasts populating the world, as well as supreme beasts.
There were some that were intelligent, and many that were not. The humans gave Zhou Fan quite the surprise.
They had established themselves rather well in the world. Although they could only stay in the inner realm due to lacking strength, they were surprisingly considered just another race of beasts, even though they cultivated differently and were smarter.
The strongest human cultivator was at the void traversing realm, while the strongest beast, a supreme beast known as the sky devouring python, was at the peak of the space shattering realm.
It was not surprising to find no inner world realm cultivator. The great world had not had enough time to naturally develop to that level. As a result, very few creatures had ever left the Great World, and those who did returned after realizing everything else was unimaginably far away.
Zhou Fan created a teleportation array in the mortal realm of the Great World. He then teleported to the cosmic sect and created a teleportation array in the teleportation hub.
Soon, Ying Xiong appeared. He had sensed Zhou Fan's creation of the teleportation array. He looked around and recognized the area.
"The Great World, is it?" He asked Zhou Fan.
"That is what I named it when I created it." Zhou Fan said.
"I assume we can freely enter now?" Ying Xiong asked.
"Go for it." Zhou Fan responded.
"Alright. I plan on creating a branch of the cosmic sect in this world since it seems so important. I was thinking of calling it the earth sect." Ying Xiong said.
"Covering both the sky and the ground, huh. Seems interesting. Good luck." Zhou Fan said as he disappeared.
He would sit back and watch the development of the Great World from afar.
In the first years, mass migration of humans took place. Those who came first were the members of the cosmic sect. They came into the Great World like a hurricane, clearing a path to the center of the world in a few tens of years.
It only took them that long because the Great World was bigger than a galaxy cluster and they did not have any teleportation arrays. Of course, they naturally left some behind as they traveled.
Before even 100 years passed, the Earth sect had established itself in the center of the Great World. They did not immediately establish dominance over the world. They allowed the beasts and supreme beasts to mostly live freely, while also helping to protect the humans who lived on the Great World.
The humans did not know if they should celebrate or worry about the invasion of foreigners. The world had been relatively peaceful, and the human race had even established good relationships with many beast races and even a few supreme beasts.
That indecision only lasted until they realized that even the most casual help from the cosmic sect, or rather, the earth sect, would cause them to improve beyond their wildest dreams. After all, even the weakest official member of the Cosmic sect was in the lesser dao creation realm.
Soon, the Heaven galaxy gained access to the Great World as well, and their people entered it.
While the cosmic sect was without doubt the most powerful sect, the Heaven galaxy did not lack experts.
The cosmic sect and Heaven sect were allied as well, so the Heaven sect soon created a place for themselves in the core realm along with the cosmic sect.