After countless years, Zhou Fan still sat under Leaf, thinking of everything he was able to learn from the Buddha.
Suddenly, a crack in space formed near him. Zhou Fan looked over in shock.
From beyond it, a yellow triangle with one eye and a top hat flew through. "Well Well Well. What do we have here?"
The triangle's voice was weird, somewhat sort of a high pitched, synthesized sounding voice.
He looked around, and then at Zhou Fan.
"Woah! What a strong guy. And this place sure seems interesting. What's your name fella?"
Being looked at by this triangle, Zhou Fan felt nothing but excitement. There was no power of cultivation in this existence's body. With no doubt, it had created a new path.
"My name is Zhou Fan. What is yours?"
The triangle spoke. "The name's Will. Will Decipher, but you can call me your eternal overlord for the rest of time."
"Interesting. I suppose you must've come from one of the random mini-universes. Welcome to the true universe." Zhou Fan said.
Will was surprised and looked around. "Hmm. Yes, this is quite big. There is also some sort of energy here. You know what, nice to meet you."
Will held out his hand to shake Zhou Fan's. As he did, a blue flame appeared, covering his entire arm.
Zhou Fan wasn't stupid. Whatever this was, it was a part of his power.
Seeing Zhou Fan not shake his hand, Will put it down. "Well aren't you unfriendly. I suppose I'll go and conquer this universe. See you later."
Another spatial crack appeared, but Will was suddenly unable to move. His head snapped over, his careless expression replaced by shock.
Will yelled. "What are you doing? Let me go. Now!"
Will's body turned red as an incredible power bursted out from within him. He had reached a level of power equivalent to the Great Dao realm.
However, it was not enough. Zhou Fan's outer world appeared, and Will was unable to move within the formless pressure.
"Wait! Wait! Wait! We can talk this out. No need to kill me!" Will shouted.
"Don't worry. You're too interesting to kill. And trust me, we will be talking this out." Zhou Fan said.
Will held out his hand, the blue flame appearing again. "Is it a deal?"
"Stop trying that stupid trick. Put away your hand."
Will dejectedly lowered his hand as the pressure disappeared.
"Why don't you talk about yourself." Zhou Fan said.
Will sighed and began to talk. "When I was born, I won an award for cutest baby ever… They were just holding me back… I destroyed everyone in my home universe… Opening a rift, I found myself in a new universe… Path? I guess my path is the path of deals. That is how I gain my strength anyway… I had to nearly destroy that last universe to get out, and here I am today." Will explained.
A lengthy story, clearly showing that Will was insane. Whatever kind of mental disability Will had to make him so crazy, Zhou Fan wasn't interested in it.
After a bit more talking, Zhou Fan understood Will's power of deals. He couldn't imitate it. Different from cultivation and the Buddhist path, Will's path was unique. It was more like a Divine Physique or innate talent. However, without cultivation to guide it, Will was able to use it to create his own path.
Despite Will being insane, Zhou Fan admired him, just like he admired the Buddha. Will's power of deals seemed to have a path to grow higher by making more deals, but Will felt nothing further either.
However, by making more deals, and with access to cultivators, Will's strength would be able to grow, even if he couldn't technically make a breakthrough.
Zhou Fan looked forward to this. "Alright, you can go now. Don't do too much, or I'll have to kill you."
Will nodded in understanding, but Zhou Fan had come to understand that he was clearly insane. Regardless, there was no damage that Zhou Fan couldn't fix.
As Will left, so did Zhou Fan. He found Will's home universe, cleaned it up, and created a new one in its place. Otherwise, it would simply be an uninhabitable space. After this, he returned to his residence. With Will as an example, Zhou Fan felt that it wouldn't be bad to create some more mini-universes.
Setting out, Zhou Fan created a thousand more universes. He wanted to create more, but the universe began to shake. Zhou Fan could sense the issue. It seemed that there was some sort of weight limit to the universe, or the equivalent of that to adding space.
Simply put, creating more universes was not the best idea. Zhou Fan destroyed a hundred universes to make room in the universe's "Storage".
This was because other beings could create spatial rings, or even mini universes like Zhou Fan's, which would possibly harm the universe. Will was the most likely to try and create his own universe, though Zhou Fan didn't know if he had the ability.
With this, the universe was at full capacity. All that remained was to wait. He hoped that it wouldn't be long before more path creators like him, the Buddha, and Will were born.
Luckily, he had a lot to do. While Will had talked, Zhou Fan had been looking at him and observing his path. Along with the Buddha's path, Zhou Fan still needed to think.
Returning to his residence and sitting under Leaf, Zhou Fan began to think as time passed.
Only a quadrillion years later, Zhou Fan heard a voice being transmitted to his brain. It was a distress message from Will.
Zhou Fan looked over just in time to see Will killed with a single punch. Surprisingly, he had been killed by a mortal, on earth, in some place called "Ore Is Gone".
Zhou Fan was so shocked that he didn't even know how to respond. Looking through time, Zhou Fan saw that Will's death had been caused by an invention called a memory gun. One of Will's abilities was to enter the mind, and using this weak gun, Will had been killed by the person's mind he was in being erased.
Zhou Fan shook his head and ignored the death of Will. What kind of almighty being would lose to mortals? It was ridiculous.