The First Cultivator - Changing Existence
Chapter 864 - 864: Strengthening Cultivation - 864

Zhou Fan examined the walls of the Universe. They had changed, no longer bearing his aura or power. Instead, an energy full of life was surrounding the Universe. Naturally, a layer of Chaos still blocked off the nothingness. But that would not disappear unless the green energy disappeared. And unless the Mother Tree died, it would not disappear.

Zhou Fan sat in the Universe for a few years to make sure things were going smoothly. Nothing unexpected happened, and the production of Leaf's green power was going smoothly.

In this time, they had talked a bit more about it. According to Leaf, he had used up 95% of the power he had produced over hundreds of thousands of Sage Years. This made him a bit more accepting of his injuries. Of course, he had also not defended with any effort, and he could have just dodged it, but the fact that it did so much damage regardless was still incredible. He was a Universe Immortal. Leaf was an Earth Immortal.

It went Earth Immortal, Heaven Immortal, Star Immortal, Celestial Immortal, and Universe Immortal.

Leaf had traversed four realms to injure him. And Zhou Fan was someone who could cross four levels to kill someone.

It was incredible.

With everything in this Universe settled, Zhou Fan took Leaf and Heaven and left.

Things had changed with this, and Zhou Fan no longer planned to have Heaven look over that Universe. As of now, it was Leaf's. It could still change in many ways, but Zhou Fan and Heaven would not actively interfere. Leaf would not either. Instead, Zhou Fan gave Heaven a new task until Zhou Fan gave him a different Universe to rule over. He would come up with ideas.

Since Leaf could allow the Universes to sustain themselves, there was no longer any need to limit the amount of Universes created. The more there were, the more production of Leaf's power there would be, and the more powerful Leaf would become.

Heaven understood that circumstances had changed, and began to theorize countless ideas. As a ruler of countless people over countless years, he had many ideas in his head.

Zhou Fan went around creating Universes. The only constant was a Mother Tree in the middle. Sometimes its branches took up the majority of the Universe, and sometimes only a portion. Heaven had created countless designs even faster than Zhou Fan and Leaf could create Universes.

There were ten Universes, then twenty, and they eventually settled on fifty in total.

Some had humanoid beings, some had beasts, some had plants, and some had a mix of all of them.

Zhou Fan was connected to all of them, and would be able to find them whenever he wanted.

Since Leaf couldn't travel in the nothingness, even with his new power, Zhou Fan still had to take him. Luckily, hundreds of thousands of Sage Years could pass before Leaf would bother mentioning going and collecting the excess power.

It's not like he was urgently trying to increase his strength. Zhou Fan was here, so who could harm him even if he was a mortal. He had only even created the power so that he could impress Zhou Fan, which had worked out way better than expected.

Back in the Main Universe, Zhou Fan began to focus on the Power of Cultivation. Heaven was in the biggest Universe they had created, one with a mix of all beings. That Universe would most likely become the most important one in the future.

Zhou Fan had long understood that the Power of Cultivation was not merely a tool to increase his strength, but could also have incredible effects in battle. It was just that he had never specifically honed the battle aspects of it.

After all, he had never needed to. Even when those from the future came, he wouldn't have had enough time to give the Power of Cultivation any substantial upgrades.

So he had instead focused on increasing his cultivation. But with Leaf rivaling him, he now had a reason to do so.

He dove deep into it, ignoring the outside world for many Sage Years.

His most used technique using the Power of Cultivation had been the finger of Cultivation. But this was using the Power of Cultivation in its most primitive form. As a Universe Immortal, he could surely create better techniques than simply coating his finger in the Power of Cultivation and attacking.

But what he wanted to focus on first was simply increasing the pure power aspect of the Power of Cultivation.

Although Leaf's attack had actually been a complicated technique, it was the pure power that had allowed it to send Zhou Fan flying, not simply the complexity of the technique.

A technique could boost the power of an attack, but pure power sets the minimum and maximum.

The only issue was, it was far harder to increase the pure power than it was to create a technique.

Luckily, there was nothing he couldn't think of in a hundred thousand Sage Years.

Cultivation was not simply limited to the path of Cultivation. Cultivation was growth. All of the paths that had followed cultivation's footsteps could be considered a branch of it. And in the current Universe, that was every single one of them.

So if he wanted to strengthen cultivation, why not include parts of every single path in the River of Cultivation?

In an instant, every Path Creator in the Universe froze. They felt as though something had just severed a part of them, but were unable to tell what it was.

Only the most powerful, such as Ye Li, the Grand Empyrean, and the God of Death could tell that Zhou Fan had done something to not just them, but every other Path Creator. Yet they did not mention it at all. It wasn't like they could do anything about it.

Zhou Fan's River of Cultivation was unfolded in front of him. From his hand, countless small streams appeared, being washed away into the River of Cultivation. Not all of them were equal, but in the end, every single stream disappeared, merging into the green current.