1st Stage Complete - 424

Zhou Fan looked away and stood up. It had been an interesting scene to watch with even Heaven participating.

He was also surprised that Yao Mun had the ability to come back after being dead, even if it was by using a bunch of tricks. He was really talented.

Zhou Fan wasn't concerned about the matter. As long as the creation of worlds was not majorly affected, he would not get personally involved.

Zhou Fan looked at Ying Xiong from where he stood. Ying Xiong was a pitiful person, even if he did not realize it yet.

The Buddha's main message had been to escape a "cycle of reincarnation", even if it hadn't actually existed, yet Ying Xiong had gone the opposite direction without even thinking about it.

Zhou Fan had even given him a hint by telling him that its name was "the path of rebirth".

In the far future, Ying Xiong would understand why the Buddha sought to escape the "cycle of reincarnation", especially since he would keep some of his memories.

Zhou Fan returned to the empty space he usually sat in and looked around. The Zhou filament was filled with vibrancy and colors. There were countless creations built up over countless years.

Zhou Fan decided to speed the process up a bit. He waved his hand, and a screen appeared in front of him. At the same time, all living beings with a cultivation of the inner world realm or above had a screen pop up in front of them.

"I, the Origin God, hereby declare that, in response to the large-scale wars between true gods, all conflicts involving cultivators at the inner world realm or above are to be ceased until the initial stage of the creation of worlds is complete. Anyone who violates this will be punished severely."

When he finished speaking, the screens disappeared. Although Zhou Fan felt a little overbearing for ordering cultivators around like that and even stating that he would punish them for disobeying, he had given all of the true gods, excluding Ying Xiong, the cultivation that they had today.

Whether it was from the era of infinite growth or the true god ascension arena, they were all him. In fact, upon thinking further, even Ying Xiong's meridians and path of rebirth were something given by him.

Nobody had a right to complain for countless reasons, the biggest of which being the fact that earth would be the only place with life in the entire universe if not for him. 

As the screens disappeared in front of countless people, all conflicts ceased. What followed would be a period of great growth. During the next quadrillions of years, even the destruction race went out and created things. Inner world cultivators were low level laymen, while god realm cultivators were small scale supervisors. Only true gods could plan out and put into action a plan for a large creation. 

Zhou Fan silently watched everything below him as time passed quickly. He himself began to create things to speed up the process, though he limited himself greatly. 

If he simply wanted to fill empty space, then it would not take him more than a few trillion years to fill the entire Zhou filament.

However, he wanted various creations made with countless ideas. No matter how strong a person became, they could not think of absolutely everything. It would take many people with great creativity to create a truly interesting universe.

250 quadrillion years later, Zhou Fan stood in an empty region of space. Behind him were countless cultivators ranging from the True God realm to the Lesser Dao Creation realm.

Leaf was wrapped around Zhou Fan's waist as Zhou Fan pointed out with a finger. In the empty region of space, a giant plant pot appeared.

Zhou Fan looked at Leaf. "When I leave to breakthrough, I'll leave you here in case of accidents. You won't be able to withstand our power and I might not be able to protect you." 

Leaf wiggled in acknowledgement.

Zhou Fan turned around and looked at the cultivators. There were humans, celestials, beasts, elves, demons, fiendcelestials, the destruction race, supreme beasts, and countless other race's that had been born over the many years.

"The first stage of the creation of worlds has been finished. In a trillion years, restrictions against conflicts will be broken, though I still want the creation of worlds to continue. This time, the goal is to spread life to all creations that can hold it. Contribution points will be doubled in this period." Zhou Fan said as he disappeared.

During the second stage, he planned on interfering more. Life would naturally diversify as time passed. Of course, he would still make various creatures attuned to different environments. He was also the only one who could affect life in terms of cultivation or talent, so he would have to personally do a lot more, though everyone else participating would still give ideas and suggestions on their own creations.

In the second stage, cultivators would get contribution points for either creating life, although few would succeed and would take a long time just to create a mediocre race, or moving life from different areas like Zhou Fan had done in the past.

Since there was a lot less creativity necessary, this stage would hopefully take way less time.

Unfortunately, with the restrictions on fighting removed, it could be expected that massive battles would take place, many of them destroying creations.

Although he had not spent all of his time cultivating, Ying Xiong had reached the 6th level of the true god realm. It was more difficult for him since he would not use the contribution points method of obtaining a higher cultivation level. That would affect him once he tried to cultivate higher.

On the other hand, after spending a large amount of the destruction race's contribution points, Yao Mun had reached the 5th level of the true god realm. 

Increasing cultivation level with contribution points got more and more expensive as the level increased, which was why Yao Mun's cultivation was lower than Ying Xiong's.

Zhou Fan found an empty space and sat in it. Although the creation of worlds had created a lot, he had purposefully left vast empty spaces.

Zhou Fan planned on waiting until conflicts shot up and died down before continuing to the second stage of the creation of worlds.