Explanations - 230

150,000 years later, Zhou Fan held a light in his hand. The light was multiple colors. In fact, it was every color to ever exist.

Each color was made up of a different Qi. In total, every single Qi ever, excluding chaos Qi, was present upon Zhou Fan's hand. Even the light of time Qi, which he had zero ability to use even now, was contained on Zhou Fan's hand.

Obviously, the light was the physical form of the outline of cultivation. For a better name, Zhou Fan referred to it as "Cultivation 1.0".

It had taken a lot of thinking to build such a thing, but order would finally be brought to the universe. Well, the galaxy for now.

Zhou Fan made sure that it was stable in place and sought out Heaven. Before he changed cultivation, he decided to find him and explain the process to him so that he was both knowledgeable of the changes and prepared for them.

After finding Heaven, Zhou Fan dragged him to the shack so that he could multitask.

"So... Just to be clear... You are saying that you are about to change cultivation, right?" Heaven asked, reasonably confused.

Zhou Fan answered while setting up arrays around the room. 

"Yes. In case you haven't noticed, it isn't exactly stable." Zhou Fan explained.

"I'll explain everything in a moment. Just let me finish with these arrays." Zhou Fan said as he continued to quickly move around the room.

Heaven recognized a couple of arrays and had some questions, but he decided to wait in silence and let Zhou Fan finish his work.

After 3 minutes, Zhou Fan was finished.

"Before you ask, the arrays are for you. Before I reset cultivation, I am going to temporarily take yours away and was setting up arrays that ensured you would survive in the middle of space. Don't worry, you'll get it back once I'm finished." Zhou Fan explained.

"As you are heaven, the ruler of everything in this galaxy, and hopefully more if you work out, I should explain what is going to happen and the changes that will take place."

Heaven nodded and began to seriously listen.

"The most important thing you understand is that everything is variable. Nothing, especially not cultivation, is set in stone. If I did something like remove the randomness of cultivation, I would ruin its entire purpose." Zhou Fan said, emphasizing his words heavily.

"Just remember, nothing I am about to tell you is absolute and you may often see things happening differently from the way I explain them."

"Now, everything will be centered around you, the galaxy consciousness. At least, it will seem that way. In the eyes of a cultivator, heaven will be limiting them. That may change in later versions of cultivation, but we will see." Zhou Fan explained.

"Cultivation will be limited in order to stop ridiculous growth rates from occuring. For example, no matter how talented one is, excluding the exceptions, if a person sits in a cave and cultivates in order to breakthrough, the fastest one can breakthrough each level of the Qi gathering realm has been decided. Ignoring reaching Qi gathering in the first place, reaching the second level from the first will take one day. From the 2nd level to the 3rd it will take two days. From the 3rd level to the 4th level it will take 3 days, and so on. It can be longer, but not shorter." Zhou Fan explained.

"A similar rule applies to the foundation establishment realm. Now, no matter how much talent you have, it will take 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, and so on. As for how talented one would be to have to reach such speeds, it would be emperor level meridians."

"For core formation, the rule goes by a month increase, nascent soul, a five year increase, soul formation, a 20 year increase, and at the void traversing realm, anything is fair game." Zhou Fan explained.

"Of course, to reach such a high speed, much higher than emperor rank meridians would be needed." Zhou Fan explained.

"Any questions so far?" Zhou Fan asked heaven.

Hearing him, heaven raised his hand, indicating he had a question.

"So are you saying that no more rules or limits are at the void traversing realm?" Heaven asked.

"No. Not quite. It is just that there is no upper limit to speed. Mostly because there is no need for such a limit. I have never seen talent that would be able to casually zoom through the void traversing realm. Especially not with the new rules in place." Zhou Fan explained.

"What rules?" Heaven asked.

"The difficulty of cultivation in the void traversing realm and past it has also changed. A person with King rank meridians would take from ten thousand to fifty thousand years from the first level to the second level. It slightly increases further through the realm, but not quite as mathematically as before." Zhou Fan said. "Once again, I am excluding exceptions. Remember, exceptions exist and always will exist."

"What about further realms?" Heaven asked.

"Cultivation 1.0 only allows cultivators to reach the first level of the inner world realm before they reach a blockade. Once someone reaches that high, or possibly before then, I will update it. For the space shattering realm, someone with emperor level meridians could take anywhere from 500,000 year to a million years to go from first level to second level. Higher talent is going to be more of a requirement in cultivation 1.0." Zhou Fan explained.

"What about the highest talent?" Heaven asked.

"The highest talent I have categorized is immortal king. They would take around 30,000 to 70,000 years from the first to second level of space shattering. As for someone with immortal king meridians in the lesser dao creation realm, going from the first level to the second level would likely take 1 million to 5 million years. Naturally, thats ignoring however long they take before reaching the lesser dao creation realm from the space shattering realm." Zhou Fan explained.

"That's all I'll explain for now. It is time to put these changes to the test."