176 Increasing Comprehension - 176
Once Zhou Fan got back into the same area within the silver river galaxy, he began to consider what he should do next. The obvious answer was to increase his comprehension of both the cosmic dao and the immortal elements.
He didn't know if he would be able to find the position of the true cosmic dao once he did, but he was sure to at least get a clue. At least, he hoped so.
Zhou Fan crossed his legs and started to comprehend the dao. He could have gone back to his previous area between the galaxy clusters, but he decided that it would be a waste of time.
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200,000 years later, Zhou Fan's comprehension increased by 5%, reaching a total of 55% comprehension. While it increased his strength a fair amount, it wasn't really worth mentioning or even thinking about.
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250,000 years later, Zhou Fan's comprehension reached 60%. His strength had increased once again, and this time it was worth mentioning. Still, it didn't really change his entire power level.
He could also feel his understanding of life, the universe, and mostly everything else increasing steadily. After all, the Dao, especially the cosmic dao, was literally everything.
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300,000 years later, Zhou Fan's comprehension reached 65%. It wasn't that much different from the other increases, but his strength increased more than the last 5%.
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750,000 years later, Zhou Fans comprehension reached 75%. This time, he felt a qualitative change within his overall power and understanding. Once he reached 100% understanding, his strength would likely increase by five or ten times. That would be an extremely huge power gain.
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2.1 million years later, Zhou Fan's comprehension of the eternal, cosmic dao had reached nearly 100%. there was only 5% more to go before it happened. Now, every time his comprehension increased by 1%, it was the equivalent of 5% when he was at 85% comprehension.
Zhou Fan was glad that he decided to comprehend the cosmic dao before doing anything else.
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600,000 years later, Zhou Fan was 1% away from fully comprehending the cosmic dao. He felt he was inches away, but he also felt like he had not gotten any closer. It was a hard feeling to explain, but he felt it would be a bit longer than expected before he could comprehend the final 1%.
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500,000 years later, Zhou Fan felt that he was truly close to reaching 100%. In fact, he believed that it could happen any second.
After a while, Zhou Fan felt something.
'Here it comes!' He thought to himself.
Clink!
In an instant, he reached 100% comprehension. However, in that very same instant, he felt something horrifying. His excitement was instantly replaced by indescribable fear.
Perhaps it was his body moving for him, or his instincts taking over, but he sealed his memories of that final 1% before emptying his Qi in order to teleport as far away as possible. He wasn't even sure how it had happened, as if it wasn't him that did it. Yet he knew it was him.
Before he passed out from Qi exhaustion, Zhou Fan only had time to think one more thought.
'Why?'
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10,000 years later, Zhou Fan opened his eyes, fully recovered. He sat for a while, trying to remember, but he couldn't no matter how hard he tried.
'Wait, I sealed myself. I'm sure I can unseal it.' He said to himself.
Just as he was about to try and unseal his memories of that final 1%, he realized something.
'Wait! If I'm the one who sealed my memories, then there is surely a good reason why. It's not like I'm an idiot or something.' Zhou Fan thought to himself.
He wasn't sure what happened or why he needed to seal his memories, but he had absolute trust in himself.
After thinking for a while, Zhou Fan found something etched within his body. He hadn't noticed it before, but it seemed like his handy work.
Zhou Fan used his divine sense to read it.
'WAIT UNTIL YOU ARE MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH STRONGER BEFORE YOU UNSEAL THOSE MEMORIES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO INCREASE YOUR COMPREHENSION OF THE COSMIC DAO BEFORE THEN. DO NOT REMEMBER!' The etching read.
Now, Zhou Fan was feeling truly creeped out and worried. Not only was he afraid of what was supposed to happen when he unsealed those memories, but he was scared of whatever could have possibly scared him into moving so fast just to avoid it. In fact, it didn't have to be something. Zhou Fan had absolutely no clue what happened, but he planned on heeding his warning.
Although the etching warned against comprehending the cosmic dao, it said nothing about comprehending the elements. They too were sitting at 50%.
Although the cosmic dao was mysterious and dangerous, the elements were a little more straight forward. Still, he would exercise caution just in case. He did not want a repeat of the previous events.
Zhou Fan crossed his legs in the same spot and began to comprehend the immortal elements.
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After 200,000 years, Zhou Fan's comprehension of the immortal level elements increased by 5%.
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After 250,000 years, the immortal elements increased by another 5%.
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After a couple million years, Zhou Fan's comprehension of the immortal elements had reached 99%. Once again, he had felt that the next 1% would take a very long time.
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As expected, it took 500,000 years for it to happen, but Zhou Fan was extremely close to reaching 100%.
After a few days, Zhou Fan felt it was about to happen. He was feeling a mixture of excitement, worry, and fear. He still wasn't sure that nothing would happen.
In an instant, it happened. As it did, Zhou Fan felt more fear than anything else, but nothing bad happened. Instead, he felt his comprehension of everything going through a drastic change. He would go so far as to say it was a metamorphosis. In his vision, it seemed he was flying down a rainbow tunnel with every single color to ever exist. Even ones that Zhou Fan hadn't seen. Many of the colors were impossible to see for even space shattering cultivators.
