Space Dust - 321

Zhou Fan looked around the world for the best possible location. Before long, he discovered a beach area.

Calling it a beach area was a bit of a stretch since there was no sand and only finely crushed crystals, but sand was basically crushed rocks anyway. The biggest difference, besides the color, would be that stepping on the crushed crystals would actually hurt a bit to a mortal. It would be like stepping on glass.

'Since glass is just heated up sand, it may be closer to a beach than I thought.' Zhou Fan jested to himself.

While he was standing on the purple and pink sand, Zhou Fan stared out into the purple ocean. Coincidentally, a sunset was taking place, only adding to the planet's beauty.

It was hard to describe how beautiful the scene was, so Zhou Fan stopped thinking and enjoyed it.

Before long, the sunset was over and Zhou Fan was thinking of a house blueprint. He didn't want the house to be big at all and it would probably never be used. It was only there to fill the scene.

With a wave of his hand, Zhou Fan created a one story wooden house that was not too big. It was not luxurious or fancy, but fit perfectly with the atmosphere of the planet.

After creating the house, Zhou Fan did not even enter and created a lawn chair in front of the ocean. 

Over the next few days, Zhou Fan silently laid down and stared at the ocean. The sight never got old no matter how much time passed. After a few days, Zhou Fan forced himself to get up and continue his mission with the planets of the purple star sea.

Before leaving the planet, he decided to claim it for himself.

'It's not likely that the life here will ever birth even a void traversing cultivator. Even if they do, it would be a once in a ten million years situation.' He thought to himself.

'Whatever. I'll make this planet mine and personally ensure that the life here can never exceed a certain strength or intelligence.' He thought.

With intelligence and power came conflict and destruction. Even for races like butterflies and fireflies that were supposed to be beautiful and peaceful.

By ensuring that the life only ever has an animal level of intelligence and, at most, a soul formation cultivation, the worry of his planet being destroyed would never happen.

After all, the race's he had created were naturally calm and peaceful race's.

Before long, there were two giant arrays surrounding the planet. One array was specially infused with Zhou Fan's power. It allowed the array to stop anyevek 10 soul formation realm beast from cultivating or even absorbing Qi beyond the point of replenishing themselves.

For a minute or two, Zhou Fan felt a little guilty at the idea of limiting an entire planet of species from experiencing all of cultivation, but then he realized that, not only would they never be so intelligent, but he was also their creator.

Without him, they wouldn't even be alive, much less be able to cultivate. In fact, without him, all life in the universe would be on a single planet. Earth. As far as he was aware at least.

A lot more conflicting idea's entered Zhou Fan's mind, but he shoved them away.

'Why should I be burdened with worry and guilt over these things.' He thought to himself as he completely ignored the matter.

The second array covering the planet was an array that stopped anything from entering or exiting. It would also provide an invincible defense against anything in the purple star sea besides the great attractor at its center. 

Luckily, the galaxy was far enough away that it would not be an issue for an extremely long amount of time. An extremely long amount of time being at least a quadrillion years, likely more.

Movement on a space scale was extremely slow. Otherwise, all of the galaxies in a supercluster would quickly be devoured.

After enjoying a few more views, Zhou Fan left the planet. He was moving towards the nearest planet in the galaxy, when suddenly a bunch of space dust caught his attention.

Random space dust was common around galaxies and within superclusters. He had even seen many within the purple star sea. They were never attention grabbing or interesting. It was essentially dirt floating through space.

This space dust, however, was interesting. It was closely compacted and was moving together slowly. It seemed to be in its final stages of moving. Zhou Fan curiously watched on as the last bit of space dust moved in with the rest, forming a compact sphere.

Suddenly, the sphere of space dust let out an explosion that shocked Zhou Fan into moving a back a step.

The power of the explosion was nearly at the lesser dao creation realm. Very few people in the entire heaven galaxy would be able to survive such an explosion.

Yet the explosion had randomly occurred in space. After a moment, Zhou Fan realized that the explosion never calmed down. Instead, it seemed to be suspended in space.

All of a sudden, a heat began to come out of the sphere and Zhou Fan realized what had happened.

"Is that how a star is formed?!" He said out loud.

He had never even asked himself the question of how a star, or even planets or galaxies had formed.

But thinking of it, it had to come from somewhere. If it just randomly appeared from thin air, or thin space, that would be quite weird.

There was a lot of space dust throughout almost every area of the universe that Zhou Fan had been in. The only big exceptions would be the area in between the three galaxy clusters in the Zhou supercluster and the space outside of the Zhou supercluster and the purple star sea.

"I guess that explains a lot." Zhou Fan said to himself. 

If stars were formed in such a way, then galaxies and planet's likely weren't very different.

Then, Zhou Fan remembered something he had always ignored.

'There seemed to always be space dust near the black hole's.' He thought.