172 The Only One - 172

Zhou Fan made his way through the silver space cloud, but found nothing interesting about it whatsoever. It seemed that it was just another thing within the universe.

Zhou Fan quickly walked through it and continued to move around the silver river galaxy cluster.

After 100,000 years passed, Zhou Fan was just three galaxies away from being done with it. Although it was a rough guess, Zhou Fan assumed that there were 900,000 galaxies in the silver river galaxy cluster. It was less than Zhou Fans galaxy cluster and more than the tree-like galaxy cluster.

Zhou Fan quickly found the planets with potential for life in the last three galaxies and added them to his mortal dao.

Finally, he stepped out of the other side of the river. With the 100,000 years he had spent inside, he had come up with a plan for his next actions.

The three galaxy clusters he had visited were essentially the only things that held planets for a long long distance. While the gap between each of the galaxy clusters was huge, the size was nothing compared to the size between the three clusters and the rest of the clusters in the universe.

Everything else was so far away it couldn't even be put into words. He may have to travel tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of years to reach another galaxy cluster. It felt like enough of a blessing that the three were so close together.

Therefore, Zhou Fan planned on finally going into a long time seclusion. He had been holding it off in fear that everything he knew would change, but he had come to accept that now. Some things were simply not meant to be forever. One day, regardless of his interference, the people he knew on the Zhou World would die. Even the Zhou World itself would crumble to pieces eventually, even if it took trillions or quadrillions of years.

At the very least, for the foreseeable future, he had the chicken and the rest of the animals in the manor. He could always visit them for a day or two before refreezing them. That would make them last millions of years at least.

He planned to start his seclusion at the farthest point from each of the galaxy clusters and any other sort of space thing. There he would spend so long in seclusion that when he came out, he would be able to crush a billion of his current self in an instant. Such power would allow him to not only traverse the rest of the universe, seeing its untold mysteries, and go into the center of the galaxy clusters, but it would also make so much time pass that the Zhou World and all the other worlds he had created would have reached their true peak. As he broke through, the Zhou World and all the other worlds, along with the sun near them, would continue to grow. Perhaps they would have occupied the entire galaxy they were in by then.

Of course, the black holes were a problem, but he may be able to take a break from his seclusion in order to deal with them when the time came.

His life within the manor had finally given him a true taste of freedom and love, but it also pushed him to let go of everything he had been holding on to.

After closing his eyes for a moment, Zhou Fan opened them and began to fly out of the silver river galaxy cluster. It would be a fairly long journey, but Zhou Fan knew it would feel like an instant. He was heading to the darkest and emptiest place within his small area of the universe. There, he could cultivate undisturbed and unburdened.

After 150,000 years, Zhou Fan had just flown past the entrance to the silver river galaxy cluster. He was about a third of the way to the place he had pinpointed.

After a quick glance at the mouth of the river, Zhou Fan flew on without looking back.

After another 150,000 years, Zhou Fan was closer. He had reached a point that was already very dark and desolate compared to the rest of the area within the confines of the three galaxy clusters.

After thinking for a bit, Zhou Fan decided to call the area that contained the three galaxy clusters and the space within it, a supercluster. More specifically, he decided to name it the Zhou supercluster. This would be where he spent a long long time, so it only made sense to give it a name.

The silence around him was deafening, but Zhou Fan ignored it and flew forward. As he left the reach of the three galaxy clusters, the space kept getting colder and bleeker. It seemed that the farther away from activity, the darker the space gets.

Zhou Fan couldn't tell why even after looking with all his power and might. It wasn't as if the galaxy clusters gave off heat. Still, they must have some effect on the space within and around them.

He had many questions, but Zhou Fan kept moving forward. He knew that all of them would be answered as he became stronger and more powerful.

As he continued flying, he began to think of the realm beyond the inner world realm, and the realms beyond that. He was moving forward completely blind when it came to cultivation. After thinking about that, he felt that the dark and desolate space was much more comfortable.

He still had no clue as to whether or not he could make a mistake and die from a mistake in cultivating. However, he still had his instincts. Although carving a path in an endless mountain gave the danger of being crushed, he knew that there would be nobody who could do it if not him. Not a single soul alive or yet to live within the Zhou world or its galaxy or its cluster or the supercluster or in the infinite universe could possibly imitate what he was doing.

'I am.... The Only One.'