The Sage Realm - 374

Zhou Fan grabbed the first piece of paper and read it.

"I want my son to love me again."

Zhou Fan looked at the letter, stunned for a moment, before tossing it away.

"I want Daisy to fall in love with me."

Zhou Fan tossed the piece of paper away again.

"I want to find my lost necklace."

Zhou Fan threw the paper away.

'I may not have been clear enough.' He thought to himself. Still, he did not stop reading the papers, hoping to find a few good ones.

"I think it would be cool if cultivation was easier."

Zhou Fan was relieved to finally find an ok piece of paper, but he did not plan on putting it into effect.

After 10 more useless papers, Zhou Fan pulled out another one related to cultivation. 

"I would like it if there were more people to kill. There seems to be no enemies anymore."

'Probably because you're living in the cosmic sect.' Zhou Fan thought before tossing the paper away.

Many more useless papers later, another one on the topic of cultivation was found.

"I wish there were ways to get talent without being born with it."

This one interested Zhou Fan. He felt that it had some merit. After all, there was essentially no way for someone without talent to reach a high cultivation realm. That was why the cosmic sect had all of the inner world cultivators in the universe. Talent was the basis for reaching such a realm.

Zhou Fan noted the last paper down and continued.

None of the remaining papers gave too many good ideas. Around 95% of them were unrelated to cultivation at all.

Zhou Fan waved his hand and collected the suggestions boxes. They would not be of much further use within the cosmic sect.

It was about time for him to continue cultivating. With Leaf around him, he said goodbye to the people within the cosmic sect.

Soon, he was far away from the Zhou supercluster, floating in the endless dark space.

He put Leaf in the sword's mini-world, but made sure that he could enter and leave any time he wanted. 

Luckily, Leaf was still a plant. The passing of time did not affect him that much.

Zhou Fan crossed his legs, closed his eyes, and began to cultivate.

500 billion years later, Qi pulsed out of his body in waves. Its power was enough to completely obliterate space, but for some reason, it did not.

Zhou Fan opened his eyes. He had entered "the sage realm". Besides the increase in everything that naturally came with a breakthrough, there was only one new thing.

He called it, one with the universe. Now, unless he had the intention of doing so, his attacks, no matter how strong, would not break space.

It was a very useful ability, and he was glad that it existed. 

Along with the excitement of having such an ability, he was also excited by the possibilities that such an ability would add when used with arrays.

He immediately began to practice the 5 main arts to the 13th rank. Each took 20 billion years, for a total of 100 billion years.

The first thing that Zhou Fan did when he finished his seclusion was to check on Leaf. When he looked inside the mini-world, he saw Leaf happily swaying while breathing Qi. He was in the nascent soul realm.

Zhou Fan was astonished to see just how slow his growth was. It was actually terrifying. He would be less shocked if someone cultivated to the inner world realm in 1000 years than he was right now.

Zhou Fan shook his head and sobered up from his shock. He looked around, and the plants near Leaf were also swaying, following his movements. Most of them did not have intelligence, but it seemed that Leaf still managed to affect them.

Zhou Fan walked up to Leaf, who happily greeted him and wrapped around him.

Zhou Fan played with Leaf. He realized that Leaf cultivating slowly may not be a bad thing. It likely signified that Leaf's lifespan would be horrifyingly long. After all, he had lived for 600 billion years in the nascent soul realm.

That was as shocking to Zhou Fan as the fact that he was only in the nascent soul realm.

Zhou Fan left the mini-world with Leaf wrapped around him.

He planned on going to the cosmic sect, but he first wanted to expand his mortal dao. He felt that it could increase in size, and not just slightly.

From the large areas that his mortal dao covered, it began to expand. It expanded fast, and went far without any sign of slowing down.

Zhou Fan watched in amazement as the entire Zhou filament was covered. It was a level of growth he did not expect, not even for a second.

Covering all 5000 large areas in the filament was one thing, but all the space between them was incomprehensible.

It was not as if the large areas were next to each other, or even near each other. The difference between the space between the large areas and the large areas was more than a ratio of 1000 to 1. 

While he was shocked, Zhou Fan did not stay shocked for too long. He did not even know what to do with so much space. 

Soon, he and Leaf arrived at the cosmic sect. Just as he arrived, Ying Xiong met him. It seemed that he had been waiting for him.

"I am ready to make a breakthrough." Ying Xiong said.

"To the god realm?" Zhou Fan asked.

"Yes." Ying Xiong replied.

"I was waiting for you so that I could avoid any possible complications in my breakthrough. Now that you are here, I can finally start." Ying Xiong explained.

"Sure, I don't mind that, but let me do something first." Zhou Fan said as he turned to leave.

With the new abilities of 13th rank arrays, he needed to change something.

Firstly, he reverted all the space that he had ever strengthened to its natural state. Every cultivator at the space shattering realm and above felt the change, but it vanished quickly.

Zhou Fan had affected the entire Zhou supercluster with a 13th rank array that incorporated the special ability of the sage realm, "One with the universe", as well as the power of his mortal dao.