Zhou Fan followed the fish-like creature as it swam away. It didn't use its arms to swim and instead flapped its tail like a fish with its arms by its side. The creature continued to swim in a certain direction until it suddenly went downwards.
Zhou Fan went to the spot where it descended and found a cave entrance. Zhou Fan went down into it and saw a series of tunnels. Zhou Fan released his divine sense in order to find out where it went and followed it through the tunnels.
After swimming for ten minutes, the creature finally exited the group of tunnels and entered a large underwater cave. Zhou Fan entered behind it and was surprised to see such a big place so deep.
Zhou Fan even had to change his previous estimate of the deepest spot in the ocean to this cave.
As Zhou Fan looked around the cave, he realized that there were many more fish-like creatures in the cave. In fact, there were hundreds.
Clearly, this was not a unique animal similar to a supreme beast, but an entire race. Zhou Fan thought for a while and decided to call them mermaids.
They slept in the wide open and didn't build any structures whatsoever, proving to Zhou Fan once again that they were not an intelligent race.
Zhou Fan grabbed the mermaid he followed down to the cave with Qi and dragged him over to him. He also freezed all of his movement so that he would stay still.
Zhou Fan put his thumb on the mermaid's head and started to tinker with its brain. He first gave it a bit of his intelligence to essentially start the brain up, then he started to connect what could only be called wires in the beings brain.
After basically remodeling the entire brain, Zhou Fan finally finished. The mermaid that had previously swam around instinctually, not following any rules or having any ideas, now stood in front of Zhou Fan with curious eyes.
Zhou Fan quickly let it go as it did its own thing. It swam around like a newborn, since it literally was, and studied everything it came across.
After he finished the first one, Zhou Fan was able to quickly do the same to the other hundred mermaids that lived in the cave.
Luckily, the cave was huge. Even if the mermaid population increased to a hundred thousand, they would still have some moving room. Of course, they would have to live close together like it's an overpopulated city.
After giving them intelligence, Zhou Fan decided not to mess with them anymore. He would let them develop on their own and evolve without assistance or guidance.
Next on the list was creating an opportunity. At first, Zhou Fan had decided to make a whip, but he changed his mind after seeing what he saw today.
Instead, he would now make a trident. The sole condition to obtain it would be a high talent. The talent requirement would be to have talent at or near the same level of annas. Naturally, it would also accept talent above hers.
Zhou Fan grabbed some gold deep in the center of the Zhou World and shaped it into a trident. The gold was a Qi material and was at the level of void traversing, almost reaching the level of space shattering. It was without a doubt, one of the greatest ores in the Zhou World and even the universe.
Zhou Fan didn't stop after shaping it, and infused many types of Qi into it, making it much much stronger than it already was.
He added gold Qi and water Qi the most. It was already a weapon fit for a king or an emperor, but Zhou Fan also added formations onto it, making it a growth weapon and a weapon fit for a god.
Zhou Fan had to take a break and look at the weapon for a moment after he finished. It was definitely one of the strongest and most beautiful weapons he had ever made. As per usual, it was a growth weapon.
The only weapon that may be able to compete is the sword Zhou Fan made from an entire planet.
Although the trident was strong, it wouldn't immediately make the user the strongest. Its full strength could only be unveiled by someone at the space shattering realm. Of course, if they exceeded that one day, the weapon would become stronger and still be the best of its level.
With the trident finished, all Zhou Fan had to do was place it somewhere and put restrictions on it that ensured only someone extremely talented could get it.
Zhou Fan went to the north part of the cave and found a nice area. There, he stabbed the trident into the ground and put talent restrictions over it.
Just as he was about to leave, Zhou Fan decided to put some words down on a stone tablet that he made next to the trident.
It read : He who pulls the trident from its place shall be the king of the ocean, not to be harmed by any of his subjects or the wrath of God shall descend.
He made it because he was worried that some greedy cultivator would kill the person who took it so that they could own it, although that wouldn't give them ownership and the trident would only return to its place.
Zhou Fan also added a restriction that only mermaids could pull the trident. Otherwise, Anna could simply waltz over and steal a god-level weapon.
After finishing that, Zhou Fan left the cave and flew back to the ocean surface. He considered the journey a fruitful one, but wanted to add one more opportunity before he went back to seclusion.
As he was looking around for a place to put an opportunity, Zhou Fan checked the fortune space. As expected, it had been discovered and many beings had gotten a fruit by either luck or strength.
Anna and the dragon king had teamed up multiple times to take the fruit from the white tiger, but had only succeeded a handful of times. Zhou Fan was glad that his idea was working properly and continued to look for a place to put an opportunity.