After searching for many hours, Zhou Fan found a place he considered suitable. There was a small city on the outskirts of the celestial lands that had a population of less than 500.
There was also not a single cultivator above foundation establishment in the village. Luckily, celestials were born with core formation bodies and could easily survive without cultivating even in a cultivation world.
Zhou Fan didn't think that the village was a suitable place because there was a secret or something special, but because of an idea he had.
When he made the trident and put it in the ground with the restrictions, he started thinking about doing it to other places as well. One difference, however, would be that he wouldn't make a legend saying the person that pulled it out was king.
Instead, he would allow the villagers to create their own legend about the weapon if they wanted one.
Zhou Fan walked to the center of the village and decided to place the weapon there. There were a couple villagers in the surroundings, so Zhou Fan decided to make a spectacle of placing the weapon.
He first temporarily made the area around him invisible, then pulled some rock from the earth and into the sky. He also flew to the sky and started to forge a weapon that would be placed in the rock.
Like the trident, Zhou Fan pulled gold from the deepest depths of the earth but shaped a sword. The trident and the sword would be made of the exact material.
Instead of giving it the power of water Qi and Gold Qi, Zhou Fan gave the sword the power of light Qi alone. He then put many formations on the sword that increased its overall stats and made it a growth weapon.
Finally, Zhou fan stabbed the sword into the stone, leaving out only the hilt and a bit of blade. He then added restrictions to who could pull the sword out, but they were different from the tridents.
First, the user had to have a high level of talent. Second, the user had to be good and pure of heart. Finally, the user had to have a light Qi affinity.
Although the requirements were high, only someone like that would be able to bring out the weapons full potential.
After he had completely finished forging the weapon, Zhou Fan stopped making the surrounding area invisible and instead only made himself invisible.
The villagers hadn't noticed the sword in the sky even after a few minutes, so Zhou fan created a light in the sky and the sword started descending to the ground, following a path of a pillar of light.
The unaware villagers quickly noticed the descending sword in stone and gathered around where it would land.
Before long, the sword had landed and the villagers stared at it in awe. Although they had seen many mystical things in their lives, they had only seen them from afar.
After only a minute, someone was trying to pull the sword out. Unfortunately, they completely failed to even budge it. After continuing to try for a while, they felt exhausted and gave up.
Someone else then went to try to pull the sword and the process of failing repeated until every single villager had tried.
In the meantime, Zhou Fan was making his way back to his palace. The world was still expanding and Zhou Fan had to wait it out somewhere.
Once he made it back to the palace, Zhou Fan changed his mind and descended to the ground, walking the path that previously led him to the village of beastmen.
Before long, he once again reached the village. Instead of only staying for moments before leaving, Zhou Fan decided he would leisurely spend the next few years there.
He first walked around the village, asking anybody about jobs, before he finally found one as a blacksmith's assistant. The pay would be 3 copper coins per hour, but Zhou Fan didn't mind. He had to start somewhere.
Time sped by and Zhou Fan quickly realized that the blacksmith was an extremely nice person, not only to him, but to everyone in the village regardless of looks or background.
Zhou Fan kept working as the blacksmith's assistant for a year before the blacksmith suddenly became bedridden.
Zhou Fan had visited him at the doctors many times, but it seemed he would die soon. Zhou Fan didn't interfere despite him being a nice person, letting him die peacefully and happily.
During the period of work, Zhou fan had long saved up a lot of money and now decided to buy a nice house with some of his savings.
After duplicating some coins and making himself 20 times richer than he was, Zhou Fan bought one of the nicest homes in the village, a two story manor with a balcony.
The rest of the money he had was more than enough to live peacefully for the next few years.
Like he planned, Zhou fan did live a great life for the next four years. As he was sitting in a reclining chair on the balcony while sipping a cold drink and wearing sunglasses, Zhou Fan felt the world finish expanding.
He stayed sitting and sighed before he reluctantly put his drink down and got up from his chair. He walked down the stairs and out of the house in the direction of the real estate company.
He put the house up for sale and it was sold in a matter of 2 days. Zhou Fan took his money and teleported back to the floating palace.
Below the palace, there were a group of people from each race trying to test their ability to move up.
Although Anna and the dragon king had stopped coming to the palace for a while, many others tried their luck and tested their strength with the stairs.
Zhou Fan went by them unnoticed and entered the palace. He then went to his room in the back and sat down in a meditative position.