The dragon king pointed his finger at the fire pit and red and purple flames appeared. Its heat was immense and it seemed as if it wanted to spread around the entire room.
The only reason it wasn't lighting everything in the room on fire was because the dragon king was controlling it.
Once the flame was lit, Anna started to follow the instructions on the paper. First, she got some ore at the 5th level. The paper had said that any ore at the 5th level or higher would work, but since it was a test run anna didn't go all out in terms of materials.
Anna made the ore float and put it in the center of the fire. The fire did its job very quickly as the ore heated up within seconds. Once it was flexible, anna took the ore out of the fire, replacing it with a space stone.
The space stone didn't show any sign of heating up even after half a minute, but Anna knew it would since the papers said so. While the space stone was getting heated up, Anna started to work on the ore.
She put it on the anvil and started to shape it with her hammer. After a minute, the shape of the ring was perfect, and all that was missing was a stone.
As Anna looked back at the fire, she noticed that the space stone had begun shrinking. It was exactly as the paper said. Anna waited 5 minutes before the space stone had shrunk enough to be dealt with.
Anna used Qi to make the shrunk space stone come towards her. She placed her hands around it without them touching it and began to use her power to condense it and make it stronger. After exhausting a fourth of her Qi, Anna had made the stone small enough to fit on the ring.
Anna used Qi to place it on the ring and the forging process was finished. Next was the formation laying process.
Although there was more competition in the art of formations, Anna was also the greatest at it. She began to follow the steps to lay the formations that would make the ring useful.
After an hour of careful work, Anna managed to finish the last formation. If she had done everything right, then the ring should work like the one in the asteroid.
Anna put the ring on her other hand and supplied Qi into it. As she did, the formations lit up and the ring was activated.
A tenth of Anna's mind was transported to the ring and she saw inside it. Success! The ring worked! Anna was excited when she saw the inside of the ring and realized she had forged it perfectly. Although it would take a while to use up every single space stone, it would be worth it in the end.
She estimated that she could make five a day which would make the total forge time 48 days long. Although it may seem like much, that much time was nothing to someone of her level.
Zhou Fan watched on as Anna and the rulers forged every space stone into a spatial ring and split them up evenly. They would likely keep a bunch for themselves and then distribute the rest to their subjects with high contributions.
With everything he wanted to do done, Zhou Fan went back to his floating palace and spent the rest of the ten year time period lazily living. He spent much of his time staring up at the ceiling while thinking of martial arts. He also spent ample time thinking of the arts such as blacksmithing, forging, and formation creation.
Once ten years passed and the world finished expanding, Zhou Fan went into seclusion. After he broke through, he planned to try and make the solar system a part of his mortal Dao.
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12,000 years passed and Zhou fan woke up from his seclusion. He had broken through to the 5th level of lesser dao creation and was feeling immensely powerful.
Zhou Fan missed the times when he could go out and test his new strength, but doing so now could bring disastrous results.
Whether it was a star or a planet, Zhou Fan could accidentally destroy it with ease at this point.
The only reason the supernova was able to push against him was because it was using its lifes entire power. It had likely been a star for millions of years and when it went supernova, it was using the power it had stored up its entire life.
Although a star could at best be compared to a space shattering expert, using up its lifespan would give it temporary strength similar to that of a lesser dao creation realm cultivator.
Now that Zhou fan had broken through to the 5th level of lesser dao creation, he could try to do something he had planned to do 22,000 years ago. He could try and put the entire solar system under the control of his mortal Dao.
The solar system Zhou Fan was in was by far the biggest he had ever seen. It contained fourteen stars, although it used to have fifteen, and a hundred planets.
If Zhou Fan could connect his mortal dao to the entire solar system, the benefits would be great, although not life changing. Either way, it would be better to have more planets under his complete control.
Zhou Fan teleported to space and first set his sights on the planets closest to the Zhou World. The closest was a small brown planet. Even before Zhou Fan had come to the solar system, it was small compared to the Zhou World.
With the Zhou Worlds expansion, it was now completely dwarfed. Luckily, it hadn't been destroyed due to Zhou Fan interference. As the Zhou World had been expanding, he had been pushing everything back so that the solar system wouldn't collapse.
The planet was still fairly close to the Zhou World and even Anna and the Dragon king had visited it once before leaving after seeing there was nothing there.