Zhou Fan spent 5 years with Feng Liu and Lu Zhong, before once again departing from the cosmic sect. This time, he left Hei Ren behind.
"Sorry about this, but you won't be able to cultivate while I'm moving and you'd probably be a burden." Zhou Fan said as he patted Hei Ren's shoulder.
"I don't mind. It's been a while since I've fought others anyway. I'll be fine." Hei Ren said.
"Alright. Good luck." Zhou Fan said as he began to fly away.
Soon, Zhou Fan appeared outside of the Zhou supercluster. He was excited to explore the wider universe. Unlike before, his speed was unbelievably faster. Going to and from the purple star sea would take merely 3 or so months.
He felt that he would even be able to draw out a region of the universe.
After thinking for a moment, Zhou Fan departed at top speed. His first stop would be the purple star sea.
As calculated, the trip took 3 months. He soon arrived outside of the purple star sea, and did not stop moving until he arrived at the first galaxy.
Unsurprisingly, he found a single lesser dao creation realm star god. They had likely all broken through that realm, and moved around different galaxies.
He did not know if even a single one from the first generation remained, but it was extremely unlikely.
He did not bother the star god and simply went to his personal planet. Nothing had really changed at all, despite the passing of so much time. It was just as Zhou Fan had predicted.
He spent nearly a year simply relaxing at the planet and taking in its beauty.
As he did not want to delay his journey too much, he soon moved out and flew towards another large area.
The next few places that he visited were ones that he had already been too. He had already explored 163 large areas, so getting to new ones would take a little bit of time.
Luckily, it did not take long before Zhou Fan found another large area. This one could actually be called another supercluster, as it looked somewhat similar to the Zhou supercluster. There were many galaxies and a few galaxy clusters. The biggest difference was that there was far less empty space.
Zhou Fan went inside and explored the galaxy clusters, but there was only a single great attractor in the entire supercluster. It seemed that his Zhou supercluster did stand out. The galaxy clusters in this supercluster were much smaller and mostly the same shape.
It was clear even from afar that what held them together were large blackhole's. They were comparable in size to the bigger ones that he had seen in the forbidden land.
Soon, he left that supercluster and continued exploring. Over the course of nearly 20,000 years, he had visited 5,000 large areas. Each one had its own specialty, and each one was extremely large.
As Zhou Fan added the 5,000th to the map, he found that the ones he had marked so far seemed to form a large region in space.
Zhou Fan felt that it was time for a new category of size. With the Zhou supercluster at its center, he called the surrounding 5,000 large area's a filament.
Despite establishing the Zhou filament, he still could not see the edge of the universe. He even began to ask himself if there was an end.
Despite his questions, he was determined to continue his exploration of the universe. He left the Zhou filament and continued to map the surroundings.
For some reason, he felt as if he was finally making major progress. It was as if he had finally explored at least a single percentage of the universe.
After nearly 30,000 years, he mapped out another filament. They would not need to have exactly 5,000 large areas, but that was the least amount required.
Zhou Fan figured that once he mapped the entire universe, he could make distinctions between areas more clearly, and did not worry about it too much.
There were a lot of interesting things in the universe. Zhou Fan stood not too far from one of them.
The area in front of him was the largest that he had ever seen. It was actually 5 times bigger than the now second place. However, there was barely anything within it.
There were only a few large patches of dirt rotating around a star-like great attractor, and a couple of stars rotating around the patches of dirt. Although they seemed small from afar, that was mostly due to the size of the large area.
Each patch of dirt was at least bigger than a galaxy. A near infinite amount of humans could live on each one, especially if it was treated like a planet.
He could just imagine countless cities and houses covering nearly the entirety of one of the patches. The number of humans that could live on it truly could not be estimated.
Zhou Fan decided to name it the 25 patch great area since there were 25 patches of dirt. He almost cringed at his naming skills, but he had never claimed he was good, so nobody could put it against him.
He decided to remember this area as a possible place for a large number of cultivators to live.
If he ever covered it in his mortal dao and allowed it to grow, it was unknown what heights it would reach.
Despite having a great interest in the 25 patch great area, Zhou Fan moved on after seeing its great attractor, which was at the middle levels of the true god realm.
Zhou Fan wondered if he would ever find a large area with an outer world level great attractor, but that was unlikely as he had never even seen a great attractor in the high level of the true god realm.
After around 30,000 years, Zhou Fan marked in another filament, making three. Despite finding so much, his thirst for exploration and adventure had not been quenched, and he continued to move forward.