As he reached the Great Dao realm, Zhou Fan could clearly feel that many new possibilities had opened up.
Unfortunately, he could instantly tell that he was still unable to leave the universe. The nothingness was still something far beyond him.
With his breakthrough finished, Zhou Fan looked at his chest universe. Many years had passed by within the Time Bubble, and the universal consciousness had created enough Great attractors.
Superclusters and other similar structures were strewn throughout the universe.
At this moment, Zhou Fan essentially had a perfectly formed universe within him. Over the time within the Time Bubble, Zhou Fan had made many ideas.
He created new life within his universe. Each one was like Chaos Beasts, simply an accumulation of a certain type of Qi, mixed with the power of cultivation.
Countless beings were created, with every single Qi being involved, including Chaos Qi. Of course, without the power of the Cosmic Dao, Chaos Beasts weren't created, but something different entirely.
Each of these beings were huge, made up of countless amounts of one Qi and bigger than any galaxy. Each being had a divine Physique attuned to its Qi.
Watching over all of these beings was the universal consciousness, who had received a new order from Zhou Fan.
Direct each of these beings to gain complete mastery over their Qi. This would of course be assisted by Zhou Fan's power.
Zhou Fan didn't quite have a perfect goal or idea for these beings, he was just trying some things out seeing where they would take him.
Zhou Fan watched as Mortal Daos burst out from each of these beings, creating their own territory. Each being was at the Sage realm and immensely powerful.
In giving these beings such power, Zhou Fan had also opened a path of advancement for the rest of the universe, the peak of it being the Sage realm.
Whatever this caused, Zhou Fan didn't pay any attention to it. His Great Dao did not only cover the universe, but also the universe within his chest.
In other words, he had an instant method of control for whatever he wanted to do in the future. These beings were also able to somewhat sense the existence of his Great Dao, letting them know in advance that there was an existence above them.
As the universe filled up with countless colors, Zhou Fan stopped paying attention and let it develop on its own.
Zhou Fan began to cultivate again. Under the influence of the Time Bubble, time moved extremely fast.
After around 1.4 quadrillion years within the Time Bubble, Zhou Fan reached the 10th level of the Great Dao realm. After another two quadrillion years, he was theoretically ready to break through.
However, it was here, where for the first time, he reached a true limit in his cultivation. With the Time Bubble now speeding up time by ten million times, Zhou Fan had only spent 340,000,000 years cultivating to the outside world. It seemed like a lot, but it was just the blink of an eye.
Zhou Fan was truly confused this time. Before, he at least had the idea of what to do, but now, something was wrong. It was as if he simply could not advance any further, as if his mind, body, and soul had reached their absolute limit of growth.
With cultivation, this was something that was simply not supposed to happen. It was created with the purpose of allowing infinite growth, but all of a sudden, it ended here.
It was not like before. This time, it felt just like trying to go past the universe. There was nothing beyond it, and so he could not go past it.
This was more than a simple bottleneck, or some sort of simple blockage, he had reached the end.
Of course, he refused to accept this. Calmly, he began to study within the Time Bubble. As long as he understood just a bit, he would be able to surpass this hurdle.
A quadrillion years passed inside of the Time Bubble. However, Zhou Fan was still lost.
A quintillion years passed within the Time Bubble. Nothing.
A sextillion years passed by.
"Damn It!" Zhou Fan shouted as he slammed his hand down. In his rage, half of universal sector 4 was decimated.
His power shook the universe, but still, this one hurdle was unsurpassable. He had studied every atom in his body. Every individual proton, neutron, and electron. He had learned knowledge that nobody else could even fathom. Even if he was a mortal, he could create a weapon capable of decimating a supercluster given enough time.
However, nothing made this seem any more possible. There wasn't fault with the human body, nor the mind or soul. There wasn't fault with any species, including the Cultivation race.
All could theoretically reach this point, but beyond it, there seemed to be nothing.
Around 111 trillion years had passed outside.
Zhou Fan began to wonder if his path was somehow wrong, or flawed. Perhaps it was his state of mind. Maybe it was an error to cut connection with the life of the universe. Maybe, just maybe, there was a chance that changing would help solve this problem.
Zhou Fan thought, but he knew deep down that none of these were the reason. He was simply insufficient, or perhaps the time he had spent was insufficient.
In a fit of anger and slight madness, Zhou Fan began to bend time. The Time Bubble was an application of time, but with his current power, Zhou Fan could do whatever he wanted to do with time. All the time in the universe came to a halt. There was no difference between Ying Xiong, Heaven, a random mortal, or the universe in his chest. Everything stopped.
Although Zhou Fan did not care about the life of the universe any longer, there was a miniscule chance that he would receive some sort of inspiration from any of the countless beings.
In that case, it was better to keep things as he was familiar with them.
Time moved for nobody except Zhou Fan. He spent countless years, far beyond the life of the universe, thinking and theorizing.
He was truly a god, and the universe simply a toy.