The First Cultivator - Changing Existence

The bell stared in shock. "How did you do that?"

"Skill." Zhou Fan said. He continued to look around the store, but had yet to find anything that interested him.

Even the Demon Expelling Mirror had been taken by the fish, who wanted to get rid of his inner demon.

It would probably work.

The bell didn't understand why Zhou Fan had said skill, but moved past it. "Since you helped us out, you can choose whatever you want for free. I'll explain to the mistress when she returns."

"Do you know where you are?" Zhou Fan asked.

The bell thought for a moment. "I've had a guess after seeing all of those beings with familiar titles. Have I accidentally moved through time again?"

"Again?" Zhou Fan asked while examining a small fan.

"Yes. The tent occasionally travels through time. It is not just space it moves around."

"And you aren't stopped by the Master of the River of Time?" Zhou Fan asked, putting the fan down and moving on to the next item.

"The Master of the River of Time is not much to worry about unless he goes all out. Despite being among the most powerful beings, he doesn't dare make too many enemies."

"And your mistress is someone he doesn't want as an enemy?"

"Of course not! She is in the —-- realm. Even the most powerful people wouldn't casually make her their enemy."

Zhou Fan nodded.

After looking around for a bit more, he picked up a brush. It had a black base and a gold brush.

"That brush was yielded by Sage Emperor F—"

"Yeah I really don't care." Zhou Fan interrupted.

He put it down and moved on.

The next time he picked up an item, the bell stayed silent.

Out of every thirty items he walked past, he picked up maybe one. However, he had put all of them down so far. In this tent were probably a thousand items. He could only hope that a single one was interesting in the slightest.

He went through almost five hundred before finding something a bit interesting.

It was a rock, a small gray rock. Nothing unusual could be seen on its surface. Yet when Zhou Fan examined it with his Divine Sense, an entirely different scene could be viewed within. It was like a tiny, condensed world, yet there was no space manipulation involved. Instead, everything was simply made extremely small, and the beings inside were naturally that small. They were even smaller than germs, which no non cultivator could see at all. And it was not a small world. If he considered the small beings as humans on a planet, the planet would be bigger than an average star.

Yet he could hold this world in his hand.

In truth, there was nothing truly astonishing about this. He could make something like this with ease. Yet he had not. It took a special mindset to think of creating something like this.

As for why it was in the shop, that was probably due to the tiny artifact in the center, impaled in a "large" skull.

But Zhou Fan didn't care about that at all.

"I'll take this." Zhou Fan said.

"Good choice, that stone was created by a special method in-"

"Just tell me who made it." Zhou Fan said.

The bell seemed dampened for a moment before speaking.

"The Heart Empress created it before the Race War Era." The bell said.

Zhou Fan nodded. "Thanks."

He left the tent and made his way back to the Origin Civilization. Soon after, three shooting stars shot towards the tent. All of them had a person inside, presumably people who had found the hidden opportunities left behind. Each one of them was below the Space Shattering realm, with one bloody young man being a mortal who was obviously seriously wounded.

The tent soon left, and the three beings silently returned, hidden to everyone besides perhaps Zhou Fan himself. Only the God of Death and Ye Li could have also seen it, but it was possible they had not.

Well, Zhou Fan assumed that Ye Li had seen it. As always, he was extremely mysterious, and after Mastering the Rule of Karma, nobody dared mess with him lightly.

The Path Creators of the Universe had all followed the lead of Zhou Fan, Mastering a Rule in the Loose Immortal realm.

Zhou Fan himself was perfecting the Rule of Chaos. It had not seen much action, but it was overwhelmingly powerful. It was not necessarily inferior to the Rule of Growth.

He had only yet to fully demonstrate its abilities. At the same time, Zhou Fan began to think of what Rule he could comprehend yet.

He had naturally considered something like the Rule of Cultivation, but the Power of Cultivation already acted in such a way, and comprehending a Rule like that would lead to the most minor of improvements in power.

At most, he would hone his Power of Cultivation a bit more, and it would be as powerful as a Rule. It would take a long, long time, but it would be worth it.

And in the meantime, it would be much more efficient to comprehend a different Rule.

Zhou Fan thought, but he didn't have to think for long. He thought of one he had been considering.

It was definitely the best choice, and it involved a term that had related to him for a long, long time.

Zhou Fan continued to cultivate and master the Rule of Chaos. He was very close. Time passed quickly. After the tent left, no more people came from the future. It was very peaceful for a time.

Not just Zhou Fan, but everyone cultivated peacefully and slowly advanced. Before long, most of the Path Creators had entered the Loose Immortal realm. There were always more being produced as well. No matter how much time passed, there would always be new paths to create.

The young, mortal man that had visited the tent also began to grow fast, and despite strictly following the Path of Cultivation, was advancing at a speed few had ever seen before.