Chapter 1048 - Goodbye, North Qiong Sect (1/2)

Mars was only a hundred million miles away from Earth.

Chen Fan only needed half a day to fly to Earth. As he got closer, he felt the powerful vitality and terrifying energy that was spread ten thousand miles around Earth, as if it had become a lively cultivation planet. The Spirit Qi on the planet was even denser than on Planet Tianhuang.

“Luckily, these Divine Arrays and Deity Arrays are only there for defense. Ordinary Nascent Soul Cultivators and Golden Core Cultivators wouldn’t know they were here if they don’t attack.”

Chen Fan flew carefully.

Only when he reached this level could he feel the killing arrays surrounding the planet. Each of them could crush Grand Cultivators easily; not even the ancient Saints would have dared to enter the planet. Those Deity Arrays and Divine Arrays had probably been formed thousands of years in the past.

Chen Fan didn’t notice them because he wasn’t powerful enough back then, and it wasn’t the time for the arrays to appear, either.

“It doesn’t mean they didn’t exist even if I didn’t sense them before. I think Earth probably just allows Nascent Soul Cultivators to enter. Soul Formation Grand Cultivators will certainly be attacked by these arrays.” Chen Fan guessed.

He was familiar with most of those arrays, so after careful observation, he kind of knew what they were used for. Thinking of this, Chen Fan was relieved. He could even fight with Nascent Soul Cultivators, as long as there weren’t any Soul Formation Grand Cultivators.

“Swish.”

Chen Fan turned into a beam of golden light and sped closer to Earth. When he was about to pass through the atmosphere, he immediately felt layers of the power of laws pushing around his body, making the trace of golden light shrink from ten thousand feet long to just a hundred.

“What is going on?”

Chen Fan was shocked.

His body shook and he almost headed towards the Earth’s surface like a shooting star.

Chen Fan felt as if he were carrying a hundred mountains on his back. He used to go a thousand times faster than the speed of sound; he could only reach twice the speed of sound at the moment. The Essence Qi in a few thousand miles even froze like an iron plate. Chen Fan could only gather a bit of it within a few hundred feet slowly.

“I knew it. The Essence Qi and the laws on Earth were strengthened.”

Chen Fan confirmed it after testing a few times.

He wasn’t quite surprised about this. The laws on many cultivation planets were extremely tough, and after being strengthened by a Grand Cultivator or a Saint, not even Connate Cultivators and Golden Core Cultivators could fly there. An attack made by a Golden Core Cultivator could have destroyed everything in dozens of miles, but it could barely crush a mountain on those planets. This wasn’t the most terrifying.

Some said that in some powerful worlds deep in the universe, Nascent Soul Cultivators were just like ordinary people and they had to walk everywhere. Only Grand Cultivators or Saints were able to fly. And in the Deity Realm, even Dao Reunion Perfected Immortals were like Qi Refinement Cultivators.

Ten thousand feet, nine thousand feet, eight thousand feet…

He fell like an iron weight, but he quickly stabilized his body. After all, the Essence Qi on earth wasn’t as strong as that on the large planets or the powerful realms out in the universe. Chen Fan sped above the sea with a trace of light, creating a long wave.

“Roar!”

A weird fish a hundred meters long jumped out of the sea and roared at Chen Fan. It tried to bite him with powerful energy all over its body, but he crushed it to pieces.

“This sea monster is as powerful as a Connate Cultivator. Back on Planet Tianhuang, its attack would have swept through dozens of miles across the ocean, creating raging waves.”

Chen Fan gauged how powerful the sea monster was and his heart sank.

In just a decade…

What had Earth become? In the past, the most powerful cultivators were at the Connate Level only, even if the Spirit Qi had been slightly restored. However, a sea creature’s body could compare to that of a Connate Cultivator at the moment, although it didn’t have much Dharma Power.

He pondered as he glanced around and used his Immortal Will to find out his location. He was in a tropical area, probably the Southern Hemisphere.

“Let’s just go back first.”

Even though Earth had changed a lot and even a fish had turned into a monster of the Connate Level, family and friends were more important. Chen Fan quickly flew to China. He cast a spell to hide himself since he didn’t want ordinary people to discover him.

Zhong Hai, China, 2026.

A decade was an extremely long time for the largest city in China. The changes he saw there were completely beyond Chen Fan’s imagination.

He looked at Zhong Hai from above and saw many buildings with a few hundred floors there. Zhong Hai Tower, which used to be the tallest in the city, was like a shorty among the other buildings.

Not only Zhong Hai.

Many other big cities Chen Fan was familiar with seemed to have had great changes. The population in those cities was only a couple of million people before, but then Chen Fan saw crowds of people there. Almost 80% of the population in China was gathered in those big cities, especially Zhong Hai. Chen Fan scanned the area with his Immortal Will. There were at least a hundred million people.

On the contrary, the wild areas outside the cities seemed to have been abandoned. Many forests, plains, plateaus and hills had become barren lands.

A lot of beasts—that were three to eight meters long and had abundant Spirit Qi—had appeared there. Apes gibbered and tigers roared. Chen Fan even saw a dragon a few hundred meters long flying in the sea, and a leopard that was ten meters tall, as large as an elephant and had green glitters in its eyes.

All those beasts were above the Connate Level.

“Earth has changed too much in just a decade.”

Chen Fan lamented.