The First Cultivator - Changing Existence

Each line he drew in a Magic circle was immensely profound and meaningful. They connected with his Magic on a high level. He could not just casually engrave another Magic circle on him. It needed to be perfect.

His first one was a stroke of good luck, but he could not rely on luck a second time. He experimented on many things with his Magic circles. Both living and non-living.

Most living things died when he tried out new things on them. It was better to first test unfamiliar lines on something like a tree or a boulder. Although the lines affected things they were engraved on differently based on what it was, there was usually some sort of correlation.

It took him ten years to create what he would describe as the perfect Magic circle. Its function was just as simple as the first one, but inscribing the same Magic circle on his skin twice wouldn't do anything. This new one was countless times more advanced. Even with almost all of the world's theoretical knowledge, it had still taken him this long.

He used the same method to inscribe it on his back as last time. He had even calculated the overlapping effect the new Magic circle would have with the old one.

He used a very similar method to brand it onto himself, but he was able to control a bit of metal with some metal based spells.

He also heated up the metal with a basic fire spell. He laid down on the metal as it burned his back. Magic was infused into his back, creating a Magic circle.

He could instantly feel the change in power he could control.

He let the brand dig into his skin until it cooled down. He created a ball of water and popped it over his head, cooling his back off.

He looked into the distance and waved his wand. "Fire Wave."

Scorching flames filled the sky as the forest in front of Fa Zhu was turned to dust. The distant mountain completely collapsed. He had been wanting to use this spell for a long time, but he simply hadn't been able to.

Now, he could.

Moments later, he stopped moving and looked up in confusion. The sky shattered like glass as a giant hand fell down. Upon closer inspection, the hand was chasing a small dot, which seemed to be a humanoid figure.

A few moments later, the hand pinched the figure, destroying it.

Fa Zhu stared in shock as the hand retreated and the sky healed, returning to its blue sky.

Excitement filled him as he realized what this meant. It was this world that was weak and pathetic, but in the starry sky beyond, powerful beings lived.

Zhou Fan had initially planned to give Fa Zhu an experience much like his own, but Fa Zhu was a different person.

Zhou Fan had been calm and somewhat scholarly when he first started his journey. But there was a bloodlust in Fa Zhu that was slowly awakening. It could also be called a desire for battle.

So since Fa Zhu wanted to enter an already established world, Zhou Fan would allow him. The Multiverse was his, if he could take it.

At the same time, he thought of the figure he had seen. The brief vision he had when he felt the nothingness being's power and when he killed it had stuck to his mind. Since there was an existence he had never seen before in his mind, then countless theories were possible.

Perhaps this Universe had been different long ago, and that being had wiped out all traces of power upon Zhou Fan's birth, just as Zhou Fan had done for Fa Zhu.

This was extremely far fetched and almost certainly wrong, or else nothing Zhou Fan had seen would truly make sense.

It could also be that the figure he had seen did not yet exist. Perhaps it was someone he would meet in the future, someone very significant. This would not be unreasonable, as Lu Jue himself had been seen in many visions of the future before he was ever truly in this world.

Just ask the Buddha. He had asked Zhou Fan to seal himself just so that Lu Jue could be born, though Ye Li's manipulation was a big reason the Buddha had asked that.

Fa Zhu did not laze around any longer. He now had goals and dreams beyond anything he could have imagined. There were beings out there so powerful that this world could be eradicated instantly.

The hand alone surely could have crushed this planet like a twig if it had intended to.

With new motivation, he grew faster. His goal was space. Only outside of this world could he see the true face of the Universe.

His spells were so powerful that nearby civilization treated this area like a forbidden ground. The few who came near usually died. Others were scared due to near death experiences.

Fa Zhu did not hold back at all while practicing. His spells were soon able to destroy entire mountains with ease. And these were just the wide range destructive spells. His defensive spells were so powerful nothing in this world could begin to break it.

His movement spells were so quick he could go anywhere he wanted with ease.

It wasn't mere seconds, but he was sure an hour would be more than enough to travel around the entire world.

And he would only get more powerful from here on.

Time passed, and he noticed an issue. He was aging.

He was already a bit more than middle aged, and although the effect on his mind was negligible, he could notice his physical power was getting weaker.

He hadn't really considered the issue of lifespan before.

Unlike for cultivators and the vast majority of paths in the Universe, lifespan was not something merely given with breakthroughs on the Magic path.

He would need to do something with his Magic circles before he died of old age.