Chapter 57: Spirit Stone - 57
It didn't take long for Zhou Fan to make it back to the cave. Once he did, he went to the center of the cave and began to further observe the metal cube.
Its weight was as much as a mountain and not even the strongest weapons of humanity could injure it. In fact, even Xiaolong wouldn't be able to scratch it despite his second level Qi gathering cultivation and the innate strength of the dragon race.
Once Zhou Fan got a good feel of the cube, he was ready to create his most powerful formation yet.
Since there were six sides, Zhou Fan decided to use three for Fire Qi and the other three for Demon Qi.
Zhou Fan coated his finger with Fire Qi. Although he knew that the cube would be much stronger than the previous plates, he wasn't sure how much strength it could hold.
Therefore, he started with one fiftieth of his strength. As he started to carve into the cube, he realized that it could take more, and after a couple more adjustments, Zhoou Fan was able to conclude that the cube could withstand one twentieth of his power.
Any more and it would explode.
With his increased understanding of formations, Zhou Fan was no longer limited to a single line. Instead, he drew patterns that added together and increased the released Qi. After 50 strokes, Zhou Fan was done with the first side.
He repeated his previous actions with the next two sides and switched to Demon Qi on the last three sides.
As he finished the last side, the cube released a glow of crimson red. It had been pushed to its limit and couldn't handle any more formations.
Zhou Fan knew his job was done. All that was left was to test it.
Zhou Fan first started to infuse it with a hundredth of his Qi. Once he realized that it could take that much, he increased the amount to a ninetieth, an eightieth, and so on, until he reached a tenth of his Qi.
At that point it was shaking and light was starting to seep out. When Zhou Fan noticed that it was about to break, he stopped infusing Qi.
As it cooled down, Zhou Fan chose to only infuse a fifteenth of his Qi. Although it could handle a tenth, the stress on it would make it slowly break down.
As he finished testing, Zhou Fan had one more problem. He couldn't always infuse his Qi into it.
Although he estimated that it could work for 2 weeks with his Qi input, it wouldn't work after that and he would have to refill it again.
As he sat there and pondered, his gaze inexplicably turned to the giant crystal hanging from the ceiling. As if a lightbulb went off in his head, Zhou Fan flew to the crystal.
Although he wasn't sure that his idea would work, he had to at least try. Controlling some Sword Qi, Zhou Fan sliced off a chunk of the crystal smaller than his head.
He then carved it into a crystal like shape and began to infuse some of his Qi into it. As he did, the crystal began to emit a soft glow.
He continued to imbue his Qi into it and only stopped after half of it was exhausted. Although full, the crystal wasn't unstable like the cube. Instead, it safely held his Qi within it. Not to mention, there was very little leakage.
He estimated that it would take it thousands of years to expire.
Even so, the current revelation was good for Zhou Fan. With these crystals, there would always be Qi to refill the formation on the cube.
While looking at it, Zhou Fan decided to call it a spirit stone. The name seemed like a good fit.
After he was done with the first, Zhou Fan continued to cut down the crystal in the middle and shape it into spirit stones. He only stopped once he used up half of the crystal and created 1000 spirit stones.
With these, the formation would be powered up for 2000 weeks, or 38 and a half years.
Zhou Fan had fulfilled his promise to Cao Lin. Speaking of Cao Lin, Zhou Fan called him over.
After showing him the cube and explaining its functions, Cao Lin was amazed. He then explained the use of the spirit stones and taught Cao Lin how to use them.
"Uhhh sir. Couldn't you just fill up the spirit stones and let me cultivate with them?" Cao Lin asked.
Hearing his question, Zhou Fan stood rooted to the ground, frozen. He had never even thought of that. After all, he had only discovered spirit stone after he had already completed the formation.
As Cao Lin stared at the frozen Zhou Fan, he let out a small chuckle. Even the almighty make mistakes.
It took a good minute before Zhou Fan unfroze.
"Well you could, but the spirit stones contain neutral Qi and the Demon and Fire Qi produced by the cube would be much more beneficial." Although he could have just filled up the spirit stones with Fire and Demon Qi, Zhou Fan didn't want to admit his mistakes.
"Oh. Of course sir. How could you make such a simple mistake." He said with a smirk and a sarcastic bow.
Seeing that, Zhou Fan had to stop himself from sending Cao Lin flying into the next life.
When Cao Lin saw Zhou Fan's expression, he turned around and ran. By the time Zhou Fan started to pay attention to his surroundings again, he was already gone.
"Good, very good." Zhou Fan muttered with an evil smile while rubbing his hands.
All that he needed now was a long mustache and he could be a villain.
Since he was done with formations for now, Zhou Fan pondered what else he needed to do. After seeing the possibilities of formations, he wondered if there were any other special uses for Qi besides cultivating.
Chapter 58: Buddhas Palm - 58
Zhou Fan sat in his room and thought for a while. It was a difficult task to think of a new use for Qi.
He considered imitating the way he made the formation plates to make a weapon, but he realized that there wasn't enough metal to forge a sword that would be good enough for him.
Instead, he thought of direct uses of Qi. Since he started cultivating, he would have to barbarically release his Qi in order to attack.
Instead, he may be able to invent a better way. He would call it 'martial arts'. Although some people already used fighting styles that they named martial arts, the ones he created would be at a whole new level.
Since he had the idea, Zhou Fan decided to act on it. He chose to focus first on attack martial arts, then defensive martial arts, and finally, support martial arts.
Zhou Fan went outside the cave and in a random direction in order to not destroy the cave with his attacks.
He ended up in a place called the dark empire. Right now, it is in a state of civil war. Just 30 years ago, the boundless empire and the truth empire teamed up to eliminate the dark empire, due to the fact that it tried to incite a war between them.
Although the mortaniel empire almost stepped in to stop the war, they decided to let it happen after hearing the reason.
All that remained now was a couple nobles and a bunch of civilians.
Zhou Fan had only heard of the events because they were so world shaking. It was the first time in almost 500 years that a top 10 empire fell. In the end, it could only be said that they were too ambitious.
As Zhou Fan flew around, he discovered an uninhabited mountain range in the distance. He flew to the highest peak and sat at the top.
As he looked at the incredible view, Zhou Fan began to formulate martial arts in his head.
First, he remembered the buddha. From his travels with him, he had comprehended a type of Qi called Buddhist Qi. It had great purifying and enhancement capabilities. It was also the closest thing to a counter of Demon Qi that he had discovered.
After 20 minutes, Zhou Fan had an idea. He held his palm out towards one of the mountains not far away and coated it in Buddhist Qi. Once the Buddhist Qi was shaped into his palm, he sent it up in the air and enlarged it thousands of times.
It fell to the ground like a meteor at an astonishing speed, covering the entire mountain and even the surrounding mountains.
As it made contact, a loud boom shook the entire area, followed by an earthquake and a great amount of wind. The earth split apart and the mountain, along with the 20 mountains surrounding it, were no longer in existence.
All that remained was a giant palm print in the ground. When Zhou Fan saw the result, his eyes widened in surprise. That was by far the strongest attack he had ever made.
The only way he could think of making a stronger attack was with Chaos Qi. As he thought of Chaos Qi, he wondered what would happen if he coated the buddha's palm with a layer of Chaos Qi.
When the thought came to his mind, he shuddered. The power such an attack would contain probably wouldn't even spare him. He may be able to flatten the entire kingdom.
Chaos Qi was not to be underestimated. If added onto the previous attack, it would likely increase its strength by 100 times, if not more.
As Zhou Fan decided not to test it, an idea came to mind. Why did the target have to be earth? Zhou Fan turned his gaze to the sky. Since it was day, there were no stars out, but there was a big blazing ball of flame.
Although Zhou Fan knew he couldn't reach the sun, he could at least send his attack towards it.
He raised his palm and started to coat his hand with Buddhist Qi once again. He had previously named the attack, 'buddha's palm', but now, it was better to call the new attack 'Choas Buddha's palm'.
Before he released the Buddhist Qi from his hand, he carefully added another layer. This time, it was made out of Chaos Qi. As the two Qi's touched, they melded into each other, creating a different color.
The previous gold Buddhist Qi was added to the gray Chaos Qi, giving it a slight glow.
Once he made sure they were stable, Zhou Fan let the Qi go out and expand thousands of times. This time, he didn't hold back a bit and added every bit of his Qi into the attack. Although he knew it would cause Qi exhaustion, he decided it was worth it.
Once the palm expanded to ten thousand times the size, Zhou Fan used his last bit of Qi and propelled it forward.
As Zhou Fan fell on his butt, the Chaos Buddha's palm shot towards the sun. As it traveled, an extreme pressure was given to the surroundings, pushing Zhou Fan and every living being within a thousand miles to the ground.
As it traveled through the air, the air started to shake and warp from its sheer power. Once it got to the ozone layer, it completely destroyed it before heading into space. Once it got to space, it met with some natural resistance, but it didn't even slow down a bit, continuing to go towards the sun at 10,000 miles per hour. It continued to travel for another 1000 miles before it finally dispersed.
As Zhou Fan started to pass out from Qi exhaustion, a smile could be seen on his face. The previous attack had exceeded his expectations.
It moved at an incredible speed, and without even touching anything, its power radiated across the lands.
After seeing this, Zhou Fan knew it wouldn't be long before he could go out into space.
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