Chapter 83: Central City - 83
Zhou Fan was satisfied with the information that he received from the mayor of the city. Some more interesting things were that once beasts broke into the 7th level of soul formation, they could temporarily take the form of a human.
As for supreme beasts, it was impossible even for the Dragon King.
That was why the mayor mistook him for a member of the beast lands when he first came in.
He also learned about the overall strength and numbers of the 3 lands. In the celestial lands, there were 500,000 people. Of those 500,000, 20 have managed to break into soul formation. Anna was the only celestial that had broken into void traversing, although there was someone at the 10th level of soul formation.
For the beast lands, there were billions of members across the world. Despite that, only fifteen had broken into the soul formation realm. The monkey king was the sole cultivator at the void traversing level.
In the supreme lands, there were five hundred supreme beasts. Of that 500, 50 had broken into soul formation, while the rest were either recently born or at the 10th level of nascent soul. The dragon king was the sole void traversing cultivator.
It was truly a miracle that Anna was there. With her talent and strength that was just above that of the dragon king, she was able to hold off all of the soul formation experts alone.
Her special talent that put her above the rest was her space affinity. With it, even the dragon king could barely tie with her.
With everything he had learned from the mayor, Zhou Fan left the palace in a good mood.
Instead of staying at the floating palace city, Zhou Fan left towards the biggest city in the celestial lands where most of the soul formation cultivators and Anna herself resided.
It was called the 'Central City'. It was a bit of a basic name, but it was well fitting. Zhou Fan flew at a relatively slow speed towards the city. Relatively slow being the speed of a space shattering cultivator without teleporting or shattering space.
He made it to the city in 5 minutes and plopped down at the front gates. Since he was still wearing his celestial male disguise, he was able to get in without trouble.
When he walked through the gates, a completely new scene entered his eyes. Unlike the previous city which was fairly small and similar to a human city on earth, Central City was completely different. There were floating buildings all around with a large amount of space in between them and the roads were paved with a material similar to black adamantium. It wasn't technologically advanced, but magically advanced.
People were flying to different destinations and most of them were at core formation minimum.
In the distance, Zhou Fan could see a couple of spiraling towers that seemed to pierce into the sky. They were circular like the Lang Yang city library in the past, but much much bigger. Each of the towers were taller than the main building at Huang Long academy.
Overall, it was an incredible and mystical sight. It was truly a world of cultivators. Instead of heading directly to the main building, which was clearly the central tower that was bigger and grander than any other, Zhou Fan chose to look around the city first.
His first stop was a building similar to the colosseum he had seen in the demon cave. As expected, it was one. In the center of the ring, there were two core formation cultivators battling. One wielded the power of fire while the other wielded the power of earth.
A formation around the arena stopped their attacks from hitting the crowd or even stirring the air outside of it. It seemed the battle was about to come to an end as the fire wielder was panting and out of breath, seemingly on the verge of collapse.
The earth cultivator jumped in the air to avoid the fire cultivator's fire arrow and summoned a piercing lance from the ground below. The fire cultivator had nowhere to run as the lance was about to collide with his body. All of a sudden, a formation around his body activated and blocked the attack, signaling the end of the battle.
The earth cultivator walked over and helped the fire cultivator up from the ground, holding him up as he limped to the exit. The crowd was cheering as they had the entire battle. Some were happy while some seemed sad.
It was likely that bets had been made. As soon as the two battlers exited the arena, a holographic screen popped up in the sky. It showed their names and added a win to the earth cultivators record and a loss to the fire cultivators.
Zhou Fan was intrigued at the interesting use of Qi, but quickly figured out the secret. It was just a manipulation of light. He had already done that long ago with his invisibility spell. The only difference was the way light was manipulated.
Zhou Fan took a seat in the crows and watched the next few battles. They consisted of a pair of core formation cultivators with light and dark affinities, a pair of foundation establishment cultivators that clearly wanted to kill each other, and another pair of core formation cultivators with water affinities.
Just as Zhou Fan was about to leave, the screen showed that the next battle would be between two nascent soul cultivators. Zhou Fan didn't know how often cultivators of that level fought, but by the crowd reaction he guessed it wasn't very common.
Since he had nowhere to be, Zhou Fan sat down to watch one last battle.
The gates on each arena opened as two old men hopped onto the platform in the middle. They were both at the 4th level of nascent soul, but one had an affinity with metal and the other had an affinity with poison.
By now, even without looking into the person or at the screen, Zhou Fan was able to recognize their affinities by the color of their robe.
For example, it was dark green for poison and gray for metal.
Chapter 84: Victor - 84
As the two old men looked at each other, Zhou Fan could feel the killing intent they gave off. It was very likely that they've had a feud for a while.
"3, 2, 1, START!" The announcer shouted.
As soon as he said start, the two old men shot towards each other and punched out. Their fists collided in mid air and caused a wind that stirred up the arena. The man in the gray robes fist was covered with a gray Qi, and the man in a dark green robes fist was covered in dark green Qi.
Naturally, they used metal Qi and poison Qi. Moments after their fists collided, they punched towards the other with their free fists, which once again collided in mid air.
This started a chain reaction of colliding fists that many spectators couldn't even see. They both started being pushed back by the force of the other's punch until they reached the edge of the arena and stopped.
They each stared at the other with a gaze full of hatred and moved their fists back once more. This time, their fists didn't collide. Instead, they both used a martial art against the other.
The man in the dark green robe shot out three dark green snakes that released a sinister Qi that seemed as if it could corrode anything. They twisted around each other in mid air as they shot towards the man in gray.
At the same time, the man in gray punched forward and a sword formed from metal qi rotated and flew towards the snakes. It gave off a feeling of sharpness that made the audience feel as though they were about to be cut in half.
Everything happened in a near instant as the attacks collided in mid air. When the sword reached the snakes, it started to slow down for a moment until it pierced through them, dispersing them, and shot towards the man in dark green.
In response, the man in dark green kicked upwards and the sword turned into dust, not because of the strength of the man's kick, but because the snakes had corroded the sword, making it weaker than ever.
The men jumped around the arena, attacking, dodging, defending, and escaping, for 5 more minutes. They remained nearly equal the entire time. The man in dark green had a couple of cuts, one being 2 inches deep, and the man in gray had a couple of dark spots on his skin from the man in dark greens poison.
At this point, both of the old men were panting from exhaustion. Staring at each other from opposite sides of the arena, the men came to an unspoken consensus. Their next attack would be their full power. Absolutely nothing would be held back.
Like before, the man in gray summoned a sword from his metal Qi. The only difference was that this sword was bigger and gave off a much more dangerous feeling. It would also likely be much more fast.
On the other side, the man in dark green used his poison Qi to form a giant snake. It was much more powerful than the previous attacks.
The attacks shot forwards towards each other. Like before, they were about to collide until the snake stopped moving forward right as the sword was about to hit it. Instead, it coiled around the sword, effectively dodging its direct attack, and continued towards the man in gray.
The sword that flew past was also heavily corroded by the poison Qi of the snake, causing it to slow down and weaken.
From a normal person's point of view, it would look like the man in green was undoubtedly winning. However, the sword QI that the metal sword gave off heavily damaged the snake that had coiled around it.
Not to mention the fact that the metal sword, although weakend, was still a force to be reckoned with. In the end, poison cultivators were worse at direct battle.
The man in gray stared at the approaching snake with helplessness. His previous attack had used every bit of his Qi. All he could do was put his hand up in an attempt to lessen the blow.
The same could be said for the man in dark green.
At the same time, the attacks collided with the men. Like before, a formation blocked the attacks that would have most likely killed them both.
Zhou Fan expected it to be declared a tie, but the announcer spoke up.
"As we wait for the corrosion damage to be calculated, you can look up at the board to see how much damage their final strikes did."
Like he said, Zhou Fan looked up at the floating screen. Next to the picture of the old men and their affinities, there was a section that said 'Final damage'. It could be guessed that it meant how much damage they did to the others formation.
The man in the gray robes damage was calculated at 9846/300,000. Zhou Fan wasn't sure how damage was calculated, but he estimated that it was how close the formation was to being destroyed.
Whoever had the higher number next to their name would win.
On the man wearing dark greens side, the number was at 6078/300,000, but it was still going up. That was due to the fact that the attack was still technically ongoing.
The audience stood with bated breaths as they looked at the board. After a minute, the number stopped going up. it had stopped at 9435/300,000.
Half of the audience erupted in cheers while the other half were downcast. Perhaps they hoped that the man in dark green won or maybe they had bet on his win.
Either way, the result of the battle was the man in gray's victory. Zhou Fan expected such an outcome, but still enjoyed the fight nonetheless.
It wasn't that the man in gray was stronger than the man in dark green, but that Metal Qi was simply better for direct confrontation.
As for poison Qi, its best factor was its long lastingness and its corrosion.
Zhou Fan got up and walked out of the colosseum. He would likely be back, but he wanted to see more of the city.
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