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.
Chapter 85: Talismans - 85
When Zhou Fan walked out of the arena, he was once again greeted by the sight of floating buildings.
Since the colosseum was one of the buildings on the ground, Zhou Fan was looking upwards.
One of the very highest buildings drew his attention. It was in the shape of a padoga and seemed to have 9 floors. Along with being one of the highest, it was also one of the busiest places. People with varying cultivation levels could be seen coming in and out.
There were both people at foundation establishment and people at nascent soul realm coming out.
Zhou Fan flew up there and decided to take a look. There were two guards at the entrance, but they just stood still as people entered and exited.
Above the entrance was a sign that said 'tinming pavilion.'
Zhou Fan walked in freely and looked around the first floor. The floor was quite big and there seemed to be a hundred people in it. The color theme seemed to be red and gold. There were a few paintings on the walls, but the floor wasn't too decorated besides some carpet.
There were shelves and glass containers that had items, but there were no price tags or anything special.
Zhou Fan walked up to one of the glass containers and looked inside. Laying there was a green bottle with a small formation covering the outside and a couple of pills inside.
With a brief glance, Zhou fan was able to tell that it was a healing pill. It would be able to quickly heal a Qi condensation cultivator and minorly heal a foundation establishment cultivator.
Next to the pill bottle was a bunch of other pills. In fact, it seemed that half of the floor was filled with pills. There were pills that increased Qi absorption for recovery or cultivation and pills that temporarily increased damage, although most of those had side effects.
After looking at the pills, Zhou Fan walked over to the other side of the floor. On that side, there were many things besides pills. Zhou Fan walked around and saw weapons, martial art manuals, formation plates, and even a few cultivation techniques.
When he saw the techniques, Zhou Fan went over to take a closer look. Although a normal person wasn't able to look at it before buying it, Zhou Fan used his divine sense to read it without opening it.
Contrary to the technique he gave to the first celestials, which could be cultivated by anyone regardless of Qi affinity, these manuals could only be cultivated by people with certain affinities.
The ones in front of him were related to the affinities of fire, water, earth, and air. The most interesting thing was that they did not provide a faster cultivation speed, but simply increased the abilities of certain elements or concepts.
That meant that if two people had an affinity to fire and were in the same realm, the person who used this manual would theoretically be stronger.
However, Zhou Fan found a flaw that must have gone invisible to the creators of the manual. It limited one's future ability. Since the manual tweaked Zhou Fans, it messed up some parts. Therefore, if one cultivated this manual, they would forever be stuck at nascent soul.
That means that anyone who was in soul formation must have either started cultivating using his method, or restarted cultivation after realizing that they couldn't go any further with the manual.
If Zhou Fan created a specific manual, the result would be different. One could get the boost but still be able to go however far their talent allowed.
But the creators of the affinity specific manuals were merely copying Zhou Fan and slightly tweaking it. Based on the creator's strength, there would be a limit to how far someone using the manual could go.
Zhou Fan soon lost interest in the manuals and continued to look around the first floor. Just as he was about to leave, something caught his eye.
On one of the pedestals, Zhou Fan saw a rectangular piece of paper with a formation on it. Zhou Fan walked over to it and looked at it closely. It was similar to a formation plate, but it was one use and the formation wasn't on metal.
Zhou Fan had never seen nor created such a thing. He looked around and signaled at one of the attendants to come over.
"Hello sir, how can I be of assistance?" She asked politely.
"What is this?" Zhou Fan said while pointing at the piece of paper.
"That is a talisman, sir. It was invented by the celestial lord Anna." She said, not questioning why Zhou Fan didn't know what it was.
"What does it do?" He asked in order to see if there was anything else about it he couldn't see.
"It depends on the talisman. This one will send an attack at whoever the user wants to attack. Since the creator was in the foundation establishment realm, its attack is only at the level of a Qi condensation realm cultivator. On other floors, there are stronger attack talismans and ones with different uses all together." She said.
"Can anyone create one?" Zhou Fan asked.
"No. In fact, the talent to be a talisman creator is very rare. If a thousand people try to learn it, only one will succeed. Do you have any more questions?" She asked.
"Just one. What does it cost?" He asked. Zhou Fan had no idea how payment was made in the celestial lands and this was a good time to find out.
"It is 50 spirit stones." She answered.
Spirit stones! Although Zhou Fan hadn't created them on this planet, it seemed that they managed to exist either way.
"Where are spirit stones from?" Zhou Fan asked, breaking his promise of one more question.
The attendant's mouth twitched as she almost broke character.
"Umm.. They come from spirit stone mines." She answered, trying to keep a straight face.
"Ohh, okay. Thank you." Zhou Fan said.
The attendant nodded and walked away.
'It seems that spirit stones have naturally formed from the Qi in this world.' Zhou Fan thought. He had no idea how rare a spirit stone was, but he was going to find out soon.
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