Chapter 90: Battle - 90
When Zhou Fan looked over, he saw a slash of space Qi flying towards him at a speed faster than light. The ground started to rumble and a pressure descended upon Zhou Fan as it came closer.
Zhou Fan turned his body towards the attack and slashed out with death Qi, forming a similar crescent that collided with the Space Qi in mid air.
Due to the fact that Zhou Fan held his strength back at the level of a level five void traversing cultivator, the attacks stopped traveling when they collided and pushed at each other in mid air.
The tug of war lasted for three more seconds before both powers dissipated. As they did so, a woman dressed in light purple robes appeared in the air. Her entire body was giving off an incredible amount of killing intent and her eyes were on the verge of popping.
Zhou Fan stood still in the air as the killing intent covered him. He let it drown him for a moment before he released a killing intent of his own.
In order to keep up with the character of death, he made sure that his killing intent was more powerful and far more sinister. Even so, Anna simply shivered for a moment before she snorted and blocked the killing intent from even reaching her.
"Who are you?" She asked. It appeared that she hadn't heard the earlier conversation.
"I am death. I am the end. I have come for you and your people." Zhou Fan repeated in the same way he had earlier.
"When you say "your people", I assume you mean celestials. Are you in cahoots with the other races?" She asked solemnly.
"No. I have come for all the residents of the Zhou World. I will decimate all living beings and set sail upon the bones of your kin. In your brief moments of life before I slaughter you, I will make sure you feel absolute despair.I am death. I am the end. I have come for you and your people. I have come for your world." Zhou Fan said.
The final goal was not to simply grow the celestial's strength, but to grow the entire Zhou World's strength. Even those of the future should have nightmares at the mention of his name.
When Anna heard Zhou Fan's words, her eyes flew open. For a moment she seemed shocked. Then, she started to laugh.
"Are you telling me that you think you can destroy the world? With your meager strength nonetheless? Hahahahaha! You and what army?" She asked mockingly. Her words made sense. Before, Zhou Fan could only tie with her. If she were to work together with the whole world, it could only spell 'Zhou Fans' doom.
"What army?" Zhou Fan asked rhetorically.
He then let his scythe float beside him as he raised his hands in the air.
"RISE!" He said, his words echoing throughout the Zhou World once again.
Cracks started to form in the ground around the area where Zhou Fan and Anna were fighting. All of a sudden, a skeletal hand reached out from the ground. It seemed to set off a chain reaction as similar skeletal hands reached out from the ground and pulled themselves up. What crawled out of the ground was not a living being, but a skeleton.
The skeletons had not come back to life, but were powered by Qi and had the sole instinct to kill other life.
There were two types of skeletons that were "Reanimated". The first type were the ones that had lived in the past. That group was made up entirely from dead celestials. The other type was the one that Zhou Fan had constructed in that second where he raised his hand.
They were made completely out of Qi and resembled humans more than celestials. However, they were perfectly disguised and nobody would notice that they were made up from Qi.
Zhou Fan was winging the spell, but the results were great. Even the stoic and brave Anna had a face as white as a sheet of paper. She stared at the skeletons and her face became even whiter when she recognized some of the skeletons.
Many of them had died by her side in the wars with the other races. She even saw a few of her most trusted generals and students that had died long ago.
Besides the emotional effect of the spell, there was another part of the spell that made it terrifying. The skeletons that were raised from the dead had the exact strength they had when they died. That meant that at this moment, more than 10 soul formation cultivators joined Zhou Fan's side, including the ones he killed not long ago.
Once all the skeletons got out of the ground, Zhou Fan looked at Anna.
"This army." He said simply. "And as I kill more and more of your friends and family, even your enemies, my army will only grow stronger."
Without another word, the army of skeletons started to attack the soul formation cultivators that had been watching in the back since the start of the battle. They were immediately outnumbered in terms of soul formation cultivators and the nascent soul cultivators were just an icing on the cake.
For the first time since the start of the battle, Anna was starting to think that she may lose. However, she hadn't battled for 10,000 years for nothing. As she saw the soul formation cultivators on her side being pushed back, she instantly started to attack Zhou Fan with all her might.
She first punched forward with her fist covered in space Qi. Zhou Fan counter attacked with the tip of his scythe and they both pushed each other back. Due to her Space affinity, she was almost equal to Zhou Fan who only used Death Qi and restrained his strength to the fifth level of void traversing, despite being at the fourth level of void traversing herself.
Zhou Fan moved around with the scythe and became more and more used to using it. He eventually started to push Anna back. She responded by revealing another one of her affinities. Ice Qi.
Chapter 91: Battle - 91
As Anna released her Ice QI, the entire battlefield transformed. The ground froze and snow started to fall from the sky. Giant spikes of ice pointed outwards, blocking the surrounding area from coming in contact with the battle taking place.
Zhou Fan paused in the air for a moment and let her play out her move. Anna stared him dead in the eyes as the snowflakes reached lower and lower. Just as they were 10 feet above where Zhou Fan floated, the snowflakes transformed. Each and every one of the hundred thousand snowflakes turned into icicles that pierced towards Zhou Fan and the area around him.
The power contained in each icicle could kill a level 1 nascent soul realm cultivator, but Zhou fan merely slammed the bottom of his scythe on the ground and created a shockwave that blew away the first group of icicles. The first round contained 10,000 icicles and another wave of the same amount shot at him again.
This time, Zhou Fan raised a barrier with his finger that bounced the icicles back. The barrier lasted against three rounds of icicles before it started to crack, naturally due to the fact that Zhou Fan was holding his strength back immensely.
In the middle of the 5th round of icicles, the barrier shattered into pieces. Instead of forming another barrier or making a shockwave send the icicles back, Zhou Fan continued to supply the broken barrier fragments with Qi and turned them towards Anna before he shot them towards her similar to the way the icicles were shooting at him. Due to that, he had to take the icicles with his body which caused some minor damage to his robe.
Anna was surprised by the sudden and unexpected attack and had to cancel her attack in order to dodge. Even so, she still got hit by a few pieces and even started to bleed from a cut on her arm.
From the moment she released her Ice Qi to the moment she got cut, only a few seconds had passed. Just as Zhou Fan was going to attack during Anna's moment of weakness, she started to attack with another martial art. Zhou Fan moved towards her in an attempt to cancel the martial art, but she finished just as he was about to make contact.
His scythe was inches away from Anna's head, but a strong wind followed by an icy chill blew him backwards a couple meters. When he looked up, he saw a raging blizzard hundreds of meters in size approaching him rapidly. Zhou Fan only had enough time to put up a barrier before it hit him.
The attack was similar to her early icicle attack, but it was more constant and much more powerful. Zhou Fan had to use a large amount of strength to maintain the barrier as he started to make up a move to counter the attack.
In moments, the black barrier started to crack. Zhou Fan's mind moved much faster as he continued to think of a new move that 'Death' could use. Just as the barrier was about to break, he finally formed an idea.
He raised the scythe he had been carrying with his right hand to the right and up a few degrees. He then raised his left hand in a similar way and formed another scythe with Death Qi. Anna saw his unusual movements and prepared for anything unexpected, but wasn't prepared for what Zhou Fan did next.
He held the position of the scythes until the moment the barriers broke down and the wind started to pour in. In that very instant, Zhou Fan slashed out with his scythes in an x-shaped fashion. From the scythes, a deathly red and black wind started forming, then spinning. Right as the blizzard attack was about to come into contact with Zhou Fan, the spinning Qi enlarged and what seemed like a hurricane made of Black and Red Qi started pushing back against the blizzard attack.
From a distance, it looked like two different colored tornadoes were pushing against each other. Anna's eyes widened with shock as she started to pour all her Qi into the blizzard attack, making it stronger than before. However, Zhou Fan's attack wasn't weak enough to be defeated so easily.
What seemed like screams started to sound out from the center of Zhou Fans tornado of death Qi. The cries weren't that of a baby or of a person getting a jumpscare, but sounded more like the scream of a man getting his skin peeled off. The screams were filled with terror, fear, and pain.
The attacks pushed back at each other for around five minutes before they both started to weaken and eventually disperse. As the raging storms calmed down, Anna was seen panting on the ground from exhaustion. As for Zhou Fan, or 'Death', he was standing still without a sign of fatigue.
"Is that all you've got?" He asked with a tone of disappointment. "I expected so much more from you."
As he walked towards her and gathered Death Qi in his hand in order to finish her off, Anna reached behind her back and pulled out a green bottle. She popped the lid off with a finger before raising her head and emptying the contents in her mouth. Zhou Fan said nothing and hopped back a couple of meters. With his sight, he could clearly see that those were grade 5, or soul formation, recovery and stamina pills.
Although a single one wouldn't be able to help her much, a bottle that size would be enough to fully refill her strength. Unfortunately, taking so many had side effects. Therefore, she would only be able to use one bottle before they nearly completely lost their effect on her for a while.
Not to mention the fact that she probably only had one. After all, soul formation pills were quite difficult to make with the Zhou World's current resources.
Anna stood up and briefly stretched before she readied herself. Her next move would likely be her most powerful and her last in this battle.
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