Chapter 97: Shield - 97
After placing the sword at the bottom of the pond, Zhou Fan flew up and exited it. After another brief look at the surroundings, he exited the cave that the pond resided in.
As he got back to the ravine, he took another quick look and left it. He would now go to another place in order to create another opportunity.
He flew to the left of the ravine and traveled in the sky, looking for good places to put a treasure. After an hour of slow flying, Zhou Fan found a huge mountain. The mountain was not one that had existed in the Zhou World for a long time, but one that had just formed with the expansion of the world.
By the looks of it, it may even be the new tallest mountain. An interesting thing about it was the fact that it existed alone. In fact, there was no other mountain for hundreds of miles. Even hills were quite rare.
Zhou Fan flew to the top and looked around. The top wasn't a peak, but a flat land surrounded by walls. The area inside the walls, while flat, had a couple of minerals and ores sticking out of the ground. That made it so you couldn't see every inch from one point.
Zhou Fan landed in the center of the flat area and started to walk around and observe the ores. There were diamonds and iron and even ores that Zhou Fan had never seen before. Those ores had small amounts of Qi in them and could be considered Qi ores, although they were only at the level of Qi gathering.
Even so, Zhou Fan believed that they would grow better the longer they existed. As he walked to the other side of one of the ores, he saw two things he hadn't seen before on the mountain.
One was a glowing green ore. With a single glance, Zhou Fan was able to tell that it was emerald ore filled with Qi. It even reached the level of foundation establishment, or grade 2.
The other thing he noticed was what surprised him. Sitting on top of the emerald ore was a huge beast a head taller than Zhou Fan and 3 times wider than him if he laid down on the ground. It had small rocky bumps covering its back and on the end of its tail was what seemed like a rock or a bone in the shape of a ball.
Zhou Fan had never seen such a beast on earth or in the Zhou world. In fact, he had never even heard of one. As Zhou Fan saw it, the beast saw him.
It didn't immediately attack and instead backed away while guarding itself and sending threats towards Zhou Fan like a rattlesnake.
All the while, Zhou Fan was looking at the beast with interest. He could easily tell that it wasn't a Qi beast, but its tail could kill a tenth level Qi gathering cultivator in an instant.
However, what most interested Zhou Fan was that the beast didn't fall into the category of anything he had ever seen.
Although there was one beast lands, there were many races within the beast lands. Even so, none of them were similar to the one he had just run into or any he had heard about.
Therefore, Zhou Fan came to the conclusion that the beast was a newly birthed species caused by the expansion of the world.
With his expertise in naming over the many years, Zhou Fan quickly found a fitting name for both the species and the specific beast.
The species would be called 'dinosaurs' while the one he saw would be called an 'ankylosaurus'.
As he was talking to himself, the beast stayed in its defensive stance, ready to attack. Since it wasn't going anywhere, Zhou Fan looked deeper into it.
He was soon able to tell that it was a vegetarian, or a herbivore. After seeing that, Zhou Fan walked towards it. It continued to slowly back up, but it eventually stopped and swung its tail at Zhou Fan with full force.
As it was coming towards him, Zhou Fan put his hand out to the side. The tail collided with his arm and stopped instantly. Not only did the tail not bounce back, but Zhou Fan's arm didn't budge.
With that, Zhou Fan was also able to tell that it had some intelligence since it started running away with fear clear in its eyes. It was quite fast despite its large weight. The ground shook as it ran down the mountain and disappeared behind some trees.
Zhou Fan chuckled and continued to look around the area. There were no more surprises and Zhou fan got ready to put down an opportunity.
He also decided to stay in the area for the next couple of days and discover the new species.
Zhou Fan stood on the ground and thought about what type of opportunity he would put. Since he was on a mountain, he considered an earth type opportunity. After that, he had no more fitting ideas. Therefore, he chose the earth type opportunity.
As for what type, he decided to create a weapon, or more specifically, a shield. Although Zhou Fan didn't personally like shields, it fit the earth element the best.
Zhou Fan gathered a bunch of earth Qi and formed it in the shape of a shield. The shield was ten feet tall and three feet wide. Although it had a handle, it could also be controlled with Qi by anyone at core formation.
After all, the opportunities were not specifically made for celestials or other humanoid beings. Zhou Fan tried to make them so that they could fit any race or species.
After designing the basic layout of the shield, he started to make the surrounding ores flow into it and strengthen it. They would help with the foundation of the shield and give it some color besides brown.
Just like the sword, the shield would grow with the owner. After giving it a few formations and making them invisible, Zhou Fan considered where to put the shield.
Chapter 98: Turtle Bosses? - 98
The first place he considered was deep within the mountain. However, he also realized how hard it would be to find if he did that. After a while, he figured that he might as well put it there.
However, he would also create a path 'directly' to it. It would be open to everyone and not hidden, but one would have to complete challenges to reach deeper and eventually reach the shield.
He would also make other treasures at the other checkpoints in order to encourage better challengers.
Zhou Fan planned the layout out before he sunk deep into the mountain without leaving a mark or any sign that he had been there. He continued to sink down until he reached 100 miles deep.
When he reached that point, Zhou Fan pushed the dirt around him backwards until a cube of air 10 feet wide, 10 feet long, and ten feet in height was created. He then created wood Qi to form a podium where he placed the shield.
Around the room, he placed many formations and restrictions. They would ensure that nobody weaker than Zhou Fan would be able to break in the room without following the path. He would also have to remember to upgrade the strength of the arrays and formations after a while.
Zhou Fan then created a square hole in the walls and the formations. He started to push the square hole back until it formed a hallway. He pushed that hallway on and on, lining the sides with arrays and formations equal in level to the ones in the other room, until he reached one of the mountain sides.
On the side of the mountain, and extending far below it, there was a square shaped hallway that defended one of the world's greatest treasures.
After he made the path towards the shield room, Zhou Fan prepared to make the challenge rooms. In total, there would be ten challenges that one had to pass in order to get the final treasure.
However, even if one didn't get past all the rooms, they would still get lesser rewards for passing whatever rooms they passed.
In order to make sure someone strong didn't repeat the challenges over and over again, farming treasures, he put a formation at the entrance that would allow a person to only challenge the entire thing once a month.
After making sure that there was no way anyone could cheat their way through, what Zhou Fan decided to call a dungeon, Zhou Fan walked through the halls, expanded them to be 50 feet wide, 50 feet tall, and 50 feet long, and added booby traps and monsters.
Among them were skeletons and demonized animals. After that, Zhou Fan went to the one-tenth point of the dungeon and created doors to block the path that led through the rest of the dungeon, forcing everyone to go through them.
He also put doors on the other side so that anyone who defeated the boss he was about to put down would be able to leave the room. They wouldn't unlock until one defeated the boss, however.
As he stood in the middle of the room, Zhou Fan thought about what type of bosses to put. Truthfully, he was deciding whether or not he would give the bosses a theme or make them completely different.
After thinking for a while, he chose to create a theme. He would make the first nine bosses the sons of the tenth one. They would be a new species, but they would be similar to turtles. The idea of turtles also fit the shield since they were animals who heavily relied on protection. He would also give each of the bosses different affinities, the tenth boss's being fire.
After getting the incredible idea, Zhou Fan got to work with the first boss. Its affinity would be water. It would be the size of three humans, but it would be pretty weak, at the third level of foundation establishment.
Basically anyone, regardless of talent, would be able to pass the first boss in due time. That is also why he chose to put a weak reward. The reward would be a bottle of foundation establishment pills that would speed up cultivation.
For the second boss, he put the same room layout, but the boss looked different and its affinity was wind. For the third, he did the same, but its affinity was metal.
He continued to repeat the pattern until the tenth boss. The ninth boss's strength was already at the tenth level of void traversing. It would be good to mention that the bosses were artificial beings created by Zhou Fan.
As the average and top strength of the world increased, their strengths would too automatically increase, but slowly. He estimated that the tenth boss's strength would cap at tenth level space shattering and Zhou Fan would just leave it that way.
As for now, however, its strength was at the first level of space shattering. That was still much higher than anyone else's in the Zhou World, but Zhou Fan didn't want anyone to be able to beat the dungeon at that point in time.
The tenth boss was much bigger than any of the other bosses and its main attack was breathing fire, despite not being a dragon.
Its back had spikes and it was the most powerful existence in the universe besides Zhou Fan. Its creation proved that Zhou Fan's power was indeed remarkable.
After creating it, Zhou Fan didn't put a reward unlike the other times. Instead, he simply made it drop a key when it died. The key would unlock the room with the shield.
Zhou Fan wasn't worried about the shield becoming useless once anyone was able to defeat the boss.Since it was a growth type weapon, it would forever be useful, especially due to the fact that only Zhou Fan would be able to create them, ever.
After all, growth type weapons were far too dangerous to be allowed. The only reason Zhou Fan was doing it was to create some strong people.
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