Chapter 119: Injury - 119
The dragon king ran for 15 minutes before the celestial lands came into view. He had long figured out that the grim reaper was playing with him, but chalked it up to him being arrogant.
After 3 minutes, the dragon king arrived at the plains in front of central city. He was greeted by an entire army and two of the rulers. He joined the two rulers' side and looked around for anna. When he didn't see her, he started to fear the worst.
"Why isn't Anna here?" He asked, hoping that she hadn't run away after sensing the grim reaper's power.
"We're not sure, but we can tell she is in her tower." The titanosaur responded.
The dragon king nodded and looked at the grim reaper standing across from them. "I'm not sure if we'll be able to last more than ten minutes without her." He said.
The titanosaur and the monkey king didn't say anything, but they agreed in their heads. They stalled as long as they could, but after a few more seconds, the grim reaper started to run at them.
With each step he took, space cracked and the planet rumbled. he had reached a level of strength that almost no other in the Zhou World could match.
As he got closer, Death Qi started to gather around him, increasing the momentum he was gaining. Eventually, the death Qi began to form a figure behind him. It was the same phantom he had summoned in the last battle.
Now, he could summon it with much more ease. It was also much stronger than before. The monkey king wasted no time by forming the buddha from last time and the other rulers didn't wait before sending their Qi to help form the buddha.
Although Anna wasn't participating, the other three rulers were much stronger than before. If the grim reaper was at the tenth level of void traversing, the buddha may equally match him.
Unfortunately, the grim reaper was now much stronger. As soon as the buddha figure and the death Qi phantoms fists collided, the buddha nearly broke.
It was pushed backwards, but the death Qi phantom stepped forward and delivered a punch to its head. The buddha dispersed immediately and the three rulers fell to the ground in defeat. They had used every bit of Qi they had in summoning the buddha figure, but they had been defeated immediately.
Not even twenty minutes had passed since the grim reaper revealed his strength. The grim reaper stood above them in the air and laughed at them. With him breaking into a higher realm, the group stood no chance against him.
As Zhou Fan watched on in the sky, he couldn't help but consider intervening. He couldn't just let the rulers die, they were too important.
However, just as he was about to make something happen, an old man stepped out from the city gates and started walking to the battlefield with nothing but a rusty sword in his hand.
Although he was old, he was strong. In fact, he was the third strongest person in the celestial lands with the cultivation of third level void traversing.
Since not a single person in the entire area was moving, it didn't take long before everyone had turned their eyes to him. Even Zhou Fan couldn't help but wonder what he was doing.
"Grim reaper." He said. "I have learned a martial art by watching a star explode. Please take my attack."
Although everyone found his words to be almost comical, nobody was laughing. It seemed as if the old man was wishing for death or was insane.
Even the grim reaper wasn't laughing at him. Instead, he was looking at him with disdain and disgust.
"Go ahead. I won't even block it." He said.
To both him and everyone else, the idea that someone at the third level of void traversing could even scratch someone at the realm above void traversing was ridiculous.
The grim reaper then turned away and ignored the old man, staring at the rulers on the ground.
The old man didn't seem upset or disappointed that he was being ignored, but indifferent towards the attitude of the grim reaper. Zhou Fan couldn't take his eyes off of him.
The old man lifted his sword up above his head. It was pointing straight in the air. He held it there for what seemed like an entire minute.
Although nobody else, not even the grim reaper, could see what was happening, Zhou Fan was able to tell. The man was focusing everything he had and everything he would ever have into this one strike.
A second before the old man dropped his sword down, the grim reaper felt a chill take over his entire body. Although he was death itself, he felt the true fear of death upon him.
In that same second, the old man slashed his sword towards the grim reaper. There was no burst of Qi or movement, but neither the grim reaper nor the old man moved an inch. It seemed that the entire world had come to a standstill.
All of a sudden, the old man's body started turning to dust. A wind blew and his body disintegrated. As everyone stared in confusion, the grim reaper's body started changing. In the center of his chest, a hole a foot in diameter turned into dust similar to the old man's entire body.
The grim reaper fell from the sky and landed on the ground. He clutched the area of the wound in pain and started rolling around on the ground. The rulers and the viewers watched on without a single word, clearly in shock at what just happened.
As for Zhou Fan, he too was in a state of shock. What the old man had just done was sacrifice his life. He permanently burned up all of his Qi, his cultivation, and even his lifespan.
He had imitated the supernova that had sacrificed its remaining life for one last burst of power.
Chapter 120: 6th - 120
Although the old man had only been at the 3rd level of void traversing, he was able to do that much damage to someone at space shattering!
Luckily, only the old man could use that move. It was something born from an unnatural and insane comprehension. Even Zhou Fan had no confidence in doing what he had seen the old man do. In fact, it was likely that no one else in the universe would ever be able to do what he had just done.
As the rulers watched the grim reaper roll around on the ground, they started to attack. Each of them used their strongest attacks possible with what little Qi they had left, but the grim reaper didn't even have to look up as he sent the attacks flying back at them.
The rulers hastily dodged and decided to simply watch what was happening, although they couldn't understand it.
Zhou Fan, however, was able to tell. Part of the grim reaper's very existence had been erased. He was going through a pain ten times worse than any other pain that had ever been experienced in the universe.
After twenty minutes, the grim reaper started to regain his wits and try to heal himself. After another 20 minutes, the grim reaper stood up with anger visible on his skull. Although he had no skin or organs, everyone swore they could see him sweating.
Just as he was about to use every bit of his remaining power to inflict damage, an ice blue pillar of Qi shot up from the tallest tower in the central city.
The grim reaper looked up at it, and decided to retreat. After the damage he had taken and the Qi it took to heal himself, the grim reaper only had 5% of his Qi left.
Although it would be enough to deal with the first three rulers, Anna would be too much now that she had broken through. The grim reaper broke a hole in space and retreated at full speed, but a sword shot out from the tower towards his location as he was entering the hole.
The grim reaper dodged it and got sucked into the hole, taking him who knows where instantly. Anna flew out from the tower and stood in the air looking at the healing space hole. She knew she may not be able to survive if she went in and she may not catch up even if she did.
The space hole healed up and the grim reaper officially escaped. Anna looked around and saw the damage to the area, along with the injured rulers.
"That was dangerous. We must not let ourselves fall behind the grim reaper or we will all die." She said simply.
If she hadn't coincidently broken through, the grim reaper would have been able to sweep through the rulers despite the damage done to him. The situation was something they could never allow to happen again.
If not for the old man who had comprehended a way to sacrifice his life, the entire world may have died this day.
In the next few days, a funeral was held in honor of the old man. Every ruler attended while most of the world showed up. Afterwards, a giant statue was built in the place his tower once stood.
On it was a gold plaque that said : In honor of the man that saved the world.
Zhou Fan decided to hold back the grim reapers' progress a bit from then on. Otherwise, he would win the next time he showed up.
Now that he was done with the grim reaper for now, Zhou Fan chose to go back into seclusion. He wanted to break through as fast as he could so that the solar system could be in harmony.
Zhou Fan teleported to the floating palace and took one last look at the current world before he went into seclusion.
The mermaids had stayed in the deep ocean cave since he had first given them intelligence. They had made very little advancements in technology or cultivation.
The strongest had only just reached nascent soul. Without a leader, they were doomed to fail.
None of the opportunities had been taken. In fact, not a single one had even come close to being taken.
The ten planets that Zhou Fan had connected to his mortal dao were still growing and would soon reach incredible sizes.
Overall, the entire Zhou World was steady and peaceful. Zhou Fan closed his eyes and started cultivating.
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13,000 years later, Zhou Fan broke into the 6th level of the lesser dao creation realm. As per usual, his strength had increased greatly.
Without even taking a moment to check out the Zhou World, Zhou Fan teleported out into space. The ten planets had finished growing in the time since he entered seclusion.
The biggest of them had reached half the size of the Zhou World while the smallest was one twentieth the size of the Zhou World.
Although it was only a twentieth, the planet was bigger than the sun it flew around.
With his breakthrough, Zhou Fan could sense the planets, including the Zhou World, were about to start growing again.
Before then, Zhou Fan chose to try his earlier idea. He would attempt to connect his mortal dao to the sun.
Zhou Fan flew into it and traveled towards the center. Although he had no idea if it would be the same as a planet, he figured that there was only one way to find out.
Since he was taking in the sight and flying slowly, it took Zhou Fan twenty minutes to reach the center of the sun. Like almost the entire sun, it was in a gaseous state.
However, Zhou Fan could feel the vitality it was giving off. Only now did Zhou Fan understand just how much life stars had. If he were to reach his hand into the very center of the sun, a sphere no bigger than a foot in diameter, he may experience heavy burns.
Without a doubt, he had reached the sun's core.
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200+ Power
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121 Power
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