Chapter 133: Old Man - 133
After an unknown amount of time passed, Jack opened his eyes. He felt like he had just woken up from a nap as he stood up with a groggy look on his face.
The look was quickly wiped away as he looked at the unknown surroundings. He had never seen such a place throughout his entire life.
The walls were white and there was a red carpet leading down a hall to an unknown location.
Jack held his head as he tried to remember how he had gotten there. Eventually, a look of realization came to his face.
He remembered trying to climb the stairs to enter the floating palace, but attacking it after he started to struggle. He then remembered the lightning dragon attacking him and him attacking it. That was the last thing he remembered before he ended up in this place.
Jack spent another ten minutes trying to remember, before he gave up and started to look around the room. Based on its color scheme, Jack felt like he must be inside the floating palace.
As for how he entered, he came to the conclusion that the attack must have knocked him into it.
Since the room he was in was completely empty, Jack started to venture down the hall in front of him after grabbing the trident next to him. He kept walking for what seemed to be a fourth of a mile before he reached a golden door.
He pushed against it, but it didn't budge. He tried to pull it, assuming that it opened the other way, but it remained still.
Getting frustrated, Jack was about to attack the door and try to force it open, but he remembered the lightning dragon and calmed down.
He eventually ran out of ideas and walked up to the door to knock.
BANG! BANG! BANG!
Jack knocked three times, not expecting anything.
"Come in." A voice said from behind the door, making Jack flinch in surprise.
As the words were said, a crack appeared in the doors and Jack pushed forward on them. As he pushed forward, a blinding white light seeped through the crack, causing jack to cover his eyes.
When he removed his hand and looked up, he was in a completely different place. A trail led forward, surrounded by trees. Jack was absolutely confused at what had just happened. Shaking his head, he stopped thinking and walked forward.
Zhou Fan watched from far away, sitting on a rock in front of a waterfall. He had done everything he could to make himself seem mysterious, including dressing up as a wise old man. He had long gray hair that piled up below him and a beard that reached his crossed legs.
What he had done to Jack was a new idea he wanted to try out. Ever since he had invented space rings, he started to wonder what else he could do with the power of space. While Jack was climbing the stairs, he had been experimenting with creating a separate space within the floating palace.
Clearly, he had some success. The entire square area, that was about a mile from one end to the other, was a completely separate space. Zhou Fan was glad he had broken into the 8th level of lesser Dao creation, or he would have never been able to sustain such a space.
Even now, he was struggling with all his might to keep it up. At the current rate, he would only last 2 hours before his Qi was gone.
Thankfully, Jack was coming towards him pretty fast.
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After walking past a collection of trees, Jack saw a waterfall in front of him. The mountain it came off of was pretty small compared to the Zhou Worlds mountains, but it was the tallest thing Jack had ever seen.
Slightly in front of the bottom of the waterfall, an old man sat on a flat rock.
"Welcome. Take a seat in front of me child." The old man said to Jack. Although hesitant at first, Jack made up his mind and walked towards the old man. After floating above the water and landing on the rock, Jack imitated the way the man in front of him was sitting.
"Are you the one that brought me here?" Jack asked.
"Yes." The old man said. "I am also the one that saved your life."
"What?" Jack responded. He had no idea what the old man was talking about.
"You don't remember?" The old man said while raising an eyebrow. "Here."
The old man pointed to his left, and Jack turned his head to see a holographic screen. He watched himself climb up the stairs easily, before struggling at the 900th and the 950th.
He then watched himself attack the floating palace, before a lightning dragon appeared. He watched on as he and the lightning dragon collided. That was where his memory ended, but the video kept playing.
Jack saw the shockwave hit him and the skin fly off his body. He then watched himself fall forward and slowly crawl towards the golden door, before touching it and disappearing. He then looked at the old man silently.
"I'm the owner of the floating palace, and the one who let you in and healed you." He said.
Jack was silent for a while before he spoke. "Thank you sir."
It was a weird experience seeing yourself in such a state, and Jack was still shocked by it.
"No need to thank me. I only let you in because of your talent. Since you did reach the top despite me lowering the difficulty, I'll give you a reward." The old man said.
Jack looked up at him and waited for him to continue.
"Pick a number between one and ten. Depending on the number you choose, I'll teach you a martial art."
"One" Jack said.
"I had a feeling you would pick that." The old man said before he pointed a finger at Jack's head.
Before Jack understood what he was doing, a video started playing in his head.
Chapter 134: Space Shattering - 134
In Jack's mind, a man was standing on the edge of a city wall. He was looking in front of him at tens of thousands of troops running towards him. Despite the immense number of enemies, the man seemed confident and calm.
Jack could tell that the man was at the same level as him. All of a sudden, the man lifted his right arm and pointed it at the sky. Jack looked at the area he was pointing, only to see many streaks of light Qi form in the air.
"Rain of judgment." The man on the wall said, before the streaks of light Qi formed into thousands of swords that rained upon the battlefield.
In an instant, the army was defeated. Although the move looked simple, it contained many intricacies that Jack was unable to comprehend. Luckily, the video restarted and Jack watched it again.
He continued to watch it ten times, then a hundred, then a thousand. Finally, after 3 days had passed, Jack opened his eyes. He had managed to comprehend the martial art that the old man showed him.
"Thank you sir." Jack said as he stood up. The move that the old man had taught him was by far the greatest martial art Jack had seen. After all, most of the martial arts he had seen before were weak techniques that someone had clearly thrown together.
In fact, even if they had been strong techniques, the one Zhou Fan created was much stronger.
"Alright, It's time for you to leave." The old man said to Jack. He then raised his hand and waved it, causing Jack to appear at the bottom of the stairs that lead to the floating palace.
With more confidence than before, Jack bowed at the floating palace and walked back towards the village.
Meanwhile, Zhou Fan had removed the disguise and sat there sweating. Since Jack had taken three days to comprehend the move, Zhou Fan had been forced to remove the separate space and return to the floating palace room.
He made sure that Jack stayed focused on the illusion and remade the separate space as soon as he comprehended the move.
Since he had to do it in a hurry, Zhou Fan had used a lot more Qi than before, causing the sweat. Luckily, he was finished with Jack for now.
He would now wait for Anna to break through before he went into seclusion again. Next time he came out, there would be many surprises waiting for him.
After he broke through again, he would only have two more breakthroughs before he reached a brand new realm. Even he was excited when thinking of it.
As of now, he didn't have a clue as to what the next realm would hold. Perhaps he would have a clue once he broke into the 10th level of the lesser dao creation realm. Until then, he could only guess.
For the next couple years, Zhou Fan sat around in the floating palace and experimented with the separate space concept.
After twenty years had passed, Zhou Fan sensed a disturbance in the world's Qi. It seemed as if it was being sucked in a certain direction.
Although he was able to tell what was happening without even looking, he was surprised it was happening so fast.
Zhou Fan looked out of the floating palace in the direction of the celestial lands' central city, or more specifically, Anna's tower within central city.
Inside it, Anna was in the process of breaking through to the space shattering realm. From the strained look on her face, Zhou Fan was able to tell that she was using all of her effort.
After ten minutes passed, the suction force seemed to slow and the world's Qi seemed to calm down.
All of a sudden, power started to pour out of anna. Although it wasn't as big as Zhou Fan's breakthrough to space shattering, she was still shattering the space within the tower, and even a little bit on the outside.
Shock and panic covered the city for a moment, but the cracks quickly repaired themselves and everyone was left wondering what had happened. Luckily, the walls had been made to withstand such attacks, although they were on the verge of crumbling.
If the rulers were on the planet, they would have arrived at the tower, but they were busy with the other races.
Zhou Fan continued to look inside the tower as Anna opened her eyes and stood up. She smiled to herself before clenching her fists in order to see her strength. As her fists clenched, the space near them broke.
However, it didn't break as much as it could have. There were multiple reasons why Anna couldn't break space on a large scale after breaking through. The biggest one was that the space within the Zhou world and all the other worlds had been strengthened as they grew.
Otherwise, the space would have shattered within the entire room just from her fists clenching. Looking at the destruction around her, Anna looked annoyed and quickly cleaned it up. She also quickly repaired the walls with some of the materials she had stored.
Due to an array that automatically healed the walls, all Anna had to do was put the materials in the correct place and they quickly fixed themselves up.
After cleaning up, Anna decided that she wouldn't cultivate on the Zhou world anymore. Like Zhou Fan had realized a long time ago, she had realized that it was very dangerous to break through near things.
Zhou Fan estimated that she would start cultivating in the great hall since it was one of the only places in the galaxy that could resist her space shattering power.
Zhou Fan stopped paying attention to Anna once she started to leave her tower and went back to the floating palace. He would once again enter seclusion and breakthrough.
He decided that after he did that, he would bring the grim reaper out and let Anna fight him again.
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