Chapter 135: Return - 135
Within the floating palace, Zhou Fan sat with his legs crossed. He was preparing himself for seclusion. Once he finished breaking through, he would be two steps away from an entirely new realm.
Zhou Fan calmed his breath and cleared his mind before he started to cultivate.
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20,000 years later, Zhou Fan opened his eyes. He had reached the 9th level of the lesser Dao creation realm.
Although the difference in strength was immense, it hardly mattered to Zhou Fan. There wasn't anything that he needed more physical strength to do.
The best part about breaking through would be the increase in Qi. Even so, it too didn't matter much.
Since so much time had passed, Zhou Fan was ready to take a look outside. He hadn't expected to take 20,000 years to break through, so Jack's cultivation would have likely gone past the 3rd level of void traversing.
Zhou Fan appeared above the floating palace and scanned the entire Zhou World with his divine sense. Surprisingly, neither Jack nor Anna was on the planet.
Once noticeable thing, however, was that the mermaid race was no longer living at the bottom of the ocean. In the center of the ocean, at the farthest place from land on the Zhou World, there was an entire oasis of buildings and mermaids.
The population exceeded a million and the buildings were uncountable. Overall, the city took up ten thousand square miles of land, with even the ground having multiple caves for mermaids to live in.
Although there were no city gates, there was a giant floating sign that said: The City of Atlantis. It was inlaid with many powerful gems and ores. Some had even reached the tenth level of void traversing.
Such a luxury was hard to find within even the richest areas of the Zhou World.
After looking over the rest of the Zhou World and seeing that, although there were some changes, nothing much had truly changed, Zhou Fan expanded his divine sense to cover the rest of the Zhou Solar system. Only then did he find Anna, Jack, and the other rulers.
Anna was still at the 1st level of space shattering, but the dragon king was too. Both the monkey king and the titanosaur were at the 9th level of void traversing.
Finally, Jack had reached the 4th level of void traversing. As expected, his speed was still incredibly fast.
While the rulers were currently dealing with other races, Jack was on one of the water planets that Zhou Fan had made.
After watching him for a bit, it seemed that Jack hadn't revealed himself to the Zhou Solar System. It was likely that he had spent the last 20,000 years quietly cultivating.
Now, he was much more mature and less flashy. He walked around one of the underwater cities wearing a dark cloak and the trident was underneath it.
Although he gained some attention by walking instead of swimming, it was a somewhat common thing for high level cultivators to walk on the water planet.
Therefore, people minded their business and avoided him. After so many years, Jack's appearance had changed considerably.
He was still devoid of facial hair and his hair was now short and brown. He was 6 foot and 5 inches tall, muscular, and overall seemed like a king.
Although appearance was easy to change for a cultivator at Jack's level, Zhou Fan was able to tell that it was his natural appearance. Of course, all beings looked good once they started cultivating, but it was still good that Jack looked more kingly than handsome.
Zhou Fan watched as Jack entered an inn and headed to his room. He then laid down and slept. Zhou Fan didn't look at him for any longer and turned his attention to anna.
Right now, she was in a meeting with a couple of other races on one of the bigger planets, Zhou Fan had terraformed. It was soon to get bigger once it started expanding, but everyone had long been used to the planets expanding seemingly without reason.
Zhou Fan eavesdropped on their conversation and heard nothing but boring political things. He listened in on the other rulers' conversations and discovered that they were talking about the same things.
After he had checked up on everything, Zhou Fan summoned the grim reaper. He thought of how to introduce him, and quickly got an idea. In one of the gaps between planet and sun in the Zhou Solar system, a giant blue portal appeared.
It sat there for a minute, but not a single person had noticed it. All of a sudden, a ship that appeared to be made of bones sailed out from it. It resembled a pirate ship without the masts or the flags.
Although it seemed somewhat small from a distance, the ship was 10 miles long, and each foot was packed with skeletons.
Some skeletons were carrying weapons, some wore cloaks, and some were weaponless and cloakless.
However, one skeleton that stood at the front of the ship, not surrounded by any other skeleton, stood out. Obviously, it was the grim reaper, wearing a cloak and carrying a scythe.
Now, it had reached the second level of space shattering. Although the difference in strength between each small breakthrough increased as the realm got higher, the Grim Reaper at the second level of space shattering was much easier to defeat with two level one space shattering experts than a 1st level space shattering grim reaper and bunch of void traversing cultivators.
Even so, it wouldn't be an easy battle. It was also a battle that Jack would be unable to participate in with his current strength.
Although the ship had gone unnoticed at first, it was eventually noticed by a nearby planet's void traversing cultivator and reported through the use of communication talismans.
Word quickly spread that the grim reaper had returned, and he had come with an army. His destination was undoubtedly the Zhou World.
As soon as the news was reported, the rulers flew towards the Zhou World at top speed.
Chapter 136: Grim Reaper - 136
In the skies of the Zhou World, a white dot suddenly appeared. At first, it was so small it was nearly unnoticeable, but it soon expanded until nearly half of the planet could see the grim reapers ship.
Since news of the grim reapers movements had long reached the Zhou world, panic started to spread. As the panic increased, the strongest people left on the Zhou World began to gather all their people in the main area of their lands and activated the formations covering them.
Although many would be left outside of the formations, there wasn't enough time to save everyone. Of course, they only gathered in case the rulers failed to return before the Grim Reaper started his attack.
Five minutes passed in the Zhou World before something happened. From the bottom of the giant bone ship, a hole appeared. From that hole, an endless horde of skeletons jumped down. It seemed more like a white waterfall than a bunch of skeletons, but the aura of death was too obvious to ignore.
After many minutes of pouring, the skeletons formed four different groups. At a very fast speed, those groups went towards the main location of each race's land.
It took another ten minutes for the rulers to arrive. By then, the armies had almost reached the main location of each of the lands.
Despite the rulers strength, the Zhou Solar system had become too big to instantly travel around. As the planets expanded, the space between them did too. Therefore, even a space shattering realm cultivator like Anna took a while to go through the entirety of it.
The rulers prepared to attack the armies traveling towards their lands, but quickly stopped once a familiar skeleton appeared in front of them.
There were no words exchanged between the rulers and the grim reaper as the battle instantly started. The monkey king and the titanosaur backed up to provide support, while anna and the dragon king launched towards the grim reaper to attack.
Anna arrived first as a sword made of ice Qi condensed in her hand and pierced the space in front of it to reach the Grim reaper.
The grim reaper grabbed the front of the sword with his bone hand and stopped it in its place. His other hand, covered with death Qi on the fingertips, shot towards Anna's stomach in a claw shape.
Anna moved her body to the side and jumped backwards, but not before sending a shower of icicles towards the grim reaper.
In the split second their exchange lasted, the dragon king had arrived near the grim reaper. He transformed into his dragon body and breathed demonic flames onto the grim reaper. In return, the grim reaper sent a tornado of death Qi towards the dragon king that dispersed the attack and kept moving forwards, although weaker.
The dragon king covered his claw with dragon Qi and sliced it towards the tornado. Like the grim reapers attack, the dragon kings attack pierced through the tornado and kept going towards the grim reaper, only to be countered with a swipe of his hand.
Before the grim reaper could attack the dragon king, Anna once again appeared next to him, holding a mini blizzard in her palm, and shoved it towards his chest.
Unable to react in time, the grim reaper didn't block and instead sent a bone sword towards the point in between Anna's eyebrows.
In order to dodge the fatal attack, Anna had to twist her body, which made the mini blizzard miss its target. Anna backed away and the dragon king appeared right next to the grim reaper with another attack.
Anna and the dragon king continued their technique in order to tire out the grim reaper, receiving healing whenever they backed off from the monkey king, while the titanosaur helped the monkey king with the burden of Qi.
Despite their best efforts, the grim reaper hadn't slowed down a bit after ten minutes. Also, the skeleton armies had reached the capitals of the lands and began attacking the barriers. Although there were plenty of strong people among the races, there were far more strong skeletons among the armies.
Therefore, even the strongest members of the four lands only attacked with the formations on the barrier instead of going out themselves.
Thankfully, the barriers would last another 24 hours before they began to weaken, and 48 hours before they broke at the current rate of attack.
The back and forth between the rulers and the grim reaper continued for 5 more hours and not a single thing had changed. The sun was starting to go down while the moon had begun rising, but the grim reaper didn't seem tired at all. Instead, the rulers were starting to feel fatigued.
The only good news for the rulers was that the skeleton armies were being thinned out by the formations, but it was only a small amount compared to the total population of the armies.
After another five hours passed and the sun had completely gone down, the rulers realized that they needed to change their strategy. If they didn't they would end up losing.
For the first time since the start of the battle, both Anna and the dragon king backed away from the grim reaper. Thankfully, he had started to feel a small amount of fatigue after that much time and didn't attack.
While they were all together, the monkey king and the titanosaur used up nearly all of their Qi, leaving only enough to protect themselves, and helped increase the strength of Anna and the dragon king.
Although it wouldn't have much of an effect due to the difference in strength, anything was helpful against the grim reaper.
They then took a very short breather and shot towards the grim reaper at full speed. They would no longer take turns attacking, but use their entire strength to hopefully defeat him.
As soon as the grim reaper saw them coming towards him, he formed a sword out of pure death Qi and got into his battle stance.
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