Chapter 137: Plasma Attack - 137
Anna and the dragon king arrived at the grim reaper and attacked at the same time from opposite sides. Anna slashed out with a sword made of of space Qi that sent an arch of sword Qi and space Qi flying towards the grim reaper, while the dragon king, still in dragon form, used his claws to slash at the grim reaper causing a phantom claw to shoot towards him.
In response, two black arms formed from death Qi and Bone Qi punched towards the two rulers' attacks. By the time the attacks collided, Anna and the dragon king had changed places and attacked again.
From the first collision, it was clear to see that the arm technique was stronger than the two rulers' attacks. While the ruler's attacks dispersed quickly, the arms sustained very little damage and were repaired instantly.
The rulers attacked from two other opposite directions and were once again blocked by the arms. After a couple more rounds of that, the two rulers were ready to completely go all out.
Since they had broken into the space shattering realm, they had gained new ultimate moves.
Very quickly, Anna and the dragon king used their new ultimate moves. On Anna's side, an immense amount of cold Qi and space Qi seeped into her skin, turning it snow white.
With just a glance, Zhou Fan could tell that she had converted all her strength into physical strength, increasing her power greatly. Unfortunately, it came with a price.
Although slowly, cracks had started to spread on her skin. If she kept the form up for too long, she would break like an ice sculpture. Zhou Fan estimated that she had 5 hours before she died.
On the dragon king's side, his body, which had been kept fairly small by him, started to expand swiftly. From the size of one of the towers in central city, to a mountain, he kept expanding bigger and bigger.
His skin became a much more purplish and purple flames covered his skin. He had started to burn his Qi in order to pull off the move, and Zhou Fan estimated that he had 7 hours before his cultivation dropped.
Although the side effect seemed lesser, a major drop in cultivation like one from space shattering to void traversing could heavily injure and likely kill anyone.
The two rulers transformed in just moments, but the grim reaper didn't stay the same either. Although he looked the same on the outside, Zhou Fan knew that he had enhanced his consumption of Qi and would end up suffering from the side effects of Qi exhaustion in around five hours.
With each of their transformations finishing, the battle could last at most another five hours before one side was defeated.
The grim reaper was the first to move this time, teleporting and appearing next to Anna instantly. Since none of the rulers had discovered teleportation, Anna was extremely surprised by the grim reaper's sudden appearance, and was hit by his palm attack, sending her flying back.
On her stomach was a dark palm print that seemed to be trying to corrode her skin. Luckily, her new transformation helped her resist both the impact and the lasting effect with nearly no damage.
As soon as the grim reaper's palm hit Anna, he teleported above the dragon king, who was also surprised by his sudden appearance. However, since he had seen it happen to Anna, he was slightly prepared and shot a breath of flames towards the spot that the grim reaper appeared in.
The flames met with the grim reapers piercing attack as they went past each other and attacked their targets.
The dragon king's flames hit the grim reaper, but barely did anything, while the grim reaper's white and black piercing attack had hit the dragon king's skull and done heavy damage. Luckily, it wasn't enough to hurt him and barely slowed him down.
As the grim reaper teleported next to Anna and started having a slightly long exchange with her, the dragon king internally reflected on his attack.
'My flames aren't doing anything to him. It must be because they are covering such a large range. It may be possible to instead compress my flames and create an attack that could seriously injure him.' The dragon king thought to himself.
Once again, the grim reaper hit Annas back and teleported to the dragon king's side, expecting to easily deal with his attack of flames. The grim reaper shot out a bone spear towards the dragon king's eye, but instead of dodging, the dragon king coated his eye in Qi in preparation for impact and shot out an attack of his own.
The dragon king opened his mouth and a whistling sound started to sound out, followed by a purple glow in his mouth. It sounded as if the dragon king's attack was charging up.
The grim reaper, partly due to arrogance and mostly due to the fact that he expected another flame attack, simply put up a barrier and looked towards anna. If he could teleport without a brief cooldown, he would have already been over there.
As soon as the whistling sound from the dragon king stopped, the grim reaper felt a wave of danger cover him. Since he was no stranger to such a feeling, he instantly turned towards the dragon king and attempted to put more barriers.
Unfortunately, the dragon king's charged attack left his mouth at a speed that matched moving through cracked space.
What left his mouth wasn't flames, but a purple plasma that moved with a whistling sound and instantly shattered the barrier upon impact.
As soon as it broke the barrier, the plasma attack exploded and caused a sphere of condensed plasma to engulf the grim reaper.
Everything happened in an instant, and the plasma soon disappeared, leaving a scorched grim reaper barely standing.
Without hesitation, the dragon king switched to his human form, dodging the grim reapers attack, and created a sword, while Anna used her space sword, and both arrived at opposite sides of the grim reaper.
Anna pierced the back of the grim reaper, while the dragon king pierced his front, leaving two swords going through different spots on his chest.
Chapter 138: Zhou Sect - 138
After being stabbed through the chest by two different swords, the grim reaper's body started to slowly collapse and turn into particles of light. Anna and the dragon king watched it happen silently. Just as about half of the body had been turned into particles of light, a black ball of light shot outwards from the body at a speed that anna and the dragon king were unable to react to.
As it zoomed past their faces and shot into outer space, Anna caught a slight glimpse of it. From that glimpse, she was able to tell what it was.
"That's his soul! His soul is escaping!" She yelled before she broke space and followed it as fast as she could.
The dragon king, who had just comprehended her words, followed behind quickly. Unfortunately, Anna and the soul were so fast that they had disappeared from his view by the time he had reached outer space.
Anna was still following the soul, but it was slightly faster than her, causing it to pull away after a period of time. Eventually, it flew into the sun and Anna could no longer sense it, even after using her divine sense.
"DAM*IT!" She screamed. She had no idea how he had disconnected his soul from his body and managed to flee. She did, however, have a feeling that he would survive and be back.
Anna's feeling was correct. After he had escaped pursuit, Zhou Fan grabbed the grim reaper's soul and looked at it. Although he had come up with the move, this was the first time it had been used. It was also the first time Zhou Fan had seen a soul.
Although it was different from a normal soul since the grim reaper was a being made by Zhou Fan and was closer to being a puppet than being considered a living being, it still was likely to be similar to a normal being's soul if they hadn't gone through the nascent soul stage.
In other words, Zhou Fan was looking at what a soul looked like from someone who was below the nascent soul realm. He estimated that someone who had reached the nascent soul realm had a different looking soul, as well as someone in the soul formation realm.
He didn't plan on testing the technique out himself since it was actually very dangerous and could cause someone to lose an amount of their cultivation, but he assumed that Anna and the dragon king would try to replicate the move.
They would also try to replicate teleportation since it was such a large part of the grim reapers strength in the battle. Along with them replicating moves, they would also have to try and create something.
The best idea would be to create a formation that blocked souls from leaving an area, since they can go through most solid matter, or create a technique that would do the same thing without a formation.
They had plenty of time to do that, however. After all, Zhou Fan had no plan to release the grim reaper until he broke through to the next realm. He didn't know how long it would take, but Jack may have reached the space shattering realm at that time.
Before he did anything else, Zhou Fan created another body for the grim reaper. It was identical to the last one. That was the worst part about the soul escaping technique. The price was destroying your body, and without someone's help, recreating your body with only your soul was nearly impossible.
Without your body, you would lose the harmony between body, mind, and soul, and experience a decrease in power.
Perhaps someone that had chosen the second path when they broke through to nascent soul would have it easier, but since Zhou Fan hadn't chosen it, no one else has had the ability to. After all, they were only following Zhou Fans path. It would take another person like Zhou Fan in order for someone to choose the second path of the soul.
Until then, every cultivator would have their soul, body, and mind together.
Since everything with the grim reaper was finished, Zhou Fan started watching Jack. Right now, he was at a side branch of a place called the Zhou Sect. It was a sect that had a presence in every corner of the Zhou Solar system.
It was under the ownership of each of the rulers and was basically a ruling power of the entire solar system. Its main location was in the Zhou World, but there were thousands on every planet.
Inside the Zhou sect's branch, Jack had accepted a mission. The compensation would be the main currency in the entire solar system. Spirit stones. The mission that Jack accepted was one of the most difficult, ranked at S-rank.
The ranks started from the lowest FFF, to the highest, EX. In order, the ranks were FFF, FF, F, E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, SSS, and EX. FFF-rank missions could be completed by even the weakest cultivator, while Ex-rank missions were missions only the rulers would do. Of course, no EX-rank mission had ever been posted, but it was still a theoretical rank.
Cultivators were ranked based on their strength and their rank decided what missions they could take. S-rank is for cultivators at the 1st - 3rd level of void traversing, SS-rank is for cultivators at the 4th-6th level of void traversing, SSS-rank is for cultivators at the 7th-9th level of void traversing, and EX-rank is for anyone above that.
Jack is at the SS-rank, while the monkey king and the titanosaur were actually at the SSS-rank instead of the EX-rank like Anna and the dragon king.
Even so, there were only three people at the SSS-rank and 100 at the SS-rank. Therefore, Jack was one of the most powerful people in the solar system. Also, you didn't have to join the Zhou Sect to take a mission. You just had to sign up.
After grabbing his mission, Jack left towards the most dangerous place on the water planet.
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