Chapter 218: Battle - 218
The mountain was not in the shape of a typical mountain. Instead of starting with a big base and becoming smaller until there was a peak, this mountain resembled a cut down tree trunk.
It went up around 3,000 miles before it became a flat, stony land that was millions of miles large. Despite its ground which was obviously unsuitable for farming in any way, Tian Ren and the mysterious man felt that it was the best place to settle down.
After all, dirt could always be added later, but such a significant and striking mountain was likely the only one on the entire planet.
At the same exact time, both men flew up to the flat top of the mountain. They reached past the mountain's walls at the exact same time as well.
The first thing each of them noticed was how truly flat the mountain was. The next was each other.
Both Tian Ren and the mysterious man paused when they saw each other. Neither person expected another being to be on the mountain. A wild beast wouldn't have been hard to believe, but a fellow sentient being wasn't even considered.
The mountain seemed to have a slight wind as it blew past both of the men staring at each other.
Eventually, Tian Ren raised his hand and waved it. The mysterious man did the same.
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Tian Ren had never been so wary as he had in this moment. The appearance of another sentient being was out of all his considerations.
It would have been easier to accept if it had been another humanoid being with skin and eyes, but the man in front of him, while seemingly humanoid, appeared to have cloth for skin.
There was no indication of eyes or ears, and the man's arms gave off a weird feeling. In fact, his entire body gave off a weird feeling. Despite his wariness, Tian Ren decided to be friendly until aggression was shown.
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The mysterious man was in a situation similar to Tian Ren. The closest thing he had ever seen to him was a monkey.
Even then, the man on the other side of the mountain was clearly different. He gave off a cleaner and purer feeling than any beast the mysterious man had come across. He didn't like it.
Yet he also decided to be friendly. At the very least, he would make his decision after talking to the thing in front of him.
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After waving at each other, Tian Ren and the mysterious man began to move closer to each other. It wasn't anywhere near their top speeds as they didn't want to come off as aggressive, but they were nowhere near slow.
The mountain was far too big for any sort of slow movement.
Once Tian Ren and the mysterious man were within a hundred feet of each other, they stopped moving and touched the ground with their feet.
They were now in the very center of the mountain.
"Hello. Do you speak english?" Tian Ren asked.
"English? I suppose." The mysterious man said. He simply assumed that they called their languages different names.
"Are you a native of this world?" Tian Ren decided to ask after a moment of silence.
"No. And I assume you aren't either." The mysterious man responded.
Another pause ensued. Both began to realize that they were likely going to be enemies if they were on the planet for resources.
After a while Tian Ren spoke.
"Have you heard about our lord and savior Heaven?" He asked.
"I do not know of any heaven." The man responded seriously.
"Oh..."
Silence ensued.
"My name is Tian Ren. I am a heavenborn, the race of the children of heaven, and I have come to occupy this world, this mountain, and all the resources on them in the name of Heaven." Tian Ren said.
He knew that his words were equivalent to declaring war on the man, but he decided to not back down.
"My name has been long forgotten by all. I have decided that this world, this mountain, and all the resources on them are mine." The mysterious man responded.
"Then so be it." Tian Ren responded.
A final moment of silence ensued as clouds gathered above the mountain.
In an instant, Tian Ren raised his hand and a lightning bolt struck it. From the lightning, a sword formed. It was made out of the pure power of lightning Qi.
At the same exact time as Tian Ren, the mysterious man put his palm to his side and it seemed as if all the darkness in the surroundings gathered on his palm, forming a whirlpool of darkness Qi.
The two men moved at the same time, reaching each other in a moment. Tian Ren struck down with his lightning sword, another strike of lightning from the clouds above following its downward motion.
The mysterious man raised his palm to meet with Tian Ren's sword and collided with it. An extremely powerful force shot out in an instant, putting a large crater in the huge mountain. The two men used all their strength to push against the other, forming a gravitational force that harmed the surroundings even more.
After a moment, the two men's hands were knocked back from each other. That seemed to start the high pace battle that followed.
Tian Ren moved to the mysterious man's side and sliced the lightning sword horizontally.
The mysterious man read his move and sent a large blast of darkness Qi towards Tian Ren and his sword.
The blast of darkness Qi was big enough to hit Tian Ren's entire body, but he did not falter and continued the swinging motion of his lightning sword.
The mysterious man, lacking in experience of battling with an individual of equal strength, did not expect Tian Ren to take the blast head on.
Due to the large surface of his attack and the small focus of Tian Rens, The mysterious man's darkness blast was cut through, allowing the sword to make contact with his hand.
A small cut formed and he backed away a bit. As the attack of darkness Qi faded away, he saw Tian Rens disheveled clothes from taking an area attack without any defense.
'He can't afford to do that too many times. Regardless, I won't make the same mistake again.' The mysterious man thought to himself as the cloth healed nearly instantly without spilling any blood.
Chapter 219: Heaven's Eye - 219
If the mysterious man was able to tell that Tian Ren couldn't do the same thing again, then Tian Ren naturally knew the same.
Tian Ren was trying to get a feel for his opponent before fully going all out with the intention to kill.
With less than a second passing, Tian Ren and the mysterious man moved again. They appeared in front of each other and the mysterious man sliced horizontally with his hand as if he was holding an invisible fan. At the same time, Tian Ren sliced straight down with his sword.
The mysterious man's Darkness Qi and Tian Ren's lightning Qi clashed, pushing both of them back.
Once again, they moved speedily, clashed, got knocked back, and repeated.
Slash, slice, upward thrust, downward slice, over and over again as they moved around the mountain. The mountain was hard and resilient, but the constant clashes of the two men had made it seem more similar to the moon with its many craters than a flat area.
After many clashes, both men were ready to fight to the death. They had understood their opponent as much as possible.
Both backed up farther away than before and moved their hands. Tian Ren was up in the sky and raised his hand high, using an immense amount of lightning Qi. In just a moment, Tian Ren had formed a lightning dragon that shot down towards the mysterious man on the ground.
At the same time, the mysterious man raised his hand from a lower position and a dragon of darkness Qi shot out of the ground.
The two dragons clashed with each other, sending a horizontal burst of energy that shot into the distance. In the moment that the dragons were forcing each other back, Tian Ren and the mysterious man didn't wait.
Tian Ren collapsed his lightning sword into pure lightning Qi that covered his fist as he flew down towards the mysterious man. The mysterious man covered his fist in darkness Qi and struck out at Tian Ren's descending fist.
In the instant their fist clashed, ten thousand lightning strikes flew from behind Tian Ren, each of them aimed at the mysterious man's body.
Meeting those lightning strikes was ten thousand birds of darkness Qi flying at Tian Ren's body. Both the fists and the secondary attacks met at the same time.
A giant curtain of dust from the extremely sorry mountain blocked the outcome of the collision. In just a moment, the dust cleared as the two dragons dissipated at the same time and caused a wind to move the dust away.
Flying opposite to each other, Tian Ren had an injury on his arm that trailed from his pinky fingers knuckle to his inner elbow. It wasn't quite bone deep, but the injury seemed severe.
The mysterious man stood on the other side, completely unharmed. If he had a face, Tian Ren supposed it would be one full of mockery.
"The victor is clear. Just this once, I'll allow you to live if you leave." The mysterious man stated.
A staring match ensued.
"Did you think that that was everything?" Tian Ren suddenly said, a hint of arrogance reaching his face, slightly shocking the mysterious man.
"I am the creation of heaven! From the moment I was born, his words echoed in my ear! My power is his! My life is his! Throughout heaven and earth, I alone am the son of heaven!" Tian Ren shouted.
In an instant, he appeared high in the sky, his arms spread out.
"HEAVEN!" He shouted once again.
In a second, the lightning bolt imprint on his forehead snapped open, revealing an eye. The moment it opened, a giant eye formed in the sky, giving a horrid pressure to the mysterious man. He was nearly forced to his knees in an instant.
While it seemed like heaven had made an appearance, he hadn't. The giant eye was formed from a special power that heaven had given Tian Ren the moment the lightning bolt struck him.
It seemed unfair, but the power was not without drawbacks. Firstly, the Qi consumption of Tian Ren would shoot through the roof. If he fought with his full power, his Qi would last thirty minutes maximum.
Secondly, even if he won the battle unscathed, he would be severely injured for a period of time. Among the injuries he would receive was temporary blindness. The blindness would not only blind his eyes, but even his divine sense would no longer work until the injuries healed.
As the mysterious man struggled not to kneel on the ground, Tian Ren formed another lightning sword in his hand. It was clearly much more powerful than before. Increasing Tian Ren's strength was another power of the heaven eye.
Deciding not to waste any time in order to limit his injuries, Tian Ren shot forward at his top speed and sliced down upon the mysterious man's head.
Suddenly, the mysterious man, who was almost kneeling, moved slightly to the side, causing the sword to miss his head and lodge itself deep into his shoulder, reaching even his upper stomach. Tian Ren tried to move the sword out in an instant, but it seemed stuck in something.
"Damn you! Heaven!" The mysterious man shouted as he punched up at the side of Tian Ren's head with his arm that still functioned.
Tian Ren was caught off guard by the sudden attack and was directly hit in the temple. With his increased strength, it should have simply made him stumble backwards, but he went flying to the side, leaving his lightning sword to dissipate in the man's injured body.
With a single look, one could tell why the mysterious man's attack was so powerful. Raging off of his fist like a flame was a reddish, flame-like power with thousands of stretched out faces.
Only two black eyes and a black, screaming mouth could be seen on each of the thousands of faces as they flowed by.
This was one of the mysterious man's trump cards, the hundred thousand soul flame. In order to create the power, he had to kill a hundred thousand beings and entrap their suffering souls.
Tian Ren recovered from the ground and looked at the power. His face turned into a frown. The screeching screams and the power that the power gave off was horrifying.
Even with the heaven eye above him, the mysterious man was able to stand up and move.
As Tian Ren was about to move forward to attack, something fell out of the mysterious man's cloth body.
Weekly Power Status
200+ Power
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121 Power
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