Chapter 220: Bi Chong - 220
At the same time, both Tian Ren and the mysterious man turned their heads to look at whatever fell out.
It took Tian Ren a second to comprehend the situation, but he was quickly able to tell what it was.
It was a worm. A pink worm that was now rolling around on the ground, seemingly in pain from leaving the mysterious man's body. A moment after it fell out, a couple more worms began to fall out. Then, they started falling out even faster.
Tian Ren was so stunned and confused that he didn't even attack. He watched as the mysterious man covered the wound to prevent any more worms from falling out and a large amount of Qi was infused into the area.
By the time the mysterious man removed his hand, no more worms were falling out. For some reason, however, the cloth on the mysterious man's body was not healed.
"Since it has come to this point, I might as well just show everything. It's been a while since I've breathed fresh air anyway." The mysterious man said, talking to himself as he reached for his head and scrunched up the cloth on his scalp by grabbing it before fully pulling the cloth off, revealing his true body.
Tian Ren's eyes widened even further as he saw the man, no, the worm's true body. A bunch of worms were crawling around together while maintaining the shape of a human body.
Tian Ren couldn't see through the pile of worms, but he quickly assumed that the man's personal body must be under the worms somewhere.
"My name is Bi Chong. I am the first and last patriarch of the worm race." He stated.
If anyone from the beast world were to be present, they would be extremely shocked at the revealing of Bi Chong's true identity.
The worm race, while not particularly powerful, used to be one of the top one hundred races in the entire beast world.
However, it had suddenly disappeared many years ago. Nobody knew how it happend, or even when it happened as it went unnoticed for a long time.
When the main area of the worm race was investigated, no traces of anything were found whatsoever.
Now, the patriarch of the worm race had been revealed to be the strongest existence of the beast world.
"From the moment I was born, I was able to feel a connection with the members of my worm race. It wasn't the type of connection one feels with fellow members of a species, but the type of connection one feels when they are one with another." Bi Chong started saying.
Tian Ren didn't know why he was yapping, but he silently listened on, healing from his earlier injuries.
"It wasn't until I reached the void traversing realm and became the first patriarch of the worm race that I understood what the feeling was. I literally was connected with all of the worm race. By exerting my superior power, I was able to erase their minds and connect them with me. A bit of memories still lingered in order to protect their souls, but the entire worm race became a part of me." He said before finally taking his gaze off of the distance and looking at Tian Ren.
"Sorry for all the monologing. I've never told anyone my story before, and since you will be dead in a few minutes, I supposed that you wouldn't mind me rehearsing." Bi Chong said.
"I did mind. Your voice isn't exactly pleasant without your filthy little costume on." Tian Ren responded.
He felt nothing but disgust for the worm in front of him.
Without another word, Tian Ren and Bi Chong moved.
Tian Ren once again reached his hand in the air and used a bolt of lightning to form a lightning sword as he moved towards Bi Chong.
At the same time, Bi Chong moved his right hand to his left side as if he was going to pull a sword out of his sheath. As he did so, some of the worms on his body moved and formed a sword in his hands.
He then began to swing it forward. As he did so, he covered the sword in darkness Qi, solidifying and sharpening it, before finally covering it with the hundred thousand soul flame.
Only then did Tian Ren and Bi Chong's swords connect. A much more powerful force than before exploded out, creating a crater in the ground much bigger than before.
Tian Ren pushed the heaven eye to its limit, increasing the pressure it gave off as well as increasing his own strength, and Bi Chong with his new and revealed form was able to fully show off the power of his divine physique, its exact effect unknown to anyone but Zhou Fan.
Despite Tian Ren's power being gifted by heaven itself, both people only tied in the first clash. In a second, a hundred more clashes followed. They flew around the mountain wildly, teleporting everywhere despite the Qi it took.
In the next second they clashed a thousand times. Then ten thousand, before finally averaging a hundred thousand clashes in a second. In only five seconds, the mountain was severely damaged and on the brink of falling apart.
Finally gathering the maximum momentum, both Tian Ren and Bi Chong were ready for the final move.
Tian Ren teleported directly below the eye again with his sword raised straight up. The eye of heaven sent an immense amount of Qi into the sword, still remaining in the air and providing pressure, but not having much of its previous power.
It would only stay for another second, but that was more than enough. Next, a hundred thousand lightning strikes struck Tian Ren's sword, completely sucking every bit of Qi out of the clouds formed from his power. Everything happened in less than half of a second.
Tian Ren's sword was now releasing a power it never had before.
On the ground, Bi Chong was also preparing his move. All the darkness within ten million miles gathered on his sword of worms. The power of the hundred thousand soul flame was giving off also increased higher. In a fourth of a second, it turned an even darker red.
Bi Chongs final trump card had arrived. The million soul flame.
Chapter 221: The Battle's End - 221
As the million soul flame covered his sword, Bi Chong also gave off a level of power that he never had before.
The next part was simple.
Tian Ren swung his sword downwards with all of his might and Qi as he fell towards Bi Chong.
Bi Chong swung his sword up at the descending Tian Ren with all of his might and Qi.
As the two swords were inches away from each other, space shattered all around them. There had been many fluctuations in space during the whole battle, but due to the increased strength of the space within Zhou Fan's mortal dao, it had never so much as cracked.
Now, however, the space was actually shattering. Both people were at the 6th level of the space shattering realm, and others at that level would usually not be able to even crack the space in Zhou Fans mortal dao, much less shatter it.
Different from many others in the 6th level of the space shattering realm, both Tian Ren and Bi Chong had talent that rivaled anyone else's in the universe. Tian Ren was the first heavenborn and had been gifted a lot of power by heaven, while Bi Chong had a divine physique.
As the space shattered, the two mens attacks reached each other. There was no push or pull between the two men as their attacks had used up every bit of their Qi. Regardless of their attack strength, neither of them had the ability to move another muscle in their bodies.
When the swords finally displayed their power, Tian Ren's sword was cut through and Bi Chongs attack reached him. Bi Chongs Qi went through half of his body from the part of his shoulder closest to his neck to half of his leg, cleanly cutting through him.
While Bi Chong managed to cut through Tian Ren's sword, not all of the power on the sword was able to be neutralized.
Tian Ren had much better aim and his attacks' Qi went from Bi Chongs head to his stomach. As much of the power was dispersed, however, Bi Chong was not completely cut through and only a deep, large mark was left on his body. Many worms were also killed and a slight rainbow color could barely be seen within the center of his stomach due to the cut.
With the explosion and the shattering of space, along with the depletion of Qi, both Tian Ren and Bi Chong were launched backwards into the air like rockets and began to fall to the ground at a great speed.
While the fall wouldn't truly kill either of them, it wouldn't be pleasant.
As Tian Ren was halfway through his fall, a hand grabbed the back of his neck and carried him.
If Tian Ren was not unconscious, he would be happy to see Heaven. Not in a very good mood, Heaven had a rare frown on his face. He had grown quite close to Tian Ren and did like the state was in. After all, nearly half of his body was completely cut off and he was on the verge of death.
Although he tried to maintain neutrality, he didn't plan on letting Tian Ren die unless he was killed by another person's direct attack, not just from the injuries he suffered from an attack.
As for Bi Chong, Heaven let him fall into an unexplored forest below the mountain. He had no intention of saving him, but he knew that Bi Chong had a 95% chance of survival despite being passed out and in a state of Qi exhaustion like Tian Ren.
Holding Tian Ren, Heaven left the world and brought Tian Ren back to the heaven world. He wouldn't fully treat him, but he would make sure that he didn't die.
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Above the mountain within the final world, Zhou Fan appeared. In just a moment, he disappeared and reappeared next to Bi Chongs body. It was still mostly intact, but the worms which once constantly moved were now completely still.
Heaven may have not had any intention of saving Bi Chong, but Zhou Fan had a use for him. Therefore, he would not let him die for now.
As he did not know too much about divine physiques even to this day and didn't want to experiment on himself, he decided that Bi Chong would be the perfect subject.
After all, nobody would really miss him even if something went horribly wrong and he died. The beast world may be in trouble, but Zhou Fan would rectify his mistake one way or another.
As he didn't feel like touching Bi Chong for obvious reasons, Zhou Fan wrapped him in his Qi and took him to his shack.
Meanwhile, on a planet far far away, a worm with gray lines running through it suddenly started to squirm.
It didn't know why it had squirmed in the first place, but the worm felt as if something bad was happening far away. Soon, the squirms calmed down and the worm continued with its daily life.
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For both the members of the beast world and the heaven world, the next thousand years passed slowly. For the members of the beast world, their leader had disappeared. The alliance was starting to falter and the sense of unity between them was slowly fading.
As for the members of the heaven world, things weren't quite as bad. Tian Ren had technically returned, but he was seriously injured and had been passed out for a while.
Even when his injuries were healed he had remained passed out without anyone being able to tell why.
In any other situation, other groups would usually take advantage of the situation and try to kill Tian Ren or demolish the things he had created at least, but the existence of heaven was known and proven.
Any idiot that tried to do something like that would quickly be killed as to avoid heaven's wrath.
As the thousand years passed, Tian Ren finally woke up. He had only stayed passed out due to Qi exhaustion, so he had been physically fine for a long time.
Others couldn't regenerate quite like Zhou Fan, so the stronger they were, the worse the effects of Qi exhaustion. A space shattering cultivator's recovery time from Qi exhaustion could rival the current strength Zhou Fan's recovery time.
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