Chapter 241: The All - 241
Pangu's axe and the dragon claw collided. A cut was made on the dragon's claw, and the cut was extremely deep.
Although he had caused great damage, Pangu did not come out of the collision unscathed.
He was launched back by the dragon's claw and hit the wall behind him at an extremely fast speed.
Many parts of his body ruptured, but Pangu immediately launched off the wall and towards the dragon.
He knew that the dragon was no joke and although he had made a deep cut that had been infected with Fiend Qi, the dragon would be able to attack again quickly.
Just as he had expected, a dragon claw smashed the wall that Pangu had been pushed up against.
The dragon had attacked the wall with its left claw since its right claw was in great pain.
Thanks to Pangus quick movement, he was now below the relatively unguarded dragon's belly.
He instantly slashed up with Fiend Qi and axe Qi as he jumped in the air.
Not only did his axe make direct contact with the dragon, but it also released the Fiend Qi and axe Qi on it as a wave that traveled through the dragon's stomach.
Now, the dragon was severely injured.
In an instant, it decided that its best course of action was to drop on Pangu and crush him with its weight.
Luckily, Pangu had somewhat expected that. He crouched and put the axe above his head so that it would cut anything above it.
As the dragon collided with the ground, Pangu was pushed in its stomach. In just seconds, Pangu released several devastating attacks that turned the dragon's insides into mincemeat.
If the dragon had expected such a thing, it would have had a way to deal with it such as flooding its body with Fire Qi, but it simply wasn't prepared.
In a few moments, the dragon was dead. Pangu had been very lucky. One wrong move would have spelled his loss.
As Pangu saw the next door, he was surprised. He had expected the dragon to be the last beast in the trial due to how powerful it was.
Every new room had a qualitative change in difficulty, but there was a room after the dragon.
That meant that something much stronger than a dragon was behind the next door.
Before walking through that door Pangu had to recover.
Pangu crossed his legs before looking at his axe. It was chipped. Sure enough, the dragon had been powerful.
As another pill fell from the ceiling, Pangu started to meditate.
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Zhou Fan was watching Pangu take the trial, and as he looked at the next door, he felt some excitement.
The beast behind it was a completely new beast that he had invested some time into creating.
The most important aspect of it was its affinity.
Time.
Even now, Zhou Fn didn't really have the ability to use Time Qi. Luckily, he had just enough strength to move it.
However, that led to the question, why can a foundation establishment beast use time while Zhou Fan couldn't.
That was also connected to the question, why can't Zhou Fan use the power of time.
Simply put, the cosmic dao did not allow the power of time to be used. While Chaos Qi was too powerful for the cosmic dao to sense or restrict, Time Qi was not.
The moment any sort of time Qi was used, it would obliterate everything in that area.
Although Zhou Fan had felt like he could not use the power of time Qi before, that was simply his instincts refusing to allow its usage. Otherwise, Zhou Fan would not exist.
He had comprehended the reason just before he had created cultivation 1.0.
As time passed, Zhou Fan began to dislike the cosmic dao more and more.
At first, it had simply been a mystical existence far away from him.
Later, it began to suppress him and every single thing that could endanger Zhou Fan was related to it.
However, the cosmic dao was also the only reason life existed. In fact, it was very likely the only reason the universe existed.
Zhou Fan would decide on what to do with it once he surpassed it in power.
Now, for why the beast could use time Qi. In a simple way, Zhou Fan had grown strong enough to somewhat avoid the theoretical eyes of the cosmic dao.
By creating a separate space with all of his power, he was able to hide some things from it.
However, those things could not exceed a certain power level.
For example, the river of cultivation could likely be seen by the cosmic dao, but it was still somewhat hidden. It was like looking at a lamp light through heavy fog.
A foundation establishment beast using the power of time, however, was like trying to look at a firefly through heavy fog.
As long as it was below the core formation realm, just about anything could be hidden from the cosmic dao by Zhou Fan.
Zhou Fan had managed to design a beast perfect for using time Qi and slightly control some time Qi in order to give it an affinity.
While giving out affinities was not something Zhou Fan could casually do, he had managed to make the existence not have the possibility of gaining any other affinity due to its structure.
Therefore, after a few attempts, the beast was created and put in the fifth level of the foundation establishment realm.
Due to the increase of difficulty, Zhou Fan planned on giving Pangu the same reward whether he won or lost.
Naturally, against the beast that Zhou Fan had named, "The All", Pangu stood little chance.
Looking at the beast, Zhou Fan's face slowly let out a weird smile.
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As Pangu finally recovered, he stood up and slowly entered the room.
If before, Pangu was still able to observe the room after seeing the dragon, he now had no will to.
In front of him was something that could only be described as an abomination to creation.
It had eight legs, similar to a spider, but its body looked like something mashed together by a child with playdough.
Even that, however, was not the focus point.
Covering every inch of the beast's body were yellow, moving eyes.
Chapter 242: Time - 242
As he stared at the beast, Pangu felt a sense of dread wash over him. It was as if he was standing in front of something that should not exist.
Before he even had time to collect his thoughts, he heard a chime.
The chime snapped Pangu out of his fear, but just as he was about to move, the beast instantly appeared in front of him.
Pangu jumped away, but he noticed that he was moving many times slower than before.
Despite that, the beast just stood still as its thousands of eyes stared at him with ridicule.
Pangu didn't know if the beast had intelligence, but he was feeling far too much fear to care.
He felt as if there was absolutely no escape from the existence that stood in front of him.
For a moment, he wasn't sure what the beast's affinity was, but he could now guess it despite it never having appeared before.
It was clearly a time affinity.
That would also explain what was happening. The beast had sped up its own time and slowed down Pangu's.
As Pangu's slow moving body finally hit the ground ten feet away from the beast, he jumped off of the ground away from the beast in order to test his theory.
As he reached 50 feet away from the beast, he felt like everything returned to normal.
Although he was simply guessing and hoping he was correct, Pangu felt that the beast should not be able to directly slow down his time, but slow down time in a certain area.
Moving his hand in and out of the 50 feet mark in different places, he confirmed that it must be a domed shaped area in which the time was slowed down.
As for whether or not there was a dome that sped the beast up or if it could do that to its entire body, Pangu would have to guess.
The entire time Pangu was moving around, the beast was looking at him with ridicule and other emotions that were hard to decipher. It was as if it was looking at an ant trying to defeat it.
In a way, Pangu agreed. He had no idea how he was going to beat the thing in front of him.
Well, he had one idea, but it was a long shot and Pangu had no idea if it would work. It would depend upon just how strong the power of time Qi is.
He would put all his power into one strike that would hopefully manage to break the time barrier and hit the beast.
Based on its arrogance, as long as the time barrier was broken, then it would be too careless to dodge in time.
Just as Pangu was thinking, the beast appeared in front of him once again. This time, Pangu instinctively swung his axe towards it.
The beast watched as the axe came towards it and stepped back as it let the axe pass.
Luckily, this allowed Pangu to confirm something. It was also slowed within its barrier. However, the speed up it placed on itself seemed to be at the same speed as the barrier, making it seem like it was moving normally.
Despite that, it was clearly not a slow beast. Even without its time affinity, it may be faster than Pangu.
Pangu guessed that the barrier slowed down time by ten times, while the beast sped itself up by ten times.
Luckily, Time Qi seemed to lack offensive attacks. At the foundation establishment realm at least.
Seeing his axe miss, Pangu once again jumped back, and the beast let him.
As every other idea was hopeless, Pangu decided to rely on his earlier one.
He raised his axe up directly above his head and covered it with all the Fiend Qi and axe Qi he could muster up.
He held it above his head for a few seconds, putting his physical power into it as well, before finally slashing down.
He had named this skill "Sky Breaker".
A large line of Pangu's Qi's slashed down, reaching the entire room in the direction he was slashing at.
It was a thin line that could almost not be seen.
As the slash hit the time barrier, Pangu saw it go through it without harming it as if it didn't exist.
The time barrier had slowed down his attack, but it was still going extremely fast. Despite its speed, the beast should be able to dodge it, but it was clearly taking its time due to its arrogance.
Suddenly, a green dome became visible to the eye as it shook. Then, the dome cracked and the slash sped up instantly.
Before it could react, the beast was cut directly in half. Clearly, its defense was not very high.
After a moment, Pangu fell to the ground barely conscious. Only his will to see if he won kept him awake.
The beast looked like a bubble of a thick, disgusting, black liquid had been popped and its contents were leaking out over the floor.
Suddenly, the pile of mush moved.
All the mush was slowly moving towards one place as the beast reformed itself.
In just a few seconds, it had recovered and began to slowly walk towards Pangu with its eight legs.
Suddenly, Pangu heard a disgusting, evil sounding voice.
"You nearly killed me, trash." The voice said. "Yet, you are so incredibly lucky that I am only at the foundation establishment realm. Otherwise, I would be able to see bits of the future."
As it spoke it reached directly above Pangu.
"Bye." It said as one of its legs pierced through Pangu's brain.
Or so it happened in Pangu's mind. In reality, Zhou Fan had stopped the being in the last instant and knocked Pangu out.
"Good job." A voice said behind The All.
As it hurriedly turned around, it stopped existing.
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After what felt like forever, but was only an hour, Pangu woke up in the cave room with the teleportation array.
He quickly jumped up, his face covered in cold sweat and his mind feeling immense fear.
As he recognized his surroundings and remembered the board with words, he calmed down and relaxed.
He looked at the ground where he had woken up and saw two items. A completely green, two handed axe different from his old one, and a pamphlet.
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