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.
Chapter 243: Rewards - 243
Pangu tried to look around for his old axe, but it had disappeared. It had likely broken after shouldering the burden of Pangu's last attack.
Pangu shrugged and inwardly hoped that the new axe in front of him was better.
He bent over and picked up the axe. It was a lot heavier than his last axe, but that was to be expected due to its size.
Although he didn't know much about weapon forging, Pangu had a feeling that this axe was much better than his old one.
In order to test it out, Pangu ran his finger over the sharp part of the axe.
In an instant, it broke through his skin and a drop of blood fell onto the axe. After coming in contact with the blood, the axe began to emit a green glow.
Pangu was nearly blinded for a moment, but the axe's glow quickly calmed down.
Immediately, Pangu could feel a connection with the axe. It was as if it was a part of him.
After swinging the axe a few times inside the cave, Pangu nodded. It was many times better than his old axe. As expected from such a mystical trial.
After getting used to his axe, Pangu bent over and picked up the pamphlet. As he lifted it off the ground, he saw a ring under it.
Pangu had never seen such a thing, but he picked it up and wore it before going through the pamphlet.
On one side, there was a picture of a green axe on the top half and a picture of the ring he had picked up on the bottom half.
Underneath those pictures were explanations of what the axe and the ring were.
The pamphlet stated that the axe was a growth weapon, something that would grow stronger as Pangu did. All it needed was a drop of blood, which it had coincidentally got.
The pamphlet even stated that, if Pangu willed it, the axe would grow in size as he did.
Pangu once again nodded his head as he realized how good the axe actually was.
Below the picture of the ring, there was an explanation that shocked him more than the axe.
Apparently, the ring was called a spatial ring. It contained a separate space that could be used to store anything that wasn't living. Any item that could be put inside would need to be light enough to be lifted by Pangu.
Pangu felt more excited about the ring than the axe, although the axe could easily be considered a greater reward.
Just as Pangu was about to leave the cave, he remembered that he saw some words on the other side of the pamphlet and flipped it over.
On the top of the pamphlet was a picture of a spider-like creature with yellow eyes covering its entire body.
As Pangu read it, he learned that it was named, "The All".
Apparently, it was a beast that currently only existed at the foundation establishment realm, causing its abilities to be severely limited.
According to the pamphlet, at a level that it could display its full power, it could slow down and speed up time by many more times than it had shown in the trial.
Its speed up ability would only work on its own body, but it could release a domain of time that slowed down anything, including itself.
There was also one more ability, and just reading about it was enough to terrify Pangu.
Once it reached an extremely high cultivation realm, it would be able to see parts of the near future. Due to the future never being set in stone, it would see thousands of possible futures, allowing it to make the best move, even if it can only see a few seconds into the future.
As he learned about the ability, Pangu also learned a bit of how time worked.
'It seems that there is no such thing as a single, set in stone future, and any action could create a new future. While the all's ability sure sounds overpowered, it cannot be considered unstoppable.' Pangu thought.
In other words, the future was a nearly pointless concept to consider. It would take someone incredibly powerful to actually see a true future, if there even was such a thing.
As for the idea of time travel, such a thing was ridiculous.
Zhou Fan had thought of it, and if he was right, one would need the power to create an entirely new existence in order to do such a thing.
Going back in time was simply impossible.
After finishing the pamphlet, Pangu sighed. It seemed he was right to guess that there was a wider universe.
He was only glad that the all was likely to be some powerful beings experiment. That was what he was able to guess from the words.
If such beings were able to freely run rampant and reproduce, nobody would stand a chance.
Now finished with his trip, Pangu stuffed the pamphlet and his axe in his spatial ring and walked back to the fiendcelestial village.
The journey was short and the mountain climb was treacherous, and Pangu got home safely.
Without making any pit stops, he entered the house and began to cultivate.
After 5 weeks, he reached the sixth level. After 6 weeks, he reached the seventh level.
After six months, he reached the tenth level of the foundation establishment realm.
As soon as he did, he walked towards Dave's house. He kept the axe in his spatial ring as he knew Dave would fight with his fists.
Pangu stopped in front of Dave's door and banged on it with his fists. His fists rang after that, but he ignored the pain and stepped back.
"Took you long enough. I broke through yesterday and was expecting you to already come." Dave said as he walked through his door.
Although he spoke calmly, fire Qi was already covering his fists.
Pangu and Dave ran towards each other, Pangu jumping in the air and coming down with force as Dave let out a punch.
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