Chapter 258: Oath - 258
The flight to the ice lands was very quick. Leonardo stood in front of the battlefield.
There were very few signs that a fight was even fought, but Dave's corpse showed that the battlefield was not tampered with.
After examining for a few minutes, Leonardo stood up and sighed. He had completely confirmed that Dave had died from a single blow.
He had also confirmed that there were no cheating attacks with the intent to kill. Dave had died fair and square.
"You are free to go. Don't let me catch you near the fiendcelestial village ever again." Leonardo said before flying away.
He took Dave's corpse with him. Pangu watched as Leonardo flew off.
'It seems that my time with the fiendcelestials is over.' He thought to himself before flying towards the opposite direction of the fiendcelestial village.
He had a pretty good understanding of the fiendcelestial world and was heading towards an area that he would have not stepped foot into before the reset.
After journeying for three days and three nights, he reached his destination. In front of him was a sinkhole so wide and deep that neither the other side nor the bottom could be seen.
Pangu jumped into it and ran down the near vertical wall. His footsteps created holes in the sturdy wall, scaring off any living thing that was in the occasional cave.
As he went deeper, the sinkhole got darker and darker. After 5 minutes, light appeared. Yellow crystals lined the sinkholes walls, providing very good lighting.
After 10 minutes, Pangu saw the opposite wall on the other side of the sinkhole, but it was still many miles away.
After 20 minutes, the sinkhole's other wall was ten miles away from Pangu. At the same time, a floor appeared. He had arrived at the sinkholes bottom. There were no more light crystals, so the surroundings were difficult to see.
Pangu landed on the ground and waited. After 3 minutes, Pangu heard movement not far from him.
"Why are you here fiendcelestial?" A snake-like voice asked.
"My name is Pangu. I have come to meet the beast emperor. I have no ill intent." Pangu said. He was looking in the direction of the beast that spoke.
"Well well well, if it isn't Pangu himself." The snake-like voice spoke sarcastically. "Why should the beast emperor meet with you?"
"That is between me and her." Pangu answered. "If she doesn't want to see me, I will leave, but do ask her."
"Fine." The snake-like voice responded before more movement was heard.
Then there was silence.
The beast talking to him had once been the 3rd strongest beast in the Fiendcelestial world.
Unfortunately, his talent was one rank below god rank, causing him to only be at the foundation establishment realm right now.
The beast was a half snake half humanoid beast. His upper body was similar to that of a human, with fangs, snake eyes, and a long tongue.
His lower body was that of a snakes.
The sinkhole was the main area of the beasts, equal to the fiendcelestial village for the fiendcelestials.
After a minute of silence, a large door appeared on a wall and opened in front of Pangu. It had been hidden by an array. The door was a thousand feet tall and golden light was spilling out of it.
Pangu easily fit inside and entered a hall. In that hall was a red carpet, a throne, and a few seats by the side. The walls were completely made of gold. Only the throne was occupied.
The hall was thousands of feet tall and thousands of feet wide. Even Pangu didn't seem that big in it.
After a moment, Pangu looked at the throne and clasped his hands with respect.
"Pangu greets the beast emperor." He said.
"Hello Pangu, we meet again." The beast emperor, a common gray house cat, answered.
Compared to Pangu, she was a thousand times smaller, but her power was equal.
Not only was she at the 5th level of the core formation realm, but her talent was at the supreme god rank.
Luckily, she had only had enough time to reach one level above Dave before the cultivation reset due to being born later.
In a battle between the Fiendcelestial village and the beasts long ago, she had fought Dave and Leonardo at the same time before retreating only due to deaths on the beast's side.
The beast king sat in her cat form and stared at Pangu. Her face looked innocent, but she was undoubtedly a threat.
"Hello Mira. I have come with an offer." Pangu spoke.
"And what would that be?" The beast king asked.
"I am willing to join the beasts." Pangu said.
Mira was clearly stunned at his words.
"Why?"
"Because I killed Dave." Pangu answered.
Mira was once again shocked. She did not know the extent of Pangu's talent.
"Well that is something. Let me guess, you are joining for safety?" Mira asked.
Pangu nodded.
"If the supreme beasts learn that I killed Dave and was kicked out of the fiendcelestial village, they may all surround me and kill me before I become stronger." Pangu said.
There were more supreme beasts with god rank and above talent than any other race.
Luckily, every major site had some sort of defense. The fiendcelestial village had a powerful shield that only needed to be activated with spirit stones, while the beasts had many unknown arrays on the way down the sinkhole, although many could not be activated without a powerful person.
If Pangu was away from the village, he could be surrounded and killed without worrying about anything.
"Then this is your best move. However, if you join, you must make an oath. Before that, I will ask you, would you be willing to kill another fiendcelestial?" Mira asked.
She knew that Dave and Pangu didn't get along, but killing someone you hate and someone you don't is an entirely different matter, especially when of the same race.
"Yes I can." Pangu responded.
"Then raise your hand high and repeat after me." She said.
"I Pangu, swear to you know who that I will not betray the beasts for a thousand years." Mira said.
"I Pangu, swear to Heaven that I will not betray the beasts for a thousand years." Pangu repeated.
Although nobody knew of the existence of heaven, the fiendcelestial world had accidentally learned about the oath system after some insane person went rambling on and was struck by lightning.
Chapter 259: Heavens Issues - 259
After thousands of tests and trials, resulting in hundreds of dead prisoners and hundreds of lightning strikes, an understanding of the oath system was established.
Essentially, by making an oath to something called heaven, an unbreakable vow would be formed.
One had to be completely willing in order to make the vow, shown by a slight bit of lightning appearing in front of the person that made the oath.
As Pangu finished his words, a little bit of lightning appeared in front of him. There was just enough lightning to notice it was there.
"I look forward to working with you, Pangu." The cat on the throne said with a nod. "I don't need you to do anything now, so feel free to do whatever you want around here. We will spread the news that you have joined the beasts to prevent any reckless fools."
"Thank you." Pangu said as he returned back through the door.
For the next few years, he planned on doing nothing but cultivating and practicing with the axe. Getting battle experience would have to wait for a while.
Next to Pangu, Zhou Fan sighed. It seemed that his entertainment was over. He had gotten most of what he needed from Pangu, and the rest could be casually observed from afar.
It was about time for him to go somewhere else.
Zhou Fan teleported into space and flew around the galaxy as he thought. There were two courses of action he could take.
He could once again start studying cultivation, or he could cultivate again.
After a moment, Zhou Fan realized that cultivating wasn't really an option. His last breakthrough had taken 250 million years. If he spent that long breaking through once again, the entire Heaven world would go through a revamp.
By the time he came back, who knows what could have happened.
Therefore, the only option was studying cultivation or doing something else. Zhou Fan decided to study cultivation, but not in an attempt to improve the river of cultivation.
Instead, he would study cultivation in order to cut down his cultivation speed. He had no idea if it would work or not, but he wasn't going to give up without trying.
Zhou Fan still cultivated the same as before, despite the river of cultivation. The river of cultivation was created for everyone else, but Zhou Fan was doing the same thing he had been doing.
Zhou Fan talked to heaven for a minute with his mind, before heading to the shack and disappearing in it.
Heaven was sitting on his throne in his newly created palace when he heard from Zhou Fan. After they talked and he learned that Zhou Fan was entering the shack again, Heaven decided to focus on his work as well.
He had spent the last few years on what could be considered a break, but he was ready to focus on business again.
Heaven had to think for a moment to consider what to do, and just moments after closing his eyes, he opened them again.
Ever since the first galactic assembly, the Heavenborns and the beasts had lived separately, but in peace.
The next galactic assembly was far away, and new races would show up there.
However, although there was peace on the surface, there were still many happenings taking place away from the normal person's eyes.
More specifically, a group of supreme beasts were planning an uprising against the beasts. The supreme beasts of the heavenborn world were still subdued due to the existence of Heaven, but they may not remain that way forever.
But that was not all.
Heaven had recently noticed the emergence of two new talents in the heaven world.
One, a young man named Guang Fu, was a good and kind person, helping out others whenever and wherever he could. He had affinities with light, earth, and water Qi's.
The other person was much more troubling.
His name was Yao Mun, and he was the opposite of Guang Fu.
He was evil, cruel, and killed a lot. His affinites were Darkness Qi, Demon Qi, Fire Qi and Metal Qi.
He went around killing Heavenborns and absorbing their lifeforce with his unnatural eye.
Heaven assumed that it was what Zhou Fan called a divine physique. Little did he know that Zhou Fan had created it.
Yao Mun's eye was extremely powerful. His talent was also better than Guang Fu's, although Guang Fu's talent seemed to be somehow increasing.
Both were still extremely weak, but they showed extreme talent.
While Heaven was somewhat indifferent towards Guang Fu, he was worried about Yao Mun.
Although Tian Ren had immortal king rank meridians, the difference between his talent and Yao Mun's talent was not that far away.
Yao Mun had immortal 1 meridians, while Tian Ren only had immortal king 10 meridians. Therefore, the difference in talent would be easily breached by Yao Mun's evil methods and insane work ethic.
When Yao Mun absorbed someones lifeforce, his cultivation speed slightly increased for a period of time.
But Yao Mun's eye did not only increase his cultivation speed.
With a period of cooldown after each use, the eye could instantly release attacks slightly above Yao Mun's level.
Also, with a bit of personal sacrifice, it could release a huge and powerful attack. An example would be sacrificing his arm, which would not be able to grow back for a month, in order to release an attack 3 or 4 levels above his strength.
And that was based on his battle strength, not just his cultivation level.
As far as Heaven could tell, despite Bi Chong having immortal king 10 talent like Tian Ren, Yao Mun was a much bigger threat.
Although Heaven had been specifically reminded by Zhou Fan not to personally intervene too much, Heaven felt he could do a little to help the situation.
First, he had Tian Ren go out and recruit Guang Fu. He was a heavenborn that would surely prove useful to the Heaven sect.
Heaven wished he could order Tian Ren to kill Yao Mun, but he knew that Zhou Fan did not want that.
Although Zhou Fan treated him like a child, Heaven had a feeling that Zhou Fan would harshly punish him for doing such a thing.
He may even create another Yao Mun afterwards.
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