Chapter 370: Fight - 370
The space surrounding them shattered and began to peel back, but neither Zhou Fan nor Ying Xiong moved back an inch.
Without pause, they threw out a volley of punches, numbering millions every single second.
It was hard to even describe how much the space surrounding them was suffering from their fight.
Blood began to appear on both of their fists. Although Zhou Fan's body talent was great, it was not nearly as incredible as his other talents.
As for Ying Xiong, his body talent was equal to his other talents. Due to that, both were evenly matched. Of course, that was only because Zhou Fan had lowered his realm, which had also lowered his physical strength.
After an entire minute of constant punching, both Ying Xiong and Zhou Fan's arms were destroyed. Their fists did not even exist, and all that remained of their forearms were bloody bones and pieces of meat.
Still, neither stopped punching. For people like them, willpower came naturally in the form of superiority.
Although he was below Zhou Fan, Ying Xiong was above everyone else. How could someone like that feel pain? It was not very logical, but nobody would question it.
After nearly 20 minutes of constant punches, both men finally pulled back. Their arms were no more.
Although they were visibly healing, it was going very slow without Qi. It would likely take up to a year.
Zhou Fan was forced to cancel his Anti Qi zone, and his arms instantly healed.
Ying Xiong's arms similarly healed in an instant.
Though it cost a large amount of Qi to heal so instantly, both men were very willing to do it. As for the healing techniques they had used, of course they had them.
Ying Xiong used a fully powered cosmic buddha's palm with layers, and a large amount of fiend Qi burst out of Zhou Fan's body.
Pangu's eyes immediately focused much harder than before.
Fiend Qi swirled around Zhou Fan's body and formed a giant in the middle of a smacking motion.
Ying Xiong's cosmic buddha's palm was on a different trajectory, so the giant's smack landed on Ying Xiong at the same moment that Ying Xiong's cosmic buddha's palm landed on Zhou Fan.
Ying Xiong shielded himself with a golden bell, and Zhou Fan sneered.
He instantly disappeared, the giant made of fiend Qi replaced his body and collided with the buddha's palm.
Zhou Fan had appeared right in front of Ying Xiong's bell and punched out, his body enhanced with Qi.
Ying Xiong's eyes widened as the fist collided and his bell was sent flying away, multiple cracks covering it.
It took an instant for Ying Xiong to understand what had happened. He immediately locked down the space around him, but Zhou Fan was far away holding a giant flaming arrow in his hand.
The giant flaming arrow had water wrapped around it in a spiral, wind forming a current below it, and earth hardening its tip.
"Four elements arrow." Zhou Fan said as he threw it with all of his strength.
Ying Xiong was unable to react to the arrow's speed and his bell was pierced. Luckily, his defenses weren't so easily defeated.
The arrow had pierced through the bell's wall, but stopped a few inches from Ying Xiong's face.
Ying Xiong dispersed the bell, causing the arrow to fall down and dissipate.
Zhou Fan and Ying Xiong stood in space, silently staring at each other.
"I'm curious." Zhou Fan said. "What is that technique called? The one with the rotating stars." Zhou Fan asked.
"The cosmic support art. It has no offensive or defensive properties itself, but it will enhance any technique it is used with, though it usually takes a lot of practice to be able to use it with another technique." Ying Xiong explained.
"Interesting." Zhou Fan said as metal Qi began to wrap around his body in a spiral motion.
"I suppose you truly are worth me going all out. Get ready." Zhou Fan said as he finally completely stopped holding back, ignoring Chaos Qi and his divine physique.
Zhou Fan blurred and immediately disappeared. When he reappeared, his hand was grabbing at Ying Xiong's face. Ying Xiong hurriedly released a blast of fire Qi, propelling him away, but Zhou Fan's hand turned into two fingers and pointed at Ying Xiong.
Ying Xiong quickly covered himself with his bell technique.
In an instant, a sword tip that seemed like the yellow piercing sword finger appeared in between Ying Xiong's eyebrows.
It had pierced the bell instantly, although it had slowed down quite a bit.
Ying Xiong moved his head, but the left side was instantly pierced through. Luckily, it had missed the brain.
Zhou Fan did not relent. His finger and thumb opened, and giant hand made of metal Qi appeared and pinched at Ying Xiong.
Ying Xiong was instantly caught and his body began to get crushed.
He barely escaped by using teleportation, but surprisingly, just moments later, the hand appeared in the same place and pinched down again.
Ying Xiong tried to teleport away, but Zhou Fan locked down space this time. As his body was being crushed, Ying Xiong used his last resort.
Zhou Fan watched as buddha statues began to appear on the metal hand like a rash. The Buddha statues were surrounded by rotating stars and began to corrode the metal hand.
For a moment, the hand weakend and Ying Xiong escaped. As he turned around, all he saw was Zhou Fan right in front of him, coldly staring into his eyes, palm stretched out.
"Buddha's palm." Zhou Fan said.
A giant buddha's palm appeared in space, and Ying Xiong's body was instantly broken.
The next thing he knew, he had woken up on a platform, all the members of the cosmic sect surrounding him.
"Are you okay?" Some of them asked.
Ying Xiong simply laid there, his limbs spread out, and began to slowly laugh.
The members of the cosmic sect, including Pangu, Hei Ren, Feng Liu, and Lu Zhong slowly backed away. They had never seen Ying Xiong like this.
Soon, Ying Xiong's laugh was loud enough for the entire galaxy to hear.
"I admit it." He said quietly to himself.
Chapter 371: Leaf - 371
Over the next year, Zhou Fan spent his time in the cosmic sect. He created the system that would allow great talents to receive Ying Xiong's invitation, and helped add additions to the teleportation hub.
He also spent more time with Ying Xiong. Ever since their last battle, Ying Xiong had sought out Zhou Fan more. He had asked many questions and received help many times.
As a result, Ying Xiong's strength was undergoing drastic changes.
For others, Zhou Fan may not be willing to help them so much, but Ying Xiong was different. He was truly talented, and he deserved respect from even Zhou Fan.
Unsurprisingly, when everyone else saw Zhou Fan helping Ying Xiong so much, they began to seek him out more.
At some point, Zhou Fan barely had a moment of peace. He ended up putting down rules that someone could only visit him for help once a year, excluding Ying Xiong.
This caused Zhou Fan to once again live peacefully in his courtyard. Once, Zhou Fan pulled up a fish in the lesser dao creation realm.
They awkwardly looked at each other for a moment before Zhou Fan lowered his rod and put the fish back where it came from.
Zhou Fan got up and left the mountain. He felt that the fish was a sign for him to leave.
He left the cosmic sect with waving people behind him. He had chosen to leave Hei Ren in the cosmic sect, and not take him with him anymore.
Although he was satisfied with his disciple, he had essentially reached his peak. It was highly unlikely for him to reach the god realm, and even if he did, he would stop there.
Zhou Fan needed to think about requirements for accepting disciples in the future. At the very least, they would have to have talent beyond Ying Xiong's.
Yet, even after so much time had passed, Ying Xiong was still the most talented person in the universe besides Zhou Fan.
It would likely be a very very long time before Zhou Fan was able to accept another disciple.
Zhou Fan moved out of the cosmic sects galaxy and went to the top of the Zhou supercluster.
He took a deep breath and prepared to enter seclusion for the foreseeable future. Hopefully, someone truly talented would be born during that time. If that happened, he would take them before the cosmic sect did.
Just short of 700 billion years later, Zhou Fan's eyes opened. He was at the peak of the outer world realm. He was not yet ready to reach another realm, and planned to do some things before that.
Excitedly, Zhou Fan took out a block of ice. In it was a single 5 year old child. This child was not human, or even humanoid. Zhou Fan laughed to himself as he looked at it. Not only was it not human, but it was not beast either.
In fact, many people would debate whether or not its species was even truly alive.
Inside the ice block was a tiny sapling, a young tree, just 5 years old. It had 0 intelligence. It simply existed and grew.
Still, this tree had meridians. And they were not low level meridians. It was a level of talent that was an outlier amongst the entire universe, just how Ying Xiong was.
Zhou Fan instantly moved to a planet in the nearest galaxy. It had produced many species, and the environment was similar to earth.
Zhou Fan carefully melted the ice and created nutrient-filled dirt beneath the saplings' roots.
The roots quickly took place in the floating dirt and absorbed nutrients.
Zhou Fan created a dome around him and the sapling that prevented any living being from interacting with him or the sapling.
He carefully poured life Qi out and nurtured the tree. It slowly experienced an increase in cultivation and intelligence. Over the period of nearly 10 years, Zhou Fan spent every moment perfectly caring for the tree.
One day, the tree, which was still a sapling that looked no different from before, began to wave its small branches.
It acted as if it was searching for something, or someone. When it touched Zhou Fan the branches wrapped around him and embraced him as if he was the saplings parent. In some way, he was.
Zhou Fan decided to name the sapling "Leaf".
Leaf's cultivation had not increased by much. It was only at the peak of the foundation establishment realm.
Zhou Fan had spent most of his effort carefully nurturing its intelligence. Although it was easy for him to grant things intelligence and cultivation, there were many side effects, especially once it reached the higher realms.
Although it would have a miniscule, or even 0 effect if he raised Leaf's intelligence and cultivation to its current state speedily, he did not want to take any risks.
Instead of forcefully giving it intelligence and cultivation, he had simply guided it and did very little himself.
In its current state, Leaf was essentially a human child in terms of intelligence.
His talent was above the immortal god rank. It was a new rank, named the immortal Godking rank. He was not low leveled within the immortal Godking rank.
Leaf had immortal Godking 1 ranked meridians. Even Zhou Fan found such a level of talent completely shocking.
Leaf also had many affinities, all of them relating to nature in some way, and a divine physique, though Zhou Fan had almost no clue what it did.
Within the dome that Zhou Fan created, Leaf happily entwined around him, showing its affection in a way that plants apparently did.
Although Leaf could not speak or understand words, Zhou Fan still felt an urge to speak to it, just like a parent spoke to a newborn.
"There was a joke that Ying Xiong told me. I can't remember most of it, but the punchline went, "Leaf me alone, I'm bushed!"" Zhou Fan said.
Leaf could not understand him, but it seemed happy to hear him speak at all. As he played around with Leaf, Zhou Fan could not help but think of how he would take Leaf with him in the future.
After all, he would absolutely not leaf him alone.
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