Array - 237

After meditating for a while, Pangu managed to recover his Qi and heal himself up a bit. 

Since he was at the foundation establishment realm, completely healing himself would take an entire day, if not two.

Therefore, after getting rid of most of the external injuries and making sure that the internal injuries weren't life threatening or too hindering, Pangu continued forward.

In front of him was a large forest. The trees were around a hundred feet in height, but they didn't seem too big next to Pangu's 25 foot body.

After walking forward just a few steps, Pangu saw his axe. It had collided from above with one of the trees and had bounced off, sticking itself in the ground. 

Luckily, it was completely unbroken. Pangu grabbed the axe and walked into the forest. The trees were essentially the only plants around except for a tiny layer of grass on the ground. 

That made it easier to see further.

After walking in search of beasts for 5 minutes, he heard a branch snap above him. As he looked up, he saw a 8 foot gorilla standing on a thick tree branch. 

With a single glance, Pangu was able to tell that it was at the 5th level of the Qi gathering realm.

If not for the fact that things like trees, ores, and dirt did not have their cultivation erased, the branch would have snapped under the gorilla's weight.

Thinking about it, most trees could not grow in strength. It was only natural that such a thing's cultivation wasn't reset.

After staring at each other for a moment, the gorilla jumped off of the tree branch, attempting to land on Pangu's face. 

Pangu simply turned his axe's head around, facing the sharp part up, and swung. 

In that single slash, the gorilla was completely cut through.

With the strength of Pangu and the weapon, the gorilla couldn't even survive a casual and weak hit from him.

Despite how easy the battle was, Pangu was barely happy. Although he came out to experience the power of the foundation establishment realm, he had also wanted to increase his understanding of combat.

After a moment of silence, Pangu sighed and continued walking. He would increase his combat knowledge with dave. 

There was very little chance that a beast with god rank talent was just walking around.

As Pangu treaded deeper into the forest, he recounted his knowledge of beasts. While beasts could technically cultivate, there was a faster way for them to advance.

That was consuming other beast cores. In that way, their own core would strengthen.

While Pangu was walking around and thinking, Zhou Fan decided to help Pangu out. He still owed all of the five races for resetting their cultivation, but he would try to solve that with time.

For now, he could repay the fiendcelestials. On the face of a small hill that Pangu was walking towards, Zhou Fan created an entrance to a cave. Inside that cave was a teleportation array that could be activated by anyone because of the way it was set up and the fact that the power source was already there.

If Pangu decided to activate the array, he would be teleported to a bunch of trials that Zhou Fan had just set up for him.

He would fight beasts on the same level as him, but they would have increasingly higher combat talent and rarer affinities. If Pangu cleared all the beasts, he would get a reward that Zhou Fan had only given to a few so far.

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Pangu continued walking forward through the forest. He had gone thirty minutes without seeing a single beast.

He was just about to turn around and give up, but he spotted a cave ahead. 

He wasn't sure why, but he felt like it would be a good idea to enter it.

And that is what he did.

As he walked through the cave for a few seconds, he saw something overhead. On a piece of wood read "Trial room".

Pangu was both confused and surprised, but he simply assumed that it was created by another fiendcelestial before the cultivation reset.

Curious, Pangu continued walking until he found a cave room. It was circular, and in its center was an array. 

Pangu blankly stared at the array for a moment before he began to look around with confusion. 

He was once a void traversing realm cultivator, yet he could not recognize the array. That meant that it was likely above the void traversing realm.

That also meant that it was not something created by a fiendcelestial. The strongest cultivator before the reset had been Dave, and he had been at the 9th level of the void traversing realm.

Pangu was yet to see anything that could harm him or feel a sense of danger, so he simply looked around the cave room with confusion.

Other than the array, there was a big red button that said press me.

The entire situation was so weird and stupid that Pangu wasn't sure how to react. After a moment, he simply stepped in the center of the array and pressed the button. 

He was a curious person.

After the array lit up, Pangu disappeared from the cave room. 

He hadn't gone far. He had only been teleported to an isolated space created by Zhou Fan. It was connected to the same room that Pangu had pressed the button in, so, in a way, he had yet to leave the room.

As the light cleared and Pangu looked around, he saw that he was in a much smaller and square room. It was twice his height and around 90 feet from one wall to another.

On one wall were words. On another was a door.

Naturally, Pangu began to read the words.

After a moment, he nodded his head. The words had simply described what would happen next.

He would fight a beast equal to him in cultivation, get the option to go into another room with a more talented beast if he won, and repeat until he beat them all or lost.

Another thing it said was that, even if he died, he would not die.

That just meant that Zhou Fan would save him in the last nanosecond before his death.