Injury - 119

The dragon king ran for 15 minutes before the celestial lands came into view. He had long figured out that the grim reaper was playing with him, but chalked it up to him being arrogant.

After 3 minutes, the dragon king arrived at the plains in front of central city. He was greeted by an entire army and two of the rulers. He joined the two rulers' side and looked around for anna. When he didn't see her, he started to fear the worst.

"Why isn't Anna here?" He asked, hoping that she hadn't run away after sensing the grim reaper's power.

"We're not sure, but we can tell she is in her tower." The titanosaur responded.

The dragon king nodded and looked at the grim reaper standing across from them. "I'm not sure if we'll be able to last more than ten minutes without her." He said.

The titanosaur and the monkey king didn't say anything, but they agreed in their heads. They stalled as long as they could, but after a few more seconds, the grim reaper started to run at them.

With each step he took, space cracked and the planet rumbled. he had reached a level of strength that almost no other in the Zhou World could match.

As he got closer, Death Qi started to gather around him, increasing the momentum he was gaining. Eventually, the death Qi began to form a figure behind him. It was the same phantom he had summoned in the last battle.

Now, he could summon it with much more ease. It was also much stronger than before. The monkey king wasted no time by forming the buddha from last time and the other rulers didn't wait before sending their Qi to help form the buddha.

Although Anna wasn't participating, the other three rulers were much stronger than before. If the grim reaper was at the tenth level of void traversing, the buddha may equally match him.

Unfortunately, the grim reaper was now much stronger. As soon as the buddha figure and the death Qi phantoms fists collided, the buddha nearly broke.

It was pushed backwards, but the death Qi phantom stepped forward and delivered a punch to its head. The buddha dispersed immediately and the three rulers fell to the ground in defeat. They had used every bit of Qi they had in summoning the buddha figure, but they had been defeated immediately.

Not even twenty minutes had passed since the grim reaper revealed his strength. The grim reaper stood above them in the air and laughed at them. With him breaking into a higher realm, the group stood no chance against him.

As Zhou Fan watched on in the sky, he couldn't help but consider intervening. He couldn't just let the rulers die, they were too important.

However, just as he was about to make something happen, an old man stepped out from the city gates and started walking to the battlefield with nothing but a rusty sword in his hand.

Although he was old, he was strong. In fact, he was the third strongest person in the celestial lands with the cultivation of third level void traversing.

Since not a single person in the entire area was moving, it didn't take long before everyone had turned their eyes to him. Even Zhou Fan couldn't help but wonder what he was doing.

"Grim reaper." He said. "I have learned a martial art by watching a star explode. Please take my attack."

Although everyone found his words to be almost comical, nobody was laughing. It seemed as if the old man was wishing for death or was insane.

Even the grim reaper wasn't laughing at him. Instead, he was looking at him with disdain and disgust.

"Go ahead. I won't even block it." He said.

To both him and everyone else, the idea that someone at the third level of void traversing could even scratch someone at the realm above void traversing was ridiculous.

The grim reaper then turned away and ignored the old man, staring at the rulers on the ground.

The old man didn't seem upset or disappointed that he was being ignored, but indifferent towards the attitude of the grim reaper. Zhou Fan couldn't take his eyes off of him.

The old man lifted his sword up above his head. It was pointing straight in the air. He held it there for what seemed like an entire minute.

Although nobody else, not even the grim reaper, could see what was happening, Zhou Fan was able to tell. The man was focusing everything he had and everything he would ever have into this one strike.

A second before the old man dropped his sword down, the grim reaper felt a chill take over his entire body. Although he was death itself, he felt the true fear of death upon him.

In that same second, the old man slashed his sword towards the grim reaper. There was no burst of Qi or movement, but neither the grim reaper nor the old man moved an inch. It seemed that the entire world had come to a standstill.

All of a sudden, the old man's body started turning to dust. A wind blew and his body disintegrated. As everyone stared in confusion, the grim reaper's body started changing. In the center of his chest, a hole a foot in diameter turned into dust similar to the old man's entire body.

The grim reaper fell from the sky and landed on the ground. He clutched the area of the wound in pain and started rolling around on the ground. The rulers and the viewers watched on without a single word, clearly in shock at what just happened.

As for Zhou Fan, he too was in a state of shock. What the old man had just done was sacrifice his life. He permanently burned up all of his Qi, his cultivation, and even his lifespan.

He had imitated the supernova that had sacrificed its remaining life for one last burst of power.