Apotheosis Stage Aberration

Lin Fan stopped halfway to the Fan Sect Workshop before he saw Chen Long sitting on the floor. He walked over to Chen Long and lightly tapped him out of his meditation with a Spirit Root Onion in his hand.

Chen Long was under contract by Lin Fan for four and half more years and knew by the time the contract expired, hopefully after the war was over, that Lin Fan would be close or above him in strength. For the last three weeks they spared, and Lin Fan got close to beating him every time, but lost due to the difference in speed. Lin Fan getting stronger today meant that Chen Long might lose his ability to best Lin Fan and therefore would become his real subordinate.

Chen Long was a guy who once had a nasty habit of killing people for no reason, now had to deal with Lin Fan getting stronger than him. He could tell that Lin Fan was hear to challenge him, and accepted the gentle tug from his hand, stopping him from his focuses of the law of time underneath the [Tree of Fate] that Lin Fan had planted.

"I want you to use your hundred percent against me today... I know you've been holding back fifty percent of your power so you don't hurt me... However, I expect to totally and unmercifully kick your arrogant ass today..."

"I don't suppose you can get me drunk first, so if I lose I can still feel good in the morning?" Chen Long sighed and looked at Lin Fan glowering at him with a serious expression before he sighed and pointed to the Fan Sect Outskirts. He landed in the grass where the Lin Fan bunnies had once fought the Lightning Wolves as a massive fire began to surround his arms and legs.

The grass slowly got set ablaze as Lin Fan smiled and activated the law of space and caused the ground to rumble. He could feel his pulse quickening and his mind thinking faster and faster and faster as a ball of fire started to coalesce in his hands and turn into a spear.

He'd gained such a good grasp on the law of fire that he could turn the chemical reaction that caused the fire into organic metals that he could form into weapons. He smiled and caused fifteen more blazing swords to appear around him as he activated the environmental energy around him and pulled it into the [Fire Sword Ring] he'd formed.

The grew to fifteen times their current size as Chen Long smiled with a single spear in his hands. He was a demi-god, and normally would crush any Apotheosis stage practitioner due to what happened when a mortal turned into a god. His body had gained almost a hundred times its normal strength which meant his speed increased at least fifty fold.

However, he never mastered more then three elements when he was younger, so didn't have a five element body, nor did he have control of so many laws related to speed. He could also tell that Lin Fan had gotten accustomed rather quickly to using environmental energy to bolster his attacks. At the Apotheosis Stage, you could use environmental energy, or the spiritual energy in the air, to drastically increase your power and speed. This was not including the boost he had gotten from skipping the Enchanted Realm.

"So... I take it you want this to be a fair battle? Since I'm not as good with you at the law of time or illusions, and you're not as good as me with hidden weapons... we'll leave those off the table?"

"Sounds fair... However, I really don't want you holding back anything... Nothing would annoy me more later when I'm playing with Su Fan's body then to hear you laughing about your trickery..."

Lin Fan sighed and stopped talking before he activated [Lightning Redemption Burst] and turned into a beam of light. He was moving at least ten times the speed of sound, and caused a wave of grass to shoot into the air.

The people trying to watch were soon engulfed in minor tornadoes as Lin Fan instantly arrived at Chen Long's side. He spun and sent out a kick towards Chen Long's face, stopping an inch before his nose as Chen Long's jaw dropped.

"You... you can't be in the Apotheosis realm... I... I don't understand..." Chen Long's jaw began to shake as he looked down at his arm... "With speed like that... I still may be able to beat you..."

"You talk like a woman about to be dominated... That's something your mother would've said the day you were being made... She probably tried to run away from your father, but failed and then ended up having such a little deceitful child..."

"Oh, insulting my mother? Have I fallen so low that I have to accept insults from an Apotheosis little brat?" Chen Long turned his back foot and sent a blazing, instant kick towards Lin Fan only to find his foot stopped by Lin Fan's right arm.

Chen Long was surprised that Lin Fan had dared to try and stop his attack due to the difference in their constitutions. Lin Fan would normally only attack with laws as to not get his body harmed. However, rather then his arm breaking like he imagined, Lin Fan's arm merely buckled a little bit before he responded with a left hook.

Chen Long scoffed and activated [Fire Crescent Slash] as five hundred little hands appeared around him and stabbed at Lin Fan. He sighed and stepped back before blurs of light appeared around him as he turned into dozens of shadows that stepped back towards the trees.

The attacks from Chen Long assailed those shadows and every time Chen Long thought he hit Lin Fan only to find another series of shadows constantly appearing at every angle. With a hard thrust into his calf, he burst nearly six hundred feet forward in an instant and struck at Lin Fan's cheek.

Lin Fan, however, merely pushed his hand away before he sent a strike right into Chen Long's gut. A burst of white light shot out of Chen Long's back before spittle fell out of his mouth. He almost fell down onto the floor before his body began to get surrounded with an ethereal flame.

"Alright... You win..." Lin Fan smiled and pat Chen Long on the shoulder... "If you activate your demi-god domain, I'm going to be looking at the grass on my precious Fan Sect being completely burned to bits..."

"You... you hurt me... with a punch..." Chen Long shook his head with despair before he turned to drop on his knee... "My body is supposed to be considered a heavenly body... How can you hurt me at the Apotheosis Stage..."

"Don't think so much..." Lin Fan said as he tossed Chen Long a jar of Spirit Onion Wine... "You were drunk and made a couple mistakes... "Tell the ladies down in the new Fan Sect Forbidden City all the drinks are on my tonight..."

"Asshole... Tell me what happened to you during the baptism another time... I'm supposed to be drunk and not care!"

Chen Long got up and disappeared as the dust behind Lin Fan finally cleared.

Everyone who had been wanting to watch was disappointed to find that the battle had happened without them being able to witness it.

"Chicken Man... What happened? Did you win or lose!"

"I paid for his drinks! He beat me fair and square..." Lin Fan smiled before stepped down on his foot and appeared in front of the Fan Sect Workshop... "Now, An Moe... Shall we make a pill to turn these weak soldiers we have into complete aberrations? I also see you decided to wear a shorter skirt today..."

"Your pleasure is my greatest weakness, and my pain is the greatest reward I could ask for on such a dark and dreary day... Care to take a look at this design before you have your way with me?"