Foundation Establishment Realm - 453

Although Zhu Yi had never even heard of Time Qi, it wasn't hard to understand what it meant. Fire Qi represented fire. Ice Qi represented ice. In that case, then Time Qi represented Time.

"You mean Time as in… you know… Time, right?" Zhu Yi asked.

Zhou Fan nodded. "Although you won't be able to do much before the foundation establishment realm, I've given you a great opportunity."

Zhu Yi was very excited. This affinity would redefine his entire life.

Zhou Fan continued. "Now, just focus on cultivating. Once you reach the Foundation Establishment realm, I have a few ideas."

Although the power of time was incredible and affected everything in the universe, it was also weak. 

There was nothing that strengthened the power of time, and theoretically, it could be affected by any strong cultivator as easily as space.

Luckily, the Cosmic Dao had forbidden its usage, and Zhou Fan's river of cultivation had done the same. In Zhu Yi's case, Zhou Fan was the owner and creator of the river of cultivation and was naturally exempt from the rules.

As a result, Zhu Yi would be able to use Time Qi, and he would be able to use it very well.

After calming down, Zhu Yi took the beast parts and left the room. He soon returned to his house and began to cultivate. Before, he had focused on increasing his talent through Zhou Fan. Now, he could focus on getting stronger. After all, once he entered the foundation establishment realm, he would be able to hunt foundation establishment realm beasts on his own.

After recovering, Zhou Fan also gained the ability of increasing Zhu Yi's cultivation speed, even if not greatly.

Zhu Yi stayed inside and entered seclusion. Every week, he would go out and participate in an Assassination guild mission. He now completed missions for spirit stones to increase his cultivation speed.

His life continued in this fashion for 2 years before Zhu Yi reached the absolute peak of the Qi gathering realm. He had enough Qi to break through at any time, but he faced an issue that Zhou Fan had never encountered. A bottleneck.

It was a natural phenomenon that limited the advancing of a cultivator. Many would need to cultivate for a long time or gain an enlightenment before breaking through the bottleneck.

Zhou Fan sneered. "Nonsense."

He waved his hand, and Zhu Yi's bottleneck vanished. Doing this much was without issue.

Zhu Yi bowed to his master, extremely grateful, and cultivated again. In a few minutes, he easily surpassed the Qi gathering realm and entered the Foundation Establishment realm.

Zhu Yi opened his eyes. 

He stood up and bowed to his master. His master had completely changed his life and he was eternally grateful.

"Don't bow at me." Zhou Fan said.

Zhu Yi stood up. "Can I use Time Qi now, Master?"

Zhou Fan nodded. "Although I've never used Time Qi myself, it shouldn't be too much different from space Qi, in terms of difficulty at least. The effects, on the other hand, will differ greatly."

Zhu Yi nodded and played with time Qi in his hands while his master thought. Although he could not currently use Time Qi, he could still control it. It was like moving wind around but not actually using it for anything.

Zhu Yi watched his master think. Zhu Yi had a lot of questions. His master seemed unfathomable and shocked him more and more every day. He sometimes did things that did not make sense to Zhu Yi, such as clearing away someone's bottleneck or giving Zhu Yi an affinity and increasing his talent.

He wanted to ask questions, but decided to hold his tongue. His master would tell him when he wanted to.

He could only confirm that his master had been far more powerful than he could understand.

After a few hours, Zhou Fan spoke. "Alright. Try this."

Zhou Fan spoke while Zhu Yi listened. Zhou Fan had not created an offensive or defensive technique, but a supporting technique. It was what he had had in mind when giving Zhu Yi Time Qi.

Zhu Yi used his Qi according to Zhou Fan's words, and a bubble appeared around him. At the same time, he saw a bird fly over his house.

He looked at the bird, and it was clearly moving slower than usual

"This is the Time bubble, a technique so advanced that very few people could have created it even with access to Time Qi. Inside the bubble, Time passes faster. Within, you can cultivate faster."

Although the Qi in the world was about one tenth of the Qi from Zhou Fan's time, it was still all pervasive.

In other words, no matter how time was affected, unless Zhu Yi could use all of the Qi within the world in an instant, he could always cultivate at the same speed within the bubble.

If the Qi was not all pervasive, then he would cultivate slower due to cultivating too fast in the Time bubble.

"The Time bubble speeds up Time by two times. In other words, 2 days inside the bubble is one day outside."

Zhu Yi was impressed as usual, but he was getting used to his master's unfathomableness.

The only issue with the Time bubble was that it used Qi to maintain itself. 

"You need to learn arrays." Zhou Fan said.

If Zhu Yi could implement Time Qi into arrays, everything would be much better.

Due to using up Qi maintaining the Time bubble, Zhu Yi could only technically cultivate 1.5x faster in the environment. Still, it was a great boost.

"Where can I get materials for arrays?" Zhu Yi asked while scratching his head. 

"You're asking me? Who am I supposed to ask?" Zhou Fan responded.

Only then did Zhu Yi remember that Zhou Fan was not omnipotent. He had gotten too used to his unfathomableness.

Zhu Yi moved to the Assassination guild. After spending so much time, he had ranked up to E rank. Like the Rogue cultivator guild, the Assassination guild had the same rankings.

This gave him minor access to the crystal pad network. If he needed information, then the crystal pad network was the place to go.