The All - 241

Pangu's axe and the dragon claw collided. A cut was made on the dragon's claw, and the cut was extremely deep. 

Although he had caused great damage, Pangu did not come out of the collision unscathed.

He was launched back by the dragon's claw and hit the wall behind him at an extremely fast speed.

Many parts of his body ruptured, but Pangu immediately launched off the wall and towards the dragon.

He knew that the dragon was no joke and although he had made a deep cut that had been infected with Fiend Qi, the dragon would be able to attack again quickly.

Just as he had expected, a dragon claw smashed the wall that Pangu had been pushed up against.

The dragon had attacked the wall with its left claw since its right claw was in great pain.

Thanks to Pangus quick movement, he was now below the relatively unguarded dragon's belly.

He instantly slashed up with Fiend Qi and axe Qi as he jumped in the air.

Not only did his axe make direct contact with the dragon, but it also released the Fiend Qi and axe Qi on it as a wave that traveled through the dragon's stomach.

Now, the dragon was severely injured.

In an instant, it decided that its best course of action was to drop on Pangu and crush him with its weight.

Luckily, Pangu had somewhat expected that. He crouched and put the axe above his head so that it would cut anything above it.

As the dragon collided with the ground, Pangu was pushed in its stomach. In just seconds, Pangu released several devastating attacks that turned the dragon's insides into mincemeat.

If the dragon had expected such a thing, it would have had a way to deal with it such as flooding its body with Fire Qi, but it simply wasn't prepared.

In a few moments, the dragon was dead. Pangu had been very lucky. One wrong move would have spelled his loss.

As Pangu saw the next door, he was surprised. He had expected the dragon to be the last beast in the trial due to how powerful it was.

Every new room had a qualitative change in difficulty, but there was a room after the dragon.

That meant that something much stronger than a dragon was behind the next door.

Before walking through that door Pangu had to recover.

Pangu crossed his legs before looking at his axe. It was chipped. Sure enough, the dragon had been powerful.

As another pill fell from the ceiling, Pangu started to meditate.

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Zhou Fan was watching Pangu take the trial, and as he looked at the next door, he felt some excitement.

The beast behind it was a completely new beast that he had invested some time into creating.

The most important aspect of it was its affinity.

Time.

Even now, Zhou Fn didn't really have the ability to use Time Qi. Luckily, he had just enough strength to move it.

However, that led to the question, why can a foundation establishment beast use time while Zhou Fan couldn't.

That was also connected to the question, why can't Zhou Fan use the power of time.

Simply put, the cosmic dao did not allow the power of time to be used. While Chaos Qi was too powerful for the cosmic dao to sense or restrict, Time Qi was not.

The moment any sort of time Qi was used, it would obliterate everything in that area.

Although Zhou Fan had felt like he could not use the power of time Qi before, that was simply his instincts refusing to allow its usage. Otherwise, Zhou Fan would not exist.

He had comprehended the reason just before he had created cultivation 1.0.

As time passed, Zhou Fan began to dislike the cosmic dao more and more.

At first, it had simply been a mystical existence far away from him.

Later, it began to suppress him and every single thing that could endanger Zhou Fan was related to it.

However, the cosmic dao was also the only reason life existed. In fact, it was very likely the only reason the universe existed.

Zhou Fan would decide on what to do with it once he surpassed it in power.

Now, for why the beast could use time Qi. In a simple way, Zhou Fan had grown strong enough to somewhat avoid the theoretical eyes of the cosmic dao.

By creating a separate space with all of his power, he was able to hide some things from it.

However, those things could not exceed a certain power level.

For example, the river of cultivation could likely be seen by the cosmic dao, but it was still somewhat hidden. It was like looking at a lamp light through heavy fog.

A foundation establishment beast using the power of time, however, was like trying to look at a firefly through heavy fog.

As long as it was below the core formation realm, just about anything could be hidden from the cosmic dao by Zhou Fan.

Zhou Fan had managed to design a beast perfect for using time Qi and slightly control some time Qi in order to give it an affinity.

While giving out affinities was not something Zhou Fan could casually do, he had managed to make the existence not have the possibility of gaining any other affinity due to its structure.

Therefore, after a few attempts, the beast was created and put in the fifth level of the foundation establishment realm.

Due to the increase of difficulty, Zhou Fan planned on giving Pangu the same reward whether he won or lost.

Naturally, against the beast that Zhou Fan had named, "The All", Pangu stood little chance.

Looking at the beast, Zhou Fan's face slowly let out a weird smile.

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As Pangu finally recovered, he stood up and slowly entered the room.

If before, Pangu was still able to observe the room after seeing the dragon, he now had no will to.

In front of him was something that could only be described as an abomination to creation.

It had eight legs, similar to a spider, but its body looked like something mashed together by a child with playdough.

Even that, however, was not the focus point.

Covering every inch of the beast's body were yellow, moving eyes.