Chapter 99
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Zan Fu stared back at Phoen's eyes directly. With a squeeze of his fist, he nodded his head and screamed at him, "So what if I am! Bring it on bastard!" After this shout, Zan Fu took of mighty leap in order to shoot himself over to him. The claw formed within his hands and a raging aura began to shoot out of Zan Fu's body as he swung it towards Phoen's face.
It didn't take much effort for Phoen to block the attack with his feather, but the power behind Zan Fu's strike did surprise him slightly. After blocking the first strike, Phoen pointed his left arm forward, "{Hell's Flame}!" A stream of fire stretched out and reached toward his opponent. Zan Fu didn't even flinch as the blue energy surrounding his body gathered together and nullified all of the flames.
Phoen was surprised at this point because he did not expect for Zan Fu to be able to stop his attack. Because of his overconfidence, his defenses were lowered and this gave Zan Fu the chance to get close in order to slam the claw into him, like a baseball player going for a home run. Phoen shot back into the ground and a huge explosion sounded out from where he landed. After landing onto his feet, Zan Fu ran over in order to inspect the point of impact.
He noticed that there was no movement anywhere in whatever rubble was left behind, but he still believed that his single attack wasn't enough to take Phoen down for good. Just as he thought, at the center of the small crater that formed, something was moving under a small pile of rocks and dirt. Phoen's popped out of the debris and he dragged himself out from the hole he made. After dusting off his clothing, a small smile appeared on his face while Phoen cracked his neck. "Very impressive, I have no idea where so much strength came from but in kind of jealous to be honest."
Zan Fu chuckled but there was no humor in his eyes. He faced Phoen and said passively, "Oh, Why would you be so jealous? Is it because this strength was gifted to me while yours was stolen you monster?!" Phoen began to walk up out of the crater while saying, "That's Mr. Monster to you, boy. I killed a LOT of people for that title and I deserve to be called as such."
"F*ck you!" At this, Zan Fu ran head first into the crater at full speed. Phoen, being the lover of challenges he was, decided to face Zan Fu's next attack head on with one of his own. The feather within Phoen's grasp out with a terrifying red energy as the claw within Zan Fu's hand flowed blue. The two people began to shorten the distance between one another and once they were close enough the weapons collided together.
A burst of energy was released after the attack and a wall of smoke rose up over the warriors, keeping the outcome hidden from everyone else present. It didn't take long for it to be revealed though as Zan Fu's body was suddenly flung out of the smoke and crashed into a wall nearby. Shu Rong, who was neat the area where he landed, ran over to him in order to see if he was okay.
He was NOT okay.
Not only were several of Zan Fu's bones broken to bits, but there were patches of burn wounds all over his chest and arms. Despite his blue energy apparently having a sort of canceling effect on the red energy, it appeared that the overwhelming amount of energy the Phoen could wield compared to Zan Fu allowed him to surpass his weakness. It was not known why Phoen was able to use so much of this red energy, but Zan Fu knew that if he couldn't figure out a way stop that power, he would die very quickly.
Shu Rong came over and tried to use whatever was left of her energy to heal up some of Zan Fu's wounds. Unfortunately, they didn't have much time as Phoen, who was practically unscathed from the collision, stepped out of the smoke and walked towards them.
With what strength he still had, Zan Fu was able to use the claw as a cane and lift himself off the ground. After placing his hand onto Shu Rong's shoulder, who was still trying to heal him, he told her to leave the area quickly and to take Yi Ling with her. He was afraid of what would happen if she was caught in the crossfire, so he chose to get her out of there as soon as possible.
Phoen noticed this little exchange between them and thought to himself what would happen if he were to...
He flew toward Shu Rong with his left hand completely dyed red with power. After closing the distance between them, he stretched out his limb in order to grab her by the throat. Before he succeeded however, a powerful kick suddenly made contact with his face and Phoen was sent flying backwards. Zan Fu was still in an incredibly injured state, but with his current power he could still move around without much worry for his wounds. The only real problem was his broken bone, which were still undergoing the healing process. At the moment they were half done, but he had no choice but to take action after seeing what Phoen was plotting.
Zan Fu fell to his knees and coughed out a mouthful of blood into the floor. Shu Rong was about to take a step over to help him up once more, but then she realized that it was basically her fault that he had to over exert his body in order to protect her. With an apologetic expression in her face, she ran over to Yi Ling and carried her out of the room as fast as possible. They didn't go far and just hid outside next to the door so that they could see what would happen at the end of the battle.
With them pretty much at a safe distance, Zan Fu was able to go all out. Power erupted from his body as if it was a volcano and his wounds began to heal up at a much quicker rate. This was a skill that Zan Fu learned from Voice at the very last second before he disappeared, it increased his power by almost forty percent and it even gave him super regeneration for a short period of time. The reason he didn't use this skill before was due to the berserker effect, basically he was not able to tell friend or foe and he would just attack anyone at random. Braedon was too far away to be affected and Shu Rong had left the vicinity, this left only one target left for him to attack.
With this in mind, Zan Fu shot forward at speeds that he had never achieved before. Another small thing he did was connect the claw to his body once more like he did in the Gaian Worm. After Phoen was spotted he clenched his fist? Claw?... weapon and threw out a single jab.
Phoen has just collected himself from the kick and looked up just in time to see a giant scaly object snack into his face. After being blown back a short distance, Phoen looked up with an annoyed expression, "Enough of this!" He brought his hands together and allowed the blue and red energy to merge together. This caused a strange purple aura to be created which he spread over his feather. The feather began to give off a dark glow as the area around it was distorted. "Look at this! The negative force of the timelord himself is now within my grasp. I will be an immortal god, and soon you will be dead!"
He swung the feather over in Zan Fu's direction and a terrifying feeling appeared in the back of his head. Because of this feeling, Zan Fu dodged the strike which was good since the area behind him distorted and then just turned to dust. There was no explosion, crushing aura, or powerful attack. It was almost as if the area was just struck a quadrillion times all at once. Zan Fu landed onto the ground and moved toward Phoen without any hesitation, at this point any lapse in judgement will be the death of him.
He brought the claw over and slammed it into the feather. The place where the feather and claw contacted each other began to smoke and sizzle as the scales became darker. Zan Fu stuck his leg out and kicked Phoen aside in order to stop the degradation of his arm any further. But this didn't stop Phoen from releasing a beam of purple toward him as he flew away. Zan Fu was barely able to dodge the last attack and move over to where Phoen was, but when he got there Phoen had already caught his balance and he pushed the feather forward, almost stabbing Zan Fu in the chest.
After the close encounter, Zan Fu kept his distance. A loud roar escaped his mouth as Zan Fu's felt his berserk mode weakening, which shouldn't be possible since it was suppose to last at least fifteen minutes but only five had passed at most. As he was trying to figure out why this was happening, Phoen shot over and swung the feather over his head. Zan Fu ducked to the right but the very top of the feather sliced the edges of his hair. Soon there was a streak of white in the middle of Zan Fu's head of black hair.
Once this happened, he suddenly remembered Phoen's words. "The negative force of the timelord himself is within my grasp!"
A horrifying idea struck at the back of his head as the realization of what Phoen's strange power was. It was the ability to speed up time by an unknown amount. One attack sped up a stone wall to the point of it turning to dust, while another just caused his transformation's time limit to shorten by a few minutes. Zan Fu did not know how this power worked but he knew one thing for sure, he desperately needed help or else he was in deep sh*t.
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While Zan Fu was facing all of that. Braedon was trying to revive Kai Jun to the best of his abilities, but nothing was working. "Hold on you sack of crap! C'mon think Braedon, how are you going to heal him!" As Braedon thought this to himself, Kai Jun coughed out some blood to the side. He opened up his eyes and stared at Braedon, who was freaking out, then at his own chest, which was basically non existent.
A small chuckle escaped his mouth as Kai Jun stared up into the sky. He closed his eyes and remembered something from the past while reaching his hand up and grabbing onto Braedon's arm, "Braedon..."
"No, don't speak! I'll try to figure out a way to heal you up don't worry, we are going to get you through this." Braedon said this to him while shooting a large amount of his power into the gaping chest wound that Kai Jun currently had. Even after spending almost all of his energy, the wound would not close at all. Kai Jun painfully explained that the amount of power needed to heal his body was something that was virtually impossible for Braedon to obtain without outside assistance.
"Then what are we going to do?!?"
"YOU are going to listen to me and do what I tell you. Braedon, I don't have long and you know it so just shut up and listen." Despite not wanting to believe it, Braedon knew Kai Jun was right so he closed his mouth and opened his ears. What Kai Jun said next shocked Braedon to the core.
"As you already know, I am Sun Wukong. At a certain point in my life, my enemies trapped me in a furnace and tried to refine into medicine in order to give to their king but they failed...as the legends say." Kai Jun said those last few words with an awkward pause in the middle.
Braedon scrunched his eyebrows together and said, "what do you mean, as they say?"
"Braedon, they did not fail in the refinement. It was just that the way they refined me gave me a chance to escape as well as a special buff." Kai Jun allowed his words to sink into Braedon's mind as he watched his face light up in shock and understanding, "You mean...?"
"I am a Living Pill."
The blood in Braedon's face drained away as he had a good idea of what Kai Jun wanted him to do, "You want me to absorb you?"
"What? Of course not! But if you think that that will help our situation then I guess we'll do it..."
"Don't make me the villain here!" Braedon screamed this out while Kai began to laugh and then proceeded to cough out in pain, "Ah, it hurts to laugh." Despite trying to take the seriousness out of the situation, Kai Jun knew that what he was asking was a bit strange for Braedon.
"Braedon, I don't have much longer. This is the only way that we are able to defeat Phoen and reclaim your body. Plus after releasing all of my powers I would've turned to dust anyway. So don't worry about me for once and just do what must done!" Kai Jun grabbed Braedon by his shirt collar and brought him close, "Place your hand on my chest and feel the power flow through you. Allow it to enter into your body and integrate with your very soul!"
Braedon listened to his words and closed his eyes. Something began to flow up his arm as a surge of strength suddenly entered into Braedon's body and strengthen his cultivation. The power was overwhelming and Braedon almost couldn't handle it. But he pulled through and felt the energy from Kai Jun merge with his very essence, "So this is what a Living Pill feels like." He whispered this quietly to himself while standing up from his kneeling position.
Braedon did not feel sad about Kai Jun's death, nor did he feel happy or anything like that! Instead, the only thing he truly felt was the conviction to make sure his sacrifice wasn't in vain.
"Thanks for the meal Sun Wukong...it was delicious." Braedon looked toward where Phoen and Zan Fu were fighting with his eyes glowing with power. His left eye had the natural blue glow of the {Eyes of Heaven and Earth} but his right eye had a bright orange-like shine.
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Zan Fu stared back at Phoen's eyes directly. With a squeeze of his fist, he nodded his head and screamed at him, "So what if I am! Bring it on bastard!" After this shout, Zan Fu took of mighty leap in order to shoot himself over to him. The claw formed within his hands and a raging aura began to shoot out of Zan Fu's body as he swung it towards Phoen's face.
It didn't take much effort for Phoen to block the attack with his feather, but the power behind Zan Fu's strike did surprise him slightly. After blocking the first strike, Phoen pointed his left arm forward, "{Hell's Flame}!" A stream of fire stretched out and reached toward his opponent. Zan Fu didn't even flinch as the blue energy surrounding his body gathered together and nullified all of the flames.
Phoen was surprised at this point because he did not expect for Zan Fu to be able to stop his attack. Because of his overconfidence, his defenses were lowered and this gave Zan Fu the chance to get close in order to slam the claw into him, like a baseball player going for a home run. Phoen shot back into the ground and a huge explosion sounded out from where he landed. After landing onto his feet, Zan Fu ran over in order to inspect the point of impact.
He noticed that there was no movement anywhere in whatever rubble was left behind, but he still believed that his single attack wasn't enough to take Phoen down for good. Just as he thought, at the center of the small crater that formed, something was moving under a small pile of rocks and dirt. Phoen's popped out of the debris and he dragged himself out from the hole he made. After dusting off his clothing, a small smile appeared on his face while Phoen cracked his neck. "Very impressive, I have no idea where so much strength came from but in kind of jealous to be honest."
Zan Fu chuckled but there was no humor in his eyes. He faced Phoen and said passively, "Oh, Why would you be so jealous? Is it because this strength was gifted to me while yours was stolen you monster?!" Phoen began to walk up out of the crater while saying, "That's Mr. Monster to you, boy. I killed a LOT of people for that title and I deserve to be called as such."
"F*ck you!" At this, Zan Fu ran head first into the crater at full speed. Phoen, being the lover of challenges he was, decided to face Zan Fu's next attack head on with one of his own. The feather within Phoen's grasp out with a terrifying red energy as the claw within Zan Fu's hand flowed blue. The two people began to shorten the distance between one another and once they were close enough the weapons collided together.
A burst of energy was released after the attack and a wall of smoke rose up over the warriors, keeping the outcome hidden from everyone else present. It didn't take long for it to be revealed though as Zan Fu's body was suddenly flung out of the smoke and crashed into a wall nearby. Shu Rong, who was neat the area where he landed, ran over to him in order to see if he was okay.
He was NOT okay.
Not only were several of Zan Fu's bones broken to bits, but there were patches of burn wounds all over his chest and arms. Despite his blue energy apparently having a sort of canceling effect on the red energy, it appeared that the overwhelming amount of energy the Phoen could wield compared to Zan Fu allowed him to surpass his weakness. It was not known why Phoen was able to use so much of this red energy, but Zan Fu knew that if he couldn't figure out a way stop that power, he would die very quickly.
Shu Rong came over and tried to use whatever was left of her energy to heal up some of Zan Fu's wounds. Unfortunately, they didn't have much time as Phoen, who was practically unscathed from the collision, stepped out of the smoke and walked towards them.
With what strength he still had, Zan Fu was able to use the claw as a cane and lift himself off the ground. After placing his hand onto Shu Rong's shoulder, who was still trying to heal him, he told her to leave the area quickly and to take Yi Ling with her. He was afraid of what would happen if she was caught in the crossfire, so he chose to get her out of there as soon as possible.
Phoen noticed this little exchange between them and thought to himself what would happen if he were to...
He flew toward Shu Rong with his left hand completely dyed red with power. After closing the distance between them, he stretched out his limb in order to grab her by the throat. Before he succeeded however, a powerful kick suddenly made contact with his face and Phoen was sent flying backwards. Zan Fu was still in an incredibly injured state, but with his current power he could still move around without much worry for his wounds. The only real problem was his broken bone, which were still undergoing the healing process. At the moment they were half done, but he had no choice but to take action after seeing what Phoen was plotting.
Zan Fu fell to his knees and coughed out a mouthful of blood into the floor. Shu Rong was about to take a step over to help him up once more, but then she realized that it was basically her fault that he had to over exert his body in order to protect her. With an apologetic expression in her face, she ran over to Yi Ling and carried her out of the room as fast as possible. They didn't go far and just hid outside next to the door so that they could see what would happen at the end of the battle.
With them pretty much at a safe distance, Zan Fu was able to go all out. Power erupted from his body as if it was a volcano and his wounds began to heal up at a much quicker rate. This was a skill that Zan Fu learned from Voice at the very last second before he disappeared, it increased his power by almost forty percent and it even gave him super regeneration for a short period of time. The reason he didn't use this skill before was due to the berserker effect, basically he was not able to tell friend or foe and he would just attack anyone at random. Braedon was too far away to be affected and Shu Rong had left the vicinity, this left only one target left for him to attack.
With this in mind, Zan Fu shot forward at speeds that he had never achieved before. Another small thing he did was connect the claw to his body once more like he did in the Gaian Worm. After Phoen was spotted he clenched his fist? Claw?... weapon and threw out a single jab.
Phoen has just collected himself from the kick and looked up just in time to see a giant scaly object snack into his face. After being blown back a short distance, Phoen looked up with an annoyed expression, "Enough of this!" He brought his hands together and allowed the blue and red energy to merge together. This caused a strange purple aura to be created which he spread over his feather. The feather began to give off a dark glow as the area around it was distorted. "Look at this! The negative force of the timelord himself is now within my grasp. I will be an immortal god, and soon you will be dead!"
He swung the feather over in Zan Fu's direction and a terrifying feeling appeared in the back of his head. Because of this feeling, Zan Fu dodged the strike which was good since the area behind him distorted and then just turned to dust. There was no explosion, crushing aura, or powerful attack. It was almost as if the area was just struck a quadrillion times all at once. Zan Fu landed onto the ground and moved toward Phoen without any hesitation, at this point any lapse in judgement will be the death of him.
He brought the claw over and slammed it into the feather. The place where the feather and claw contacted each other began to smoke and sizzle as the scales became darker. Zan Fu stuck his leg out and kicked Phoen aside in order to stop the degradation of his arm any further. But this didn't stop Phoen from releasing a beam of purple toward him as he flew away. Zan Fu was barely able to dodge the last attack and move over to where Phoen was, but when he got there Phoen had already caught his balance and he pushed the feather forward, almost stabbing Zan Fu in the chest.
After the close encounter, Zan Fu kept his distance. A loud roar escaped his mouth as Zan Fu's felt his berserk mode weakening, which shouldn't be possible since it was suppose to last at least fifteen minutes but only five had passed at most. As he was trying to figure out why this was happening, Phoen shot over and swung the feather over his head. Zan Fu ducked to the right but the very top of the feather sliced the edges of his hair. Soon there was a streak of white in the middle of Zan Fu's head of black hair.
Once this happened, he suddenly remembered Phoen's words. "The negative force of the timelord himself is within my grasp!"
A horrifying idea struck at the back of his head as the realization of what Phoen's strange power was. It was the ability to speed up time by an unknown amount. One attack sped up a stone wall to the point of it turning to dust, while another just caused his transformation's time limit to shorten by a few minutes. Zan Fu did not know how this power worked but he knew one thing for sure, he desperately needed help or else he was in deep sh*t.
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While Zan Fu was facing all of that. Braedon was trying to revive Kai Jun to the best of his abilities, but nothing was working. "Hold on you sack of crap! C'mon think Braedon, how are you going to heal him!" As Braedon thought this to himself, Kai Jun coughed out some blood to the side. He opened up his eyes and stared at Braedon, who was freaking out, then at his own chest, which was basically non existent.
A small chuckle escaped his mouth as Kai Jun stared up into the sky. He closed his eyes and remembered something from the past while reaching his hand up and grabbing onto Braedon's arm, "Braedon..."
"No, don't speak! I'll try to figure out a way to heal you up don't worry, we are going to get you through this." Braedon said this to him while shooting a large amount of his power into the gaping chest wound that Kai Jun currently had. Even after spending almost all of his energy, the wound would not close at all. Kai Jun painfully explained that the amount of power needed to heal his body was something that was virtually impossible for Braedon to obtain without outside assistance.
"Then what are we going to do?!?"
"YOU are going to listen to me and do what I tell you. Braedon, I don't have long and you know it so just shut up and listen." Despite not wanting to believe it, Braedon knew Kai Jun was right so he closed his mouth and opened his ears. What Kai Jun said next shocked Braedon to the core.
"As you already know, I am Sun Wukong. At a certain point in my life, my enemies trapped me in a furnace and tried to refine into medicine in order to give to their king but they failed...as the legends say." Kai Jun said those last few words with an awkward pause in the middle.
Braedon scrunched his eyebrows together and said, "what do you mean, as they say?"
"Braedon, they did not fail in the refinement. It was just that the way they refined me gave me a chance to escape as well as a special buff." Kai Jun allowed his words to sink into Braedon's mind as he watched his face light up in shock and understanding, "You mean...?"
"I am a Living Pill."
The blood in Braedon's face drained away as he had a good idea of what Kai Jun wanted him to do, "You want me to absorb you?"
"What? Of course not! But if you think that that will help our situation then I guess we'll do it..."
"Don't make me the villain here!" Braedon screamed this out while Kai began to laugh and then proceeded to cough out in pain, "Ah, it hurts to laugh." Despite trying to take the seriousness out of the situation, Kai Jun knew that what he was asking was a bit strange for Braedon.
"Braedon, I don't have much longer. This is the only way that we are able to defeat Phoen and reclaim your body. Plus after releasing all of my powers I would've turned to dust anyway. So don't worry about me for once and just do what must done!" Kai Jun grabbed Braedon by his shirt collar and brought him close, "Place your hand on my chest and feel the power flow through you. Allow it to enter into your body and integrate with your very soul!"
Braedon listened to his words and closed his eyes. Something began to flow up his arm as a surge of strength suddenly entered into Braedon's body and strengthen his cultivation. The power was overwhelming and Braedon almost couldn't handle it. But he pulled through and felt the energy from Kai Jun merge with his very essence, "So this is what a Living Pill feels like." He whispered this quietly to himself while standing up from his kneeling position.
Braedon did not feel sad about Kai Jun's death, nor did he feel happy or anything like that! Instead, the only thing he truly felt was the conviction to make sure his sacrifice wasn't in vain.
"Thanks for the meal Sun Wukong...it was delicious." Braedon looked toward where Phoen and Zan Fu were fighting with his eyes glowing with power. His left eye had the natural blue glow of the {Eyes of Heaven and Earth} but his right eye had a bright orange-like shine.
Zan Fu stared back at Phoen's eyes directly. With a squeeze of his fist, he nodded his head and screamed at him, "So what if I am! Bring it on bastard!" After this shout, Zan Fu took of mighty leap in order to shoot himself over to him. The claw formed within his hands and a raging aura began to shoot out of Zan Fu's body as he swung it towards Phoen's face. It didn't take much effort for Phoen to block the attack with his feather, but the power behind Zan Fu's strike did surprise him slightly. After blocking the first strike, Phoen pointed his left arm forward, "{Hell's Flame}!" A stream of fire stretched out and reached toward his opponent. Zan Fu didn't even flinch as the blue energy surrounding his body gathered together and nullified all of the flames. Phoen was surprised at this point because he did not expect for Zan Fu to be able to stop his attack. Because of his overconfidence, his defenses were lowered and this gave Zan Fu the chance to get close in order to slam the claw into him, like a baseball player going for a home run. Phoen shot back into the ground and a huge explosion sounded out from where he landed. After landing onto his feet, Zan Fu ran over in order to inspect the point of impact. He noticed that there was no movement anywhere in whatever rubble was left behind, but he still believed that his single attack wasn't enough to take Phoen down for good. Just as he thought, at the center of the small crater that formed, something was moving under a small pile of rocks and dirt. Phoen's popped out of the debris and he dragged himself out from the hole he made. After dusting off his clothing, a small smile appeared on his face while Phoen cracked his neck. "Very impressive, I have no idea where so much strength came from but in kind of jealous to be honest." Zan Fu chuckled but there was no humor in his eyes. He faced Phoen and said passively, "Oh, Why would you be so jealous? Is it because this strength was gifted to me while yours was stolen you monster?!" Phoen began to walk up out of the crater while saying, "That's Mr. Monster to you, boy. I killed a LOT of people for that title and I deserve to be called as such." "F*ck you!" At this, Zan Fu ran head first into the crater at full speed. Phoen, being the lover of challenges he was, decided to face Zan Fu's next attack head on with one of his own. The feather within Phoen's grasp out with a terrifying red energy as the claw within Zan Fu's hand flowed blue. The two people began to shorten the distance between one another and once they were close enough the weapons collided together. A burst of energy was released after the attack and a wall of smoke rose up over the warriors, keeping the outcome hidden from everyone else present. It didn't take long for it to be revealed though as Zan Fu's body was suddenly flung out of the smoke and crashed into a wall nearby. Shu Rong, who was neat the area where he landed, ran over to him in order to see if he was okay. He was NOT okay. Not only were several of Zan Fu's bones broken to bits, but there were patches of burn wounds all over his chest and arms. Despite his blue energy apparently having a sort of canceling effect on the red energy, it appeared that the overwhelming amount of energy the Phoen could wield compared to Zan Fu allowed him to surpass his weakness. It was not known why Phoen was able to use so much of this red energy, but Zan Fu knew that if he couldn't figure out a way stop that power, he would die very quickly. Shu Rong came over and tried to use whatever was left of her energy to heal up some of Zan Fu's wounds. Unfortunately, they didn't have much time as Phoen, who was practically unscathed from the collision, stepped out of the smoke and walked towards them. With what strength he still had, Zan Fu was able to use the claw as a cane and lift himself off the ground. After placing his hand onto Shu Rong's shoulder, who was still trying to heal him, he told her to leave the area quickly and to take Yi Ling with her. He was afraid of what would happen if she was caught in the crossfire, so he chose to get her out of there as soon as possible. Phoen noticed this little exchange between them and thought to himself what would happen if he were to... He flew toward Shu Rong with his left hand completely dyed red with power. After closing the distance between them, he stretched out his limb in order to grab her by the throat. Before he succeeded however, a powerful kick suddenly made contact with his face and Phoen was sent flying backwards. Zan Fu was still in an incredibly injured state, but with his current power he could still move around without much worry for his wounds. The only real problem was his broken bone, which were still undergoing the healing process. At the moment they were half done, but he had no choice but to take action after seeing what Phoen was plotting. Zan Fu fell to his knees and coughed out a mouthful of blood into the floor. Shu Rong was about to take a step over to help him up once more, but then she realized that it was basically her fault that he had to over exert his body in order to protect her. With an apologetic expression in her face, she ran over to Yi Ling and carried her out of the room as fast as possible. They didn't go far and just hid outside next to the door so that they could see what would happen at the end of the battle. With them pretty much at a safe distance, Zan Fu was able to go all out. Power erupted from his body as if it was a volcano and his wounds began to heal up at a much quicker rate. This was a skill that Zan Fu learned from Voice at the very last second before he disappeared, it increased his power by almost forty percent and it even gave him super regeneration for a short period of time. The reason he didn't use this skill before was due to the berserker effect, basically he was not able to tell friend or foe and he would just attack anyone at random. Braedon was too far away to be affected and Shu Rong had left the vicinity, this left only one target left for him to attack. With this in mind, Zan Fu shot forward at speeds that he had never achieved before. Another small thing he did was connect the claw to his body once more like he did in the Gaian Worm. After Phoen was spotted he clenched his fist? Claw?... weapon and threw out a single jab. Phoen has just collected himself from the kick and looked up just in time to see a giant scaly object snack into his face. After being blown back a short distance, Phoen looked up with an annoyed expression, "Enough of this!" He brought his hands together and allowed the blue and red energy to merge together. This caused a strange purple aura to be created which he spread over his feather. The feather began to give off a dark glow as the area around it was distorted. "Look at this! The negative force of the timelord himself is now within my grasp. I will be an immortal god, and soon you will be dead!" He swung the feather over in Zan Fu's direction and a terrifying feeling appeared in the back of his head. Because of this feeling, Zan Fu dodged the strike which was good since the area behind him distorted and then just turned to dust. There was no explosion, crushing aura, or powerful attack. It was almost as if the area was just struck a quadrillion times all at once. Zan Fu landed onto the ground and moved toward Phoen without any hesitation, at this point any lapse in judgement will be the death of him. He brought the claw over and slammed it into the feather. The place where the feather and claw contacted each other began to smoke and sizzle as the scales became darker. Zan Fu stuck his leg out and kicked Phoen aside in order to stop the degradation of his arm any further. But this didn't stop Phoen from releasing a beam of purple toward him as he flew away. Zan Fu was barely able to dodge the last attack and move over to where Phoen was, but when he got there Phoen had already caught his balance and he pushed the feather forward, almost stabbing Zan Fu in the chest. After the close encounter, Zan Fu kept his distance. A loud roar escaped his mouth as Zan Fu's felt his berserk mode weakening, which shouldn't be possible since it was suppose to last at least fifteen minutes but only five had passed at most. As he was trying to figure out why this was happening, Phoen shot over and swung the feather over his head. Zan Fu ducked to the right but the very top of the feather sliced the edges of his hair. Soon there was a streak of white in the middle of Zan Fu's head of black hair. Once this happened, he suddenly remembered Phoen's words. "The negative force of the timelord himself is within my grasp!" A horrifying idea struck at the back of his head as the realization of what Phoen's strange power was. It was the ability to speed up time by an unknown amount. One attack sped up a stone wall to the point of it turning to dust, while another just caused his transformation's time limit to shorten by a few minutes. Zan Fu did not know how this power worked but he knew one thing for sure, he desperately needed help or else he was in deep sh*t. ~~~~~~~~~~ While Zan Fu was facing all of that. Braedon was trying to revive Kai Jun to the best of his abilities, but nothing was working. "Hold on you sack of crap! C'mon think Braedon, how are you going to heal him!" As Braedon thought this to himself, Kai Jun coughed out some blood to the side. He opened up his eyes and stared at Braedon, who was freaking out, then at his own chest, which was basically non existent. A small chuckle escaped his mouth as Kai Jun stared up into the sky. He closed his eyes and remembered something from the past while reaching his hand up and grabbing onto Braedon's arm, "Braedon..." "No, don't speak! I'll try to figure out a way to heal you up don't worry, we are going to get you through this." Braedon said this to him while shooting a large amount of his power into the gaping chest wound that Kai Jun currently had. Even after spending almost all of his energy, the wound would not close at all. Kai Jun painfully explained that the amount of power needed to heal his body was something that was virtually impossible for Braedon to obtain without outside assistance. "Then what are we going to do?!?" "YOU are going to listen to me and do what I tell you. Braedon, I don't have long and you know it so just shut up and listen." Despite not wanting to believe it, Braedon knew Kai Jun was right so he closed his mouth and opened his ears. What Kai Jun said next shocked Braedon to the core. "As you already know, I am Sun Wukong. At a certain point in my life, my enemies trapped me in a furnace and tried to refine into medicine in order to give to their king but they failed...as the legends say." Kai Jun said those last few words with an awkward pause in the middle. Braedon scrunched his eyebrows together and said, "what do you mean, as they say?" "Braedon, they did not fail in the refinement. It was just that the way they refined me gave me a chance to escape as well as a special buff." Kai Jun allowed his words to sink into Braedon's mind as he watched his face light up in shock and understanding, "You mean...?" "I am a Living Pill." The blood in Braedon's face drained away as he had a good idea of what Kai Jun wanted him to do, "You want me to absorb you?" "What? Of course not! But if you think that that will help our situation then I guess we'll do it..." "Don't make me the villain here!" Braedon screamed this out while Kai began to laugh and then proceeded to cough out in pain, "Ah, it hurts to laugh." Despite trying to take the seriousness out of the situation, Kai Jun knew that what he was asking was a bit strange for Braedon. "Braedon, I don't have much longer. This is the only way that we are able to defeat Phoen and reclaim your body. Plus after releasing all of my powers I would've turned to dust anyway. So don't worry about me for once and just do what must done!" Kai Jun grabbed Braedon by his shirt collar and brought him close, "Place your hand on my chest and feel the power flow through you. Allow it to enter into your body and integrate with your very soul!" Braedon listened to his words and closed his eyes. Something began to flow up his arm as a surge of strength suddenly entered into Braedon's body and strengthen his cultivation. The power was overwhelming and Braedon almost couldn't handle it. But he pulled through and felt the energy from Kai Jun merge with his very essence, "So this is what a Living Pill feels like." He whispered this quietly to himself while standing up from his kneeling position. Braedon did not feel sad about Kai Jun's death, nor did he feel happy or anything like that! Instead, the only thing he truly felt was the conviction to make sure his sacrifice wasn't in vain. "Thanks for the meal Sun Wukong...it was delicious." Braedon looked toward where Phoen and Zan Fu were fighting with his eyes glowing with power. His left eye had the natural blue glow of the {Eyes of Heaven and Earth} but his right eye had a bright orange-like shine.
