Mighty Lord

Chapter 1308: Chapter 507_2

If nothing unexpected happens, the current situation is unlikely to change easily, and in that case, Zhou Tian would not encounter any problems. However, for Pan Shi, defeating Zhou Tian would then become an impossible task to accomplish.

Therefore, after an initial outburst of accumulated rage due to their recent encounters, Pan Shi managed to suppress Zhou Tian for a while. But as his anger dissipated, Pan Shi’s condition visibly deteriorated rapidly.

With his condition getting worse, Pan Shi, who had previously suppressed Zhou Tian, naturally found himself in a comprehensive crisis. From initially suppressing Zhou Tian to being suppressed by him, Pan Shi never ceased his resistance during their combat, but unknowingly, he had fallen into a state of instinctive resistance.

Resisting Zhou Tian instinctively, Pan Shi now had no chance of winning. If Zhou Tian maintained his current strength, Pan Shi might persist for a considerable while. But if Zhou Tian’s strength were to break through, then a surprise attack on Pan Shi could inflict a ’surprise’—if not threatening Pan Shi’s life, it would at least be within Zhou Tian’s capability.

Of course, Zhou Tian didn’t possess such an explosive ability at the moment. Given Pan Shi’s formidable strength, it was already tough for Zhou Tian to suppress his opponent, so under these circumstances, he couldn’t afford to hold back his current cultivation level. Since he could only suppress Zhou Tian with all his might, any hopes for a sudden burst of power during combat would require a significant gain.

However, at the realm they had reached, engagements could still yield gains, but to expect a rapid ascension by several levels from a single epiphany during combat, as it would happen at lower realms, had become impossible.

Of course, although a significant breakthrough was improbable, Zhou Tian did gain something from his combat with Pan Shi.

Why did Zhou Tian seek to fight with Pan Shi?

Put simply, Zhou Tian sought to understand the mysteries of Pan Shi’s strength by sparring with him. Ultimately, by comprehending Pan Shi’s strength, Zhou Tian could then use it as a reference to cultivate his own Time Rule Ability.

Although cultivators of the Old Power System could express the same rule differently at Zhou Tian’s level, regardless of the variance, Pan Shi’s higher level of cultivation meant that Zhou Tian could still glean plenty of clues from him—even if they cultivated different rules.

This thinking led Zhou Tian to seek out Pan Shi. freewebnovёl.ƈom

From the current situation, it seemed Zhou Tian’s line of thought was not significantly flawed. He couldn’t claim to know the final outcome, but after their exchange, Zhou Tian had indeed made substantial gains, confident that even if things were to end there, he had a good chance of breaking through his own bottleneck.

Of course, even though he had already gained quite a bit, Zhou Tian would not simply leave. Finding a suitable sparring partner like Pan Shi, he naturally hoped to engage in more combat with him if possible. With every moment during their combat, Zhou Tian could extract insights which, as long as this level of competition continued, he would never refuse the opportunity to fight with Pan Shi before fully understanding Pan Shi’s capabilities and gaining as much as he could.

As a result, even though Zhou Tian might not defeat Pan Shi, he remained unhurried, persistently battling in his usual manner and constantly comparing Pan Shi’s tactics against his own cultivation achievements.

It has to be said, without comparison there could be no awareness, and only after contrasting his own Time Ability with Pan Shi’s did Zhou Tian realize that, although he appeared to fight on par, or even seemed to have an upper hand in reality, his advantage was solely due to possessing the Human Emperor’s Immortal Body.

Merely because Pan Shi couldn’t kill him, Zhou Tian resorted to the tactic of exploiting his unkillable nature, which gave him the upper hand. If not for the Human Emperor’s Immortal Body, even if a hundred Zhou Tians were bound together, Pan Shi would probably have already slain most of them by now.

Zhou Tian owed his ability to defeat Pan Shi to his Special Ability. In essence, while Pan Shi relied on his own Ability, Zhou Tian, despite having the upper hand, was still depending on the power of the Epoch’s rules.

Hence, Pan Shi could far surpass Zhou Tian in destructive power, with certain reasons underlying this. According to Zhou Tian’s observations, Pan Shi’s sheer understanding of the rules did indeed surpass him by far.