"My name is Zhou Fan." Zhou Fan once again said towards the cloaked man.
"Okay then "Zhou Fan", what is your intention by coming here?" The cloaked man asked with an aggressive tone of voice.
"I'm just looking around." Zhou Fan responded without taking his eyes off of the man.
"Oh really. So, are you a beast or a supreme beast? I would assume a beast since you've changed form, but who knows what supreme beasts are capable of." The man said.
"Neither." Zhou Fan answered.
"You're not very cooperative. Guess we'll do this the hard way." The cloaked man said as he turned his body and swung his arm at Zhou Fan, shooting out an arrow made from water.
In response, Zhou Fan pulled out his black adamantium sword just out of its sheath and deflected the arrow without moving an inch.
'A soul formation cultivator huh.' Zhou Fan thought.
It seemed that the store was big enough to have a soul formation cultivator at the top floor. In fact, it was likely that the man in front of Zhou Fan was the owner.
After seeing that his water arrow didn't affect Zhou Fan, the man in the cloak stopped holding back. With his last attack, he had been simply probing Zhou Fan. From now on, he would fight to kill.
The man in the cloak pushed his hand forward and a powerful wind transformed into the head of a dragon and attempted to push Zhou Fan into the wall.
Zhou Fan responded by creating a barrier, but allowing himself to move backwards and crash out of the ninth floor. It was also to be noted that the man had attacked more with the intention of pushing Zhou Fan back than doing damage.
Zhou Fan's protected body flew through the walls of the ninth floor and stopped around 20 feet away from the store when the wind dragon head dispersed.
The cloaked man shot out of the pavilion and towards Zhou Fan like a bullet. Before he arrived he pulled a sword out from his back. As he arrived in front of Zhou Fan, he attempted to pierce him using his momentum.
However, Zhou Fan moved a bit to the left and completely dodged his attack. The cloaked man stopped moving forwards and turned around, shooting out a wind blade towards Zhou Fan with his sword.
On earth, the attack would have nearly broken space, but in the Zhou world everything was stronger, including space itself. Zhou Fan once again dodged the attack and moved around the cloaked man.
They continued to play cat and mouse as the shoppers evacuated the pavilion and the entire city was in a state of alert. Battles between soul formation cultivators were not to be taken jokingly. Especially in the heart of the celestial lands.
As the army was dispatched and soul formation cultivators were waking up from seclusion, Zhou Fan started to put some pressure on the cloaked man.
Unlike before, where he dodged the mans every attack, the cloaked man was now dodging his every attack. His cloak had many holes and cuts as he frantically tried to dodge Zhou Fans increasingly speedy attacks.
Eventually, one of the slashes connected with the man's hood, revealing his hidden face. Seeing it, Zhou Fan paused for a moment. The man in front had features of a celestial, but his face was messed up. It was as if someone dropped a boulder on it then poisoned it.
It didn't exactly look as mashed up and disgusting, but it was obvious that he had a serious injury. Even his once white hair started to turn a shade of green.
His eyes, however, were a dark red that seemed more evil than cosmic.
Even after seeing his face, Zhou Fan only stopped for a moment. He slashed out a few more times and caused a couple more injuries. At this point, the man could no longer do anything but try to survive.
It was at that moment when Zhou Fan stopped slashing out. The man was confused, but Zhou Fan's figure suddenly disappeared and reappeared in front of his face at a speed he couldn't fathom. A punch landed on his chest as he was sent crashing to the ground, unable to get up.
Zhou Fan stood in the air victoriously. He had stopped the battle because he had already seen what the man had to offer. He had only battled him in order to see the strength of the celestials.
The man was at soul formation three, so he was a fairly good target. Although he had tested the man's strength, he wasn't done.
Now that the army was coming and the soul formation cultivators were awakening, he might as well test the full strength of the celestials. That included Anna.
Zhou Fan stood in the air for around 3 minutes before someone appeared in front of him. This time, it was a woman in a green outfit that carried a bow.
"Who are you? Why are you here?" She asked with a frown.
"I'm here to fight." Zhou Fan answered.
"Fine then." She said before she stopped talking.
She pulled her bow back and formed a green arrow on it. The arrow was made of both wind Qi and wood Qi. She shot it directly at Zhou Fan eye, but he simply moved away.
Zhou Fan looked at the girl and assessed her strength. She was a level 5 soul formation cultivator with at least wood and wind affinities.
When she saw her arrow dodged, she moved back and gained some distance before shooting similar arrows at Zhou Fan in succession.
Zhou Fan moved around the air and dodged every single arrow that came. As the last arrow reached him, he grabbed it with his hand, did a twirl, and threw it back at the girl.
Faced with the unexpected attack, the girl was only able to dodge a part of the attack and the arrow ended up cutting off her ear.
Zhou Fan saw that but didn't feel bad. It wouldn't take too much to heal the ear.