165: The second floor of the temple! Suanni!

After transmitting the cultivation methods to his family, Zhang Fan's life returned to normal.

Early the next morning, Zhang Fan entered the Fuxi Shrine to cultivate.

He practiced the Saiya Golden Ape Body under ten times gravity, drank jianmu juice when thirsty, and meditated on the Chaos Green Lotus when tired.

Coupled with ten times time acceleration, Zhang Fan's cultivation improved astonishingly, making rapid progress by leaps and bounds!

Zhang Hongcheng and Hua Xia also buried themselves in arduous cultivation after receiving the cultivation methods.

Yang Ling and Guo Mi, however, were not very interested in cultivation; they spent most of their time with Zhang Tieniu.

Since leaving the Fuxi Shrine, Zhang Xuanling had disappeared, likely hiding in some corner to cultivate.

Time flowed, and before they knew it, half a year had passed in the blink of an eye.

Fuxi Shrine, first floor.

Zhang Fan, shirtless and barefoot, wearing only shorts, was practicing the Saiya Golden Ape Body on the grass!

His movements were incredibly fluid, his stances perfectly standard, and the transitions between each movement were as smooth as flowing water.

The most astonishing thing was that despite enduring 10G gravity, Zhang Fan moved with effortless grace, like strolling in a leisurely garden, without any sense of obstruction.

After finishing one round of Saiya Golden Ape Body, Zhang Fan exhaled a murky breath, withdrew his hands, and stood still.

"Very good!"

"I've completely adapted to 10G gravity. Next, I can try to challenge the second floor of the shrine!"

Zhang Fan casually picked up the bottle and chugged down its contents.

The bottle contained jianmu juice; for the past half-year, he had been drinking jianmu juice like water every day, a truly extravagant habit.

With such extravagance, the improvement in his cultivation was naturally astonishing!

Just as Golden Scale said, Zhang Fan's soul and Golden Core successfully merged into one in his middle Dantian, forming an infant core!

The infant core is equivalent to a fertilized egg, a crucial step for the Golden Core Realm to advance to the Nascent Soul Realm!

In terms of cultivation, forming an infant core signifies Golden Core perfection!

In other words, after half a year of cultivation, Zhang Fan successfully reached Golden Core perfection!

In just half a year, from barely passing the lightning tribulation to Golden Core perfection!

This cultivation speed was enough to make countless Titan Warriors feel ashamed!

Next, as long as the infant core successfully transforms into a Nascent Soul, Zhang Fan will naturally break through to the Nascent Soul Realm!

Zhang Fan drank the jianmu juice and rested for another half an hour.

Once fully recovered, he stepped onto the stairs leading to the second floor of the shrine.

In the past six months, Zhang Fan had actually tried to challenge it a few times.

Each time ended in failure, but this time, Zhang Fan was very confident.

The second floor of the shrine, at first glance, seemed no different from the first floor.

The same vast grassland.

The same jianmu.

But upon closer inspection, one would find that the number of jianmu on the second floor reached an astonishing nine!

The first floor only had three!

This meant that the Congenital One Qi on the second floor was several times that of the first floor.

"Whoosh!"

A beam of light condensed, forming a strange beast resembling a lion.

This strange beast was called Suanni, the guardian of the second floor of the shrine!

Several times before, Zhang Fan had been defeated by this Suanni.

"You're here again!"

Suanni looked up at Zhang Fan, its eyes cold: "I told you, you won't succeed unless you break through to the Nascent Soul Realm!"

The first floor of the Fuxi Shrine required a minimum Golden Core Realm cultivation.

The second floor of the Fuxi Shrine required a minimum Nascent Soul Realm cultivation.

Suanni could tell that Zhang Fan was still only in the Golden Core Realm!

"Let's try!"

Zhang Fan did not retreat, smiling: "What if I win!"

"Hmph! Overestimating yourself!"

Suanni snorted, and large plumes of black smoke spewed from its nostrils, surging towards Zhang Fan like rolling waves.

Seeing the black smoke, Zhang Fan dared not meet it head-on and instantly teleported away.

This black smoke was Suanni's Talent Divine Power, called Annihilation Black Smoke.

It could annihilate energy, matter, and even all things in heaven and earth!

Extremely terrifying!

Zhang Fan had lost to this black smoke several times in previous challenges!

"Rain God Domain!"

Zhang Fan uttered a low cry, and suddenly, torrential rain poured down around him, continuously washing away the surging black smoke.

However, as soon as the rainwater touched the black smoke, it emitted a hissing sound.

Not only was the black smoke not washed away, but it corroded the rainwater instead.

Zhang Fan was not surprised at all; he controlled the rainwater to seep into the ground and then suddenly shot out from beneath Suanni.

"Petty tricks!"

Suanni had anticipated this; it leaped lightly with its four claws, easily avoiding the rainwater shooting towards its abdomen, dodging Zhang Fan's attack.

At the same time, its four claws stomped violently on the void, transforming into a black lightning bolt that lunged at Zhang Fan with unbelievable speed!

Zhang Fan did not flee; he stared intently at the pouncing Suanni and slowly said: "Void Imprisonment!"

"Buzz!"

The surrounding void instantly froze, and spatial power frantically squeezed Suanni's body, suppressing it.

"This trick again!"

Suanni let out a low growl, its body shaking violently, and it continued to pounce towards Zhang Fan despite the omnipresent pressure.

"This guy's physical body is too terrifying. My Void Imprisonment, strong as it is, has little effect on it!"

Zhang Fan exclaimed.

Void Imprisonment uses spatial power to imprison and suppress enemies!

The stronger the enemy's physical body, the weaker the power of Void Imprisonment!

For example, if Zhang Fan were to imprison a demigod, he might not even be able to hold them for a single instant!

This Suanni was not a demigod, but it was a genuine Nascent Soul Realm strange beast, an existence on the level of a King of Monsters!

Although Zhang Fan was at Golden Core perfection, suppressing it was a bit strenuous!

Left with no choice, Zhang Fan unleashed his trump card: Time Domain!

"Buzz!"

Time fluctuations spread out, quietly enveloping Suanni.

Suanni's time immediately came to a standstill, then it froze in mid-air.

Although Suanni was suppressed, the Congenital One Qi within Zhang Fan's body was being consumed at a frantic rate.

Zhang Fan knew that with his reserves of Congenital One Qi, he couldn't last long and had to act quickly!

"Infinite Shadow Clone!"

Zhang Fan let out a low cry, and over a hundred Shadow Clones separated from him, surrounding Suanni.

"Prepare the lightning!"

Zhang Fan gave the command.

"Yes, 본존!"

Over a hundred Shadow Clones immediately activated the Thunder God Domain, generating lightning with maximum voltage, preparing for a thunderous strike.

"Crackling!"

Lightning continuously condensed, and the Shadow Clones' Congenital One Qi was almost completely drained, their bodies becoming ethereal.

Zhang Fan immediately withdrew Time Stillness, allowing Suanni's time flow to return to normal, then ordered the attack.

"Crackling!"

Over a hundred lightning bolts struck down instantly, directly engulfing Suanni.

The Shadow Clones, having exhausted their Congenital One Qi in one go, dissipated one after another, leaving Zhang Fan alone on the grass again.

The rampant lightning gradually vanished, revealing the Suanni that had been focused on.

Its body was charred black, and its smooth fur had turned to charcoal.

Its entire body was largely carbonized, looking somewhat ghastly.

But Suanni was not dead; it stared at Zhang Fan, with reluctance in its eyes: "The power of the lightning is much stronger than before; it can even injure me now. It seems your cultivation has improved very quickly!"

Suanni then disappeared, and a golden light descended, condensing into Golden Scale.

Golden Scale smiled and said, "Zhang Fan, congratulations on passing the second floor's trial and gaining the qualification to bind the second floor!"

"I finally succeeded!"

Zhang Fan let out a long sigh of relief, plucked a strand of hair, and threw it to Golden Scale.

Golden Scale extracted the genetic material from it and completed the binding.

"Congratulations, Zhang Fan, on becoming the master of the second floor of the shrine!"

Golden Scale smiled: "The second floor of the shrine can also adjust the time flow, gravity index, and other factors!"

"The time flow adjustment range is [0.01, 100]!"

"The slowest can be delayed to one percent of the normal time flow!"

"The fastest can be accelerated to 100 times the normal time flow!"

"The maximum gravity can be adjusted to 100 times that of Earth's gravity!"

"Climate, temperature, terrain, and environment can all be changed according to your needs!"

Zhang Fan was overjoyed upon hearing this.

100 times time flow!

100 times Earth's gravity!

This was truly explosive!

"Besides that, the second floor also has a new combat function!"

Golden Scale smiled: "You can conjure opponents based on your needs to spar with you!"

"Accumulate practical combat experience during sparring and make up for your shortcomings!"

"This function is great!"

Zhang Fan's eyes lit up and he said, "Golden Scale, conjure Clark Kent. I want to fight him!"