Chaos Qi - 428

There were no flashy effects, just a pure fight of power versus power. As Zhou Fan fought, he fell into deep thought.

He needed something to change, or he would lose. Chaos Qi was the only Qi he could fight with. All of the other Qi's were simply inferior products no matter their specialty. Chaos Qi was the combination of all of it.

Zhou Fan studied the Cosmic Dao while fighting. He gradually began to understand it.

He began to mutter to himself. 

"The Dao that can be understood is not truly the Cosmic Dao. It is just like an idea that can be expressed in words is not an infinite idea."

"This Cosmic Dao is the source of all things. The mother of all."

"It is the mystery of mysteries."

"The Cosmic Dao seems constant and never exhausted. It never loses power or shrinks. Is it truly infinite?"

Zhou Fan was struggling to understand. He needed Qi to fight, and he was running out of Qi. Yet, for some reason, the Cosmic Dao did not seem to lose anything as it fought.

He just could not understand it. Why?

As he fought, he began to comprehend more.

"The Cosmic Dao dulls its own sharpness. It breaks its own bonds. It dims its own brightness. It is peaceful, it is eternal. Where did it come from? It is older than everything."

As he muttered, Zhou Fan seemed to fall into a trance. At some point, he failed to even understand what he was talking about.

"A room has four walls, but its usefulness is in the empty space between them."

"That which weakens was once strong. That which falls was once high."

"It is all colors, but it is also colorless. It is the form of the formless. The image of the imageless. Its face cannot be seen from the front, nor its back from behind. Where did it come from? Where is it going?"

Suddenly, Zhou Fan stopped moving and all sound seemed to vanish from the universe.

"What?" He suddenly said.

His body was hit by a thread and launched backwards.

He had fallen into a trance. He understood it. It was the Cosmic Dao's trap, or rather, the trap was the ability to comprehend it.

Perhaps, if he had not snapped out of it, he would have assimilated into the Cosmic Dao without even realizing it.

Zhou Fan moved and dodged the next thread. He was severely injured. There was a deep horizontal cut along his stomach.

Zhou Fan dodged again.

He had been in a trance, but he had felt as if he had also understood something. It was the amalgamation of his comprehensions which went far beyond 100%. It was something that could only be understood through interacting with the Cosmic Dao itself.

"I will name this after you." Zhou Fan said as he stepped forward. In an instant, he seemed to change. The gray of the Chaos Qi surrounding him seemed to fade.

It became unseeable, colorless, formless.

"Supreme technique: The Dao." 

Zhou Fan raised his arm and all of his Qi moved to it. For the first time, it was as if the Cosmic Dao reacted. It was like a twitch, but Zhou Fan saw it.

"The Dao begets one." Zhou Fan brought his arm down.

An endless, vertical sheet of Chaos Qi appeared. It seemed to split the universe from top to bottom, though not going out of its boundaries.

'The Dao begets one, or rather, the Dao begets the beginning, Chaos Qi.'

The endless sheet of Chaos Qi had also split the Cosmic Dao. Perhaps only because he had given it form, but Zhou Fan felt as if he had heard a large roar of anger and pain.

However, he wasn't done.

"One begets two."

The endless sheet of Chaos Qi seemed to split. The one turned into the two as two lines seemed to split the universe up and down. The Cosmic Dao was "Split" into three pieces, though the giant ball did not seem to truly move or be affected.

Yet, Zhou Fan could hear it. Once again, the Cosmic Dao had made a sound. He was harming it.

'The two represents opposites and balance. Yin and Yang. Fire and water. Life and death. Light and Dark. Everything has an opposite, no matter how obscure.'

Zhou Fan continued. 

"Two begets three."

This time, the two split into three, but not three endless sheets.

This time, one was below, it wad green. One was above, it was blue. One was in between, and it vaguely held the form of a human. Three represented the earth, the sky, and life.

This time, the cosmic dao was not even touched, yet it seemed to roar even louder in Zhou Fan's ears.

This was an attack of the essence of an existence. As long as something existed, it would be harmed by the three.

"Three begets all things."

The three collapsed as Chaos Qi turned into the countless Qi's that all cultivators used. Each Qi was like a rain of incomparably sharp drops. Zhou Fan's outer world, as well as his divinity were released and used to the fullest extent.

The Cosmic Dao truly screamed. The entire universe shook and even true gods and gods could hear it, though they passed out bleeding from every hole in their body.

Zhou Fan was not affected, it was only a scream.

The giant colorful ball that was the Cosmic Dao seemed to change at that moment.

Suddenly, it spoke. "You filthy unfilial trash."

Zhou Fan understood. It was the Cosmic Dao, and all life existed within it. If it wanted to, it could easily take on the attribute of intelligence.

It was now no longer simply a formless energy. It had intelligence.

"I am the mother of all things, yet you dare to oppose me! I am the creator! I am responsible for everything you've ever created! Even that cultivation of yours was a result of me! You couldn't have done it without me!" It screamed in anger.

Zhou Fan shook his head and attacked, yet, nothing came out. Zhou Fan's face warped into shock.

"Didn't I just say it. Chaos Qi. You are truly a fool. I AM CHAOS QI!" The Cosmic Dao seemed to scream as Zhou Fan was shot backwards without being able to resist.