236 Mountain - 236

As pangu entered his house, he ate a piece of bread and began to cultivate.

Although he would no longer need to eat at the foundation establishment realm, he needed to eat at the Qi gathering realm.

Most of his hunger was supplemented by Qi even now, but he ate the bread just in case.

After two weeks of constant cultivation, Pangu entered the foundation establishment realm. 

As he still had nothing to do, he continued to cultivate. Even his weakest weapon was at the nascent soul realm, and it was only a sword, which meant he could not practice with weapons.

Starting at the soul formation realm he would finally have an axe once again. 

After one week, Pangu broke into the 2nd level of the foundation establishment realm. From the 2nd to 3rd level took 2 weeks. From the 3rd to 4th level took 3 weeks, and so on. 

While cultivation for others would be more random and variable, Pangu was simply being held back in speed. Therefore, the consistent increase in cultivation speed of an additional week was not too hard to accept.

After reaching the 5th level of the foundation establishment realm, Pangu stood up. At some point, he realized that he was doing the same thing all over again. Experiencing each realm in a simple spar would not equate to much growth. Even the occasional break to digest his learnings wasn't worth much.

Pangu was unaware how strong a foundation establishment cultivator really was. 

Therefore, Pangu decided to leave his house and go explore. It would be a short experience, but it would help him understand more.

Theoretically, leaving the fiendcelestial village would be a bad idea for someone at the foundation establishment realm due to all the powerful beasts around, but their cultivations had also been reset.

Pangu was aware of that because some of the fiendcelestials had kept beasts as pets, and their strength was lower as well.

Before leaving, Pangu decided to walk through the fiendcelestial village. If he was lucky, he would be able to find a foundation establishment realm axe in the ownership of one of the smiths.

Just because some of the fiendcelestials were talented didn't mean that all of them were. There was no lack of foundation establishment fiendcelestials, although they were somewhat rare. Therefore, most of the smiths sold that level of weapons.

Pangu was aware of three smiths in the fiendcelestial village.

Although he would be bothering them while they tried to regain their cultivation, Pangu didn't care.

After walking for five minutes, he knocked on the door of a house. This was where one of the smiths lived.

"What?" A female voice said as the door began to open.

"I'm looking for your husband. Is he here?" Pangu asked.

Since everyone in the village knew everyone, everyone was familiar with everyone.

"He was outside the village when everyone's cultivation was reset. He won't be back for a while." The lady said before shutting the door.

Pangu had never really liked her.

In only a minute, Pangu reached another door.

Knock Knock Knock

"What?" An old man's voice said from behind the door.

Hearing him, Pangu knew he was in luck. It was definitely the blacksmith's voice.

"I need a weapon." Pangu said a little loudly so that his voice traveled through the door.

"You should be regaining your cultivation, Pangu. You can get a weapon then." The old voice said.

"I need one now. I'll repay you in the future. You know I'm talented." Pangu said convincingly.

Finally, the blacksmith opened the door.

"Fine, but I want you to pay me what a nascent soul weapon would cost for the inconvenience." He said.

Pangu didn't really mind as even nascent soul weapons were cheap for him. Especially back in the day.

Pangu agreed and the old man showed Pangu in.

"I'm not strong enough to pick it up in my current state. Grab it yourself." He said as he pointed to an axe.

The axe was greenish, but it was mostly black.

Pangu grabbed the axe, let out a thank you, and walked along the desolate streets until he reached a mountain.

Before the reset, anyone strong enough to leave the mountain and survive could easily jump over the mountain. Due to that, there were no stairs or any sort of help. 

Sadly, Pangu didn't quite have the capability to jump over it. Therefore, he turned to the left and walked until he was in front of a lower exit between two peaks.

He then proceeded to climb the tall mountain, using the axe every now and then to pull himself up.

The axe was a one handed axe, meaning that Pangu didn't struggle to carry it up the mountain that much.

After an hour of nonstop climbing, Pangu reached the top. The mountains were extremely tall since they surrounded and protected the village. They were also strong. A core formation cultivator was needed in order to even chip them.

Looking down, Pangu sighed and sat on his axe. He knew it was a bad idea, but he couldn't stand to waste any more time.

Once he was comfortable, Pangu pushed off of the ground and began to slide down the mountain.

In around twenty seconds, he was halfway down.

Then, as expected, tragedy struck. A single pebble hit the axe at the right angle, causing pangu's axe to get pushed up and outwards. 

Pangu froze as he saw the mile long freefall below him.

"Welp." He said as he began to plummet.

He was falling so fast that he would probably hit the ground in ten seconds.

Hurriedly, pangu threw the axe away and gathered his Qi on his forearms.

He then balled up so that it seemed he would land on his forearms.

Right before he hit the ground, Pangu pushed down with all his Qi, leaving only a little to reinforce his arms.

A burst of wind shot out that slightly slowed pangu's fall, and he hit the ground forearms first.

Even the common ground on the fiendcelestial world was at the foundation establishment realm. Therefore, pangu only caused a small crater to appear.

After a moment, he stood up with blood dripping out of his mouth. Luckily, he had survived.