Fast and slow over a long time

He does look a lot like me, but I'm not him!

Zhang Xuezhou has two staffs, and the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon also have staffs.

Zhang Xuezhou has manipulated religious tricks, and Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon control a religion involving an enormous number of people.

Zhang Xuezhou was skilled at making friends, and the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon also had countless loyal followers around them.

If he were to find common ground, Zhang Xuezhou felt that they had many similarities.

However, Zhang Xuezhou is not following the life trajectory of the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon. Although he inevitably suffered from potential influences, he Struggle for more than ten years to get to where he is today, and it is impossible to erase his efforts just because of a similarity.

He grasped the long staff. The staff, which looked like metal and was covered with many small gems, was not as heavy as he had imagined. On the contrary, it was very light, so light that Zhang Xuezhou could not feel its weight when he held it.

This is a rather unusual phenomenon, and it proves that the staff has been modified.

Before the modification, this staff must have been so heavy that it would have been difficult to lift.

Zhang Xuezhou tapped it lightly twice, but the hardness of the material left Zhang Xuezhou with no idea what to do.

But he was quite happy to undermine the confidence of the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon.

Zhang Xuezhou didn't care what the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon had gone through or what its temperament was like. He only knew that he didn't want to be erased and then replaced by the other party.

He will fight for every force he can, and he will use every means at his disposal.

Zhang Xuezhou didn't mind taking the staff, nor did he mind hiding it in a place where the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon would have difficulty accessing it, just like he had hidden the Zhuang family's Law Treasure cloth before, he would try his best to weaken the opponent's abilities.

He undoubtedly took the staff, and he will try to take it away from this place.

Holding this long staff, as long as the effects of speed and slowness remain, this hall will undoubtedly become a safe area, and the extreme speed will allow Zhang Xuezhou to escape all danger.

He slowly ascended into the air, holding his staff, and touched every beam in the main hall to check for any hidden compartments.

He imagined a suit of armor falling from a height and realized that it would be difficult for a normal person to change clothes and armor as quickly as Ao Li. However, as long as he grasped this long staff, anything was possible.

In this absolutely still area, putting on armor at a leisurely pace is very simple.

Once the effects of speed and slowness fade, any desired effect can be achieved instantly.

To Zhang Xuezhou's disappointment, the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon only had one prop to showcase its prowess.

He walked around the main hall without finding anything before turning his attention to the withered wooden throne.

"Was this how you used to sit?"

Zhang Xuezhou, holding a long cane, gently sat down on it.

His gaze swept over the unchanged, withered wooden throne, and he couldn't help but shake his head.

In this static state, his speed was so fast that the withered wooden throne didn't even have time to function.

Zhang Xuezhou had considered many possible scenarios of sitting on the withered wooden throne, but he hadn't considered the possibility of it having no effect whatsoever.

This main hall has very few special features, at least based on Zhang Xuezhou's current inspection.

"I wonder if the Void Furnace could help eliminate some of the risks?"

Zhang Xuezhou looked at the motionless, clay-like furnace.

Compared to Ren Anran's Yang Corporeal Soul Body, the Void Furnace returned to its physical form after traversing the distortion.

The terrible environment here is not suitable for normal living beings. Zhang Xuezhou could see the abnormal bluish-red color on the surface of the Void Furnace.

He examined it several times, pondered the methods Zheng Wukong and others used to stimulate the unconscious Tian Fen, and then pressed on the furnace several times.

The virtual furnace lying on the ground showed no reaction.

Of course, without breaking free from the state of fast and slow, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't expect the virtual furnace to react in any way.

Just as he didn't know how to control fast and slow before, Zhang Xuezhou still doesn't know how to exit this state. He can only wait for the moment when he no longer meets the conditions, or for the duration of this state to end.

His method is clumsy, but it does achieve the goal.

After waiting for a quarter of an hour after putting down his staff, Zhang Xuezhou finally heard a cracking sound.

The sound of the Demon Thought duck flapping its wings to land had just reached Zhang Xuezhou when a piercing scream rang out, and the illusory furnace lying on the ground had transformed into a ball of flame that shot into the sky.

What was a long time for Zhang Xuezhou was not so for Xu Lu.

The Demon Thought duck flapped its wings and fell less than half a meter. The dazed and unconscious Void Furnace was already enduring indescribable physical pain.

Although the Void Furnace Body originated from Ferocious Beast and is completely different from ordinary flesh and blood, this can only avoid damage, not mean that he is free from pain.

Zhang Xuezhou pressed repeatedly, which means that Zheng Wukong's method involved repeated stimulation several times in an instant, without any gradual approach.

In short, it hurts a lot.

Xu Lu's performance surprised Zhang Xuezhou somewhat. He felt that even if there were flaws in his control over speed, it was still something that ordinary opponents could not withstand.

For the manipulator, the ability to act over a long period of time is enough to create countless possibilities.

As long as the target can feel it, repeated attacks can cause considerable damage.

What was originally intended as a harmless means to stimulate the Void Furnace to regain consciousness unexpectedly resulted in severe stinging pain in the Void Furnace's physical body.

Tian Fen jumped three feet high before vomiting and emptying his bladder, while Xu Lu's body transformed into flames, which surged and collided back and forth in the main hall.

His body had transformed, but the throbbing pain in his mind clearly hadn't disappeared.

"Empty furnace?"

Zhang Xuezhou called out several times before the illusory furnace, which had been banging wildly in the air above the main hall, regained its senses slightly.

"We're going to die! We're going to die! This place is going to die!" Xu Lu yelled. "Run for your lives!"

Like Zhang Xuezhou, Xu Lu was also a survivalist. In fact, due to the physical deaths he had experienced over the years, he was paranoid and would try to escape at the slightest possibility of death.

Zhang Xuezhou saw the illusory furnace bumping and knocking back and forth above the main hall, constantly trying to drive its fiery body to escape.

It is unknown what materials this grand hall was made of, or whether it was located in some special space, but the impact of the raging flames of the illusory furnace did not cause any damage.

Even as Xu Lu collapsed, breathless, he was still unable to leave this place.

"Don't wander off! The entrance and exit are over there!"

Only after the illusory furnace fell to the ground and transformed into human form did Zhang Xuezhou kindly tell it the passage to leave.

"You... you should have said so earlier!"

Xu Lu raised his head and struggled to crawl nearly ten meters in the direction Zhang Xuezhou had indicated before suddenly realizing what was happening.

"How did you get here? Why didn't these things hit you? And now they're not hitting me either? What's going on?"

Xu Lu turned to look at Zhang Xuezhou, then at the numerous almost materialized dead souls, his face turning pale and then purple.

The Void Furnace didn't know how the current peaceful situation came about, but it wasn't like this when they first arrived.

The process of entering the distorted, hidden space was relatively safe. The only discomfort was that the body was not used to the distortion, but it would be fine after a short rest.

But after a short period of investigation, they encountered a crisis they had never imagined.

As if they had stirred up a hornet's nest, countless dead souls emerged from the black stone pillar they were investigating, wanting to turn these alien life forms that had entered into their own.

These dead souls can neither be burned out nor completely killed.

This is not a process of ants devouring elephants. The dead souls not only have the ability to bind souls and devour spiritual power, but the dead soul group also has powerful targets that can be defeated in a single encounter.

Although unaware of what happened after the crushing defeat, Xu Lu found himself inexplicably alive.