As Lin Fan's fist approached it, the griffin suddenly erupted with wind and created a set of wind armour around itself that was imbued with the power of the law of wind.
When Lin Fan's fist crashed into the wind armour, there were sparks that were generated as the two laws crashed, but eventually both sides were pushed back a step.
It seemed like they had been even.
But that in itself was surprising since Lin Fan had just reached the Platinum Realm while the griffin was clearly a beast that had been in the Platinum Realm for a while. The density of the griffin's life energy was not something that Lin Fan's life energy could compare to. This kind of life energy could only come from the high Platinum Realm.
Lin Fan knew that he couldn't underestimate this opponent so after stabilizing himself, he released the power of his second law, the law of lightning.
His suction power had absorbed the lightning tribulation that he had faced when he entered the Platinum Realm and had turned that power into the law of lightning.
The white energy of the law of lightning wrapped around the golden energy like a web, creating what seemed like a set of golden gloves that had a white mesh over it on Lin Fan's hands.
Then Lin Fan also released the law of water that he had absorbed from the King Beast. The power of the law of water formed masses of blue energy on the knuckles of the gauntlets, turning them into studded gauntlets.
Only then did Lin Fan charge forward with his fists raised again, preparing to duke it out with the griffin, but the griffin wouldn't let him approach that easily this time.
The griffin gathered more wind law power compared to last time since it didn't have much time to gather its power in the last clash. This time it was releasing the power of its wind laws to the max.
The wind laws created a vortex armour around it that also released blades of wind that rained down on Lin Fan from every direction.
As the blades of wind came down, Lin Fan just held his fists up over his head and the power law created a golden barrier around him that completely blocked all these wind blades.
These wind blades were just quickly thrown out by the griffin to delay Lin Fan while it gathered its strength, so they didn't contain much energy within them. The golden barrier of the power law was more than enough to block them.
The griffin saw that the situation was bad, so it suddenly spun with its claws sticking out in front of it, creating a deadly spiral with a sharp tip. It also hardened the feathers on its wings which created sharp blades along the edges of the spiral which seemed like the blades of a blender.
Lin Fan saw the sharp spiral coming towards him, but he felt no fear at all as he first pulled back his fist while charging and brought it back forward when he approached the spiral.
His right fist covered in the gauntlet created with various laws shot forward to slam into the claws of the griffin. While the sharp claws of the griffin did create scratches on the law of water studs, it didn't affect it too much as it seemed like both sides were even.
The combination of the three laws together didn't only create power that was their sum, rather it was a multiplication of the power of the three laws, creating power that was much greater than their sum.
But there was also another reason why Lin Fan could match this griffin or even push it back a little.
Lin Fan had also used a bit of his suction power in his fists, which slowly drew in parts of the griffin's law of wind, weakening its attack while also strengthening him.
After the first clash, Lin Fan brought his left hand forward and smashed it against the griffin's claws. Just like that, Lin Fan continued to attack with one hand at the time, punching again and again as he slowly pushed the griffin back.
The griffin could tell that it was slowly losing energy and it was being pushed back, so it knew that this situation wasn't good for it. The griffin quickly turned to the side and it went past Lin Fan, making sure to use its feathers to cut across him.
Lin Fan quickly noted this and bought his arms together to create a shield with the golden gauntlets, but still there were scratches that were formed on the gauntlets.
The griffin could tell that a direct confrontation with Lin Fan wasn't good since Lin Fan had his suction force, but Lin Fan didn't let the griffin escape.
This time, the griffin gathered all its power into wind blades that buffeted Lin Fan while also using its wind power to quickly move back, avoiding Lin Fan. However, Lin Fan had no problem running after it while punching the wind blades apart, absorbing part of the power contained within it.
Slowly, the griffin was running out of energy and it knew that it had to make a final stand or Lin Fan would definitely run down its stamina.
The griffin stopped running and shooting out wind blades. It gathered all of its energy into its beak, claws, and wings.
With a single flap of its wings, it burst forth with its greatest speed while gathering all of its power into its beak and claw, creating a sharp point that moved at an incredible speed towards Lin Fan.
But Lin Fan wasn't worried about this at all, he just gathered all his energy and the energy he had drained into his fists.
Bringing both of his fists back, he stood there waiting for the griffin to approach. When the griffin came close, Lin Fan suddenly punched out with both fists at the griffin, punching right at the tip of its attack.
When both sides clashed, their powers balanced each other out. As the clash continued, wind blades and bolts of lightning flew out and shattered the ground around them.
Neither side took a single step back for an entire moment, but the griffin's power was slowly fading as Lin Fan released his suction power on full, drawing in as much of the wind law as possible.
Eventually the griffin couldn't hold on any longer and was blasted back by the force of Lin Fan's fists, bouncing along the ground like a pebble on a lake before landing in a crater several dozen meters away.
The griffin was in very poor shape, bleeding from various parts of its body, unable to get up at all.
Seeing this, Lin Fan decided to put it out of its misery.
When he came over to it and raised his fist, there was suddenly a sharp chirp as three smaller griffins appeared in front of him, blocking him off from the large griffin.
The large griffin panicked when it saw this and quickly tried to move the smaller griffins away, but they just firmly stood there, protecting the larger griffin.
Lin Fan looked down at them and seeing the tears that were dripping out of their eyes, his heart couldn't help feeling a bit of an ache.
After pausing for a few seconds, Lin Fan lowered his hand and released his energy, taking a step back to show that he meant no harm.
At that moment, the voice of the trial rang out again.
"Congratulations on passing this part of the final trial."
"While an expert should be strong, they must never forget to have compassion when there is a need for it. The power of an expert is limited and if they try to fight the entire world, eventually they'll run out of power. One cannot only think about continuous fighting, there must be times when one must be smart and know when to withdraw."
Once this was done, there was a door that opened on the side of the cage that the griffin had been guarding initially.
But before they left, Angela came over to heal the griffin with her power.
She took care of most of its wounds with her healing wind, but it hadn't been injured that much by Lin Fan, so it didn't take much time for her to heal.
Once they were done, the griffin no longer wanted to fight and even nuzzled up to Lin Fan and Angela. Surprisingly, Angela wasn't against this and she even cuddled with the baby griffins.
Lin Fan couldn't help taking an extra look as Angela played with the little griffins. She really was just too cute.
But after they finished this, they waved goodbye to the griffin family and headed off through the door for their next trial.
As for why the trial didn't stop Angela from passing even though she didn't do anything, it could only be said that the trial was indeed a bit afraid of her…