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Chapter 99 The end (3)

Blinding light was released from the ancient golden cauldron as it floated up from the blue gods hands and charged forward. Terrifying ripples spread through the area as it crashed into the small cube with Zes in it's middle. Winds were raging around the area taking leaves and dirt from the ground as they left for the open sky. The whole world seemed to react to the cauldrons arrival rejecting it's pure existence.

The noise around them became louder and louder by the second, to the point were even the three gods were holding their ears as they couldn't stand it anymore.

Then, with one explosive charge it started. Silence followed horrible noise and light. Pure red light illuminated the world as the cauldron collided with the formation array.

First nothing happened, with both the cauldron and the formation array clashing against each other, but not moving at all. Both seemed to struggle with each other and terrifying energies leaked to the surroundings while neither of both seemed to be able to overwhelm the other. Then slowly, like ice cracking under a huge weight, the sound of something breaking apart echoed out.

It was the cauldron!

Small cracks began to appear all over it's ancient looking surface. It's already old looking golden color only grew more ancient and the aura surrounding it already seemed to belong to another timeline. A timeline eternally longer then this one.

The whole cauldron began to slowly disintegrate right in front of before the shocked eyes of the three gods.

"How can this be? Is it possible that the formation he has set up is even more powerful then the cauldron our last paragon has left us?"

His voice trembling terribly, the green man said. Just as he finished, another sound of cracking reached his ears.

Alarmed, almost even scared he looked to the cauldron, fearing that it had already broken apart completely. This was their last solution to crack the formation array, a treasure left by their ancestors!

If it wasn't able to destroy the formation set up by Zes, how the hell were they supposed to get rid of it?

But this time it wasn't the cauldron who had cracked. It was the formation array surrounding Zes.

Small cracks appeared all over the cubic form of the formation array and with every moment more cracks were adding to the old ones. Soon first bigger cracks formed as multiple small cracks fused together. If it went on like this, the formation array wouldn't be able to handle this kind of damage anymore and be destroyed.

But just as the formation array was being grinded into dust, the cauldron was also breaking apart at visible speed. About a third of the cauldron had already disintegrated into nothing leaving only two thirds of it left.

At this speed of breaking, by the time the formation would finally break apart, the cauldron would also completely shatter.

But this was not to bad of a situation for the gods. After all the cauldron would be destroyed after one use no matter how much of it's energy was used. So even if it would survive this crash with the formation array, it would ultimately break apart either way and become useless.

So even though the blue god felt regret to had to use this treasured item of his kind, something passed on for eons of time, he was resigned with the fact that one Zes was death, there would only be a miniscule change of someone as powerful to appear again.

"Break!"

Exited the red god yelled as with one last boom filled with power, both the cauldron as well as the formation array completely disintegrated. Now Zes was completely exposed as he sat mid air mediating.

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Meaning while

Zes was still pondering over the hundreds of petals gently flying with the wind inside of the picture he had before his inner eye. With every moment he spend with it, he felt that he was getting closer to the thing he was seeking, the thing causing the constant self palming inside of his head.

But even though he felt that he was already very close to it, every time he tried to get a fell on it, it was as if it was a girl he yet had to get drunken enough in order to feel her big and soft breast. He just wasn't able to properly grab it and fell the nice tenderness it had. (Not sure which of both he is speaking about xD)

Suddenly he felt something in the back yard of his brain.

In a very desolate area, filled with garbage like the memories of reading a 2000 pages long h-manga and the images of every single playboy magazine ever published, he suddenly got a message send by another part of his brain.

'Wha… why the hell did it got there? I really should reorganise my brain sometime in the future."

Looking at the message that got delivered to the wrong part of his mind, Zes frowned.

IMPORTANT IMPORTANT "The formation is broken!" IMPORTANT IMPORTANT

'What's wrong with you brain? CAN'T YOU READ IMPORTANT?'

Cursing at his own brain, Zes put hold on his meditation and opened his eyes.

……..

A huge sword was already only a inch from his face.

………

"Shit, fuck you brain!"

Instantly circulating all the qi available inside of his body at the highest speed possible, Zes teleported arriving three meters from his original position. After this he instantly formed a hand seal and a huge shield of qi spanned around him, making attacks from any side impossible.

The wielder of the sword, the blue god quickly chased behind Zes, swinging his blade against the blue translucent shield.

"Are you this unconcerned that you already use seal techniques against us?

As if this kind of low level technique can stop my blade!"

Mocking the blue god said as his sword slashes against the shield. With the sound of something hitting a cup of crystal they separated. The clear piercing sound remained for some longer.

Then shock spread over the blue gods face. Disbelieving he started at the unscratched surface of the qi shield before his eyes.

"I-impossible!"

His blade was one of the sharpest and strongest blades in the world while he was one of the best masters having transversed the path of sword and mastered the complete dao of sword, a creation stage dao! But even with that he was stopped by a regualar seal technique? Not a dao, nor a law or some energy form suited for defence. A low level seal technique?

One has to know, that seal techniques were regular techniques used by cultivators who had not yet reached immortal stage and become able to create dao essences. They were regarded low level and weak techniques as they relied on the seals to use daos which the user had not yet comprehended. Furthermore they were much weaker then pure dao essences as they only forced the users qi through a channel to archive the desired result.

There was no flexibility and quite a deal of power was lost while the qi was forced into form by the technique.

So normally no one above the nascentstage would use seal techniques in a real fight and it was seen as a disgrace or as a sign of rudeness if someone used a seal technique in such a fight.

But Zes had just now used such a low level seal technique AND it managed to stop the blue gods sword!

This defiled everything the three gods, everything the cultivation world believed to know! In fact even Zes was astonished that the shield had really worked against the powerful sword of the blue god. To be exact Zes didn't even know why he had used a seal technique instead of a dao or some defensive law like he would usually.

Astonished he looked at the shield he had just created himself.

'How the hell can it be this powerful despite being a seal technique?'

He thought to himself.

He was curious, was this something having to do with the cherry petals he had meditated over before or had he just somehow gotten a powerup that naturally reinforced the shield.

Either way it was clear that despite still being not sure what he was comprehending, the little bit he had already understood had made his powers rise again. The only thing he had to find out now was, if it were the seal techniques that made the shield this powerful or if it was some kind of powerup that would effect anything he did.

A grin spread over Zes face. He always had liked to research things, if he wouldn't how could he have spend ten years to comprehend the dao of Emperor? So now despite it being a live or death fight, researching something new still made his heartbeat rise.

He changed from his defence position into a offensive position and sped of to the blue god. Crossing the space between them he appeared before him. Then he used a simple hand movement to summon a dao around himself, coating himself in it he crushed right into the surprised blue god.

In the end both were send flying as the blue god despite being surprised managed to controller his qi and create a small explosion between them forcing them apart. As both figures retreated they spat a bit of blood.

'Madmen!'

Dumbfounded the blue god started at Zes who was still smiling despite the small rinse of blood coming from his mouth. In ever clash from the beginning up to now, even though Zes did many strange and sometimes even complete brain death things, he never truly clashed head on with them forcing injuries on both sides.

This sudden madmen like behaviour of disregarding injuries and just rushing into the enemy coupled with the sudden use of seal techniques before bothered him. He didn't know just what, but something had happened and whatever it was it changed the way Zes was fighting.

Just as the blue god had stabilized himself, he once again saw Zes figure heading towards him. This time he was already prepared so even though he was still a bit out of balance he managed to swing his sword towards the incoming Zes.

Just as the sword already got close to Zes the blue god noticed something.

Zes was using a seal technique again!

Seeming worry free Zes smiled as he formed one seal after another. Once again a shield formed around him even though this time it was a bit different. The shield wasn't surrounding Zes on all sides blocking attacks from each direction. It was focused at the front were the blue god was and became thinner the further it got behind Zes back.

Seeing Zes worry free expression and the seal technique he was using the blue god went into rage. He still felt that using a seal technique to fight a opponent was humiliating to the opponent as it showed that you didn't consider him a real match.

How could he know that Zes was just trying out things right now!

"Again? Don't think that you can be this cocky!"

His face becoming red out of anger, the blue god channeled a huge deal of his energy and used multiple energies to slash against the incoming shield. Shocking swordlight cut threw the air and a dominating aura of total destruction exploded from the sword.

Triumph appeared at the blue gods face. He believed there was no way this mere seal technique could handle such a powerful sword. This time Zes would surly suffer!

But what came next completely made him speechless.

The sword made contact with the shield but instead of the instant destruction the blue god expected, the sword stopped! As he disbelieving stared at the sword in his hand a ripple suddenly spread threw the sword reaching his body. Like a wave the backlash went right threw the blue gods body.

Not being able to hold it back blood came from the blue gods ears and eyes as well as his nose and mouth.

"Brother!"

Shocked the green and red god yelled.

They had only seen Zes charging towards their brother using some seal technique as a shield, of course they expected their brother to easily crush the shield and maybe even inflict a serious injury on Zes finally turning the tide of the fight.

But instead of this they suddenly saw that the powerful swordattack that would even make trouble for them, was actually unable to get threw the seemingly weak seal technique of Zes! And not only that, right after the sword stopped unable to proceed further their brother suddenly spat blood with more blood coming from all his body openings!

Instantly teleporting to their brother they took him and retreated some distance. Of course they were still in the cube formation array the green god had created so the space they had available was restricted, but they took at least enough distance to be able to evade any attack coming from Zes.

Villigantly watching Zes who seemed to ponder over something they started to talk over their divine sense.

"Eldest brother are you OK?"

"It's nothing big only the backlash of my sword attack earlier."

"He has once again gotten stronger then before, what was this seal technique from before? Even eldest brother was unable to get threw it despite making such a powerful attack!"

"I don't know, but we have to be quick and decisive now. If he let's any more powerful then this we will be totally unable to do anything at all, instead we will have to fear for out lives to be lost!"

"Second brother it seemes we have to use 'this'"

"I agree youngest brother. It will greatly weaken us for the next few decades, but it should definitely be enough to get rid of that human.

What do you think eldest brother?"

"Your right, it's our only choice now. If we don't get rid of him now we might get no other chance."

Having decided this the eldest brother, the blue god quickly readjusted his state and recovered a bit of his body healing the most serious wounds. Then all three took a bit distance to each other. Three powerful auras suddenly exploded around them slowly merging together into a single one.

Zes who was still pondering about the things he had just investigated noticed the sudden movement on his enemies side..

'Seems they want to end it hm?'

Faced with the three powerful auras opposing him he took let his aura explode instantly covering the area around him.

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"They are there!"

Maaran suddenly said while pointing towards four small points in the distance. He had spread out his divine sense and through it he could clearly see Zes as he faced of three other men. Judging their disposition as well as their cultivation he quickly could guess that this were the missing gods the church had worshipped.

Right behind him were Reis, Nia, Les, Zoe, Pinia as well as Rean the Patriarch of the Heavenly Soul sect and a few high ranking elites of the Heavenly Formations Kingdom. In total the whole elite of the Kingdom had assailed at this place. Quickly roughly a dozen addition divine senses had covered the area reaching the place were Zes was facing of with the three gods.

They didn't dare to come any closer as they understood that killing them with the power the gods had would only take a brief moment and if the gods decided to take one of them as hostage they would only become a burden to Zes.

So instead of coming to the actually battle field they started to observe the fight from the distance.

"So this is my father huh?"

Nia said in a weird fashion.

She had never met her father before and the only things she knew about him were the things her mother told her and the teachings of the temple that worshipped him as a god. So while she felt a certain emotionally bound to the figure in the distance called her father, she hadn't any idea just who this person she should call father truly was.

"Zes…."

Reis as well as the other former pets of Zes on the other side started at the figure in the distance memories welling up within them.

They spend more of their live without him then with him. Most of the time they knew him he was somewhere else outside of their reach and considering their original back story they should rather hate Zes then anything else. But regardless of this they loved him.

And nothing would change this fact.