The Conqueror of Zones

by Shadows Finger

  “I am the waters of the universe that brings stillness to the boundless void seas…” Soon, her hair began to flow upwards as if she was descending into a pool of water, she pointed her slender fingers towards the Ethereal Soulfiend before finishing her chant, “I am True Aqua Freeze!!”

  Crack-crack-crackle! Instantly, the sound of something freezing resounded throughout the area as the space around the clones of the three Ethereal Soulfiend’s began to take on a bluish color. As if time itself was coming to a stop, the figure of these clones began to slow down eventually coming to pause within the air.

  “Chet! A Dao Spell, it seems that these beings were quite powerful at their peaks…” The Ethereal Soulfiend muttered as he sensed the powers behind Demetria’s technique, not long after he froze the two remnant shades broke down and turned into dust as they were only a deceptive technique and had no real form. Zyne and Yemo seeing this quickly acted as they charged towards the Ethereal Soulfiend as only his frozen figure remained.

  Swish! Swish! They bolted through the air like beams of light soon arriving before the trapped ghost, as Zyne arrived he lifted the Bright Hammer causing the surroundings to glow in a brilliant light once again, as his muscles bulged while his veins on his arms and forehead became visible as if he was channeling his entire power into this strike.

  Bang! A terrifying force energy rippled from his body before spreading outwards to distance surroundings, as his hair rippling wildly in the wind, as he swung his hammer viscously and he yelled, “So what if you’re of Etherealkin? Your True Spirit is still sealed which means you can still be defeated! Die!! Bright Hammers Descent!!!”

  Not long after the figure King Yemo appeared as materialized out of nothing like a spector, his eyes glowing in a bright green light as a cloak covering his ancient army started to dance wildly as they became suffused by greenish yin forces. Quickly, he brandished his halberd and struck it towards the Ethereal Soulfiend as he yelled, “Desolate Ghost Halberd!”

  Phew!! Clusters upon clusters of bright energies scattered towards the Ethereal Soulfiend Ghost as Zyne’s hammer smashed into the frozen figure, King Yemo’s attack turning into a massive halberd which had a ghastly looking spector bearing a crown on its blade edge. These two dreadful attacks rapidly descended towards the Ethereal Soulfiend who gazed at them with a hint of solemnness in his eyes.

  “Chet! While this spectorkin also has fairly threatening attack this Dwarfin has a great deal of Holy Force Energies imbued within that hammer of his… so troublesome these beings are…” As he said this, his eyes glowed brightly as dark purple-violet domain formed around him, this domain broke away the fettered space caused by Demetria’s spell causing to suffer a backlash as she spouted a mouthful of blood.

  The moment the Ethereal Soulfiend became free, he promptly gathered his entire power and launched two swift palm attacks towards the approaching techniques while shouting, “Devouring Field!”

  BOOOOM! A massive explosion soon followed as both Zyne’s and Yemo’s assault collided with a strange rift that was made of the Ethereal Soulfiend true yin energies as if it was a black hole, this rift began to swallow energies from the explosion at an alarming rating soon completely devouring all their energies.

  After finishing this, the rift faded leaving behind the stunned looking Zyne and Yemo who gazed at the now slightly pale figure of the Ethereal Soulfiend. His body that was previously glowing in a large number of dark yin auras as becoming weaker and weaker as each moment passed.

  “Hahaha! If you’re not so though, now are you?” Zyne said in an unbridled manner, Yemo who saw this also smirked in satisfaction, but after a short moment of teasing they couldn’t but frown as the pale-looking Ethereal Soulfiend didn’t have any signs of panic or distress on his face.

  Instead, he gazed at the duo with mocking looking in his eyes as he sneered, “You foolish weaklings think that this is the limit of my strength? All of me to show you what it means to be of Etherealkin!!!”

  BANG! The moment his words finished, an even more devastating yin energies began to emit from his body, slowly, his figure started to grow at alarming rate soon reaching a size that almost comparable to a kilometer. His towering spectral like figure now overlooking the world like a ghostly divinity which had descended the mortal domain, his scanned across the tiny little figures of Zyne, Demetria, Yemo and the Feng Clan Elders before lifting his gigantic palm and point it toward their direction.

  “Prepare to die!!! Heavenly Destroyer Yin Palm!” He roared causing a massive cluster of yin energies to gather around his palms before forming an even more massive palm for dark yin energies, if one looked closely, they would see that within this palm was a sea of souls and spectors each raving madly as if they couldn’t wait to tear through the souls and flesh of those targeted by the palm.

  Swooosh! Quickly, this apocalyptic palm descended from the heavens as if it was ready to bring this realm to an untimely end. Zyne seeing the palm above him was stunned as he could look at it with helplessness, “Dammit! Those brats better act now for if this continued, we’re all done for!” As he thought to himself, he couldn’t help but glance at the somewhat dispirited Demetria who was also glancing at the sky.

  “Chet!” He bit his teeth hard as he gripped his fists tightly, King Yemo was also at a loss as he saw the calamity approaching. Elder Chen seeing the scene struggled to sit up his exhausted self before he spoke to Elder Duan, “Well old pal, it looks like this is where our story ends…”

  Elder Duan seeing this frowned before speaking, “Stop your nonsense! We still have Yu’er, if he succeeds it is almost guaranteed that this fellow’s strength will come to an end!”

  Elder Chen hearing this shook his head and replied, “Do you think we still have that much time?” He said as he pointed at the slowly descending palm, Elder Duan hearing this couldn’t refute it, he gripped his fists tightly before glancing at the stele in the distance and speaking, “Yu’er hurry! Our lives may just be up to your ass!”

  As if they each held the same thoughts, Zyne, Demetria, Yemo, Myria, Leon along with the exhausted army leaders and the natives each cast their visions towards the stone stele with hope in their eyes.

  “Hahaha! What are you waiting on?! There is no one that will come to save you, now die!!!!” The Ethereal Soulfiend said in a menacing manner as he pushed his palms downwards fiercely the massive energy palm now descending at a rapid speeding, pushing apart the ominous looking clouds as a dreadful energy scattered across the desolate land.

  However, as the scene occurred, the light within the eyes of the Ethereal Soulfiend became dimmer, as looked towards the stone stele in shock.

  “Noooooo!!!!” He yelled in a hysterical manner, as he saw a bright array of lights shouting out from the previously calm stone stele.

  Pheww! These lights were numerous, mixed with an arrangement of different colors as they beamed towards the sky from the stele. As this happened, the earth started to shake in a violent manner as if it was about to split apart, moments later the stele became covered by an unusual scarlet light which quickly blanketed a region of more than 1 kilometers.

  KABOOOMMM! A massive explosion soon erupted as the stele was blown to pieces a myriad of lights scattering across the earth and sky painting the world in a cluster of different hues.

  If one looked at the location of where stele once stood, they would see a massive energy pillar of pure scarlet flames which beamed towards the summits of the skies burning away not only the previously descending apocalyptic palm attack but also the figure of the Ethereal Soulfiend along with the dark looking clouds within the surrounding area.

  Zyne and the others seeing this became stunned, they gazed at the tarrying pillar of scarlet flames that burnt away everything with a hint of fear in their eyes but soon became filled joy as the saw a familiar looking silhouette that floated at the center of these flames.

  Soon, the flames began to fade eventually receded into the silhouette that floated within the
air. His long red hair swaying behind his head as his ancient looking battle armor gleamed with the numerous lights from the surroundings, panting him with a divine-like aura as if god had graced the world with his presence.

  Suddenly, the bright scarlet eyes of the youth faded revealing a set of sharp-looking eyes with a firm will that none could shake as he gazed around his surroundings, the marking of egg which had merged with his bloodline markings on his forehead soon after vanishing without a trace, as this happened, the blank looking eyes of youth became clear as his figure started to rapidly fall from the heights due to him losing his previous borrowed strength.

  “Shit! Not good!” Feng Yu exclaimed as he quickly tried to will for his flying disc to appear from his storage ring but try as he might he couldn’t conjure up any form of energy as his body was now completely exhausted. “Damn! I survived one hell to put myself into another!” Feng Yu cursed, but soon he began to feel better as he saw that the distant Zyne and others rushing towards his position.

  “Haha! You damn brat! You really saved us this time!” Zyne said as his body rushed forwards like a ray of light quickly nearing Feng Yu’s position, Feng Yu seeing this smiled as he replied, “It was only l-” or at least, he tried to reply but was soon cut off by a sudden disturbance.

  Bang! A dreadful power swept across the world as the towering figure of the Ethereal Soulfiend once more appeared from the heavens, his figure still burning as he had suffered tremendous damages from the scarlet pillars of flames abrupt attack. His eyes that were usually purple now taking on a shade of blood red as an unparallel fury could be felt emanating from his being while gazing at the falling figure of Feng Yu.

  “HUMAN!!!! YOU DARE TO DESTROY MY ‘TRUE SPIRIT’ AND INJURE MY TRUE BODY?!! I WILL KILL YOU!!!!!” He roared sending ripples of energies across the world smashing away the approaching Zyne the others into the nearby rubbles of the necropolis. As this happened, his massive figure rapidly descended from the skies as his fists smashed towards Feng Yu’s venerable body.

  “Chosen Yu!” The alliance members screamed as they saw the attack about to collide with Feng Yu, Zyne the others struggled to pick themselves up as their bodies were deeply injured unable to rush towards him to rescue him in time.

  “Damn! Where is that girl?!” Zyne yelled in a loud voice as he looked towards the sky, Demetria and others also gazed around but saw nothing.

  “Shit!” Feng Yu seeing this cursed in his mind but could do nothing about it as even if he was at full strength, he would still perish to the enemy’s assault. He gazed beyond the palm at the distant sky searching for something as he thought to himself, “Yun’er if this is what you were waiting for you better act now or I’ll be done for!”

  The maddened Ethereal Soulfiend paid no attention to anything else, as his eyes were currently fixed only on Feng Yu, he wanted nothing but to quickly and brutally destroy Feng Yu’s entirety from all of existence. The space around Feng Yu was now warping as if it couldn’t resist the pressure from the nearing attack.

  Suddenly, as all seemed to have been lost there was a sound which echoed from the heavens as a figure quickly charged out of a white space hidden within the void.

  “An expert never lets their guard down even in the worse of scenarios! You’ve lost, Soulfiend!” The graceful but cold and indifferent voice said, quickly the figure of Jing Mingyun could be seen charging down from the sky like a beam of white light as she rapidly caught up the maddened Ethereal Soulfiend.

  Her beautiful silver eyes that shone like the brightest stars was now different as her pupils were like vertical slits looking much like that of the eyes commonly seen in reptilians, a bright silver marking form at the corner of both of her eyes as the Dragonic force within her body erupted by twofold of her previous limits.

  Bang! Her dreadful energies scattered across the sky and scattered even the distant clouds that resisted dozens of kilometers away, as she swung her fist downwards towards the unguarded head of the Ethereal Soulfiend.

  “Dragonic Arts: True Dragon Flash!” Immediately after she said this, her towering dragonic energies completely shrouded her body started to morph into a strange image. It was massive white silhouette which seemed to have overshadowed the world, its domineering prestige making all who saw it shrunk back into fear, quickly it vanished leaving behind a streak of white light which stopped at the ground.

  Ka-Bang! A loud thunderous sound soon after rumbling across the world as the finger of Jing Mingyun could be seen standing calmly at the ground with Feng Yu in her arms, Feng Yu who had no idea what just happened as he only recalled suddenly appearing on the ground looked at Jing Mingyun in utter surprise as was speechless by her strength.

  Her reptile-like eyes slowly vanishing as her pressuring energies fade away while her sparkling silver eyes returned to normal, her face carried a hint of paleness but unhindered excitement as she spoke to Feng Yu in his thoughts, “I am almost able to enter my dragon form, as my previous form was a state known quassi-dragonize, if I were to continue along this route I will finally be able to unleash my full powers…”

  Feng Yu hearing this couldn’t help but grow shocked as he couldn’t believe that the power previously shown was still not the limits of her dragonic heritage, he was about to ask her about it but was soon distracted by the scene above them.

  “Cough! You! You!!!” The terrifying voice of the Ethereal Soulfiend could once again be heard as his previously descending form had come to a standstill in midair, his towering body still looming over the world with flames from the pillar attack still prevalent along with a new wound.

  It was a massive hole that ripped through his torso looking like a gigantic fist imprint, carefully looking, one would notice that around the edges of this hole were large amounts of silver energies which continued to destroy and rapidly disperse the body of the severely injured Ethereal Soulfiend.

  Soon, his entire body began to glow in bright silver lights as his entirety was beginning to vanish from the world, as this happened his mind was starting to fade away as a feeling of weakness came over him. He looked at Jing Mingyun in fear as he struggled to speak once more, “That was… that was the… True… Dragon… Flash….”

  “In the end… I still lost… to you… dragonssss…” His words fading away in the surrounding winds as his massive body faded away from existence leaving behind a dazzling amount of silver lights which illumined heavens for a short while before disappearing.

  Feng Yu seeing sighed in relieve as he muttered, “Finally, we have finally ended this nightmare of a quest!”

  Jing Mingyun hearing this smiled as she added, “Indeed, the dragon palace should now be free to enter as the watcher of this realm should be announcing the results any minute now.”

  While they were talking, the figures of Zyne, Demetria, and their others had finally managed to make their way over after dealing with most of their injuries, they looked at the door before them with grateful eyes as some of them even began to mist up as if they were about shed tears.

  “You brats really did it this time! Finally, after so many years I can finally be rid of this place!” Zyne said excitedly as he gazed at the two, Demetria also nodded and spoke, “Chosen Yu, Heirs Jing, I believe we all owe you too a great deal of praise!”

  “That’s right! My spector ghost kin will always remember this act of grace by you two!” King Yemo said happily as he glided towards the group.

  “Aye! Don’t leave us out!” A cheery voice said, as battle worn Myria could be seen flying towards them from the distance, Leon was also in tail rushing towards them with a smile on his face as he spoke, “Hmph! Unlike like the selfish Zyne over there, I believe everyone amount the allied should offer their respects to you both!”

  Zyne hearing this frowned but didn’t reply, he kept his mood to himself so as to not ruin the current atmosphere. Soon, Myria, Leon along with the alliance leaders and their surviving armies’ members had made their way over gazing at the two before them wi
th respect and awe.

  Zyne, Demetria, and Yemo gazed at each other for a moment as if they had a tactic understanding before they lifted their hands to the air and waved downwards, soon, the entire armies bowed to their knees showing the utmost level of respect to both Feng Yu and Jing Mingyun.

  “For the victory of a great battle and the freedom of us all! We thank the gratefully thank Heiress Jing and Chosen Yu!!” Demetria said in a loud voice, immediately after her words the allied army shouted in unison. “Glory to our saviors! Uwaaaaaahhh!”

  As they both saw this, they couldn’t help but nod their heads at the excited cheers from the armies along with their respectful stance. A distance away from this scene were the figures of Elder Chen and Elder Duan who were too beat up to even move their bodies, they looked at the scene and discussed.

  “Hahaha! Look at that kid down there celebrating without us old timers… already forgotten that we’re up here suffering…” Elder Duan said while looking at the scene, Elder Chen hearing this shook his head and smiled before replying, “We're getting old, it’s natural that we won’t be capable of keeping up with these younger generations, it is his time now much like the days of Yunlong’s and Junling’s rising…”

  As he spoke to himself, both elders couldn’t help but show reminiscent looks on their faces as if recalling the old days, they then gazed at the distant horizon as if they could peer through the world and spoke, “I wonder how it is on their side…”

  Chapter 171

  Victories on all Fronts! Shocking News!

  Boom! The world trembled as if it was about to break to pieces due to a series of powerful energies attacks that broke through gigantic ancient pillars before leaving scars into the once neatly tiled earth, if one looked closely, they would see a massive white form with eyes that glowed like the sparkling stars at the distant reaches of the galaxies.