All Zen did in defence was to take a mere step backward. The lotus in the forefront burst abruptly and
with that burst, preternatural fire like a red lotus shot up in its place. The temperature of the
preternatural fire was so high that it could have easily burned everything in the world!
Even though Zen had jumped back in time to avoid the core of the explosion, the fire still affected him
through heat and shockwave. He was pushed back about another twenty feet by the explosion of the
lotus and hit the enchanted barrier heavily.
"I know that your life vitality is strange, and totally different from regular ones. You seem to have that
weird capacity to engulf my lotus and win even against that move. Last time on the Hell Mountain, you
have shown me your abilities. Did you honestly expect me to make the same mistake a second time?"
Vale remarked with a cold smile. "Are you seriously under the delusion that you can defeat me only
with your weird life vitality? Let me tell you this: you are day dreaming! I said that I would give you three
years, and I agreed to do that because you weren't qualified to challenge me then, and you aren't
qualified to do so now. Defeating you was a piece of cake for me then! Today as well, you are going to
be defeated in a second!" Vale continued his monologue.
While he was talking, Vale had been calling out extra lotuses continuously. The lotuses collided with
Zen's six demonic phantoms. And even though he himself was speaking slowly, his homicidal killing
intent focused into the lotuses was growing stronger and stronger. Suddenly, amidst the ones fighting
the phantoms, another lotus appeared and bloomed slowly in the middle of the fighting platform.
These flowers Vale was calling out were normally as large as a man's hand, and bloomed in several
different colors, with each color possessing its own different, unique feature and power. For example,
the red lotus could afflict great damage by an explosion; and the icy lotus had an overwhelming
capacity to freeze things. However, the one which had just appeared in the middle of the fighting court
was totally different. It was white, and much larger than its fellow lotuses fighting the phantoms.
The white lotus began to grow fast. It had started off smaller than a penny, and had reached the size of
a fist; then it grew as large as a barrel. And after a while, it transformed itself into a huge white bloomer
about ten feet wide and five feet high.
Vale smiled as he stared at Zen and walked casually on the huge white lotus step by step, without the
least bit of effort showing up on his face. When he reached the center of the white lotus, his spirit
suddenly grew ten times higher than before. Now, he looked even more overwhelming and his aura
seemed to have been multiplied.
It seemed as if his spirit was bursting out and impressing others with his great power as if it had turned
into a substance that could be touched, instead of an abstract phenomenon.
"Clap, clap, clap..."
Several stone plates on the fighting platform were crushed into pieces by his spiritual force, as if they
had been stamped on by numerous elephants.
What the audience were witnessing was just the power that Vale's spirit possessed.
Standing high in the middle of the white lotus, he looked much like an emperor! And the aura he gave
whilst ascending atop the lotus was a reminder of a powerful ruler ascending onto his throne.
"To defeat you, I really don't need to do all this. But I want to show you just how puny you are, and
force it deep into your mind. You should know that giving you three years was me thinking better of you
than you deserve. You could develop a lot in that time. But don't forget that I also make progress every
day. You will never defeat me in three years, or even in thirty years!" Vale looked down at Zen while he
was making his speech.
The stones which were used to build the fighting court were specially made and there was a magical
strengthening force to make them even harder than regular stone. Although they looked normal, their
strength and tensile strength was more than that of several metals.
Crushing the stone into pieces meant the enchanted barrier of the fighting court had been crushed as
well. The audience were totally awed to see that Vale had managed to destroy the barrier of the fighting
court.
Under this huge force, Zen felt that his body had become several times heavier than usual. The gravity
he felt was even greater than that on the Great Gravity Road where he took the initial exam.
"It's only a few dozens of times heavier than ordinary gravity.
You are such an arrogant cock! I think I should conquer your array first!" Zen replied coldly. Following
his intention, over a hundred dragon scales in his body turned bright suddenly. At this moment, his
force increased to an extent close to water bursting out from a dam. With this huge force, Zen rushed
towards Vale against the gravity he had called.
"Is this tiny amount all the gravity you can muster?" Zen chided him. Vale smiled but didn't reply. Slowly,
he raised his hand and one of his fingers pointed towards Zen gently.
"Flower-Picking Pointing with One Finger!"
With his motion, all the gravity of the fighting court disappeared and Zen felt as if all of it had been
focused on him.
At Vale's command, the gravity inside the fighting court had been gathered into one point together and
put on Zen's body! That essentially meant that the gravity he was already experiencing had been
multiplied by Vale by a hundred times more!
"Boom..."
Zen's body fell onto the ground heavily much like a mountain sunk in an earthquake. He was forced to
fall on the fighting court, and a deep crater appeared beneath his body due to his great weight,
increased by Vale, making him unable to move.
Vale shook his head and said, "I can stop you from standing up only by using gravitational force. You
are even not strong enough for me to have to use my weapon!"
Zen stood up from the crater and Vale, who was still standing in the middle of the white lotus, pointed at
him again. And once more, Zen was pushed into the crater. All the disciples heard the booming thud
again.
The fight between Zen and Vale had attracted the attention of all the disciples of the Cloud Sect and
they were paying more attention than that they had to pay to anything else.
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