The King
The Aftermath of the battle was apparent, while Qinglong and Daji were in a deadlock, Zhen's overwhelming chill managed to incapacitate all 3 of the divine beasts, leaving her with only one opponent left.
Pure, destructive lightning rained from above, following Zhen with every backward dodge. Lightning never strikes the same place twice, but it will assault Qinglong's palace over and over until it had electrocuted Zhen.
While Zhen had been busy dodging, the Qilin's eyes, glowing with stars, manipulated the space around Zhen. An ocular technique exclusive to Qilin's majestic eyes. The moment Zhen's foot hit the ground, she was struck by sudden nasuea, as the space between her and the and incoming lightning bolt had been altered.
Zhen shrieked at the top of her lungs as she endured the full brunt of Jiawe's lightning pillar. Even if her higher cultivation prevented incineration, the pain had been no less painful. The sting, burning and petrifying that Zhen experienced from head to toe.
Her skin and clothes emitting smoke, Zhen fell to one knee. Such fearsome ocular technique, how can she manage to dodge when Jiawei had full control of the space that the Qilin can see with her eyes?
The Qilin pranced towards Zhen, lording over the injured human her bestial elegance and strength.
" I gave you the chance to claim my head, yet you were foolish enough not to take it. Now do you regret your decision?" Jiawei's voice now layered but still fitting for her majestic form.
A smirk adorned Zhen's lips. The 3 divine beast, Zhen toppled easily but whether or not she instinctively held back fightning Jiawei, she needed to forego the self-restraint for she the Qilin will cram lightning down her throat over and over if Zhen did not fought seriously...if Zhen did not fought to kill.
"The only thing I regret was I cannot convince you to spend your immortaility with me. The endless days of sparring we could have had, our nights spent in the other's embrace. Say, will you hold it against me if I harvested your soul core as a memento?"
The Qilin chuckled, "IF you can defeat me, then by all means, let my soul core rest in your endless cold."
Jiawei's approval was all Zhen needed.
Her cultivation arose, fully utilizing her 71 stars, the unbearable coldness infected the atmosphere.
The sky countered the enroaching ice-age below by crackling with tremendous thunder, forewarning another devastating salvo of lightning.
[ABSOLUTE ZERO: HEAVEN'S SWORD OF ICE] Zhen stood firm, shouting the name of her oncoming attack!
A gigantic Jiandao sword formed from behind Zhen, 20 feet in length, enough to gore and shred those that would dare party such a colossal ice blade.
Jiawei and Zhen gazed at each other before unleashing their qi techniques akin to lethal blows.
They said goodbye with their smiles, knowing that they held no ill-will against the other. Both simply gave up the matters of the heart for duty's sake.
A single wave of Zhen's hand, the gigantic sword flew, cutting past the sound barrier with its speed.
At the same time, qi enhanced lightning came crashing down from below, one easy for Zhen to dodge, but the moment Zhen did so, the entire space around her reoriented, shifting to ensure that she gets hit by the lightning pillar.
Of course, Jiawei's ocular ability can be utilized defensively as well, shifting the space around the blade. Still going straight, the entire trajectory of the gigantic sword had been shifted to simply pass beside the Qilin.
Weatherin the lightning bearing down upon her, Zhen smirked for even Jiawei's evasion had been included in her plan. The humongous blade had been formed bh Zhen's extraordinary ice qi. One filled with Zhen's ingenuity, manifesting the moment Jiawei went side by side with the blade.
A simple but ruinous trick, all the stored inside the blade erupted ino and explosion of cataclysmic ice, swallowing the Qilin in the entirety of its blast radius.
Blown away the unforgiving gust of absolute zero, the Qilin's majestic scales had been battered to the point that she limped trying to stand up.
One of Jiawei's front legs broken, her makestic stride before had been replaced by pitiful limping as she closed in on Zhen.
"Amazing, even with the four of us combined and we are still no match."
The battle also took its toll on Zhen, taking on four bestial cultivators whose stars were closer to hers left her clothes tattered. Yet even in her injured state, Zhen grinned, wanting sway Jiawei for one last time.
"Your duty is fulfilled, I have twarthed your plans. Come, Jiawei, return with me to the court."
"Twarthed? My dear Zhen, the plan has only begun. Can you sense it? The chaos from our battle flowing into the rock."
Now that Jiawei mentioned it, Zhen gasped at the ominous aura that the rock exuded, hiding under the cover of their battle that's Zhen failed to sense the wicked presence until now.
The qi from the rock pulsed, it could barely contain the entity within. That is why Zhen MUST destroy it before the thing inside claws its way into the mortal realm!
Zhen dashed past Jiawei.
"It is too late, Zhen. I shall try to plead for your momentary safety, spend it to take care of Jiafeng."
Zhen's ice guandao formed, raising it to the air and bringing it back down to smash the wicked rock.
But as Jiawei surmised, it is too late for Zhen and perhaps even humanity...
The rock shattered, casting off his earthen womb, sending the debris flying towards Zhen.
From where the rock previously stood, a being of unfathomable might stood. One whose cultivation was near perfect upon birth. The true overlord of the beasts, the Divine Beast of Chaos, the Monkey King.
The monkey's frame had been adorned with light-golden armor. His fur, reddish-brown.
The rallying presence of the king prompted all 3 of the beasts to awaken from their beatdown. All four fo the Divine Beasts supplicated before their greatest champion, the one that will have the Beasts trampling over all of humanity.