Rebirth in Against the Gods with The Ultimate System - 98 Chapter 98

Boom…boom…boom

The Stone Dragon General slowly walk towards Yun Che in an intimidating tremor. However, knowing him. That tremor merely felt like a breeze to him.

“Hoo, just you? I was hoping for a bit more but you’ll do just fine.” He recovered most of his strength after drinking the divine water he collected and the Great Way of the Buddha easily restored 30% of his stats so he didn’t mind losing all of it anytime soon. Slowly waving Hebi behind his head, he too walks towards the giant stone general.

The real Yun Che faced life and death situation dealing with this one back in the original story. In there, the general’s cultivation was only in the Spirit Profound Realm while he was at the level of True Profound Realm. This time, he faced this thing several times stronger than the original one. Making it look like he was facing even weaker compared to this one.

This time he faced with Body cultivation stone general. Meaning to say is the stone general was protected like a buff from the trial or like a special boss in a game. So, he must increase his strength directly to the peak and achieved Peak Tyrant Profound Realm so he can deal massive damage to it. Otherwise, the process to reduce even a chuck of its HP may take a while. He can use the hit and run method from the games but it’ll take too much time and quite typical also boring.

“Looks like I have to go full strength this time. *Sigh The original Yun Che had it easy. He just fights the stone warriors till the end and emerged like boss but those warriors are literally stones. And here I am facing the cultivated version of those warriors and this one is really ‘stoned’. Lucky bastard.” As he said to himself, he arrives in front of the stone dragon general.

The Stone Dragon General did not show any emotion and did not speak. It only attacks and defend. When Yun Che entered its range of perception, its eyes suddenly lit up under the stone helmet. Its footsteps abruptly sped up and it swung the hammer out, smashing straight at Yun Che.

BOOM!!!

“Oi..oi.. Not giving me a chance to get ready.” Yun Che reappeared after flash stepping out of the way. He swung Hebi’s head towards the general to gauge its defense. Hebi’s giant fangs opened as it roared towards the general. The general simply raises its spear and hammer and blocked the incoming strike from Hebi. She increased her fangs strength as it bites the general through the blocked hammer and spear. Yun Che’s strength maybe at the third level of Tyrant Profound Realm after using purgatory but Hebi’s ramming speed was no joke.

The Stone Dragon General’s speed was not fast and isn’t agile like the warriors however, that brute strength isn’t something he can mess with. Being blocked by Hebi’s giant fangs, it couldn’t even do anything. Thus, it seemed to have been enraged. It suddenly glows in yellow as if it was chanting something.

Seeing the enraged boss, he slowly murmured “Hoo, this is…”

All of a sudden, yellow lights spread near him before forming into a shape of a figure. More like figures. It wasn’t long before stone dragon warriors emerged from the light and started to attack him.

[Ding…. Stone Dragon General has activated ‘Warriors Resurrection’ skill. This skill can summon any stone dragon warriors from the previous wave back.] The activation of the skill brought about thirty stone dragon warriors to disrupt Yun Che.

“Oh..Now you tell me?!?”

He released the general from Hebi’s fangs before flash stepping on the nearest Stone Dragon Warrior and yell “PISS OFF!!!” He raised his leg and kick the head before swinging Hebi in a circular motion annihilating all thirty stone warriors in one swift motion.

The general raised the heavy hammer in its hands high in the air, and emitted an extremely harsh screeching sound. In the wake of the screeching sound, several chaotically flashing yellow lights appeared at random places of the area. In the midst of the yellow lights, around thirty or so Stone Dragon Warriors wielding all sorts of weapons appeared in different locations.

Yun Che immediately flashed step to the warriors to clear them off. In one circular wave, he managed to annihilate almost half of the summoned warriors using Hebi. Just like before, The warriors might be strong but they are literally made of stones. However, as he was preoccupied, the general slowly jumped towards him before drawing a massive sword.

Yun Che’s haki detected the intent before deploying his Evil God Second Art and blocked the incoming attack.

BOOM!!!

Yun Che along with his barrier were catapult in the air before shifting his body and using his legs to stop the motion leaving two straight trails on the ground. The attack annihilated the nearby stone warriors as the general’s attack create massive profound tornado after it hit Yun Che.

[Ding…. Shield Integrity: 80%]

“Damn, that’s one powerful swing. 20% in one hit?” He dispels his shield before shifting Hebi right next to him. This general might made out of stone but it shows intellect compared to the other warriors who use the fist instead of brains. If they had any. This thing used its warriors as distraction before ganking on him. Quite smart but also quite brutal.

Thinking that this boss started to annoy him. He relaxed his breathing before saying “Saru, Hebi. Let’s go offensive.”

“Hai!!” Yun Che closed his eyes before transforming both of them into red sparkling eyes with three tomoes. He relaxed himself before murmuring his favorite phrase.

“Bankai.”

All of sudden, Hebi’s body suddenly curls around him before transforming into a massive streak of light shooting up towards the sky. The streak of light creates a tremor shook the realm even caused the Azure Dragon to shift its eyes.

The streak of light shoots back to the bottom creating a massive wind pushing the general and remaining stone dragon warriors away. The lights slowly crumbled away as Yun Che stood in the crater in his second and true form of Zabimaru.

He swings his snake skull blade up in the air before pointing it towards the general. “Sōō Zabimaru” His raven hair was slowly lifting itself in the air while staring at the general with his fully awakened Sharingan. His tone was slowly darkened before saying “I was going to play a little longer but this time. Let’s end this.”

The general was emotionless before raising its hand up in the air summoning more warriors to his side. The summoned warriors were comparable to the fifth wave where almost a hundred warriors were summoned. It slowly raises its spear before pointing it towards him. With that, all the warriors charged in as if war was already begun.

However, Yun Che was unfazed before slowly unfurls the vertebra-like bones from his waist and wave it like a third arm. Then, he did something he would done if he was serious in a fight. Starting from his blade, his skull blade slowly transforming from black and white to jade black blade. The skull on his wrist transformed into similar form like his massive bankai just now, platinum skull and purple mane and also purple eyes. The haki slowly travel through the bones connected to the skull before covering his entire bankai with it. He coated his Bankai with haki again thus transforming the tail bone around his waist into black jade tail bones. Using haki on this bankai didn’t use much energy compared to before as this form is much smaller and compact.

The warriors slowly came buy before swinging their weapons towards him but….

Suddenly massive pressure covered the entire area including the tower where Jasmine and the Azure Dragon was observing him. “This pressure, is like the pressure emitted from a god.”

Jasmine wasn’t affected by the pressure as Yun Che controlled it to affect anyone but her. She raised her head before saying “So you’re finally serious for once.” The pressure affected all the warriors before making them standstill.

Slasshhhh!!!!

He simply swings his tail bone around him and all the warriors were split horizontally before they could get even ten feet from him. The best part using this tail was he could extend it as long as he like.

Slasshhhh!!!!

Slasshhhh!!!!

Slasshhhh!!!!

Yun Che was extending Hebi’s tail all over the battlefield stabbing as well as slashing any warriors came close. Affected by the pressure, those warriors weren’t able to move once entering his pressure zone. He didn’t also forget to jump all over the battlefield slashing the warriors with his skull blade.

“Hmph, sorry about that. They’re in the way.” As last of the warriors fall, the only one remain was the general itself. He withdraws the pressure as he was preparing to fight with the stone dragon general.

Without wasting any moment, the general swung its giant hammer towards him. A wise man would jump and avoid it but for him….

BOOMM!!!!

The attack smashed the entire ground area and create a giant crater underneath it. If anyone were to see it, they might think Yun Che probably died underneath that strike. A full powered Tyrant Profound Realm general used its entire strenght to kill just a small mortal. The stone dragon general smashed its hammer with complete strength disregard anyone in the way. However…

“Oi…oi.. That hurts you punk.”

All of a sudden, the hammer was slowly raised above ground and the general having trouble pushing it. Underneath the hammer, Yun Che in his hollow’s mask was unfazed and relaxed as he raised the hammer from the ground. One of his hand was supporting the arm that was lifting as well as blocking the hammer just now, The ‘Hihio’ arm made from his cowl.

Despite the general was the same strength as him, he didn’t forget that the ‘Hihio’ arm amplifies his arm’s strength multi-fold if he used it in battle. Couple with his Great Way of the Buddha and Haki, that arm will trouble anyone even those in the Monarch stages.

No matter how hard it tried, the general couldn’t even lift the hammer or pushing it towards him. He pushed aside the hammer slowly before looking at the general with his hollow mode. Slowly forming a creepy smile underneath, he slowly said “What’s up?”

Using the massive ‘Hihio’ arm, Yun Che simply push it upwards before forming a fist. “Hmph, splendid strike but not good enough.” He punched the giant hammer using the ‘Hihio’ arm and smashed it to smithereens. The general was stumbled backwards as its hammer was destroyed by a single punch.

Slowly floating to the ground, he shifted his mask to his side and slowly watching the general. The general immediately discards the remains of its hammer before drawing its giant spear. Without any remorse, it ran towards him pointing the spear. As he detected the intent, he shifts to the side allowing the spear to passed him before using the tail to wrapped around its massive arm.

“You’re relentless, I give you that. No wonder the previous Yun Che nearly died because of you.” Using his full strength, he infused his skull blade with phoenix flames causing the black jade blade covered with scarlet flame.

SLASSHH!!!!!

He flashed step towards its shoulder before delivering a giant flaming slash separating its left arm and spear from it.

BOOM!!!

The massive arm and spear fell to the ground as Yun Che slash it using the skull blade. The stone dragon general immediately used its free arm and draw the massive great sword from its back. Its sudden swing was avoided by Yun Che before flash stepping gaining some space between them. Looking at its broken body, Yun Che infused his blade with phoenix flames once more before engaging it in one final strike.

The stone dragon general raised its massive blade before blocking Yun Che’s flaming blade. Two blades clashed resulting massive wind and fire flaming out all over the area. None of them wanted to lose in terms of clashing battle. However, every battle was never a fair battle for Yun Che. Even if he used his full strength, he didn’t forget that each Zanpakuto had its own advantage in battle. So same strength doesn’t actually mean anything to him. The only meaning for his battle is whether he should end it or not.

“Hmph, so this is your final strike?” He said in a boring tone underneath the mask.

The stone dragon general didn’t say anything as it continued to pour every ounce of its strength resisting Yun Che’s fiery strike. The flaming blade and great sword collided ferociously. With an enormous sound, two intertwining gorges formed in the ground underneath their feet. The Stone Dragon General moved backwards while Yun Che shot outwards… As the clashing raging on, Yun Che shift his mask back to his face before saying….

“You did good. But I am better.” With that, he put his left hand on top of the blade and infused it with phoenix flames. With raging flames and haki, it become hotter before turning red despite being blackened by the haki.

Crack!

Crack!!

Crack!!!

The great sword hold by the general slowly cracks as Yun Che pushes his blade on it. More and more cracks started to appear before…

Slashhh!!!!

He pushed his sword even further and it started to slash its entire sword in half like knife through butter. But, it didn’t stop there. The flaming blade travel all the way to the stone general’s head before…

“Shing!!!!”

The stone dragon general slowly losing the light in its eyes after Yun Che slashed it apart from top to bottom in a single shot. As it fell, its body fell apart as if an orange was sliced cleanly without any resistance. The stone dragon general was tough, but Yun Che always had trump cards hidden in his sleeve. He had the Great Way of the Buddha, Haki and even Phoenix Flames. Those things are enough to overwhelmed the stone dragon general by a large margin. Even if he didn’t use his hollow’s mask, he can still beat it after some time. But, Retsu and Cang Yue are waiting for him and he couldn’t afford to let them wait for long and who knows the time flow in this realm. Besides, sometimes gamers can be serious despite playing the fool for a moment.

Boom!!!

The two halves crashed to the ground as he stood up holding his flaming blade on his side. It was not long until a notification suddenly appeared in his head.

[Ding… Completed the tenth wave of the Dragon God Trial. Defeat the Stone Dragon General.]

“It’s about time, I was started to get hungry.” He slowly said before undoing his hollow’s mask. The battle last for a while but this is the third time he was serious for once. He really could end this trial faster but at the same time he wanted to enjoy the perks of being overpowered. If everything was one shot, then what’s the point having a lot of skills and not using it. When he was reincarnated, he wanted to enjoy pretending to be weak before showing his cards one by one. He wanted to live his life as he sees fit.

The last time he was serious was during that snobbish brat threaten to destroy his entire family and created that giant crescent moon shaped valley. The first time was during his wedding. Ah, good times.

[Ding… Congratulation Host for defeating a Stone Dragon General. Experience points + 10000]

[Ding…Triggering hidden objective…..]

“Sooo, what’s the hidden objective?”

[Ding… Host has defeated the stone Dragon General less than two hours. For that, Defeat Two Level 90 Stone Dragon Generals.]

“Wait, What?!? Are you fu*king kidding me?!?!?” He wasn’t even finish when two streaks of light came from the night skies before forming into two giant Stone Dragon Generals. Now he regretted asking for more back then.

“Cut me some slack man. *Sigh Never mind…..” Without wasting anymore time, Yun Che donned himself once more with his hollow mask before increased his speed towards the nearest general. One of them managed to draw its hammer before swinging it towards him. As he detected the intent, he changes the trajectory of his speed into avoiding the swing thus arriving next to the general.

“Bakudo #62 Hyapporankan.” Suddenly, several silver blue rods appeared on his left hand before threw it on the next general. The rods slowly grew in size and multiplied itself before stabbing the first Stone Dragon General before seizing its movement. The first general tried to move its arms but Yun Che decided to hit it with another Bakudo spell.

“Bakudo #61 Rikujokoro” With that spell, six binding lights suddenly appeared around the first general immobilizing it completely. Combining two kido spells together makes everything the peak tyrant looked like a hostage in front of him. Yun Che cast it with his hollow’s mask on and the kido had his peak Tyrant Profound Realm strength as backup so the first general was immobilized completely. He didn’t want the first one to summon warriors as backup if he was preoccupied with the second one. As for the second one, he flashed behind the second general before pressing a hand behind its back.

He slowly smiled while saying “Destroying Sky Decimating Earth”

BOOM!!!!

The back of the second general suddenly exploded and burst apart from back to front with massive amount of red Spirit Force. The explosion push it towards the immobilized general and collided with each other. As for Yun Che, he suddenly had another wild idea. Raising his left hand, he slowly pointed two fingers while maintaining it in front of his chest.

“Bakudo #63, Sajo Sabaku” As he pointed his fingers, a chain of light suddenly burst out from his fingers before hitting the the two generals binding them together. The process was instant and the two generals were immobilized and unable to move no matter how much they tried.

“Now that’s a nauseous sight to watch. Now I wish I could drink that ‘unseen’ juice.” He slowly approached them before stabbing the back of the fallen general. After impaling the general with his blade, Yun Che immediately clenches his fist. Suddenly a massive energy forming a jaw of spiritual energy behind him with a shape of a massive snake head. These jaws close down on the enemy, forming the visage of a large, serpentine skull, crushing them with its fangs.

“Sorry it was short, I had my share of fun with the first general. So long!!!” He said with his hollowfied voice.

“Sōō Zabimaru, Zaga Teppō” As he said that, he immediately fires a blast of spiritual energy through the enemy from his skull blade. The massive energy was too large and it incinerates the generals immediately after firing it for the first time.

SSSSsssssss

The sound of incinerating was singing in the air as he decimated the two generals in a single shot. After lasting for a while, his attack left a massive trench on the groundresult of the attack powerful enough to reduce its target to ashes.

“That took a while.” As he breath a breath of relief. A notification suddenly popped in his mind.

[Ding.. Congratulation host for defeating two Stone Dragon Generals. Experience gained +20000]

[Ding… First trial complete. Return back to the top of the tower to claim your reward.]

“Maybe later, man.. I need a feast after all of that.” Yun Che was about to sit down recuperating. All of a sudden a streak of blue light suddenly surrounded him.

“Eh, not again!!” The streak of blue light carried him back to the top of the tower in an instant. The barrier isolating the tower was gone the moment the trial was complete. Yun Che reappeared again slamming bottom first as the streak of light disappears.

“Grrrr, I can come back by myself you know.” He was actually greeted by Jasmine but instead of congratulate him, she slowly gives him a haki enhanced karate chop.

“OUCH!!!, What was that for?!?” Yun Che rubbed his head after being smacked by her. Now, he regrets a little teaching her haki.

“If you were serious from the beginning, you could finish this sooner.” She scolded him.

Yun Che was still rubbing his head but instead of retorting he suddenly smiled and simply said “Hahahaha, I just wanted to test the capabilities of those warriors. Where’s the fun if you can end it instantly?”

“*Sigh, I really don’t understand how you think at all. Most cultivators risk the lives just to pass this trial but you wanted to have fun instead?”

“Like I said before, I had my share of hardship in my previous life. So let me have fun completing the trial. At least I get the job done.” Jasmine shook her head hearing his response. This is the first time she heard a cultivator have fun in cultivating. Hearing that makes her wonder, how much fun is cultivating? Even those people from up there never actually had any fun but for him and Retsu, these two are having a lot of fun compared to any other cultivators. Most of them would use whatever means necessary to avoid any danger but these two seek those dangers for fun. Maybe, if she could level up like them, will she have the same fun feeling as well?

As she was wondering, both of them were greeted by the floating Azure Dragon. “Reaper. You are indeed a strange type of god. You were able to defeat all three generals in a short time. For that, I am truly impressed. This is the first time, this dragon has seen a god cultivated multiple arts as well as using a different type of power. But this dragon couldn’t help but wanted to ask a question.”

Yun Che was still donned in his mask and bankai form looked at the dragon with anticipating eyes. But before the dragon could ask, he spoke “If you wanted to ask about the mask, I have the ability to control my inner demon. I can manifest its powers into the real world and using it as my own.”

The Azure Dragon looked at him with widen eyes. “Hoo, how do you know that’s my question?”

“The phoenix asked the same thing.” Jasmine spoke next to him.

“Looks like your aura is practically the same as those white masked beast invaded the continent two years ago. A human could turn into a beast is common in this dragon’s eyes but for you to turn into them is quite impressive.”

“Not completely though. I could only use their strength. Turning into them is a different story. I rather keep my humanity intact. Those things are way worse than beasts.” Yun Che’s answer satisfied the dragon’s curiosity.

“Very well. Congratulation for passing the first trial. Hold out your hand.” Yun Che hold out his left hand since his right one was surrounded with Zabimaru’s bankai form. All of a sudden, a blue crystal fragment suddenly appeared above him before landing on top of his hand.

[Ding…. Host has obtained the first part of the Dragon God Legacy, The crystal fragment of the Dragon God. This fragment needs two more fragment to complete the entire crystal.]

Yun Che started to inspect the fragment before saying “Hoo, this is the crystal fragment. The phoenix had red one and this one is blue.”

“Hmph, you need to beat another two trials before you could earn the rest of the crystal. By the way, you can have this.” Then, Yun Che can see something suddenly falling towards him from the sky.

BOOM!!!

The falling object creates a big impact as it landed at the center of the tower. Yun Che and Jasmine slowly walked by and saw a giant sword shaped like a dragon’s head sticking out at the middle. This sword literally shapes like it as the hilt was longer than a usual sword hilt. The guard of the sword have scales like dragon scales as well as three spikes above it. The ‘eyes’ of the sword was made from a crystal. The funny thing is the sword’s point which is the nose also have nostrils on it. At the middle of the blade, the sword had sets of teeth covering all the way from the top to the hilt dividing the sword into two parts.

[Ding… Congratulation host for obtaining a Monarch stage Heavy-sword “Dragon Fault.” This sword was enhanced using the soul of a baby dragon to empower the sword to the Sky Profound Realm. However, it was upgraded by this trial the moment host taking the highest difficulty for the first trial.]

“Hoo, the dragon fault. Yun Che’s next weapon after he lose the overlord sword fighting the general just now. I thought this sword is a Sky Profound Realm sword. Probably upgraded due to the difficulty part of the challenge. Now I feel bad for those dragons, never expected their child was actually taken by the trial itself. The trial they guard was actually the one killed their own child. So they blamed the humans for it.” He slowly said in his heart after seeing the actual thing in front of him.

Jasmine observed the Dragon Fault closely before saying “A heavy sword? So what do you think?”

Yun Che was supposed to arrived at the Blue Wind Profound Palace and claimed the overlord sword but he skip those routes and immediately travel here. He’ll make sure to find the sword later.

“Impressive it might be, but I won’t switch my Zanpakutos over with this one. Besides, I already had Zangetsu and that guy is still heavy as fuck. Maybe I’ll just take it, I’ll be able to use it to as a base to create another sword.”

“Use it as a base?” Jasmine asked him.

“Yeah, this thing is a Monarch stage sword. I can disassemble it and forge a new sword using it as a material. One day, I can make a sword I am comfortable with.”

Jasmine looks at him before sigh.”*Sigh, I can’t stop you there. Zangetsu was already a heavy sword. Be it Shikai or Bankai. So what type of sword are you going to create?”

“Don’t know, haven’t decided yet.” Yun Che slowly approached the Dragon Fault before waving his hand storing it inside his inventory.

“So reaper, if you’re ready. You can jump to the bottom and begin the second trial.” The Azure Dragon said to him before turned its head to the edge of the tower.

“Sure, but maybe later. First things first.. I need some rest. Won’t be long.” Yun Che undo his mask and Bankai before storing Zabimaru back to his inner world. He immediately sat down before initiating Jinzen transporting his consciousness into his inner world. Jasmine knew what he was planning and simply turned into a streak of light before returning back to the inner world as well.

When he arrived, he appeared under his Spirit Tree in the middle of the realm. It seems that all of his spirits are preoccupied at the moment. Which is a good thing. At least he won’t have to deal with anyone, yet. However, instead of doing anything. He simply lied down underneath the tree before passing out from the fatigue.