Tournament of the Gods

The White-haired Devil VS the Riders of dark

"What's Poppin?" Zhangshun Shan opens his mouth wide as he extends his right arm, a smaller Caucasian man about 5 feet with messy ginger hair extended his left arm and shook Zhangshun Shan's already extended arm, Zhangshun Shan was 6'3 in height with a well built body, he had a square jawline and oval shaped face, serious brown eyes, pink soft lips, short white hair which the tips brushed his forehead lightly.

"Brand new whip just hopped in" the smaller man responded as he shook him.  The two men appeared to be in the middle of an undeveloped civilisation as it was surrounded with huts, cottages, some men and women fishing at a stream not too far away, some sculptors molding different pots and other objects.

"When will you grow up, I don't understand the obsession with that song," came a lovely sonorous voice, Zhangshun Shan turned behind him and it was none other than his second wife, Sui Wenyan, she was a 5'7 woman with long dark wild hair, she was extremely pretty and with every step she took, she swayed her hips gracefully.

"It's a Jark Harlow classic, it never gets old, love" Zhangshun Shan smiles as he turns his attention towards her.

Sui Wenyan put her right arm to her head as she wore an exasperated expression, she really didn't know how to respond to this.  Zhangshun Shan's cheerful face turned to that of worry as he walked towards his wife.  "Is there any problem, darling?"

Sighing loudly, Sui Wenyan began. "I will never understand why I fell in love with you or what irks you that you love song."

"Ouch," Zhangshun Shan smiles.

"But anyways, I have to inform you about Wenren Yu, he's having a quarrel with one of his wives."

"Wives, you sure it isn't one of his concubines," Zhangshun Shan smiles.

"Why don't you come see for yourself," Sui Wenyan says as she briskly turned around, Zhangshun Shan followed her not lagging too far behind as he began to recall all that had taken place.

It had all happened about eight years ago after he had killed Renkui and siphoned his power.  Renkui was a powerful god and like all the other five gods, he controlled an entire Omniverse, An Omniverse consisted of a megrosto amount of universes (megrosto is a term which refers to infinity race to the power of infinity.)

The Omniverse contained an array of infinite multiverses, each multiverses was of a different dimensional plane of existence ranging all the way from 1D multiverse to infinite dimensional multiverse.   Each of those multiverses contained infinite parallel and alternate universes.

After Zhangshun Shan had siphoned the power from Hou Yi, he had deliberately stayed in a 1D world hoping that the gods would attack, he could have gone to the other Omniverses which were created and directed by the other gods but he wanted to make himself easy prey as his intention was to wipe out all of them.

"I have waited for eight years for the gods to attack," Zhangshun Shan thinks as he kept walking behind Sui Wenyan.  "I threw the head of Hou Yi in the highest heavens, if they even had a IQ of a potato, they would know that was a declaration of war and that means they are next but for some reason, none of them are coming to attack or is it that they have attacked and I am just not aware."

"You are going the wrong way," came Sui Wenyan's voice, it sounded like a snicker, Zhangshun Shan broke out from his thoughts and found himself in a quicksand, his body was sinking slowly.  "I told you putting perfect nullification on your body was useless" she continued with an even more amused tone.

"I had to," Zhangshun Shan said as he snapped his fingers causing the quicksand he was in to vanish, now, he stood on the bare ground. (Perfect nullification was the name given to what Zhangshun Shan had done to himself due to his Omnikinesis, it enabled him not to feel external and internal  stimulus at all meaning he couldn't feel physical pain, pleasure, he couldn't even headaches and any disease symptom at all, also, his body was perfectly invulnerable meaning he could never even get sick.  "My environmental perception even as a human is exactly 1,567 times sharper than the average human, if the gods should send a scout, I would be their main target."

"And that's the millionth time you are saying that," Sui Wenyan says with an exasperated tone as she turned at him.

"Also, based on the layout of the ground, the fact that this sand is fresh and dry, there doesn't appear to be any sign of erosion or any natural disaster at all, meaning that the quicksand didn't occur naturally, it was something you set there."

"Yeah, just thought I would have a little fun with you but I did notice something," Sui Wenyan had first snickered but now, she wore a grievous expression on her face.  "Ever since the time we got to the supposed tenth level, you acted strange, saying things that never happened and even after you defeated Renkui, I realized you didn't even carry the same demeanor as before, almost as if you saw something that even puzzled you," Sui Wenyan was now standing directly beside him, raising her right arm, she began to rub the side of his face seductively and slowly.  "I am your wife, Zhangshun, you can tell me anything."

Zhangshun Shan still had an unreadable expression on his face but as he was about to speak, he looked behind and saw a spearman on a horse, it was strange as both the rider and horse were shrouded in darkness.  Based on the position the spearman sat on the horse, he was possibly 191 cm tall, he held a spear with his right arm, upon sighting Zhangshun Shan and Sui Wenyan, he launched his spear towards their direction.

"Time and space are baseless notions," Zhangshun Shan smiles, as he said that, everything around him stopped moving, thinking and performing, his wife appeared still but Zhangshun Shan was amazed the spear was still heading towards him and the darkness shrouding the rider still kept swaying as if some unknown wind was at work.

"The spear still moves," Zhangshun Shan thinks as his body becomes intangible, he passes through the molecular structure of his wife still heading towards the thrown spear.  "I have made time a meaningless concept in this Omniverse meaning that nothing is supposed to be capable of performing as time flow is what enables every creature to act, if a creature can act irrespective of the time flow, it means it's above the time space continuum, since the spear still moves, it means I am dealing with a creature above every dimensional plane of existence as I set the timeflow for even creatures as high as infinite dimensional in the hierarchy of existence."

Zhangshun Shan grins as he stretches his right arm, a long 7'3 feet spear appear on it, it was glistening with a red miasma, it was Renkui's spear.  Seeing the approaching spear, Zhangshun Shan dashed towards it as he extended his spear, he hits the shrouded darkness spear but the spear simply passed through the spear Zhangshun Shan held.  Zhangshun Shan smiled but as the spear was about to hit him, the spear disappeared, it reappeared on the spearman who was riding on his horse.  Turns out Zhangshun Shan was actually at the spearman's position and he was about to hit him, the Zhangshun Shan that had approached the thrown spear was a fake.

"I see you aren't completely stupid," Zhangshun Shan grins as he flung his spear causing shockwaves to appear and disrupt the rider but for some strange reason, the rider wasn't thrown off his horse even though he was pushed farther than his initial position.

Zhangshun Shan seeing that he hadn't yet regained his footing put his spear in an upright position sending balls cloaked in red miasma towards the creature on the horse.

The creature which was on the horse seeing the balls approaching him takes a stance as if to deflect.

"You just made a crucial mistake, though it isn't your worst mistake, the worst mistake you made was you not killing yourself once you saw I didn't like your looks, now, I shall show you how fearsome the one who shall surpass all and attain utmost supremacy can be," Zhangshun Shan grins evilly and as he did, red balls appear all around the spearman on his horse.  The spearman changed his stance as right now, he appeared confused.  "Don't you think that you can deflect any of those balls, they are my personalized versions of the golden orb that Renkui first initiated, once one gets in contact with you, it absorbs all your essence and disappears into nothingness, the problem with it is that I can't usurp your essence the way Renkui does and also, I can't create a golden orb which emits infinitesimal sized arrows even though I have his power but I have made quite some progress and once you make contact with any ball either directly or indirectly, you are gone, as I said earlier, your mistake wasn't stopping at that spot, your mistake was not murdering yourself when you initially saw me." Zhangshun Shan ends with his most haughty grin.

The Spearman on the horse looking over at the balls which were approaching him regained his postural composure, he thrusts his weapon before him, sending a wave which broke the fabrics of reality itself opening wormholes, out of those wormholes came different humans and different creatures each in the position and trajectory of the incoming miasma cloaked balls.

Zhangshun Shan seeing that twists his face into a frown as the balls began to hit the people who had just appeared from the wormholes.  Before he could react, he felt a sharp object piercing him through his stomach, Zhangshun Shan looked at his stomach and saw darkness shrouded in the shape of a blade piercing his stomach, enabling his Omnipresence, he was able to see behind him and to his amazement, there were an infinite amount of riders on their dark horses each holding various weapons.  "These creatures have a way of masking their prescence as I didn't feel their essence, turns out I was never facing just one from the beginning but an entire army, I guess being omnipotent for a while has softened me making me weaker and more vulnerable mentally, I really am a disappointment to myself," Zhangshun Shan thought to himself, he knew that the mere fact that he could feel the blade piercing through his body meant his perfect nullification had been nullified, whosever those creatures are, they had a way of nullifying even Omnipotence.  The creature grinned as he brought out the spear from Zhangshun Shan's tummy, Zhangshun Shan collapsed to the ground, he could feel his entire body shaking and trembling, the pain he felt was indescribable, his eyes were bleeding, his eardrums were ringing so loudly he felt they would burst.

"I am Zhangshun Shan," Zhangshun Shan cried aloud using his willpower to push himself up.  "And I shall not submit or fall to the feet of any adversary even to the point of death, no one or nothing who touches me shall breathe as I am the ultimate in all of existence, after all, I am Zhangshun Shan and my greatest feat is the fact that I am me, I don't have near-death experiences, on the contrary, Death has near-Zhangshun Shan experiences."

As he said that, all the riders launched their weapons towards Zhangshun Shan, Zhangshun Shan's body was a bloody mess as an uncountable number of weapons rained down on him destroying and shredding his body to bits.

The riders of dark were expressionless as they saw Zhangshun Shan's body had now collapsed almost lifeless on the ground, they made a gesture with their arms and almost immediately, all their weapons flew from the points by which they had pierced Zhangshun Shan's body back to the hands of the owners, as all of them attained their weapons, Zhangshun Shan grinned as he struggled to get up, still bleeding profusely from his body, he began  "As I said when we first began, the mistake you all made was not murdering yourself the times when you encountered me, when I realized you all were against me, I had to find a way to divert all your attacks to touch me as if one of you had decided to hit me even once more, I would have been a goner, that's why I deliberately baited you all into attacking me using the most of the willpower I could muster, I realized that based on the way you all acted, that you were almost like programs, it was glaring as your goal was to eliminate your threat from the start, that was why you had initially sent just one of you so as to observe and notice my every move, when you felt I was occupied and there was no means by which I could counter, that was when you attacked, you did it almost perfectly, predicting my prediction but the moment you threw your weapons and they touched me, I had imbued them with red miasma meaning that as they returned to you, the miasma was absorbed into your bodies which in turn absorbed your essence, in order to ensure all of you got your weapons back when you did, I made you think two things from my first display, I also convinced myself into thinking that as it was wise to assume you could read minds if you could disable Omnipotence, the first was that I had made you all assume I was powerless and carrying on willpower, the second was that you felt your deception had worked nicely and I hadn't noticed you all from the very start so by my act of trying to muster willpower and challenging all of you, that had spurred you to attack throwing your weapons at me because of the glass illusion that you all have yourselves of truly having an advantage, based on the false deductions you had gotten from my first display, you thought I was completely dead and also seeing me lifeless on the ground supported that your claim was right, that was why you were quick to call your weapons back, what's so hilarious about it all is that once I was hit, I had lost all my power so the miasma that actually hit you all was the once which was intended for those coming out of the wormhole one of you had created, I had first waited for the moment when you all threw your weapons at me, then the miasma balls left the people and came to be absorbed in your weapons, you guys were already goners from the very start, that was why you all couldn't notice me imbuing your weapons with miasma as it wasn't directly from me but rather, what I had launched into my environment earlier" Zhangshun Shan has his most demeaning smile on. "it's exactly as I said, I had predicted your prediction that predicted my prediction."

As he said that, all the riders of dark on their horses began to fade away, their bodies becoming nothingness.

"I have missed this," Zhangshun Shan smiled as he collapsed to the ground, his body had failed him thanks to the strange abilities of the warriors of dark.   "I, Zhangshun Shan has never lost and will never lose," Zhangshun Shan mutters to himself as he breathes his last.