The God of Cataka

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Unprepared enough, Xie Ma gasped and soared onto his mount, reflexively repelling Shen Zhu's attack with his magic wand.

The spectators gasp. Didn't expect a fortune teller to be able to keep up with a knight.

Shen Zhu smiled faintly. "I thought you weren't as gentle as you looked!" shen Zhu muttered among the rumbles created from the fusion of their auras.

Xiao Mao soared towards Xie Ma from the other side while swinging his claws.

Xie Ma's mount stuck one foot onto the floor, then catapulted his body into the air, and flew around dodging Xiao Mao's lunge, then dived sharply at Shen Zhu.

Xie Ma swung his staff again, throwing out a sickle-shaped light energy.

THE GLAAAARRR!

Shen Zhu managed to fend it off with a flick of his sword, then soared and flew flying through the air.

A SLAAASSSH!

Xie Ma's mount darted towards Xiao Mao, raising his front two legs, preparing to oppress the little cat.

Xiao Mao rolled and wriggled on the floor like he was being tickled. Then catch the deer's legs with its two front legs and stick its claws.

The deer jerked and fell to its knees with both front legs bent.

Xie Ma suffocated and catapulted his body into the air and landed in the stance of the horses.

Xiao Mao stood in front of him with his back curved. Its feathers spread blood-red flames.

Shen Zhu landed behind Xiao Mao in the stance while raising his sword at the side of his face. "Sister," he said in a persuasive tone. "Don't disappoint me. I've taken out my fellow monsters and used a sword. The crowd offered a huge reward to any participant that could make me pull out a sword or take out my monster comrades. Isn't this an honor to you?"

"Where did you inherit your big mouth?" grunt Xie Ma as he set one foot on the floor. And instantly, his body shimmered and gave rise to many figures similar to him.

The audience was flabbergasted at the same time.

"Contractors can do that?" pekik Tjia Qianxi, the masculine girl, the Champion Path participant of the boxing school.

"Why not?" Jyang Ryu smiled widely. "Some forecasters rule the Zodiac Figure."

"Zodiac Figure?" The other Champion Path participants were curious.

"The reflection figures are a manifestation of the twelve Zodiac Figures" explained Jyang Ryu. "Each figure carries his own destiny."

Shen Zhu smiled widely. "You're finally starting to look like Mom" she said.

"Then I represent Mother to teach you!" yelled Xie Ma as he lunged towards Shen Zhu, who automatically made the other figures of him come crashing along.

Shen Zhu finally gasped and looked a little panicked as the party flew around in circles besieging himself indistinguishably again. Which one is real? he thought he lost a little bit of focus.

The first figure stretched the bow and slid its arrow towards Shen Zhu.

Shen Zhu flicked his body backwards in a kayang position.

The other Xie Ma darted towards him while splashing water from inside the urn. A transparent blue-colored dragon wriggled out from within the urn and charged towards Shen Zhu.

Xiao Mao darted faster as he swung his claws throwing dome-shaped light energy to fend off the dragon's attack.

The third Xie Ma soared towards them, swinging a pair of sickle-shaped swords in a twisting motion in the air.

From above, another Xie Ma figure swooped down as he rained down the spear.

All around him, the other Xie Ma figures were already preparing with magic formations that took out the heads of lions, bulls, macara goats and so on.

The spectators froze with their eyes and mouths round.

"How will he deal with it now?" muttered someone.

"That great number of Seven-seven, seems like it will just stop here!" comments of an official.

Bao Hu glanced past his shoulder.

"True," said an elder from another sect.

Bao Yun's turn was now twisting towards the elder.

"The Zodiac Figure Manifestation is a power level doubling technique," said the sect elder. "Whatever great knight talent, fighting against thirteen figures with a strength level of ten alone is already equivalent to a hundred and thirty level knight!"

"This is the first time Number Seven-seven has looked unsettled" the other elder said. "It seems. from the beginning he already knew the astrologer's hidden ability!"

"The fortune teller who can control the Zodiac Figure, has at least reached the realm of the galaxy!" one of the jurors.

"Then that Number Seven-seven is really unlucky!" other jury's chimps.

Simultaneously, the arena floor exploded by a tinge of colorful bright light.

Shen Zhu's body exploded emitting an aurora-like glow.

The spectators were suffocating and holding their breath.

"What's going on?" They're wondering.

The thirteen figures of Xie Ma flinched and scattered swept out in that blinding light.

Seconds later…

YOAAARRRR!

The arena shook and shook.

The knights around the arena were dragged backwards with their knees bent, both of their hands stretched out before their faces trembling, resisting the powerful impulse that almost blew up the realm they were making.

Shen Zhu suddenly appeared above the arena with his little cat already perched on his shoulder.

The audience muttered simultaneously.

Xie Ma gasped and looked up with eyes and mouth rounded.

"He used teleportation to escape!" Some people realize.

"It's not that simple" the Emperor muttered with a frown. "I feel like there's an accumulation of momentum."

"Yes!" timpal the Alliance Chairman. "Just there's something strange about the boy's accumulated momentum."

"Great Unity!" yell out a jury.

"Great Unification?" the officials were flabbergasted.

The Great Unification was the highest spiritual science technique in the knightly world. Symmetry-breaking techniques are like blowing yourself up to avoid an attack. This kind of science possessed only a few spiritual masters with light elements in the heavenly realm.

All eyes on the row of sect head benches simultaneously rolled towards Bao Hu.

"Don't glare at me," snorted Bao Hu. "I've hardly glanced at him in years" he confessed. "I don't know how it's going!"

The Alliance leader smiled wryly. The boy looked weak when taken, he recalled bitterly. The owners of this sect scrambled to reject him. Even the Sea of Elements, heirlooms and sacred books rejected it as well. Whatdoes thatmean?

At the same time, the arena again churned out.

Thirteen figures of Xie Ma had already lunged back here and there while his sister slammed back and there, swinging the sword as she swept the twisting kicks in the air in succession, to ward off any attacks.

BOOM!

BOOM!

YOAAARRRR!

YOAAARRRR!

The arena was blown away by a burst of light and thunderbolts.

The little cat Shen Zhu blinked and moved about in an instant while swinging his claws. His every movement created a tinge of light here and there.

The figures of Xie Ma were thrown here and there in a flash of lightning.

So fast that Shen Zhu looked like more than one.

The spectators gasped with their eyes and mouths round. Unconsciously holding his breath.

Shortly thereafter…

BUUUUUUMMMM!

The thundering hall was swept away by an immeasurably violent explosion.

The thirteen figures of Xie Ma were plunged and scattered half-buried on the floor of the arena that had exploded.

The original Xie Ma slumped on the floor in a crammed sitting position. Both of his shoulders hung limp on his sides. "Finally you look like Dad" he said gasping.