"HEAVENLY QI RELEASE! SCARLET MOON EXECUTIONER DANCE!", Zen screamed in fear, lashing out towards the monster that just took form before him.

The monster appeared behind Zen, grabbing him by his head.

"Let's take this somewhere a bit more... open.", the monster spoke, jumping out the door, taking Zen to the place where the members of the sect were training.

The monster threw Zen, without the slightest bit of fatigue from travelling such a distance in such a small amount of time. Zen landed what seemed to be 20m away from the monster.

"I'm Abaddon, an angel of the abyss. If you survive this, you might be worth fighting.", Abaddon spoke, two tentacles emerged from his back, each of which seemed to be 2m in length. Zen launched towards the monster yet again, aiming his swords at the tentacles, but before he got close enough to hit him, he was hit with a huge wave of Qi. The Qi shook Zen and the buildings, soon turning the buildings and the forest to rubble. All life except Zen seemed to wither away, the leaves turned black, nothing was left except Abaddon and Zen.

Zen was shook, a pain almost as bad as that time with Hyasu descended upon him, he almost fell to the ground from the pain.

"Holding up quite well, I see. However, will you survive this, or is this your limit?" Abaddon spoke, surprisingly softly. His tentacles elongated to an extreme length, reaching towards Zen.

"FROST FIRE!" Zen screamed in fear, letting all his Kyon loose. The tentacle that grabbed Zen started to melt, and freeze, and melt again, this process kept repeating, again and again.

"AAARGH!" Abaddon shrieked. "THIS POWER... ISN'T QI.. OR MANA.. OR ZHOU?! WHAT IS IT, MORTAL?!", Abaddon screamed at Zen, cutting his tentacle off.

However, Zen couldn't reply, not with all his Kyon loose, if he lost focus even for a second, the tremendous amount of Kyon coming out his body right now would melt him from the inside. He had to end this as soon as possible. He untied the staff tied to his back and got into a stance.

"Frost Flame Tech-

He was hit in his face by Abaddon, his eyes went red, he started bleeding from his gums as well.

"You think I'd let you use that again?" Abaddon said, another tentacle emerged from his back, "Hell Demonic Qi Release; First Circle" he spoke, forming a sword out of thin air.

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Zen tried to create distance, however, Abaddon was far too fast. He caught up in no time.

"Twas' fun, mortal.", within mere moments, he cut Zen's hand left hand off. He went for his neck next, however, Zen blocked Abaddon's sword with his staff.

Zen's staff seemed to melt and freeze at the same time, the air around it went from waving due to extreme heat and becoming like mist due to extreme cold, over and over. Abaddon quickly backed away.

"Using that technique on your staff? Are you sure it won't damage it?" Abaddon asked, in a surprisingly soothing tone. "But then again, what use is a staff when you're dead?", he yapped on, now behind Zen.

'!'

Zen jammed his staff right into Abaddon's abdomen. Abaddon tried to cut Zen's staff, however, he soon realised that his hands had started Freeze Flaming. (This will be used to refer to the phenomena caused by Zen's technique, "Frost Flame")

Abaddon couldn't move his hands, the Freeze Flame, which started from where Zen jammed his staff, had reached up to his neck and almost below his knees, if he didn't try something fast, this would be Abaddon's demise.

He quickly backed away from Zen, creating as much distance as possible.

"True Neutral Zhou.", he spoke under his breath. He formed a Zhou Core in the small amount of time he took to back away from Zen. Using the Neutral-ness of Zhou, he cancelled out the effects from the Freeze Flame.

"Truly terrifying, mortal, I ask for your name." Abaddon said, the effects on his body converging to his abdomen and fading out.

"Sacrificial feet of Hemaliforce!" Zen yelled out loud, within the next moment, he was yet again behind Abaddon.

"So predictable." Abaddon spoke, swinging his sword behind himself, hitting Zen right in his ribs. Zen quickly relocated, disappearing from vision once again.

"Still predictable, mortal, have you no real fighting experience?" Abaddon said, his sword through Zen's chest. He pulled his sword out of Zen's chest, now aiming for Zen's neck.

"You fell for it! Fre-

Zen tried to end the fight with one last hit, throwing Abaddon off-guard with him getting stabbed in his chest, however, Abaddon was far too fast, Zen realised that before he hit Abaddon, Abaddon would slice his neck off, he relocated just in time. Steam came out the wound on Zen's chest, it closed.

"That was... too close..." Zen said to himself, panting.

"Hell Demonic Qi Release; Second Circle" Abaddon said, hundreds upon hundreds of Tentacles came out the now desolate land.

At least 5 of the tentacles reached for Zen, however, he managed to get away quickly.

"ACK!", Abaddon spit out blood. 'Perhaps there weren't enough sacrifices?! This body is... MORTAL?!'

"Flare of Charity, Frost of diligence, lend me your power, for I need to extinguish this demon! FREEZE BURN!" Zen quickly closed the distance between himself and the now in-shock Abaddon, and swung his staff, within the first instant of him swinging the staff, all the tentacles started to writhe in anguish, within the next instant, Abaddon's head burst open.

Abaddon's body jammed the sword right into Zen's neck, the tentacles now held Zen tightly, not allowing Zen to escape.