"Well, you should have felt it right, that there is something barrier like thing stopping you from completely devouring me." Lu Cheng said and continued.
"It is the same for me. That is why I had to think of a method to completely devour you."
"Do you know the first time I saw you I wanted to devour you right that moment. But I had to STOP myself. Do you know how hard it was me to stop myself. But don't worry, now I have already found the method. By devouring you I will be able to reach immortality and will rule for eternity and not just here but on other galaxies also."
"You are truly the best cultivation resource I will have, dear little brother. I am very grateful to you. I hope you can enjoy the remaining 1000 years of your life happily little brother, hahahaha." Then Lu Cheng patted his shoulder while laughing and left.
Zhang Xuan stood there horrified.
'How could I just become his cultivation resource just like this. Did I cultivated for nothing? Didn't I also want to reach supremacy and became the King of Zenor.' thought Zhang Xuan and then he thought that he would try every possible method to stop him but alas that was just his thinking which couldn't become reality and he quickly stopped about thinking of fighting him directly.
Not even talking about their cultivation levels, even if he somehow obtained the help of other Divine God to resist Lu Cheng, which shouldn't be possible, as who would want to die just for him. Not even one god will come to help for his sake. Even if he makes them join his side by lying that Lu Cheng wants to kill other Divine Gods to increase his cultivation or something and all 30 Divine Gods fight against him together whether they win or not, they will not be able to kill him due to The Primal Glory physicue about which he is absolutely sure. They can only buy time.
Zhang Xuan also didn't want to devour Lu Cheng. Althought at first he thought of this but now he didn't. He just wanted to preserve his life. About reaching Divine God level in 1000 years so he can oppose Lu Cheng by himself, that is impossible. Zhang Xuan didn't even thought about this.
Zhang Xuan looked at his internal world where 3 transparent fist sized spheres were placed. Each of them had different coloures. One can see a grim reaper on the bkack one. The white one had a deity with 5 pair of white wings and a sword in hand. On third one there were sun, moon and stars and there were yellow rivers were flowing which seemed to denote time. The material from which the spheres made were unknown.
'I can only place my all hopes on it and can try to find the 4th sphere. Whether it will work or not ...' as Zhang Xuan thought of this he gave a bitter smile and walked out of the Zeron Royal Palace.
At the present moment :-
Currently in front of the Zeron Royal Palace there was a fight going on between Zhang Xuan and legendary gods. During the last 1000 years he spent almost half of time in secluted cultivation and with the help of precious resources he was able to reach half step into the legendary realm.
Even though he used devil pills and resources to forcefully achieve high cultivation, which will result in very harmful side effects, but that mattered not. He only want to save his life now.
During the remaining time he searched nearly the entire Zenor galaxy to find the 4th sphere and finally after 397 years later he found it in one of the forbidden zones of the galaxy. On it there was person who was high above in the sky and the people down were kneeling.
After that he returned to Unolia and talked to the Divine Gods about the matter of Lu Cheng. Of course, he lied to them that Lu Cheng will try to kill them and use them as cultivation resource. When they heard, most of them erupted in rage but then they realized that maybe Zhang Xuan was trying to deceive them and make them and Lu Cheng enemies and have them died. But they soon dispelled that thought, as Zhang Xuan will have no benefit in doing so.
When they asked why was he telling them this, Zhang Xuan revealed the matter about devouring. Of couse, he didn't told everything. He said that after devouring him Lu Cheng would still need more and would use them and for this whole thing Lu Cheng will use the formation which was being build near the palace .
Zhang Xuan knew about this because Lu Cheng himself told him about this. When Zhang Xuan ask him why he told him about this and wasen't he feared that he would try to destroy the formation. To his question, Lu Cheng replied that because he felt very grateful to Zhang Xuan to help him in his breakthrough and even if he want to destroy the formation, can he do it in his prescence? Even though Lu Cheng said that he was greateful to Zhang Xuan for his breakthrough, the smile and look in his eyes told other thing when he saw Zhang Xuan's horrified face.
The other gods had also seen that formation and it seemed to used for gathering energy but it had a lot more gathering power then even divine level spirit gathering formations and and the gathered energy will only be concentrated in the royal palace. At first, they thought that maybe Lu Cheng was using it for his family, not that they cared wherever he used.
When they reached the conclusion there eyes widened in disbelief. They never expected this and indeed this should have the reaction of every person. Because all knew that The Priaml Glory physicue holders have limited lifespan and can never reach imoortality. They thought that after Lu Cheng and Zhang Xuan dies due to their limited lifespan then they will be able to become the king themselves and rule the whole Zenor galaxy.
But now no one thought of becoming king, they only want to stop Lu Cheng and they immediately joined Zhang Xuan. When they asked Zhang Xuan about any methods to stop or defeat Lu Cheng, he just made up a lie and told that he could use the formation to counter attack Lu Cheng.
Of course, many gods didn't believe him but still stopping Lu Cheng was of top priority, they couldn't just stand and watch him making breakthrouh and making their life even more miserable. With this he got the help of all the 30 Divine Gods.
As he was orphan there will be no one to capture to target him except for his friends and he made preparations for his best friends which helped him through many life and death situations and were like his own brothers and hid them so Lu Cheng would find hard to find them. But he also knew it was useless if Lu Cheng decided to kill them. But then there would be no need for Lu Cheng to tell him about anything. He could just capture them and ask him to offer his life.
With everything done he decide to again go secluded cultivation as there was still some time before the formation got completed after which they will attack because they can only use the formation to counter attack against Lu Cheng.
But alas, things happened differently.