<3rd POV>
"Paul" Bai growled.
Paul simply grinned "Did you enjoy this farce?"
"Farce?" asked Bai suspiciously.
"Of course!" Paul opened his arms wide "All these fights are nothing more than a farce, a creation from your sword. It creates multiple entities who focus on different areas, becoming stronger and even aging their own based spirit ring, only to finish by you absorbing them all, gaining all their progress barely being affected by them"
"It's a death fight, Paul. If I were to lose, they could take me, and even I need to fight you"
Paul laughed "How could you lose? It's all in your favor, the more subservient ones, the one more familiar to you appeared first, letting themselves being absorbed. Once you have some spirit skills, you finally fight the others who even when they try to put a fight, they are in a clear disadvantage, facing someone that already have the others"
"In my case?" Paul paused a moment "It's even worst! I am only being used as another one to increase your strength. Do you know how this farce should have finished?!" he shouted "You would have won over all the other personalities, even of your own 7th spirit ring. I am lucky enough o have control over the Oreo spirit, but I would find myself with a food spirit facing a powered up you even capable of using your Spirit Avatar. Not only that, but the ability to affect this space is also done by the spirit ring influence, so even you will have the ground advantage. How could I win against all this?"
Bai listening Paul recognized that he was telling the truth, all the previous battles weren't difficult if he would have decided to go all out, they would have become very simple.
"However" Paul coldly said "All my work paid off. Not only I strengthened me, I even took control of one of your spirit rings. With this, you're not the only one that can change the terrain"
The ground started trembling, ripples surging from the blood river. Quickly, the surroundings started changing, black trees and vegetation grew, the blood was absorbed by the ground and a white river appeared. The surrounding became the familiar black and white world of the Oreo.
"And it's even greater!" Paul said grinning "Your Spirit Avatar was obtained thanks to our cooperation, without both of us together, it's completely blocked. I don't know if you realized, but we are unable to repeat the All Sword, we could only complete working together. It's a pity, but it goes well for myself, I will win over you, absorb you and obtain your strength"
"I prepared myself for this moment!" Black aura exploded from Paul. Paul swung lightly his black Nine Treasure Sword shooting a blade of dark aura to Bai.
Bai seemed nervous, he lifted his sword, white aura covering it, and guarded Paul's attack. White and Black aura seemed to fight between each, corroding the other. Even when Bai could resist the attack, the aura of his sword dimmed a little and he received the strength of the attack, being pushed 5 meters.
"Paul, stop!" shouted Bai "I have another plan". Paul answered lifting one eyebrow, but let him talk.
"Since the first day that I knew of your existence, I thought about it. You have suffered a lot, being caged all these years and having a bad past life. We fight together, even helping me protect my loved ones. I might have been a pitiful boy who blamed all my faults to you, but they were mine. The truth is that you had never done anything especially wrong against me" White aura exploded from Bai as he pointed his sword to Paul "I am not the weak weak crying boy of before. Even with all your plans, I can fight!"
The surroundings around Bai started changing, the ground disappeared and was replaced by a nine-colored space, with a glass feeling, a representation of a 9 Treasure Sword Pagoda.
Bai's white aura and Paul's black aura clashed at the same time as the world of both of them crashed. Spark shot from their crash, continuous thunderous sounds were listened, with little explosions occurring, each side trying to win against the other, causing an unstable equilibrium, creating an apparent draw.
"If you choose to fight, know that I will fight!" Bai said "It won't be so easy for you to win. However, I don't want to fight, there is another possibility"
"What are you thinking?" asked a little curious.
"If we work together, I think that we could finish this trail, leaving both of us as always"
"Your idea is to keep it like nothing while I am caged?" Paul said with contempt.
"No!" Bai negated "I learned to respect you, and you have the same right as me to live. I think it's possible for us to live at the same time in different bodies. My 5th skill is a manifestation of my comprehension, if we obtain some materials like immortal herb, it would be able to create another body for you or even I to habit. I already talked with Lingling and the spirit beast, and there's a big probability to accomplish it, if we can upgrade my 5th skill to 100.000 years, it would be 100% truth"
"So your idea, is that we live together, trying to create another body to finally live like two different beings?"
"Yes, I know you. You wouldn't have accepted working with someone weak, I trained so hard to be able to face you. Now that we are on equal grounds, I ask you to accept my proposition. It won't take much time until we could become two different people, I don't mind changing time to time who controls the body until then" Bai withdrew his sword, he lifted his right arm, extending his hand "Would you work with me?"