Boom! Boom! Krrr!!!
In Dwarves colony the battle was at its climax. Armored shadow giant Jiao stood tall and fought with the giant tree Plant King. Intense flames burned everywhere and explosions kept occurring. In the sky there was a beautiful woman in shiny black knight armor. She was attacking Jiao and helping Plant King as the latter seemed to be in miserable state. Large amounts of branches and wood was chopped down as Jiao hacked at Plant King with a huge black axe. The woman in knight armor soared up and attacked again. She was Princess Alexia.
"Hellfire!" Alexia roared and immediately large amounts of fire enveloped the entire Dwarves colony, burning everything into cinders.
Plant King's tree body was continuously secreting resins which stopped the flames from burning him. Lan was immune to fire due to her unique skin which she could harden, thanks to her earth element constitution. Wind was immune too and in a knight armor. Xiao was nowhere to be seen. She had seemingly taken cover somewhere.
"Emperor pull!" Jiao roared and immediately Alexia was pulled into his grasp. Jiao began to squeeze her just how he had done with Wind. Immediately large vines and branches coiled around his huge hands, stopping him from killing Alexia.
Boom! Suddenly a huge explosion tossed Jiao away. He fell on the flaring ground creating a crater under his giant body. His palms opened during this and Alexia flew away. She glared at Jiao.
Clang! Suddenly something struck her hips. She quickly turned to find Wind standing behind her. He had spanked her huge hips, the shape of which was profoundly clear as her black knight armor was skin-tight.
"Hey there." Wind smirked.
"Wind!" Alexia exclaimed and hugged him tightly. "You are alright! I'm so glad! You had me worried!"
Wind chuckled lightly and smiled, patting Alexia's helmet.
"Thank you for worrying and for coming to my aid." Wind said.
"Of course. Though I am pretty sure I had told you to wait for me when you go to battle." Alexia narrowed her eyes grudgingly.
"Sorry, I was already too late. I had no time to inform you." Wind clarified.
"Humph!" Alexia snorted and turned to look at Jiao who was once again fighting with Plant King.
Plant King's huge branches coiled around Jiao and squeezed him tight, pinning him on the ground.
Bwoosh!! Heaven and earth forces erupted, all sorts of attacks were manifested and injured Plant King but he didn't retreat. Plant King was betting his all in this last battle.
"My technique is ineffective on him." Alexia said frowning.
"Yes." Wind said. "But I see that you're at level 2 Sage realm now. Use the earthworm technique to continuously disturb Jiao. I'll attack from above. Cooperate with Lan."
"But I want to fight alongside you!" Alexia pouted.
"This is no time to be cute. Things are going to get too intense up here." Wind said and patted Alexia. She mumbled something and flew down, entering the ground with Lan.
Boom! The ground split open and Jiao fell into a huge pit which then tightened around him. He was stuck once again. There was a huge tree pinning him down from above too.
"Screw this!" Jiao cursed and quickly returned to his normal human body, rapidly escaping from the gaps between the branches and flew away. Once out he revved up his chi and used his shadow element.
"Devourer shadow!" He struck with his trump card. Large waves of shadows erupted and engulfed Plant King, devouring him rapidly.
Swoosh! Suddenly the shadows disappeared!
"You…son of a bitch!" Jiao cursed as he saw Wind floating above Plant King. The latter quickly took a human form. His chi was all expended and he had taken great damage. Devourer shadow had harmed him to some extent too before Wind came to his rescue.
"Restore." Wind uttered as he patted Plant King's shoulder restoring him to peak form again.
"Round two… motherfucker." Wind cursed Jiao and immediately flew over.
Boom! Boom! Boom! The two tangled in another round of furious close combat. Punches and kicks flew about. This time Wind used the Perfect Body combat moves! They were astounding and very effective. Jiao despite his plethora of combat techniques' knowledge, took several hits and was forced to be on the defensive.
Boom! Boom! They frequently collided into walls and roofs. Underneath them the central hub had long been destroyed and buried under rubble. Dwarves colony was now unrecognizable.
"Shadow spear!"
"Chaos spear!"
"Shadow armor!"
"Chaos lightning burst!"
"Emperor shadow ripper!"
Wind and Jiao exchanged several moves and even combination of theirs. These moves were all fueled by heaven and earth forces, making their impact very destructive.
Under the ground Alexia was stunned looking at this display of power. She realized that Wind was indeed not lying when he said things will get too intense up there.
"How is Wind so powerful?!" Alexia asked Lan.
"I don't know. I thought you'd know." Lan replied equally perplexed.
"Duplicates!" Jiao suddenly shouted and under the effect of heaven and earth forces hundreds of Jiao took form! They were all at level 2 Sage realm. One man just turned into an army!
A spatial ring inside Wind's gauntlet glowed in green light and immediately thousands of goblins and dozens of orcs were sumoned!
With loud battle cries the two armies collided! The goblins were cannon fodders as they had little battle strength but they were good at working together and caused much distraction to Jiao clones. The orks ganged up on the duplicates and started to dominate them. But in terms of battle prowess, Jiao duplicates still had the upper hand. However not all of them tangled with the goblin and orc army; instead two dozen of them surrounded Wind up in the air.
"Hmph!" Wind snorted and took a stance.
"Crippling saw chain!"
"Blood axe tornado!"
"Searing flare!"
The Jiao clones hurled all sorts of ranged attacks on Wind.
Chaos burst!
Boom! All the attacks were deflected or destroyed. The might of heaven and earth forces was too strong! These clones and even their empyrean grade techniques were no match to Wind.
Swoosh! Wind moved speedily as lightning crackled around him. He had only a few lightning element traits left in him now. He decided to expend them to finish off the enemies rapidly. Explosions occurred as Wind moved around swiftly using the Lighting Thunder technique and Chaos technique. Duplicates fell down like dead birds and were stampeded upon by the warring armies on the ground.
Wind's eyes locked onto the real Jiao who had hidden himself in the warring battalions.
"Hmph preparing some trump card move huh?" Wind thought and flew down like an arrow. Then he stopped abruptly and so did everyone and everything! Perpetual darkness had filled everyone's vision. They were awake and their eyes were open but they couldn't move or see or even feel their bodies.
"This…isn't this similar to that black void that Shadow God had dragged me into?" Wind thought.
Everything seemed to have paused in a trance. Wind was still able to see things though, due to his third eye. He saw Jiao slowly floating up with a fatigued expression. Without a doubt, this move had exhausted him greatly. Wind analyzed the situation. Currently he and everyone else was surrounded by shadow element. It was in solid form. To fill up almost the entire large Dwarves colony with shadow element was no joke. Jiao had outdone himself! As much heaven and earth forces he could conjure, he did and converted it all into shadow element to trap everyone in it. It was simple and yet effective. It was like everyone was trapped inside a solid wall made of an indestructible metal. They weren't even able to breathe!
Time was ticking by. Jiao soon reached in front of Wind. By now Wind had already achieved small success at freeing himself. The shadow element surrounding him had turned into liquid form but it only provided Wind enough room to wiggle about. He wasn't free and definitely could not escape, nor wield a weapon. Wind dared not use the Chaos technique at this juncture as most of the chaos would be deflected back at him by the solid shadow element and harm him greatly.
"Fuck…I only need few minutes to melt and siphon off this shadow element around me." Wind cursed in his mind furrowing his eyebrows.
Meanwhile Jiao was using similar approach to travel. The shadow element turned liquid around him as he moved ahead and solidified again behind him.
Then Jiao summoned a new weapon from his spatial ring. It was a fauchard, completely black in color. Jiao's gaze shone with a ruthless glint as he pushed forward and pierced directly through Winds knight armor and stabbed into his heart.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Jiao stabbed again and again using his full force to even cut through the knight armor and punctured all of Wind's vital organs. Wind coughed out blood as his body shook. He couldn't believe that he was at death's door, dying in such a helpless condition.
"Die…" Jiao growled and cleaved at Wind's neck, beheading him!
Wind's sight turned dark as his consciousness faded. His heart stopped too. He was as dead as one could be. Only after confirming this did Jiao cancel his technique and all the shadow element was sucked back into his body, strengthening him. But even so, Jiao was mentally exhausted. This had been the toughest battle of his life. But he finally emerged victorious.
"Wind!!" Everyone shouted together as they became free and witnessed the horror that happened. Wind was dead. His corpse fell down from up high and fell into a gap between the debris on the ground. His head bounced around and disappeared in the debris too.
"Nooo!!!!" Alexia screamed and emerged from the ground flying directly towards Jiao imposingly. Blazing flames erupted from her body as she attacked Jiao with all her might crazily.
"Humph!" Jiao snorted, attacking fire with fire and toyed with Alexia as she closed in.
Krrrr!!!! A huge tree grew rapidly. Plant King had transformed again and his large branches and vines attacked Jiao too while looking out for Alexia. Several fruits bloomed on his body and treemen were born from them, running on the huge tree's branches and jumping on Jiao to attack him. On the ground the goblins and orks went on a frenzy but were actually getting slaughtered speedily by the Jiao clones.
Rumble! A huge mountain began to emerge from the ground. Countless rocky spears leapt into the sky, attacking Jiao clones and Jiao himself while also killing dozens of goblins and orks in the process.
"Wind… oh wind!" Lan wept profusely. Her nose bled as she went all out. Everyone had decided to die fighting and take Jiao down with them if possible. Wind was too dear to them! Even Plant King had long since taken a liking to Wind and saw him as comrade.
Boom! Boom! Loud explosions occurred. The huge tree was set on fire. Dead burning treemen rained down from the sky. Alexia was tossed around casually by Jiao but she kept coming back to attack him. The mountain of doom also struck Jiao but he contended against it with sheer power. A giant black hand formed with Jiao at its centre and pressed down on the mountain of doom, pushing it down. None of the stone spears even reached Jiao. He was fighting Wind's remaining allies easily.
The battle continued for a few minutes before Jiao had had enough fun. He struck Alexia down ruthlessly with his fauchard. It pierced through her knight armor and stabbed into her stomach before throwing her down on the ground. Alexia coughed a mouthful of blood as she wriggled on the ground in agony. Her chi was exhausted. Even her perfect body was pierced through.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Explosions occurred as Jiao seriously fought Plant King. Branches fell down. The wood burnt and no matter how much regenerative power Plant King had, he simply couldn't keep it up forever. Several minutes later he stopped attacking or defending. His huge tree body simply burnt and started to turn into coal and ash. He was at his last few breaths.
Boom! The mountain of doom was finally pressed back down into the ground. Underneath it, Lan bled from all orifices and fainted.
Puchi! A hand suddenly pierced through Jiao's back. His eyes widened at this sudden attack which he had failed to see through. An invisible figure slowly turned visible.
"You…!" Jiao exclaimed as he turned his neck to glare at this ambusher. This person was none other than Wind!!
"Chaos detonation." Wind uttered.
BOOM!!! A deafening explosion occurred and massive amounts of chaotic vibrations blew everything and everyone to smithereens. Wind had self destructed using a suicidal move of Chaos technique, amplified by massive amounts of heaven and earth forces. He was the first one to die. Next was Jiao, then Plant King and everyone on the ground- the Jiao duplicates, orks and goblins.
Silence prevailed in the Dwarves colony for a while. A figure emerged from the ground. This was Alexia. She had managed to pull out the fauchard when suddenly she was pulled into the ground and was shaken from the massive explosion that occurred above. When Alexia came out, everything had been obliterated. A thick burnt tree stump was emitting smoke not far from her. There were still lingering vibrations in the entire Dwarves colony.
Clank! Alexia took off her helmet and let it fall down.
"Wind?" she uttered. She could feel it in her heart that Wind was still around near her somewhere.
Swoosh! Splash! Water droplets emerged in the sky quickly forming a water body which then solidified into a human shaped body and took form of Wind. Steam gushed out from his body then solidified, taking form of Xiao.
"Wind!" Alexia shouted and flew up rapidly.
"Alexia…" Wind smiled flying down and they met half way, hugging one another while floating in the air.
"You're alive! Thanks heavens you're still alive!" Alexia cried from joy.
"Mmm!" Wind nodded. "All thanks to Xiao. She had fused her body with me earlier. That is how I was able to share her water element traits and remained alive even after getting beheaded by Jiao and later after self-detonating." Wind smiled and explained. "I even borrowed her magic all this while, casting an invisibility spell to catch Jiao off-guard. This was truly a close shave though."
"Jiao… is he?" Alexia frowned and scouted around her.
"He's dead at long last." Wind sighed and smiled. He had a third eye which could see through everything. There was no trace of Jiao left in the vicinity. He was dead and atomized.
"Good riddance!" Alexia exclaimed and hugged Wind's neck.
Wind sighed and smiled looking up and thought of several things.
"Father…granny Misa, Ken…everyone…! I've avenged you! " Tears trickled down Wind's cheek before he sighed in content. He had finally taken revenge. He felt overwhelmed and oddly exhausted.
Soon afterwards, Alexia dug out Lan who was then restored to peak condition by Wind. Xiao restored Plant King and hugged him tight, not letting go at all. She was both happy and sad. This had been one hell of a battle and they had lost many precious people.
Using the Potter technique, Wind dug out a small root from the ground. This was what had remained of Qiang. Wind used restore spell but it didn't work. Unlike Plant King, Qiang had been dead for a long while. Everyone gathered around the root and mourned as Wind buried it back in the ground, using Potter technique to create a grave mound for Qiang.
As for Aerin, she appeared out of nowhere magically. She had actually been stowed away in Jiao's spatial ring earlier. But when Wind self destructed, the ring was destroyed along with Jiao. But since it contained an independent space inside it where the explosion couldn't reach, Aerin and other contents of the ring remained unhurt. But after the ring's destruction they were simply kicked out into the real world. Xiao restored Aerin's mind and they all smiled awkwardly when Aerin wailed loudly, clinging to Wind.
They then left the Dwarves colony once the children returned from the underground tunnels with Huian.
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After reaching the surface, Wind's group launched an attack on the empyrean palace of the Ji empire after announcing Jiao's death and Wind finally took over the throne, becoming Emperor Wind and changed the name of Ji empire back to Mizu empire in honor of formerly great emperor, his original father.
All of Jiao's followers were either killed off or surrendered, forming cursed contracts of loyalty with Wind. A wave of bloodshed and restoration flowed throughout the empire. Those related to Jiao were killed directly; but those who surrendered, were spared. Wind formed a new lineage of nobles. All the teenagers and children of his group became these new nobles and headed out to different states, taking control there. Huian was made the lord of independent Ember state where she ruled in place of her lover Ken and cherished the fond memories she had once shared with him.
After a month, Wind officially married Alexia. It was a grand celebration and everyone rejoiced. Alexia became the empress of Mizu empire. She and Wind lived happily together afterwards. But of course Wind also had several concubines. These included Aerin who was bonded to Wind and loved him unconditionally. Lan too. She was now a widow as Qiang had died but Wind supported her and as the two of them had shared an intimate sexual relationship in the past, Lan became Wind's concubine and lived with him. Aisling, like her mother Xiao became a nymphomaniac and indulged in adultery in the state where she was ruling as the Lord. Her cultivation however did not stop and her mastery on magic spells only increased with time. Jade became lord of Carny & Kol states as Mizu empire annexed them and sent people to inhabit the lands. Wind summoned Anasta, Saiyu's sister and officially made her his concubine & finally took responsibility for their child.
As for Chiyo, she returned to Kazetown with over 50 prostitutes which were earlier freed by Wind. Chiyo took control of the town's brothel as its new head and since her beauty was top notch and she herself was quite famous both as an ex-city lord and a public prostitute; she and her brothel became very popular. Iori on the other hand married Roseling and ruled kazetown peacefully. He had no greed in him and thus didn't want to rule over an entire state. As such, he turned out to be a fine young man with whom Roseling was happy and satisfied.
Alexia wasn't as shy as before and like Wind, she also had many male concubines. She dual cultivated with them using Ian technique and Nine Pagoda technique for the sake of cultivation only. Unlike Wind, she wasn't emotionally attached to other partners.
Xiao and Plant King left for an adventure. Apparently Plant King had some sort of a mysterious past and he wanted to introduce Xiao to it. They left for an indefinite period of time.
Xiao's daughters Agni and Nira though princesses, remained hopeless in cultivation and simply enjoyed lives as nobles indulging in pleasure and fun. They summoned Shatou over as in their memory this man had dominated them perfectly & they had enjoyed it too. Shatou obviously got lucky. Not only did he not get punished for his crimes of plotting against Xiao and raping her daughters; he actually even led a noble life, indulging with the two princesses and eventually married them for sake of consolidating his position. Wind paid no heed to either of the three and let them have their fun.
Wind soon restored the Order of Chaos and invited the remaining old members of the order over. The Order of Chaos had been basically obliterated by Wu Shang in the past but there were still many members of it alive and in hiding. They were all nuns who worshipped God Chaos. Wind and Aerin personally took in several new nuns and trained them before sending them out to reestablish chaos halls all over the kingdom and then the world. Wind had improved relations with the neighboring states and countries and since Order of Chaos was a religious group that only existed to fight beasts and protect humanity, no country had an objection to them building chaos halls in their lands.
Within just a few months, an era of peace and tranquility descended upon the Mizu empire. Wind ruled as a righteous emperor just how his father Mizu had once ruled.
There were still some things that bugged Wind, such as the mysterious backer that Maya had mentioned when she threatened Wind and others in the Dwarves colony. She had also made pacts with goblins, orcs and who knows which other beast groups. Wind investigated the matter but found little to no clues. Maya's group was annihilated already anyway so he didn't worry too much.
Then there was the matter with Shadow God who was seemingly unaware that his minion Jiao had been killed by Wind. Wind would still need to follow through his deal with Shadow God and help him in his plans against the Elf Goddess Myra unless he could find a way of breaking the shadow seal inside his dantian. But for the time being, he intended to make use of Shadow God's aid in breaking through to God realm someday. As for the matters regarding Gods…that was all for the future; a tale for another time…