Lee was probably a cultivator too. The shield emitted Spirit Energy and the way it appeared out of thin air was just like Yel's sword.
Lee smiled at Yel, "I didn't realise I'd make it into the finals."
"You're strong," Yel said. "I'm looking forward to this fight."
Lee smiled painfully, "Yes, but being a tank is so painful. So far I got an arrow through the eye and a bomb exploding inside of me."
"Speak no more," Yel said. "I'm excited."
[Final Match!]
Yel stood a few metres away from Lee casually. He didn't know what a fight with another cultivator would be like.
Yel felt his blade floating beside him. He didn't make it appear; it wasn't the time yet.
Lee, however, held his Spirit shield in front of him. He posed for heavy defence, ignoring offence. Lee mentioned for Yel to begin.
Yel nodded. He decided to test Lee's defence first.
Yel sprinted toward Lee and jumped, launching his leg into a sidekick at Lee's shield. He gathered spirit energy into his leg to protect it from the reflective blow from the shield, but also to increase the power of the kick.
Dong!
Lee stumbled a few steps back and Yel flew backwards like a kite. Yel didn't die, but his entire leg was numb.
Yel directed some Spirit Energy into his leg to subside the pain.
"Use a weapon!" Lee called.
Yel took a deep breath and used [Blessing of the Wind] on his sword. Yel couldn't visually see it as it was still hidden, but he felt the increase of wind energy on the blade.
Yel closed his eyes and gathered the wind around him. He absorbed it into his body and sprinted again.
Lee felt danger. He pushed his shield away and dashed back. He extended his hand and made an uplift motion. The earth turned up and formed into rock walls, evenly distributed in front of Lee.
Lee collapsed after the overuse of Spirit Energy and took out his other shield. He weakly placed himself behind it.
Yel sprinted towards the shield that was flying towards him. He gripped his sword in backhand position and slashed.
SHUANGGG!
[Winner of Finals: Lee!]
No one knew exactly what happened except Lee and Yel. What everyone else saw was that in an instant, Yel flew back, landing metres away while spitting out blood, Lee's layers of earth shields dissipated and Lee's old shield crumbled. His Xuan Wu shield was nowhere to be seen.
"YAY I KNEW YOU CAN DO IT!" Rin screamed.
Lee stood up and shook his head, "I barely survived. It didn't even count as a win."
Lee knew what had happened. Yel had sliced into his shield and instantly vaporised it. If the slice had 100% energy, then the shield took away only 1% of the energy. However, the unique passive still reflected most of the damage back to Yel.
It then broke through every single earth barrier and, with no decrease in energy, it struck Lee's shield, crumbling it to pieces.
Lee saw it slicing towards his face, but then it disappeared. It wasn't because it was out of energy, but it was because it had gone out of the maximum range of the skill.
Yel stood up too.
[Skill "Wind Slash" unlocked]
[Wind Slash Lv1 (500/1000)]: Gather the power of the Wind and release a powerful slash, dealing (10xInputted SE) Wind Damage. Range: 5 metres. Cost: Dependent on the user.
Yel shook his head at Lee, "No, I lost because I miscalculated the range of my skill."
Yel bowed to Lee, "You're the party leader."
"Ha loser," Rin said. "So confident at the start and now lost."
"No Rin," Lee said and then turned to Yel. "Yel, then as the party leader, I pass the role of party leader to you."
Lee turned to face everyone, "Yel is the strongest here. If he had more experience with his skill, I would have been sliced into halves."
"Any objections?" Lee shouted. "Yel, you are the new party leader!"
"Woohoo go Qiulin!" Yang cheered along with Yin and Wu.
Jill clapped and smiled at Yel.
Rin was sulking at the back of the crowd.
"Ok," Yel said proudly. "Then let's form the party."
[Party: "Schrödinger" successfully created. Members: Fan (Leader), potati (Vice-Leader), Heng, KimJungLei, hotChunHeiWu, Cheng, Tairitsu, Hikari, Annihilation, Wrosidity.]