Man Against Gods

"So... It seems we will have that battle..." I said to the guy in front of me, he has two swords in his hands, a style rarely see...

That's right I actually have a chance to fight him, when I win this, I will face my princess in finals, since Fen Juechen is sane enough to surrender.

"I never expected in my life to actually face someone like you... your existence showed to me that there much more to our world what meets the eye..." Hearing him I only shrugged my shoulders, and with a hand motion, I summoned my sheathed sword. Ling Yun stiffed for second.

I unsheathed my sword and assumed Sky Sword style.

"That style... it's your style isn't? I saw Princess and Youngest Master of Burning Heaven Clan wield it..." Ling Yun asked that as he assumed his own dual-wielding style.

"The Sky Sword style..." After hearing its name Ling Yun nodded.

The Host Elder lowered his hand.

"Battle begin!"

Ling Yun dashed at me with his own movement technique and started a relentless assault.

*CLANK*CLANK*CLANK*

In a mere few moments over thirty sword exchanges happened.

Both of us separated, Ling Yun narrowed his eyes at me.

"You have not released your cultivation or used any of your flames or sword intent why?" he asked me.

While I touched my shoulder where a cut is from him.

"Hmm... how long it was since I was cut?" I asked absentmindedly.

'Never... I believe... unless before my arrival...' My blonde hug pillow said to me.

"To answer your question Ling Yun, I wanted to see how good you are with the sword, and to my fascination, It seems I need to work harder..." Then air stiffed around arena, Ling Yun started to look around.

Moments later around me four crimson formations appeared, then they stopped spinning and crumbled into nothingness.

Then I released my Cultivation, Ling Yun took a deep breath.

Very next moment I pulled out my second sword, brother weapon to my Tiger Bone Sky Sword.

"You... wield two swords as well!?" Ling Yun eyes widened.

"In this tournament, you only saw around 10% of my full strength Ling Yun!" I assumed the dual-wielding style of Extreme Sky Sword.

"This Is Extreme Sky Sword!, now...round two!" I Vanished and appeared just above Ling Yun, the guy barely had a chance to do raise his defences, When I dropped on him with two swords.

"You are good! I haven't faced anyone with such sword talent like you or your younger sibling!" I was about to overpower him, But he pulled me in forcing me to lose balance then he kicked me to side.

I quickly got back at him, as we started to exchange with simple sword attacks, but as they say 'good things don't last' Ling Yun started slow down, the gap between our cultivation is quite big...

This time I got the chance to send him flying.

"Yun'er!" I looked at Ling Yuefeng who looked with worry at his son.

"I am fine father..." He got back up on his feet, he was taking deep breaths.

"Your stamina is lacking...but I think we should end this..." I close my eyes and started unrestrained channelling of Crimson Gold Manuscript, creating lots, lots of Sword Intent energy around me.

When I opened my eyes Ling Yun stared at me with utter shock and horror.

Then I did I slash motion towards him, sending energy blast made from sword intent shaped like a crescent, it was a cheap imitation of Second Sky technique, after all, I am not here to kill him...

Once the Crescent beam hit him he was sent flying to outside of the arena.

Seeing this Host elder quickly raised his hand.

"Winner by ring out is Jian Feng of Blue Wind Imperial Family!" Hearing that I stored both of my swords, then I looked at my shoulder wound, with quick hand movement I placed accelerated healing Formation...

I could already see antsy looking Cang Yue who has a massive bag of pills in her hands waiting for me.

'Oh boy... I guess a rant is coming my way...' I said with sight.

'You deserve that, for not taking care of yourself.' The Blond girl said with amus.e.m.e.nt.

'Well, I was having fun, and simply forgot that I got hurt.' I said with shrug, the blond girl sighed and said something about idiot males...

Cang Yue little rant lasted for a few moments as next battle was called for.

"Blue Winds Imperial Family's Princess Cang Yue Versus Blue Winds Imperial Family's Fen Juechen!" The Host elder announced loudly.

"This Young Master surrenders!" Fen Juechen said moments later.

Many observers looked weirdly enough at him, as so far Fen Juechen was a monster in the arena.

"This Young Master knows his limits! I can't win against Princess who is trained by my master for over a year!" Fen Juechen admits without any fanfare that he is weaker than Princess, Young Masters rarely do such thing.

The Host elder sighed loudly enough for everyone to hear.

Such thing is probably rarely seen that someone surrenders in semi-finals like this, not to mention it's still early morning...Lots of free time...

~~~~~~Next Day~~~~~~

"Well dear, this is a perfect place for me to show how much I learned from you." Cang Yue said to me as she pulled out her sword.

I did the same thing, both of us assumed Sky Sword stance.

"I won't be holding back just because you are my future husband!" Cang Yue said with a smirk, I chuckled hearing that.

"Then come at me, Yue'er" I motioned her to come at me.

She quickly charged at me with World Shaper movement technique, accompanied with gusts of wind, she appeared right in front of me, with fully charged 'Fourth Sky: Breaking Void' technique.

I quickly Used 'Third Sky: Dance of Stardust' to dodge and attack her from two directions.

The blast from her 'Breaking Void' Blasted into barrier separating observers and arena, the whole thing barely holds it together.

While my own attack Cang Yue was able to dodge with minimal cuts.

"Impressive Yue'er... Dance of Stardust is something even Sky Profound would have a hard time dodging, the wind element really is quite suited for you..." I said while kept observing her.

"I won't be lowering my defences to you, dear..." Princess saw right through my compliment, as she started gathering wind around her blade, then she vanished, and started using zig-zagging like patterns to get closer to me.

I waited for her to get close enough, then I moved to intercept her, coating my sword in sword intent.

Her swing was downwards while my one was upwards.

*CLANG*

The collision generated enough force to shatter a small portion of the arena which in turn raised a cloud of dust, which was quickly blown away by Cang Yue winds.

I was sent skidding back several metres.

"Dear you overestimated yourself there..." Cang Yue said quite proudly, that she was able to get one on me.

"Mhm Indeed Yue'er... I only noticed last second that you layered up your wind on the sword's blade, a smart move..." I checked my sword hand, the blue sleeves of my robes we're utterly shredded, I pulled off remaining scraps of clothing.

"After this is over, Blue Wind Profound Palace going have to upgrade their wardrobes Yue'er... this is utterly crap..." I showed off to Yue'er how easy is to shred their Profound Palace Blue Wind robes.

She only rolled her eyes seeing that.

"We will discuss this once we back in Capital..."

I only shrugged back to her as I started channelling Crimson Gold Manuscript and releasing lots of Sword Intent.

"Now then let's see how you handle little more of my power..." I coated my own sword with much more sword intent than before and dashed at her.

Cang Yue took a deep breath and focused on her wind manipulation to coat her own sword with wind and sword intent.

This time collision was much different as she was pushed back, but she narrowed her eyes and I could hear Howl of Storm Wolf, which followed by much more winds ramming into me now.

She started using her wind to push me back instead of just focusing on collision between swords...

'Ho...she is multitasking now! impressive!' Ying'er snorted at me.

'You are the one who gave a bunch of ideas to her!' I could only shrug, she is right after all.

"Most impressed Yue'er! But it's time for me to win this thing..." I started channelling my Hell-fire Tiger flames alongside my sword intent, immediately overwhelming her.

The force was enough to send her flying, but before anything could have happened I caught her, midair and landed at the edge of the arena.

"Well... my Princess... do you give up?" I asked her, while Cang Yue already forgotten that she was in a fight a few moments ago, as she was snuggling now.

"Doesn't really matter anymore dear, after all, Blue Wind royal family has top 2 spots, and Fen Juechen will fight to get the third one as well..." She said with satisfaction as she was snuggling into me.

"Elder Ling the battle is over..." I said to the referee.

"Very well then." Elder Ling raised his hand.

"Winner of this battle as well as whole Blue Wind Ranking tournament is Jian Feng of Blue Wind Royal Family!" The Elder said with a raised hand.

There was certain bitterness in his voice as well, since, Heavenly Sword Villa will not going to be at top anymore...

People only snapped out from their shock after elder Ling voice rang through the whole stadium.

"This is incredible! How can someone fight like that! They easily could hurt or even kill people above their cultivation levels!" some random elder of some random sect said out loud.

"Truly Earth Shattering finale!" Another one who was more interested in a fight then cultivation stuff said out loud.

Obviously there much more conversations going between the crowd but I tuned it out, instead I was caring my princess back into our seat.

"Since Arena was... partially destroyed, the battle between Fen Juechen and Ling Yun shall happen tomorrow!" The Host Elder said, while showing me a stinking eye for partially blowing up the arena.

Why was he not showing that look when Fen Juechen used his ultimate attack on the WHOLE arena!?

Anyway...

Time to celebrate!!!

~~~~~~Blue Wind Empire~~~~~~

The news of Finals and who won spread out quickly through the whole Empire, from small cities to biggest ones in mere hours.

In just a few moments, Jian Feng became a celebrity...

Everyone started to ask the question who is he? where he came from? So far everyone knew that he was a Formation Master a profession rarely seen in Profound Sky Continent.

This of course was amplified as more details spread, from his incredible Fire manipulation and flames which felt like they came from Profound beasts themselves to his enormous cultivations level of Peak Earth Profound, Which made even neighbouring Empires raise their eyebrows...

And that's what he wanted...

~~~~~~Blue Wind Imperial Capital~~~~~~

A servant quickly rushed into the Throne room of the Emperor himself.

"Your Majesty! My apologies! But you asked to notify the moment the results from finals are in!" The servant quickly said with sweat rolling down his forehead and he was a little bit shaking from fear as there was Throne level cultivator in front of him right now.

"It's alright...we asked him of that..." The Emperor waved his hand.

The Throne level cultivator nodded and then simply disappeared.

The servant was greedily breathing air now as for him it was as if he was holding his breath for a few hours.

"Tell us the good news..." The Emperor said with a massive smirk.

"Of course your Majesty! as predicted first place is Jian Feng and Second place is Princess Cang Yue, while the battle for third place shall start tomorrow." The servant quickly told to the Emperor.

Hearing that the Emperor started laughing loudly.

"HAHAHA! Yue'er really knows how to pick her husband!" Emperor said with a massive smile on his face.

"That's not all... there is a rumour that..." The servant gulped down." That Frozen Beauty of Frozen Cloud Immortal palace agreed to marry Jian Feng!" The Emperor s.u.c.k.e.d cold air hearing that.

"Damn... we need advice from my future son-in-law, how does he do that?" The emperor has assumed 'thinking' position.

While in the shadows newly minted Throne Dongfang Xiu had a look of respect on his face

hearing same new as Emperor.