Li Wei has a furious expression on his face. The forest is filled with fog, creating an eery and suspensful mood.

Li Wei's aura grows to it's max. He swiftly punches Shogun, but his knuckle is nearly broken on Shogun's steel armor. Shogun laughs and kicks Li Wei to the ground. Li Wei stands up and grins cockily.

Shogun dashes toward Li Wei like a hulk. Li Wei jumps in the air and dodges, taking advantage of Shogun' speed, which is brought down by the heavy armor. Li Wei spins and kicks Shogun in the head. The ground below Shogun cracks, but Shogun only smiles.

Li Wei lands on the ground and chain punches Shogun repeatedly, though Shogun is not being affected at all. Shogun laughs arrogantly in Li Wei's face. Li Wei tries to hit Shogun with an acrobatic kick to the head, but Shogun blocks. He grits his teeth and tosses Li Wei into the air.

"HEIHU: ART OF THE WIND AND THUNDER GOD!!" Li Wei thrusts his palm toward Shogun. The black tiger spirit launches toward Shogun and crashes into him. A giant explosion ensues, turning the environment near Li Wei into ruins.

Smoke engulfs Shogun's body. When the smoke clears, Shogun is seen with barely any cracks in his armor. "This is the power of an SSS Rank Beast Spirit!"

Xue Lian's rage takes the best of her. She enters the battle with a surprise kick to Shogun's neck. She leaps back and conjures a water dragon and tries to assault Shogun, but Shogun grabs the water dragon and defuses the attack.

Xue Lian and Li Wei fight Shogun at the same time. Shogun easily blocks them. Xue Lian and Li Wei are extremely acrobatic, but Shogun is very stiff.

"This is kinda fun!! I haven't felt a rush like this in years!!" Shogun exclaims. He is easily overpowering the Shinobi, even with a lesser speed. His strength, skill, and instincts are unimaginable.

Xue Lian is enraged. She feels hopeless. And weak. How could she let her sisters killer play with her like a toy?! She grits her teeth, and her eyes are strained. A single tear runs down her cheek. She thinks to herself...

I can't be weak.

I refuse to be weak.

I am not weak.

I WILL NOT ALLOW MYSELF TO BE WEAK!!!!

Xue Lian's pupils dialate. She finds a new fire in her, and she lets it out. She punches Shogun at her absolute limits, and cracks his armor. The crack is pretty small, but still very impressive. Even Shogun is surprised at Xue Lian's sudden growth of power.

Xue Lian enters her subconsious for a split second. When she returns, she grins. "I'll show you the power of Shuisha. Mystic Class. SS Rank!"

Li Wei is as surprised as Shogun. SS Rank?! T-that's comparable to Commander Dai Wen!! How can she be so strong?!" Li Wei thinks to himself. He's proud that Xue Lian was able to break her limits, but still envious.

The battle continues. Xue Lian, even with her new power, is no match for Shogun. Li Wei's acrobatic strikes, and Xue Lian's water elemental attacks are easily blocked by Shogun's steel armor.

"Shogun... I'll end this here and now!! Art of the Sea and Rain Gods Working Together!!" Mei Lian announces. She discharges discharges energy into the sky, creating rainclouds. A stream of water coated with lightning crashes down on Shogun. This causes a giant explosion around Shogun, which leaves his body covered in smoke.

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Shogun's body is revealed amongst the disappearing smoke. Large cracks cover Shogun's steel armor. "Damn, that was a pretty powerful attack. I might have to finally get serious!"

Li Wei and Xue Lian are filled with anxiety. He hasn't been fighting serious? How strong is this guy...?

Behind Shogun, Dai Wen appears. He gets into a fighting stance. "Sorry I'm late, guys. I had no idea where you guys where... I'll hold him off. You guys get to safety."

Li Wei and Xue Lian nod. They take Mei Lian's dead body and run away.

Shogun stares at Dai Wen. He calms down, conflicted. Dai Wen smiles. "I'm sorry Shogun -- But I won't let any more people die."

Shogun wipes sweat from his forehead. "Dai Wen..."

Dai Wen's body is lit with a fiery aura. He knows he doesn't want to hurt Shogun -- and Shogun doesn't want to hurt him -- but he can't let Shogun kill more of his friends.

Dai Wen takes off his robe's top, revealing his abs. He takes a sword from his scabbard. Shogun does the same.

Dai Wen and Shogun swordfight, but Dai Wen's speed is unamaginable. Dai Wen seemingly teleports around Shogun, and Shogun is barely able to keep up.

Shogun's instincts are faster than his raw speed. Dai Wen leaps back and redistributes his body weight. Shogun and Dai Wen grin at each other. Dai Wen cracks his knuckles at dashes at Shogun, delivering a swift punch to Shogun's abdomen. Shogun stands still, completely uneffected by Dai Wen's attack.

Shogun's metal armor thickens. He picks up Dai Wen and throws him on the ground. Dai Wen takes a kunai from his belt and tries to stab Shogun, but his kunai breaks on Shogun's armor. Shogun tries to punch Dai Wen, but Dai Wen dodges. The ground under Shogun's fist splits. Rocks and smoke fly through the air.

Shogun tries to punch Dai Wen again, but Dai Wen jumps over his fist. A large boulder flies under Dai Wen's feet. Shogun follows this up with another jab that catches Dai Wen off guard, pushing Dai Wen into a tree.

Dai Wen lands a swift-tornado like spin kick to Shogun's head, which makes his armor crack a tiny bit, but Shogun grabs Dai Wen and pummels him into the ground.

Shogun dashes toward Dai Wen, so Dai Wen stomps on the ground, filling the air with smoke. The smoke blinds Shogun, who listens closely for the sound of movement. A shuriken flies through the smoke, aimed toward Shogun's head. Shogun catches the shuriken by striking through it's center. He spins and hurls the shuriken back at Dai Wen, who barely dodges.

Before the smoke clears, Dai Wen spins two shuriken on both of his pointer fingers. The shuriken's pick up speed. Wind rotates around them like a hurricane. He blows on the shuriken like a dandellion. The shuriken tilt and rotate, spinning around Shogun with no clear path.

Shogun yells. The sheer force of his scream blows back the smoke, unblinding him. Shogun conjures thousands of senbon made from metal and hurls them at Dai Wen. Dai Wen acrobatically dodges them all mid-air. Shogun combines his senbon into one giant spear. He hurls the spear at Dai Wen, but Dai Wen spins at an intense speed like a tornado. After picking up wind, Dai Wen performs complex and fluid hand motions, directing the wind toward Shogun's spear. The spear is reflected toward Shogun, who punches the spear, breaking it into metal dust. The dust is reshaped into a building-sized hammer with a rope tied around it. Shogun grabs the rope and spins, hurling the hammer toward Dai Wen. Dai Wen jumps on top of the hammer of waits for the best moment to strike.

Dai Wen leaps toward Shogun and attempts to kick him, but Shogun tries both of Dai Wen's feet and throws him high into the air. Dai Wen spins at maximum speed, picking up wind. When Dai Wen lands on the ground, he punches and kicks the air acrobatically -- like a Shaolin Monk -- and launches wind projectiles at Shogun, who barely dodges.

Dai Wen does an entire martial arts form, picking up wind and concentrating it. Dai Wen launches a giant gust of wind toward Shogun. Shogun does a fluid form too - conjuring a giant wall of metal. Dai Wen's wind barely cracks Shogun's wall.

Shogun breaks the wall into more metal dust. Shogun moves his arms in fluid motions, constructing the metal into steel blades, throwing them at Dai Wen. Dai Wen does similar arm motions, hurling wind toward the blades to deflect them.

Shogun is surprised. "Wind? How are you able to control wind?! That isn't a Wu Xing element?

Dai Wen laughs. "Using a martial art I've developed -- BAGUASHENZHANG (Eight Trigrams Divine Palms). A martial art invented by my teacher, Grandmaster Jin Liang. This martial art combines Wing Chun and Shaoln Kung Fu techniques and allows the user to control the wind around them.

Shogun laughs. He punches the floor, making the ground under Dai Wen's feet collapse. Shogun starts pummeling Dai Wen further into the ground, but after a few dozen hits -- Shogun just stops. He spares Dai Wen.

"Give up?" Shogun says, laughing.

Dai Wen laughs, raising his hand as a sign of surrender. "I give up. I'm still not strong enough to defeat you, Shogun."

Shogun grins. "Goodbye, Dai Wen. Until next time."

Shogun and Dai Wen clash fists. They turn around and walk away -- in two different directions...

Going wherever their feet take them...