chapter 8: final round

The final match was set.

The arena had never been this loud. The crowd wasn't cheering anymore—they were roaring. Two names were on every tongue: Rin Kai ... and Rin Kyro.

As I stepped into the ring, the air itself felt heavier. Like it knew something was coming.

Across from me, Kyro stood with his arms folded, a lazy smile on his face. But his eyes… they burned with sharp and Cold intent like a Predator.

"I Didn't think you could make it," he said. "But I'm glad you did. It'll be more fun this way."

"Try not to blink," I said, my voice low.

[Final Round:Rin Kai vs. Rin Kyro]

The announcement vanished. The world grew silent.

Start.

The moment the word fell

Kyro made his move.

He didn't waste time with tests. No probing. Just direct, lethal speed.

His fist came at me like a hammer wrapped in spirit fire. I dodged left, only for a kick to follow from the blind spot. I raised Phantom Edge to block—but the force sent me sliding back across the arena floor.

He's strong. And fast.

Every strike Kyro threw had intent. Not just to hurt—but to break, to dismantle, to dominate.

But I wasn't here to be dominated.

I activated Phantom Veil, spinning it defensively as I regained footing.

Kyro grinned. "That thread trick won't work on me. I've already adjusted my flow."

Then he vanished.

Spirit Step.

He appeared behind me mid-air, aiming for a crushing heel-drop. I rolled and retaliated with a burst of Phantom Edge, launching it in a spiral. Kyro blocked with a glowing armguard, sliding back a few feet.

He cracked his knuckles. "Better."

But I wasn't done yet.

I activate my bloodline power, then all of the sudden my body started releasing blue aura that brought cold and extreme frost power to the arena.

Then my senses are sharpen,my power increased.reflexes became stronger.

His strikes grew predictable—by inches, by milliseconds.

I ducked under his next blow and landed a hit—not strong, but clean. A cut across his side.

Blood spilled.

The crowd gasped.

Kyro's eyes widened…

Is that bloodline power as he was shocked,

then his eyes narrowed with a twisted grin.

"So... you're not just talk."

His aura flared violently—black and red spirit flames crackled around him like a cloak of wrath.

He began chanting.

Kyro's Blood Art: Beast Dominion Form

The ground cracked beneath him as spectral claws emerged from his back—phantom wolf limbs woven from condensed spirit energy.

His speed tripled. Power surged.

He didn't just fight.

He hunted.

I was thrown across the arena.

Pain exploded across my ribs. Something cracked.

But I stood.

My bloodline power activates and heals me.

Bones realigned. Muscles tightened. Energy surged within me.

My veins glowed faintly as I pushed forward.

We clashed.

Blow for blow. Roar against silence.

Kyro's beast form tore through the air with savage strikes—but my movements grew sharper, tighter, more efficient. Every injury refined me. Every mistake sculpted improvement.

Then I saw the opening.

As his beast claw swiped, I ducked, pivoted behind him, and—

Phantom Veil: Spiral Binding Slash

The invisible thread coiled around his midsection.

"You're mine."

[Spirit Flow Disruption – 40% Mobility Lock]

He froze just long enough for me to drive Phantom Edge into his chest.

Not a kill. But a defeat.

He staggered, coughing, the spirit flames dispersing.

Silence.

Then—

Cheers. Deafening. Relentless.

As everyone thought that victory was mine kyro suddenly laughs like madman

Aaahhhhhaa___

Aaaahaaaaaaa

Kai you have changed but don't forgot. For 15 years you didn't even win a single fight against me so how can you you can win against me.

You can't,, you never will

Kyro said with a tone so extreme that make everyone Shivers and the cold and ruthless look in eyes tells everyone that fight was not over but it's just started.

As he was speaking a aura that kai never felt before started coming out from kyro body then a pressure a mighty one that forcing me to my need.

Kai struggling to stand has he was looking at changed kyro then that hit him core formation cultivation.

As kai struggling kyro started walking to his side with slow walk

His walking sound echoed to all sides of arena. Look i told you before against me your all ways a looser.

The moment kyro said those words. A memories of previous kai began to appear before his eyes

A moment where every time I was fighting kyro he always wins with dominance.

As I was immersed in the memories

but kyro didn't gives me time as he swung his first right at my stomach. The attack power sends me to the arena edge pain took over my mind as only thing that ran in my mind was you can defeat him, you can't defeat me kai,,

Before I even hit the edge of arena kyro appear there and give me a strong kick that sends me crumbling across the arena,

Blood started coming out of my mouth and there are some bones seems to be broken as even pain stoped registering. as mind was in hyper sensitive. But those words ringing in my mind you can defeat me kai, your not strong enough.

Everyone in the arena stoped chearing at the site even kai father started feeling fear for his son as core formation was realm that a real power compare to other starting realms.

Then Suddenly

Like a roaring dragon kai said in his mind

"Who are you to tell my limit"

Who am I to think it's my limit"

All of a sudden

Thump.

A single beat. Faint, but firm.

Thump... Thump.

Louder now. A pulse against the silence.

I couldn't move. My body felt shattered.

Bones cracked. Blood spilled.

Kyro's words echoed again.

"You're always a loser."

"You never could beat me."

Thump.

I gritted my teeth.

Was this how it ends?

No.

Not like this.

BADUM.

The beat struck harder, a drum of defiance.

Flashes of the past life—the regrets, the failures, the helplessness.

This was more than a match.

It was everything.

BADUM… BADUM.

The world around me slowed.

Kyro's voice faded. The crowd disappeared.

There was only me—

And that heartbeat.

DUUMM—BADUMM.

Something broke.

No—something awakened.

A cold unlike anything I'd known surged through me.

Not the chill of winter—

This was the Sovereign Frost.

Alive. Divine. Infinite.

My bloodline roared.

Veins shimmered blue.

My broken body responded—

healing, reforging, becoming.

DUMM… DUMM… DUMM.

Each pulse radiated frost, the ground around me crystallizing.

I rose—slowly—one foot, then the other.

Aura spilled out like a tidal wave of ice.

Not gentle. Not serene.

But absolute.

The crowd gasped. Elders moved.

The barrier around the arena cracked.

And still—

BADUMM!

The sound thundered like a war cry from my chest.

I looked at Kyro.

He wasn't smiling anymore.

In kai mind; I don't need sword I don't need phantom moves everything around me was my power I can do anything with my Eternal Frost Sovereign bloodline power as if breaking a wall his bloodline power started increasing and reaching a height where he didn't know how much it was increased.

Asy my bloodline power increase i started feeling my body becoming stronger and my injuries started healing and every fiber in my body started becoming stronger.

I started standing up and a blue aura started coming out of my body but this time it's darker blue and more powerful.

Kyro was standing in front of me a clodeness that seems to effect even the souls started coming out. It's so powerful that the two elders in the void reacted and teleported near the arena and use there energy to form a barrier but even the barrier started showing sings of freezing. The two elders panicked and add there full power only to barely stop the expansion of freezing.

But there were not happy because it's not a full force attack but mere release of aura image if it's a attack with full power they were definitely be the goners.

And I rise my hand and before kyro can react he was freezen.

Even the match judge failed to react as there minds are blank.

One elder react and announced that

[Victory goes to Rin Kai]

Kai stop releasing his power and two elder stop operating the barrier.

Crowd went wild as every started chearing for kai as everyone thinks his gonna loose but talk about the comeback some even started asking questions what was that power,,, his is bloodline power. Yeah it's bloodline power but another said even if it's the bloodline power what kind of bloodline that gives this much power without even entering cultivation damn it.

Even the two elders discuss about the bloodline power as may be it's our Rin clan legendary fost legacy bloodline power.

Kai stood there and immersed in the feeling of being the winner.

From past life to present life he never win so this feeling gives him a satisfying bliss.