From afar, Ley who was now surrounded by green gusts of wind, saw Rox nearly being killed with a single sh and he swore.


    "That fool isn''t thinking straight, drinking that thing might increase strength but his judgement gets clouded if he isn''t prepared for it… and he is too agitated since the girl from the Moon Stream Luan n is paying all her attention to that bastard".


    Ley snorted, he waved his spear and cut an opening into the wind walls that were keeping him in check, but what weed him was the "grown up" Kana who elegantly pulled on the string of her bow, unleashing a rain of wind arrows at him.


    "Damn it, get out of my way you little bitch!", Ley swept his spear and easily blocked all the arrows, with an expression of sufficiency on his face.


    "Humph, just wait your turn patiently, once I kill that nosy bastard, I''ll have time to "y" with you", said Ley as he licked his licks, looking at Kana, his spirit energy exploded out of his body and lime-green condensed on his back until it became a pair of wings, that looked both ethereal and material at the same time.


    ''Little girl, with our current power we can at most hold this guy down for a couple of minutes more, let''s start our retreat so that your beloved big brother can finish him off'', said the Emerald Whirlwind noticing that Ley''s control over wind was boosted now that he was using the technique of his family.


    There were also poisonous particles floating all over around, but they avoided Kana so she didn''t have to worry about it, not to mention the Emerald Whirlwind had poison attribute too.


    ''He insulted big brother, help me hit him even if it just once please~'', asked Kana in her mind.


    The Emerald Whirlwind saw Kana''s puppy eyes and she couldn''t help but feel her heart softening.


    "Fine, one hit and we are out", said the Emerald Whirlwind.


    Kana''s hair which now had a pretty green color, suddenly lit up in light green light and so did her eyes.


    Then all the wind surrounding them gathered into a green crystal-looking arrow, which she put in her bow, without giving Ley a warning the arrow became a sh of green light that reached Ley''s vicinity in less than a second.


    "ng!", the sound of metals colliding following by a ss-shattering sound echoed through the skies, as Ley''s winds wrapped around his body protecting it against the arrow, which exploded into little green crystal shards.


    "No matter what you do, you are still a mere descendant of a traitor, there is no way a little bitch like you can defeat the young master of the Storm Roc family", said Ley with a disdainful smile on his face.


    But then his smile froze on his face, the "Kana" in front of him dispersed into small currents of wind and he turned around just to receive a punch right into his face.


    Kana''s little fist was dded in a green jade glove, which looked more like a piece of art than armor, but the strength behind her punch was not that of a little girl, and Ley learned it the hard way, the impact was such that he was sent flying downwards shing on the ground creating arge crater.


    "One of the first lessons big brother taught me, "Don''t let your guard down until your enemy has been thoroughly annihted", and you want topare yourself with him, humph, you aren''t worthy", said Kana.


    By the end of her sentence her voice returned to normal and her grown up form disappeared, as she returned to her normal self.


    Of course, she didn''t stay here and flew towards Mylene who had just finished her fight and was descending from the sky, to watch Aster''s fight together.


    …


    "Haaa!", Rox was at the brink of a mental copse right now, he still had some sabers in his spatial ring, but no matter if he used two, or even four taking advantage of his increased size, he was still being pushed back every time he shed with Aster.


    With time more swords were stabbed into his body, forcing him to take some distance pulling the swords out and sacrificing more and more of his feathers to cure his wounds.


    He even tried to wield one of those swords, just to experience a horrible burning sensation on his hands which forced him to let go of the sword.


    At this point he was full of newly made scars, and his wings were really battered looking all worn out.


    Rox gritted his teeth, he looked at one of his subordinates whose corpse wasying on the ground near him, and he suddenly stabbed it with his own hands.


    ck veins bulged on his arms and chest, as the corpse became a sack of bones, but in exchange new ck-dripping feathers appeared on his wings, basically returning him to his prime state.


    "Oh, so that''s why you two idiots from are so close to each other, both of you use evil cultivation techniques, that prey on your own family", said Aster with a disdainful voice.


    They had advanced so much due to their shes, that the ce where Ley was smacked against the ground by Kana using all the power it was left of her adult form, was just a couple of meters away from them.


    And as if being insulted by Aster returned him to life, the ground exploded as Ley came out of it, his tidy appearance was long gone, and he was huffing due to anger, there was punch mark on his face, and his eyes were bloodshot, he the young master of the Storm Roc family was tricked by the wind of a little girl in who wasn''t even in the Transcending realms, he was livid.


    "Rox, get your head out of your ass, he is just messing with your mind, if we take things calm, we can crush him in a matter of seconds!", shouted Ley as he pointed his spear at Aster.


    Rox jumped backwards andnded next to Ley, he took a deep breath and then nodded at him.


    "Fine, I''ll even listen to you if that means I can rip that bastard apart", he said in a hatred filled voice.


    Never in his whole life he has felt so humiliated, he who hadn''t met defeat ever in his whole life, was being suppressed by someone who isn''t even from a Divine Firmament, where should he put his face after this, when he returns triumphant to his home in a couple of minutes he wondered.


    Aster could tell what they were thinking and he grinned.


    "I wouldn''t worry about how others would look at you, because you won''t be alive at that point".


    ytime was over, why you ask, because the spatial distortions had finally reached stability, meaning the portals were open.<novelnext></novelnext>


    Aster looked at the direction where Kay and Merkel were fighting and saw a diamond pagoda image, shing with a red blood river with bones floating on it.


    "Fuuck!", Merkel''s voice drew everyone''s attention as both he and Kai were sent into a portal, interrupting their fight.


    "Little friend, the next time I hope fate allow us to exchange some pointers", said Kai as he made a buddhist salute at Aster, then the remaining monks and orcrary followed their respective leaders into the portals, disappearing from the battlefield.


    Aster who nodded at Kai, beckoned and a couple of his swords appeared on his hands, just in time to block both Rox''s saber and Ley''s spear at the same time.


    Of course, even for Aster, taking both of them on while they were enhancing their physical strengths, was enough to make Aster feel pressured, his swords and their weapons created sparks due to the friction, and they both pushed even more once they realized Aster''s arms were trembling just a bit, while the floor cracked below him.


    Understandable, as he was basically holding his ground against two Genesis Manifestation cultivators right now, without their Genesis Cores though.


    But then Rox''s face paled, a cut opened on his chest and blood spilled out of it, Ley managed to use his wings to protect himself by blocking with his spear intent and also wind rotating at a high speed.


    Still Ley who was well aware of Rox''s strong regenerative abilities snorted.


    "We have hunted a peak Genesis Manifestation spirit beast together; do you think you can just kill Rox with…".


    "Aghhhhh!", an agonic scream interrupted Ley, he turned around just to see Rox rolling on the ground, with an ash-red mist covering the wound he just suffered, the pain was such that he has wounded his throat by screaming.


    "Idiot, heal yourself and stop fooling around", demanded Ley just to be barked back by Rox.


    "Shut up, do you think I didn''t try it, the pain is not going away!".


    While Rox was indeed able to cure the cut, the burning mark left by Antares''s retribution mist didn''t disappear, and the pain was mind breaking, just imagine the intensity of Aster''s wrath, and then multiply it by ten.


    Rox even tried to tore the flesh which had the burn and then healed himself again, thinking the burn will be gone, but that wasn''t the case.


    "It won''t work, what I burned wasn''t your body, but your soul, so no matter what you do, it won''t go away, that''s the extend of my anger towards you",


    "Killing you wasn''t enough, no, I needed to crush your pride, and I did so by beating you in a strength contest, and now I crushed your cultivation path, because I could have prevented you from healing but chose not to do so, from the very beginning you were just ying in my hand", said Aster with a serious expression on his face.


    Rox eyes became lifeless, not only because of what Aster said, but because the pain was making him going mad and to top it off, his enhancing was finishing because he lost is capacity to control himself.


    "Andstly I crushed your spirit", Aster beckoned and twenty of the swords which were floating in the sky, flew towards Rox.


    "Idiot get a hold of yourself!", shouted Ley, but Aster jumped towards him and forced him back with his sword.


    The next thing Ley saw was Rox''s body being impaled by a lot of swords, his head wasn''t though, so he wasn''t dead yet.


    His body then exploded in ash-red mist, and his lifeless expression changed onest time, to a twisted one as he let out a lung-tearing scream.


    Which Aster even didn''t let him do, he pointed at him with his left index finger and a golden line of energy pierced his forehead, then not even a couple of secondster Rox became dust which ultimately disappeared.


    This was one of the few times Aster has killed someone using annihtion, so that said person would never reincarnate, though none of the presents explicitly knew it, maybe Mylene had guessed it, since she has experienced her spirit form being mildly exposed indirectly to annihtion, when she put on the ne back then.


    Ley saw Rox dying and he ignored his best friend, his subordinate who were still alive and his little sister and jumped into one of the near portals, once he was inside, he let out a sigh of relief with a hatred filled expression.


    "Just you wait, I''ll have my revenge", he said.


    "Who gave you permission to leave?".


    Ley''s face paled as he heard thest voice he wanted to listen right now; he was then grabbed by his legs by a giant golden hand which appeared out of nowhere inside the portal.


    "Let go of me!", Ley shouted, his wings pped as he tried to get away, but the iron grip of the golden hand didn''t let him break free.


    The twenty-meter sword was then sent into the portal by Aster and after a moment of silence a pained scream came from inside of it


    "Aghhhh!".


    Once Ley''s scream ended, the golden arm retracted from the portal and the thing closed, the battlefield was nowpletely silent, Rox''s subordinates were still in shock to see their young master die such a miserable death, while Ley''s were in disbelief that their young master abandoned them, and was still "killed", they lost all their fighting spirit and were suppressed not to longer after that.


    Meaning this battle was over, but Aster was far from being happy, he instead had a frowned expression on his face, but ultimately, he shrugged and weed the others with a rxed face, especially Kana who cutely bragged about having punched the bad guy like her big brother.


    ''I''ll take it as being merciful this once time, if they don''t appreciate it, then I don''t mind erasing them all from existence'', thought Aster as he patted Kana''s head.


    For the time being, this sh he had against the Storm Roc family ended, but who in the vast existence knows what fate holds for oneself.