Both Sides Wounded!

(The second update is here! Thanks to reader Shattered Moon Plucks the Heart for the tip. Sixue thanks you! Finally, besides wishing all my readers a happy New Year, I hope you'll keep supporting me. Your support is my greatest motivation to write!)

A round blast crater appeared beneath the mushroom cloud! Countless magnificent glazed-colored crystals lay embedded around the blast site, gleaming with an eerie luster and beautiful hues. For a moment, everyone gazed at them in a daze!

At the very center, Er Dongsheng leaned on the Spear of Destruction. The Phoenix Divine Soul fused with his body had vanished, and his black armor had shattered completely! His flaming body looked even more insubstantial. Ripples ran across it, and the flames that formed it began to scatter piece by piece, as though he might vanish at any moment!

"Cough, cough! This time, I lost!" Beside him, the Wind King's projection was fading even faster than Er Dongsheng's body. Great swaths of Wind Elemental Energy had already dispersed! His once-solid body of energy had turned transparent; sunlight piercing the dark clouds passed straight through his phantom form!

Pfft!

The Wind King spat out another mouthful of azure energy, and his body crumbled further!

"Less than three years. I never thought you'd grow this strong!" He fixed Er Dongsheng, barely a foot away, with a grim stare, his expression turning distant.

"Cough, cough. But even if I lost, you're not much better off!" His body began to break apart violently, yet his eyes stayed locked on Er Dongsheng!

"At least I haven't lost yet," Er Dongsheng said after a silence. His voice was calm, as though nothing was wrong!

"And you should die now!" His words swept through the air like a cold wind after autumn!

"Cough, cough! Don't