Reincarnation

Haoran immediately dashed towards Akumu while landing the first blow on him, sending him flying into one of the rock formations. Luckily he was able to block by crossing both his arms.

Haoran shouted at him, "That attack should have broken both of your arms. Just before I hit you, you jumped off the ground so that most of the force would be spent pushing you away?"

Akumu responded, "I'm surprised too. You didn't start this fight with your Staff."

"Please, this is the final fight in this tournament. I at least want to make it enjoyable for my father.", He said.

"Your father this, your father that. Why don't you grow a pair of balls by saying no to him?", Akumu shouted at him.

The second he finished those words Haoran immediately dashed towards him once again, but this time grabbing his arms and throwing him into the sky. Then with his flying Nimbus cloud, he flew up behind him and placed his hand glowing with golden cursed energy. 

Senseing danger Akumu immediately encoats himself in his hardened black whip while preparing for impact. Haoran shouted,

"Imperial Fist art: Heavenly Dragon."

As he once did with Sung Gon-ill, a giant golden dragon emerges this time from his palms, and devours Akumu while nose-diving towards another one of the rock formations, causing it to topple over.

As it fell, Haoran remained floating in the air while hovering on his nimbus cloud. He then pouted while talking to himself,

"In the end, he was all bark and no bite."

Just as he said that however, a large black arm emerged from the crash sight while slapping Haoran away with tremendous force, sending I'm into the ground. As he stood up to recover, he found Akumu who had jumped over his head releasing another, black arm that had now clenched his fist. Haoran attempted to block the next attack, however, this one crushed him entirely, while creating a massive crater.

As Akumu landed back down towards the earth, Haoran also emerged from the crater. Despite tanking two heavy attacks Haoran, was only covered in minor bruises while Akumu had already broken his left rib cage.

The two competitors now stood right in front of each other. Haoran then told him,

"I'm willing to take back those words."

Haoran swings his arm attempting to karate chop his neck, but Akumu swings his body backwards quickly avoiding his attack. Haoran quickly changed the trajectory of his attack so that it now targeted his head. Akumu responded with a leg sweep causing him to lose his balance and fall. Haoran quickly tried to manifest his nimbus cloud to try and carry him away, but while clasping both his hands together, Akumu fired a piercing black attack in his face launching him a good distance away. The attack had only managed to cause his forehead to start bleeding slightly.

Haoran shouted, "THIS IS HOW A FIGHT SHOULD BE!"

Then summoning his nimbus cloud above Akumu he called out,

"Strike Thunderbolt."

Akumu barely managed to dodge, the jolt of lightning that it released above him, instantly creating another crater above his original spot. As that happened Haoran, pulled out his Bō staff from his ear which grew back to its original size, and tried slamming it into Akumus's side. However, he quickly reacted, by creating his own staff to defend. 

The two clashed with their weapons for a bit, until Haorans staff destroyed Akumus as he shouted,

"You thought you could beat me at my own game?? And with a shoddy replica no-less?"

Haoran gently poked his staff just below Akumus's white rib cage before calling out,

"Imperial pol art: Heavenly Dragon."

Once again, another golden dragon devoured Akumu, but this time flying towards the sky. Instead of exploding, the attack simply evaporates, leaving Akumu to fall to the ground.

Haoran quickly attempts to finish him off by extending his staff and slamming it into Akumu, but then suddenly a pair of black whips emerge from his back then reshape into wings.

He effortlessly avoided all the swings that Haoran aimed towards him while also taunting him in the process,

"You're waving that thing around like a child."

Haoran manifested his nimbus cloud below his feet and quickly soared towards Akumu as he summoned another Bō staff.

In their first clash, Haoran destroyed the newly constructed weapon, so Akumu quickly tried to gain some distance by flying around some of the rock formations, however, his inexperience in flying quickly got the better of him. Haoron caught up to him and knocked him out of the sky into the nearby sea.

He then shouted, "STIRKE THUNDER BOLT."

The electricity fired, immediately electrocuted the whole ocean, frying whatever remained inside. Haoran then stated,

"One thunderbolt from the nimbus cloud contains 500 billion joules of energy. Anything struck by it is either crushed by the weight or vaporized completely. There is no way that he could survive such an attack."

Just before he returned back to land however he felt a strange sensation from the depths, he could feel a pair of sharp eyes staring at him from below the sea.

For good measure he decided to strike the ocean again with another thunderbolt, but just before he could a giant black arm even larger than before emerged from the ocean and grabbed Haoran. Then slowly a torso appeared, and then eventually a whole body.

Its skin was hidden under what appeared to be mountains of black armour. It would be correct to even say that its armour was that skin itself. From its helmet, a pair of two glowing teals shined through, revealing absolutely nothing as it stood towering 300 meters tall. A deep voice belonging to Akumu could be heard from the inside,

"Dark Titan Armour"

With this transformation, Akumu had officially entered the realm of special grades.

Now carrying the suffocating Haoran in his right arm, he threw him through several of the rock formations before crashing into a mountain. Despite his humongous size, Akumu quickly covered the distance from the ocean to land and leapt on top of Haoran from a great height, creating a 500-metre-wide crater. Akumu stated,

"Dark Titan Armour is created from the texture of my cursed energy black whips. By using myself as the centre of its power I can change its mass to be as light as a feather or as heavy as a mountain."

Before he was crushed Haoran was able to escape by once again riding atop his nimbus cloud while flying away. He quickly extended, the size of his Ruyi Jingu Bang but now increased its width as well by thirty times, while smacking it against the black mass. Akumu however easily caught the thin stick and ripped it out of his grip.

As Haoran charged towards him the two entities clashed fists sending shock waves throughout the earth. Surprisingly however Akumus real body emerges from just under his titans' grip, while it almost instantaneously disappears. He then gently placed his palm on the staggered Haorans chest while calmly chanting,

"Imperial Fist art: Black Dragon."

A Jet black dragon tinted in teal light, spawns from his palm while devouring Haoran who is spooked by the action. The dragon nose dives towards the earth instantly destroying the nimbus cloud while creating a giant teal-coloured explosion. Eventually, Akumu too falls from the sky and down to earth.

As the dust settles, Haoran is revealed to be sitting on both his knees, while bleeding tremendously. His forehead was completely shattered, his ribs destroyed and a bunch of his internals were punctured. Akumu on the other wasn't in that much a better condition either, he too was exhausted, as well as wielding a broken right arm. However, between the two, he alone remained standing, which was enough for the Judges.

Frosty Whipp then declared over the Megaphone, "AND THE WINNER OF THE 42ND CURSED BATTLE TOURNAMENT IS SAIGO AKUMU OF TEAM JAPAN."

The audience began to cheer for their victory, as Akumu stood tall and proud over the defeated leader. But then suddenly Emperor Ling shouted over the microphone for all to hear,

"IT ISN'T OVER YET. HAORAN I GRANT YOU PERMISSION TO RELEASE THE SEAL ON YOUR POWER, SHOW THE ENEMY YOUR TRUE MIGHT, SHOW THEM POWER OF MY EMPIRE!"