The evil Lord Conqueror, head of Conqueror's Clan, is given a
prophecy by Mud Buddha when quizzed about his delayed duel with Sword
Saint. The prophecy translates that if Conqueror finds two young
children by the name of Wind and Cloud he will have good fortune. Mud
Buddha provides the birth charts of these two and gives him a puzzle box
stating that finding Wind and Cloud is but one half of his destiny, the
box will provide him with the latter half once he unlocks it. Conqueror
issues an order that every boy with a birth chart matching Wind's or
Cloud's must become a disciple of the Conqueror's Clan. Whispering Wind
is discovered as the son of long time rival Whispering Prince, who
Conqueror had beating 2 years previously and stole Prince's wife. As
they fight again for Prince's Blizzard Blade he reveals he only took his
wife to anger him into battle to possess the blade. At the climax of
the duel Prince's wife kills herself and Prince is captured and killed
by the fire beast in the nearby cave. Conqueror finds Whispering Wind
has fainted and claims him. Striding Cloud's father, a blacksmith named
Striding Sky, is forging the Ultimate Sword and completes the blade just
before Conqueror's forces raze his village. As he is killed he reveals
that the sword can only be used by a true hero and Cloud is taken by the
invading forces.
Ten years pass, and Wind and Cloud are now both fully grown and
highly skilled martial artists, raised as Lord Conqueror's own beside
his daughter Charity and adopted son Frost. The 3 sons act as Generals
in Lord Conqueror's army. Wind has been gently trying to court Charity
but she is secretly having an affair with Cloud. Conqueror is angered by
his inability to open the puzzle box and the disappearance of Mud
Buddha. He sends Frost and Wind to find him while Cloud is sent to claim
the Unchallenged Sword and lead closer to completing his collection of
powerful weapons in his Sword Graveyard. Cloud succeeds in claiming the
weapon after killing its owner. Frost and Wind find Mud Buddha, now
disfigured by boils as punishment from the Gods for revealing too much
about the future to others, but he is soon taken by a mysterious hooded
fighter who manages repels both Frost and Wind. The captured Mud Buddha
unlocks the puzzle for Conqueror and reveals that "the dragon is
powerful but will be stranded when wind and cloud become a storm"
therefore ending Conqueror's tyranny. Realizing it refers to Wind and
Cloud and unwilling to accept his fate Conqueror plots to destroy them
both.
Upon realizing Cloud has been sleeping with Charity Conqueror decides
to use his daughter to cause Wind and Cloud to fight each other by
arranging marriage with Wind and Charity. Cloud discovers this and is
quickly angered. On the day of the wedding Cloud abducts Charity and
Conqueror tells Wind to fight for his wife. Wind and Cloud engage in a
battle and Lord Conqueror tries to kill Cloud in their duel, but Charity
sacrifices herself to save him.
As Wind quietly grieves for his love, Cloud fights the Phoenix family
for the Ice Vigor and uses it to preserve Charity's body, but is soon
discovered by Conqueror. As they fight in a temple in the desert without
water, Cloud's Palm style proves to be useless against Conqueror
without any source of liquid at the area. Cloud rips off his arm and
uses his own blood as a final resort to be used as source of liquid
which is necessary for his palm style to unleash considerable amount of
power to create an opening for escape. He is then discovered out cold by
Muse and her father, Summit Yu. As they nurse him to health Yu
discovers that the Fire Beast Arm he has trained to perfection rejects
him and wishes to be bonded to Cloud and calls on specialists to bond
his arm to Cloud.
Unable to find Cloud Conqueror moves onto destroying Wind, who he
secretly poisons and sends him on a mission to claim the Blood Bodhi
fruit. As the poison takes its toll Wind remembers the truth about who
killed his parents, and uses the Blood Bodhi fruit that grows in the
cave to heal himself as well as make him even stronger. He then defeats
the fire beast who killed his father using the Blizzard Blade retrieved
by his father's corpse. Cloud trains his new arm with the help of Muse's
kindness before decided to head back to Conqueror's kingdom.
Conqueror, believing himself free of the prophecy, challenges and
defeats Sword Saint out of blind chance. Now deluded into the belief he
is invincible he arrogantly kills Frost, who recently discovered it was
Conqueror who kidnapped Mud Buddha and held him against his will and
learned of Conqueror's evil ways. Wind and Cloud meet upon the steps to
Conqueror's main hall and, united by their common enemy, confront
Conqueror. As the fight spills over into the Sword Graveyard. Wind and
Cloud are almost outmatched by Conqueror's superior sword skills however
the blood from a cut on Cloud's arm reveals to him the location of
Ultimate Sword (which Conqueror unknowingly had amongst the standard
weapons littering the ground). With Striding Sky's sword in hand, Cloud
rejoins Wind in the battle and Conqueror is soon beaten, with Wind
stopping Cloud from landing the death blow so Conqueror is left insane
and tormented by the ghosts of those he has killed, including his
beloved Charity.
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