In that last episode of season 1, Yue (the second guardian of the Clow Book) kicks Li's butt, and then Sakura's. I mean despite how good a fighters they are, they just got owned like noobs when they went up against this guy. Fortunately Sakura's teacher had a magical bell that blocked Yue's mind wiping spell, giving Sakura one final chance. At which point she used some unexplained power of hers to morph her bird-head magic wand into a Star Rod like magic wand. And with this new wand she used the Windy card to release a more powerful version of the Windy spirit, which was able to completely overpower Yue. She was then declared the official master of the Clow Cards. However Sakura's fight wasn't much of a fight. Despite how quickly Li go pwned by Yue, at least he gave a good fight. Sakura just ran away for most of the time though, because she didn't want to hurt Yue (who's human form Julian, was a good friend of Sakura). So Li's battle against Yue, even though Li lost, was actually a lot more epic than Sakura's battle against Yue.
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