In the flash of lightning and spark, the fist before his eyes came crashing down like a mountain. Midway through its strike, the fist blossomed like a flower, transforming into a dense curtain of fist shadows. Thunder cracked across the sky, lending force to the punch. Its intent resonated and merged with the might of heaven and earth, increasing its power severalfold. Nangong Sheng's Battle Qi surged wildly. The Divine Fist Sect's sect master struck with fists like rushing thunder, unstoppable in their momentum. Zhang Tie met the challenge head-on. Amid the booming shockwaves, he answered fist with fist, blocking most of the fist imprints—but that slight gap in their mastery of fist techniques was magnified all the more at this moment...
In letters, there was no first; in martial arts, there was no second. When Earth Knights clashed, even the slightest difference meant the distance between clouds and mud.
In the blink of an eye, the force of Nangong Sheng's Rushing Thunder Divine Fist became like floodwaters blasting from an ant hole in a dam. It crashed down through that narrow opening, destroyed the dam, and poured onto Zhang Tie once more.
That trace of fist intent that had leaked through Zhang Tie's blockade changed, in an instant, from a trickling stream into ten thousand galloping horses, battering Zhang Tie with hundreds of punches...
In the final dozen or so punches, Zhang Tie's protective Battle Qi was shattered again. Those dozen punches landed squarely on him, sending him hurtling from above the valley into its depths like a falling meteor. Where he struck the ground, his body smashed out a huge crater more than ten meters deep, as though a meteorite had fallen there. Every loose stone within fifty meters was pulverized...
The two had already been fighting for