Before long, Li Li encountered an opponent.
Like him, the other man stood a thousand zhang tall, fighting barehanded as he sent the Nine Li forces ahead of him tumbling in all directions.
Upon seeing Li Li, he abandoned his charge and came striding toward him.
Li Li spotted him as well. One hand rose before him in an upright palm, the other clenched into a fist at his waist, and his feet rolled forward like wheels.
As he closed in, he drew back his forward palm and suddenly drove out his rear fist.
The Five Elements gave rise to one another across the face of his fist, turning like a wheel and evolving boundless strength.
His opponent refused to be outdone. He drew in a fierce breath, and a divine radiance shot from his chest straight into his fist.
With a hum, a thick layer of energy surfaced over his fist.
BOOM!!!
The two fists collided, and at their point of contact, changes erupted as though heaven and earth were being split apart.
The energy on his opponent's fist was forced apart by the Five-Element energy and exploded.
Li Li's fist, meanwhile, was struck by the other man's single breath of qi, severing the cycle of the Five Elements giving rise to one another.
BANG BANG BANG!!
Powerful energy exploded. Stones flew from Li Li's arm as it was blasted apart, while the blood vessels in his opponent's arm burst, spraying blood everywhere.
Both men flew backward at the same time.
With every step Li Li took, rocks rose from beneath his feet, traveled along his body, and gathered at his arm to mend its wounds.
His opponent's other hand glowed with radiance. With a sweep over his arm, the wounds healed completely.
"A martial cultivator?" Li Li asked,