Leon was still growing stronger.
He had grown so powerful that Sui Xiong could not help feeling a little worried—worried that Leon might touch the barrier around the main plane left behind by the Goddess of Life.
He knew the limit that barrier could tolerate. Back when he had met Youniro Tiger, the previous Orc Emperor, that emperor had nearly reached the limit of what the main plane's barrier could endure. Even after weakening his own power to the utmost, to the point where he was practically too feeble to truss a chicken, his powerful soul still contained earth-shaking strength, only a hair's breadth away from triggering the main plane's barrier.
Leon, of course, would not suppress his own strength. His current power was already roughly approaching the soul power Emperor Youniro had possessed back then.
In other words, he was not far from triggering the main plane's barrier.
Such tremendous power was already close to the limit permitted by the main plane. By all rights, power like this should have rendered him virtually invincible within the main plane. Even divine incarnations might not necessarily be able to defeat him now—yet he still could not knock down the evil dragon.
Because the evil dragon was growing stronger too, and not one bit slower than he was.
They were like two evenly matched racehorses, constantly chasing and overtaking each other, one taking the lead one moment and the other the next.
Whenever Leon was ahead, he wielded the divine sword in concert with the purification formation, beating the evil dragon until it was in a miserable state, barely able to lift its head. And whenever the evil dragon was ahead, Leon likewise wielded the divine sword with the purification formation, suppressing it as much as possible and keeping it from breaking