Boom, boom, boom!!
Clang, clang, clang!!!
Within a barren realm, astonishingly powerful, muffled explosions echoed, shaking the surroundings. Countless bursts of orange and golden light erupted amid an endless barrage of shrill metallic clashes...
Suddenly!
"Boom!!" With an astonishing, muffled explosion, two figures exchanged a head-on blow in the void. The entire realm shuddered violently, and one figure was blasted straight down...
"Thud!" The figure slammed into the earth, sending countless rocks flying...
Then!
"Boom!" An astonishing explosion erupted from the ground. A gigantic fist composed of rock, several thousand zhang across, instantly shot out and smashed toward the golden figure in the sky... ..
"Stop!" the golden figure suddenly commanded in a deep voice...
"Rumble!!" Astral wind surged violently around the enormous stone fist, countless currents whipping out in every direction... It froze in midair, a hair's breadth from striking the golden figure... With a rushing sound, the orange radiance receded. The gigantic fist of rock churned and cracked with muffled booms, and countless stones tumbled down...
"Whoosh!" Spiritual light rippled around the golden figure, instantly revealing his true appearance. He was none other than Li Xiaoya...
And at that moment...
"Whoosh!" Spiritual light surged, and the surroundings rippled and writhed along with it, beginning to blur...
"Whoosh!" A brilliant light flashed as a figure shimmering with orange radiance shot into the sky and flew toward Li Xiaoya. He reached Li Xiaoya in an instant. It was Li Xiaoya's earth element clone, his body covered in crisscrossing sword wounds that were rapidly healing...
"Good heavens! He's much stronger than I imagined!" Li Xiaoya murmured, gazing at his earth element clone with satisfaction.
Just moments earlier.
Li Xiaoya had activated the Dueling Formation Liu Xian'er had previously set up for his sparring matches. Without even waiting to recover the vast