Xuan Li felt his spiritual sea erupt like a volcano. The power of a Peak Spiritual Core, no longer strangled by the Matrix, flooded his limbs. Conversely, Ethan felt the crushing weight of the sudden power shift. He lunged in a desperate attempt to end it, but his movements were sluggish.
Xuan Li leaned back, the blade at his throat missing by a hair's breadth, and unleashed a single, concentrated punch.
BOOM.
Ethan was launched into the clouds before the Captain blurred, reappearing above him to hammer him back down into the earth. The impact buried Ethan deep into the crust.
But Xuan Li wasn't done. Consumed by a rage that bordered on madness, he descended like a meteor, his fists becoming a blur of destruction. He began to pummel the ground with everything he had, a rain of strikes so powerful they carved a crater tens of kilometers deep into the bedrock.
