You Must Learn To Become Earth Itself

I stood a few dozen meters in front of the middle-aged man. He was tall and bulky with muscles, and while his aura and power had been reduced to resemble the level of power shown by the lightning leopard, I knew he was much stronger than he showed.

To be exact, I felt he had power beyond my scope of comprehension. The dread I felt from him alone told me how dangerous he was even though he had suppressed himself significantly. I could tell that even though his cultivation had dropped to about the same level as mine, he could probably rival the leopard's strength, if not kill it outright.

However, I was not scared of his display of power. Our battle intents exploded out of our bodies and clashed, and even though it immediately won out in the clash if there wasn't a resistance in place, I still shot forward with an earth pillar and extended my fist out to punch the man in the face.

*Boom*

A muffled boom sounded, but nothing else happened.