Shang Kingdom National Tournament Preliminaries, Part V

Wu Jian put on a burst of speed the moment the elder began the fight. He exploded into action, closing the distance between him and his opponent faster than the eye could blink. To his credit, Sun Tao had noticed his rapid approach, but there was little he could do. He was too slow. The widening of his eyes as Wu Jian appeared before him and his snail-like reactions were proof.

Stomping on the ground, Wu Jian halted his forward momentum and used the built up energy from his sudden stop as kinetic energy that he channeled into his fist. He thrust his first forward at such speeds that the very air seemed to shriek. While he didn’t put all his strength into his punch, he did put in enough that the man’s entire side seemed to become concave when his fist struck.

BOOM!

It was like an explosion. The banging sound of flesh meeting flesh was so loud that the other contestants stopped fighting to look in their direction.