The force of the two blows are equal. Nobody has an advantage against the other.
Xiao Fan is surprised. His eyes widened in disbelief.
That last blow feels good. The force shouldn't be any less than his previous blows.
That means he's not getting weaker. Cloud is getting stronger.
When that thought appears in his mind, Xiao Fan refuses to believe it.
He quickly follow up with another attack to make sure. He punch toward Cloud once more.
Cloud punch back to face it and boom... Another equal blow.
Xiao Fan doesn't stop. He jump back to get some distance so he can dash forward for a more powerful blow.
Cloud also move similarly. He also dash forward and meet Xiao Fan in the middle.
Another punches clash. Nobody has the upper hand.
Now Xiao Fan is sure. Cloud has become stronger.
Dread starts to creep into his heart. How can someone grow in the middle of battle like that.
That is certainly not something you see often.
At this time, the spectators below are blown away by the battle. Especially the younger generation that participated in the previous round.
They thought the match was almost over when Cloud was pushed to the edge.
They didn't expect that there would be another surprising turn of events.
Even the city lord and Xiao Han is surprised.
They both have stood from their seats ever since Cloud first counter the blow equally at the edge of the arena.
They haven't sit back down until now. They are still standing frozen. Their eyes glued to the arena.
"So that's why he didn't end the match back then. He is using my brother to train himself." Xiao Han said while shaking his head.
"Nephew, have you ever seen anything like that?" The city lord look at Xiao Han and ask.
Xiao Han shake his head to answer.
"Using sparring for training, that's common. But they don't suddenly improve in the middle of the spar. They learn from the spar and improve their weaknesses afterwards. But this... This is different."
Even Xiao Han who has been inside a renown sect has never seen anything like this.
He have watched many sparrings before and non of them are like this.
The battle continues on the arena.
Now that his strength advantage is gone, Xiao Fan doesn't know what to do.
The only thing left would be his speed but even using that, he wouldn't be able to do anything to Cloud.
Just when Xiao Fan is thinking of what he should do next, Cloud starts to move aggressively.
He already got what he wanted, there is no need to drag the battle further.
"Thank you for helping me improve. Now let's end this!" Cloud said to Xiao Fan.
Xiao Fan gritted his teeth when he heard that. But he didn't even have time to be angry.
Cloud is already attacking him aggressively.
Xiao Fan can only defend while retreating bit by bit. He got overwhelmed by the attacks.
He keeps blocking the oncoming attacks. Sometimes when he strike back it was met by a punch from his opponent.
Punches, kicks, elbows, and knees are thrown to Xiao Fan.
In pure combat, Xiao Fan have a lot less experience compared to Cloud.
He starts to show some openings and Cloud doesn't miss any of those.
An elbow hit Xiao Fan's jaw. He staggered back a few steps while his guards involuntarily goes down because his head is spinning.
Cloud follow up with a flying knee to the chest.
It hit Xiao Fan straight and it pushed him further to the edge.
Then Cloud finished it with a kick to the abdomen.
At the last moment Xiao Fan woke up. He quickly try to catch Cloud's leg but Cloud see through it.
Cloud quickly retract his leg and change his target to Xiao Fan's chest.
Xiao Fan didn't manage to react fast enough and he fall outside the arena.
The entire place is silent. There was only the sound of Xiao Fan hitting the ground.
It is only after a couple of seconds that an outburst of cheers starts to come from the spectators.
The city lord and Xiao Han also claps.
It was an amazing match. There were many twists and turns but it ends in a perfect show.
Xiao Fan just lay on the ground while looking at the sky. What a beautiful blue sky? He said in his heart.
He thinks while breathing heavily. Of how he's disappointed that he lose.
But he also smiles, because he now see how big the world is.