บท 2020: Skill and Power

Tap. 

Ryu took a second step back. 

Tap. 

Then a third. 

Finally, he stabilized himself, but the rattling in his bones echoed like cracks of thunder. 

And yet, he grinned. It was a wild, fiendish grin, and it was the kind of maddened smile that made Darkness Rising's pupils constrict in the far-off distance. 

"Are you angry you shed a little blood?" Ryu asked, his voice sounding like a deep abyssal hell and his own aura beginning to grow in towering waves. "What a worthless excuse of a cultivator." 

BOOM! 

Falling Snow's body accelerated as he slashed out again. 

A battle erupted between the two as their howls cut through the skies. 

BANG! BANG! BANG! 

Space rippled and then forcefully reformed around them; falling meteors nearby crumbled from the reverberating impact alone, and the Heavens seemed to whine beneath their might, not liking the fact they were forcefully making the world withstand their power.