Ji Rong blocks blow that makes a crater

But then, like a striking serpent a spear lashed out from behind the spear wall, piercing the metal qi with nary a ripple to bite at Ji Rong’s flank, forcing the boy to twist away, only to be buffeted by a gale that stripped the leaf from every tree for a dozen meters around, driving him back to the ground in a crouch. Yet despite that, when the fist of a giant came down like a gleaming hammer from above, he rose to meet it in a single twisting motion, driving his own lightning wreathed fist into Gan’s gauntlet clad hand with a cracking boom of thunder, halting it even as the ground beneath him cratered downward, shattering for meters in every direction.

Tournament 5