"You bastard!" Xiao Fan charge toward Cloud in rage.
He quickly arrive before Cloud and punch several times.
Cloud calmly dodge and block the attack. He also quietly move to the center of the arena.
He was still at the edge after he last kicked Xiao Fan.
Xiao Fan's attacks are stronger, faster and fiercer than before. He infused every attack with rage.
But Cloud handles those attacks just fine.
Its because the attack became simple and more predictable.
After all, Xiao Fan is in rage. He didn't have the leeway to think about strategy. All he wants is to beat up his opponent.
Even though that's the case, Cloud still need to focus and be careful in handling the attacks.
His opponent is one stage higher after all. So Xiao Fan is stronger and faster than Cloud.
But Cloud keep up using his experience. And he didn't just defending passively, he also counterattack once in a while.
The exchange of blows continues.
Cloud block and avoid most of the attacks that are coming toward him. He only let some hit him in parts of his body that can take it.
Overall, the damage that he received is insignificant.
On the other hand, Xiao Fan got hit with more significant blows. Some land on his face and others land on his abdomen.
"Good! Beat him!" Xiao Han actually cheers from his seat.
The sudden cheers surprised the city lord. He turn to look at Xiao Han with a strange face.
How can he cheers when his brother is beaten? The city lord ask in his heart. But he didn't dare say it to Xiao Han.
Xiao Han face the city lord with a smile and explain, "My brother has been too unrestrained. Its because non of the younger generation in this city is his match and dare to provoke him. So if he got beat up and actually experience defeat, it might be good for his growth."
The city lord nod to Xiao Han. What he said is reasonable.
If there is a competition, people tend to push themselves more and grow more because of it.
If there isn't any competition, people became complacent and their progress tend to stop.
But Xiao Han's expression seems more personal from the city lord's perspective.
It seems that what he said is not the only reason he became so happy.
Perhaps he has been suppressing his anger toward his unrestrained brother deep inside him.
So now that his brother got beaten up, he can finally vent.
On the arena, after getting hit several times without being able to hit back properly, Xiao Fan finally wake up from his anger.
He realize that at this rate, he would be beaten to the ground without being able to fight back properly.
Once he understands that, Xiao Fan disengage and jump back several times.
After putting some distance with Cloud, Xiao Fan finally get the chance to calm down.
He also took this time to breathe.
He is not stupid. Even though he is young and hot blooded, and sometimes he moves because of emotions, he is still someone who has been educated.
His personal mentors has warned him many times not to be easily provoked.
When one fight in anger, their movement would become simple and predictable.
This is exactly what happened to Xiao Fan.
But he realized that quick enough. Sometimes people only understand after they got beat up to the ground.
But Xiao Fan is obviously talented and smart enough to understand before he got completely beaten.
Now that he got some time to calm down, he understands that Cloud is not to be underestimated.
He thought that only the city lord's daughter, Fang Yue is worth keeping an eye on.
He never thought that a dark horse would appear on this competition.
After calming down, Xiao Fan then think about how he could win against Cloud.
Although he was enraged, he remembers what happened on his battle just now.
He look back at those memories and found that he is faster and stronger than Cloud. But Cloud is more experienced and his defense is difficult to break through.
His stamina is also exceptional.
Xiao Fan think of a way and finally decides that he has to take advantage of his strength if he wants to win.
That means he need to utilize his superior strength and speed.
When Xiao Fan backed away to disengage, Cloud didn't chase. He just stands there while watching Xiao Fan.
As expected of someone from a big force. He is not that stupid after all. Is what Cloud thought.
For Xiao Fan to disengage before he was completely beaten is quite a feat. This shows the superior education and guidance of someone who has status.
Somebody who came from nowhere would've been completely blinded by rage after being humiliated like that.
After a brief standoff, Xiao Fan start to move.
His movement now is more like before when he wasn't in rage.
He utilize his speed to move with impressive agility and attack Cloud from many angles.
He also focus his strength on those attacks. Each blows is impressively powerful.
Cloud blocks a few of those blows. He didn't have enough time to dodge since Xiao Fan's attacks are more refined now.
Cloud is impressed by this. Not only that Xiao Fan quickly recover from his rage, he also change to a more effective strategy in just moments.
This clearly shows how talented Xiao Fan is.
And this strategy isn't something that Cloud can break easily.
Xiao Fan is using his advantage very efficiently.
Cloud can only face them head on since there is no strategy to avoid them.
Although he is in a disadvantage now, Cloud only smile.
Seeing his opponent smile, Xiao Fan frown a little. He sped up even more and attack with more powerful blows.
Cloud smiles even wider when his opponent attack more fiercely. He then switch from defending to hitting back.
When the blows clash, Cloud get pushed back. But he is not discouraged.
He keeps clashing blows with Xiao Fan. Each time they clash, he is pushed back.
After several blows, Cloud is pushed to the edge of the arena. But the smile never cease from his face.
Xiao Fan is ready for the final blow. He move as fast as he can toward Cloud and focus his strength on his arm, then he punch toward Cloud.
Cloud punch back with a shout.
When the punches clash, the expected knock back didn't happen.