"How dare you!" Liu Qigang barked reflexively, his beard and hair bristling as sharp light seemed to burst from his eyes.
Shi Tiexin's single sentence had struck directly at the place that irritated him most, making him fly into a rage. Instinctively, he wanted to split Shi Tiexin apart with one palm strike.
Boundless sharpness crashed down over him, yet Shi Tiexin showed no fear at all. He spoke with thought-force, "You're rattled."
"I—" Veins bulged on Liu Qigang's forehead, but the palm he had lashed out with instinctively held back its force.
He could kill Shi Tiexin with one palm.
But if he truly struck Shi Tiexin down at this moment, not only would it solve nothing, it would also make it seem as though he himself knew he was in the wrong.
He was at the stage of advancing from Extremely Sharp Energy to Gang Qi or Battle Qi, just as Dragon Essence was when preparing for Burning Core Breakthrough. Both were critical moments. If he found himself in the wrong now, it would cast a shadow over his future path and hinder his prospects. What should have been an ascent to Gang Qi might, with one misstep, become nothing more than Battle Qi.
That was something he would never permit.
Moreover, he firmly believed that his theories were absolutely correct, so he would never retreat at a time like this.
Thus, that palm strike could not be unleashed.
Liu Qigang withdrew his hand, but Shi Tiexin did not stop speaking. Instead, his eyes burned brightly as he said, "Manager Liu, I've summed up your 'low-born Theory' and 'Suffocation Theory.' In the end, they boil down to two main elements: 'inequality of personhood' and 'intensified involution,' right?"
Liu Qigang lowered his hand and snorted. "Naturally. If life forms