"Xu Yue, your Formless Calamity Finger has already reached a considerable level. Although you have only just opened your eye aperture, your combat strength may already rival that of an Eight Apertures martial artist. But in the martial world, many things are not determined by combat strength alone."
"People have many weaknesses. Poison, formations, hidden weapons, ambushes, being besieged, and so on can all easily cause martial artists far stronger than their opponents to die miserable deaths."
After once again guiding Xu Yue and Meng Qi through a sparring match, Xuan Bei patiently reminded them of this.
Since both Xu Yue and Meng Qi had broken through to Aperture Opening, and although Xu Yue had done so earlier, they could naturally still spar and exchange pointers now that both had opened their eye apertures.
It had to be said that the hardening package Xu Yue had exchanged for Meng Qi was truly quite useful. It greatly increased Meng Qi's room for error and opportunities to test himself.
Xu Yue had to raise the true meaning of his Formless Calamity Finger to the level of an Exterior technique before he could forcibly break through Meng Qi's defenses and defeat him.
That was still under the condition that Meng Qi could not conveniently use Severing Purity.
By normal estimates, although Meng Qi had only just opened his apertures, his frontal combat strength was already close to that of an ordinary martial artist with seven or eight apertures opened. He was considerably stronger than Jiang Zhiwei had been during their first mission, when she had only just mastered the Dharmakaya-level Sword Comes Without Self.
Perhaps he and Jiang Zhiwei from that time would have taken each other out if they went all out, but Meng Qi's overall ability to handle different situations was