"Damn it! What the hell is going on with this little brat?!"
The more they fought,
the uglier Heaven Gate Dao Venerable's expression became.
The battle he had thought he could crush with ease was dragging on, yet he still could not bring down his opponent.
What was more,
Heaven Gate Dao Venerable faintly sensed
that his opponent's strength
seemed to be even greater than his own!
But how was that possible?!
There were clear traces along his opponent's path of growth.
More than a decade ago,
the other party had clearly only recently advanced to the Transcendent Realm.
Even if he had possessed heaven-defying luck and obtained the inheritance of True Ancestor Xuantian, allowing him to traverse in a short time the path that others needed a thousand years to cross and prove Dao Integration,
realm was one thing,
while foundational accumulation was another!
If two people possessed exactly the same quality of power, then someone who had practiced martial arts for ten years should naturally be stronger than someone who had never practiced martial arts before!
In a mere decade or so,
even with extraordinary talent, it was impossible for the other party to make up for the gap formed by thousands of years of accumulated foundation!
And yet,
the brat before him had done it!
The more he attacked,
the heavier Heaven Gate Dao Venerable's heart sank.
What his opponent displayed before him was a complete lack of any weakness in essence, Qi, and spirit, with a defense so flawless that not even a drop of water could penetrate it!
For a split second,
he felt that he was not fighting some newcomer who had just proven the Dao and integrated with the Dao,
but one of those old slickers who had accumulated and tempered themselves in