Xu Yi knew full well that blind confidence was the most dangerous thing of all.
Take this fight, for instance. Though he had kept raising his estimate of Third Young Master Yun's strength, he had never once asked himself whether he was truly capable of facing him.
At the time, the battle had raged, with life and death decided in an instant. He hadn't had the chance to dwell on it.
But now, as he slowly turned it over in his mind, he realized that without a stroke of luck, he would already have been nothing but a corpse.
At that moment, Third Young Master Yun had activated a Level 1 Grade 4 Ice Sword Talisman. The talisman field unleashed by the Ice Sword Talisman had swallowed up the field of the Swift Wind Talisman Xu Yi had activated in an instant, then erupted with terrifying power capable of destroying heaven and earth.
Xu Yi was trapped at the eye of a storm made of ice swords. He hadn't even had time to think; he had organized his defenses on instinct.
First, he activated True Fire Malice, raising a dense wall of Baleful Intent. Then he replaced the mid-grade Spirit Stone in his Hundred Spirits Battle Robe and activated its Protective Light Barrier. He used a wall of thought to form a second defense beyond the barrier, and finally circulated the Profound Thunder Body Tempering Art.
These four layers of defense looked impregnable, enough to withstand that devastating blow.
In truth, no one below the Yang Venerable realm could endure an offensive Grade 4 talisman. Xu Yi had survived by sheer luck, thanks entirely to the fact that ice and fire countered each other.
He cultivated the peerless True Fire Malice, and by now it had grown as dense and