Yun Da was clearly more experienced than Gong Cheng.
He had dealt with the High Priest of the Gongxi Clan before and knew full well how devious these people could be. Since Jimò Qiu couldn't escape on his first try, he had no choice but to settle for the next best thing: he formed a formation to temporarily block Yun Da's attack, then asked, "Why do you have to hunt me down to the bitter end?"
Yun Da sneered. "The High Priest is telling me this?"
He had been deceived back then and trapped in one place for a hundred years!
How was that not hunting him down to the bitter end?
Now that it hurt him, he started complaining?
Clearly, that wasn't what Jimò Qiu meant. "Before my teacher died, he told me that killing your enemies and eliminating future trouble was the best strategy. If you couldn't beat your enemy, you had to run—that was the next best strategy. If you couldn't beat them or get away, then you had to resort to the worst strategy. But I really don't want to use that."
Back when his Wisdom Aperture was sealed, he had listened to everything his teacher said.
Now that his Wisdom Aperture had opened, he'd also developed a bit of shame.
His shame kept him from seducing someone with his looks without a second thought. His teacher had told him to just do it, and that heavenly lightning would help strike his enemy dead. He had no idea whether that was reliable. Jimò Qiu looked at Yun Da through the barrier and sighed. "You wouldn't want to see that either."
He tried to appeal to Yun Da's feelings in a conciliatory tone.
"How about we both take a step back?"
Then he tried appealing to reason.