If it were merely an ordinary case of one thing countering another, it wouldn't be much of a problem.
Take water countering fire, for example. No matter how hard a single drop of water tried, it couldn't put out a whole bonfire. The difference in scale was simply too great, and the destructive force produced by their opposing natures could be completely disregarded. Gongshu Wu feared Tan Ting, and Tan Ting had made Luo Yuan suffer—but both cases depended on a crucial condition!
The countering took place inside the dantian!
A single spark could start a prairie fire!
A Martial Gall Warrior's martial spirit was the source of their cultivation. It was the most confidential part of the body, and its precise inner core. The slightest mishap there could throw the entire dantian into disarray. In a battle between experts, one tiny mistake could cost someone their life!
Gongshu Wu sighed. "You really can't judge a book by its cover."
Looking only at Tan Ting's appearance, no one would have guessed he could be so lethal, much less that his methods were so terrifying. As a special being who was neither alive nor dead, Gongshu Wu would suffer agonies beyond imagining if living energy appeared inside his body—even if it was only a tiny flame. It would be like having his soul roasted over a fire.
Gongxi Chou didn't take it seriously.
His circumstances were even more unusual. Tan Ting couldn't counter him.
So he didn't bother to be polite. "I thought you had some earth-shattering ability. Is this really worth being so secretive about?"
How petty!
He'd even used his family's Word Spirit as an excuse, refusing to share it. Gongxi Chou found that rather laughable. Tan Ting's ancestors hadn't invented those Word Spirits, either. Calling something from Mountain