Even if Zhang Tie had been at full strength right now, his chances of facing a Sacred-tier expert would have been infinitesimal. Back above the Nether Sea, Primordial Unity Heavenly Lord's formidable strength had left a vivid impression on him. Setting everything else aside, a Sacred-tier expert's protective Battle Qi alone was enough to drive one to despair.
A Sacred-tier expert's protective Battle Qi had already fused with part of the power of a domain. It had no inside or outside, no above or below. Any attack against any point of a Sacred-tier expert's protective Battle Qi could easily be redirected to another point, effortlessly shedding the force of the attack. This alone rendered Zhang Tie's strongest Kinetic Strike useless, preventing it from displaying its proper power. In such a battle, the enemy's protective Battle Qi alone could erase all your attacks. You could not even get close to the enemy, and none of your attacks could harm them. How were you supposed to fight a battle like that?
Back above the Nether Sea, Zhang Tie had used Kinetic Strike with a 36.6-ton heavy hammer and still failed to break through Primordial Unity Heavenly Lord's protective Battle Qi. Much less now, when he was gravely wounded and unarmed.
But Sacred-tier experts were not entirely unbeatable for Zhang Tie, because he believed that even a Sacred-tier expert's powerful protective Battle Qi had a limit to how much energy it could endure and redirect. As long as the force of the Kinetic Strike he delivered against that protective Battle Qi exceeded that limit, he would have a chance of winning.
Yet breaking through that limit would not be easy. If Zhang Tie had a Silver Secret Treasure heavy weapon weighing over fifty tons in his hands right now, and if his strength