"Daoist Desire Evil had finally revealed a flaw!"
He Ping remained calm and composed. Thinking back to when the blue-robed Daoist had fled, his eyes had brimmed with hatred; it was clear they had become mortal enemies.
But so what? On the path of Seeking the Dao, one had to fight for cause and effect. Stretching out one's head meant a blade; pulling it back still meant a blade. Meanwhile, with the Future Lunar Mansion Calamity Sutra to aid him, He Ping had firmly crushed his opponent in their contest of deduction and calculation.
Daoist Desire Evil's subsequent fury and humiliation came precisely because he had clearly realized this.
This sort of contest was undoubtedly one of cultivation and realm, not simply a comparison of whose mana was stronger. If it came to sheer depth and abundance of mana, Daoist Desire Evil might even have held a slight edge.
However, the path of deduction and calculation did not rely on mana. It depended more on one's understanding of the workings of the Heavenly Dao, or on obtaining the complete inheritances of Celestial Star Dragon-Pointing and the Future Lunar Mansion Calamity Sutra—when it came to this, the Dao Xuan Lineage and the Buddhist sects possessed uniquely blessed advantages.
"In truth, at our level, confrontations between experts are not purely contests of personal strength. Whoever can grasp the changes of Heaven's numbers, move with divine perfection, and seize the initiative in every matter can remain undefeated..."
Since entering the world, He Ping had gone through battles great and small. He deeply understood the advantage of an "intelligence war." Put plainly, it was intelligence: whoever held the initiative in intelligence and could anticipate the enemy's moves would naturally have enormous odds of victory.
At that moment, He Ping rapidly sorted through his experiences