By all rights.
The Sinister Daoist should have been laughing heartily just then.
He should even have found time, while calmly countering the attack, to heap on a few more words of utter contempt and mockery.
After all, by the reckoning of the Five Elements and their cycles of generation and restraint.
Fire overcame metal.
What was more, the Sinister Daoist commanded no ordinary flame. He wielded Pure Yang Heavenly Fire, perhaps the fiercest flame the world had ever known, one no other could rival in sheer intensity!
Ordinary metal-element techniques would likely fail to withstand even one exchange. The instant that heavenly light shone down, they would melt into liquid gold and iron, their threat gone.
But.
That would be true of ordinary metal-element techniques.
When Liu Dongqing unleashed the Natural Dao-Aspect Treasure Diagram vision of the Bead-Grinding Vessel-Tempering Spirit-Absorbing Diagram, its three-thousand-li Chaotic World Marsh surging toward the Sinister Daoist with eight complete, harmonious Dao Fruit Resonances led by [Gathering Origin].
All trace of composure, all trace of a smile.
Vanished completely!
What remained.
Before that vast, unstoppable Chaotic World Marsh, the Sinister Daoist found it increasingly hard to breathe, his face twitching violently beyond his control.
In the blink of an eye, their Dao Lord Domain Heavens and Earths had collided.
Before his eyes.
A torrent of Pure Yang Sword Qi poured from his own Dao Lord Domain Heaven and Earth like a Hanging Sky Sword River, unleashed without reserve against the Chaotic World Marsh.
But.
There was no question of its sand and gravel melting into liquid gold and iron.
This was no ordinary sand and gravel!
It easily bore the heavenly light shining upon it, the smelting heat of the True Yang Great Sun, and the grinding edge of that peerless Sword Qi.
Yet it