"Xiao Yan, we really need to go!"
Seeing that Xiao Yan still seemed unwilling to give up, Yao Lao hurriedly reminded him.
"Ugh..."
At the same time, a cry of pain escaped Xiao Yan's lips.
The muscles beneath the skin of his right hand had begun to suffer damage after being pushed to their limit.
If Xiao Yan kept holding on, that damage would soon spread throughout his body!
It was precisely because Yao Lao had noticed this that he warned him again.
"Whew... I really can't accept this! If only I'd already refined the Green Lotus Core Flame..."
Taking a deep breath, Xiao Yan naturally noticed the state of his own body as well.
Indeed, if Xiao Yan had already refined the Green Lotus Core Flame, then with Dou Ling cultivation + two Heavenly Flames + Yao Lao's more intact soul compared to the original story + landing a sneak attack on Protector Wu at the outset, those stacked buffs really would have given him a chance to kill Protector Wu on the spot.
Unfortunately, there were no ifs about it!
However unwilling he felt, Xiao Yan knew that this was pretty much as far as he could go.
The Dou Technique he had just created using the Myriad Beast Spirit Flame as its foundation, Beast Spirit Transformation, could indeed deal Protector Wu a devastating blow, but killing him outright was clearly still impossible.
Ultimately, Xiao Yan's own strength fell far too short of Protector Wu's.
And Yun Leng was still standing off to the side.
Even if Xiao Yan risked everything and seized that tiny chance of killing Protector Wu, his own cultivation would probably fall back to Da Dou Shi.
At that point, Yun Leng's Dou Emperor cultivation would be more than enough to sweep the battlefield