Compared with the other three—Shi, Ye, and Chu—their Joint Strike Technique had greatly increased their combined strength.
The three had barely reached the Near-Limitless level, but their ability to resist was clearly much stronger.
Even for a Limitless One, attacking a Near-Limitless Being was nothing like attacking an ordinary Chaos One.
A Limitless One held an absolute advantage. Near-Limitless or Chaos, it made no difference: if a Limitless One wanted to take someone down, they could.
A weaker Near-Limitless Being could pay a price to escape a stronger one, but no Near-Limitless Being could possibly flee from a Limitless One intent on killing them.
Even so, the difficulty and time required to take down a Near-Limitless Being were vastly different from those needed to take down an ordinary Chaos One.
A Near-Limitless Being retained some freedom of action when facing a Limitless One. An ordinary Chaos One... did not.
With several targets before him, anyone would have picked the soft persimmon to squeeze.
At such a sudden, crucial moment, no one would deliberately choose the hardest bone to gnaw. That would make no sense.
So it was entirely reasonable that the Demon of the Dao's Opposition had struck at Ruthless without warning, rather than at Ye Fan and the others.
Ye Fan and the others were stronger. Jiang Nan had attained the Dao after Ruthless, so he was not as strong as she was.
But compared with Jiang Nan, Ruthless was plainly much closer to Meng Chuan.
Moreover, Jiang Nan's special identity as Primordial Beginning was no secret to the Limitless Ones.
The Demon of the Dao's Opposition did not know Meng Chuan's past, but he could accurately judge which of the two remaining targets mattered more to Meng Chuan once Ye Fan and the other two, those relatively hard