[You did not immediately advance your [Heavenly Fire] Dao attainment to become a Great True Lord (Nascent Soul Late Stage).]
[After all, that would also take time, and the one on the field now was your original self. You could not afford any delay.]
[So you locked yourself in combat with the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens.]
[The [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority] did not intervene, nor offer any response to your slaughter of the Great Li Imperial House's three Nascent Soul Middle Stage True Lords.]
[Clearly, this amounted to tacit approval of your actions...]
[And as you exchanged probing blows with the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, you also discovered... you truly could do nothing to him!]
[At any rate, you could not defeat him in your normal state. You could only keep exchanging blows and slowly wear him down...]
[Of course, that was only in your normal state. If you played some of your trump cards, things might well be different.]
[But there was no need at all. You had discovered that the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, fighting you was in a peculiar state. He might not even be the original.]
[This was unlike the battle in the [present] between Senior Lin Feng and the true body of the Lord of the Heavenly Court, Nine Heavens, which had already become impossible to observe!]
[Even [karmic law] had become involved. Of course, although it was ostensibly neutral, it was probably still striking Senior Lin Feng with all its might...]
[If the one fighting you displayed the same abilities as in that clash at the pinnacle before you entered the true Supreme True Realm,]
(For details, see chapters 389–392.)
[Then you certainly could not beat him unless you staked your life on it.