Lianshan and the others watched from the sidelines for a while, their sense of foreboding deepening.
In battles between mighty experts, each commanded various laws. Those laws fiercely rejected one another, each following its own Dao, so their effects were virtually instantaneous.
One could say that if they each fought on their own terms, freely exercising their strengths in their respective fields, almost all of them were invincible.
The vast majority of Heaven-Tier Powerhouses needed only to master one such law to establish an unassailable advantage over those below Heaven Tier and stand undefeated.
Even opponents of the same tier, possessing comparable power of the laws or Heaven Tier spirit essence capable of breaking through, would still find it difficult to overcome them.
But if their laws conflicted, countered, or restrained one another, battles between Heaven Tier experts could become extremely swift.
Of course, such circumstances were rare. Actual battles between mighty experts usually resembled what Fang Qianyuan and Yellow Venerable were demonstrating now: each tested the other with his own strengths, gradually finding weaknesses to exploit.
At such times, what was tested was the abundance of their spirit essence and the breadth of their Dao Paths.
In a battle between two sides, all manner of damage would accumulate so long as they had not reached the true Immortal Realm.
Flesh and divine souls that seemingly recovered in an instant and regenerated endlessly would eventually decline. Their spirit essence and Divine Sense would also be exhausted, while the Dao Paths and methods they revealed might expose a fatal weakness, allowing the enemy's laws to counter them in a single stroke and leave them unable to recover.
Thus, although Yellow Venerable appeared capable of fighting Fang Qianyuan on equal terms, he was already at an absolute disadvantage in reality.
That disadvantage