The smile instantly froze on Tie Zhan's face, and the feigned envy in his eyes vanished without a trace.
He first glanced at the battle halberd in Qing Chen's hand, its ferocious might towering to the heavens, then looked down at his own arms and immediately shuffled several steps back.
What kind of Great Jin joke was this?!
He had indeed cultivated his Iron God Golden Palace Armor to the twelfth layer. His skin, membranes, organs, sinews, and bones had all been tempered by the true essence of the golden tower, and even a direct strike from an ordinary high-grade magic treasure might not break through.
Together with the supreme-grade magic treasure [Golden Flame Bracers] he had ritually refined for years and the two and a half metal-element rules threads in his sea of qi, his defenses at full power could be considered passable even among the True Lords on the Heavenly Gang Ranking.
What was more, just recently, he had comprehended a Spirit Venerable-grade spell from the Iron God Golden Palace Armor-the Golden Palace World-Suppressing Seal.
Once unleashed and empowered by the [Golden Flame Bracers], this seal could channel metal-element rules inside and out, condensing a thousand-zhang phantom golden tower to suppress the void. Combining offense and defense, it had greatly increased his combat strength.
But that still depended on who his opponent was!
What Qing Chen held now was a top-tier half-spirit treasure that could casually pierce even a fourth-tier Artifact Testing Stone as though it were tofu.
Most terrifying of all, this man's own cultivation was frightening to the extreme.
If he really let Qing Chen stab him, and Qing Chen poured in a few extra tenths of his magic power in his excitement, he would most likely be skewered clean through by that battle halberd first!