Given the opponent's cultivation is a notch higher, Ye Xuan can't hold back, nor does he want to, because this is a battle for advancement, only the strong can survive to the end.
To respect your opponent means you have to kill them, only then can you step over the corpses of eternal strongmen and move forward.
Ye Xuan respects this opponent, but he also must kill them, because a moment of mercy will become a stumbling block to the pinnacle.
What is the righteousness of Heaven and Earth?
What is a Heaven-defying strongman?
Ye Xuan is not considering any of this right now, he only knows that he must defeat the opponent, even kill them, only then can he reach a higher realm.
Reality is so cruel, only the reign of kings or the defeat of bandits, Ye Xuan understands this truth, so he won't have any thought of mercy.
"Heavenly Punishment Halberd!"
Swish!
