In the time it took to blink, they had exchanged over fifty blows, a testament to their abilities and experience in combating other cultivators. They didn't try to gauge each other's strength, probing each other here and there while trying to slowly build up momentum. No, such superfluous actions were reserved for the young ones, those who still had not yet been baptized by the true flames of the cultivation world.
Those who did, like Chen Zholan and Chen Gutian, knew how easy it was to lose one's life in the cultivation world. A moment of carelessness and you could easily lose your life. There have been countless accounts of where a weaker opponent managed to catch a stronger opponent off guard, especially when it came to the lower realms between the early stages of the core formation realm and the qi refinement realm.