Beginning of the Complete Loss of Control

The Fist King's metal brain began to hum quickly as he thought hard. In the end, he said, "You do seem to have a point."

"Of course I do," Li Yao said seriously. "Even if you smash the vase in my arms a hundred times brutally, you will not prove yourself stronger than me. It only proves that you have chosen a path that is easier to walk on.

"Real experts always go against the difficulties and walk on the roughest, most dangerous, and least possible path, don't they?"

"They do."

"That's what I'm talking about!" Li Yao extended his drill-like arm to pat—well, to jab the Fist King's shoulder. "Destroying the world is what third-rate experts do, dominating the world is what the second-rate experts do, and such a difficult mission as to protect the world is what the ultimate experts should do.