Meanwhile, as he ran incessantly, the lion intermittently used another one of its rules to counterattack Zhou Tian. As the roaring of the lion resounded, even though Zhou Tian wasn’t hurt by the opponent’s sound-based attacks, the onslaught of sound-based tactics from the opponent caused many of Zhou Tian’s fire-based attacks to be thwarted.

In such a scenario, Zhou Tian’s actions posed little threat to the lion. Zhou Tian believed if he didn’t come up with a method to resolve this, the lion would soon decipher the method he had painstakingly devised to combat it.

Regrettably, even though Zhou Tian was well aware that such moves by the lion would render all his efforts futile, he still couldn’t overcome his adversary. Thus, under the lion’s actions, all of Zhou Tian’s maneuvers were decoded one by one.

"What a hassle!"

After the outcome emerged, Zhou Tian’s mood was understandably not the best. He had already been reluctant to continue battling the lion. In this situation, with the lion demonstrating formidable strength, there was no doubt left in Zhou Tian’s mind that he regretted not having eliminated the lion when he had the chance.

However, since Zhou Tian had instinctively let his opponent stay earlier, now, no matter how challenging, he only had the option to keep fighting. Given the circumstances, even if Zhou Tian wanted to call a truce at this moment, he guessed that the lion would not agree.

Willing or not, once things had escalated to this point, the battle between Zhou Tian and the lion could not be stopped.

Thus, although Zhou Tian’s efforts ultimately had little effect, he didn’t feel discouraged. On the contrary, after realizing that his efforts were ineffective, he quickly took other actions.

No matter what, by the end of today, he had to figure out a way to defeat the lion, considering their relationship. Zhou Tian knew if he didn’t aggressively find a method to subdue his current opponent, the lion would just as likely try to kill him. Thus, to avoid being killed, Zhou Tian knew he would have to eliminate his opponent first.

Indeed, relying on his own strength, the lion mercilessly countered all the tactics Zhou Tian deployed. However, while all of Zhou Tian’s previous efforts were washed away, it was impossible to say there hadn’t been some gains.

At the very least, according to the current situation, Zhou Tian discovered that the lion indeed seemed as afraid of flames as he suspected.

If initially this was just a hypothesis by Zhou Tian, the result of launching a fire-based attack on the lion now undoubtedly reminded Zhou Tian that the lion indeed feared fire-based attacks. Otherwise, if it was not out of fear of the fire-based attacks and the lion could have defended against Zhou Tian’s assaults with its defensive power, it would not have reacted the way it did now.

This discovery was undoubtedly good news for Zhou Tian.

Since the lion indeed feared fire-based attacks as Zhou Tian supposed, the natural course of action would be to rely on fire-based attacks to inflict damage. Overcoming the opponent would entail inflicting damage; hence, as Zhou Tian’s attacks gradually began causing harm, even though initially they weren’t very effective, the increasing frequency of attacks meant that Zhou Tian could potentially defeat his opponent with them.

Although Zhou Tian was dissatisfied that his fire-based attacks hadn’t immediately subdued the lion, he felt joyful over discovering that his opponent genuinely feared fire-based attacks.

Knowing that his opponent truly feared his fire-based attacks, Zhou Tian would henceforth only rely on those.

Even if the opponent possessed formidable time abilities, because they couldn’t harm Zhou Tian, they were ineffective without major impact. Conversely, no matter how weak an ability, if it could help Zhou Tian achieve victory at this moment, he considered it essential and worth relying on.

Thus, after confirming that the lion indeed feared fire-based attacks, Zhou Tian’s attacks against it naturally turned entirely to fire-based attacks at that moment.

Divine weapons in hand, constantly activating their ingrained weapon skills, aided Zhou Tian’s attacks, which could be described as relentless. As a result, a series of attacks continuously struck near the lion, and even if they hadn’t caused significant damage initially, the series of actions had successfully weakened the lion’s metal rule defensive power by that time.