Because once he moved—even if it were just a feint to turn the tables—he would inevitably expose a flaw. After all, the Iron Cold Palm was not like the Thousand Legs, able to combine true and false so perfectly; with its clumsy strikes it was simply impossible to fool a skilled hand of the same level.

Already fallen into absolute passivity, if he were then to expose a flaw as well, even though both were skilled hands at the early Foundation Establishment stage, once struck in a vital spot there was still a chance of being killed in a single blow—and not a small chance at that!

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