Usually, enemies Xuan faced would all have some level of Soul power. But seeing as how this one was a pure machine, that was naturally out of the question. The problem here was that this thing had physical stats on par with that of a Saint-realm master who specialized in body tempering and the physical side of cultivation—not to mention the electrostatic shield that it could deploy around itself to absorb attacks.
In other words, dealing damage to to this gatekeeper was going to be somewhat of a pain. Since all of its attacks were physical, Xuan's Devouring Qi would not do him much good here. On the surface, there seemed to be no good way through apart from brute forcing it, but… Xuan had a feeling there was something else at play here. A faint trick, so quaint that it was almost impossible to notice without thousands of years of experience…
