Jia Yan saw this scene and immediately understood.
The other party had not shown their greatest attack power before, which Jia Yan could understand. After all, Jia Yan's strength must have seemed truly insignificant to Pai Lan. The attacks that Jia Yan had witnessed thus far were all unbelievably terrifying killer moves; he had felt that he could not have escaped any of them previously. Fortunately, the Bluish Defense was powerful, allowing him to escape death over and over again.
But this time was different, this time's attack meant the other party surely saw Jia Yan as a Strong One to be treated as an equal, and so the attack came without holding anything back.
"I can't retreat, that would put me in a situation surrounded and attacked by numerous Strong Ones and Pai Lan!" Jia Yan judged in that instant.