Whether demons and monsters are formidable depends on who you compare them to.
It's the same with humans.
Some people don't dare to fight back when hit, not because they lack the ability, but because the cost of fighting back is too high.
If you go to places where there is a scant awareness of the law, the locals play dirty, each more so than the last.
When Wang Yunxiao first arrived in this world, he hesitated to strike monsters that ate people.
Because he was unfamiliar with the situation here and didn't know what this thing was.
Wu Dalang killing a tiger with three punches not only isn't illegal, but he could even claim a reward. You try slide tackling a tiger; if you don't die, you're guaranteed a long prison sentence.
As the saying goes, the weirder the look, the quicker the execution; who knows whether something that looks like this mess counts as a nationally protected waste?