Seeing that the situation was only getting worse for him, the Elder shifted tactics to saturation attacks, launching a continuous barrage of Profound Qi slashes.
"A shift in gears! Hmm, this doesn't look good for our Challenger, it seems the Righteous Warrior identified a possible weakness, that is, exhausting the reserves of metal that our Challenger has before he can improve his abilities further. These continued attacks with varied angles don't give time to regroup the torn defenses before they are struck again and a lot more is cut from control with no time or opportunity to recover it, left to fall into the dust of the fighting pit floor. Our Challenger is losing a lot of material leverage here… his only hope would be if those Hearts of Iron were completely full of metal at the time the fight started, or he might be looking at a grim possibility of running out of means to continue fighting…"
