What's this phrase "the blink of an eye turns an old hen into a duck" all about? This is exactly it.
It might not be entirely accurate to say an old hen turned into a duck. But when a cooked duck has flown the coop, only to be replaced by a fresh, spicy Tyrannosaurus Rex, Tianshi'ao found it hard to accept this shocking reality.
Reality, after all, is reality; he had no choice but to accept it, whether he liked it or not. Rather, while he was extremely unwilling to admit it, he accepted the outcome almost immediately. Then he turned around and left.
The Art of War states, "Retreat is not dishonorable…" Although the original saying didn't quite mean this, the Five Wheels Book states clearly: If you know there's trouble and still charge in recklessly, that's not fighting, that's serving yourself up on a platter.
Even the Yaksha Shizhou of old never fought a battle he wasn't sure of winning.
The enemy leveled up in the blink of an eye? What kind of damned logic was that?
