The Roc Patriarch was merely a Lesser Calamity Heavenly Venerable. Had he faced a primordial spirit of the same rank, he would certainly have felt no fear and would have gone all out to kill it on the spot.
However, the core problem right now was that the Buddha before him was neither a Lesser Calamity Heavenly Venerable nor a Greater Calamity Heavenly Venerable, but a far more formidable Pill Formation Heavenly Venerable.
Although the Buddha existed merely as a primordial spirit, the Roc Patriarch lacked absolute confidence in his ability to suppress the entity. Once he failed to defeat the Buddha's primordial spirit, the consequences would be catastrophic.
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