The difficulty of dealing with deities who have activated their defensive powers is absolutely two levels higher.
With Zhou Tian's strength, if a deity makes no effort to defend themselves, he could even kill them within a few strikes, regardless of whether they excel at offense or not. However, if the deity were to exert their full defensive power at that moment, then under such defenses, even though Zhou Tian knew he could defeat them, it would be impossible to decide the outcome within just a few attacks.
Judging by the situation at that time, it was clear that if Zhou Tian still wanted to triumph over his opponent, it wouldn't be as easy as he originally imagined.
If it were any other deity, upon realizing how troublesome the enemy was, there was an eight or nine out of ten chance they would retreat at that point. But because the one facing those deities was Zhou Tian, it was inevitable that the battle wouldn't end so easily.
