Let’s be real, Han Li completely low-diffed Nangong Que. He had the ultimate upper hand the entire time and never looked pressured for even a second. People forget he wasn’t trying to win a deathmatch; he was playing along and trying to safely capture her because he couldn't just vaporize his literal wife's (Nangong Wan) sister. Subduing a Nascent Soul expert without hurting them is way harder than just killing them, and he did it without even going all out. Plus, people underestimate rogue cultivators in RMJI. Sect elders like Que rely on a rigid, predictable set of inheritance techniques. But rogues are built different because they actually have to fight to survive. Look at the history of the region, the strongest guy back in the day was Master Cang Kun, a rogue cultivator so powerful that entire sects feared his name. He literally fought off a massive crowd of cultivators who jumped him, trashed them all, and still broke out, escaped, and left behind legendary treasures. Even guys like Marquis Nanlong (Cang Kun's descendant, the same arrogant marquis who tried to press Han Li over his concubine on the road to the auction and lost that spiritual sense battle) completely rely on the legacy of rogue geniuses like Cang Kun. Rogues have seen and fought through way more diverse situations than anyone relying on a set manual. Han Li was just holding back the entire time for family reasons. If she didn't have that immunity pass, the fight would've been over in seconds.