Beneath the ruins of Basong's manor, Guan Tong looked at the four unconscious people before him, considering the questions he would ask shortly.
Shangyuan Zi stood nearby. Even though the battle had been over for some time, she was still shaken by the outcome.
She was not surprised that Shadow could defeat the Action Team sent by the Divine Child. After all, his title as the World's Number One Ascendant had not come from nowhere—it had been earned through victory after victory.
What surprised her was how easily Shadow had won. These official Ascendants of Yingqi had seemed like toys he could manipulate at will before him.
How had such an enormous gap come about?
Shangyuan Zi was somewhat curious.
What she did not know was that the fundamental reason Guan Tong had won so easily was that he had stored up a vast amount of Mind Power.
And that Mind Power could be converted into combat strength. That was the key.
If either of those conditions had not been met, he might still have won, but there was no way it would have been this easy.
To say nothing of anything else, without a large reserve of Mind Power supporting him, he would never have been able to deploy Shadow Domain and gain such a tremendous environmental advantage at the very start of the battle.
"I'll interrogate these people separately," Guan Tong said. "You can question your two team members first."
Shangyuan Zi nodded and asked, "After we're done, are we letting them go back?"
Guan Tong looked at her in surprise. "What? Of course not. Have you forgotten they came here to kill us?"
"..."
"I will never show mercy to anyone who wants to kill me and has already acted on it."
After saying that, Guan Tong