Then Second Elder Yun said, "All right, Fourteenth, Thirteenth, Eleventh, Eighth. You fought that thief, so tell us how it felt. Your experiences should give everyone some useful lessons."
Of the five elders who had been in the hall earlier, only Seventh Elder Yun had not fought or been injured. The other four—Eighth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Elders—had all been wounded by Xu Yi.
At the time, Xu Yi had been planning something. Although he had struck hard, he had not struck to kill. The four elders had each been shot through the heart and lost a great deal of life force, but none had died.
By now, after replenishing themselves with precious pills, their bodies were no longer in any danger. They had simply lost too much life force to replenish it quickly.
Before long, half a tea's time had passed, and an eerie silence had settled over the secret chamber.
The four Yun Family Elders had each described what they had felt during the fight, but none could offer a definite answer or any particularly useful information.
In a battle where they had no idea what their opponent had used, yet had lost all ability to resist, even seasoned powerhouses like those gathered here could not help feeling that something was deeply strange.
Seventh Elder Yun broke the silence. "The one thing we can be sure of is that the weapon he used to injure our brothers was a divine weapon."
Fourteenth Elder Yun said, "At first, I also thought it might have been some kind of divine weapon. But everyone knows that even when a divine weapon is wielded with spiritual power, its attacks can't possibly be so fast that we have no time to react."
"And when a divine weapon is wielded with True Essence, spiritual