"What are you so smug about? We were merely careless!" Lan Yao's expression was ugly, his earlier composure and sneering sarcasm gone.
"If you have any guts, release us and fight us again!" Lan Xinjing's beautiful face looked demonic, twisted and livid, her imperial eyes brimming with resentment and hatred.
"The weak always like to make excuses, regardless of their cultivation realm," Ouyang Zehui said mildly.
Lan Yao, Lan Xinjing, and Ma Quan wanted to say more, but suddenly, all three screamed as their soul fragments began burning at incredible speed.
Ouyang Zehui did not stop it. The restrictions within them were highly unusual; he could not even touch them. They must have been imposed by terrifying beings from the Beyond-Realm Lands.
Moreover, from Xiang Zimo's earlier battle and his own fight against the three just now, he had discovered that the counteracting power each person wielded differed not only in strength, but even in nature.
That made matters even more complicated. Even if he forcibly kept the three alive and brought them back to study, there would be no breakthrough discoveries. The Beyond-Realm Lands had come prepared.
Their opponents had likely anticipated the possibility of their people being captured for study and taken precautions long ago.
After the three vanished, Ouyang Zehui returned to the others, who were thrilled by his overwhelming victory.
This battle had given their morale a tremendous boost!
Through his actions, Ouyang Zehui had shown everyone that counteracting power was not impossible to deal with. With the right approach, they could still fight.
Yet there was little trace of a smile on Ouyang Zehui's face.
"What did you discover?" Haoyue Celestial Venerable asked.
"These people were certainly not their core fighting force. They were probably testing us in all these battles," Ouyang Zehui said.
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