"???"
Zhang Yang looked at the defeated Sea Horse Douluo and had only two words in his heart.
That's it???
Zhang Yang blinked, looking at Sea Horse Douluo, then at the others, his face full of surprise.
I haven't even exerted myself, and you're already down.
Dai Mubai and the others were equally astonished.
Thinking back to three or four years ago, when they had first met Sea Horse Douluo, he had raised his hand to unleash the Flight Prohibition Domain, stirring windless waves within the Ring Sea until the waters surged violently.
Looking at Sea Horse Douluo now, with a wound over a meter long across his back and slumped on the ground like a dead dog, he truly seemed like a completely different person.
Blood streamed down his back as Sea Horse Douluo panted heavily and said in a low voice, "Mr. Zhang Yang's strength is far beyond mine. I admit defeat in this battle."
Zhang Yang's raw strength had conquered Sea Horse Douluo. In his words, he was already treating Zhang Yang as an equal.
Raising his hand, Sea Horse Douluo turned toward the Sea Horse Sacred Pillar and struggled to carve a strange pattern onto it with his right index finger.
When the final stroke was completed, the pattern blossomed with dazzling red radiance and suddenly shone upon Zhang Yang's forehead. Amid the intertwining lights, Zhang Yang received a prompt in his mind.
The Sea Horse Sacred Pillar trial had been passed.
"Sea Horse Douluo, thank you for going easy on me."
Zhang Yang drifted down from midair and said to Tang San and the others, "I still have some strength left, so I'll head to the other Sacred Pillars first."
As he spoke, he brushed past Tang San and the others. At that moment, however,