Just as Tian Meng had said, this sudden, overwhelming suppression came from a superior energy infiltrating and destroying a weaker one. So how could it be countered?
The answer was simple: replace it with an energy of one's own that ranked even higher than that superior energy. As it happened, Oscar possessed precisely such an ability.
Oscar summoned a pure-looking azure sausage tinged with gold. Xu Baiyun reacted extremely quickly, immediately thrusting her spear to knock it away, but Oscar ate just as quickly. At the cost of having his right hand pierced through, he still managed to swallow the sausage.
Xu Baiyun did not know what this meant, but she did not lose her composure. Realizing that this might become a prolonged battle, she thrust straight at Oscar's legs. One of his hands had already been pierced through; if she crippled both his legs as well, no ability he activated, however powerful, could turn the tide.
On a battlefield, she would have pierced Oscar's head or chest without hesitation. But this was a competition, and she could not use lethal force. That was what frustrated her most.
Her golden spear stabbed out in succession, piercing both of Oscar's thighs. Just as Xu Baiyun breathed a sigh of relief, an azure beam suddenly shot from his right hand. She dodged sharply, and the wave of light barely grazed her cheek, leaving a bloody line.
Looking at Oscar on the ground, Xu Baiyun could no longer maintain her indifferent expression. In shock, she stared at the hand that had just fired that wave of light-the very right hand she had pierced roughly five seconds earlier. Now it was completely unscathed, with only a few red traces of blood proving that it had been injured.
"How is that possible?" Xu Baiyun looked