"Huh?" Ji Shidao asked in surprise. "Are you saying you were like Huang Xiao and the others too?"
"How could that be?" Ao Yuan shook his head. "If I'd been unaffected like Huang Xiao and the others, wouldn't you have noticed just now? Put it this way: if you could only use seventy or eighty percent of your internal power just now, I could probably still use ninety percent."
"Zuo Qiu Yi, you were probably at about that level too, weren't you?" Xuan Yuanjun turned to ask him.
"About ninety percent." Zuo Qiu Yi nodded. "The effect was slightly weaker on me because I came from the Martial World. So in his case, it was because he's a divine beast?"
"That should be it," Xuan Yuanjun replied.
"So bringing over the Divine Beast Clan's experts would give us more of an advantage than bringing in experts from other factions." Ji Shidao laughed heartily. "This is wonderful."
"Unfortunately, our Divine Beast Clan has too few experts," Ao Yuan sighed.
"Better than none," Zuo Qiu Yi said with a smile. "Perhaps we can even give Jiang Hengdao a surprise."
"There's still something I don't understand, Xuan Yuanjun. Why can the Divine Beast Clan negate part of the effect? Their identity alone doesn't seem quite convincing enough as an explanation, does it?" Ji Xuanying asked.
"The Divine Beast Clan isn't of the same kind as us, after all. Isn't it normal for there to be differences?" Zuo Qiu Yi also asked.
The Divine Beast Clan's physiques generally far surpassed theirs, so this situation should not have been too surprising.
"After thinking it over, I believe it's most likely because of their essence blood," Xuan Yuanjun said. "The Divine Beast Clan's essence blood is stronger and more abundant than ours, allowing them to resist