Duze then noticed that it wasn't only Rean who was awake. Roan, Celis, and Kentucky were also standing there, although none of them had said anything at first.
"How are all of you awake?" Duze asked, his expression shifting from surprise to suspicion as he looked from one to the next.
Roan answered before anyone else could. "Whatever you tried to do was aimed at the soul. Back in our Great Void, soul cultivation, soul protection, and soul strength were regarded as the most important aspects of a cultivator's life, and we stood at the very top in all three."
"That didn't change after we ascended to the Celestial Plane. So even though you tried to interfere with our souls, whatever happened simply wasn't powerful enough."
