At this moment, a disheartened Chen Ming and his brother Chen Can stood at the ship's railing, chatting idly because there was nothing else to do.

"Ah Ming, are dungeons always this dragging? We've been in this one for a month now, and I haven't encountered any real combat opportunities. It feels like a fake dungeon."

Chen Can also wanted to complain; it was his first time tackling a dungeon, and he came across this dull and uninteresting type.

"Of course not, regular dungeons usually finish in a day. This one is quite special; I haven't heard of many on the forum that last this long."

Chen Ming responded to his elder brother while staring vacantly at the vast ocean in front of them until something far away suddenly caught his attention.

"Look! What is that!"

He suddenly raised his hand to point to the barely noticeable speck at the furthest reach of their view on the sea.

"Where?"

Chen Can, wearing glasses, immediately followed his direction, initially seeing nothing, but later, after straining his eyes, he finally noticed what his younger brother was pointing at—a floating object on the sea.

"Is that a piece of wood?"

Chen Can adjusted his glasses and speculated.

"No, it's a person, someone lying on a plank!"

Chen Ming replied, sounding quite surprised.

"How could someone be in the ocean? I don't see any nearby ships in distress..."

Chen Can expressed his confusion right away, finding it quite strange for a person to suddenly appear lying on a plank in this sea area.

"Should we go over and rescue them? The person might still be alive."

Chen Ming proposed next, his tone rather uncertain.

"I feel like the appearance of this person here is unusual, but I can't rule out overthinking. Let's go ask Fan for a decision."

After saying this, Chen Can turned and sprinted to the captain's cabin, where a young man was napping inside.

Upon entering the captain's cabin, he found someone just awakening from the lounge chair, raising his head to look at him.

"Ah Can, don't bother with that thing in the sea. It's something disguised; rescuing it would lead to a trap."

Wang Zhifan had already noticed the distant entity and responded before he was even asked.

"It was indeed like that..."

After listening, Chen Can nodded; he already suspected the absurdity of a person suddenly appearing in such a place, and Wang Zhifan's words affirmed his intuition.

"Can I shoot it dead? So it won't harm other people."

He further inquired of Wang Zhifan.

"It's best not to do that."

Wang Zhifan straight up rejected his proposal.

"Remember, when you're in a dungeon, avoid complications unless necessary, especially when you lack power. Operate under the principle of clearing the dungeon as quickly as possible."

He then advised with two more sentences.

"Okay, Fan."

Having listened, Chen Can nodded and left, while Wang Zhifan resumed his slumber on the lounge chair for cultivation.

A short while later, when Chen Can returned to his younger brother and conveyed Wang Zhifan's intentions, Chen Ming was somewhat surprised.

"Fan said the person is a disguised monster? But it looks like a beauty to me! Plus, that person's drifting closer to our ship!"

He had been observing the distant target for the past few minutes and, thanks to having taken Celestial Essence Elixir, his vision had improved greatly, allowing him to discern many new details.

"A beauty? And drifting closer? That confirms Fan's words. Tricks like this on the sea usually follow that pattern."

Chen Can replied while glancing far afield, then indeed saw that the plank had floated closer, and what lay on it could vaguely be seen as humanoid. As he observed it, he happened to see that figure beginning to move, then slowly standing upright and starting to wave at him!

"Wow, it's standing up! If not for Fan's warning, I'd want to shoot it!"

While watching the figure waving from a plank on the distant sea, Chen Can vented to his younger brother.

"Oh... It's really a beauty! If only it weren't a disguised monster!"

Next to him, Chen Ming became increasingly excited as he stretched his neck for further comments.

The brothers went back and forth for a while before discovering the woman standing on the plank was drifting closer, and the speed of approach was gradually increasing, as if that plank weren't a plank but a surfboard!

"Oh no, this monster isn't even pretending anymore! What do we do now?"

The two brothers were momentarily baffled by this unfolding situation; originally planning to heed Wang Zhifan's advice to ignore it and just watch, now the thing approached voluntarily, leaving them uncertain of what to do.

At this juncture, footsteps of a certain young man emerged from behind them—Wang Zhifan had arrived.

"You two, step back. Leave this to me."

Upon arrival, he instructed the slightly baffled brothers to quickly move backward; they complied instantly, repositioning themselves about ten meters behind him, watching the sea ahead through him.

What they saw was that the plank's mysterious and beautiful woman, draped in light gauze, approached within a hundred meters. Her plank was raised slightly by sea currents, putting her nearly at level with Wang Zhifan on the deck.

Once the mysterious woman in light gauze came bizarrely close, about five meters from the ship's side, she ceased approaching further, her pair of azure eyes fixating interestedly on Wang Zhifan, who was observing her too.

"What is your purpose for coming here?"

Wang Zhifan immediately sensed that this mysterious woman was more than a mere monster; she possessed a formidable unknown force with notable pressure against him, thus he decided to proceed cautiously and attempt dialogue.

"Human, I thought our interaction would proceed in a better way. But your caution forced me to adopt this direct approach... My question is simple; where do you hail from?"

The beautiful woman cloaked in gauze replied with a smile, and simultaneously the plank beneath her bare feet rapidly transformed into a pure wave, leaving her seemingly standing atop the waves.

"We come from Princess Harbor."

Hearing the unpredictable strength of the alien woman inquire, Wang Zhifan promptly answered without much hesitation.

"No, you're aware that my desired answer is different."

The woman immediately refuted his answer, her azure eyes locked onto him, emanating undeniable pressure.

"Since you've spoken this way, it proves you've already learned everything... What exactly do you intend?"

Wang Zhifan did not wish to answer directly, and thus counter-questioned.

Meanwhile, his intuition sensed unprecedented threats, yet with circumstances as they were, he could only take it step by step.

"Human, if you do not respond, then I shall employ other methods to acquire the answer."

As her words concluded, Wang Zhifan then realized his surroundings had completely transformed; the ship's deck he initially stood on morphed into a profound shade of azure, akin to entering a strange illusion.

He then noticed his mental consciousness being rapidly washed over by some force within this azure, but thanks to his strong attributes and various gear, he felt he could barely endure.

"If you're looking for a fight, then a fight it shall be."

Realizing the opponent had launched an offensive, Wang Zhifan didn't hold back either, immediately activating the invisible skill of the Invisible Deceitful Clothing to bolster defense, with Thunder Dragon Fury appearing in his right hand and a small cube speaker in his left; while icy source power explosively surged around him.

"BGM1, maximum volume."

Tools were unleashed in an instant—even the speaker was brought out indicating Wang Zhifan was ready to go all out; this enemy presented unparalleled danger to him. Despite the possibility that all-out combat might not guarantee victory, he was never one to take a beating without striking back, and regardless of how bad the outcome might be, he was committed to fighting first then figuring things out.

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