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The Substitute Puppet spoke calmly: "Uncle He, Uncle Yuan, no need, I've already returned successfully."

The words fell.

"Crash——"

A loud explosion sounded, as if explosives had gone off underwater, sending white spray everywhere. Everyone looked over and saw a column of water several meters high suddenly erupt from the river's surface.

At the top of the column.

The young man stood tall, and as gravity drew the water column down.

The youth stood in the void, stepping forward as if stairs were forming under his feet, walking step by step towards the riverbank.

He was completely dry, without a trace of moisture on him.

The mist fell around him within half a meter, instantly crushed into a spray and drifting outward.

The mist parted.

Faintly visible in his right hand, the youth casually held a piece of a corpse.

The corpse had vague black-gold spots on it, but its chest and head were strangely half-obliterated, as if they had vanished in an instant!!!

Captain He and Captain Yuan exchanged glances, their pupils involuntarily trembling.

Captain He spoke with a slight tremor: "Is that the corpse of a Yue Realm monster? Am I seeing things?"

Captain Yuan took a deep breath, unwilling to believe it, but the scene was too real to be fake: "It's definitely a Yue Realm monster. The characteristics of a Yue Realm monster are distinctive, how could we mistake that?"

Captain He felt his scalp tingling: "But..."

"But... both of us are Yue Realm cultivators, though our Qi Blood Value is only 1.06 million, we're still genuinely strong..."

"Even so, the two of us almost met our end underwater!!"

"That monster was no ordinary threat!"

"How did young Xu kill it?"

Captain He couldn't understand.

He racked his brain, exhausting his imagination, unable to figure out how Xu Ran could have done it.

Captain Yuan: "..."

He was silent, torn between the hard facts and the logic.

He couldn't figure out the logic either.

Thinking about it only made it feel more eerie.

An eight-year-old child with a Qi Blood Value at most of 50,000, yet returned with the corpse of a Yue Realm monster.

Could it be possible?

It defied comprehension no matter how one thought about it!

They had watched Xu Ran grow up, after all.

The last time they saw him, Xu Ran was just a four or five-year-old little boy.

In the blink of an eye, he could kill a Yue Realm monster?

And the monster he killed had a physical strength of 1.2 million Qi!

And did so in the waters where the difficulty of slaying was extremely high!

Opponents capable of concealing themselves through some mysterious means!

And yet, in less than thirty minutes, it became a corpse?

The two exchanged glances, wanting to say something, but stopping mid-sentence, unsure whether to speak or not...

In summary.

Their expressions were quite complicated.

At this moment.

Their worldview was being shattered, piece by piece, and then reassembled by Xu Ran...

Xu Ran walked gracefully to the riverbank.

He tossed the Yue Realm monster's corpse to the ground like a dead dog.

Bang!

The sound of impact snapped Captain He and Captain Yuan back to their senses.

They exchanged a glance; logic no longer mattered, wasn't he just a prodigy? A super genius?

Humanity had only stepped into the new era for a mere 200 years, they hadn't even stepped out of the Alien Battlefield, or explored an Exotic Star!

Wasn't a genius beyond comprehension just expected?

Perhaps the strongest among them now are nothing but ants before true civilizations.

So.

A super genius like Xu Ran breaking common sense, why the fuss?

Perhaps he is the pioneer of this new era!

The two laughed heartily: "Good, good, my nephew Xu, a talent blessed by the heavens!"

"Truly invincible."

They patted Xu Ran's shoulder.

"How did you kill this monster?"

"That monster, we didn't know where it was hiding, it suddenly appeared to assassinate the two of us, if we had reacted a moment slower!!"

"We might have been having our death feast tomorrow. It was truly frightening!"

The two were visibly relieved yet curious about Xu Ran's killing methods.

Xu Ran shrugged: "Simple, just have hands. First go invisible, then ambush."

Captain He: "..."

Captain Yuan: "..."

Um... their expressions froze, petrified on the spot, autumn leaves drifting across their foreheads.

Forget it!

We'll act as if we didn't ask!

We deserved to be humiliated for asking such a question!

Xu Ran gave a warm smile, turned around.

Heavy Pupil Treasure Skill activated, he gazed into the distance.

"Uncle He, Uncle Yuan, you two clear the battlefield."

"I spotted three enigmatic glowing points hiding at the bottom of the river, I'm going to eliminate the source of these wooden statue monsters, otherwise, they'll keep regenerating."

Captain He and Captain Yuan nodded: "Alright, be careful!"

Both were quite worried.

"It's okay, I have the Invisibility Skill."

The words fell.

Xu Ran flew across the river surface, at extreme speed, pulling up a thick white splash as though a dragon swam beneath the river!

Seeing Xu Ran's slightly excited expression, hurriedly leaving his back.

Captain He and Captain Yuan exchanged glances.

Captain He: "Is it just me, or do I see nothing but the exhilaration of 'beginning the hunt' on his face?"

Captain Yuan: "I see it too... it's as if the underwater battle posed no threat and was entirely under his control."

Captain He puzzled: "Could it really have been that easy? Does that make us look pathetic?"

Captain Yuan sighed, spreading his hands: "Today's young prodigies are getting scarier."

"Sigh, we're getting old."

"Let's go, clear the battlefield."

They self-deprecatingly started their work, the battlefield at the riverbank, though defended, had tens of thousands of monsters needing to be cleared, which was no small task!

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On the other side.

Xu Ran was suspended over the river, standing thirty meters high, looking down from above.

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