Ma Ran squinted slightly: "This is..."

"A conglomeration of negative emotions and soul remnants?"

"A method of directly damaging the soul."

"So this is your attempt..."

"Crude, yet very creative."

"Worthy of praise."

"However..."

"You actually chose to abandon this trap on your own?"

"Won't you try it out?"

Seeing the scene before him, Ma Ran understood.

The flaw previously revealed by the Extremely Effective Monarch was in fact a trap.

If Ma Ran had personally arrived and rashly launched an attack, he would most likely have had his soul ambushed and corrupted by this strike, losing any ability to resist and being bound away directly.

The Extremely Effective Monarch was unconcerned, snickering coldly: "Enough."

"Between you and me, this isn't our first battle, we know each other well."

"There's no need to bring out those probing techniques!"

"Aren't you just waiting for me to strike now?"

"That conversation you just had with me, no other Earth natives could hear or see, right?"

"I don't know what price you paid or what promises you made to get that expert of thought and soul manipulation to assist you so extensively..."

"But to think I'd easily fall into your trap, isn't that underestimating me?"

The "Ma Ran" who was continuously conversing with the Extremely Effective Monarch was actually...

Just a Youwen Text Illusion.

The Extremely Effective Monarch thought Ma Ran had fallen into his encirclement and ambush, but in reality, it was quite the opposite.

The Youwen Illusion System indeed doesn't help in improving combat power and individual attributes, but in terms of survival ability...

To put it bluntly, killing a Youwen guru is akin to destroying an entire star.

Catching a Youwen guru?

Pure fantasy!

Ma Ran, standing undefeated, had ten thousand ways to toy with the Extremely Effective Monarch, while the latter could do nothing.

The reason for keeping the opponent until now is simply because...

In Ma Ran's eyes, that restless fellow, the Extremely Effective Monarch, is an excellent one-time-use chess piece.

A chess piece to counterattack the Eternal Civilization!

"Ma Ran" slowly paced forward, standing before the Extremely Effective Monarch.

biubiubiu...

Dozens of barely visible streams of flowing light crossed the sky, penetrated "Ma Ran's" body, yet caused no real harm whatsoever.

"What a terrifying fellow!"

The three incarnations of the Extremely Effective Monarch glanced around, trying to gain distance, but ruefully realized no matter how they tried, how they struggled, the distance between them and Ma Ran did not increase, instead, it got even closer.

Seeing resistance was futile, the three incarnations of the Extremely Effective Monarch suddenly calmed down.

"My sub-light-speed particle emitter has an effective damage radius of ten kilometers!"

"Though beyond that range, the damage severely decreases, but..."

"Even if I cannot capture you successfully, I can cause enormous damage to the Grass Hut Academy!"

"Even kill all the other academy members!"

"Isn't this the situation you least want to see?"

The Extremely Effective Monarch laughed madly, the three incarnations began shooting frantically in all directions.

Invisibly faint light lines pierced through the heavens and the earth, weaving into a net within the Grass Hut Academy.

Under such a saturating attack, except for a few Special Ability Users, the majority of Earthlings within the effective damage range would die!

"Feel pain!"

"Bear the grudge!"

"Let this hatred be the fuel for your revenge!"

"Come on! Kill me!"

Ma Ran expressionlessly strolled forward, reaching the three major incarnations of the Extremely Effective Monarch.

Raising the blade, lifting it high, and slashing diagonally.

Swoosh!

Swoosh!

Two crimson sword lights, accompanied by the roar of a Golden Dragon, shattered two of the Extremely Effective Monarch's incarnations into fragments.

The final incarnation screamed and wailed in agony, yet the voice carried a twisted eerie laughter: "Ahahaha... Ahahaha!"

"That's it!"

"That's the feeling!"

"The flames of angry revenge melting away impurities from the soul, allowing my life to reach new heights!"

"You've harmed me."

"And yet you have made me!"

The Extremely Effective Monarch sent the three incarnations, never intending for them to return alive.

They were here to present their heads!

Collecting more 'critical intelligence' would be ideal.

To maintain secrecy, these three incarnations even avoided using individual teleportation gates, instead arriving on Earth early with other new experimenters, hiding in advance.

"You've accomplished yourself, that's true."

Ma Ran looked at the last incarnation of the Extremely Effective Monarch that came to capture him, as though looking at a fool, and spoke calmly: "But..."

"Why should I be angry?"

Having spoken, he snapped his fingers.

The Extremely Effective Monarch awoke abruptly.

He found himself not standing but kneeling in the woods next to the academy's Sword Pavilion.

Three sub-light-speed particle emitters, two had already self-destructed.

The data-recording pendant inside the protective suit indicated that among the three sub-light-speed particle emitters, only one had fired once toward the sky.

Not to mention harming anyone, it didn't even touch a passing bird.

"Wait! Besides being a Sword Master, you obtained the true inheritance of that magic user? Impossible!"

"Without kinship or reason, why?"

"Charismatic personality? Sincere character? Promised exchange?"

The Extremely Effective Monarch was left baffled, his expression full of unwillingness.

The outcome of the situation was as he expected.

But the process was completely different from what he thought!

Ma Ran did not slay his incarnation in vengeance; instead, he stood at a higher level, overlooking him with a gaze that looked down upon all living things, "sculpting" him to make him more perfect.

More...

Useful.

"Damn it! I considered you an eternal nemesis, and you dared to treat me as a chess piece! I..."

The Extremely Effective Monarch's words weren't finished.

A crimson flash, along with the dragon's roar, killed the third incarnation.

Before the last strike fell, Ma Ran had already retracted the Youwen Illusion he had set up.

The Extremely Effective Monarch thought they were standing on equal footing, each with their own advantages and drawbacks, similar overall capabilities.

But he was wrong from the start.

Even as the commander, the threads Ma Ran manipulated at the same time were far more than just two.

The Extremely Effective Monarch's Thought Essence Extraction Technology was far from mature.

Yet Ma Ran, with Little Walnut's help, could refine the purest soul nourishment in collaboration with Youwen.

Not far away...

The first and second phase members of the Grass Hut Academy, President Huang Weiguo, and the gallant participants of the international Extraordinary exchange seminars were all rushing in this direction.

"Prophet! Are you alright?"

"Senior Ma Ran!"

"It seems Brother Ran won? Was that Longevity Star Person kneeling on the ground for mercy just now?"

"No! I just heard, that guy said he considered Senior Ma Ran an 'eternal nemesis,' but Senior Ma Ran regarded him as a 'chess piece,' he didn't even finish before getting killed."

"Such high standards! Does anyone know the backstory? Super curious about what happened!"

"Unsure, but I can guess a bit. Senior Ma Ran used himself as bait, luring the alien here. The guy thought he was stepping into a balanced battle, only to find out it was a one-sided wishful thought..."

"Phew... No wonder he's a Prophet! Truly worthy of being called 'National Guardian'!"

"Li Xing, why aren't you staying in the hospital room, coming out for what? Your injuries might worsen!"

"Not at all, I know my own body! Initially, I wanted to see if I could use a telescope to observe the situation with the magic user and Martial God... I didn't expect to catch this scene. What's there to say? Brother Ran, you've done brilliantly!"

"Hey! You're not thinking of uploading this to video sites, are you? That's violating portrait rights!"

"I've already gotten Brother Ran's consent! As long as it helps spread the concept of Extraordinary and doesn't affect other members' regular living and cultivation, Brother Ran supports making some Extraordinary topics and videos!"

"Eh? Can I be the protagonist?"

"Your Burning Martial Inner Qi Cultivation is too weak, Seven Vortex Swordsmanship is amatèur, superpower is Under Development, there's no topical value. In the next two days, apart from training in [Extreme Cold], I will spend all my energy making videos! I've got it planned out! This episode's theme will be 'Little Happiness Talks Extraordinary·Longevity Star People: The Clown is Actually Myself'."

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