"Haha, finally the moment has arrived!"

Su Ran looked at the ancient jar hovering in mid-air, his heart pounding with excitement, wishing the jar would transform into its final state quickly to ease his impatience!

However.

At this critical moment, his vision darkened, and he instantly returned to his original body.

It was then that Su Ran realized Xue Wuqing had tapped his arm.

The system determined he was under attack, and his consciousness was forcibly returned. Su Ran quickly understood the reason behind it.

"Overturning Water, I’ve found another flaw in you—you’re too thin!"

Xue Wuqing said irritably, rubbing her palm, "What was wrong just now? You didn’t respond when I called you. Where did your soul go?"

"I’ll tell you later, I’m busy with something right now."

Su Ran had no intention of explaining to Xue Wuqing, he hurriedly shifted his gaze back to the Dark Bone Lion in the cave, but to his surprise, the normally reliable shared vision failed.

There was only one possibility for such a mishap—the clone of the Dark Bone Lion had perished gloriously.

"Damn it, just missed the crucial part!"

Su Ran muttered in annoyance, feeling as frustrated as having a commercial break at the climax of a show, itching to smash the TV. Interrupted by Xue Wuqing, he didn’t even know how his clone had died, which only added to his frustration!

"What happened? What crucial part?"

Xue Wuqing looked at Su Ran puzzled, not understanding what he was talking about.

"Even if I told you, you wouldn’t understand. Just wait here for an hour, and I want to see what exactly happened inside this cave!"

Su Ran, having no intention to explain to Xue Wuqing, focused his gaze on the dark cave, trying to find some clues, but to his disappointment, it was pitch black everywhere he looked, and he discovered nothing.

"Wait that long? Forget it, I’ll go offline first and come back in an hour. You can figure things out on your own here."

Seeing that Su Ran was determined and had no intention of leaving anytime soon, Xue Wuqing simply logged off, turning into a streak of white light and disappearing.

The cooldown time for the Cloning Technique was one hour, which was why Su Ran had to wait that long.

To prevent unforeseen incidents below, Su Ran summoned his Skeleton Army as his shield, guarding all around him against any sneak attacks.

"What a pity, the Cloning Technique was used before the Treading on Air Technique. Otherwise, the Time Rewind skill could have compensated, wasting a whole hour like this is unfair."

Su Ran helplessly stayed in his original spot, annoyed by Wu Qing’s interruption. Not only did he miss the critical moment, but he also had to waste another hour, which was truly headache-inducing.

Without a choice, in order to obtain the precious ancient jar, Su Ran could only wait obediently for an hour, not even showing a flicker of impatience.

As he endured what felt like an eternity, the cooldown finally ended, and he could use the Magic Technique Cloning skill again.

"I can’t miss it this time!"

Eager, Su Ran immediately summoned the Dark Bone Lion again, shared its vision, and commanded the clone to slide down the cave’s slide.

"Eh? What’s this..."

As the Dark Bone Lion delved deeper, Su Ran finally noticed something amiss, a broad blue pillar about two meters wide standing upright on the ground, looking very out of place in this space.

"Whoosh!"

Before Su Ran could make out what material it was made of, a sound of something tearing through the air echoed in the space, and all of a sudden his vision turned pitch black, and he could not see anything.

However, he could feel that his clone was now in an enclosed space, and before it even started to escape, it was frozen into a chunk of ice.

Immediately after,

"Crack, crack."

The sound of the ice chunk breaking arose, and the health of the Dark Bone Lion rapidly decreased. It only lasted a few seconds before it perished inside, and Su Ran’s vision was forcibly expelled once more.

"What happened?"

At this moment, Su Ran was utterly confused. He had watched from the beginning to the end, yet he couldn’t understand how the Dark Bone Lion had died, who the enemy was, and what this thick pillar was, since the system didn’t give any hints.

A cloud of doubts enveloped Su Ran’s heart. He couldn’t imagine what had happened inside. Even a blood pet like the clone couldn’t last a few seconds; could this get any more absurd?

"Swish!"

While Su Ran was deep in thought, Xue Wuqing came online. Seeing Su Ran’s serious expression, she was quite surprised and couldn’t help but ask, "What, did you take a beating again?"

"Yes, I failed,"

Su Ran glanced at the dangerous looking hole and said solemnly, "Let’s try one more time; if it still doesn’t work, we might have to give up."

"Swish, swish, swish."

This time, Su Ran played to the Summoner’s strengths. First, he used Time Rewind to summon the Dark Bone Lion, then he summoned a Sand Puppet, a Plague Mud Monster, and a Bone Centipede, plus these ten Shield Skeletons, all forces attack. He did not believe that with so many pets attacking simultaneously, they could still be instantly killed!

Of course, if they were all instantly killed, then he might as well give up because there would be no chance of success. Why waste time?

"Wow, Overturning Water, your pets could literally be described as ’a bunch,’ anyone who duels with you is simply asking for trouble!"

Xue Wuqing’s mouth formed an O shape in surprise, saying incredulously, "In this competition, the championship is definitely yours!"

"Don’t flatter me. I know my own strengths and weaknesses. Although I have many Summoned Beasts, no one would be foolish enough to grant me the time to summon. Without the Summoned Beasts, I’m no better than an average mage player."

Su Ran was self-aware and did not let Xue Wuqing’s words get to his head, focusing on the task at hand instead. He commanded the Shield Skeletons to charge down the slide first, followed by the rest of the pets in order, with the Dark Bone Lion brought up the rear by Su Ran.

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Su Ran stared intensely at the bottomless hole, not forgetting to remind Xue Wuqing, "I need to concentrate on commanding the pets. Don’t distract me."

"Got it, hurry up, we’ve delayed enough here. I’m still waiting to go on an adventure,"

Xue Wuqing walked away helplessly, her eyes scanning around the glacier as if looking for some hidden passage.

"With so many pets, I refuse to believe we can’t uncover the secrets here!"

At this moment, Su Ran was full of confidence, leaving the Dark Bone Lion as the last to enter, which would surely witness some useful information!

Just as Su Ran expected, the moment the clone slid to the bottom, he saw a dreadful scene of the pets being ravaged.

"Hiss..."

"My God, such a huge python!"

As an observer, Su Ran finally understood why the clone was instantly killed. The python’s head, as big as a truck, swallowed several Shield Skeletons in one bite, and its thick Python Tail swept out, knocking all his pets away like ants. The poor Sand Puppet exploded mid-air, turning into a huge cloud of yellow sand, raining down everywhere.