How had they done it... Qu Jianlei rubbed his forehead and gave a light cough. "That isn't important, is it?"
"Of course it's important," Duan Bowen answered without hesitation. Then he froze again.
More than ten seconds later, he braced himself against the aura of an Out-of-Body Great Venerable, crouched down, and carefully examined that toe.
After a long while, he let out a soft sigh. "So... you really did kill a Great Venerable!"
This time, he spoke with certainty, because... that toe had not been severed from a living body.
There was no need to explain the specifics of his judgment. A little toe that had been drained of blood was absolutely different from one cut off a corpse.
True Immortal Bowen had lived for several centuries. He possessed at least that much common knowledge.
"This..." Qu Jianlei could not deny it, could he? He was not even sure how the other party had determined it.
So he could only answer vaguely, "Perhaps a wisp of the Remnant Soul escaped."
"A Remnant Soul escaped?" True Immortal Bowen stood up and looked at him speechlessly. "Ridge Lord Qu, you seem rather regretful?"
If the other party could even completely erase a Great Venerable's Remnant Soul, he felt he could just kneel down.
"Is that important?" Qu Jianlei pointed ahead of the Warship. "The Sea Beasts... we need to observe the Sea Beasts!"
"Do they need observing?" Duan Bowen muttered softly. "The pressure... is just right."
He had traveled this route far too many times, and he knew other smuggling forces as well. He understood the habits of Sea Beasts quite well.
Previously, he had not known what sort of item Ridge Lord Qu could produce. Later, he had been unsure how strong the Out-of-Body aura would be.
Only after personally