Gu Hanxi!!

At that moment, at the rear of the deck, Lei Poyue and Chu Yunfei had already regained consciousness.

No sooner had they come to than they heard the soldiers around them talking in voices they could no longer keep down.

"You should've seen it! Long Hao, that descendant of a Venerable, even used his Dragon Whale True Form. The water column was three meters thick. I thought Qin Yan was done for, but then..."

"Qin Yan blasted straight through the water column with one thrust! He even pierced the dragon whale itself!"

"Three thrusts! Just three thrusts, and he defeated all three Fourth Grade prodigies of the Dragon Whale Clan! One of them was even a Venerable's descendant!"

Lei Poyue and Chu Yunfei listened in a daze, their faces turning pale, then flushed.

They exchanged an instinctive glance and saw the same shock and bitterness in each other's eyes, along with a trace of relief and... genuine respect.

"So... that's his true strength."

Lei Poyue watched Qin Yan's back, his voice bitter but accepting.

Chu Yunfei was silent for a long time before he managed a strained smile.

"How can one person be that strong...?"

Only now did they truly understand.

Why Dean Xiao Shan had given the role of "trump card" without hesitation to a junior who looked even younger than they were.

It wasn't favoritism. It wasn't personal affection.

It was simply because—

Qin Yan was strong enough!

The soldiers around them could no longer hold back. Cheers and shouts surged like a tidal wave across the entire Human Fleet!

"We won! We won!"

"Victory to the Zhenhai Army! Victory to the Human Clan!"

"Qin Yan! Qin Yan! Qin Yan!"

Countless soldiers thrust their arms into the air, raising their weapons high until they formed a glittering forest