Qin Ran's charred, unrecognizable corpse moved.
A bulge appeared on the surface of his corpse and kept swelling, spreading from a single point until it was the size of a fist, all within a breath.
Then the fist-sized bulge burst through the skin.
Pfft!
With a rush of escaping air, a pale hand appeared before the Steppe King's eyes.
Then a second hand emerged.
Both hands pushed at once, tearing the skin apart and forcing his entire body out.
Qin Ran!
Qin Ran, who should have been dead, stood before the Steppe King once again.
"You, you!"
"The Snake School's Supreme Secret?!"
"How is that possible?!"
The Steppe King roared in disbelief. As he looked at the "skin" Qin Ran had shed, his eyes widened involuntarily.
Earl Shilin's reaction was much the same as the Steppe King's.
In fact, he was even more shocked.
A moment earlier, when he had seen the Steppe King expend an enormous amount of origin power to attack Qin Ran, Earl Shilin, who knew full well how powerful that force was, had never imagined Qin Ran could survive.
"It really is the Snake School's Supreme Secret..."
Hearing the Steppe King's shout and staring at the skin that resembled a snake's slough, the young earl couldn't help murmuring to himself.
He recalled something recorded in his family's closely guarded records: "Snake Transforms into Dragon"!
A method that could make a "Dragon's Scion" powerful once more.
At once, the young earl's gaze turned burning hot as he looked at Qin Ran.
As someone who bore the burden of his family's honor alone, Earl Shilin desperately desired any method that could strengthen him without compromising that honor.
So when he saw the Steppe King prepare to approach Qin Ran again, the young earl forced his battered body onward