The ancient return was exposed by his sister's live stream.

[Xueer]: I just checked, and it's confirmed to be a live stream, not a video edit.

[Lin Yang, Department of Biology]: Is this something a human can do? God, what species are you anyway?

[Not eating beef] This move by the god completely stunned me! Can you really be this cool?

[Wanling] It turns out the most powerful thing isn't fire, but the palm of a god!

The giant python slammed against the rock wall and remained motionless for a long time. After several seconds, it slowly began to wriggle, raised its head, and shook it.

Its head was tilted to one side, and black liquid was flowing from the corner of its mouth; it was unclear whether it was blood or something else.

Its gaze towards Chen Hao changed. From its previous coldness and arrogance, it turned to fear. A deep-seated, instinctive fear. It wanted to run, its body shrinking towards the water.

Chen Hao didn't give it a chance. He formed a sword finger with one hand and swung it forward. A golden sword aura shot out from his fingertip, slicing through the air with a sharp whistling sound.

The sword energy struck the giant python's neck with precision. One after another, several sword lights flew past, crisscrossing each other. The giant python's body was cut into several pieces, and black blood spurted out, splashing onto the rock wall and into the river.

The python's head lay on the shore, its golden vertical pupils slowly losing their light. Its mouth was still open, its tongue still trembling slightly, but it had no strength left.

Chen Siyao looked at the few sections of snake body that were still slightly wriggling, her stomach churned, and she almost vomited. She took a deep breath and pointed the camera at the snake segments.

In the live stream:

【Yao Yao's Little Red Riding Hood】!! Sword light! It's that sword light again!

【I am Ying Zheng】: God, isn't that sword aura... the same one that slew the Gu Diao in the Northern Frontier last time?

[Snowflakes falling everywhere]: Yes, yes, yes! That's it! One sword to slay the demon!

[9527]: Last time, I slew the Gu Diao; this time, I slew the Giant Python. The sword energy of the Supreme God is omnipotent.

Chen Hao withdrew his hand, turned to look at the girls, and said, "Let's go."

The girls then came to their senses and quickly followed. Yang Wanqing held Yuehen in her arms. Yuehen's ears were perked up, staring at the pieces of the snake's body on the ground, and she let out a low whimper.

Yang Wanqing covered its eyes: "Don't look, don't look, children shouldn't see such bloody scenes."

Moonlight peeked through her fingers and looked.

After walking for about half an hour, the cave floor began to dry, and the damp, fishy smell in the air was replaced by another smell—it was hard to describe, like dried herbs or old leather.

Chen Siyao noticed some strange marks appearing on both sides of the road. There were deep scratch marks on the rock face, as if something had scratched it with its claws.

Some of the rocks on the ground were crushed, leaving huge craters.

"Brother, it seems like something has been here before," she whispered.

Chen Hao nodded and quickened his pace.

Turning a corner, a huge cave appeared before us. The cave was circular, like an inverted bowl, and its dome was inlaid with fluorite, illuminating the entire cave as if it were daytime.

In the very center of the cave, there was a huge, grayish-white object.

Chen Siyao approached and saw that it was a skin. It looked like snakeskin, but it was many times larger than the skin of the giant python from before. The skin was intact, from head to tail, with claws, and even the shape of the claws was clearly visible.

The patterns on the skin are not ordinary snake scales, but rather sheet-like, overlapping scales that shimmer with a pearly luster under the light of the fluorite.

Chen Siyao squatted down and reached out to touch it. The skin was hard, like aged plastic, but it also had a bit of resilience. Her fingers ran along the patterns on the scales, and she could feel the fine bumps on them.

"Brother, is this the skin of that giant python?" she asked, turning around. "But it doesn't seem this big, does it?"

Chen Hao walked over, looked down at the skin, and remained silent for a while.

"It's not snakeskin," he said. "It's dragon skin."

The women gasped simultaneously.

Yang Wanqing leaned closer and carefully touched it: "A dragon? The kind of dragon from legends?"

Chen Hao nodded: "It molts and evolves here."

Chen Siyao stood up and looked around. The cave was large, but apart from the hide and some broken stones, there was nothing else.

She felt a little uneasy—if the dragon was shedding its skin here, where was the dragon itself?

"Brother, is that dragon nearby?" Chen Siyao's voice trembled, both nervous and excited.

Chen Hao nodded, walked to a corner of the cave, squatted down, and looked at some marks on the ground. They were claw marks, large, with four toes and webbing between them.

He stretched out his hand and compared the size of the claw print—his palm was less than half the size of the print.

"Brother, was that flood really caused by a dragon?" Chen Siyao followed him over and squatted down next to him.

Chen Hao stood up and looked into the depths of the cave: "When a dragon cultivates to a certain stage, it will shed its skin and evolve like a snake. The process of shedding its skin is extremely painful. The new skin has not yet hardened, and it will hurt a lot when the old skin is torn off."

Chen Hao continued explaining the principle: "When it gets too much pain, it will run around underground, disturbing the earth's veins, causing underground rivers to swell, and thus triggering floods on the surface."

The girls were relieved. So that's how it was. It wasn't that the dragon deliberately wanted to cause a flood to harm people; it was just that it was in too much pain while shedding its skin and rolled around on the ground, accidentally causing the flood.

In the live stream:

[Only Fans of the Supreme God] A dragon shedding its skin! It really is a dragon's skin!

[A cigarette after a meal] The legendary creature really exists! This is a historic discovery!

[Old Wu from Suzhou]: No wonder there were continuous floods before, it turns out there really were dragons!

[Professor Wang, Department of Biology, National Chiao Tung University]: This is mind-blowing! Completely mind-blowing! Mythical creatures actually exist!

Cai Jingwen walked around the cave, then suddenly squatted down and picked up a stone from the ground. The stone was small, about the size of an egg, but it was translucent and had a pale blue sheen, like a carefully polished gemstone.

"What is this?" She held it up to look at the light from the fluorite. Something seemed to be flowing inside the stone, like liquid light.

Chen Siyao leaned closer, her eyes lighting up immediately: "So beautiful!"

Yang Wanqing also ran over and picked up another piece from the ground—this one was light purple, irregularly shaped, but its light was even brighter than Cai Jingwen's.

She wiped the stone on her clothes, removing the water droplets from its surface and revealing a smooth, mirror-like cut underneath.

Wow! This one is so pretty!

Li Li squatted down, rummaged through the pile of rubble, picked up a light green piece, held it up to look at it, and couldn't help but exclaim "Wow!"

The girls, like children who had discovered a treasure, squatted down in the cave, rummaging through the cave and picking up piece after piece.

There were light blue, light purple, light green, and a few pieces that were golden yellow, sparkling under the light of the fluorite.

Chen Siyao picked up a golden stone and showed it to the camera: "Family, look! These stones are so beautiful! Are they glow-in-the-dark stones? Or diamonds?"