I'm not just human!

But just then, with a "pop," the venomous tree centipede shook its head and absorbed the deep purple venomous ground within a hundred-meter radius around it into its body.

Immediately, it opened its mouth and spat out ice shards carrying a cold wind, which formed a large ice platform directly below Xiafa in the air.

The ice seemed to have an antidote effect, quickly neutralizing the surrounding purple venom into clear water.

Beneath the clear water, as fallen leaves and soil have dissolved, the gray-black rocks closer to the earth's crust are revealed.

The Venomous Tree Centipede raised its head, its scarlet eyes turning a calm black, and stared fixedly at Xia Fa.

Xia Fa was slightly taken aback. What... was he going to do?

Whether it was his imagination or not, he vaguely sensed a kind of... goodwill from the Venomous Tree Centipede through its spiritual intuition.

But Xiafa dared not be careless. Even ordinary wild beasts like brown bears or wolves are very cunning, let alone supernatural creatures that have reached the level of demigods.

Some of the supernatural beings with demigod status are intelligent, even far surpassing humans in intelligence. Even this venomous tree centipede and the binding chains are probably not much less intelligent than humans.

Thus, Xia Fa maintained his red and silver protective shield posture, using the blue airflow to hold himself up in the air, showing no intention of descending.

The venomous tree centipede stared at him for a long while, then suddenly seemed to sigh and opened its mouth to spit out something.

This time, it spat out a fiery bead, which flew towards the icy platform.

Xia Fa could clearly see that as the bead flew, everything around it that had been corroded by the potent poison began to purify itself automatically.

The pitch-black tree trunk turned into normal ash, the rabbit carcass, now only bones, lost its purple color, and even the air filled with purple poisonous mist became fresher.

After spitting out the bead, the Venomous Tree Centipede ignored Xia Fa and turned to the disguised giant lizard, the size of a small truck, extending its sharp mouthparts.

The mouthparts pierced into the abdomen of the disguised monitor lizard, and soon thick blood rose from the translucent mouthparts, indicating that it had begun to suck the organs and muscles of the disguised monitor lizard that had turned into blood.

As it ate, a look of pleasure appeared in its calm black eyes. It quickly sucked all the blood out of its abdominal cavity, then turned its body around, its back to Xiafa, and plunged its mouthparts into the head of the disguised monitor lizard once more.

Xia Fa was genuinely taken aback. It seemed that this demigod-level Venomous Tree Centipede wasn't planning to fight him.

Even their backs were completely exposed.

Of course, he also understood that if he launched a sneak attack, the Venomous Tree Centipede's incredible speed would allow it to easily dodge, which was why it dared to be so brazen.

Out of caution, Xia Fa thought for a moment, then flipped one hand and took out a citrine crystal, performing a simple divination.

The objects of the divination are very simple: the fiery red bead that has already landed on the icy platform, and the icy platform itself, to see if it is truly not poisonous and if it can truly be used to detoxify.

This simple divination was completed almost instantly, and Xia Fa received very clear information.

That means... none of them are poisonous!

Moreover, those fiery red beads seem to be able to neutralize most of the poison from the Venomous Tree Centipede!

For some reason, Xia Fa breathed a sigh of relief, and felt a little embarrassed.

This venomous tree centipede had shown the utmost sincerity from the very beginning, yet I remained on guard at every turn.

But there was nothing he could do. After all, this was a supernatural being of demigod rank, while he was merely an insect-level being. When it came to matters of life and death, it was no big deal to be a little more cautious.

Immediately, Xia Fa dispelled the azure aura surrounding him and landed on the icy platform.

As soon as he landed, Xia Fa felt an instinctive sense of refreshment, as if the poisonous fog permeating the world could no longer penetrate him, and he no longer needed to use mercury red to protect himself.

Immediately afterwards, Xia Fa bent down and picked up the fiery red bead.

It feels heavy in the hand, warm, and slightly hot.

boom--!

The moment the fiery red bead was grasped, it suddenly emitted an invisible wave.

However, this invisible fluctuation was not aimed at Xia Fa, but instead completely cleared away the purple poisonous mist that had spread within a radius of several hundred meters.

Even the areas on the ground that had been corroded into toxic water were cleaned up and replaced with clean water.

Xia Fa suddenly felt a sense of security for no reason and looked up at the venomous tree centipede that was feeding.

He cautiously approached it.

The venomous tree centipede was still sucking the blood from the disguised monitor lizard's head; the blood rising from its mouthparts was even mixed with white brain matter, as if the rich, mellow taste fascinated it.

As Xia Fa, in his three-meter-tall metallic humanoid form, approached, it didn't react much and continued to absorb the energy on its own.

Xia Fa finally realized that this incredibly powerful demigod-level supernatural being did indeed... have no ill intentions towards him, and even showed complete goodwill.

Otherwise, at such close range, it only needs to turn its head and thrust its mandibles to inflict a fatal wound on itself!

Of course, Xia Fa was not without precautions. He had already gathered a large amount of mystical living silver in his heart, brain and other parts of his body, ready to be converted into red mercury with extremely good defensive properties at any time.

gudu~

The venomous tree centipede suddenly raised its enormous head, swallowed the last mouthful of blood and brain matter, and went into its belly.

Then, it, which was as tall as a two-story building, turned its colorful insect body around, lowered its head, and looked at Xia Fa with its calm black eyes.

Xia Fa also raised his head and looked at it.

This venomous tree centipede may not have meant any harm, but he couldn't understand why it would suddenly act this way.

They were fighting to the death just moments ago.

Suddenly, the venomous tree centipede lowered its head, and Xia Fa immediately stepped aside. It was seen that the centipede used its colorful tentacles to carve three secret characters on the rocks exposed on the clear water surface.

These three cryptic texts all resemble children's scribbles.

But Xia Fa understood its meaning immediately after just one glance.

The first secret message was its way of saying that it no longer wanted to fight Xiafa, that Xiafa couldn't do anything to it, and that its poison was useless against Xiafa.

The second secret message invites Xiafa to become its friend. If Xiafa agrees, it will take Xiafa to a place.

Strangely, the third cryptic message directly revealed the location.

That place is about two thousand kilometers away from here, almost reaching the deepest part of the southwest direction of the Mist God Hunting Ground.

According to it, there is a giant white bear with six arms, also a demigod, and it wants to invite Xiafa to join it in killing the giant bear, and then split the bear's carcass.

Moreover, according to it, Shafa's abilities seem to be very effective against the giant bear.

After reading the three secret inscriptions, Xia Fa couldn't help but chuckle to himself.

It seems that this venomous tree centipede... doesn't actually have a very high IQ?

The second cryptic message clearly stated that one must become friends with it before it would take them to a mysterious place.

But immediately in the third cryptic message, it directly revealed where that place was and what it contained.

More importantly, it actually wants to be friends with me... This is definitely not the way an adult thinks. Adults talk about interests directly, and they wouldn't speak with such a naive tone.

Xia Fa had almost completely let his guard down when he looked up and smiled, saying:

"Alright, I can be your friend. But when do we leave?"

After he said that, the Venomous Tree Centipede tilted its head, as if trying to understand what he was saying.

Xia Fa was slightly taken aback, and then realized that the Venomous Tree Centipede could not possibly understand the Putong language commonly used in the Kingdom of Augu.

He then extended a sharp, silvery-white claw and carved a secret inscription into the soil, which represented the meaning of his earlier statement.

Xia Fa chose to carve the cipher text directly in the shape of a child's doodle, rather than in tadpole-shaped or wedge-shaped cipher text.

Because he had a vague guess that these cryptic symbols in the shape of children's scribbles were something that all living beings in the world, especially supernatural beings who had reached the level of demigods or above, were born with and could understand.

If the cipher text is in a different shape, it may not be able to understand it.

Sure enough, after Xia Fa carved out the secret inscription, the Venomous Tree Centipede shook its head happily, seemingly quite pleased that Xia Fa had agreed to be its friend.

It opened its mouth again and spat out a ball of fur. Then it lowered its huge head and used its head to push the ball of fur in front of Xia Fa, indicating that he should open it.

Xia Fa was somewhat curious, but by this point he was no longer worried about what kind of trap it was. With the intelligence of this venomous tree centipede, it probably couldn't have designed such a cleverly linked trap to harm him when it had just gained his trust.

So, Xia Fa picked it up without worry and tore apart what looked like a ball of fur made up of the different colored hairs of many different animals.

But immediately, his pupils contracted, and he looked incredulously at what was inside the ball of fur, his eyes filled with immense surprise!

Chapter 134 The Origin Secret Technique of the Silver Throne!

Inside the ball of fur were two bone fragments and five animal hides.

The bone fragments were all about the size of a palm. One bone fragment was covered with honeycomb-like gaps, while the other bone fragment was off-white and had a dense bone structure.

As for the animal hides, all five were green with large and small black spots.

Xia Fa couldn't identify which supernatural creature the two bone fragments came from, but he recognized the five animal skins—they were all lizard skins!

Or, to be precise, they're all disguised monitor lizard skins!

But none of that is the key point. The key point is... all the bone fragments and animal hides are covered with densely packed secret inscriptions!

These are... seven secret contracts!

Moreover, they are all high-level secret contracts!

Xia Fa admitted that he was even a little moved at that moment.

Especially when he thought back to the very beginning, when the Venomous Tree Centipede had spat out the fiery red bead that could detoxify him, showing him complete goodwill, and when he was still a little suspicious, he blushed even more.

But there was nothing he could do about it. If he had known earlier that the venomous tree centipede only had the intelligence of a child, he wouldn't have been so vigilant and wary.

"These are all for me?"

Xia Fa looked up and confirmed it once more.

Whether the Venomous Tree Centipede understood or not, it shook its enormous head up and down as if to confirm.

It seems that it can sense what Xiafa is asking by his tone of voice, especially when the meaning is relatively simple.

Xia Fa gave it a big smile, an expression the creature probably understood. Then, he lowered his head and began to identify the high-level secret contracts.

After all, this is all equivalent to gold pounds! A solid green gold pound!

Among them were three high-level secret contracts, all of which were "Disguise Thorns," and all of which came from the skin of a disguised giant lizard.

The Disguise of the Thorn is an advanced secret code corresponding to the Assassin's Secret Code and the Thief's Secret Code. It grants assassins and thieves the ability to change their appearance and physique, blend into their surroundings, become invisible, and even discover the target's weakness to deliver a fatal stab.

Because there are quite a few superhumans who have signed assassin's pacts and thief's pacts, especially when it is necessary for various underground secret activities, such high-level pacts start at 20,000 gold pounds.

In other words... he... has already earned 60,000 gold pounds!

As for the two bone fragments with different structures, one is the "High Temperature Propulsion" secret contract, and the other is the "Peeping into the Dark Eyes" secret contract.