I'm not just human!

However, Xia Fa, upon landing, narrowed his eyes, a dangerous glint appearing in them.

The reason was that when he slashed down, the body of the Mist Scale Dragon cub turned into dense mist and dissipated!

That's why his strike had nowhere to deflect the force and could only hit the ground.

Suddenly sensing something, Xia Fa turned his head and his gaze, sharp as an arrow, locked onto something several kilometers to his left.

It was the edge of the earth that he had shattered with a single strike. Amidst the flying rocks and scattered dirt, a nearly transparent figure staggered for a moment.

The figure had a dragon tail as long as its body, six wings pressed tightly against its back, and a single horn on its forehead gleaming with dazzling light, as if it were brewing some kind of attack.

It is... a Mist Scale Dragon cub!

"Wow, they even know how to use clones and invisibility to mislead the enemy..."

Xia Fa was quite surprised. Compared to the Mist Scale Dragon cub, both the Restraining Chains and the Mountain Dragon Bear seemed to have much lower intelligence.

As for the Venomous Tree Centipede, well... it's his friend, and he can't be bothered with it behind his back.

Whoosh—!

Once again, star silver steam erupted, and Xia Fa's figure shrank like light, disappearing from the spot. With two consecutive flashes, he rushed to the mist scale dragon cub with unparalleled speed and ferocity, and slashed down again!

He was so fast that when the heavy, powerful saber fell, the Mist Scale Dragon cub, staggered by the collapsing earth, hadn't even regained its footing.

But at this critical moment, the Mist Scale Dragon cub turned its head, and a beam of light suddenly shot out from the shining horn on its head!

No, that wasn't a beam of light, but a torrent of steel composed of extremely dense metallic needles, heading straight for Xia Fa's horse-slaying sword!

Ta-da!

The metal needles struck the blade of the horse-slaying sword, slicing through it like a high-pressure water jet, spraying outwards.

This time, the metal needles were completely different, giving Xia Fa an extremely dangerous feeling. A massive amount of red mercury immediately appeared around him.

In an instant, these red mercury particles connected with each other, shrank inward, and their light subsided, transforming into a perfectly round shell, like the outer shell of a planet.

All the fine metal needles that pierced the red mercury shell were bounced off without leaving a trace.

This is precisely the Red Silver Star Shell that Red Silver All-Defense has been upgraded to!

The dark golden pupils of the Mist Scale Dragon cub suddenly contracted, revealing a human-like look of shock, and even the fighting spirit on its face immediately receded like a tide.

Although this is not its strongest killing move, it is still one of its more powerful talents. I didn't expect that it couldn't even break through the defensive shell of this metal humanoid.

The Mist Scale Dragon cub immediately realized that it was completely outmatched. This metallic humanoid, which clearly didn't even have the aura of a demigod, was simply a monster!

It couldn't win, so it had to run away!

As its fighting spirit subsided, the torrent of metal needles that shot from its single horn on its forehead also weakened considerably.

The Mist Scale Dragon cub quietly took two steps back, its scaled claws gathering power, ready to suddenly escape.

A large, star-blue metallic hand emerged from the torrent of fine metal needles and immediately grabbed the Mist Scale Dragon.

However, the large, sharp, metallic hand did not reach for the Mist Scale Dragon's neck, but instead pinched the air to its left.

But the next moment, in the air, a transparent figure was grabbed by the neck and struggled violently, desperately twisting its slender dragon body, but to no avail.

The transparent figure gradually became clear, and it turned out to be a Mist Scale Dragon cub!

The figure of the mist-scaled dragon cub, which was spewing forth torrents of metallic needles, suddenly vanished into mist, disappearing into the world.

Even at this critical moment of life and death, this mist-scaled dragon cub had prepared an escape route in advance. It launched an attack on Xiafa with the mist-like illusion, while its real body hid and was ready to escape at any time!

Fortunately, Xia Fa discovered its trick and caught it in one go.

Although the Mist Scale Dragon cub was a giant dragon, it was still a cub and did not yet possess the earth-shattering physical strength of its parents. Even though it had its front claws on Xia Fa's metal hand and tried its best to pry them open, it could not pry his fingers off.

Instead, Xiafa's sharp claws pierced its scales and penetrated its neck, oozing out misty, grayish-white blood.

Countless runes flashed in the dark pupils beneath Xia Fa's mask, and a massive amount of mithril surged from the metal palm gripping the Mist Scale Dragon's neck!

This mithril was different from the mithril that could be mined from veins; its surface and interior contained a large number of black runes.

In an instant, it spread from the neck of the Mistscale Dragon cub, crawling all over its body like a fungus.

The scales of the Mist Scale Dragon cub turned a holy white again, shining brightly, and secret runes appeared on the scales, as if trying to resist the seal.

But it was no use. With a flash of Xia Fa's eyes, all the mithril turned into a star-like blue-white, and the number of runes increased tenfold, gathering into clusters like miniature planets.

This move is the upgraded version of the Mithril Seal... the Star Seal!

Clang.

The Mistscale Dragon cub was trapped inside a large chunk of Star Mithril, crashing onto the crumbling rocky ground and sending sparks flying.

Only its head was visible, while its body was completely encased in metal, and no matter how much it struggled, it could not move.

"Don't move, or I'll kill you."

Xia Fa spoke, his voice hoarse and low, yet seemingly from the distant starry sky.

The Mistscaled Dragon cub tilted its head, seemingly unable to understand Xiafa's language.

With his other hand raised, Xia Fa raised his saber and slashed horizontally, aiming straight for the head of the Mist Scale Dragon cub that had emerged from its shell.

The Mistscaled Dragon cub was truly terrified and suddenly spat out a secret rune formed from mist:

I...I...I won't move, please...please don't kill me!

The gleaming, menacing blade stopped an inch from its head.

The sword was so sharp that the cold air emanating from its blade still managed to cut through its scales, and misty blood flowed down the pristine white scales on its cheeks.

The Mist Scale Dragon cub was almost scared to death, its dark golden pupils rolling upwards to reveal the whites of its eyes.

Fortunately, after a while, it woke up and found that it was alright, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

The wound on its cheek was covered with dense granulation tissue, healing itself at an astonishing rate; even the cut scales were about to heal.

It couldn't care less about anything else and immediately spat out another cryptic text:

Thank you, thank you for sparing my life, I will repay you!

Xia Fa held the saber in one hand, a slight chuckle to himself.

This Mistscaled Dragon cub is quite clever and cunning. It clearly understands human speech, but at first it pretends not to.

It only gave in when it realized it was serious.

Seeing that he had successfully sealed the Mist Scale Dragon cub with the Star Seal's secret fusion ability and had it firmly under control, Xia Fa breathed a sigh of relief.

Thirty-two hundred thousand gold pounds, almost in my hands!

But why hasn't Prince Justinian arrived yet, after all this time?

Xia Fa looked around in confusion, but didn't see any figures hiding in the trees or behind the rocks. He then extended his spiritual intuition, but still found nothing.

What about Prince Justinian?

He had already gone to great lengths to seal the Mist Scale Dragon cub, putting in more effort than expected, but why hadn't Prince Justinian, an angelic being, arrived yet?

Xia Fa decided to wait a little longer, since he had never witnessed the descent of an angelic being and did not know how long it would take.

Perhaps it was meant to take several minutes?

Although he vaguely sensed that this speculation was wrong, he had no other choice but to wait where he was.

Unless, of course, you take the Mistscaled Dragon cub to the palace to find Prince Justinian, but that would be too much trouble.

After thinking for a moment, he simply patted his left shoulder, dispelling the barrier to his perception of the bee eggs.

The bee egg awakened almost instantly, detaching from its left shoulder with a "pop," and the egg, the size of a water tank, shot out and circled around Xiafa.

"My esteemed and dear master, what is it? If you give the order, I will go through fire and water without batting an eye, even though I have no eyebrows."

Xiafa: ...

How come my pet is getting better and better at flattery? It has such a set of clever words.

"It's nothing, I just got you something to eat."

Xia Fa communicated with the bee egg through spiritual intuition. After the thought was transmitted, he swiftly swung his left-hand saber, immediately cutting off a small piece of flesh covered in scales from the cheek of the mist-scaled dragon cub.

The Mistscaled Dragon cub twitched in pain, becoming even more frightened and shrinking its neck.

Whether it was this demonic-looking metallic humanoid or this suddenly appearing, enormous orange-yellow bee egg, everything was too strange, so strange that the Mist Scale Dragon cub felt a chill run down its spine.

Therefore, it didn't even dare to resent Xia Fa, it was simply afraid, and it only hoped that the metal humanoid and the water tank-sized bee egg would let it go.

Within these bee eggs, something vaguely seems to be gestating into a monster that even the young Mistscale Dragons genuinely fear.

It was neither eerie nor supernatural, but rather resembled something it had seen from afar. This terrified the Mistscaled Dragon cub, leaving it with no other thought but to survive.

Xia Fa, however, used the tip of his horse-slaying sword to flick the scaly piece of meat towards the bee eggs.

The egg membrane of the bee egg rippled, like a pebble falling into a lake, and immediately absorbed the lump of flesh.

"How is it? Is there enough to eat?"

Xia Fa asked the question with his spiritual intuition. Of course, he didn't want to feed the bee eggs, since his pet had a huge appetite; even a giant bear on a 200-meter-high mountain wouldn't be enough for it.

His idea was to give the bee eggs some of the characteristics of the Mistscale Dragon cubs.

This is a dragon race with the demigod status. If my bee eggs can gain special characteristics, I'll have hit the jackpot!

The bee eggs seemed to sense their owner's intentions, intuitively stating:

"Master, we're just one piece of meat short, and a little more blood will do. Please help, Master!"

Xia Fa smiled and shook his head, then swiftly slashed with his saber, slicing off a piece of scaly flesh from the left cheek of the Mist Scale Dragon cub.

"If you force some blood out yourself, I won't do anything."

With a flick of his knife, Xia Fa tossed the piece of meat to the bee egg while speaking to the Mist Scale Dragon cub.

The Mistscaled Dragon cub shook its head up and down repeatedly, giving Xia Fa the impression that it was bowing and scraping.

Then, from the small pits on its cheeks, two large spurts of grayish-white blood suddenly seeped out from the bright red flesh, condensing in the air, each clump as big as a fist.

Xia Fa was somewhat surprised, not expecting this mist-scaled dragon cub to be so adept at handling things.

He originally only wanted a dozen or so drops.

Since that's the case, and we've had enough bee eggs, let's not bother with them anymore.

Xia Fa first used his spiritual intuition to scan the two clumps of grayish-white blood, confirming that there was nothing wrong with them. Then, with a wave of his hand, he used his airflow to carry the grayish-white blood into the egg membrane of the bee egg.