I'm not just human!

Xia Fa was somewhat surprised to see that these hundreds of fishmen dared to launch an attack on the physical entity of the Poison Patriarch Veronica without authorization.

Since only a dozen or so of these fishmen held the Outer God rank, while the majority held the Divine rank, he was too lazy to take action.

Not to mention, even the fish-men with the Outer God rank are only equivalent to ordinary Outer Gods, and may be even weaker, on par with the strange Outer Gods encountered in the Quasi-Celestial Venerable's Tomb.

Sure enough, with a few soft laughs, Xia Fa saw Veronica draw a circle in front of her with the iron pliers in her hand, and the circle immediately "bulged" up and turned into a golden sphere.

A loud buzzing sound arose, and countless swarms of all kinds of bees flew out and pounced on the fish-men around them.

Among these swarms were hornets with mouthparts like scissors, bumblebees with large, powerful bodies, parasitic wasps with extremely long stingers and agile bodies, and of course, many more were bees that Xia Fa did not recognize at all; they were basically all supernatural creatures.

Screams immediately rang out all around, accompanied by a strong fishy smell. The hundreds of fishmen were surrounded by swarms of bees, wildly swinging their spears or pitchforks, but to no avail. In an instant, they were stabbed hundreds of millions of times.

Some of the merfolk had turned purple, some had large and small bumps on their bodies, and some were bleeding profusely. In an instant, the entire army was about to be wiped out.

"It seems Veronica is just as strong, if not weaker, than the fanatical tomb raider..."

Xia Fa looked on with considerable surprise. Then he remembered that when he had accidentally stumbled upon the Physical Redemption Society while randomly eating there, Veronica's ranking seemed to be ahead of the fanatical tomb raider, on par with the gourmet, and only weaker than the bard and the storyteller.

In the black water with green streaks, from a very distant place, a tremor suddenly came.

"Ok?"

Xia Fa had just reacted and hadn't even turned his head to look when suddenly his vision blurred.

A colossal figure, so fast that even he, with his Celestial Venerable strength, couldn't see it clearly, swept past in an instant and vanished swiftly.

In the deep, dark water, the hundreds of dying fishmen were nowhere to be seen.

Even the merfolk that had been acting as scouts below them had vanished.

"Master, what... what's going on?"

This time, it was the Nature Bee that spoke first, its big, dark eyes filled with fear.

It was, after all, just a juvenile entity, and the weakest of the three. As a result, it didn't even see the huge figure. It only felt a blur before its eyes, and all the fishmen disappeared.

The Poison Patriarch Veronica was also somewhat bewildered:

"What just happened? Where are those mermen?"

Xia Fa pondered and said:

"They were rescued by someone incredibly fast. Shall we go after them and see what's going on?"

Veronica was surprised:

"I couldn't see it clearly, and neither could your pet. How could you have seen it clearly?"

Xia Fa replied without hesitation:

"I have some talent for speed, how about we give it a try?"

Veronica hesitated and said:

"But if that mysterious being is so fast, its strength might also be..."

Halfway through her sentence, Veronica suddenly realized that she no longer had a choice.

A giant hand, a hand so large it blotted out the sky and covered in armor, suddenly emerged from the water six inches below and instantly grabbed the three of them.

This giant hand carried an indescribable celestial pressure. The moment it released its aura, the Nature Bee was rendered immobile, and Veronica, the Poison Patriarch, was completely suppressed after only a slight struggle.

Xia Fa understood this feeling. Back in the old forge, when he first faced the Silver Cleanser, he was also suppressed by this level. Just facing the Silver Cleanser's aura, he couldn't move at all.

However, things are different now.

He switched from using his right hand to grip the iron clamp with both hands, lowered his body slightly, and assumed a fighting stance.

In that instant, the iron pliers in his hand no longer seemed like iron pliers, but rather like a sharp blade capable of splitting the heavens and earth.

boom!!!

Xia Fa's aura suddenly erupted, instantly entering the third stage of the Chaos Throne. His body was enveloped in chaotic lightning, and star silver mist surged forth. The phantoms of the Lion King, the giant elephant, and the divine bird appeared and disappeared behind him. A majestic clown mask appeared on his face, and his body was covered with palm-sized black and gold scales.

In that instant, he seemed more like a god than a god himself, suddenly exuding an aura of majesty that even Veronica, the Poison Patriarch, feared!

Xia Fa stepped forward, his iron pliers wielded with a solemn air, and swung them down from above.

This was an ordinary slash, without even any blade light surging forth, yet in an instant it split the black water in two, and then, the water within tens of millions of kilometers around it was instantly cleared!

The enormous hand just happened to grab at that moment, hitting Xia Fa's iron pincers.

With a "bang," the giant hand shattered.

Only then did the black, green-streaked acidic liquid reassemble, and the Nature Bee flew out in an instant, traversing a space with a diameter of tens of millions of kilometers around it, before reappearing in front of Xia Fa.

On its short insect legs, a long, sharp spike grew from the pincers it held, with a dozen fish of various sizes strung on it. The largest was comparable to a whale shark, while the smallest was only the size of a palm, all struggling and writhing.

Just now, when the water was emptied, fish monsters with a diameter of tens of millions of kilometers around were exposed to the air. The Nature Bee seemed to be able to identify which fish had treasures hidden inside them, so as soon as it could move, it immediately hunted down these fish.

"Owner!"

The Nature Bee shouted, its expression a mixture of excitement and a desire for credit.

The excitement stemmed from witnessing Xia Fa's unparalleled strength, which allowed him to easily repel the attack of a Celestial Venerable. The reason for taking credit was, of course, that Xia Fa had caught these fish.

"Very good, you did a great job."

Xia Fa patted its head, and the Nature Bee immediately squinted its eyes in enjoyment, just like a puppy. If it weren't for its bumblebee shape and lack of a tail, its tail would probably be wagging so hard it would leave a blur.

The Poison Patriarch Veronica opened her round, beautiful eyes wide, and for the first time, her charming and radiant face revealed an innocent naiveté as she looked Xia Fa up and down in disbelief.

"Honey, how...how did you do that?"

Whom are you calling husband?

Xia Fa thought to himself with a mix of disapproval and amusement, thinking that this was truly a world where strength mattered. Although Veronica had never looked down on him from the beginning and had even protected him on several occasions, she had never been so proactive and bold before.

"It seems that you haven't been exposed to any outside information while you were recovering from your injury."

"What outside information?" Veronica became increasingly surprised.

"You'll find out when you go to the City of Gold Pounds." Xia Fa smiled calmly, keeping his achievements hidden.

The fact that he possessed the strongest divine form and had taken a punch from the son of a true god while still holding the rank of a junior god has probably already spread far and wide in the City of Gold Pounds.

Therefore, as long as Veronica inquires, she will definitely find out, and Shafa is too lazy to explain on the spot.

"Okay, fine... You're my husband, I'll listen to you."

Veronica was surprisingly well-behaved, a stark contrast to her previous aggressive older sister persona, as if she had truly transformed into a gentle and understanding wife.

Xia Fa was a little uncomfortable and couldn't help but look at the five-meter-tall, curvaceous, and alluring Holy Poison Bee Queen.

"She really doesn't want to be with me..."

Shaking his head sharply, knowing this wasn't the time to think about that, Xia Fa closed his eyes, sensed for a moment, and then suddenly pointed downwards to the six o'clock position:

"It's over there, about two light-years away. Let's go there."

This time, the Poison Patriarch Veronica did not object in the slightest, nor did she dare to object. She obediently nodded and gently responded:

"okay!"

The bee of nature looked up happily and said:

"I will obey my master!"

Xia Fa nodded slightly, and immediately, the three of them flew directly in that direction.

On the way, Xia Fa dissected the dozen or so fish monsters that the Nature Bee had captured one by one, and obtained three pure white light-chasing silver crystals the size of lychees, as well as two unknown sealed artifacts, one of which looked like a fan and the other like a pen knife.

In addition, there was a half-digested Outer God Fruit, a half-sized lychee-sized Abundant Soil Blessing Zinc, and then all the Overlord-level Secret Contracts.

He offered the rich and precious zinc to Patriarch Veronica of the Poisons, but this time she refused to accept it, insisting that she had already done enough.

Xia Fa chuckled inwardly, knowing that Veronica was afraid of him and worried that taking too much would anger him, so he had no choice but to accept it.

Although I don't know what use it is for, mainly because I don't have any seeds of the Divine Blood Fruit or the Ancient Fruit, it is such a rare sacred metal after all. Maybe I can use it to barter with the City of Gold Pounds.

As for the other items, he kept them as well.

This time, they didn't encounter many other fish monsters on the way, but the black acidic liquid with green threads became increasingly viscous, eventually even hindering their flight speed.

However, the two people and the bee arrived at their destination in just a few minutes.

Suddenly, a magnificent ancient military camp appeared ahead, built entirely of stark white fish bones. The gate alone was ten thousand meters high, extremely imposing and domineering. A huge shark head protruded from the gate, and even though it had been dead for an unknown period of time, it still exuded the aura of a quasi-celestial being.

These were spoils of war, hung at the entrance of the military camp.

Around this ancient military camp, there was a shimmering halo, like an inverted sky-blue bowl, separating it from the surrounding black, green-tinged acidic water.

Inside the village gate, however, it was pitch black, making it difficult to see clearly. It was obviously deliberately concealed by some kind of ritual protective array.

Previously, when that enormous figure appeared and saved hundreds of fishmen, Xia Fa had a premonition that it might be the Celestial Venerable-level Mystic Star Spirit "Spider" with its super-fast speed.

However, whether it's the Iron-Blooded Conqueror "Poul", the Overclocked Speedster "Speed", or the Fear Priest "Flett", they should all be possessing spirits, meaning they have no independent consciousness.

In this situation, if they possess a strange or supernatural creature, they might become killing machines, just like they were in the quasi-celestial tomb.

However, it's absolutely impossible for them to actually do anything to save someone.

In addition, what the Nature Bee said earlier was that it sensed the overclocked and extremely fast "Speed" aura on a fishman that had been dried into a fish jerky... Xia Fa had already vaguely guessed what was going on.

Soon, the two people and the bee stopped at the entrance of the military camp. This time, unlike before when Veronica always protected Xia Fa behind her, she actually chose to hide behind Xia Fa.

Despite her five-meter height, she couldn't be hidden at all behind Xia Fa, who was two meters tall...

"Don't worry, I'm here. Besides, the other side's hostility isn't that deep."

Xia Fa chuckled and comforted her. The reason he chose to come directly to the other party's lair in such a carefree manner was because when that big hand grabbed him just now, he didn't feel much hostility; it was more like a deterrent.

If he didn't possess the strength of a Celestial Venerable, and instead was as powerless to resist as Veronica and the Nature Bee, after being grabbed by that giant hand, he would likely not be crushed, but rather thrown directly out as the [Mortal Python].

"How should we get in..."

Looking at this ancient military camp, Xia Fa wondered if he should send a visiting card inside, since there were no soldiers guarding the gate and he couldn't even ask a soldier to report it.

"Sir, have you come all this way to this place intending to fight me?"

Just then, a grand and majestic voice came from the depths of the dark ancient military camp.

The voice sounded just like that of an ancient general; a short sentence contained immense power and gave the impression that he was not afraid of battle at all.

Xia Fa cleared his throat:

"I've come to pay a visit, could you let us in?"