I'm not just human!

Chapter 425 Arrival at the Serpent's Tail Region! The Moon Mother Goddess's Unparalleled God-Level Mutation!

In truth, all he ever wanted to do in his life was protect just a few people.

— Prologue Yuri Ubi leaned against the round window, gazing nervously outwards.

The massive hive structure was collapsing with a deafening roar, and no matter how brave the bee warriors were, they couldn't hold out for even a moment.

The fifth line of defense, formed by the bees, has been breached.

Just a few days ago, and even in the history of the Swallowtail Bees, no Swallowtail Bee could have imagined that their city of the Insightful Hive, on which they depended for survival, would be destroyed with such devastating speed.

Even the Queen Bee, who was skilled at prophecy, could not have foreseen such a day.

Cough cough! Cough!

As the figure enveloped in chaotic lightning rapidly approached the palace, Yurioubi coughed violently twice.

He was physically weak from a young age, making him the least competent member of the royal bloodline of the Swallowtail Bees.

While his peers, the Queen Swallower Bees, had already quietly sneaked into the three-inch zone to catch humans for food, he remained nestled in the warm hive, only able to watch enviously as his brothers and sisters brought back one human or demi-human after another.

"Humans—have finally attacked?"

A deep, resonant voice came from behind. Yuri Ubi turned around and immediately saw the tall, silent figure.

The figure was already wearing armor and holding a trident, seemingly prepared to die.

This is his father, or rather, the father of all his brothers and sisters, the Queen of the Swallowtail Bees.

"Yes, it's human."

Yuri said these words in silence. In the past, people always said that he was very similar to his father in temperament, and that he was usually so taciturn.

The only difference is that his father is a hero who can fight off alien monsters, while he can do nothing.

"So this day has finally come."

The Queen Bee with the Swallowing Tail sighed, as if she had already resigned herself to her fate: "We have eaten too many humans, so it is only natural that we are wiped out. After all, in legend, more than half of the nine great gods are human."

As he spoke, he gripped the trident tightly, his face suddenly blazing with fierce fighting spirit: "However, we, the Swallowtail Bee clan, may die, but we will never surrender!"

boom!

Yuri watched helplessly as her father's figure crashed through the door, heading straight for the chaotic lightning figure that had already pressed against the entrance.

"Protect the Queen Swallowtail Bee!"

These were the last words my father sent me.

Yurioubi turned his head and looked towards the innermost part of the palace, at the enormous and bloated "monster".

It was a queen bee that was a hundred meters long. Her upper body was as slender as a wasp and her face was beautiful, but her lower body was as bloated as a maggot. Countless snake heads and tails grew out of her, each snake head biting a snake tail, as if they had accomplished some strange and sacred ritual.

Beside it, there were tens of thousands of human skulls, piled up into towers.

That is the leader of the Hive City, the Queen of the Swallowing-Tail Bees, who has been born and existed for countless ages since time immemorial.

In the myths and legends of the Swallowtail Bee clan, even the city of the hive was created by the Swallowtail Bee Queen. However, unlike other queen bees, the Swallowtail Bee Queen does not lay eggs. Instead, she sits in the palace, silently influencing the entire bee city with her extraordinary talents.

In this situation, it is known that bee colonies born in the City of the Hive have a chance to mutate into "Tail-Swallowing Bees," and even a "Tail-Swallowing Bee Queen" can be born every few hundred years.

The Queen of the Swallowing Tail Bees is the true lord who understands the city of the hive. Her offspring all possess the noblest and most powerful bloodline of the Swallowing Tail Bees.

This led all the bee colonies in the City of Insight to revere the Queen Swallowtail Bee as a deity, because without her, the City of Insight might become extinct in a few hundred years because it would no longer be able to produce Swallowtail Bees.

They were attacked and devoured by all sorts of terrifying fish and insect monsters in this seven-inch zone.

However, Yuri Ubi did not expect that the fish monsters and insect monsters that everyone feared did not come, especially the awe-inspiring wandering whale. Instead, he was met with human revenge.

boom-!

A figure flew backward, crashing through the thick walls of the palace, leaving a trail in the air before slamming into a distant wall.

The figure slid down limply, covered in blood, and was on the verge of death.

"Father!"

Yurihoe felt a sudden tightness in his chest, almost biting his lip until it bled, and pounced on her without thinking.

That was his father, the current queen bee of the Swallowtail.

He knew the humans who attacked were powerful, but he didn't expect them to be this powerful. His father—had been defeated so quickly.

"Yuri-Ubi, quick, run—"

The Queen Bee's armor was shattered, and her trident lay scattered helplessly to the side, yet even at this moment, her gaze toward Yuri Ubi was still filled with affection.

That was a father's love for his son.

"You've been frail since you were little, and you don't even eat as much as your other brothers and sisters. I was thinking that when you got a little older, I would find some divine blood fruits to help you recover, but now—"

The Queen Swallowing Bee struggled to raise her hand and stroked her son's skull. Blood flowed down her palm, leaving several streaks on Yuri's face.

The blood still carried the scent of honey; I remember it was my father's favorite type of nectar.

"I'm so sorry, son. I'm so sorry. I couldn't protect you all."

The next moment, the father's hand fell limply to his side.

Yurioubi clenched his fists, never before hating his own weakness as deeply as he did at this moment.

"What the hell? How come there's a wasp here that's not even a god?"

Xia Fa, who had just stepped into the royal palace, glanced at the little Swallowtail Bee squatting next to the Swallowtail Bee Queen with some surprise and spoke with a similarly surprised expression.

The Poisonous Patriarch Veronica flew out from behind him, followed by hundreds of two-tailed, godless swallowing bee warriors.

These swallow-tailed bee warriors, who were once brave and ferocious beings and were all Outer Gods, now have white eyes, as if their minds and even souls have been emptied.

Indeed, this is the case. As an entity that has mastered the rules of the "swarm," it would be incredibly easy for Veronica, the Patriarch of All Poisons, to extract the consciousness of bees whose rank is lower than hers.

"That's almost a hundred already, that's enough. Let's not keep the smaller ones, honey. Thank you, I'll bring you a gift later!"

Veronica looked at Shafa with adoration, as if she had witnessed her husband's bravery and prowess.

Just now, Xia Fa led her and the Nature Bee all the way into this giant beehive-like city.

The originally extremely difficult-to-deal-with Swallow-Tail Bee warriors were rendered powerless by Xia Fa's methods, and Veronica easily subdued over a hundred Swallow-Tail Bee warriors that satisfied her immensely.

At this moment, these swallowing-tailed bee warriors not only lost their minds and souls, but their bodies were also shrinking. In particular, the ones closest to the Poisonous Chieftain had become the size of ordinary wasps and were no longer humanoid.

However, unlike wasps, each swallowing-tail wasp has a circular "swallowing-tail snake" on its yellow and black striped tail.

At first glance, this snake looks like a slender snake that has crawled into the tail of a bee, then its body bends into a circle, with its head biting its tail, as if it is about to swallow the tail.

In fact, it grows spontaneously from the bodies of the swallowtail wasps, which is also the origin of the name of this type of bee colony.

As for what specific extraordinary talents he possesses, Xia Fa is unsure, but he senses that he is far from ordinary.

At the same time, he also became curious about the "gift" that Veronica mentioned.

Without much thought, Xia Fa raised his head and looked at the Queen Swallowing-tail Bee in the deepest part of the palace.

This Queen Swallowing-Tail Bee was enormous and bloated, with hundreds of swallowing-tail snakes on its maggot-like tail, and it faintly exuded the aura of a quasi-celestial being.

Strangely, since I entered, the Queen Swallowing Bee has not reacted at all; she neither attacks nor tries to escape.

"According to the memories of the Swallowtail Bee warriors that I extracted, the Swallowtail Bee Queen has never actually laid a single bee egg. It is only through the influence of certain extraordinary talents that she has been able to give birth to Swallowtail Bees, and even Swallowtail Bee Queens, in this place called the City of Insightful Beehives."

Veronica then spoke, her expression full of anticipation. However, this anticipation was not because she wanted anything herself, but because she hoped that Xiafa could gain something by devouring the Queen of the Swallowing-Tail Bees.

"Perhaps, after you swallow it, you will gain an extraordinary talent!"

"I hope so too." Xia Fa smiled and stepped forward without hesitation.

No matter what tricks the Queen Swallowing-tail Bee has up her sleeve, he's not afraid. So, he's already quite eager to acquire the extraordinary talent he can.

But just then, a figure flashed before his eyes, and a majestic, tall figure clad in tattered armor stood in front of him.

It was the Queen Bee with the Swallowing Tail.

"Huh? He's still alive?"

Seeing the Queen Bee with the Swallowing Tail struggling to support itself with its trident, Xia Fa rarely showed a look of surprise.

Ordinary Devouring-Tail Bee warriors are roughly equivalent to ordinary Outer Gods in strength, while this Devouring-Tail Bee Queen is comparable to a peak Outer God.

Moreover, they are considered powerful even among the peak Outer Gods.

Even so, when the Queen Swallowtail Bee rushed out of the palace to try to stop him, he casually slapped her to death.

Yes, Xia Fa remembered it clearly. He killed the Devouring Tail Bee Queen with a single palm strike. Since the Devouring Tail Bee Queen was only at the peak of Outer God, not a Quasi-Celestial Venerable, he was too lazy to even devour it, not wanting to waste today's share, since he still had to go to the Snake Tail District later.

Unexpectedly, the Queen Bee with the Swallowing Tail was still alive!

He survived a palm strike from himself, a being with strength comparable to a veteran Celestial Venerable, despite being at the peak of the Outer God realm.

"Interesting—" Xia Fa's eyes lit up with interest.

Just then, Veronica stepped forward and explained with a smile, "It's the extraordinary talent, the 'Tail-Swallowing Ring.' He was indeed dead, but with this talent, he forcibly reversed his fate and survived."

Xia Fa asked curiously, "Is it similar to time travel?"

Veronica shook her head: "No, time reversal can be stopped or interrupted at will, but the Tail-Eating Ring allows the user to forcibly anchor to a point of destiny, reversing or returning at any time, but—"

After a pause, she said with great admiration, "Husband, you are just too strong. Even though the Queen Bee reversed its fate, it still couldn't heal its original injuries. Or, to be precise, the damage you caused traces back to fate and continues to affect it."

Can I really be that strong?

Xia Fa was surprised when he heard this, but he quickly understood.

Essentially, this is still a suppression based on strength or status.

Just as an entity can be resurrected through its own "rules" even if it is clearly dead, once it is killed by a Celestial Venerable or higher, it can never be resurrected again.

Similarly, those who reach the level of angel or above possess powerful self-healing abilities, and can regenerate even if their bodies shatter. However, if they are hit by a secret technique from a transcendent lord, they will be unable to recover, and even their souls will shatter along with them.

This is the suppression of one's status.

Although he was only at the peak of godhood, under the possession of the overclocked and extremely fast "Speed," he was able to simultaneously suppress both strength and status.

"You must not—harm—my king!"

After the Queen Bee with the Swallowing Tail managed to utter those words, her body swayed and finally collapsed to the ground.

The trident in his hand clanged several times and rolled to the side.

Xia Fa shook his head. When he had just stormed into the City of the Hive, he had seen many imprisoned humans and piles of human bones everywhere.

He realized then that these man-eating wasps were actually designed to eat people, so he didn't hold back at all.

As for the imprisoned humans, after he rescued them, he had the Nature Bee send them to the One Inch Zone, which is why the Nature Bee didn't follow.

Therefore, seeing that the Queen Bee was still alive, Xia Fa naturally had no intention of letting him go, and immediately slowly raised his palm.

Silver light condensed in his palm, faintly forming extremely sharp streaks that were about to burst forth.

"what?"

But at that moment, Xia Fa let out a soft "hmm," and a rather unexpected expression appeared on his face.

It was the small, weak swallower-tailed bee that had been hiding in the palace. Not only was it much thinner than the other swallower-tailed bees, but it was also not even a god, only a transcendental lord.

At that moment, the thin, emaciated wasp actually charged straight towards this side!

Xia Fa was genuinely surprised. He knew that the swallow-tailed wasps possessed normal intelligence, which meant that this thin swallow-tailed wasp, unless it was blind or stupid, should understand that he was no match for it.

But he still flew over. What was he going to do?

Veronica was quite quick-witted. Seeing that it was just a swallowing bee that wasn't even a god, she immediately flashed away, preparing to stop it.

Xiafa was about to devour the Queen Swallowtail Bee, and she didn't want Xiafa's interest to be spoiled by this weak Swallowtail Bee.

"Get out of here!"

With a delicate shout, Veronica waved her snow-white hand, and countless tiny bees, no bigger than grains of rice, swarmed out and rushed towards the weak swallower bee.

With the strength of a peak Outer God, her casual move was already enough; it was definitely not something that this Devouring-Tail Bee, who wasn't even a Divine Being, could withstand.

But at that moment, the swallowing bee's figure blurred and actually bypassed her, appearing right in front of the swallowing bee queen!

To be precise, it stood between Xiafa and the Queen Swallowtail Bee!

"Um?"

Even Veronica was surprised and couldn't figure out how he did it.

But she immediately realized what was happening.

This frail, tail-swallowing wasp actually activated its extraordinary talent, the "Tail-Swallowing Ring," and returned to a certain anchor point in its destiny!

And that anchor point is "staying by his father's side"!

Suddenly, a violent and chaotic aura erupted from the entire palace, as if time and fate had intertwined. It was this tail-swallowing wasp that had revealed its stinger and secreted a translucent, viscous venom!

The moment the venom appeared, it caused the surrounding floor to age rapidly. However, the corpse of the Queen Swallowtail Bee showed signs of reawakening. Undoubtedly, this was an unparalleled power. Although it was far inferior to the Queen Swallowtail Bee, it was definitely the number one among the Queen Swallowtail Bee clan!

To unleash this attack, the Swallowing-Tail Bee clearly paid a heavy price; its frail body trembled. It knew perfectly well how weak it was, but in order to protect the Swallowing-Tail Bee Queen, it still chose to go without hesitation!

At this moment, a kind of burning intensity seemed to emanate from the face of this thin and short swallowing bee, showing no fear even when facing a celestial being.

It was as if he was no longer weak, but had truly transformed, daring to face any hardship in his destiny!

That expression clearly revealed an ambition to look down upon the world!

"Showing off your talents is courting death."

Xia Fa's gaze sharpened, and he slammed down with his palm.

boom!!!

A huge crater was blasted into the ground of the palace. Both the Queen Swallowing Bee and the thin Swallowing Bee were reduced to ashes by this one blow, without even the slightest power to resist.

Even the trident, which was comparable to a mysterious treasure from outer space, was reduced to dust.

Seeing that there were no obstacles, Xia Fa immediately took another step and walked towards the Queen of the Blind Bees.

It was just a minor incident and didn't affect anything. However, what puzzled Xia Fa was that the Devouring Bee King didn't react at all from beginning to end, which was very strange.

Even now, as he stood not far in front of it, the Devouring Bee King remained completely still.

It simply lay asleep, its expression as serene as ever.

"Whatever, it can't cause any trouble anyway—"

A thought flashed through his mind, and Xia Fa opened his mouth and spat out the dark stomach again.

However, to his surprise, Veronica, the chief of the Ten Thousand Poisons behind him, was shocked when she saw this.

She had seen countless humans who had signed the "Primal Stomach Pouch," and every single one of them had a pink stomach pouch that they spat out without exception.

Of course, other species have signed original stomach pouches, and the stomach pouches they vomit come in all sorts of colors, but Xia Fa is clearly human!

Why is his stomach so black, and why does it give off such a strange feeling that it can even absorb one's mind?

Considering that there were so many other unique places in Xiafa, Veronica understood that this was not a question she could figure out on her own. So, despite her surprise, she chose to remain silent.

Just then, Xia Fa's pitch-black stomach enveloped everything, swallowing the Blind Bee King whole.

His stomach suddenly closed, and then began to digest. Before long, Xia Fa opened his mouth slightly, and his stomach flew back into his belly.

A string of information and intelligence surfaced in my mind on its own.

[The Bee King Who Swallowed High]

[The world's first Blind-Eating Bee, mutated from a snake-headed wasp, had experienced countless battles in the past. When it broke through to the Quasi-Celestial Venerable level, it was ambushed, causing severe damage to its mind. It had no choice but to risk its life to rush into the real world and hide in the seven-inch area of ​​the Mortal Python to sleep and recuperate. Inadvertently, it attracted a large number of supernatural bee creatures and created the City of the Hive.]

[Extraordinary Talents: Blinding Ring, Delicious Royal Jelly, Honey Pot Realm, Destiny Cocoon Sleep, Poison of Annihilation, Natural Honeycomb, Core of the Swarm, Core of Devouring —]

"I see----"

Upon seeing these lines of text, Xia Fa finally understood why the Devouring Bee King hadn't reacted at all from beginning to end. It turned out that his mind was damaged, and he was essentially still asleep.

This saved me some trouble, unlike chasing a wandering whale where I had to have the overclocked "Speed" use its [Eternal Speed] multiple times.

"These extraordinary talents seem really strong, I wonder which one I'll be able to draw —"

Lingci had a stroke of luck, which is why he drew two extraordinary talents from the Wandering Whale in one go. This time, Xiafa understood that he would most likely only be able to draw one extraordinary talent.

He briefly examined these extraordinary talents. Apart from the "Blinding Ring" that Ju Jing had already learned about, the "Swarm Core" and "Blinding Core" were quite interesting, as they were extraordinary talents that influenced the environment.

In other words, under the influence of this extraordinary talent, bees in a certain environment undergo a high probability of mutation, giving birth to various stronger species.

For example, when he invaded this city of the Hive, he saw "light ball bees", "construction bees", "snakehead bees" and so on everywhere.

As for the "Swallowing Core", it is also a similar environmental influence-type extraordinary talent. The only difference is that under the influence of this Swallowing Core, only Blind Swallowing Bees will mutate in the bee colony. Perhaps due to the single influence, there is also a chance of Swallowing Queen Bees mutating.

It is precisely because of the existence of generations of Swallow Bee Queens, and the fact that Ling has cultivated humanoid Swallow Bee warriors, that the Swallow Bees have been able to build such a magnificent city of insightful beehives in the vital area of ​​the [World Serpent].

Xia Fa didn't think much of it, because at that moment his stomach suddenly trembled, and two phantom images of the Devouring-Tail Beggar King flew out from it.

He was taken aback at first, then a look of surprise flashed in his eyes.

To my utter surprise, I drew two more extraordinary talents this time!

Then, one of the phantom images of the Blind Bee King flicked its blind needle, sending out a beam of transparent black light. As soon as this transparent black light appeared, it actually dyed the surrounding space a dark and eerie color.

The image of a giant beggar king, who was swallowing a large bee, trembled slightly, and honey immediately dripped from it. The honey was incredibly fragrant, and even the image of it aroused Xia Fa's appetite.

The next moment, the two illusory images of the Devouring Bee King flew towards Xia Fa's lower abdomen and solidified into a pattern.

"Delicious Royal Jelly? The Poison of Annihilation?"

Ma Ling and Xia Fa knew they had drawn those two extraordinary talents, but Lian Ling couldn't help but show a rather strange expression.

The Poison of Annihilation is very useful. He can now poison people whether he is fighting or doing so in secret. Moreover, this poison is extremely potent, and anyone of the same rank or strength who comes into contact with it will find it difficult to withstand.

However, this [delicious royal jelly] seems to be his extraordinary talent that allows him to directly secrete an extremely delicious royal jelly.

But he was clearly a human being!

A human being secretes an extremely delicious royal jelly —

It's just so strange no matter how you look at it —

"never mind----"

Xia Fa shook his head, no longer thinking about it, and prepared to fly out of this city that knew the Hive, and then completely destroy this place.

Suddenly, he raised an eyebrow and looked in a certain direction.

What was visible was the area once occupied by the enormous body of the Blind Bee King, which was also the deepest part of this palace.

On the floor paved with gold bricks, there is a misty, luminous cave.

Previously, Xia Fa hadn't noticed it because it was hidden by the Queen of the Blind Bees, but now he saw it immediately.

Inside this cave of light—to the fox it looked like a series of tires stacked on top of each other, one ring after another, getting smaller and smaller.

Or perhaps—like the interior of the Higashiko-goba.

At the same time, an aura that Xia Fa found extremely familiar yet completely unfamiliar emanated from the space.

That was the lowest and innermost part of the circular space, where a huge fleshy ball grew, its delicate blood vessels constantly pulsating, and with each pulsation, a light, like breathing, would flicker within it.

The fleshy ball was emanating an aura that seemed to be woven from the top-tier mutated crystal source, the top-tier mutated fleshy ball, and the hazy liquid given to it by the Sun God King!

"Could this be the Serpent's Tail District?!"

Xia Fa suddenly felt excited. Didn't this mean that as long as he rushed in and swallowed that ball of flesh, he could awaken a god-level mutation similar to that of the Bright Mother Goddess?

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