I will eventually become a divine being through accumulating constantly

On the other side, in the forest, several figures were making their way toward Xue Jing's location.

Each person was accompanied by a distinct 'Daruka', some with long six legs, resembling large crocodiles, others crawling with their heads sniffing the ground, covered in scales like hunting dogs... the variances were endless.

"An Luowa, slow down a bit, be more discreet," a tall man frowned and spoke.

"This is within the territory of That Country, if their patrol team finds us, just a few of us won't be able to escape."

The man named An Luowa shrugged his shoulders, unconcerned, "Don't worry, Captain A Pawar, the patrol team of That Country has so few people, how could we possibly run into them?"

"This forest is also the domain of the 'Long-tailed Dragon', according to their reverence for dragons, they wouldn't enter the forest to disturb it."

"This task is simply too easy, let's move faster, catch the Long-tailed Dragon quickly, sell it, and then drink booze!"

The others echoed in agreement:

"Indeed, Captain A Pawar is being overly cautious."

"We've been in this business for so long, catching a dragon is no big deal, it's a piece of cake, no need to be so nervous."

Captain A Pawar furrowed his brows, shook his head, and said in a low voice:

"I feel a bit uneasy, something seems off, this forest... it's too quiet."

"Under normal circumstances, even if it's dragon territory, we should have seen plenty of Darukas by now, but since we entered the forest, we haven't seen a single one."

Seeing that the captain seemed nervous, An Luowa was about to offer some comforting words.

It was at that moment, suddenly, the Daruka who resembled a scaly hunting dog seemed to have smelled something, stopped in its tracks, bared its teeth, and made a warning 'whine' toward the front.

Seeing this, everyone became serious.

"There's something ahead, be careful!"

The group cautiously advanced a few steps, silently pushing away the grass that obstructed their view.

Then, they saw the dragon.

To be precise, the corpse of a dragon.

A massive body, nearly twenty meters long including the tail, was lying quietly on the ground, its tail severed from the middle, apparently missing a piece.

Next to the dragon's corpse, sat a man wearing strange clothes, holding a stick with a piece of meat on it, roasting it over a campfire, sizzling soundly as juice dripped profusely, looking quite tempting.

"Isn't that the Long-tailed Dragon!?"

An Luowa's eyes widened.

"Beaten to it by someone else? Wait, that person is actually roasting it! Could it be he's going to eat the dragon?"

The line of people were shocked.

Dragons hold an extremely special status in this world, all dragons are offspring of the Dragon God, carrying sacred bloodlines.

Although That Country, unlike This Country, is not as strict to the extent that only shrine maidens are qualified to tame dragons, still, no one would dare do something like 'eat a dragon'.

"Has that man gone mad? Doing such a thing that would invite divine retribution, he will be cursed to death by the Dragon God!"

"What do we do now?"

The line of people looked at each other.

Their objective had been snatched away, and by a lunatic who dares to eat dragon meat...

"Let's just retreat, that Daruka of his I haven't seen before, but it looks quite troublesome..."

Someone noticed the crow flapping its wings beside that 'madman' and whispered a suggestion.

Thinking it over, Captain A Pawar was about to give the order.

In that moment, that 'madman' seemed to inadvertently glance in the direction where they were hiding.

"Not good!"

A Pawar's heart skipped a beat as he thought to alert everyone to prepare.

But before they could act, suddenly from the shadows of the forest, more than a dozen black 'fins' darted out and swam rapidly toward them.

Soon afterward.

"Swoosh—"

More than a dozen black sharks leaped out of the water and pounced toward them, opening their huge mouths, accurately biting down on each person and each Daruka.

"Ah!"

"What is this, don't, don't bite me, Captain A Pawar save me!"

In their panic, they found that these black sharks, after biting them, did not tear their flesh as they had imagined, but instead transformed into black iron cages, like springs wrapping around their entire bodies, bundling them all up like caterpillars.

Xue Jing stood up, holding the roasted dragon meat, and walked toward the natives he had captured.

As he walked, he bit into the dragon meat in his hand, savored it for a moment, nodded his head.

"Hmm... the taste is decent, quite juicy, the meat is tough, but not tough, the texture is quite nice."

Eating the dragon meat, he approached the natives, swallowed the food in his mouth, and spoke in an even tone:

"Spying on someone's meal from the side, you locals really don't know manners."

The natives looked at each other:

"What... what is he saying?"

"A language we've never heard, is he a foreigner?"

"What do we do, this man who dares eat dragon meat, won't he eat us too?"

Xue Jing frowned, finished the dragon meat in two or three bites, and then tossed the stick aside.

He took out a simultaneous translation device from the bag held by the crow and put it on the head of a native who seemed to be the leader.

"Now, can you understand me?"

Xue Jing spoke flatly.

Captain A Pawar listened to the voice coming from the earpiece, his eyes wide in disbelief.

"I... I understand now."

"So, what are you doing sneaking a look at me, trying to do what?" Xue Jing crossed his arms and looked down at him.