The question left everyone momentarily stunned. Apart from Ziyu, who had suffered the backlash of her own power, Ke Han and the Dragon Queen knew the answer best. He stared at Dongfang Minghui with an intensely conflicted expression, his towering rage mingled with anguish. "What you carry is Xiang Jun's Heart-Guard Scale! You humans are the cruelest of all!"
Dongfang Minghui wanted to argue, but found herself unable to defend herself. Earlier, she had insisted that there were good people and bad people, yet the distinction between good and evil was hardly so simple. Without black, there could be no white. People said dragons were treasures from head to toe. Those treasures referred not merely to the valuables dragons liked to collect, but, more importantly, to every part of their bodies: dragon tendons, dragon scales, dragon blood...
Her fingers gently brushed her chest. The Heart-Guarding Mirror that had been with her for so long was actually that Blue Dragon's Heart-Guard Scale. A faint warmth still lingered against her chest, yet her heart felt as though it had plunged into an ice cellar.
A Heart-Guard Scale was like a dragon's reverse scale. If a human plucked it out... Xiang Jun would die.
No wonder Ke Han's attitude had changed so drastically. Dongfang Minghui felt deeply weighed down. Putting herself in their position, she imagined someone taking Toothless's Heart-Guard Scale. She would probably fight that person to the death. So she seemed to understand why they wanted to kill her.
Qian Wanyu shielded her behind her and met the Dragon Queen's gaze unwaveringly. "You all call the Human Race cruel, but is the Dragon Clan any less cruel? That happened a hundred years ago. Setting aside the fact that we don't even know what caused it, it had nothing to do with