It was quite normal for Profound Sage Melon Eater to be thinking in such a way.
After all, he was born with the bloodline of a divine beast. With him being at the Eighth Stage Realm, many cultivators would see him as a walking natural treasure. In the past, when he was still in a lower realm, there were already many cultivators who thought of him as such. However, those guys who had such ideas had already been crushed by the wheel of time, and were no longer anywhere to be seen.
Moreover, it wasn't only Sage Monarch Melon Eater who was thinking in this way... even Song Shuhang, who was at the side, wondered if the Great Northern Emperor was just hungry and wanted to secretly eat that spicy 'fat whale feast' of his, which was why he made an excuse to deceive Sage Monarch Melon Eater into giving him his body.
