“You’re finally here.”
The roar rumbled so loudly that the ground seemed to tremble.
However, despite the commotion, the entire ninth floor was still dead silent, with a thick smell of blood in the air. Thinking about how the demons had been secretive and fearful of the hellhounds, and how they would not say a word even if they were beaten, the three cats, who had been somewhat relaxed, became nervous again.
Although the rules of heaven and earth are based on the human world, they do not ignore hell. If one commits too many sins, he will also be punished by thunder. With this in mind, it is no wonder that the Heavenly Dao rushed to find him. The hellhound must have been just a little bit away from crossing the limit of being punished by thunder.
After hesitating for a moment, Li Hua transferred the excess mental power in his body to Wodi, and the cat toy in his mind took over his body - after all, he was not familiar with the hellhound, and his identity as the successor of the Cat God was undoubtedly reminding the hellhound of the fact that the Cat God had fallen. No matter how he thought about it, it was not appropriate for him to come forward, so it was better to let go and let the cat toy communicate with him.
Cat Toys didn't refuse.
Although Yun Jian is currently considered a half-step god, he is still living in the era after the fall of the gods, and he does not know many secret tactics. For example, now, Yun Jian cannot observe the mental state of the hellhound, but Cat Toy is almost certain that the hellhound is awake.
But the hellhound is no longer the happy big dog who only wanted to play catch with cats.
Thousands of years of changes have stood between him and the past, and countless innocent lives have been lost. The excruciating pain of the hellfire follows him everywhere, and even the softest and kindest heart is tainted with the taste of blood and hatred in these tortures.
"Hellhound," said Cat Toy, not disguising his unique mental fluctuations, trying to have a serious talk with him. However, he was choked up as soon as he said the name, and after a long pause, he murmured softly to himself, "Big Dog..."
...
...
The shadow floating in the air was stunned for a moment, and quickly realized that the soul in the body of the tabby cat had been replaced.
Obviously, the cat toy, which was once a playmate and the most precious artifact of the Cat God, was treated completely differently by the Hellhound. He no longer floated in the sky pretending to be so scary and majestic, but the shadows gathered and finally turned into a big dog entity and fell to the ground.
Cat Toy took a deep breath. He couldn't control the tabby cat's body very finely, and he took full control again. His emotions were fully displayed on his face, and his blue eyes were filled with tears, wetting the fur on both sides of his cheeks.
Standing next to him, Wodi wagged his tail, wanting to say that the cat toy's expression was ruining his image as a handsome tabby cat. However, the timing was not right, so he said nothing. He just used his mental connection, which was already much stronger, to poke Daju and Bu'ou, who were still in the hell gate: "Remember we said the hellhound was a golden retriever? I was wrong, he's actually a German Shepherd!"
Since Tiandao was standing by, the two cats did not enable memory sharing to prevent the rules of heaven and earth from being disturbed: "?"
…
"Long time no see," Hellhound said, the evil in his voice lessened a lot, one ear folded up, head tilted slightly, "You seem to be in a good mood?"
The cat toy, who was crying uncontrollably, choked.
Suddenly I remembered why the Cat God chased Tengu all day long.
After being interrupted, Cat Toy calmed down. He quickly wiped his face with his paws and muttered, "Now Yun Jian will definitely say that I ruined his image."
Mian Yin used magic to turn the scattered stones nearby into a handkerchief and handed it to Cat Toy. Cat Toy wiped it twice and looked at the hellhound: "Have you recovered? Are there any sequelae? Do you need help with anything?"
“My godhood was corrupted not just by the Hellfire, but by Satan using the Hellfire as a lure to devour my godhood with the devil’s godhood.”
It seemed that the hellhound had no intention of saying these things at first, but changed its mind after seeing the cat toy. It squatted on the rock in front of the Devil's fortress and slowly recounted the past in a hoarse and low voice.
At that time, Satan was indeed fully prepared, with all kinds of sinister drugs and formations, and hellfire as his trump card. Although Tengu loved fighting and would occasionally challenge the gods in the divine realm to battle, he always stopped at the right time. With this deliberate and unintentional move, Tengu was controlled almost at the first encounter, and he couldn't even use his ultimate move.
"If we fight seriously, I may not be defeated by him." Even after thousands of years, after experiencing countless hardships and having a completely changed personality, the hellhound still feels a little embarrassed about this. At this point, he raised a paw and emphasized, "The God himself admitted that He does not want to fight me."
Cat Toy reflexively sabotaged him: "That's obviously because you've been blocking the gods at the temple gate every morning for several months to challenge them to a fight..."
However, Tengu's fighting power was indeed very high, and Cat Toy knew it very well. Even if the angry God fought Tengu with all his strength, it would take three days and three nights to throw the dog back to the Tengu Palace.
It’s a pity that having high combat power and being able to win the battle are thousands of miles apart. For someone like Tengu who never uses his brain and even bites when he’s anxious, even the flower god can develop paralyzing powder to defeat him.
"In short," the hellhound's eyes drifted away for a moment, skipping over the topic that made the dog depressed, "I was caught by Satan. He wanted to devour my godhood. Although he failed, Hellfire took advantage of the opportunity and prepared to control me to assassinate the gods."
The Tengu, who was murdered for no reason, was extremely angry and refused to comply. He rushed out of the divine realm despite the torture of the hellfire. His original intention was to rush to hell and die together with Satan's true body, but he lost control as soon as he arrived in the human world.
By the time Tengu regained consciousness, his divine nature had been shattered, his body was wrapped in hellfire, and he had turned into a filthy hellhound, which was struck by lightning by the angry heaven.
The gods in the divine realm watched the execution. Except for the God of Light who pleaded for mercy, the other gods just watched coldly and condemned the sins committed by the Hellhound.
The hellhound, realizing how many people he had harmed with his actions just now, was disheartened, severely injured and paralyzed, unable to move. He watched helplessly as his only friend in the divine realm, the beautiful kitten who had never worried, stood firmly in front of him, taking on all his sins at the cost of guarding the gate of hell for the rest of his life and returning his soul to the rules of heaven and earth after his physical body died.
Gods are immortal, and even if they are accidentally injured and their physical bodies perish, their spirits can be reunited. Returning to the rules of heaven and earth means that the Cat God has already chosen a path that will lead to the destruction of his soul.
The hellhound imprisoned in the first layer of hell finally regained consciousness after a thousand years. It then remembered how many ways the lone cat had tried to find to escape from the hellfire and how many times it had collapsed and despaired during this long period of time.
The hellhound looked at the cat toy with a complicated look, as if he was reading a wordless book: "After Satan died, the formation he set on me finally failed. I forced my way to the ninth level of hell, seized the position of the Lord of Hell and made Hellfire submit. In the end, I forcefully devoured Hellfire, and my sanity was completely restored. All my memories from the time I fell to the present have also returned."
Cat Toy's eyes lit up when he heard the hellhound say that he had fully recovered his consciousness. But his joy didn't last long. When he saw the hellhound's heavy expression, he suddenly realized what he wanted to tell him.
The memories of the hellhound after its fall... apart from the pain of being burned, there was only endless killing, including the innocent ordinary people who suffered back then, and also the cat god who did not resist later.
"That's not your fault," said the cat toy, with its tail hanging down. Its pale blue eyes flashed with extreme sadness and seriousness. "The Cat God will definitely not blame you either. He once told me that you were simply controlled by the Hellfire when you couldn't resist. You are a victim."
The hellhound wrinkled its nose, tried to raise the corners of its lips, and tried hard to force a warm smile, but failed. It could only rub its belly fur dryly with its hind paws.
"That's not the point," he said. "It's just that the kitten has been alone for too long, and I can't wait to find him."
Cat Toy opened his mouth, wanting to say that the Cat God was simply a person whose soul had been scattered and whose memories had returned to the rules of heaven and earth, but the words were stuck in his throat, like a heavy rock on his chest, pressing down on his eyes and making them hot, and he couldn't utter them.
"and you……"
Hellhound didn't dwell on this topic anymore. Perhaps he really couldn't wait any longer and didn't want to waste even a moment. He turned to look at Mian Yin and Wodi beside him.
"I guess Satan's death should be attributed to you. Kitty has good vision and even found such a promising successor." He patted the ground with his paw happily, "Especially Lihua. My power incarnation often sees you in Sufang City and I have a deep impression of you. Thank you for preventing me from causing more casualties - um, I almost forgot, the cat toy borrowed Lihua's shell, right? Remember to say thank you to him for me."
Apparently the hellhound didn't realize that the cats in front of it were actually the same soul.
"And Ghost Master, the assimilation between me and Ghost Master is actually two-way, but don't worry, after I woke up, I didn't directly overturn Hell and attract the Heavenly Thunder Tribulation, but rushed to the ninth level of Hell to obtain the Hellfire and seize the position of the Lord of Hell. In addition to wanting to give you a belated meeting gift, it was also for that guy."
"Now that I have been separated from the first layer of Hell, even if I die, it will not hurt him. It's just that the loss of a large amount of memory in the short term will make his spiritual body extremely weak. But considering that he now has a new anchor point, I believe he will definitely be able to survive this period."
His gaze paused on Woody, and Woody realized that the "new anchor point" he meant was himself, and smiled a little embarrassedly.
"Wait, big dog," he said. The cat toy, who had been in a daze just now, finally came to his senses and hurriedly took a step forward, "Don't be impulsive--"
The hellhound tilted its head to look at him.
He was not good at talking, he was clumsy back then, and he hadn't talked to anyone for thousands of years, so it was even harder for him to express himself. So he just shook his head, took out a fluffy ball of yarn from somewhere, fiddled with it for a few times, and the yarn caught fire, burning himself in the blink of an eye.
In an instant, all the shadows behind him leaped and rolled with the flames, transforming into dots of fluorescent light and blending between heaven and earth.
The fallen god used his soul to imprison all the killing, blood, and eerie evil spirits in the hellfire. At the cost of his soul being shattered, he disappeared along with those evil thoughts without a trace.
In the last second before the flame burned out, Tengu's always heavy face finally showed a trace of relief. He looked at the cats in front of him with sad expressions, and suddenly smiled.
He said, "I'm going to go find my kitten."
His kitten loves to eat sour and sweet braised fish, and always rolls around in the catnip with white flowers. Although he always complains that the big dog is clumsy and boring, he is willing to take out the cat's favorite ball of yarn and play the ball throwing game with him. Then he pretends to be uninterested while lying on the swing, quietly curling his eyes, and his tail is pointed and curled into a beautiful crescent shape.
That was the kitten he once swore to protect with his life, and now the cat was covered with wounds because of him. He didn't know what he could do, but he would always search for him and find him, just like he did back then, wagging his tail and returning the ball of yarn to the cat's paws.
No matter the cost is life or soul.
…
Mian Yin stood there speechlessly, not yet recovered from the shock just now.
The cat toy returned the body of the tabby cat, pulled its own spiritual power out of his mind, returned to the sphere of the Hell Gate Hut, and floated into the cat bed where the Cat God used to lie, refusing to show his face or say a word.
Wodi sighed, looked at Lihua, patted Mianyin's shoulder, and the three cats turned around in unison and walked in the direction they came from.
Before leaving the ninth level of hell, a flame suddenly ignited in front of him - it was the hellfire that symbolized hell, but its color was much brighter than before. All the evil thoughts and magazines were swept away with the departure of the hellhound.
The three cats stared at the Hellfire vigilantly and wanted to leave quickly, but they heard the voice of the Heavenly Dao.
"The Hellhound has left the inheritance of the Lord of Hell to you, meow. Pick a vest to inherit it, and I will register you here in the Rules of Heaven and Earth."
Before he finished speaking, in the ninth layer of hell, various demon races that were driven by the hellhound to live far away from the edge of the Demon King's Palace tiptoed over to investigate the situation. When they saw that the hellhound's breath had disappeared, they immediately cried out in surprise.
The demons who can gain a foothold in the ninth level of hell are no ordinary people. They have experienced the triple torture of Satan, Satan disguised as their own son, and the hellhound. Anyone with a bit of backbone was thrown into the lava lake as fertilizer.
They felt the powerful aura of the cat, and saw Hellfire pretending to be obedient beside them. They knew that this was another existence that was so powerful that it was almost a god. They had no intention of resisting at all. They all knelt on the ground, wanting to shout "Greetings to the Lord". They had already assumed the posture, but were stuck in place, hesitating, not knowing which of the three was the real Lord of Hell.
The cats looked at each other without saying a word. Lihua and Wodi took a step back at the same time, leaving Mianyin alone squatting there.
There is still a half piece of Cat God fragment in his body, and his thinking is always half a step slower than other vests: "..."
He didn't want to be the Lord of Hell! This kind of mission, which sounded very dangerous, was totally unsuitable for a vest like him with half a fragment sealed in his body!
Woody: It’s not suitable for me. I have to rescue stray cats with Boo!
Li Hua: Don’t look at me, I want to go back to the Twenty-Eight Mansions.
Mian Yin covered her face helplessly.
He stretched out his claws, and Hellfire flew obediently to the tip of his claws. The demons below knelt hurriedly. Before they could shout "Meet my Lord", they heard Mianyin cough lightly and wagged his tail: "I am here on the orders of His Highness to retake Hell and temporarily take over the position of Lord of Hell. When His Highness Daju can take time out of his busy schedule, He will meet you."
He will take this job temporarily, and when Daju grows up a little, he will have to take over it!
The author has something to say:
Ah, I finally finished it! The next extra chapter is about Yun Jian’s daily life in high school. I’m beginning to doubt whether I can finish writing all the extra chapters before Thursday QAQ
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