Wei Yue tumbled and rolled for dozens of miles, barely stabilizing his footing before instantly charging back toward this side. Yang Bi wants me dead, he thought. The guards of the Twelve Zodiacs Hall have all been replaced by his people. If I fail to handle this properly, I'm afraid he'll wipe me out! I can't let Huo Dou kill Chen Shi!
His injuries had not yet fully healed, and now, being batted away by a single slap from Huo Dou, he was suffering trauma upon trauma.
He felt utterly bewildered: why wasn't Huo Dou obeying?
Huo Dou was an underworld exotic beast, naturally possessing a Ghost and God Domain, capable of commanding demonic fire with astonishing combat prowess.
This creature was closer to a demon and extremely dangerous.
The Huo Dou had originally been crouching outside Chen Shi's mother's Primordial Palace, in a constant state of deep slumber. It only woke when others approached the Primordial Palace, driving intruders away—even ghosts and gods would be eaten.
After taking charge of Immortal Capital, Wei Yue had always assumed the Huo Dou was a prison guard left behind by the Yama Emperor to watch over Chen Shi's mother, used to deal with Chen Shi.
There were many such ghosts and monsters in the underworld, known as prison wardens, specifically responsible for guarding large prisons to prevent anyone from breaking out.
Therefore, Wei Yue had commanded ghosts and gods to quietly approach the Huo Dou, tethering it with chains to control the behemoth. Over the past few years, the Huo Dou had cooperated quite well with them, only suddenly waking up to pounce on and slaughter anyone who approached Chen Shi's mother's Primordial Palace.
Whenever that happened, they would paste specialized talismans onto the Huo Dou's forehead to plunge it back into