When Li Mu Yang made this request, the Kaiming Beast's mouth fell slightly open and its pupils swelled wide—its nine mouths turning faintly red at the same time, its nine pairs of eyes widening together. It looked both ugly and adorable, utterly comical.
The Kaiming Beast seemed to have heard the most absurd and terrifying thing in the world. After remaining silent for a long while, it swallowed a huge mouthful of saliva before finally speaking. "Who do you think I am?"
"I know you're the Kaiming Beast," Li Mu Yang said.
"Where do you see me standing?"
"By the entrance to the divine palace."
"Exactly." The Kaiming Beast nodded desperately. "Although my name is Kaiming Beast, I'm merely the gatekeeper at the entrance to the divine palace—just like how you humans like to tie a dog up by your front door. I'm the dog of you humans. Do your dogs have the authority to give their master's house to someone else?"
Li Mu Yang shook his head. "No."
"If they don't have the authority to give away a house, what authority do I have to give away the divine palace?" The Kaiming Beast looked furious. "Why are you making things difficult for a dog?"
Li Mu Yang thought about it seriously and found that what this dog said made perfect sense.
Back when he had lived in Jiangnan City, no one had ever run over to the dog by someone's front door and negotiated with it about gifting them the house, right?
Why was he now, upon arriving at the divine palace, trying to get a gatekeeper dog to give the divine palace to him?
Not only that, Li Mu Yang also discovered a few other things.
First, the Kaiming Beast was very clever. It knew what its duty