"I'm sorry. I beg your forgiveness. If you don't want to forgive me, that's fine—but I know I'm not worthy of being your friend for generations... because my soul is too small, and my heart is too dark, just like that Netherworld Cold Qi..."
Kaiming Beast cried its eyes out. The better Li Mu Yang treated it, and the more he wanted to be friends with it for generations, the more sorrowful and guilty it felt, believing that its thought of killing and eating Li Mu Yang back then had been filthy and sinful.
As it cried, it took the initiative to confess the changes in its state of mind at the time. It kept apologizing to Li Mu Yang and begging for his forgiveness.
Li Mu Yang was stunned.
He wasn't shocked that Kaiming Beast had once harbored such an evil thought. What shocked him was that Kaiming Beast had actually blurted out its evil thought right there—and was even this grieved over it.
Straightforward!
This fellow was far too straightforward!
That was Li Mu Yang's evaluation of Kaiming Beast.
When faced with enormous benefits, everyone would develop the urge to monopolize them and do things that went against their true nature or morality. We often heard stories of fathers and sons turning against each other, or brothers quarreling among themselves, all because of the bitter consequences brought about by an unfair distribution of benefits.
He and Kaiming Beast were neither relatives nor friends. They could not even be considered ordinary friends. When Li Mu Yang had asked it to help drive out the Netherworld Qi, he had still harbored doubts and kept his guard up. It wasn't as if he hadn't prepared some countermeasures either...
Compared with the greed and ruthlessness of the human race, what could Kaiming