Chu Huai Xu stood outside Wuji Forest, feeling that this fat black cat had genuinely tricked him by treating him like another cat.
"It really thinks my intelligence is about the same as a cat's, doesn't it?"
It had specifically left someone here to say it wasn't around. Wasn't that basically proof that it absolutely was?
If you were really hiding from me and had really run off, yet still left someone here to notify me, then that was—
—a very polite thing to do!
Kui Muquan looked somewhat embarrassed. He truly wasn't good at acting.
The main issue was that Cat Guardian's instructions were simply too humiliating.
They made him look a little stupid, too.
Yuwen Huai had sent Chu Huai Xu to Wuji Forest to look for the cat, so he had certainly sensed through his divine consciousness that the black cat was here.
But the people of Spring Autumn Mountain had actually long since grown used to it.
This Cat Guardian had a lofty status, overwhelming strength, and an absurdly senior standing.
But his brain truly wasn't all that bright.
Most demonic beasts were like that.
Living for a long time did not make them clever.
It was an innate defect. They had occupied the lowlands of intelligence from birth, and there was nothing to be done about it.
Most of the time, his temperament was no different from a child's.
In fact, Kui Muquan knew very well that according to the sect's unofficial histories, the Female Ancestor had originally tricked this cat away from the Dao Ancestor.
It would not be an exaggeration to say she had abducted it.
The Dao Ancestor simply hadn't made an issue of it and had treated it as giving her a small pet.
Later generations even found the whole thing