Edict

Taotie followed the direction those hungry ghosts' hands pointed, but he couldn't see a thing and couldn't help staring blankly.

Fengdu smiled faintly. "In those hungry ghosts' perception, there are things in the sky that they have always yearned for but could never obtain."

"That is why they keep chasing them. Yet the moment they touch them, those things become illusions."

"Not only that, they will turn into burning coals, scalding molten copper, filthy pus and blood, or even vicious venomous snakes and beasts that bite back, making them suffer the torment of desperately seeking something they can never obtain."

Taotie's eyes widened as he swallowed nervously. "G-Great Emperor, you're not going to throw me in there, are you?"

"Of course~" Fengdu replied deliberately in an eerie tone.

Terrified, Taotie hurriedly backed away. "Great Emperor, no! I haven't done anything wrong. Why should I suffer such a punishment?"

Fengdu reached out and grabbed Taotie, who was trying to escape.

"Great Emperor! Emperor Fengdu! Spare me! Please spare me!" Tears filled Taotie's eyes, and his voice was more servile and desperate than ever before.

"Please don't throw me here! I'd rather suffer in the Eighteen Layers of Hell for ten thousand years! Please! I don't want to become a hungry ghost! I don't want to starve forever!"

His face, still rather handsome after his Form Transformation, was now filled with misery and despair. There wasn't even a trace of the Fierce Beast King's former might left. He looked exactly like an ordinary young man scared out of his wits.

Fengdu chuckled softly. He didn't blame Taotie for reacting this way. For a Fierce Beast King known as Swallow Heaven and Devour Earth to fall into the Hungry Ghost Path, where he could never eat and would be tormented by eternal hunger,