Lu Hao thought of how Gray Cat and Heavenly Dog had come into being. The Heavenly Emperor and the Seed had created them together to fix the flaws in the Source Land. Was Heavenly Dog's devouring ability like Jiao's, allowing him to grow stronger simply by devouring and refining things? It seemed completely out of place in a world that followed the origin path. After all, everyone else had to advance along a Great Dao to grow stronger, while he could improve just by devouring things. It hardly seemed any worse than the Slaughter Seed!
Lu Hao thought of the Black Swamp in Gray Cat's Origin World. It was where all the negative emotions in the Three Realms gathered. Whenever a great war broke out and the hearts of the people fell into turmoil, the Black Swamp would grow, causing Gray Cat to fall asleep. That was why Gray Cat had always gone to sleep whenever a great war occurred in the past. If Gray Cat's role was to consume and store the negative emotions of the Three Realms, then Heavenly Dog's role was to devour other things on the material side. Their purpose was obvious: swallow all the bad things in the Three Realms and leave a good world behind. If Lu Hao's guess was right, that was why Gray Cat and Heavenly Dog had originally been created. He just did not know what had happened afterward to make them abandon that approach and develop the Immortal Source plan instead. Later still, the Sea of Bitterness—the Forbidden Sea—had come into being. Most negative matter and emotions were absorbed by the Forbidden Sea, while a small portion still flowed to Gray Cat.
Lu Hao felt his guess was probably close to the truth. "Gray Cat, I'd like to take a