"A cat?" Su Yuexi stopped in her tracks and looked at Sikong Jing in confusion.
Sikong Jing began to explain in a low voice...
"Legend has it that the King of Night Charms has nine lives. If those nine lives are nine layers of soul bodies, then it can cast all nine layers into reincarnation, creating... nine simultaneous reincarnations!"
"Each soul body will have its own reincarnation, and once they have all matured, they will fuse together."
His voice was somewhat hoarse, as though Sikong Jing carried some indescribable emotion.
In truth, these legends were the conclusion Sikong Jing had reached after discussing the matter with the ferocious beasts and divine beasts.
At the same time, the Blood Charm Demon Cat spirit shadow within the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison, which possessed the King of Night Charms' bloodline, had made the same deduction...
No one had considered such a possibility before, but Sikong Jing had gradually formed a new conjecture after Demon Dream Witch's sudden eruption.
Combined with the legends of the King of Night Charms, the possibility was far from small.
As Su Yuexi listened, her eyes widened in disbelief. Then, as though she had suddenly remembered something, she took out a painting—it was the very one Su Beiheng had drawn as a child, with nine crooked little cats on it.
The one with the line written at the bottom: "I want to have nine daughters, so you can call me Dad."
Holding the painting, she looked at Sikong Jing and cried out, "Jing Gege, could this painting be..."
Sikong Jing nodded gently...
"Suppose that what Grandpa Su encountered as a child was the King of Night Charms' true body, or perhaps a soul shadow it had left in this world."
"If it told Grandpa Su that it had