Gao Ming wanted to hand every monster in the pet building over to Big Dog, but Big Dog's response was interesting. He neither explicitly refused nor accepted outright. Instead, he wanted Gao Ming to send the monsters into the Execution House first, then let them become his followers.
After spending so much time together, Big Dog had already guessed what made the Execution House special. Once ghosts entered it, their fate became entwined with Gao Ming's. He was doing this to put Gao Ming at ease, too.
The Blind Man of the past would never have come up with such a roundabout idea. He really had changed.
The Nine-Headed Strange Bird, the Deer-Headed Hunter, and Nian Yu, whose body was covered in tentacles—once the building's three strongest monsters bowed before Big Dog, a complete set of Beast Markings emerged on the Black Dog's body.
Those eerie markings contained not only memories of living people before they mutated into beasts, but also some of the Beast-Faced Clay Sculpture's experiences. He dimly glimpsed a Blood City moving through the black mist.
That boundless, blood-red city was like an ark sailing through the Black Mist World, seeking the source of the black mist. The Beast God's True Form had been hunted down by someone from that Blood City.
As a Calamity God whom ordinary wronged souls dared not even mention lightly, the Beast God had never imagined that its soul would one day be utterly destroyed. Its shattered memories contained very few images of its killer—only a bright, cheerful smile and a monstrous hammer that radiated the vilest evil.
The warm smile and the blood-red hammerhead covered in barbs appeared together in the same memory fragment in perfect harmony. Even knowing he was the killer, it was impossible to hate him.
As if