"Phew..." Hearing Gungun's thoughts and seeing that the bear had identified the being who had stolen... no, what stealing? Clearly, it was picking them up. Seeing that Gungun had concluded Jieyin was the one who had picked up the Golden Crows' bodies, while she had merely seized them back from him, Houtu breathed a sigh of relief.
Then she abruptly came to her senses.
Why am I breathing a sigh of relief?
You're my battle pet, and Hou Yi is my subordinate. You killed the Golden Crows, and I was worried Taiyi would take their bodies away, so I brought them back for you first. Is there anything wrong with that? A corpse thief, indeed! Gungun, do you know you'll get a beating for saying that?
"Ancestral Witch, did you hang them there to display their corpses and raise our Witch Race's morale?" Just as Houtu was feeling aggrieved over Gungun's thoughts, the bear finally dropped that subject. Instead of asking who the corpse thief was, Gungun turned to this question.
Hearing this, Houtu tucked her right hand behind her waist and clenched it into a fist, smiling somewhat stiffly. "That's right."
"Ancestral Witch, you're far too kind. Those fellows were steeped in sin. How could dying and having their corpses hung up possibly settle their debt? Let me deal with them. I'll use their demon bodies and demon souls to forge a killing Numinous Treasure, the Immortal-Slaying... Demon-Slaying Flying Blade. In the future, I'll use it to finish off that little Golden Crow who was lucky enough to survive!" Gungun first sighed in admiration, then spoke to her with a serious expression on that great, chubby face.
"The Demon-Slaying Flying Blade?" Houtu had not expected Gungun to say anything serious. She had assumed the bear most likely wanted some