"But back then, I didn't know what to do."
"I could only bark madly by instinct, run wildly by instinct, shout and roar by instinct."
"By a chance convergence of circumstances, my barking, shouting, and roaring drew a wisp of the Netherworld Edict passed down by the Netherworld Ghost Marshal, Leopard Tail."
"We merged into one and swallowed this realm."
"We wanted this realm to be free of the constraints of life and death, to revolve on its own outside the flow of time."
"But in the end, they still discovered us."
"To humiliate me, to humiliate the ever-renewing, unyielding living beings of this realm, they made this stretch of time repeat endlessly in seven-day cycles."
"From then on, under this Netherworld Edict of mine, the villagers of Three Paths Village were reduced to undying, indestructible monsters."
"And within this Seven-Day Reincarnation, Three Paths Village was slaughtered like lambs by those mountain bandits, again and again."
At this point, a gleam of gratitude flickered in Black Hound's eyes, and he said with great solemnity:
"Little fellow, thank you. Thank you for stopping this endless reincarnation."
"For ending this ceaseless humiliation."
Xu Taiping had many questions he wanted to ask about Black Hound's words, but his mouth opened and closed a few times, and in the end, he said nothing.
For he did not even know where to begin asking about what Black Hound had said.
Just then, Black Hound suddenly spoke to Xu Taiping alone through voice transmission:
"There will always be someone in this world who can understand these words of mine. You needn't ask. Just remember them well."
"After I leave, aside from the Soulfire Stone vein and ancient relics buried beneath this village, you can feed this body of mine, which contains that Netherworld Edict, to those