"—Don't look at me like that!"
Shadow Cat got to its feet, stretched its paws forward, stuck up its rump, and had a long, comfortable stretch. Even its tone was a little lazy. "At any rate, my True Self is a legend now. Even if I can't directly borrow my True Self's legendary abilities the way you thought incarnations can, as His shadow, it's only normal for me to develop a tiny bit of talent..."
It lifted a cat paw.
Two claws slid out, indicating a distance the size of a grain of rice.
As the saying went, when one person attained the Dao, even his chickens and dogs rose to heaven. Never mind legends—back in ancient times, even a Grand Wizard could count as having "attained the Dao," because every Grand Wizard had already confirmed their own path and condensed a Dao body. And the relationship between Shadow Cat and its True Self was far closer than that of "chickens and dogs." If chickens and dogs could rise to heaven, then how much more so Shadow Cat?
"—Talent!"
Black Cat caught a certain key word and immediately sat up straight, its expression grave.
Something Shadow Cat could mention in such a "smug" tone clearly was no ordinary talent. Unfortunately, Shadow Cat chose this exact moment to whet its appetite and refused to continue.
Black Cat's gaze turned somewhat unfriendly.
In the end, it was the master of Xuanhuang Palace who worried the two cats might start fighting and smash the bottles and jars in his palace, so he spoke up to explain, "—'Thirteen' was originally the True Self's shadow, so its talent is also related to shadows. At this stage, it can appear anytime, anywhere in any 'shadow' on Buji Island... It also happens to like lively scenes... You