"—Fifty million minus twenty million, then another twenty million, doesn't that still leave ten million?"
Yellow Calico Cat's head poked over from the side again, its face full of confusion. Unlike Black Cat, it was only a shadow, and it had never been capable of sudden flashes of inspiration to begin with—it had no heart in the first place—so naturally its divination skills were a little worse. Besides, it was lazy. If it could ask someone else, it would never move a paw more than necessary.
Black Cat rolled its eyes.
It was a little stronger than Flower Cat. At the very least, it was a genuine Legendary thought. With the slightest stir of its mind, it could fish up all manner of hidden knowledge from the River of Time and Fate.
"—Because heaven and earth won't count all the merit on the Wizards."
Black Cat flicked out a claw and tapped at the grain-sized world below. "Every stone, every drop of water, every wisp of air in the Xuanhuang Small World is entitled to share in the feedback from the World Ascension. This is grace. They have no spirits, and they also need this merit to adapt to and consolidate those newly born, higher-level rules inside them... Besides that, there's the membrane of heaven and earth, and the few of us stationed outside..."
Black Cat's claw pointed in turn at the seven nodes of the Seven-pointed Star formation, its voice lowering slightly. "...We might all share a little too. Of course, the merit shared with us will be cast directly from the small world into the Starry Sky. It's the same principle as people on the grassland offering the first piece of meat to Eternal Heaven after cooking meat. To the Xuanhuang Small World, we are 'Eternal Heaven'... It's