But when that heat was inside his body, it truly was like pouring hot water over a wound, making Pei Ye bare his teeth and grimace.
"Where is it?" The black cat quietly waited for Pei Ye to recover before asking.
Pei Ye paused. "In my dantian."
The black cat's jade eyes brightened slightly.
"Wait! Something just occurred to me," Pei Ye said. "If you can control the blood's temperature, can't you sense where it's gone?"
"I can, but I wanted to confirm it."
Pei Ye glared at the cat.
"Now, this next question really is something I don't know at all-where in your dantian is it?"
"What do you mean, where in my dantian? It's inside my dantian."
"Is it with Endowed Fortune, or the Chi Shadow?"
Pei Ye paused and tried to feel it carefully. After a while, he frowned. "I can't sense it. How about you scald me again?"
The black cat stayed still. After some thought, the cat said, "If it were Endowed Fortune, you should want to eat me."
Pei Ye shuddered and turned to look at the little black bundle on his shoulder-it really was tiny, only slightly bigger than a kitten. Measured by mouthfuls, it would take just two bites.
"Well? Do you feel the urge?" Noticing his gaze, the black cat tilted its head and asked softly.
"No!" Pei Ye said with absolute conviction.
"Then it seems to be the Chi Shadow." The black cat nodded in satisfaction.
"You've been puzzling over this for days. What exactly is it?"
"Do you remember how you could once produce [Chi Flame]?" the black cat asked.
"..."
That pitch-black, bloody, ghost-haunted night flooded back into his mind. With a flick of his hand, a dozen exquisite dark-blue blossoms of flame had scattered through the woods,