Chapter 75: Chapter 167 The Nine Nether Demonic Cat Begins to Cry [Part 2]
Yes, these two cats imprisoned in the dungeon are the Nine Nether Demonic Cats that every sect in the Cultivation World dreams of! The one with good eyes is called Mimi, the elder sister, and the blind one is called Yaoyao, the younger sister! They are twins!
Because in their memory, their mother always called them “meow meow meow,” they assumed these were their names. Thus, they broke down the pronunciation of “meow,” with the elder sister being Mimi and the younger sister being Yaoyao.
Of course, Mimi and Yaoyao only thought this subconsciously. Their intelligence was not much higher than ordinary cats, so they couldn’t have such clear self-awareness like humans.
As for why they were covered in scars, it all has to do with the function of the Nine Nether Demonic Cat.
The Nine Nether Demonic Cat feeds on souls, and the powerful ones can even devour evil ghosts and ferocious spirits!
Precisely because they can see ghosts, they attracted the attention of cultivators. Later, after some research, it was discovered that their tears could be used as raw material to create a magical eyewash. Ordinary people who used it could see ghosts.
Being able to see ghosts might not be very useful for ordinary people! But for Immortal Sects, it was something they couldn’t ask for more. Because low-level cultivators cannot see ghosts, “Cat’s Eye Tears” filled their deficiency.
Thus, the Nine Nether Demonic Cat became the target of indiscriminate capture by the entire Cultivation World.
Of course, simply capturing them was not enough; they also needed to shed tears.
In the Cultivation World, there was only one way to make the Nine Nether Demonic Cat cry: abuse! The farsighted ones only targeted their bodies, while those who wanted to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs even directly stimulated their eyes.
Therefore, in the Cultivation World, most Nine Nether Demonic Cats endured torture from birth, and some even lost their eyes. This is why the Nine Nether Demonic Cats are becoming fewer and fewer.
Of course, this is also why the two Nine Nether Demonic Cats in the dungeon are covered in scars.
Elder An pulled hard on the iron chain, and Mimi, whose eyes were intact, let out a mournful cry. She was dragged back into the air like trash, her scarred body bleeding as it was pulled.
Elder An showed no mercy, and with a flick of his wrist, he whipped her with a whip.
“Meow!”
Mimi let out a weak, mournful cry. Her small body was whipped away and smashed heavily against the wall before falling down. Her limbs, which had become somewhat deformed from the beating, began to twitch.
“Meow!”
Yaoyao, who was blind beside her, sensed something. Her fur bristled, and she located Elder An by sound, then pounced at him desperately, without any fear, her posture unwavering.
“Get lost! Useless thing!”
Elder An was furious. He raised his leg and kicked Yaoyao away. He had no intention of showing mercy to this blind cat.
“Snap!”
Yaoyao flew out like a tattered sack and smashed heavily against the wall. The sound of bones breaking crisply could be heard. She fell to the ground and also began to twitch.
Mimi had recovered by now. She tremblingly stood up, her eyes glaring fiercely at Elder An. No tears flowed from her eyes. She then began to lick the hideous bloodstain on her belly that the whip had drawn.
“Cry! Cry for me!”
Elder An’s eyes were about to burst. He pulled the iron chain again, dragging Mimi closer, and raised his whip to strike again.
“Snap!”
This time, Mimi didn’t even cry out. She just lay limply as she was thrown out, falling to the ground again. Whether it was because she had no strength to resist or because she was numb, it was unknown.
In fact, only Mimi knew that she had been subjected to torture since birth and had become numb to it, so simple physical torment could hardly make her shed tears anymore.
Yaoyao, on the other hand, got up and faced Elder An unflinchingly. Her fur was still bristled, and she showed no fear, but her lower body was unresponsive, dragging on the ground. It was clear that she had been paralyzed, and Elder An’s kick had injured her spine.
“You don’t know when to stop! I kept you before out of pity, did you really think I wouldn’t kill you?”
Elder An looked at Yaoyao mockingly.
Mimi lay there for a long time before managing to roll over. However, she still did not shed tears, and quietly licked her wounds.
“Damn little beast! You still won’t cry, huh? Are your tears all dried up?”
Elder An was enraged. He wanted to deliver a fatal blow, but he was afraid of not being able to explain to the Sect Leader if he killed Mimi. So, he looked around, trying to find a more “cruel” method to torture Mimi.
Elder An’s gaze was unfocused, and it gradually settled on Yaoyao.
“Heh heh! Since you’re already blind, let’s make use of your last value!”
Elder An suddenly disappeared from his original spot and reappeared beside Yaoyao. He grabbed her by the neck and lifted her up.
Yaoyao struggled unwillingly, but her lower body was paralyzed, and she could not threaten Elder An at all.
Mimi didn’t know why Elder An was grabbing her sister, but she instinctively felt uneasy. So, she walked over with unsteady steps, making “meow meow meow” sounds, whether in anger or begging was unclear.
“Today, I want to see if your tears are truly all gone.”
A fierce look appeared on Elder An’s face. His large hand completely enveloped Yaoyao’s small head, and then he twisted it without hesitation.
“Crackle!”
With a crisp sound, Yaoyao’s small head went limp, and the fur that had been standing up like steel needles gradually softened. Her tragic life thus came to an end. Although she lived for less than a year, the world was too dark for her, and death might have been a release!
Elder An showed no compassion and casually threw the corpse in front of Mimi.
Mimi extended her pink tongue to lick her sister, but her sister showed no reaction. Only then did she realize that the only closest person in the world had left her. She let out a mournful cry: “Meow! Meow! Woo woo woo…”
The cat’s voice was childlike, but it was filled with endless sorrow, echoing in the dungeon for a long time. She really didn’t understand what she had done wrong, why she had to endure such inhuman torture from birth, and why heaven was so unfair!
Mimi was heartbroken, and tears finally overflowed from her eyes, rolling down drop by drop.
“Good! Very good! It really works!”
Elder An was overjoyed. He quickly ran over, grabbed Mimi by the scruff of her neck, lifted her up, and took out a jade bottle to collect the tears. This item was more valuable than gold in the current Cultivation World, so not a single drop could be wasted.
Mimi was devastated, both physically and mentally, and had no ability to resist. She could only cry sadly because there was too much resentment accumulated in her heart, and she couldn’t stop it. Her tears fell continuously like pearls from a broken string.
Elder An was overjoyed and cursed, “If I had known this earlier! I should have killed that useless little beast sooner!”
Elder An was focused on the Cat’s Eye Tears and didn’t notice that Yaoyao at his feet was somewhat abnormal.
Generally speaking, people and animals have three souls and seven vital spirits. Once they die, the seven vital spirits dissipate immediately, and the life soul disintegrates. The three souls are then obliterated by the Heavenly Dao.
However, this is only for ordinary people. If one’s cultivation is strong enough, even if the seven vital spirits dissipate after death, the life soul can resist the Heavenly Dao for a short period, thus becoming a wandering ghost.
Of course, becoming a wandering ghost is not only achieved through strong cultivation. There is also the gestation in extremely yin places. If one dies in an extremely yin place, even the life soul of ordinary people or animals may become wandering ghosts.
Besides these, there is a third way: resentment!
If a person or animal dies with sufficient resentment, their body will emit strong resentment, attracting the surrounding yin energy to protect the life soul, thus gaining the ability to resist the Heavenly Dao.
And Yaoyao now falls into the third category. After her death, her resentment was too great. Although her seven vital spirits dissipated, her corpse generated intense resentment that protected her life soul, which then slowly floated out of the corpse, attracting all the yin energy within a radius of dozens of miles, like a bottomless pit.
