The Abyssal Garden: No Room for the Idle

Facing the black cat's abrupt change of subject,

Su Qi didn't mind.

After all, it's not like I haven't seen a noob before, just practice more if you're bad.

He pondered and answered,

"Seems like there is such a thing, but I don't know which one you're referring to?"

"?"

This actually made the black cat pause for a moment, its eyes and eyebrows slightly twitched, and its pupils became more serious: "You've encountered other Elemental Devouring Beasts?"

To tell the truth,

It knew the situation of its kind better than anyone else—all the extraordinary beings had dwindled to a handful and were in the Old Days.

As for the younger generation... amidst the vast Present World and the passage of time, how many were still alive was even more of a mystery.

Su Qi was contemplating in his mind. The storm, the relation he had with Brother Cat could be considered companionship by now, having saved a bunch of its kind in the Anxious Land before.

But unlike Patrick, Brother Cat seemed to have its own mission to accomplish and did not choose to stay with The Hustlers.

However,

Su Qi still wanted to drag it into the pit. Not to mention Patrick, Brother Cat's potential and talent had already proven its race to be extraordinary. Plus, its terrifying abilities would enable some of Su Qi's ideas to come to fruition.

In other words,

If The Hustlers Sect wanted to formally reveal themselves, to securely stand in the Present World without being easily annihilated by various manhunts, Brother Cat was an indispensable link.

He looked at the black cat and showed a smile.

Black Cat: "..."

It didn't know why, but seeing that smile made it feel a bit uneasy, as if some trap was forming.

"It's like this," Su Qi started, sitting down gently: "It's a very short story. We fought together, developed a deep friendship, and when they were trapped, I saved them..."

"Snap."

The black cat had vacant eyes, as if it suddenly lost interest, raised its paw and scratched the keyboard on the table, directly interrupting Su Qi: "Stop, stop."

"Boring lies, what 'trapped', and you saved them again? Let's not even talk about whether this is the kind of relationship you humans like to form—the kind that's just out of social obligation... But none of this could happen."

Su Qi wasn't annoyed by the interruption and replied with a gentle smile: "How so?"

"Just a single point." The Cat God lazily spoke, its paw moving gently and tore a rift open: "Our strength as Elemental Devouring Beasts lies in space abilities; nothing can trap us. Little fellow, you're not underestimating our power, are you?"

"I admit that," Su Qi agreed, since the Cat God before him relied on such abilities to tear through the Old Days and enter here.

"But..." Su Qi paused and stroked his chin: "But what if they encountered a being much more powerful than themselves, against whom they had no defense?"

The Cat God glanced at Su Qi: "Although you seem to trying hard in your explanation, young fellow, don't forget, before the Recovery, in the Present World... the highest power is only Sequence 2."

It confidently stroked its fur and laughed: "Even if those youngsters of my race aren't opponents, this ability can preemptively warn and escape from High sequence."

Su Qi suddenly said: "But what if it's higher?"

Cat God: "?"

"Like three or four stories high..." Su Qi gestured with his hands: "Or as tall as you."

"Stop nitpicking and splitting hairs," the black cat's pupils, amber in color, remained motionless, looking as though it had lost interest in Su Qi, turning its gaze to its own screen and blatantly typing on the keyboard, composing its account.

"Kid, you're a Heavenly Destiny People, so you should also know, where in the Present World is there a revived God..."

Su Qi: "Who says there aren't?"

"Aren't the Gods of the Abyss Gods?"

Black Cat truly raised its head this time: "??"

This kid is a bit too good at arguing.

Indeed,

Almost all gods could not escape the fate of slumber, scattering their strength in the infinite collapse, sinking into the Darkness, trapped in the Old Days.

But... there were also differences in strength among the divinities, with gaps no less than Low Sequence to extraordinary.

And the only gods still in existence in the Present World, who had not fallen into the Old Days, were those that even it felt fear towards, no one else.

Strictly speaking, what Su Qi said was not wrong; if they faced such beings, the youngsters of its own race would have no power to resist.

But.

Brother Cat only raised its head for a few breaths before lowering it again.

"Divine Gold, it made me mistype."

Even a fool would know this was impossible, not to mention why the youngsters would approach that Sealed Land, to say that... this fellow before it had saved them from the clutches of those terrifying top-tier Deceit Gods of the Abyss.

This was utter nonsense!

Nonsense more outrageous than its level on gold!

And at that moment,

The black cat's paw on the keyboard suddenly froze, as it sensed a terrifying, resentful, and anxious presence.

"This presence..."

The black cat shivered, its fur standing on end, its pupils shrinking sharply, conjuring up an image of a red giant in its mind.

It was an Abyss God that brought tremendous fear and anxiety; it could never forget this presence, because it almost didn't escape from that horrifying God of Anxiety...

The black cat's eyelids trembled slightly as it looked up.

The source of that presence was... none other than Su Qi in front of it, looking innocently back at it: "What are you looking at me for?"

"What you just said, and this presence... what the hell is going on..." For the first time, the black cat was so serious, it even closed the laptop screen.

Account bans, account appeals, all could be shoved aside; right now, the most important matter was what was in front of it.