Li Xiuyun was picked up by the wife of the village elder of Tianhe Village in Tianhe Creek.
The little girl has beautiful features, red lips and white teeth, and is extremely cute. In addition, the mayor of Tianhe Village and his wife have always had nothing to do, so they raised Li Xiuyun as their own child.
But Tianhe Village has always had an unspeakable secret.
That is, everyone in Tianhe Village is actually not human.
Legend has it that cats have nine lives, and cats with nine lives are also called nine-lived cat demons.
Everyone in Tianhe Village is a cat demon, but they cannot be trained to have nine lives like their powerful ones. The most they can only have five lives.
Their cultivation does not rely on absorbing the essence of heaven and earth, but enters the world to trick ignorant people into Tianhe Village, and then hunts them.
They will peel off human skin and put it on themselves, and then they will have human breath, and the human bones will be boiled into soup, which is the best tonic. Human blood and human flesh will be cooked into delicious dishes and served to the sky. Tables in every household in Hecun.
The more people you kill, the more lives you accumulate.
Until Li Xiuyun reached the age of eighteen, she had no idea that her favorite adoptive parents, as well as her kind uncles, aunts, grandparents, brothers and sisters in the village, all grew up cannibalistic.
But Li Xiuyun never understood that her adoptive parents never ate vegetables, and Li Xiuyun was not allowed to eat the meat in their bowls.
Li Xiuyun thought it was her adoptive parents who were protecting her food, until she later went out and secretly came back without telling her adoptive parents, hoping to give them a surprise.
She just didn't expect to face a huge impact that she couldn't bear.
Hiding behind the wooden table, she saw with her own eyes her usually friendly adoptive parents dragging a leg of a corpse, then expressionlessly raised the kitchen knife in their hands and began to dismember the corpse.
She was confused that night, thinking that she was in an illusion. Fortunately, her adoptive parents did not find her, and she quickly escaped from Tianhe Village.
After leaving Tianhe Village, she has been traveling abroad for several years.
Until by chance, she met a Taoist priest. She told the Taoist priest about her adoptive parents. The Taoist priest pondered and made a fortune, and his face suddenly changed.
He said that if you are lucky, not only your adoptive parents, but also the entire Tianhe Village will be full of man-eating cat monsters.
Li Xiuyun was frightened for a while after hearing this, but the appearance of the corpse that was dragged by her adoptive parents at that time appeared in her mind.
It was a girl of similar age to her. She must have been frightened before she died, causing her eyes to open wide. By coincidence, Li Xiuyun was hiding in a position where the corpse's eyes were facing each other.
Li Xiuyun took a deep breath and asked, "Will the cat demon die if he doesn't kill people?"
The Taoist priest was surprised: "I thought you would ask how to kill the cat demon."
Li Xiuyun said seriously: "Because they raised me."
"If I kill them, what's the difference between me and them?" Li Xiuyun lowered his head again and murmured softly, "Others can kill, but I can't. I'm not qualified."
The Taoist priest looked at her with complicated eyes, and then said: "Have you ever heard of the Nine-Life Cat Demon?"
Li Xiuyun shook his head.
I heard the Taoist priest say: "The nine-lived cat demon refers to a cat with nine lives. It is said that the nine-lived demon cat has the ability to reach heaven and earth, and can even attain Taoism and immortality. However, many cat demons only have the most in their lives. Three or four lives, and even a handful of people have five lives.
"The reason for eating people is because they can have many lives for themselves."
"Then how to stop them?" Li Xiuyun asked.
"Just let them have many lives without eating people," the Taoist priest said with a smile, "They eat people because of their lives."
"It just so happens that a fairy mountain recently appeared in the South China Sea. There are immortals in the fairy mountain. This is also a pointed road."
Li Xiuyun went to Nanhai.
But no matter how she searched, she could not find the fairy mountain that the Taoist priest said. She suddenly felt a strong uneasiness in her heart. She rushed back to Tianhe Village day and night, only to find that Tianhe Village had been flooded.
She only heard fragments of words from a few children passing by.
"I heard that the Tianhe Empress enshrined in Tianhe Village appeared and actually flooded the whole Tianhe Village."
"Yes, Tianhe Village has been suffering from drought and floods in the past few years, and there has been no harvest. It's not like he really offended the gods."
"..."
Li Xiuyun's hands and feet felt cold.
No one knows Tianhe Empress better than she does. She is also the deity that Tianhe Village enshrines every year. It is said that she was the first village chief and she was willing to sacrifice her life for the sake of Tianhe Village, which suffered from drought and floods.
