My lady, don't be angry. I'm letting you touch my big tail.

The dog god cried out and pounded on the barrier.

Instantly, the light emanating from the talisman vanished.

The barrier naturally disappeared.

Inugami stumbled and scrambled to the spot where the girl had been pulled down, gripping the edge with both hands and peering down.

"Sister... Sister! I've been troubled by the past. Just like Joey and the others said, I've been living in the sadness of the past!"

I'm afraid that if I fall in love with you, our relationship will end up like your past life, ending in tragedy.

I'm afraid that my feelings for you will become a shackle for you, binding your exceptional talent to my control..."

Inugami cried and said, "But I really love her."

I hope to always be by her side.

Stay by her side and clear away all obstacles for her.

Below, there was just a hole, completely empty.

Nothing at all.

Inugami couldn't hold back any longer and was about to jump.

Live to see people, die to see corpses.

Even if it means death, she wants to be with her sister!

However, just as he was about to jump, Qiao Yi and Hua Ran's voices came from behind him.

"Inugami, calm down. Your sister isn't down there if you jump."

Hua Ran chimed in, "My wife is here, your sister won't die, don't worry. Oh dear, look at you, you little dog, you look even more foolish crying."

Inugami wasn't in the mood to argue with Hanazono.

He just kept repeating the same sentence.

"My sister was captured by the Taotie... and dragged down there..."

She was crying her eyes out.

Then Hua Ran jumped down from the tree.

Approaching the dog god, he placed a hand on the dog god's head and said, "I know, I know, but have you ever thought about why my wife and I are here?"

The dog god stood there, dumbfounded.

Hua Ran laughed out loud.

"Alright, seeing how pitiful you are, and seeing that you're not being stubborn, I won't tease you anymore. It's your sister and my wife who have long planned to team up to catch the Taotie."

Inugami still stared blankly at Hanazon, his two dog ears drooping and trembling with each sob.

Hanazono ruffled Inugami's head.

"Oh dear, all of this was expected, so don't cry."

After Hua Ran finished speaking, the girl's voice came from below.

"Brother Inugami, I'm fine. I just came down and put all the talismans in front of Taotie. Even if Taotie attacks me, I still have the life-saving talisman that Sister Joey gave me, so you don't need to worry at all."

Upon hearing the girl's voice, the dog god hurriedly peeked out.

Soon, the girl came up.

Inugami hugged the girl tightly, and his words were once again filled with uncontrollable scolding.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner! My heart was about to stop beating..."

The girl wasn't angry or upset at all; on the contrary, she was quite satisfied with the outcome.

"Brother Inugami, if I don't do this, will I never hear 'you like me' in my entire life?"

In fact, this whole thing was a conspiracy from the very beginning.

Joey already knew about the strange phenomenon here, and she accepted it anyway.

And it was Joey who first suspected that Taotie was the one who started this.

She has an excessive amount of yang energy; if she goes there, it might alert the enemy.

Instead of catching the Taotie when they returned, they scared it away, letting it wreak havoc on other counties and villages. Now it will be difficult for Qiao Yi to catch it again.

Especially the Taotie, a ferocious beast, is quite intelligent.

Once it learns a method used by others to capture it, it will remember that method for life and try to avoid it.

To put it bluntly, while others learn from their mistakes, Taotie learns without ever experiencing a setback.

So Joey thought of the young girl.

It has yang energy and ability, but the yang energy is not particularly strong yet and has not yet erupted.

In this situation, she would need to bring her own talisman and appear as "prey" to meet Taotie.

By facing the Taotie directly and casting her immobilization spell on it, the girl had successfully completed her mission.

But the girl had a request, or rather, a reward.

That is, she was going to put on a show for Inugami.

The two hit it off immediately.

This is the cause and effect.

After the girl finished speaking, she forcefully cupped the dog god's face in her hands.

He said solemnly, "Brother Inugami, I need to make this clear to you! First of all, I am in charge of my own life. No matter what the future holds, whether I can advance further in my cultivation or encounter monsters and die, it is all the result of my own decisions, and I have no regrets!"

Upon hearing this, Inugami felt that the girl instantly overlapped with her own past life, the Taoist nun.

The Taoist nun never regretted it.

The girl continued, "Secondly, why do you drag yourself into this vicious cycle, making it seem like it's all your fault, that I'm like this because of you? The world is vast, and people are diverse. I admit that some people suffer because of bad luck, natural disasters, or man-made calamities."

But most people, in fact, are the ones who create obstacles on the road ahead.

The girl said she had already heard Joey tell the story of her previous life.

She strongly agreed with what Joey said: "If it's a bad person who's hurting us, why should we hurt ourselves instead of blaming the person who hurt us?"

After the girl finished speaking, she began to kiss away the tears that were hanging on the dog god's face.

One after another, very gently.

This was a feeling that Inugami had never experienced before.

Because in the girl's past life, his Taoist nun sister had never kissed him like this.

Inugami had considered it.

I've been looking forward to it for a long time, and now I've been waiting for almost twenty years.

Looking at Inugami's expression, the girl said, "Brother Inugami, I have one last thing to say, which is that we should cherish the present moment."

Whether we live in the past or fantasize about the future, it's really just a way for us to add flavor to our lives.

Because you pursue things that no longer exist too much, you'll eventually find that you haven't taken care of the people or things in your present life, and you'll miss out on them. Is that what you want?

Hua Ran chimed in from the side.

"Insightful! If she's not exceptionally intelligent, then who is?"

Joey nodded and gave a thumbs up.

"After this job, I don't think the kid needs to be a ghost hunter. He could open a psychological counseling clinic and make a fortune."

After hearing the girl's last words, Inugami understood somewhat.

Especially after just experiencing the loss of her sister.

Seeing that the dog god didn't speak, the girl winked at Hanazono and Joey.

Qiao Yi coughed, "Um, you guys stay here, Hua Ran and I will go deal with the immobilized Taotie."

Then, on the hilltop, only the girl and the dog god remained.

The girl took the initiative to hug Inugami, who did not refuse, though his heart was still pounding wildly.

This is progress!

The girl thought that their future was still long.

Then she shouldn't force Inugami-nii-san; she should take it one step at a time.

Then she kissed the dog god's cheek.

"Brother Inugami, I will prove with my actions that I have learned from the lessons of my past life, and I will strive to cultivate and break through the human lifespan, so that I can stay with you forever~"

Upon hearing these words, Inugami's inner unease was somewhat soothed.

He thought that perhaps he really should take a step out of the sadness of the past.