After Being Sacrificed to the Demon Lord, I Picked Up a Gossipy Cat

Yunzhan was the envy of everyone in the cultivation world, a heaven-blessed prodigy.

He entered a cultivation sect at five, formed his Golden Core at seven, and by twenty had reached the pinnacle of the Great Ascension stage, with only the final step of ascension left.

But the day before his tribulation, rumors swept across the land.

His gentle, humble demeanor was a lie. The real Yunzhan was violent-tempered and would beat the sect's disciples at the drop of a hat.

His innocent, kind-hearted personality was a lie, too. He had gone to every length to seduce and bewitch his master, martial uncles, and fellow disciples, juggling several relationships at once.

Even his talent was fake. They said the sect had poured all its resources into him, gathering every rare treasure under heaven for his sake. With that kind of preferential treatment, even a dog could become an immortal in twenty years.

Only when the entire cultivation world put him on trial, stripped him of all his cultivation, and threw him into the Demon Pool as a sacrifice to the Demon Lord did Yunzhan learn the truth: he was the vile, universally despised villain in a novel.

He never saw the fearsome Demon Lord of legend. Instead, he found a filthy little black cat.

Having survived a great calamity, Yunzhan had no desire to fight for anything or clear his name. He only wanted to recover, then take his cat and live a quiet, unremarkable life in the mountains.

But the cat turned out to be a terrible gossip, and could see a person's entire life just by looking at them.

Every day it berated him for being an idiot who never learned, and kept threatening to kill everyone who had wronged him and avenge him.

Yunzhan: ...

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When Blackglow was picked up by Yunzhan, a sickly, pitiful man who looked ready to drop dead at any moment, he resisted with all his might.

Though he had no memories and nowhere to go, Blackglow was certain he came from a noble family. How could he lower himself for some mere mortal?

But then he took another look...

Wait, this guy's kind of good-looking! His lordship the Cat is magnanimous. He might even let him touch him!

Then he took another billion looks...

Whoa, whoa! This guy's life is full of shocking secrets!

The master of the cultivation world's greatest sect is a shameless old man, actually setting his sights on his own disciple. The problem is, this master once had a Dao companion, whom he personally killed while proving his heartless Dao. Now he wants to use his disciple as a stand-in for his lost beloved! And the martial uncle and senior brothers are all in love with this second junior brother. When they can't have him, they slander him by claiming he tried to seduce them?

What a bunch of bastards!

And what about the claim that he beat his fellow disciples? The second disciple spent all year practicing swordsmanship on the mountain peak. In fifteen years, he went down the mountain fewer than ten times. The one time he offered his juniors advice on their swordplay, he smiled and encouraged them the whole time. When he touched one junior's hand, that kid went half a month without washing it!

Meanwhile, that eldest senior brother gets impatient whenever anyone asks him about a move in the sword manual, calling them idiots and dead weight. And this man, in his thirties, has downed piles of pills and has only just reached the peak of the Golden Core stage, yet he ranks among the top hundred talents of his generation in the cultivation world and is held up as a model disciple?

And they claim his cultivation came from rare treasures? The entirety of your sect's resources amounted to one fasting pill and one bottle of marrow-cleansing water when he became your disciple? Good grief, a sect this poor should just fold already!

Yunzhan, who wanted to bury his past and live in seclusion: ...

The countless people of the cultivation world: Σ(?д?|||)??

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After Yunzhan left his sect, everyone there was consumed with regret. They refused to believe their second disciple, second martial nephew, second junior brother, and second senior brother was really dead, and did everything they could to find some trace of him.

Then one day, after they came down from the mountain, they were met with the cold stares of everyone in the cultivation world.

And a young man dressed in black, who had just transformed from a black cat and bore the Demon Lord's sigil on his forehead, flying toward them with his sword drawn.

"You bastards! Prepare to die!"

A cold, aloof, universally despised bottom x a tsundere, gossip-loving top. Cat top.

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