Qin Yi did not answer. He plopped down in front of him and said, "You're of the Demon Race. Why did you become a Human Emperor's subject and preserve civilization's heritage for humanity?"
Though he was dying to complain, "The Records of Attendant Bai Ze say that I'm also of the Demon Race. Has Your Majesty forgotten everything?" Qin Yi did not dare voice it. What if no one had seen that record yet? That would be hard to explain.
Bai Ze said, "We are all living beings within the Door. If one place does not suit us, we go to another country. What difference is there? Demons are not one unified race. I do not count as one of their kind. Since I acknowledge the Human Emperor's ideals, naturally I serve the Human Emperor. It is also the fulfillment of my own Dao Path."
Qin Yi nodded slightly. This was somewhat like the Spring and Autumn and Warring States era. Everyone was a Zhou citizen; which feudal state they joined within the realm had never been sharply defined. Cheng Cheng had mentioned it as well: in ancient times, countless races stood side by side, and there was no particularly clear distinction between humans and demons. Demons themselves were a heap of different races, not a single race.
So although Bangbang had contended with the Demon Race for supremacy, and even the final Immortal-God Calamity had chiefly been a war between humans and demons, Qin Yi had never felt any explicit rejection of demons from her. Many of her own subjects had been demons, all recognizing her ideals and acting alongside her.
To Bangbang, creatures such as qilin and Bai Ze might have been far more trustworthy than human beings like Zhao Wuhuai...
As he pondered this, Bai Ze was