Today's second update: Chapter 2101! 2/4!
The person in the portrait looked largely no different from modern-day bloodkin. The difference was the pair of bat wings on their back, similar to those of the Succubus Race but closer in shape and size to the Asura Race's bone wings.
The Succubus Race had a pair of tiny bat wings growing from their shoulder blades, very compact.
The Asura Race had a pair of massive bone wings, equal in size to Angel Wings. Unlike the sacred angels' white feathers and Fallen Angels' black feathers, the Asura Race's bone wings resembled battle-damaged wings stripped of all flesh and feathers, making them terrifying. This was because the Asura Race was essentially composed of Netherworld creatures returned to life.
The bloodkin in the portrait—or rather, the true Demon Race—possessed enlarged succubus bat wings, or perhaps wings formed by covering Asura Wings with flesh and blood!
And compared to the fangs Xu Kun had seen on bloodkin before, those in the portrait were on an entirely different level!
Ordinary bloodkin had fangs that reached only as far as their lower lips, but the bloodkin in the portrait had fangs longer than their chins.
Dao Thunder Celestial Venerable revealed another little-known secret. "The Lord who once created the angels was not wrong to call us demons, nor were the people of the world wrong to do so. Our ancestors survived by drinking human blood. Besides demons, some also called our ancestors vampires."
That name was also what the world now called the bloodkin.
"Then the so-called benevolent demons are a fallacy?"
"A fallacy? If you judge only by our demon ancestors' fondness for blood, then yes, it is a fallacy. But our ancestors understood that one should not drain a pond dry for fish. Though they