"You didn't know?" Lu Zheng looked up and asked curiously.
"I knew the Green Physician Goddess was a White Fox, and that was recorded in the court's register of unusual beings. But I'd never heard that she carried the bloodline of the Tushan Celestial Fox!" Huang Ruoxing said in shock.
Most unusual beings in Great Jing had never formally registered their identities as unusual beings. They either hid away in the countryside or mingled among humanity.
After all, the Great Jing court was still human-centered. Many spirits did not wish to deal with the court, nor did they want to expose their background on the desk or bookshelf of strangers. Without someone they knew to vouch for them, they had little sense of security.
Thus, even if most spirits had no intention of harming people, they would not voluntarily approach the court, allow it to investigate their origins, and enter them into the spirit registry.
Of course, that was another matter if they had connections within the system or some great figure backing them. Naturally, they did not mind producing their spirit registry token to call for help or prove their innocence when they encountered danger or indiscriminate demon hunters.
For example, Liu Qingyan's family in Wanfu County had previously held ordinary civilian registrations. Only after the first campaign to control the floods had they used Lu Zheng's connections to contact the Demon Suppression Division and obtain official spirit registrations. He had not only secured them for the five women of Five Beauties Manor, but also for the entire Huangfu family of Wanfu County.
Therefore, the court's register of unusual beings contained detailed records on Liu Qingyan's family, and it also knew that Liu Qingyan and Lu Zheng were husband and wife.
However, Liu Qingyan's family had been registered merely