At his words, Black Cloud realized that was indeed the case. Having seen this man's ability to travel through the marsh, he lowered the arm he had raised to stop him and laughed. "Not at all. It's humans who often despise us for being demons. As long as you don't mind, stay as long as you like. You won't go hungry."
Niu Youdao said, "What are humans? What are demons? Without humans, where would demons have come from?" After speaking with a smiling face, he flashed away.
Black Cloud was left staring blankly at those words. Before Shang Song opened the passage between the two worlds, before humans entered this world, the Fox Clan had never known there was such a designation as demon, nor did they know of any distinction between humans and demons. Only after humans came did the Fox Clan unconsciously accept that they were demons.
Now that he thought back on it, the Fox Clan of old had been just like the humans of the human world. To the Fox Clan, they had simply been the foxes of this world in the face of all its living beings.
He slowly turned to look in the direction Niu Youdao had vanished, his gaze complicated. From those words, he sensed a calm and genuine recognition, without the slightest affectation, pretense, or hypocrisy. The Fox Clan had been suppressed for so many years...
Racing through the starry night, Niu Youdao swept over the boundless marsh without daring to delay. He had to find Qin Guan and Ke Dingjie before the people from Misty Pavilion did.
Previously, he had not been worried. But circumstances had changed. He had not expected Misty Pavilion to interfere.
So long as Qin Guan and Ke Dingjie were not found by Misty Pavilion, they should