"Since that's the case, why has the Demon Race become what it is today?" Lu Yang asked in confusion. "As far as this junior knows, most demons now practice the Blood Food Secret Method and treat our human race as blood food. That's the root cause of the hostility between our two races."
If the Demon Race hadn't hunted humans so wantonly and made them into blood food, then in Lu Yang's view, humans and demons wouldn't have needed to become mortal enemies at all.
After all, even without looking across the world, there were plenty of examples of humans and demons coexisting right here in Qing Province.
The most obvious example was the second-rate Beast Taming Sect.
Its Grand Supreme Elder was a thousand-year-old great demon at the Sub-King level.
As a sect of the Righteous Path in Qing Province, the Beast Taming Sect's great demon elder could take human form and freely attend important occasions throughout the province. The human race didn't ostracize him.
Even Shanhetal and the Four Great Departments allowed the Spirit Beast elder to do as he pleased, making no effort to apprehend him.
Then there was He Jianzi of the Qingzhou Sword Mansion, a renowned sword cultivator in Qing Province who had been inseparable from a crane since childhood.
When he was young, he fell off a cliff, and the crane saved his life. From then on, the two traveled the land together.
Once, they were surrounded by a horde of demons. The crane was gravely wounded while saving He Jianzi, and lay on the brink of death.
He Jianzi searched everywhere for renowned physicians, but none could cure the crane. Just as he was losing hope, the Qingzhou Sword Mansion stepped forward and said they could save it—but only if He Jianzi joined