[Regarding Chapter 6, everyone, please clear your cache and read it again. It should be fine then, QAQ.]
At first glance, the Nan Clan resembled tailless monkeys. Like humans, they had four limbs, a head, and a torso, but no tails. Their torsos were covered in clothing, while their limbs were bare and covered in very dense, though short, fur compared to humans.
However, their most obvious difference from the creatures of the Divine Land was that there was no distinction whatsoever between their upper and lower limbs. This was an almost nonexistent phenomenon among chordates. Most Sky Spirit Ridge cultivators could distinguish an animal's forelimbs from its hind limbs from the skeleton alone. Yet the Nan Clan's upper and lower limbs were identical, their joints extraordinarily flexible and capable of twisting in any direction.
The closer one got and the more carefully one looked, the stranger these little Nan Clan creatures seemed. They were slightly smaller than humans, about the size of some medium or large apes. Their heads seemed somewhat oversized, with no necks; their entire heads appeared embedded between their two upper limbs. Both eyes were clustered at the front of their faces. They had no nasal bridges, only four nostrils arranged in a row across their heads. Of their two pairs of ears, the rear pair was slightly longer, while the forward-facing upright pair had red down growing from their tips.
Because of their sagittal crests, the Nan Clan's faces always seemed to wear an expression of hair standing on end in fury. Yet their vaguely human but utterly inhuman features cleverly avoided the "uncanny valley" effect, making them seem... a little cute?
Led by Xue Bufan, the human cultivators arrived beneath the largest tree in the dense forest. An elderly Nan Clan member hung there