Black True Person Li Huai's folded-space location was fairly good—right at a section near the entrance to the Cat Tail Route, a place where witchification was still severe, but Cat Lampification was not too serious...
After diligently studying the book Hildenet had written, Jiang Han learned the prevailing view in witch society:
The Astral Realm was actually a highly unique planar route. Put simply, it was not like a starry sky, but more like a Monopoly board game, with the entire route serving as the main path on the map. Witches possessed enough power to carve out side routes along this passage, and certain other powerful races could accomplish similar things.
It was like "buying a plot of land" in Monopoly, except such plots could be altered and expanded by overwhelmingly powerful races like witches.
The two mainstream witch theories held that the expansion of the Witch Astral Realm primarily depended on two [infectious diseases]:
The first was witchification.
The second was Cat Lampification.
Whether witchification or Cat Lampification, both created great numbers of marvelous species that did not fit the current world. Cat Spiders and Ailuo Dragon Witches—a witch-like race—had been born this way. Even wicked Bloodthirsty Resentful Spirits were products of witch disease, and the higher demons among ghouls were [pitiful people] infected by witch disease.
Cat Lampification was somewhat gentler. One had to absorb ley lines over long years to become infected, slowly transforming into a creature with "Cat Lamp attributes." Good races like Fluorescent Catgirls, as well as bad kitties like Giant Evil Dragon Cats, were all furries that had evolved after native races absorbed ley lines previously drained by Cat Lamps over long periods of time.
...But regardless of how these two infectious diseases manifested, their essence was a higher-level form of [exporting racial culture].