All along, many people had believed that demons and beasts were of the same kind—that the so-called "Demon Race" was simply made up of beasts that had cultivated themselves.
Thousand-year fox spirits, ten-thousand-year old locust tree spirits... In storytellers' tales, scattered legends, and myths, they bore the mantle of evil, and in the end were naturally defeated by heroes of the Human Race.
Others said demons and beasts shared the same origin, that demons were lecherous by nature, and that demon beasts were hybrids of demons and beasts. The saying that the dragon bore nine sons, each unlike the next, was also counted as powerful evidence.
Such claims were, of course, a contemptuous fantasy, as well as an understanding deliberately cultivated by the Human Race's sages throughout history.
To free the Human Race from its fear of the Demon Race, they first pushed it toward the other extreme of contempt.
In truth, demons were demons, and beasts were beasts.
The Demon Race was truly favored by heaven and earth. Born lofty above all, their Dao Veins already ran clear, and they possessed limitless futures.
The hundred races all dwelled beneath them, subject to their rule.
Before the Dragon Race retreated into the Cang Sea, they did not manifest dragon bodies either. They walked the world in Daoist bodies, bearing only slight demon traits. Only after retreating into the Cang Sea, in order to withstand its harsh environment, did they undergo all manner of Alienation.
The so-called nine sons of the Dragon Emperor had been born to demon consorts of different Demon Race lineages. That they possessed different demon traits was perfectly natural.
As for the Human Emperor killing the Dragon Emperor's nine sons and refining the Nine Bridges from them, then deliberately passing down their beastly forms—that had been a