"My lady, I'm human. A genuine, bona fide human."
Chu Feng pinched his own soft, delicate skin to demonstrate, then asked suspiciously, "Are you human?"
Although the woman named Yaoyao was incomparably beautiful, extraordinary and otherworldly, her mingling with a group of nonhumans made him wonder whether she was some spirit creature in human form.
"Her Highness Princess Yaoyao," declared the toad perched on Yaoyao's shoulder, swaggering like a dog emboldened by its master's power, "is a descendant of a Human Race dynasty that once ruled our homeworld in the Ancient Era. It achieved Reflecting the Heavens and ranked eleventh."
"Ancient Antiquity! Our homeworld?" Chu Feng hesitated for a long while before finally saying, "You're all Earthlings, then? Er-Earth demons?"
"You can rest assured about that. We all have pure Earth bloodlines. That's why Reincarnation Space selected us."
A great black bull spoke in human language, declaring boldly, "I am the Bull Demon King!"
Chu Feng marveled at how times had changed. Even bulls could talk now.
"We should be the first batch. Descendants of Earth scattered elsewhere will also be brought back by Reincarnation Space," Little Yellow Ox sighed. "That great calamity back then devastated Earth and tore it apart. Many fled into the starry sky carrying sparks of hope."
"What's going on?" Chu Feng was genuinely shocked. There were not just immortals, but aliens too?
"They don't count as aliens. Strictly speaking, they're Earth's living beings stranded abroad," Little Yellow Ox corrected him. He was one such being himself, a descendant of a powerful figure from ancient Earth who had now returned home from another planet.
Earth had once shone with dazzling glory, ranked eleventh among the heavens. Later, others coveted it, and sinister forces attacked, bringing about its present decline and the scarcity of cultivators.
"If a