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The ties between the Lu Family of the Dragon Gate Escort Agency and Linjiang Demon City ran far deeper than outsiders guessed.

They rose together and fell together. Even if the bones were broken, the sinews still held them fast.

After all, the Lu Family's ancestors had not been some respectable family of Martial Cultivators. They had been household slaves to a Demon Great Sage of the Former Dynasty.

That servility was carved into their bones. Though the Former Dynasty had fallen a century ago, the Lu Family's direct descendants still kept the demon braid that symbolized submission. They called it remembering the past, but it was loyalty.

Even in Demon City, few Demonkin knew of this connection.

Chief Steward Jin, the Sixteenth Elder, and the Seventeenth Elder knew. The last time Lu Jin had brought people to Demon City to demand answers, they had given the Lu Family face and not quarreled with the youngsters from Tianjin.

Now Lu Jin had come knocking again to press them for people. Did he truly think they were made of clay?

Even clay figures had a spark of temper, let alone Demonkin who had not entirely shed their bestial nature. Anger flared across the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Elders' faces.

"Little Lu, we're the ones who are family. Don't let your elbow bend toward outsiders," the Sixteenth Elder said.

"You are?" Shopkeeper Sun pushed up the gold-rimmed glasses on his nose and looked at him. "Oh, Uncle Wang Lu. Without your scarf, I almost didn't recognize you."

That remark landed squarely on the Sixteenth Elder Wang Lu's sore spot.

"You damned brat! That was a mane, a symbol of a male lion, not a scarf."

Wang Lu's lion face flushed red. "Something went wrong in my cultivation a few days ago, and it