Its sunny slopes abounded in jade, its shaded slopes in Qing'e (there was plentiful jade to the south and blue-green mineral to the north).
This was Green Mound Mountain in its original form, and this was where the Fox Clan made its home.
A blue-green water buffalo held a cup of water like a person, gazing up at the sky in leisurely contentment. There was nothing strange about a water buffalo serving as an Attendant of the Fox Clan; in fact, he was rather smug about it.
Because Green Mound Mountain produced abundant jade and blue-green pigments, it counted as fairly wealthy among the Demon Race.
Unfortunately, the Fox Clan had always been weak in battle. The number of Great Demon Cultivators native to the clan was effectively zero, and both its men and women were renowned among the Demon Race for their looks.
With money and looks but no strength, the Fox Clan became a target coveted by many other clans.
A catastrophe several hundred years ago had inflicted devastating losses on the Fox Clan, whose fighting forces were already scarce, adding frost to snow.
Left with no choice, he, the Fox Clan's sage, had come up with a brilliant idea!
Live-in sons-in-law for a wealthy clan!
I have no powerhouses, but I have money and looks. Wouldn't recruiting powerful live-in sons-in-law to fill the gap in my Fox Clan's top-level fighting strength be a way to get the best of both worlds?
Once introduced, this approach stirred towering waves throughout the Demon Race. The Demon Race was one of the world's great races to begin with, and traces of it could be found everywhere between heaven and earth.
Nor did the Demon Race develop solely through reproduction within its clans. More of its members were Rogue Cultivators who