Under the sunshade in the courtyard.

Xiu Ju from the Dark Department, quietly waiting, sipped on the strawberry juice passed by the octopus creature, yet she felt an unsettling feeling inside.

Although she had already been warned by Shen Qiang earlier and knew that the butler was a Tiger Spirit, Xiu Ju still felt uneasy because as a powerful being of the Mixed Element Realm, she understood that the Tiger Spirit was likely the most formidable among the five Great Demons in the residence.

She couldn't perceive the extent of its cultivation.

The one thing she could be sure of was that the cultivation level of this Tiger Spirit was at least equivalent to someone above the Dao Fruit Stage.

Its strength was tremendous, not something one could fight against simply by risking one's life.

Beside her, the eyes of the Black Bear Spirit were cold.

The octopus creature smiled gleefully.

Xiu Ju was not afraid of them, for although the cultivation of the Black Bear Spirit was not weak, it was essentially only between the Yin God Realm and the Yang God Realm, and even together they might not be a match for Xiu Ju if she were to strike them down seriously.

The real threat came from the Tiger Spirit and Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing.

She could not see through the cultivation levels of either of them.

And what's unknown is always the most terrifying.

Thus, Xiu Ju of the Dark Department, sitting in the courtyard, felt like she was on pins and needles.

But the more anxious she became, the quieter Shen Qiang upstairs became.

With her Divine Sense restricted and her hearing not clear, apart from faintly hearing the three people chatting upstairs, she knew nothing. This complete loss of control almost drove Xiu Ju from the Dark Department mad.

Meanwhile, upstairs, the Crane Spirit had taken its medicine and was feeling much better.

Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing, after preparing a fruit platter for Shen Qiang, obediently lay beside her mother.

The Crane Spirit looked at her tenderly and smiled at Shen Qiang, "In the Cultivation World, friendly cultivators like you are not common. Actually, you have already seen everyone in our Sect, the Sect of Happiness."

Seeing Shen Qiang's surprised expression.

The Crane Spirit, sitting in a rocking chair, said, "Our sect is called the Sect of Happiness, a name I chose. I guess you must think the name of the sect sounds rather unrefined. Indeed, many cultivators laugh when they hear 'Sect of Happiness.'

Shen Qiang awkwardly admitted, "It does sound a bit."

The Crane Spirit laughed softly, sighed and said, "Five hundred years ago, I followed my master in pursuit of the Dao. His name was Pu Baizi, living in seclusion at Zhongnan Mountain. I spent two hundred years under his tutelage, gaining Spiritual Wisdom and learning Techniques. My master felt that my temperament was too gentle and not suited for ascetic cultivation, so he sent me away, giving me the order to establish my own sect."

"But nobody wanted to listen to me. Fifteen years later, in Changbai Land, I met Big Tiger." Her gaze tenderly shifted to the butler beside her, and the Crane Spirit smiled, "He was crying because he got scared by a jackal."

The butler coughed awkwardly.

Sitting in a rocking chair, the Crane Spirit laughed and said, "I drove away that jackal and asked if he was willing to join the sect. He asked what kind of sect it was, and at that moment, all I wanted was to live happily, so I blurted out Happiness Sect."

Shen Qiang laughed, "That's a fine vision."

The Crane Spirit laughed, "I stayed in Changbai with him, teaching him the master's way. Unexpectedly, it took him only ten years to become intelligent, and in twenty-seven years, his cultivation had already surpassed mine."

Fu Bo looked proud.

The Crane Spirit continued with a smile, "I feel that I've found my own path, which is to teach other animals what the Dao is. Seventy-three years after meeting Tiger Boss, one autumn, we came across Xiong Zhenghui, badly wounded and lying in a stream trying to catch fish, nearly starved to death."

Shen Qiang chuckled and said, "I can tell you're a good demon."

The Crane Spirit chuckled and said, "One hundred and twenty-three years after meeting Tiger Boss, on the seashore, we stumbled upon an octopus tucked inside an abalone shell, stubbornly convinced he was an abalone. Ah, that was Abalone Old Three, you've met him too."

Hearing this, Shen Qiang laughed, "No wonder his surname is Bao."

The Crane Spirit chuckled gently, caressing the Beautiful Demon Fox beside him, "By the time Abalone Old Three could transform into human form and return with me to visit the master, I had been away from Zhongnan Mountain for two hundred years. When I got back to where the master had secluded himself, I found that he had already ascended."

"So, I stayed in the place where the master had secluded himself with Tiger Boss, Xiong Er, and Abalone Old Three. However, later, some cultivators formed teams and came into the mountains. Xiong Zhenghui had a bad temper and started fighting with them."

"We all got hurt. Those cultivators were very powerful, skilled in the Sword Array. We fled for our lives, but they relentlessly pursued us."

With a somewhat resentful look, the Crane Spirit gazed out the window, "The four of us demons were chased across most of Huaxia. By the fourth year, we all felt we couldn't survive anymore because wherever we went, they would quickly catch up."

"At first, there were only about a dozen cultivators, but later, nearly a hundred cultivators crazily hunted us."

Looking tenderly at Beautiful Demon Fox Chu Qing, the Crane Spirit said, "Just when we all thought we couldn't survive anymore, we found Chu Qing in a wooden barrel drifting in the river by our side. She was so small and frail, it looked like she had been born only a few days ago."

"But when she saw me, she smiled so sweetly, calling me 'Mama.' In that instant, I decided that no matter what, we had to survive!"

"Mama!" Ms. Chu Qing leaned against the Crane Spirit, her eyes a bit red.

Looking at Shen Qiang, the Crane Spirit laughed and said, "Just then, the dense clouds dispersed, and sunlight fell, so I named her Chu Qing."

Shen Qiang looked at them in surprise and asked, "What happened after that?"

The Crane Spirit chuckled, paused for a few seconds, and then said, "You know, she was very small, very hungry, and running a high fever at that time, but her birth mother had only left seven yuan eight mao and two fen in cash, a flowered cloth, and a water-soaked letter in that barrel."

"Abalone Old Three caught a lot of fish, and we tried feeding them to her, but after eating a bit, her fever got even worse."

Shen Qiang nodded, "Indeed, under those circumstances, eating fish was clearly unwise."

The Crane Spirit chuckled and said, "Later, we decided to go to a small town by the river to find a doctor for Chu Qing. Just as we reached the outskirts of the town, those cultivators caught up with us. I thought we were all going to die, so I begged them to spare Chu Qing. The four of us wouldn't resist, but they still wanted to kill us. Chu Qing cried in terror, and just then a big shot appeared."

"He was dressed in a green military uniform, with yellow rubber shoes, and with just one punch, he shattered the Sword Array that had pursued us for four years and that we couldn't defeat by any means. With just one glance, he silenced nearly a hundred cultivators present, and no one dared to question him."

"Afterward, he said that as long as rules are followed, the existence is justified, and the Dragon Group allows the existence of demons."

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