Time flies, and Xiao Jie has firmly settled down in Niu Jiao Village.
He works at sunrise, rests at sunset, farms, hunts, and leads a life that is ordinary yet fulfilling.
He grew weary of the deceit and intrigue of human society, and also tired of the wild beasts' savagery and chaos in the wilderness. These half-human, half-beast demons striving to integrate into civilization, paradoxically, made him feel a strange sense of connection.
The minds of the demons were not dull; on the contrary, they were rather astute, yet retained a degree of simplicity and honesty. Interacting with them was pleasant. They lived communally, cultivated fields, established commercial trading, and imitated human lifestyles with great finesse. Over the years, if one overlooked their beast-head human-body appearance, their orderly village life was almost indistinguishable from that of the human world.
