The middle-aged man no longer dabbled in self-mutilation. Instead, he would visit Dongfang Mengjie's tea garden every month.
The relationship between the two of them was a delicate one. At the very least, they were close interspecies friends.
In the Sinister Spirit Beast Cesspool, he was the almighty Demonic Blood Kirin who struck fear into the hearts of all of the ferocious beasts.
In the small city at the southeastern border of the Kingdom of the Nine States, he was a warm, gentle middle-aged man with kirin horns who liked to drink tea and discuss dao.
In the beginning, Dongfang Zhuangshi would still assume his kirin form in the Sinister Spirit Beast Cesspool and his human form in Ling Gu City. However, he now preferred to be in his human form regardless of where he was.
He seemed to prefer being a human; a reasonable human.
This was something that had all the beast tribes dumbstruck for a long time.