Chasing after her husband? Is it even possible to win him back?

"Yes." Chu Xunfeng nodded.

"Then let's go." Luo Ze nodded in satisfaction, turned around and led Chu Xunfeng away from the small building, heading straight into the city further south.

Chu Xunfeng remained silent, quietly observing the movements around him.

"Young Master Chu need not worry. No one from the Dragon Clan is watching you. They may have just made a casual move. I also went to investigate Young Master Chu's affairs. In the end, it was Baidi City that bought Young Master Chu, while the Demon Clan, or rather the Dragon Clan, simply took you in as a matter of convenience."

"Hmm." Chu Xunfeng felt a little guilty. These people had probably put in a lot of effort to recruit him, and more importantly, they had been truly sincere towards him so far.

"Brother Luo, who exactly are we working for?" Chu Xunfeng asked in a low voice.

"Do you know what the social structure of the demon race is like?" Luo Ze, who was leading the way, asked softly from ahead.

"I roughly know it's based on race, but I don't know the specifics," Chu Xunfeng said, sharing what he knew.

"The society of the demon race is a system of vassal kings based on racial strength." Luo Ze paused, turned around and glanced at Chu Xunfeng, who seemed to be deep in thought. "And we are working for one of the vassal kings of the demon race."

"I see." Chu Xunfeng nodded, but fell silent and did not ask any further questions.

"Don't you want to know who it is?" Luo Ze pressed on.

"I don't know anyone, so it doesn't really matter who I am." Chu Xunfeng smiled. "Since Brother Luo brought me here, he must have already made arrangements. It's just a job. Whether I work for the Dragon Clan or for a vassal king, it doesn't matter to a human like me."

"That's a good mindset, but we need to change our approach." Luo Ze smiled, unconcerned about Chu Xunfeng's indifference.

Having seen it all, Luo Ze knew perfectly well what kind of script to use and what to do to move someone like Chu Xunfeng.

The two soon stopped at the edge of a large courtyard.

Luo Ze raised his hand and knocked on the wall. Soon, a dull knocking sound came from inside the wall. "Climb over the wall."

"Alright." Chu Xunfeng stomped his foot, his body suddenly leaping six or seven meters high. He then used his foot to propel himself over the wall and landed in the courtyard.

Behind the massive courtyard wall was a huge, dried-up pond. Looking around, Chu Xunfeng was surprised to find that the vast land behind the wall was almost entirely abandoned and neglected. Not to mention the dried-up pond, the reeds on the wasteland outside the pond had already grown up to Chu Xunfeng's knees.

"Where is this..." Chu Xunfeng looked at Luo Ze, who had landed beside him.

"The Kang family residence." Luo Ze's words immediately dispelled Chu Xunfeng's anxiety. He had thought he had been exposed and tricked into coming to some strange place.

After dismissing that thought, Chu Xunfeng secretly tensed up. Although he seemed to have really fooled Luo Ze, he had also let his guard down. Perhaps Luo Ze had become complacent.

"A vassal king of a country, and his residence looks like this?" Chu Xunfeng used the same way Luo Ze had taught him when addressing Dang Kang.

"Although you are a vassal king, you don't know much about the demon race. Didn't the dragon race teach you?" A strange voice made Chu Xunfeng slowly turn his head to look at the man crouching in the reeds behind him.

[The user is someone who has been tracking you, from the Four Realms.]

Chu Xunfeng shook his head slightly, expressing his attitude, and added, "The Dragon Clan has kept me locked up for almost three months, and basically no one has communicated with me."

After offering a casual explanation to reinforce his public image, Chu Xunfeng turned to Luo Ze and asked, "Brother Luo, is there some deeper meaning behind this?"

"Let's go first, we'll talk on the way." Luo Ze led the way, Chu Xunfeng followed, and the person lurking in the reeds brought up the rear.

"Some demons are born weak, such as rabbit demons and rat demons, who are only considered the lowest of the demon race. Others are born strong, such as the Duke Kang we are going to meet later. In terms of our human dynasty, such demons are qualified to become vassal kings. Another condition for becoming a vassal king is that he followed the King of Bixie and established and managed the demon race."

"However, the demon race has a unique characteristic: they are prone to generational gaps. The bloodlines of demons cannot be shared. Bird-type demons can only reproduce by mating with other bird-type demons."

Reproductive isolation, Chu Xunfeng listened and nodded.

"Moreover, the stronger the demon race, the harder it is for their bloodline to be preserved, especially for pure-blooded demons. This is an extremely burdensome burden on their mothers. This was the case with Duke Kang. I won't go into details, but firstly, the demon race has a bloodline, and secondly, it involves the affairs of the human and demon races, which is a mess and hard to explain."

"In short, the bloodline of Dang Kang has withered to the extreme. Although Dang Kang Gong is a vassal king, in this world, only Dang Kang Gong is left as a demon. This huge mansion is inhabited by only one person. There are still servants and attendants, but Dang Kang Gong has no need to maintain the operation of the entire mansion, so many areas have been completely abandoned."

"If Duke Kang really dies, will there be no more Duke Kang's lineage of demons in this world?" Chu Xunfeng frowned.

"No, some demons have awakened bloodlines." This time, the man behind Chu Xunfeng answered his question. "Take Duke Kang as an example. There may still be a thin lineage of Duke Kang circulating among the demons in this world. This lineage may just be the same ancestor as the current Duke Kang, and they have not been related for many generations."

"But if this Duke Dang Kang dies, after a hundred or a thousand years, that bloodline will eventually awaken by chance, allowing the Dang Kang lineage to reappear in the world."

"In fact, the inheritance of demons and demon beasts in this world is like this. In contrast, the dragon race is quite special among demons."

“Special…” Chu Xunfeng paused for a moment, then suddenly understood.

The dragon race's heritage extends beyond bloodlines; it also includes the Dragon Gate!

Chapter 71, When Duke Kang [Wishing all readers a Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!]

The young man slowly followed in Luo Ze's footsteps.

Behind him stood a man who was about 1.7 meters tall and had a well-proportioned build, bringing up the rear. Chu Xunfeng could feel the gazes on him being scrutinized, which meant that the man didn't fully trust him.

But distrust is a good thing.

If these people are really too enthusiastic, then Chu Xunfeng will seriously consider running away.

Because if the situation that Chu Xunfeng was worried about really happened, either these people really couldn't even 'act', or they were too lazy to even act. Either way, it would be a very dangerous situation for Chu Xunfeng.

"Brother Chu, look ahead." Luo Ze's words drew Chu Xunfeng's attention back to what was ahead. There was a wooden structure that seemed to be a sightseeing walkway, but there was no scenery to look at on either side of the walkway. Instead, there were piles of broken bricks and tiles, making it look like a construction site's garbage dump.

"If you walk past here, you'll reach the real Dang Kang Mansion. Right now, Duke Dang Kang should be practicing his dance. He might ask you some questions about the Dragon Clan, so you'd better be prepared."

"Hmm." Chu Xunfeng perked up and let out a soft breath.

He was a smart man and knew that Luo Ze was reminding him that he needed to prepare a pledge of allegiance in advance.

Luo Ze led the two people behind him onto the passageway, passed through two mountains formed by piles of building ruins, and went around a ninety-degree corner, where the view suddenly opened up.

At the end of the passageway was a wide green space, with bluestone slabs laid on the green space to form a path. Next to this path was a huge pond, and aquatic plants that Chu Xunfeng did not recognize poked their heads out of the water and swayed gently in the north wind.

At the end of the line of sight was a vast sandy area, which should have been used as a martial arts training ground. Behind the training ground was a huge mansion, standing alone in the south of this landscape.

A huge figure wielding two large swords stirred up clouds of dust with each step, and the swinging swords whipped up gusts of wind, churning up the dust in the entire training ground.

[User, in the absolute death realm, with surging blood and qi, is a body cultivator. Earth-attribute spiritual energy flows within them; this is Dang Kang's bloodline supernatural power.]

Chu Xunfeng's eyes were deep; he only glanced at him before looking away.

According to the Classic of Mountains and Seas, there is a beast in Qinshan that looks like a pig and has teeth. Its name is Dangkang. Its cry is its own name. When it appears, it means that there will be a great harvest in the world.

Simply put, it is a wild boar, but not a common boar demon; it is a powerful demon.

The term "Great Demon" in the demon race does not refer to a realm, but rather to a collective term for a special bloodline.

There are countless ways to judge, but the simplest way is that only demons whose bloodlines are severed deserve the title of great demon.

In Chu Xunfeng's own understanding, only divine beasts and magical beasts with names and surnames can be considered great demons.

Luo Ze led Chu Xunfeng and the young man who was bringing up the rear to the edge of the martial arts arena. A burly man with a scar across his forehead that ran through his left eye and then his cheek turned to look at Luo Ze, then turned his gaze to the unfamiliar face of Chu Xunfeng and nodded slightly.

[The user is the Earthly Profound Realm expert who tracked you.]

Chu Xunfeng nodded in response to the man, then his gaze, like that of the others beside him, turned to look at Dang Kang practicing his moves.

With the system's previous hints, Chu Xunfeng was able to observe Dang Kang's moves and gradually discover some clues. For example, the weapons in Dang Kang's hands were not sharpened, and he could not sense the presence of 'intention' on the two large swords.

For example, when Dang Kang moved, the sand and gravel that were swirled around had a trajectory, which was probably the effect of Dang Kang's supernatural powers. Legend has it that when Dang Kang roared, he could see the great harvest of the world.

The term "big harvest" refers to a bumper crop, and abundant harvests in the fields are inseparable from fertile soil and strong fertilizer.

"Hoo..." The enormous Dang Kang Gong exhaled and stopped his stance. He released his hands, and the two huge and heavy swords in his hands turned into dust and merged into the yellow sand on the ground.

Chu Xunfeng was genuinely surprised this time. He thought that the weapon in Kang's hand was made of gold and iron, but he didn't expect it to be made of dust and sand.

If dust and sand can be condensed to the point where they appear indistinguishable from metal to the naked eye, such a concentrated amount of dust and sand could probably easily crush a body cultivator in the Human Profound Realm, and it wouldn't be impossible for a soldier cultivator or magic cultivator in the Earth Profound Realm to attempt it as well.

As Kang slowly walked towards the four people at the edge of the training ground, his gaze gradually focused on Chu Xunfeng, scrutinizing and examining him.

As Dang Kang drew closer, Chu Xunfeng realized just how exaggerated Dang Kang's size was. He estimated it to be at least 2.5 meters tall, and possibly even taller, like a small mountain that had moved right up to him.

Even more exaggerated was the aura and the scrutinizing gaze, which made Chu Xunfeng subconsciously tense his muscles, as if a mountain was really pressing down on him.

"You are Chu Xunfeng?" A gentle and deep voice, disproportionate to his size, came from Dang Kang's mouth.

"Reporting to Lord Dang Kang, I am Chu Xunfeng." The young man lowered his gaze, not wanting to meet Dang Kang's eyes, not because he was afraid of being discovered, but mainly because he didn't want to face that kind of unwarranted and inexplicable pressure.

"Since you followed Luo Ze to my residence, it proves that you want to join my cause, right?" Dang Kang's voice was deep but not harsh; for his size, it was soft and gentle.

"I just felt that what the Dragon Clan needed me to do wasn't something that absolutely required me. After Brother Luo approached me, I thought about it for a long time. I didn't know anything about being Kang Gong's career..."

"Really?" Kang laughed upon hearing Chu Xunfeng's words, a hint of amusement in his voice. "You really don't know?"

Chu Xunfeng fell silent. When he heard Dang Kang's question, his thoughts raced like lightning, and he immediately asked himself three questions.

First, does Kang understand the Dragon Clan?

They know better than I do.

The second question builds on the first: Does Kang think that the Dragon Clan has ever told him the truth?

The answer to this question is hard to say; he probably doesn't have definite information. However, he is confident because he asked a question in return, not a doubt. He trusts his own judgment, so the answer to this question is that Kang felt the Dragon Clan had revealed at least part of their secrets to him.

The third question is, why is he so confident?

The answer is that he wanted to overthrow the dragon race's rule over the demon race. He regarded the dragon race as his opponent, so he must have thought deeply about and understood the dragon race. Kang was not a rough man; even if he was, he was meticulous despite his roughness.

Having made these judgments, how should one answer Kang's rhetorical question?

"I apologize, Lord Kang. As a human, I was 'invited' to the Wild Marsh Wetlands by the Dragon Clan using those methods. I held back a bit. Since you saw through me, I have nothing to hide. I roughly know what you want to do." Chu Xunfeng raised his hand and bowed in apology.

"Did the dragons tell you that?"

"Sort of. Hong Ji subtly mentioned that there were people in the demon race who were plotting to seize the throne. She warned me to be wary of the aquatic creatures who might cause trouble for me when I was leaping over the Dragon Gate. She also warned me to be careful of becoming Kang Gong. Considering all of this, it was just a warning without naming names."

Kang crossed his arms and looked down at Chu Xunfeng.

Luo Ze, along with the 1.9-meter-tall scarred man and the young man in black, were all staring at Chu Xunfeng.