To outsiders, the Shengmiao natives are seen as a group of barbaric, cruel, and evil people who eat raw meat and drink blood.
They live among the mountain ridges, dwell in caves, coexist with wild beasts, worship evil gods, raise poisonous insects, and even practice human sacrifice and cannibalism.
Any abominable deeds in the world can seemingly be attributed to them.
However, there is actually some misunderstanding in this.
Because, in reality, the Shengmiao natives do not eat humans.
There are plenty of wild animals, endless wild fruits and vegetables, and some farmland they have cultivated in the mountains - all providing ample food.
There is no need for them to eat humans.
Aside from not eating humans, though, other descriptions of them are true.
These Shengmiao natives, who live amid the mountains and are cut off from the outside world, are indeed a group of evil people with a wild beast-like existence beneath their human skin.
