Xionger began to undergo changes.
This kind of change was difficult for ordinary people to understand, as it did not concern their livelihood or pose a serious security threat. It merely involved a reevaluation and clarification of some folk ghost stories.
This clarification allowed ordinary mortals to understand cultivation. The mysterious aura faded away, and so did the vague sense of fear. Human attitudes towards understanding are like this: The more mysterious something is, the more it allows for wild thoughts and self-inflicted fears. But when these things are fully exposed, one finds that they are nothing more than ordinary.
What Hou Niao and his companions were doing was slowly eliminating this barrier, making the life of a cultivator and that of mortals not so opposed to each other but rather complementary. What you have, I have; what I have, you have.
