Li Ang asked softly, "What's the story behind that tiger with the white forehead and protruding eyes?"

Chai Cuiqiao, hidden within his body, replied, "It was originally a man-eating beast on Jingyang Ridge. Later, it fell off a cliff and luckily landed in the cave dwelling of a Tang Dynasty cultivator. It obtained some inheritance and stopped eating people, changing its name to 'Taigezi'."

What the heck, Brother Tai, are you sure you're not on the wrong set of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf...?

"What about that cyclops?"

"He's a mixed-blood. His mother was a descendant of the ancient Fangfeng giant, and his father was a weak scholar."

"?" Li Ang was stunned, roughly gesturing the size of the cyclops. "That's a mixed-blood?"

"It's not what you think... His father was on his way to the capital to take the imperial examination when he encountered a heavy rain and took shelter in a cave."

Chai Cuiqiao paused for a moment, awkwardly saying, "As a result, his father was very resourceful. During his shelter from the rain, he took out his sketchbook and... well, he relieved himself against the wall. After the rain stopped, he left the cave and continued his journey to the capital."

"..." Li Ang's eyes twitched. "You mean..."

"That's right." Chai Cuiqiao said embarrassedly, "You'd better not mention this to the giant in person. Last time at the banquet, he smashed a bunch of monsters to death with a wooden club."

Okay, in this vast world, nothing is impossible. This bizarre birth method is similar to the story of Hua Xu conceiving Fuxi in mythology.

Li Ang's eyes twitched wildly as he continued to inquire about the origins, personalities, and strengths of the other ghosts and monsters. Chai Cuiqiao especially liked reading storybooks during her lifetime, and her ability to gather information and deduce things on her own was very strong. After secretly listening to the banquet two or three times, she had deduced most of the ghosts and monsters' information.

Just like Chai Cuiqiao had said before, the demons and ghosts who came to the banquet did not suspect Li Ang and the others of being humans. They just glanced at them with curiosity and turned their heads to chat with other demons and ghosts.

After all, being able to face so many demons and ghosts without being overwhelmed by their monstrous aura proved that the task force were all "different people", belonging to the same kind.

"We're all here, why hasn't the Shan Xiao (mountain spirit) arrived yet?" A plague ghost covered in sores croaked.

"What's the rush?" The tiger Taoist waved his horsetail whisk, his bloody mouth smiling. "At this time of year, isn't he always the last to arrive? He probably won't be here until the sun completely sets."

"In that case, let's clean up the Great Hero Hall first." The rat demon, with a skinny body and shifty eyes, chuckled. With a wave of his robe, countless gray-brown, fat rats fell from his empty, oversized sleeves like a waterfall.

The rat demon waved his chicken claw-like hand, and the swarming rats at his feet seemed to receive an order, rushing into the Great Hero Hall.

Countless fat rats burrowed under the statue of Sakyamuni Buddha, working together to lift the statue. They also brought a pile of wooden planks from somewhere, stacking them diagonally under the Buddha's base, and sliding the Buddha out of the Great Hero Hall, placing it in the open courtyard.

The rats repeated this process, moving all the Buddha statues out of the Great Hero Hall with great efficiency. They even brought brooms and dustpans to clean up the accumulated dust. In just a few minutes, they cleaned the Great Hero Hall until it was spotless and brand new.

This efficiency is even higher than modern housekeeping companies.

The demons and ghosts clamored as they climbed the steps and entered the Great Hero Hall. They grabbed prayer mats and jumped onto the pedestals on both sides, sitting upright on the mats, each one really resembling human literati and scholars attending a banquet.

Xing Hechou and the others looked at each other, found a remote place to sit down, and watched the rats skillfully move candles out of the temple's warehouse, lighting the torches and illuminating the Great Hero Hall as bright as day.

The rats then moved boxes of bone china wine glasses from the warehouse, washed them clean in the stream behind the temple, and placed them in front of each guest's prayer mat.

The banquet had not yet begun, and many demons began to shout and gamble, or throw arrows at narrow-necked bottles, playing the game of "pitch-pot."

There was no other way. Human entertainment activities were limited in this era. It was impossible to think of any novel ways to play. At banquets, people would toast each other, engage in commercial flattery, write poems, and watch beautiful women dance.

But the demons' banquets only had three forms of entertainment: drinking, gambling, and playing games. Even the beautiful women dancing segment was omitted—after all, everyone was a different species with different aesthetics.

The peerless beauty in the rat demon's eyes was just a shifty-eyed rat in the eyes of other demons.

The stunning beauty in the bone spirit's eyes was just a skeleton in the eyes of other demons, at best with slightly whiter bones.

The lack of entertainment made these hideous, clamoring demons seem like a group of country bumpkins who had never seen the world in the eyes of the task force.

"These ghosts should really go to a modern nightclub and let them know what 'entertainment' is and what 'high' is."

Wan Li Fengdao slandered in his heart, but he heard Li Ang softly say, "Everyone, would you like to earn some extraordinary items?"

"What?" Xing Hechou was stunned and quickly whispered, "Li, we're almost at the crucial moment. Don't complicate things."

According to secret intelligence from the Special Affairs Bureau, the various organs of demons and ghosts, like natural treasures growing in the wild, all possess extraordinary qualities. In the hands of the Fang Shi (alchemists) of the Chinese Extraordinary Association (another official extraordinary institution), they can be refined into magic weapons of different grades.

Even if they are not refined into magic weapons, various demon and ghost organs can be sold to the system store in exchange for some game currency.

"Don't worry, I'm confident." Li Ang chuckled, stood up straight from the prayer mat, and clapped his hands loudly,

Clap, clap, clap.

The noise gradually subsided, and the gazes of many demons gathered on Li Ang.

Li Ang remained calm, smiled frankly, and casually said, "Good evening, seniors and guests. We are disciples of Taoist Danteng from the Overseas Ayitubie Islands. We are new to this precious land and unfamiliar with the place. Please forgive us if we say anything inappropriate."

Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? Xing Hechou saw the demons on both sides turning their heads and felt anxious and angry. In a corner where others couldn't see, he reached out and gently tugged on Li Ang's trousers, but his face remained calm.

"We have come to the Central Plains this time not only for training but also to exchange goods and exchange for some specialties to take back."

Specialties? Some monsters showed disdain. Just like humans are confident in the abundance of products and the wealth of the people in the Central Plains, the monsters in the Central Plains also held a contemptuous attitude towards the barbarian lands overseas.

What good things could there be to exchange in that godforsaken place?

The demons were silent, but Li Ang didn't care. He reached into his backpack and took out a bulging snakeskin bag.

From the snakeskin bag, he took out an antique wooden box, and after opening the wooden box, he revealed a cyan sphere inside.

The sphere was round and rough, as if it was glued together with some kind of grass and wood debris, and a strange smell wafted out.

A super-concentrated catnip sphere, selling for 80 yuan on Taobao, rich in nepetalactone pheromones, can make any feline animal infatuated. Even the most cold, proud, and chaste big cat, upon smelling its scent, would obediently undress and let others rub it.