Butterfly-Boned Beauty Feast

**Butterfly-Boned Beauty Feast** (蝶骨美人席, *Dié Gǔ Měirén Xí*) is a race of half-demons living in the human realm. They're part Butterfly-Boned demon and part human.

## History

Thousands of years ago, the demon race walked the mortal realm but **Fuxi** (伏羲), the creation God in Chinese mythology, started a war to save humanity. During the struggle, he was aided by Gouchen the Exalted and succeeded. However, because of Gouchen's betrayal, the Demon Lord banished him and his entire race, the Butterfly-Boned Beauty Feast, from the demon realm and removed them from the demon registry. Forced to live among the humans, they no longer had access to the source of their spiritual power and slowly became defenseless.

Due to greed, Guyueye Sect created a secret formula detailing the steps on how to refine a Butterfly-Boned Beauty Feast for human consumption. As they were able to improve cultivators' abilities, the entire race was hunted down and treated like animals. There were no laws mandating their treatment, and very few cultivators considered them human. Song Qiutong was auctioned off in such a manner. Males are often refined for consumption, while females tend to be "saved" for dual cultivation and breeding. The members of the Butterfly-Boned Beauty Feast have to do extreme things to protect themselves such as destroying their own faces, forcing themselves not to cry, or hiding from the rest of the world.

Later, in the novel, the second generation of Demon Lord was moved a sacrifice made in an attempt to bring the Butterfly-Boned Beauty Feast race back home so he opened the door for them and let them back in the demon register.

## Characteristics

* They are known for their beautiful appearance.
* They cry tears of gold.
* They have weak spiritual powers.
* Like other members of the demon race, they have an ability to come back to life after dying but only if the desire is strong enough to pull the soul back to the body.
* There is a rare type of Butterfly-Boned Beauty Feast individuals who do not exhibit the usual characteristics, these individuals can live as normal cultivators all their lives and remain unaware of their heritage. The only characteristic they have is that they have strong spiritual powers, such as Song Xingyi.

## Members

### Gouchen the Exalted

Gouchen was born half demon and half god. He hated his own demon blood and because of it, he was never completely accepted in the Heavenly Realm. His current status and whereabouts are unknown.

### Song Xingyi

Song Xingyi lived hundreds of years ago and was the last known Butterfly-Boned Beauty Feast member to have spiritual power strong enough to reach the level of a zong-shi. He was an irregular Butterfly-Boned Beauty Feast individual who did not cry golden tears or have the demonic aura to be detected by other members of the demon race.

### Hua Gui

She was a nameless captive at Guyueye Sect before making an escape. She was a descendant of Song Xingyi but fearing that her identity would be revealed, she took on the name Hua Gui instead. Hua Gui then married the late leader of Tianyin Pavillion and gave birth to her son. When Hua Gui and her husband became gravely ill, her husband then ate her alive to strengthen his health and spiritual power.

### Hua Binan/Shi Mei

Technically half demon and half god, Shi Mei was born to a Butterfly-Boned Beauty Feast mother Hua Gui and her husband, the late leader of Tianyin Pavilion. As other members of his race, Shi Mei's spiritual power was limited so he focused on practicing medicine. From a young age, Shi Mei had to train himself to not cry to blend in at Sisheng Peak.

### Song Qiutong

Song Qiutong in both lifetimes had to run away from danger but was captured by Guyueye Sect and was auctioned off. She was then saved by Ye Wangxi and became a disciple at Rufeng Sect.

### Duan Yihan

Duan Yihan was Mo Ran's mother. In her youth, she was a famous songstress and was known for her beauty.

### Mo Ran

Born to a Butterfly-Boned Beauty Feast mother Duan Yihan and a human father, Mo Ran is also an irregular individual like Song Xingyi. His eyes would have a purple flow in occasions and he was able to quickly form a spiritual core in a year. Overtime, his power also grew to the zongshi level. As he has no a demonic aura, Shi Mei could not detect that he was also part demon and Mo Ran himself did not know about this until much later on in the novel.