Ye Xiwen was greatly startled. Though he had seen countless ferocious beasts famed since ancient times—even a Kunpeng, which he had subdued—he was still shocked at this moment.
After the first War Against the Heavens, it was not only the Dragon Clan and the Phoenix Clan that went into seclusion; the Kirin Clan did as well. They too had been gravely weakened. During the first War Against the Heavens, their three clans had been the absolute main force, and the damage to their foundations had yet to recover even now. They could no longer be mentioned in the same breath as when they had once been said to rule the Myriad Realms.
Because the Kirin Clan had gone into seclusion, many people might never have seen one appear again. Most of the kirin spoken of in the world were merely subspecies, various kirin beasts and the like. Though they were powerful as well, compared with true kirin, there was simply no comparison.
Moreover, earth-aspected kirin were the most numerous among the Kirin Clan. That was the foundation upon which they stood.
Just as the Dragon Clan was primarily water-aspected, though it also had many dragons of other attributes, the Phoenix Clan was the same. It took fire-aspected Southern Blazing Fire as its foundation, yet it also possessed vastly different branches such as ice phoenixes.
Among the Kirin Clan, most cultivated earth-aspected divine abilities. Even fire kirin and water kirin could only be considered rare among the rare, while thunder kirin like this one were as scarce as phoenix feathers and kirin horns—exceedingly rare. Even many members of the Kirin Clan had never seen a thunder kirin themselves.
Throughout the long river of history, thunder kirin had only appeared a handful of times. Yet every single one had been an incomparably