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The Tiger Fiend Race was a race that did not solely revere its ancestors, yet placed great importance on the strength of one's bloodline.
Those capable of holding a race's lifeline in their grasp could be Tiger Ancestor descendants like Mountain Lord and Zouyu, Dragon Race ancestors like Bi'an, or even ferocious beasts like Qiongqi, who possessed only a portion of the tiger bloodline.
The Tiger Fiend Race embodied the doctrines of bloodline strength and might makes right more vividly than most.
Though many bloodline races operated similarly, the Dragon Race followed an orderly inheritance system. A Yazi descendant like Ren Jiuting, whom Xu Kun had met before, possessed merely the bloodline of a Seven-Source True Dragon, yet held a status in the Dragon Court comparable to that of an artificially cultivated Eight-Origin True Dragon.
The Phoenix Race was much the same. The Five Phoenixes had held supreme authority through countless generations. The further the bloodline was passed down, the closer one was to the Five Phoenix bloodline, the higher one's status within the Phoenix Race.
But this hierarchy, which leaned more toward bloodline purity, did not apply to the Tiger Fiend Race.
It could be summed up simply: the strong were revered.
It did not matter whether one's bloodline was pure. As long as one had some connection to the tiger race and was strong enough, everything else was meaningless.
Which meant that aside from the ten elders and Tiger Ancestor's vote, the origin of that final vote—the twelfth vote...
Mountain Lord had previously said that there were two votes besides those of the nine elders, but later added that there were now three.
Thus, it could be inferred that this final vote had been reserved in advance.
Where had that vote