Today's third update: Chapter 2987! 3/4!
The Centipede Clan's name followed a pattern similar to the Eight-Armed Clan's—named after the race's most distinctive biological trait.
However, for the powerful figures originally responsible for naming the race, their "original intention," or rather, their preferred name, had been another far more ambitious one—the Celestial Dragon Race!
Yet when this race eagerly tried to register "Celestial Dragon" as its racial name in the Myriad Races Sequence, it nearly brought about its own destruction!
A certain big shot from the Dragon Race raised an eyelid slightly and said leisurely, "Hm? This old man's ears were failing him just now. What race did you say... you wanted to call yourselves?"
Among Blue Star's myriad races, quite a few had the character "dragon" in their names. For example, the Earth Dragon Clan—the finest among earthworm creatures—the Mountain Dragon Clan—pangolins—the Dragon Turtle Clan, Dragon Carp Clan, Dragon Fly Clan, Dragon Louse Clan, and so on.
These race names containing "dragon" could broadly be divided into two categories:
"Dragon" at the end: such as Earth Dragon and Mountain Dragon.
These races themselves had little to do with the true Dragon Race. Their names came from their habits, physical traits, or abilities in certain fields—such as Earth Dragons moving underground like dragons swimming through the sea, and Mountain Dragons traveling through mountains without obstruction.
The crocodiles, rulers of rivers, were also called River Dragons, meaning dragons of the rivers.
"Dragon" at the beginning: such as Dragon Turtle and Dragon Carp.
With very few exceptions, most of these races truly had countless bloodline connections to the Dragon Race. They were one of the products of the Dragon Race's vast "hybridization projects."
To them, the word "dragon" was more like a symbol displaying the nobility and power of their bloodline.