Today's fifth update: Chapter 3739! 5/6!
The Ming Gan Huang Race not only had no subordinate relationship with the Wood Race, but had also chosen to sever ties with the Wood Race completely because of what happened back then.
There were many differing accounts of the reason for that split, with no consensus.
But at its root, it was—
A Dao Tradition Dispute.
To explain this clearly, one had to begin with the race names.
However, it was not the Ming Gan Huang Race's name that needed discussing.
It was the Wood Race's name.
The Wood Race was the overarching branch of all vegetation in the world. More than ninety-nine percent of all Grass and Wood Lifeforms were affiliated with the Wood Race, with the majority growing within the Wood Domain.
Yet the name of this colossal entity, which encompassed all vegetation in the world, was—
The Wood Race.
"Wood," not "grass," and certainly not "fungi" or "moss."
Logically speaking, Wood Attribute plants, Herbaceous Plants, fungi, mosses, lichens... all of them should have been important components of the Wood Race.
Take fungi, for example. The lingzhi lineage stood at their head. Though their overall numbers were small, they remained an indispensable part of the Wood Race, serving irreplaceable roles in certain fields.
However, compared to the two major groups of Wood Attribute and herbaceous plants, fungi made up only a small portion of the Wood Race.
What truly formed the foundation of the Wood Race were the Wood Attribute plants that blanketed the mountains and blotted out the sky—the towering trees rooted in every inch of soil and covering most of the Wood Domain.
And anyone who knew about the Wood Race's Ancestral Gods—the Wood Race's highest ruling beings—understood that every one of them was a Wood Attribute plant.