Ordinarily, given the Blazing Sun Divine Clan's status and strength among the Hundred Clans of the Arctic Ice Plains, a Human Clan force like Sifang City should never have had any chance to establish itself firmly. It could very well have been utterly annihilated by the aftershock of some clash between powerhouses.
After all, the Blazing Sun Divine Clan hated the Human Clan to the bone. No matter what connection Sifang City's people had to the Human Clan's orthodox lineage, in their eyes, they were unforgivable beings—sinners bearing sinful blood. Only by dying to atone, by using death to wash away the sins upon them, could their souls rest eternally.
However, there was a however. The Blazing Sun Divine Clan was simply too arrogant. Though it had shifted its core ideology from enslaving the Hundred Clans to enslaving the Human Clan, its own supreme and exalted self-image remained unchanged. Those it looked down upon, it would never seek to win over; and those who looked down on it or found it intolerable were even more numerous.
This resulted in many races among the Hundred Clans forming cliques and bands, gathering in groups, while the Blazing Sun Divine Clan stood alone as a single race, rarely associating with the outside world. Even when it occasionally attacked Human Clan territory, it merely sent out clan-chief-level experts to test the waters.
It was not that the Blazing Sun Divine Clan did not wish to return to its ancestral land in the Divine Land, nor that it did not wish to break the Human Clan's monopoly over that land of abundant treasures. It was simply that these fellows, with their eyes set above their heads, did not believe that the rabble-formed Hundred Clans Alliance could threaten the Human Clan.
By their reasoning, setting everything