Gong Bai was a native of Luo Kingdom. He had only attained Divine Presence at the age of fifty-three, through a fortunate coincidence.
Of course, the process behind that "fortunate coincidence" had not been so gentle.
Snakes had snake paths, rats had rat paths. Different people always had their own ways.
Common folk lived off the mountains by the mountains, off the waters by the waters. In Luo Kingdom, naturally, he lived off the Aquatic Clan.
Luo Kingdom, known as the "Kingdom Upon Water," was the nation that most embodied the conflict between the Human Race and the Aquatic Clan—and also the one most hated by the Aquatic Clan.
Whenever the Yellow River Assembly was held, that old dragon in the Long River Dragon Palace would don formal robes and sit obediently upon the River Viewing Terrace to observe the ceremony.
The Qing River Aquatic Clan of Zhuang Kingdom had wholly submitted to the Zhuang Court; the Lan River Water Mansion of Yong Kingdom had always fought for the Yong Court; the Wei River Aquatic Clan was even a formidable force in the Qin army... This was generally the case throughout the world.
The covenant between the Human Race and the Aquatic Clan had been signed back in the Middle Antiquity Era. It had endured to this day. The two sides were intimate and inseparable, friends rather than enemies.
Against the broad backdrop of the Human Race and the Aquatic Clan living harmoniously together for hundreds of thousands of years—or, rather, the Aquatic Clan wholly submitting to the Human Race—what happened here in Luo Kingdom perhaps could not even be called a "conflict."
A conflict was, at the very least, a mutual relationship. What existed in Luo Kingdom was better described as one-sided oppression of the Aquatic Clan.
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