The Dragon Palace Banquet dated back further than any nation in The Present World.
It had already existed before the Human Race had even emerged as a collective concept worthy of notice.
At first, it was in fact a banquet of alliance.
"The Dragon Lord sets wine to feast all beneath heaven. Of the realms in the four directions, who would dare not attend?"
The Demon Race ruled The Present World, supreme among all realms. The Dragon Race stood first among the Demon Race's many branches, regarding themselves as the heaven above heaven, the emperor above emperors.
Among all races under heaven, one had to achieve True Insight before they could be called "True"—such as a True Person, True Demon, True Demon, or True King. The Dragon Race alone was different: a direct descendant could be called a "True Dragon." This was undoubtedly a powerful manifestation of their status.
"The Demon Race commands all heavens and myriad realms. True Dragons command a hundred kinds and a thousand branches." This was no arrogant fancy, but a declaration the Dragon Race had truly made in a certain era.
Not until the Primordial Demon Emperor Zhoujun appeared—personally establishing the Demon Race's Heavenly Court, shattering the barriers between the hundred kinds and thousand branches, and achieving grand unification on the level of the Demon Race.
He also utterly shattered the Dragon Race's myth of sole supremacy.
Thereafter, only the common ruler of the Heavenly Court could be the ruler of the Demon Race. Whether Dragon Race or any other race, all had to submit to the Heavenly Court's governance.
Of course, if a succeeding common ruler of the Heavenly Court was not powerful enough, if the Heavenly Court they established could not suppress all ages, unrest among the various branches was unavoidable. The repeated