Normally, a soul beast species like the Emerald Swans, which had not a shred of combat ability and were walking tonics besides, would struggle to reach adulthood. That was the law of nature.
Just as Darkgold Dreadclaw Bears struggled to reproduce and were exceedingly few in number, Emerald Swans struggled to reach adulthood largely because they lacked sufficient combat ability.
And that had indeed been the case for the Emerald Swan Clan in the past. Scattered throughout the Star Dou Forest, they had even struggled to reproduce.
But the Emerald Swan Clan's circumstances had changed dramatically after Bi Ji appeared. At first, she had been as fragile as any ordinary Emerald Swan, but after she rescued a feeble soul beast out of kindness, the gears of fate quietly began to turn.
That feeble soul beast turned out to be the child of a fairly powerful ten-thousand-year soul beast. Under that soul beast's protection, Bi Ji safely made it through the most dangerous years of her childhood.
Later, as Bi Ji grew stronger, she would treat any injured soul beast, even if that soul beast had been injured while trying to hunt her.
Gradually, soul beasts gathered into a small group centered around Bi Ji. Eventually, she met Di Tian, and with his help, survived one heavenly tribulation after another that she could never have overcome otherwise.
Bi Ji finally became a powerful ferocious beast renowned throughout the continent. At the same time, she united the Emerald Swan Clan, gathering them together under collective protection and turning them into "Doctors" serving the various soul beasts of the Star Dou Forest, transforming their circumstances.
The price of doing so was that, in human eyes, Emerald Swans had essentially become super soul beasts that ordinary humans could never hunt. Well... all right, that