The Tragic Qilin Clan (Part Two)

Word had it that once the Dragon and Phoenix Tribes learned that the Qilin Clan had dispatched the vast majority of their top experts outside Mount Buzhou and into the void, they immediately began mobilizing their forces. Gathering massive numbers of experts, the two tribes prepared to play the role of the mantis stalking the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.

What the Dragon and Phoenix Tribes had not expected, however, was just how fast the Qilin Clan would react. Right as they were moving their own elites toward Qilin territory, the Qilin Clan had already recalled the experts they had just sent out, leaving the Dragon and Phoenix Tribes somewhat thwarted.

With those Qilin experts back, neither the Dragon and Phoenix Tribes dared to act rashly anymore.

On one hand, even a severely battered Qilin Clan possessed the strength to make them hesitate to move without careful planning. Acting recklessly would only trap them in the quagmire.

On the other hand was the issue of the Hundred Clans of the Primordial Wilderness.

Though these Hundred Clans had been beaten into submission by the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Tribes, they had not been exterminated. In truth, even if the three tribes had wanted to wipe them out completely, they couldn't have—or rather, the Dragon and Phoenix Tribes simply dared not annihilate all the hundreds of clans.

Every single race in the Primordial Wilderness possessed an inevitable reason for existence. Unless they died out naturally, no individual, race, or faction was permitted to completely exterminate another race, lest Heavenly Retribution or Heavenly Punishment descend upon them.

Heavenly Retribution or Heavenly Punishment in the Primordial Wilderness was by no means a joke. Even a Quasi-Sage's cultivation could be blasted into absolute nothingness under its might.

Thus, back when the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Tribes were waging wars across