Dragon-Phoenix Reactions

(First chapter!) As mentioned in the previous chapter, the Hundred Tribes of the Primordial Wilderness had suffered the "bullying" of the younger generations of the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Tribes, leaving the Hundred Clans thoroughly depressed. These juniors relied on their elders' backing to openly bully them. Did that not mean they were being "bullied" by the old and then "bullied" by the young? After enduring this bullying for so long, and under such force, the Hundred Tribes of the Primordial Wilderness finally "resisted." Once the Hundred Clans struck back, the juniors of the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Tribes were in for a hard time.

You had not misread it—the juniors of the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Tribes were the ones who suffered. Though the Hundred Clans' overall strength had greatly diminished after the Hundred-Clan Ranking Tournament, and no individual clan among them could defeat any one of the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Tribes, they could not withstand the sheer weight of numbers. If one could not beat you, then could two or three not do it? If that still was not enough, then surely ten or twenty could. In short, given the Hundred Clans' current combined strength, none of the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Tribes had the power to contend with them alone.

Thus, one clan was "bullied," then two clans were "bullied." One clan was exterminated, then two clans were exterminated. Most clans were bullied, and most clans faced the possibility of extermination. War between the Hundred Clans and the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Tribes naturally erupted. The Hundred Clans joined forces and defeated the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Tribes one by one. With the older generation of experts from those three tribes in seclusion, the Dragon-Phoenix-Qilin Tribes were "trampled." This was the most satisfying battle the Hundred Tribes of the Primordial Wilderness had fought since the Hundred-Clan Ranking Tournament. After being "bullied" for so many years, they had