The rules of the world were changing.
There was no doubt about that.
It was like the change to the Primordial World's pre-heaven spiritual energy: the highly effective energy that relied on quality had been replaced by post-heaven spiritual energy, which covered a wider area but was far inferior in quality.
That change alone was enough.
Almost all the races that depended on pre-heaven spiritual energy and could not adapt to the times had entered a period of decline.
The Dragon Tribe was one example.
The key to nurturing genuine true dragons lay in the extremely stringent requirements for the environment surrounding their eggs.
The most obvious requirement was a suitable spiritual energy environment.
Water-type true dragons, for example, were innate lifeforms born as earth immortals, with the golden immortal realm as the baseline of their future achievements.
As the pre-heaven era faded away completely and post-heaven spiritual energy gradually came to dominate the Primordial World,
the Dragon Tribe began to decline.
During the Investiture of the Gods war, the Dragon Tribe had actually still been quite powerful.
The Dragon Tribe still had an Ancient Dragon King, Azure Dragon.
Although Azure Dragon later took on a second role as a sacred beast,
apart from him, the Dragon Tribe still had roughly four or five Dragon Elders who were third- or fourth-tier primordial origin golden immortals.
They had yet to fall out of the ranks of the Primordial World's great races.
But with the change from pre-heaven spiritual energy to the post-heaven era,
trouble arrived.
True dragons had extremely demanding requirements for spiritual energy.
The way dragons reproduced had already made that inevitable.
Even before a dragon egg began developing inside its mother, several factors had to be considered.
The first, naturally, was the parents' bloodlines.
If both parents were normal