And so...
The Qilin Clan was now at an absolute disadvantage in numbers.
However, the Phoenix Clan was at the greatest disadvantage of all.
After all, the Phoenix Clan occupied the Parasol Wood.
Although the Divine Parasol Tree was unimaginably vast.
That alone had already limited the Phoenix Clan's reproduction.
Thus.
The Phoenix Clan had the smallest population among the Three Clans.
One could even say.
The Phoenix Clan and the Qilin Clan combined had fewer than half as many members as the Dragonfolk.
After all, the Dragonfolk's numbers were simply immense.
And that only counted those with true Dragonfolk bloodlines.
If all those strange and unusual Jiaolong and the like were included.
If every creature with Dragonfolk blood were counted.
Then the Dragonfolk could be said to rank first in population throughout the entire Primordial World.
For that reason, too.
Among the Three Clans, the Dragonfolk had always considered themselves first.
The Qilin Clan ranked second, and the Phoenix Clan third.
In the eyes of the other races, that was more or less the case as well.
But each of the Three Clans considered itself number one.
That was also why the Three Clans fought one another so fiercely.
Naturally, the Qilin Clan Chief looked down on the Phoenix Clan's chief as well.
In his eyes.
The only reason the Phoenix Patriarch had attained her current standing.
Was that she had found a mighty tree to shelter under.
With the Phoenix Patriarch's own talent and strength alone.
She had no right to stand there at all.
Had he been in her place, he certainly would have done better.
This was the influence of the Heavenly Dao.
The Qilin Clan had originally been a clan of auspicious beings.
Gentle by nature.
Yet under the influence of the Heavenly Dao.
They