From ancient times until the previous Spiritual Qi Era, the Dragon Clan and the Human Race, the two great races of the Human Realm, had never been particularly close.
Dragons were few in number, often lived in secret realms, and disliked interacting too much with the outside world.
Moreover, they could pass down many things through their bloodlines. Much of their knowledge was imprinted in young dragons' minds from birth, so they did not rely on writing to record information.
Humans were numerous and occupied vast tracts of the Four Seas and Nine Provinces. Their attitude toward the Dragon Clan had gradually shifted from worshipping them as gods to keeping a respectful distance. Both considered themselves the foremost of all living beings in the Human Realm. It was already fortunate that no large-scale war had broken out between them; naturally, the two races as a whole could not be particularly close.
On top of that, after thousands of years of depleted spiritual qi and the destruction of the Dark Century, records of the previous Spiritual Qi Era had suffered severe gaps.
The result was that humans did not understand how dragons lived.
Even the occasional Dragonkin bloodline born of human-dragon unions did nothing to bridge the distance between them. Only with the emergence of the Dragon-Controlling Emperor toward the end of the previous Spiritual Qi Era had interaction between the two sides increased substantially.
Whether those interactions had left a good or bad impression, however, was hard to say...
The Dragonkin who later became responsible for guarding the Dragon Hall had always faced discrimination while the True Dragons were still around. They had never fully integrated into True Dragon society, so naturally, they did not understand how True Dragons really lived either.
As a result, although the present-day Dragonkin claimed