Li Yan directly asked about those questions concerning the Black Devil Race, wanting to hear this Supreme Great Elder's views.
Among the questions he had inscribed for Ming Qi, he had already omitted some, such as the Black Devil Race asking about the status of Ming Qi and her sister within their clan.
That had merely been the Black Devil Race's attempt to judge, through Li Yan, whether the person making the suggestions possessed a certain degree of credibility. Naturally, Li Yan would not inscribe such questions into the jade slip again.
"Alright, let us begin with the two important issues. As for the other three phoenix clans, I can be certain of their higher-ups' attitudes. Their determination to resist the Nine-Headed Green Phoenix Clan is no different from our own.
"Even if the phoenix races have declined, the belief in their bloodlines—to remain undying and unyielding—will not vanish completely. Especially for cultivators of greater strength, none wish to be controlled by others.
"Likewise, the stronger one becomes, the more factors within the awakened bloodline emerge. Otherwise, the Nine-Headed Green Phoenix Clan would already have completely taken control of our four clans.
"Each of those three clans has two to three Body Integration Realm cultivators. Yet in the Undying Underworld Phoenix Clan in the past, this old man was the only one at the Body Integration Realm.
"However, my combat strength remained the strongest among the four clans, which was why I retained a certain degree of influence among them.
"Those three clans have been integrated more deeply by the Nine-Headed Green Phoenix Clan. Especially among the newest generations, roughly thirty to forty percent of their clansmen now admire the Nine-Headed Green Phoenix Clan more.
"Only a little over ten percent of our clan belongs to that category. It is