The Western spiritual beast elders had good intentions. With their age and cultivation, they truly could endure quietly cultivating within their clan grounds.
But when peaceful days dragged on for too long, they inevitably became dull. Naturally, there would be some unruly juniors unwilling to remain in the clan grounds, cultivating day after day, who wished to venture into the broader Azure Waves Main Realm in search of hidden wonders and immortals.
The four spiritual beasts previously imprisoned in Yanlai Hunting Ground were the most prominent examples.
Aside from them, over the past two or three centuries, a small number of spiritual beasts had also secretly slipped out of the clan grounds, though none had caused as much trouble as those four.
Yet in recent years, perhaps because the former master of the Dao Academy, Zhuang Xuanji, had ascended to Heaven and departed, cases of spiritual beasts leaving their realms and appearing in the world had become increasingly frequent.
More and more descendants of spiritual beasts had begun leaving their clan grounds, concealing their identities as they traveled and trained throughout Canglan Continent.
Some among them had sufficient cultivation and broken through the barrier of spatial Daoist Magic on their own, while others had left the clan grounds under the instruction of their elders to gain experience.
At the end of the day, the Western spiritual beasts had not submitted to Lingxiao Dao Academy back then. They had submitted to Zhuang Xuanji, the master of the Dao Academy who could decide their life and death at will.
Now that Zhuang Xuanji had already ascended to Heaven and departed, without the absolute martial suppression of the Number One Cultivator in the Human Realm, the senior elders of the Western spiritual beasts naturally wished to secure more resources and opportunities for their