Chapter 11: The Dragon Clan Civilization
\nThree hundred years later.
\nThe five-clawed dragon conquered the entire continent and returned to the Central Ancestor Dragon Mountain, founding a mighty celestial clan. It proclaimed itself the Ancestor Dragon, the progenitor of all dragons.
\nThe Ancestor Dragon reigned supreme, lifting the Dragon Clan to its zenith. For a time, its dominance forced all races to bow in submission.
\nUnchecked by celestial or earthly forces, the Dragon Clan expanded rapidly. They absorbed the strengths of other races, compiling their own scriptures. The Dragon Clan was innately powerful\u2014endowed with unmatched intelligence and Transcendent physiques. Even ordinary dragons could dominate regions after training. Their sole weakness lay in slow reproduction, resulting in few pureblood dragons. The core population remained small, forcing reliance on subspecies of dragons to control other races. Unlike purebloods, the subspecies multiplied freely. Over a thousand years, they occupied nine-tenths of the land, their presence felt in rivers and oceans. Yet pureblood dragons scorned them as inferior, fueling tensions.
\nAfter three millennia of Dragon Clan civilization, the Ancestor Dragon perished.
\nThe three-thousand-year-old five-clawed dragon finally succumbed to time\u2019s decay.
\nThe Ancestor Dragon\u2019s death ignited long-simmering conflicts. Led by the Earth Dragon Clan and Flying Dragon Clan, five major subspecies rebelled, shattering the Dragon Clan\u2019s supremacy overnight. The war engulfed the continent, dragging all races into chaos as they sided with either the pureblood dragons or the rising subspecies.
\nTwenty years of carnage followed, recorded as the War of the Five Clans.
\nWith dwindling numbers, pureblood dragons retreated. The five rebellious subspecies abandoned Ancestor Dragon Mountain, returning to ancestral lands to establish their own clans. Each declared itself the true Dragon Clan, rejecting the five-clawed dragon\u2019s legacy.
\nThus began the Era of Six Clans.
\n\u201cWhat is this?\u201d
\nIn the Earth Dragon Clan\u2019s palace, the late Earth Dragon King Di Chong had left his thirteenth son, Di Ye. Born with purer dragon blood than any subspecies, Di Ye spearheaded the Five Clans\u2019 rebellion. After claiming Ancestor Dragon Mountain\u2019s power, he led his people to the Valley of Three Clans, founding the Earth Dragon Clan.
\nEven mighty kings fall.
\nNone escape the cycle of life and death.
\nThe Ancestor Dragon failed; so too would Di Ye. Aged and frail on his throne, he noticed peculiar changes in an ancestral stone. As death neared, the stone funneled strange energy into him, prolonging his life.
\n\u201cThis is\u2026\u201d
\nThe power of immortality!
\nDi Ye\u2019s heart pounded. He understood now how his ancestor evolved from a lowly earth dragon to a top subspecies ruler\u2014this stone held the key. Had the Ancestor Dragon not ambushed his ancestor before dying, Di Chong might have seized Ancestor Dragon Mountain using the black stone.
\nBut the Ancestor Dragon cleared obstacles for his heirs. Di Chong died, passing the stone to his successor, Di Ye.
\nClutching the stone, Di Ye rose.
\nHis vision shifted. A new sensation surged through him, overriding his aged body. He pinched the stone. Shadows seeped from its cracks, forming symbols he controlled like clan laws.
\nThe power of law!
\nRemnants of the Ancient Era\u2019s practices\u2014loopholes in Zuo Meng\u2019s world order.
\n*Boom!*
\nThe law\u2019s power silently cracked the stone hall. His palace collapsed, disintegrating into dust before hitting the ground.
\n\u201cThis isn\u2019t totem magic\u2014it\u2019s Ancient Law!\u201d
\nThe name flashed unbidden in Di Ye\u2019s mind.
\n\u201cHahaha! I, Di Ye, will unite the continent and surpass the Ancestor Dragon!\u201d He laughed, drunk on the stone\u2019s energy.
\nBeyond the realm
\nZuo Meng frowned. The erased Ancient Law had resurfaced, mutated. He considered intervening but hesitated. This era\u2019s turbulence taught him of World Will, destiny, and fortune.
\n\u201cWorld-building is like house-building\u2014flaws emerge.\u201d
\nHe noted the issue but let it unfold. How would this Sealed stone reshape the age?
\nEmpowered by the black stone
\nDi Ye regained his prime. His ambition swelled. Mimicking the Ancestor Dragon, he subdued four other subspecies, crushed Ancestor Dragon Mountain, and crowned himself Second Dragon Emperor using Ancient Law.
\nHe reformed the realm, replacing the old racial hierarchy with rule by the strong.
\nEight centuries later
\nDi Ye erased the Ancestor Dragon\u2019s legacy, rebuilding Ancestor Dragon Mountain with the era\u2019s strongest. For three hundred years, they studied the waning stone\u2019s secrets as Di Ye\u2019s death loomed.
\n\u201cWhat is this stone? My strength can\u2019t scratch it,\u201d marveled an ancient winged dragon.
\nThey\u2019d tried fire, water, blades, teeth, even blood sacrifices\u2014nothing worked.
\n\u201cTotem infusion might work. Their energies could share a source,\u201d suggested an old dragon.
\nThe half-day-old method showed faint promise.
\n\u201cGather all totems at Dragon Mountain! Disobeyers die!\u201d Di Ye decreed. None dared refuse.
\nAt the mountain\u2019s peak
\nDi Ye stood at the cliff\u2019s edge, staring into the abyss.
\n\u201cWhat\u2019s down there?\u201d
\nA millennium ago, he\u2019d glimpsed a colossal turtle\u2014vast beyond comprehension.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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