Chapter 17

After hearing all that talk from Ran Deng, Shi Qilin was indeed a bit inspired, but after all, he wasn't a sect cultivator and it could only make him think of ways to improve his own clan. The three tribes seem to be the same to the outside, which is not the case one inspects them deeper.

The dragons are domineering, the phoenix are reclusive and the qilin are tolerant. Being tolerant means to accept all beings as they are into their own clan. It could be said that the current beasts are split into two factions.

The ferocious beasts lead by Shen Ni in the north, which are beasts that have been infected by the resentment and evil spirit that was left after the chaos divinities were killed by Pangu. They themselves are only semi-conscious, many times the lower ones would be senseless beings who are lost, with no ability to wake up and realise their true beast lineage.

Shi Qilin's qilin clan is tolerant and is willing to include all beasts without them changing their form and origin, like the phoenix. So, his qilin clan can also be called a beast clan.

Ran Deng said wholeheartedly "The fault of the hegemon is not to trust his ministers and to stop caring about his subordinates. Since your qilin clan adheres to the principle of being tolerant, you need to consider this truly.

Are you only tolerant and protecting them, or are you truly tolerant and open up a greater beast clan, become the leading clan but not the only one, unite all beast lineages into the banner of beasts, gather the fortune of the world and advance and retreat together?"

Shi Qilin thought deeply about it. He was initially confused how the topic came to this, but the more he heard, the more he knew that this was the opportunity he felt when the buddhist sect was established.

He asked "I wonder what the lord thinks about the current situation? What should be changed?" by asking this, he wanted to confirm the position of the opposite party.

Ran Deng smiled and answered slowly "I have thought long before you arrived that the current stage of the world… is great! Things shouldn't be changed much! Unfortunately, this is not possible, since a large calamity will await at the end of the tunnel if we change nothing.

Naturally the state is great, but it can become perfect! The beast lineages must become true beast lineages and can't remain disunited. The present greatest hurdle for this is the ferocious beast tribe, but there is no need to worry.

The north is naturally hated by the world, since the ferocious beasts only know how to kill and eat. This is different from the other beast lineages – they enrich the world by the laws they practice, so every nourishment is repaid. But these ferocious beasts simply don't practice any law, they only feast without giving back!

As long as you are willing to take the lead in freeing the beasts, At least half the masters in the world will help to gain some merits. The true difficulty is how the beast lineages will be split thereafter.

From what I know currently, there are 23 beast lineages under the control of Shen Ni, which is over half the land beast lineages. As you know, there are 20 aquatic beast lineages, 20 aerial beast lineages and 31 land beast lineages. There are only eight remaining land beast lineages, six of which are part of your qilin clan.

Well, we can only say Shen Ni had luck since he was born early.

Anyways, of the 20 aquatic lineages, I heard six have submitted to the dragons, while five aerial lineages joined the phoenix.

Your qilin clan can't be the only one to create the beast clan. Therefore, I have a different idea. Let's ignore the rest, but each of the dragons and phoenix can only have eight lineages of their own, while we buddhist take another eight, and another eight lineages will form their own beast kingdoms outside the beast clan."

At this moment, Ran Deng became quiet and didn't explain why. He never planned to remain solely in the Honghuang world, and naturally other large forces should do the same. But after all, the world shouldn't stagnate and only become a farm for these clans, this would do the world unjust and also cause stagnation in the world.

No matter how many trophies they gain from the outside, if the world itself doesn't experience anything, it will just become a piece of land. Just like a cultivator who only cultivates and never gains experience, this cultivator will be destined to die.

Instead, it would be better to keep the weaker forces in the world and make them fight in the world without destroying anything. Through a large accumulation of many small forces, the world would advance and gradually perfect itself in a natural cycle, without experiencing large damage. The calamities also have this purpose, but Ran Deng didn't like this method, as the risk was destroying the world… which actually happened in later stories.

Anyways, Ran Deng didn't intend to explain, Shi Qilin could only keep it in mind, and then Ran continued "This will split 32 beast lineages away from the beast clan, which is a bit less than half. The pie of the beast clan itself is still too large, even with this separation. No matter how much fortune the other clans bring, they themselves aren't strong enough yet to have a real say in the distribution of the world's fortune.

So, in addition to this measure, we will… invite the four directions divine races!" Ran Deng smiled as he said this to Shi Qilin "I know you have been aiming the white tigers of the west! It's a bit daring to calculate of our back garden. It's fine, I know this happened before the buddhist sect was established, so I won't say anything more.

The northern tortoise will agree to join us when we introduce our goal to split the ferocious beast clan. The western white tiger clan should have already agreed to you, or the negotiations should be in the last stages. Just change the content, it won't be much of a difference anyways.

To calculate the eastern azure dragon is actually not difficult. The dragon clan has been trying to invite him, but we can stop this. Zulong, that arrogant water loach, has taken the control of the dragon clan since its establishment.

It's fine if he only becomes the leader, after all, Yuan Feng is also the leader, but the phoenix clan is jointly reigned by him and his wife, but Zulong is domineering and doesn't give the other two ancestral dragons any space.

My buddhist sect… will find a way to convince the Eastern Azure Dragon to join the beast clan, no worries. You should go and find the Southern Vermillion Bird. He has a very good relationship with the phoenix and is very likely to join them.

There should still be time. The phoenix themselves act as the ancestors of all birds, whether they join or not doesn't matter as long as they are acknowledged. You can tell them the same, if they want to, they can acknowledge the phoenix as ancestors before joining the clan. We are not after the bird's fortune after all.

The beast lineage's fortune is enough for the beast clan, the four directions beasts will serve as guardians of the beast clan.

When they join, including your qilin clan that is specialised in the earth element, we have the five elements of wood from the east, fire from the south, gold from the west and water from the north."