It was a joyful and adventurous story at the start.
The Dragon Emperor was once just a boy by the name of Zenith Aurora.
He was once a Holy Clan genius himself.
Zenith existed in an era when Qinglong was gone. His legacy had been reduced to ash, and though the people of the Holy Clans knew who he was, they always painted him in a bad light.
He was a powerful and dominant Dragon Emperor who did everything he could to bring equal opportunity to everyone of his race.
He had the Holy Clans at his beck and call. Even the strongest Holy Dragons were forced to obey him.
This definitely earned the ire of those in high positions. He had been gone for countless millennia, but Zenith always heard the elders admonishing and badmouthing him.
In fact, to even find those initial truths, Zenith had to dig for many years. In his youth, he also only saw Qinglong as a stain in the history of dragonkind.