godadi
Surprised that the Winged Lizards aren’t one of the top 3 strongest beasts; but it makes sense that the Sea Beast Race is considered the strongest; it makes me think about the Leviathan. But one can see the balance of the Immortal World with the different races keeping each other in check. The exception being the Sea Beast Race whose strength is drastically reduced out of the ocean.
I'm.... guessing that the way all ocean races and flight races are dumped together have lore reasons? Usually in chinese stories that have "sea race" and "bird race" It's because they either had to ally in past or were all conquered and became a monolith. E.G, there are plenty of stories where phoenixes basically enslaved all other birds, and so the "bird race" was considered a single alliance.