Ancient Grounds

Many different races and spirit beasts inhabited the five elemental world except for the human race.

As for why the human race was not inhibited in the five elemental world, no one knows.

At the beginning of the five elemental world, it was only comprised of the spirit beasts, but as time passed on, the spirit beasts in this world started to evolve into new races.

From the unintelligent beings, they started to think and gradually gained intelligence and learned different professions like alchemy, arrays, etc.

The Lightning dragon hawk tribe was an example of that evolution where they were evolved from an ordinary lightning hawk to lightning dragon hawk, eventually gained a humanoid form.

Still, they were unable to break through to higher realms as there were not many spirit beasts that reached higher realms, and the later generations lacked the teachings of the higher realms beings like the humans who have many high realm cultivators.