Time flew by,
and in the blink of an eye, a year passed.
During that year, just as many had expected, enormous upheaval began erupting in every corner of the world!
In recent days,
struggles raged everywhere. Battles, killings, and the flames of war had continued without end.
This was the inevitable result of the Spiritual Qi Resurgence.
Two major forces that had harbored a blood feud had originally remained at peace because their strength was evenly matched and they had kept each other in check.
But when one side gained the opportunity brought by the Spiritual Qi Resurgence and suddenly broke through, upsetting the balance of power, bloody battles naturally erupted in its wake.
There had been no shortage of examples like this.
Within that single year,
even a two-thousand-year-old lineage in Liyang Domain, Eastern Continent, which had a Cave-Heaven Realm expert stationed there, had been destroyed because of it.
The culprit was a man from Liyang Domain whose entire family had been slaughtered when he was young.
Bearing a blood feud as vast as the sea, he had barely survived for many years. On the night of the Western Falling Stars, he had somehow obtained an opportunity that allowed him to break into the Cave-Heaven Realm in one fell swoop.
Afterward, he had not delayed in the slightest. First, he hid in the shadows and slaughtered nearly all the younger generation of his enemy lineage. Finally, he charged into the enemy lineage's territory and engaged their Cave-Heaven Ancestor in a fierce battle, eventually self-detonating and perishing together with that ancestor.
The aftermath of the final battle had reduced the entire thousand-year-old family in Liyang Domain to ashes and pulverized it into dust.
Perhaps some bloodlines of that thousand-year-old family had survived, but they had never been without enemies.