Every member of the Lin Hu Clan who had invaded Port Vias was slaughtered. When Blackbeard received the news, he dragged Lin Qi off for a heavy drinking session. Then, patting his backside, he went to find several young nobles flirting with respectable girls in the streets and gave them a thoroughly satisfying caning, beating their asses into tomato paste. Only then did his mood return to normal.
For quite some time afterward, Lin Qi encountered no trouble.
Everything progressed in an orderly fashion. The nonhuman races and humanity continued to spend each other's lives at Norman Fortress; it was said that Norman Great Beach had been dyed a blackish red with blood. Meanwhile, the nomads launched another offensive across the Eastern Great Plains, but under Arthur's command, the Dragon Horn Legion repeatedly and almost miraculously crushed the nomad army's attacks.
The nomads seemed to have fallen into a predicament. After entering the fertile Eastern Great Plains, they had lost their drive to push forward; even mobilizing their troops had become difficult. Thus, the eastern front of the continent fell silent for a time, putting Lin Qi even more at ease.
The Dragon Mountain Empire was undergoing a violent internal consolidation, with the Longshan Family fully taking over the power of this enormous empire. Backed by massive legions, the Longshan Family's orders—or rather, Lin Qi's will—were perfectly carried out throughout the empire.
Lin Qi himself, meanwhile, often sank into deep thought, constantly discussing the information extracted from Lin Huai's soul with the Osmanthus Tree, the Hall of the Doomsday Apocalypse, and Dragon Cliff. Because of Alsa and the others' soul attacks, combined with Lin Qi's Soul Lash, Lin Huai's soul had suffered considerable damage, and some of his memories had already become blurred.
Thus, Lin Qi learned the origins of