The boundless Demon Domain, the Lan Clan ancestral grounds.
Qing Lan stood quietly beside the Ancestral Blood Pool, her thoughts drifting.
Not many of the Demon Race were willing to follow her beyond the domain. More than half of the shapeshifting Demon Kings refused to leave their homeland.
The Outer Starry Sky was filled with unknown terrors and unpredictable dangers to them.
It was a realm only Emperor Grade powerhouses could reach. They had no confidence in their own strength.
Qing Lan did not force those demons. Using relatively gentle methods, she severed their bloodline ties to the Lan Clan.
They would need to recuperate for a time, but their lives were not in danger.
When Qing Lan proposed going beyond the domain, Cang Yue agreed without the slightest hesitation.
His bloodline had already been completely bound to the Lan Clan. If he left the clan, his lifespan meant he would never make another breakthrough in his life.
Just as Feng Yichuan had expected, many spies from the other great clans of the Demon Domain had indeed been planted within the Lan Clan. News that Qing Lan planned to lead the Lan Clan away inevitably leaked.
Reactions across the Demon Domain varied. The top clans, such as the Dragon Clan, did not care. They had occupied the summit of the Demon Race for countless years and regarded even the entire Lan Clan as ants.
Several slightly weaker great clans, however, were interested in the Lan Clan's passage beyond the domain—or, rather, they had designs on the world the Lan Clan planned to visit.
For powerful clans with a Demon Emperor in their ranks, swallowing up resources beyond the domain was nothing unusual. They even had permanent resource-gathering outposts in several nearby star regions.
The Feather Emperor's Hall blocked all these