Seeking Aid and Cooperation

"Escaped?"

Within Spirit City, the Spirit Lord still lounged lazily upon a jade chair, looking down at one follower after another.

Flame Elder said to the Spirit Lord, "Yes, Spirit Lord! Xuanyuan Liqun of Single-Name Prefecture is an old stubborn fool. For some reason, he actually abandoned Single-Name Prefecture. It's truly strange!"

He ground his teeth in fury.

The cultivators of the Southern Border were truly disgusting. More than a decade had passed, yet the Iron Gate Seven were still harassing him!

Not only that, cultivators across the entire Southern Border had even begun using a strategy of sustaining war through war, specifically capturing immortals in their Heavenly Rampart Prefecture. It had left the entire Spirit Lord lineage living in constant fear. They could only wait for the Blood Moon to expand; only within the Blood Moon would it be the domain of half-immortals like them.

They knew perfectly well what those outside the Blood Moon were like. Humans valued territory, inheritances, and the legacies left behind by their ancestors heavily—more heavily even than their own lives.

They had originally intended to exploit this, devouring all of Single-Name Prefecture along with the gradually expanding ambitions of its cultivators and those of the Southern Border. Who would have thought they would not even try?

"Then they are preparing for a decisive battle. This is no longer a battle we can handle."

The Spirit Lord waved a hand. "Go to the Southern Lands and tell Min Tiange that it is time for him to come."

[Year 1080 of the Li Family]

[A great war is imminent. Your family is preparing to use Heavenly Rampart Prefecture as a buffer zone and wage war against the Blood Moon.]

"Changsheng, there is no need to seek further aid. If the people of the world