An error occurred while copying the content for the previous chapter (Chapter 480), leading to some continuity issues where part of the following chapter was accidentally included. This has now been corrected. Please feel free to go back and reread it. My apologies.
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Watching Lan Mengling disappear, Candle Dragon felt like crying but had no tears to shed.
The world was filled with countless beauties, but his heart belonged to Lan Mengling alone.
Alas, it was a classic case of unrequited love; the day could never understand the darkness of the night...
But this time, it was about more than just their feelings. It concerned the Blood Pool within the Blood Ancestor Tomb—the key to a breakthrough in his cultivation.
This was an immense opportunity granted to him by his master.
This was the primary reason he had been so fixated on the Blood Ancestor Tomb all these years.
