Li Caiwei marveled as the caeli continued rising. Eventually, a thousand red moons hung around the ring of suns.

"According to the founding ancestor, only caeli that reach the Ascension stage can be retained and preserved. These blood moon caeli are all so much larger than Astral Wills, so they're obviously past the Samsara stage. Those thousand blood moons must be the souls of the specter gods!" Tianming said.

"What? The specters were that powerful?" Xuanyuan Dao said.

"It's not really that surprising. These gods were probably born over two hundred millennia, and history states that the specters were much more powerful than humans. It wouldn't be surprising for them to have up to a thousand gods among...