The eighteenth Lich Returnee novella features a several year time skip and mostly focuses on the expansion of the protagonist’s domain to cover a chunk of the Pacific ocean, opening the door for future conflict on a slightly more macro county-wide level.
All Roads Lead to the Phoenix Princess is your standard ‘transmigrated to a game world’ sort of story which does not happen to feature any actual game mechanics, instead going with more organic cultivation systems and their related tropes. Despite my general dislike of cultivation, that this story is fairly self-aware of those tropes works in its favor to create an engaging enough narrative that moves along at a brisk pace. The only real oddity at this point is the subtitle singling out wind when the protagonist explicitly takes an omni-element path.