After parting with Lord Divine Thunder, Qi Yuan remained in the temple, keeping a low profile, awaiting his trip to the ancestral lands.
What surprised Qi Yuan was the number of people who had signed up for the journey to the ancestral lands.
To these villagers, entering the ancestral land was synonymous with certain death.
Yet, over fifty people signed up for it.
Qi Yuan was taken aback by this development.
In the end, the ones chosen to enter the ancestral lands included Village Chief Yu Lei, the Divine Officer Shentu, Shizhongshan from Shijia Village, Chen Xifan from Chenxi Village, and Zhu Zhuangshi.
These people were all figures of some significance within Qi Yuan's territory.
All of them had been selected to journey to the ancestral lands.
"Aren't you all afraid of death?" One day, Qi Yuan asked this casually, gazing at the eight of them in front of the temple.