The person Qin Yang had taken special notice of was called Mei Yan.
He had no idea that, as someone who could only be considered a mortal, he had caught the eye of a great figure whose back he could not even glimpse.
His ancestors had once been mortals of Tongqu Prefecture.
Over a thousand years ago, the great war in Tongqu Prefecture had nearly destroyed the entire prefecture's ecosystem.
Back then, the many powers of Hu Liang had each relied on their own capabilities, essentially moving away all the spirit mountains, great rivers, and population of Tongqu Prefecture.
As a result, present-day Tongqu Prefecture was basically a vast, level plain. So many years had passed, yet it had regained little vitality. Compared to other prefectures, its various spiritual treasures were more than a level inferior.
Mei Yan's ancestors had been among the mortals swept along and relocated back then.
It was not until the divine tree fell, the Great Ying Divine Dynasty descended from the heavens, Hu Liang began to gain importance, policies began to favor it, and the Dead Sea gradually calmed, among many other reasons.
Hu Liang gradually became lively, and Tongqu Prefecture naturally gained far more life than before.
Mei Yan's grandfather's generation had suffered harassment from demons and could no longer survive, so they could only risk coming to Tongqu Prefecture. By a twist of fate, they had arrived at the best time in a thousand years.
For in present-day Tongqu Prefecture, any demon with even a little intelligence no longer dared to recklessly harass human villages.
After living steadily for several decades and acquiring quite a bit of farmland, the Mei family had become landlords of some standing and lived comfortably.
When Mei Yan was safely born, the old man reminisced about past hardships.