After deciding to leave, Luo Hong did not immediately flee. Instead, he chose to reveal his divine powers before the people and tell the mortals in the town the truth about this realm.
He then gave these mortals three shichen to consider whether they wanted to follow him to the Yang Realm and change their fate of being raised like livestock.
But unfortunately, even though Luo Hong displayed sufficiently miraculous abilities, only a little over twenty percent of the mortals in the town gathered the courage to choose to leave with him.
Luo Hong was not disappointed by this. Before crossing over, he had merely been an ordinary office worker, so he understood these mortals' helplessness very well.
This was simply an act of staying true to his heart. It was not as though he had to take away a certain number of people.
After taking those twenty-odd percent of mortals into the Netherworld Grotto-heaven, Luo Hong's spiritual sense moved, erasing the remaining mortals' memories of that day and fabricating replacements with an illusion.
This way, the remaining mortals would only believe that those who had vanished had gone to the capital. They could continue living peacefully until they were eaten by ghosts.
Luo Hong rose into the air with Sikong Ying and flew straight north.
Half a shichen later, they passed through the mountain range where Five-Viscera Mountain was located and arrived above a plain.
Here, traces of human habitation immediately became much more common, and they would occasionally pass over a town.
According to Sikong Ying, the northern part of this mountain range was the true territory of the Dagan Dynasty. The town they had been in before was one of its most remote regions!
For some unknown reason, this mortal dynasty under the Big-headed Ghost Kingdom was