At that moment, the people from Niu Family Village all recalled that ancestral instruction.
It wasn't that they had been careless. The instruction had been passed down for far too long—thousands of years. And throughout all those years, Niu Family Village had never faced a life-or-death crisis. They had never followed the instruction and offered the blood of their clanspeople to that divine statue.
That was why none of them had thought of it before.
Now that they had heard the man mention the instruction, everyone felt a glimmer of hope.
The man at the front immediately said, "I remember the ancestral instruction also said that if we ever needed to use that divine statue, all the clanspeople had to retreat into the Ancestral Hall."
"Though we don't know why the instruction says this, since it was mentioned, we'd better follow it!"
"Exactly!"
Someone beside him agreed. "Big Brother, let's gather all the clanspeople right away and have them take shelter in the Ancestral Hall. As for everything else... we can only see whether the ancestral instruction comes true, and whether that divine statue can really help Niu Family Village weather this crisis!"
"Good! Ninth Younger Brother, gather all the clanspeople and take them to the Ancestral Hall immediately. Then... activate the formations our ancestors left behind as well!"
"If the ancestral instruction comes true, perhaps this crisis really can be resolved. If it doesn't..."
He gritted his teeth and said, "Then we'll live or die alongside the Ancestral Hall!"
"All right, Big Brother! I'll take care of it right away..."
The man answered and instantly vanished in a flash...
Meanwhile,
in Niu Qingyan's bedroom,
Niu Zhengran had only just left, but Niu Qingyan was still staring blankly toward the doorway, silently nursing her grief.
Just then, a voice suddenly