As one person after another left, more and more people learned the truth. Ku Zu, Wu Tian, and the others all departed one by one.
Even Gu Yuan and Chang Chuan had deeply conflicted feelings toward Lord Mi.
Like the Progenitor, they had all witnessed the results of the Mitian Grand Plan: humanity's glory. During those two thousand years of prosperity, even the Main Dao had been suppressed. Only those who had once lived through the Nine Heavens could understand what that felt like.
They had experienced the years of being suppressed and toyed with by the Main Dao, so they understood Lord Mi all the better.
But Lu Yin was just as important to them.
Without Lu Yin, the Fourth Barrier would have been doomed. Gu Yuan would still be mired in confusion over what was real and what was false, and even Hunji had fallen silent.
More and more people left.
The generation that had followed Lu Yin gradually disappeared from Xiang City.
They had actually lived well all these years. Lord Mi had treated them fairly, but they couldn't get past that hurdle in their hearts.
Lord Mi didn't force them to stay, either. Separation and estrangement were only natural in this world.
Over these two thousand years, humanity had produced wave after wave of elites. The Eternal Life Realm was no longer limited to those who had followed Lu Yin. Of course, those people were undoubtedly the backbone of humanity, and their departure left human civilization temporarily short of experts.
Lord Mi's solution was to release the lifeforms Lu Yin had once captured and imprisoned in Supreme Mountain, then control them for his own use.
There were far too many lifeforms imprisoned in Lu Yin's Supreme Mountain: Sheng Yi, Gray Ancestor, Saint Cang, Chong Yi, and