Over the next day, Wei Yuan worked non-stop and visited seventeen human settlements of varying sizes—some with thousands of inhabitants, and others with only a hundred or two. Every time he ran into a village with more than a hundred people, he made sure to visit it and requested the residents spread the word. Most people were living separately across the vast western regions, but they had to visit human settlements eventually and periodically to exchange for necessities. That was when they would learn of Wei Yuan’s recruitment of mortals.0

It wasn’t until late at night that Wei Yuan finally returned to the realm. This day, Wei Yuan had covered every human village and town of any size within a three-hundred-li radius and gotten the word out to roughly forty thousand people.0

When Wei Yuan had first arrived in this area, approximately eighty thousand people had been living in the vicinity. Unfortunately, the repeated incursions by the Shamans had driven many of them to flee their original settlements and seek refuge in the dense forests of the mountains.0

Everyone was willing to relocate into the realm, even if it meant abandoning the village they had lived in for generations. After all, a home without the protection...0