So Li Fan removed the statue of the Earth God and replaced it with that of the Thousand-faced Immortal, set up an array of formations for preparation, to protect his body during astral projection, and quietly waited for darkness to fall.
He had initially thought that just worshipping the moon for one night wouldn't cause any trouble, but Li Fan did not expect that a subplot would be triggered even before he started astral projecting.
At dusk, many people entered the mountain, and Li Fan's Divine Sense could detect them. There were probably three to five hundred people, forming search parties and combing the mountains. They split into groups of about ten or more and conducted a dragnet search, heading towards the deep, pathless old forest—it was definitely not the crowd size of normal hunting or logging activities.
