Myriad Phenomena Domain, Longqing City.
After Lin Xiaoqing stepped forward, the situation throughout Longqing City gradually shifted from chaos and panic toward a delicate balance.
Although many still harbored doubts, under the City Lord's Mansion's efforts to maintain order, life had at least begun to return to its former rhythm on the surface.
In the streets and alleys, children's laughter rang as crisp as silver bells. They chased and played, utterly unaware that their city had already undergone earth-shaking changes.
Within those innocent, guileless eyes was reflected a small world that remained simple and joyful.
The adults were different. Though they had resumed their old trades, their busy figures moving through the streets and lanes, the confusion between their brows was impossible to conceal.
Some shopkeepers stood with their hands on their doors, hesitation and worry written across their faces. Yet in the end, they gritted their teeth and opened their shops one after another, trying to set their businesses in motion again.
On the streets, the flow of people, like trickling streams, slowly increased. Many stepped out of their homes with unease and curiosity, seeking to find out what was going on.
However, compared with the bustle of the past, these gatherings were more tentative.
Compared to the once teeming, extraordinarily lively scenes, the people gathering now were testing the waters with utmost caution, as though walking on thin ice, terrified that one misstep would send them plunging into an unknown abyss.
In their conversations, aside from daily necessities and cultivation progress, what worried people most was how they would obtain Cultivation Resources in the future.
Although Longqing City had been relocated, the Spiritual Energy here was more than twice as dense.
Yet the path of cultivation was like a long expedition. Relying on the absorption of Spiritual Energy