Even if she had not noticed it upon landing, she had flown all the way back from the desert to the Capital City and made another trip into the imperial palace. She had noticed the difference long ago.
The vegetation was lush, wild beasts teemed, and people brimmed with vigor and spirit.
If people were high-spirited because the economy was improving and the common folk's lives were getting better by the day, then what explained the plants and wild beasts?
Pan Yun closed her eyes and carefully sensed the changes in this stretch of heaven and earth. When she opened them, she met the bright, intent gazes of the three men.
Pan Yun looked at them silently.
"Junior Martial Uncle, you noticed it too, didn't you?" Wang Cong said. "The spiritual energy between heaven and earth seems to have grown denser."
Yin Song said, "There are rumors in the martial world that because you ascended, the immortals in heaven saw the mortal realm once more. Thus, they permitted the mortal realm a path to ascension, and the spiritual energy between heaven and earth has risen."
Pan Yun loosely curled her hand around the air and said softly, "The shackles binding heaven and earth have been loosened ahead of time. Spiritual energy is reviving."
"Spiritual energy is reviving?"
Lowering her eyes, Pan Yun said, "The fortunes of heaven are like tides—they rise and fall. In recent years, the climate has worsened day by day, and natural disasters have come without end. I originally thought we could only rely on human effort to fight against the environment..."
That was why she had kept herself busy in the Ministry of Works and the Sino Temple, vigorously developing all manner of tools and cultivating grain varieties.
She had also taken advantage of the reopening