Another twenty years passed.
Spiritual energy technology developed at a breakneck pace. The Thirty-Nine Prefectures Mortal Domain was linked by highways, railways, and flight routes extending in all directions, while the cities changed with each passing day.
Countless enormous hydroelectric, wind-powered, and thermal spirit-conversion stations were built, supplying spiritual energy to every corner of the world.
Signal base stations became even more densely distributed. No one knew how many synchronous satellites in space were aimed at the ground in real time, providing powerful network signals. Even in remote mountain regions, it was possible to receive a signal.
This also gave rise to countless internet-addicted children, teenagers, young adults, middle-aged people, and elderly people... One could even see people with one foot already in the grave still sitting before computers, playing chess! As time passed, the new generation fully matured and gradually became the dominant force in society, while those who had witnessed the wheels of history rolling forward at high speed began to grow old, handing the power to reshape the world to the new generation.
These people had personally witnessed how this society had gone from being utterly isolated and backward to being able to survey the whole world in the blink of an eye. It was like a miracle, like a dream.
This transformation, which had originated in Moling City, had completely changed the world in merely sixty years.
For those at the bottom of society, the greatest change was that they no longer had to worry so much about food, clothing, housing, and transportation as they had in the old era. Now they worried about things like: the family next door had actually bought the newest model of Spiritual Energy Flying Car; some distant older cousin had bought another of the most expensive game Spiritual Energy Computers;