Since the Snake-People Royal City had originally been built within a rare oasis, there was not much noticeable change in the surrounding environment.
The Snake-People Royal City's most significant changes lay in its population and economy.
First came the population.
What Lu Yuan noticed most directly was that there were more humans and snake-people. Even livestock—horses, cattle, sheep, and various poultry—had become more plentiful.
Then came the economy.
Even after leaving the Trading Area, the wealthiest and noisiest district of the Snake-People Royal City, one could still feel the prosperity and abundance common to most royal cities from the occasional peddlers passing by along the level, clean paths. It was exceedingly rare.
After all, this was the Snake-People Royal City.
And the reason these paths were so level—
Was that some roads in other snake-people cities were not nearly so smooth.
The reason still lay in the environment.
Because the Snake-People Royal City was located in an oasis, it had the means to build level roads. If it had stood in the desert, a single gust of wind would bury even the finest road beneath drifts of sand.
Thus, while building roads was a gesture of sincerity, the greatest sincerity lay in the costs the Snake-People Tribe had to bear to maintain and repair the road that made travel easier for merchants.
Fortunately, that was not difficult for cultivators.
Lu Yuan took a brief stroll around the Snake-People Royal City and visited the Trading Area. After all, the city he had seen back then had not looked like this. Then, it was time to handle business.
He took a single step and vanished from where he stood without a sound.
After tearing through space and appearing inside the royal hall of the Snake-People Royal City, he deliberately released a trace