Tushan Immortal City.
A Youth in Green Robes opened his eyes, his divine sense sweeping across a hundred-kilometer radius.
"Ten years had passed. The economic crisis... was over."
Within the reach of Jiang Ding's divine sense, artifact shops, talisman shops, and pill shops were all bustling with activity. New artifact workshops were also being built nearby, fully equipped with forging tools and earthfire, their spiritual light arranged in perfect order.
These were specialized artifact-forging workshops designed and built by the Tushan Immortal City Artifact Refiner Guild after gathering the opinions of numerous artifact refiners. Their efficiency was several times higher than that of traditional workshops, and their quality was better as well.
The same was true of pill workshops, puppet workshops, and talisman workshops.
Over the past years, lacking orders, many artifact refiners and alchemists had barely maintained their cultivation through these official orders from Tushan Immortal City. Now, the results had finally emerged.
The streets teemed with travelers, weaving through shop after shop as they purchased the Natural Treasures, pills, and artifacts they needed.
At the airship docks, flying ships arrived from afar every few quarters of an hour, landing to unload vast quantities of raw materials such as ores and spirit herbs from the Northern Plains, never stopping for a moment.
Then they were loaded with artifacts, talismans, pills, magical treasures, and other goods from Tushan Immortal City. After brief rests, they flew off into the distance once more, not daring to delay even an instant.
The Spiritless Desert trade route had recovered.
Moreover, its prosperity surpassed that of the past. Even more cultivation professionals—Artifact refiners, alchemists, talisman masters, and the like—had arrived here carrying their dreams.
Because inheritances could be obtained here more conveniently, at a cost far lower than elsewhere in the Northern Plains.
And although