[Buddha-Heart Lamp Transmission] Wu Song Receives Spiritual Empowerment; the [Emergency Headband] Is Developed! (Continued)

Many H City civilians who had once been displaced, along with lifestyle-type card masters who were not skilled in combat, found jobs here. Wearing straw hats and rolling up their trouser legs, they busily harvested in the fields. The end-of-days terror had vanished from their faces, replaced by the grounded smiles of people living and working in peace.

Lin Chen's policy of providing relief through work had thoroughly won over the people's hearts.

Farther in lay the commercial market. The streets teemed with voices and traffic, while cries of vendors and haggling customers rang out without end.

Land here was now worth its weight in gold; the place was flourishing beyond measure.

The major merchant guilds of H City were practically fighting tooth and nail just to rent even a remote stall here.

And at the very heart of this bustling commercial district, its most popular landmark was none other than Sun Erniang's [Happy Forest Hotel].

Ever since the Kitchen God had handed out relief immortal buns here, Happy Forest's name had resounded throughout H City!

By now, the hotel had absorbed enough incense offerings and wealth fortune to successfully advance into a blue-grade building, expanding into a grand three-story tavern with carved beams and painted rafters.

From afar, Lin Chen saw that the entrance to Happy Forest was a sea of people. The diners waiting in line were practically being squeezed into the drainage ditch.

Today, Sun Erniang wore an exceptionally alluring red silk gauze dress. Standing by the second-floor railing, she waved a round fan and directed her waiters to serve the dishes with boundless charm.

That fiery yet seductive landlady aura of hers had the diners utterly bewitched, yet not a single one dared cause trouble on Mother Yaksha's turf.

The scents drifting from the tavern were