"What is Renewed Radiance?"
"'Renewed radiance shines upon the world; at the darkest extreme comes light. It washes demonic miasma from the Nine Netherworlds and restores brightness to the Eight Wastelands.' This was the appraisal Mr. Yu Yueqiao of the Snake Gu wrote for this strand of Heaven and Earth Long Qi, one of the Five Gu. He described it thus: brimming with vitality, all evils retreat.
"Those who bear this Qi find all evils easily warded off. It possesses strong restraining power against all manner of curses and poisons. Wherever its radiance reaches, it is like spring sunlight melting snow, swiftly dissolving evil entities and purifying contamination. Its scope is exceedingly broad."
"How broad?"
The messenger picked up a pinch of soil deliberately placed beneath the Long Qi.
"It takes twenty years for soil to gain a trace of fertility, yet a single year of farming can consume a trace of it. With Renewed Radiance, twenty years' worth of depletion can be restored, making farming almost entirely lossless.
"Whether it is contaminated, barren soil or magical artifacts and treasures that have lost their efficacy, it can return them to purity and repair them. Naturally, this also grants it considerable healing properties."
"Worthy of being superior Long Qi. Good, good!"
"There is a stretch of land on the back mountain of my stockade. Whoever obtains it, we should discuss things properly..."
Everyone sang its praises, all saying that the Tusi was truly lavish to be willing to offer such Long Qi.
Any Long Qi focused on restoration, healing, repair, or growth did little for an individual's advancement, but was superb for a faction. Given the right platform, it often fetched far more than ordinary Long Qi.
The messenger smiled faintly and continued his introduction, displaying a strand of pale golden