Although Nanchuan County City was the birthplace of immortal arts and longed for by countless seekers of immortality.
But for the common people, their first and foremost need was still survival.
As for seeking immortality and cultivating immortal arts,
that was a higher pursuit to be undertaken only after ensuring they could stay alive.
Even if wealthy merchants, lineages, and great clans wanted to move to Nanchuan County to cultivate immortality,
they would still need one or two years to transfer their industries, and then gradually move their family members, wealth, and goods to Nanchuan City.
So,
the rate at which Nanchuan County's population and prosperity expanded could be easily calculated.
But now,
the actual situation was several times faster than the estimates!
This could only mean
that something had definitely happened outside—whether war, foreign enemies, or some other crisis too difficult to resist—that had driven most people to suffer tremendous losses of wealth just to relocate to Nanchang County as quickly as possible and seek protection.
"So it was this!"
Once Yang Qingyun put it that way, Mo Donglai immediately understood and spoke with sudden realization.
"This matter is related to the Gu."
"In recent years, I don't know what happened, but strange incidents have been appearing with increasing frequency."
"At first, there were only twenty or thirty cases a year. But after that, the number surged almost every year. According to the Demon Suppression Division's statistics, it has now reached more than a thousand cases per year!"
Before joining Yang Qingyun's command and taking the path of immortal cultivation, Mo Donglai had also been a member of the Demon Suppression Division.
He naturally had certain connections within the Demon Suppression Division.
He had naturally made some inquiries into this abnormal situation and knew something about it.
"Because of