Knocked Senseless by a Tycoon's Money (6400)

From the edge of the Agate Stone Great Plains, gazing toward the Bison Mountains, the first thing one saw was an endless wilderness of forest.

The deep green forest stretched all the way to the end of the horizon. Behind the dense Tree Sea rose towering mountains, while a sea of white clouds wandered around the ridgelines, casting vast shadows across the earth.

Sunlight streamed through gaps in the clouds as a mighty caravan traveled beneath the mottled interplay of light and shadow. The newly paved asphalt road was smooth and broad, leaving the merchants who had come here clicking their tongues in wonder.

Asphalt roads were not rare, but they generally only appeared around major cities, serving civilian alchemical vehicles.

For nobles to be willing to invest in such a remote, newly developed region as the mountainlands was truly unexpected to everyone. They could not help looking forward even more eagerly to the journey ahead and the meeting to come.

After passing through evergreen forests and Golden Leaf Forest, then crossing a small woodland river and some hills, they could see from afar the sea of flowers around Rosy Glow City. It was as though rosy clouds filling the sky had condensed upon the earth, pale purple and vivid red brushed across the ground to form a magnificent painting.

"Eh?"

A scholar with a foreign accent, presumably from the City of Knowledge, asked in confusion, "Wasn't it said that the Southern Ridge suffered a biological war from the Blazing Flame Lands, and that almost all crops had withered and rotted away? How is Xiahui Territory's sea of flowers still completely normal?"

"Mr. Kaolin, then you don't know about this, do you?"

Another well-informed foreign merchant laughed. "Some time ago, Xiahui Territory's alchemists, led by their lord, developed an entirely