All the bustling under heaven is for the sake of profit, and all the commotion under heaven is for the sake of profit-seeking. Since ancient times, wealth has stirred people's hearts—especially during the economic depression of the Azure Wolf Dynasty, when an overnight chance to strike it rich and leap straight to the heavens suddenly appeared, who would be willing to miss out?
Thus, the interior of the Azure Wolf Dynasty fell into chaos. Everyone was hunting for treasure, all scheming to get their hands on that fortune.
Businessmen stopped doing business, since running operations couldn't turn a profit anyway; those who cultivated stopped cultivating either, since they lacked money to buy cultivation resources anyway. If they acquired that fortune, they would have everything.
The common folk were treasure hunting. Some acted alone, others banded together, determined to turn every place upside down to secure that fortune.
Officials were also treasure hunting. Those at the top secretly used their authority to dispatch subordinates below to go treasure hunting. To hell with official posts—wasn't he an official precisely for money? Once he had money, who was going to risk their life for you? Forget it!
Constables, yamen runners, and city guards also paid lip service while defying orders in private, finding various excuses to abandon their posts and rush off to hunt for treasure. As long as they had money, who the hell would let themselves be ordered around like a dog? With money, he was the big boss!
Chaos. The Azure Wolf Dynasty was in chaos. With the appearance of astonishing wealth, human hearts turned greedy, driving people to cast aside all scruples in search of that fortune.
If it were merely a simple treasure, that would be one thing, but this was a plot—Bai Yang was orchestrating it all