Longevity

Shen Changchuan stood quietly atop the mountain peak, gazing at the city below as scene after scene flashed through his mind.

Many years ago,

this place had been nothing more than a small village of one or two thousand people, with disorderly wooden buildings, crumbling walls, and scattered fields all around.

There had been no telling how many such little villages existed throughout the surrounding region.

Later,

with his arrival, this small village had gradually begun to change.

First, its people were organized, its fields were uniformly planned and developed, and the village houses began to be repaired, becoming orderly and neat. The walls were also restored, growing taller and sturdier.

After that,

outside cultivators began arriving to rest,

and cultivation shops appeared in the village, while foreign merchant associations began to settle there.

Gradually, little Great Bay Village became more and more lively, eventually developing into a renowned small town.

Later still,

as Shen Changchuan rose to prominence and left behind all kinds of improved techniques, Great Bay Town developed faster and faster.

The town continued expanding outward. The Spirit Fields of old had long since been replaced by houses and Cave Abodes. Tall buildings began to rise, towering city walls were erected, and ever more cultivators came and went.

Thus, present-day Big Bay City was no less prosperous than Qing City had once been.

It had reached a level of flourishing that once would have been beyond imagination!

The changes in Great Bay Village

had always been witnessed by Shen Changchuan.

He had not noticed it before,

but now,

as scene after scene from the past flickered through his mind,

from nothing to something, from small to great, from backwardness to prosperity—

under the vast heavens and earth,

everything seemed to become a moving scroll before Shen Changchuan's