The Heaven-Stabilizing Continent was exceptionally rich in cultivation resources, so even mortals could easily get their hands on all kinds of pills and talismans.
Even gentle spirit beasts like the golden-foreheaded azure ox could be driven and handled by mortals.
Compared with ordinary plow oxen, golden-foreheaded azure oxen were somewhat smaller.
Their endurance, however, was far superior to that of ordinary plow oxen.
An ordinary plow ox could till at most three mu of land in a day before panting with exhaustion.
But golden-foreheaded azure oxen were different.
An adult golden-foreheaded azure ox could plow from sunrise to sunset, turning over more than ten mu without stopping to catch its breath. The soil it plowed was three feet deep, loose, and even.
These golden-foreheaded azure oxen freed mortals from a tremendous amount of labor, especially when combined with agricultural talismans available from shops run by immortal cultivators.
For the mortals of the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent, food was never a problem.
Famine?
It simply did not exist.
But to trade with immortal cultivators and buy all kinds of talismans and spirit beasts bred by cultivators, gold, silver, and copper coins were utterly useless.
To immortal cultivators, the currencies circulating in the mortal world had no meaning whatsoever.
Spirit stones.
Those were what one needed to trade with immortal cultivators.
Ordinary mortals, however, had no way to mine spirit stone deposits.
But they could grow spirit rice.
The Heaven-Stabilizing Continent was so rich in cultivation resources that even every inch of soil contained a considerable amount of spiritual energy.
That meant the mortals of the Heaven-Stabilizing Continent could grow spirit rice on any patch of farmland.
They could sell their spirit rice to shops in the city that bought it, exchange it for spirit stones, and then trade with other immortal cultivators.
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