The Primordial Wilderness knew no years.
Since the Heaven, Earth, and Human Three Daos had jointly established the Trading Net, and the Treasure-Dropping Golden Coin had transformed into laws and merged with the Primordial Origin, countless ages had passed.
By the Primordial Wilderness's measure of time, the "Three Talents Network Establishment Era," which had shaken the Three Realms, seemed like yesterday, yet also as though a thousand autumns had passed.
However, for the countless living beings who dwelled in the Primordial Land, the changes were real, accumulating day by day until they had sunk deep into their bones.
Huating City, on the Seaside of the East Sea, had once been a small city where Old Earth God was appointed City God. Now, it had become one of the few great cities along the East Sea coast.
The City God Temple was bustling with worshippers. A long line formed before it every day, with people seeking answers about good and ill fortune and praying for peace and safety.
The branch of the Heaven and Earth Money House beside the temple was even more crowded. Those coming and going included not only mortal merchants, but all kinds of cultivators as well.
At the northern foothills of the Taihang Mountains, the forest that little mountain spirit A Ling had protected for tens of thousands of years had now become a hub for distributing spirit herbs across a thousand li.
After A Ling was appointed Earth God True God, she had organized the cultivation of spirit herbs in the mountains. Through the Trading Net, she had also established stable supply and sales relationships with herb merchants from the East Sea, Southern Border, and Western Desert.
Every spring and autumn, caravans arrived in an endless stream, carrying the lingzhi, fleeceflower root, and Siberian solomonseal that