She had obtained quite a few recipes for magic items from the Imperial Treasury.
Lan Qingyou was now positively brimming with inspiration.
Of course she was.
There had been so many recipes in there, and they were all ancient.
It would have been impossible not to find inspiration among them.
Especially the rare and interesting magic items collected during the "Kingdom era."
For instance, the Mechanical Eye, which could tell the time and appraise things.
Or the combination of preserved monster muscle and wooden prosthetic limbs.
Clearly, people back then had been more innovative than people today.
Or perhaps it was because they had still been feeling their way forward.
That was why everything they created was strange and unusual, yet made perfect sense upon closer consideration.
These had given Lan Qingyou the most inspiration.
So after returning to the Maple Leaf Territory, Lan Qingyou shut herself away in the Alchemy Workshop she had built with her own hands.
And while Lan Qingyou spent day and night researching and studying,
the Maple Leaf Territory entered its second period of rapid development thanks to her new noble rank.
Since she had officially become a marquis,
the Old Emperor assigned a full team of administrators to the Maple Leaf Territory.
Besides Lakeside Town, two more towns and over a dozen villages were established.
After all, the Maple Leaf Territory covered a considerable area.
After Lan Qingyou had "made such a brilliant showing," the nobles were even more eager to befriend her.
As a result, they sent over plenty of settlers and slaves.
Not all the settlers sent from other nobles' lands earlier had even arrived yet.
Now there were so many more.
Lakeside Town alone certainly could not accommodate them.
And so,
at the Old Emperor's instruction, Lakeside Town was upgraded from