The establishment of the Merit Pavilion would not disrupt the existing trading system, but future wars would!
Once a great war broke out, without the standards set by the Merit Pavilion, all prices would soar—especially for supplies used in war.
Thus, farsighted factions had already begun placing the resources under their control into the Merit Pavilion, converting them into corresponding Merit for future use.
The Merit Pavilion, formed with the Myriad Phenomena Merchant Association as its foundation, naturally handled such matters with ease, as readily as taking something out of one's pocket.
Lu Ye listened for a while longer and, after confirming that the Myriad Phenomena Sea had already prepared for a Star Abyss invasion, could not help sighing. Having an elder at home was truly like possessing a treasure.
Without Old Tree, after the eleven of them returned from the Star Abyss, they would inevitably have had to deal with all manner of tedious matters. First and foremost, uniting the forces of the entire starry sky and making those with grudges against one another lay down their prejudices would not have been easy.
But with Old Tree around, all those troubles had already been swept away.
"Then there is a question now." Lu Ye slowly spoke. "The Myriad Phenomena Sea is destined to become one of the targets of the Star Abyss invasion. Where will the Star Abyss Gate open?"
Mang Dang said, "It should be near Jade Sword Island. It has opened there once before, so Old Tree has inferred that the Star Abyss Gate will open there again."
Lu Ye nodded. This was the same as what he had guessed.
Back then, the Insect Race had used some unknown method to pry open a flaw there and briefly open the Star Abyss Gate.
Since there had been