A few years passed in the blink of an eye after the Mysterious Empress guided the Dou Qi Continent over and connected the two worlds with Jian Mu.
These past few years had been relatively peaceful. Xiao Yan and Yao Wan had also happened to remain in the Endless Fire Domain, continuing its development.
After several years of settling in, everyone from the Dou Qi Continent who had entered the Endless Fire Domain had fully converted their dou qi. Their cultivation had also improved over those years, and they were gradually becoming an irreplaceable backbone of the Endless Fire Domain.
While maintaining its own stability, the Endless Fire Domain naturally continued to expand outward. The Sumeru Realm was vast and boundless; if the entire Sumeru Realm was included, its area even surpassed that of many supercontinents in the Great Thousand World.
Though the Endless Fire Domain was flourishing beneath Jian Mu's shelter, it could not simply remain content with its current state.
For that reason, the Endless Fire Domain often sent elders with Earthly Supreme cultivation to lead expeditions exploring the surrounding continents.
Most of their discoveries were seeds of Spiritual Medicine that had stubbornly survived through countless years. They could be brought back and planted upon the Divine Tree, while their discoverers could exchange them for corresponding rewards.
Most rewards were medicinal pills. As the Yao Clan and Pill Tower took root in the Endless Fire Domain, a new pill-refining department emerged.
Although the two Emperors had never intentionally named it, the old residents of the Dou Qi Continent found it convenient and simply named the pill-refining department formed from the Yao Clan, the Pill Tower, and numerous former independent pill refiners the Medicine Tower.
Though the Medicine Tower was not necessarily the largest department in the Endless Fire