"Cheers!"
They were back at the same roadside food stall, with spicy crayfish and grilled fish on the table. They clinked glasses.
Jiang Ding, An Siyan, and Jin Lingfeng had fruit juice. So did True Lord Dinghai and Zhang Junsheng. Sun Slayer Heavenly Lord, Vast Sea Heavenly Lord, and several dormant True Lords who looked very old went straight for strong baijiu, boldly downing their glasses in one gulp.
Jiang Ding gulped down his glass of juice.
He swept his divine sense over the surroundings.
The Immortal Sect's economy had begun to recover. The wartime economy had ended, and conscripted citizen troops from every front were returning to the Immortal Sect.
Mortal infantry who had held the lines, Qi Refining tank drivers, Foundation Establishment cultivators, and Golden Core cultivators had all left the army and returned to their homes and jobs... Every trade and industry in the Immortal Sect was coming back to life. Things were much livelier now, no longer so deserted.
Research, culture, and entertainment had reappeared in the Immortal Sect. Not everything existed to serve the war anymore.
As expected, all of it would develop rapidly, reaching its former peak.
Then it would surpass that peak without breaking a sweat.
Twenty-four small worlds in all!
Detailed development plans had been drawn up before the war. The resources and heavenly treasures of the various small worlds complemented one another and could greatly accelerate the Immortal Sect's construction.
Every trade and industry in the Immortal Sect would grow faster. The universities' Schools of Dao Cultivation would expand enrollment for at least several hundred years, stopping only when the number of cultivators in the Immortal Sect reached the planned target.
Students who could not get into a School of Dao Cultivation before could now.
Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment cultivators