Seeing Chen Yu standing motionless at the entrance, Jin Cheng said quietly, "Don't mind how dirty it is here. Once you get to work, you won't care."
"Will they move to a new place?"
"No. You'll just be too tired to mind the dirt."
Chen Yu stared blankly at Jin Cheng. He had a lot to say, but nothing came out.
Jin Cheng merely laughed heartily and said to Chen Yu, "Can't be helped. Heaven Origin is poor right now, so laborers like us have to work a little harder. At least the tools we produce can be exported for some money and bring back a bit of support for Heaven Origin."
After setting down his luggage, Chen Yu followed Jin Cheng toward the workshop while listening to him explain the situation here.
The Regional Lock was a blockade cast by the Star Lord. Areas placed under a Regional Lock were almost completely cut off from communicating with the outside world.
This lock didn't just affect culture and entertainment; it also affected the circulation of goods.
Before the former Tianyuan Cultivators Committee fled, they sold off far too many things—spiritual energy taxes, land taxes, air taxes, single taxes, married taxes, sunshine taxes, ventilation taxes, toilet taxes, and more.
Every one of those was an unequal treaty. If they truly followed them, Heaven Origin's cultivators would be slaves for generations, working their entire lives for other districts and capitalists.
So the new Tianyuan Cultivators Committee decisively rejected every treaty. The price was being taken to the higher realm—Longevity Continent.
The continental government ruled that Heaven Origin had to comply, or it would be placed under a Regional Lock. The Tianyuan Cultivators Committee refused to the bitter end, and in the end, it was locked down.
Fortunately, while some things had been