As the focus of the entire Celestial Realm, Big Chef's plain and easy-to-understand words had a moving effect and created a profound atmosphere. Lord Lao plopped down into his chair and did not recover for a long while. He kept muttering the same sentence over and over: "Raise more pigs?"
The words might have been crude, but the reasoning was sound! If you wanted to get rich, build roads first. That was an absolute truth.
Yet the Three Pure Ones all felt like their balls ached from listening. Tathagata fell silent, and the two great Bodhisattvas had no reply. They had imagined countless scenarios. It was not as if they had never seen Qin Fen's flashy tricks before. He might very well have gone off the rails all the way to the Outer Thirty-Three Heavens. This inspection might have been some new stunt, but they had never expected it to be so genuinely down-to-earth.
At the very least, Tathagata could not have said it, nor did he have that level of skill!
If he did not, then there was even less need to mention the Imperial Lords. They were experts at political games, but when it came to stimulating the economy, they were at an elementary-school level. Besides, they stood too high above. They could see the suffering of the Mortal Realm, yet they had never considered driving development. That was inevitable. Mindset and status determined everything. Moreover, did immortals need to do such things?
They did not. So when Qin Fen's first sentence came out, everyone's mind went completely blank.
The Star Lords of every department stared at the Haotian Mirror, unable to think of anything to say. They found it hard to comment, and everyone else was even more at a loss. Qin Fen's appearance was worth watching,