In the blink of an eye, six full years quietly passed over the Douluo Continent.
Over those six years, Heavenly God City under Qian Xunzong's control, the Eternal Commerce Alliance operated by Shen Wansan and He Shen, and Spirit Hall worked closely together, joining forces to improve the people's livelihoods, commerce, and infrastructure across the entire continent.
The Douluo land, once divided and shattered by frequent warfare, completely shed its poverty and desolation. A flourishing, peaceful scene of everyday life spread across its mountains and rivers.
The vast official roads crisscrossing the continent had all been paved by craftsmen gathered by Spirit Hall, using a mixture of starfall soul-tool ore. Their surfaces were level and firm; even rainwater merely gathered into thin streams and swiftly drained away. Even thirty carriages could travel side by side without feeling crowded.
A soul-tool streetlamp stood every three li along both sides of the roads. They absorbed sunlight during the day and automatically emitted a gentle white glow at night.
Inns, grain stores, and supply shops lined the roads. The inns contained temperature-controlled rest rooms and kept clean dry rations and hot soup stocked year-round. Merchants from north and south endlessly came and went in beast-drawn carts loaded with goods, trading spices, silk, grain, and ore.
The narrow mountain paths and muddy, potholed roads of old had all been torn down. Protective white-jade railings had been built along dangerous cliffside routes, and travelers no longer needed to journey in constant fear.
The dilapidated thatched huts built against mountains, dangerous cliffside homes, and low earthen houses infested with insects and rats were all demolished and rebuilt.
New homes were built to a unified standard, with blue-gray brick and stone foundations, carved wooden windows, and a private courtyard for every household. Water reservoirs and storage sheds