"Shared space, public warehouses?"
"Is this stuff reliable?"
Word of the Origin Prosperity Commercial Alliance's founding, along with the ideas and products it promoted, soon spread far and wide.
For a time, inquiries came in like gathering clouds.
Bound by traditional thinking, people felt safer keeping their possessions in their own Storage Rings, Space Pouches, and other Spatial Artifacts. The convenience and sense of security of carrying everything on their person were what everyone valued.
No one would readily trust those vague, intangible things in the clouds. That ran too strongly against instinct and what they could see with their own eyes.
Before long, however, a post overflowing with gratitude from a Puppet Master Artisan spread through the puppet world heavenly net, becoming a hot topic of discussion.
As it turned out, that Puppet Master Artisan was a user of the Origin Prosperity Commercial Alliance's public warehouses. Wanting to try something new, he had rented a Ten-Direction Storage Grid as a standing supply depot to meet his Workshop's occasional needs.
On a recent journey to and from the Outer Domain, the Flying Boat he was traveling aboard had been robbed. Everyone aboard had been stripped of their belongings, but he had escaped that fate by transferring his valuables into the grid in time.
Since the Central Sea war, this Star Sea, once under the Immortal Alliance's rule, had suffered tremendous devastation. Sects and Aristocratic Clans on all sides had been destroyed, and no small number of cultivators had chosen to nurse their hatred while hiding in the underworld, placing an immense burden on security throughout this stellar region.
After the peace treaty was signed, the Puppet Dao finally had its hands free to restore order, but it could do little more than suppress the attacks that erupted from time to