Just under half a month later, merchants and travelers from all quarters passed through the Market Ward on Zhiling Island. Voices clamored everywhere, and the place bustled with life.
Through the Incense Accumulation Sect disciples' years of sustained effort, this place had become a sizable Incense Market Branch Headquarters in the East Sea. They had then relocated mortal people here and gathered rogue cultivators, establishing the Rosy Mists Gate's sect grounds.
With disaster having struck everywhere else, the East Sea's wandering rogue cultivators, powerful aristocratic clans, and minor sects had nowhere to go. They could only build their livelihoods around this place, which swiftly became the center of Chang Kong Sea's cultivation world.
Compared with the scene before the war, it actually seemed even more prosperous now.
This day was the local Market Ward's Market Day. Cultivators from all quarters arrived as usual, some seeking immortals and the Dao, others trading what they had for what they lacked.
Just then, wagon after wagon loaded with enormous crates rolled out of the Market Ward's largest warehouse and headed off in every direction.
At the rumble of wheels and the sight of escorts surrounding the wagons front and rear, everyone began speculating about what treasures lay inside.
But someone in the know laughed. "Nothing but the Soul-Soothing Incense to be used in the Rebirth Grand Offering. It's being distributed everywhere in preparation."
Someone asked curiously, "The Rebirth Grand Offering? Soul-Soothing Incense? What are those?"
The informed man said, "Haven't you heard? The Incense Accumulation True Lord from the North Sea has come here. Seeing the people's ruined livelihoods and wronged souls strewn across the land, he intends to hold a Rebirth Grand Offering to soothe them, safeguard the land and its people, and quell their grudges."
Someone immediately remarked, "That's a good