Tears filled the eyes of many adults. They knew this meant their children might have an entirely different future.
Immediately afterward, the First Civilian Spirit Energy Workshop, designed by Su Chen and established with resources coordinated by Ye Xiu, began recruiting apprentices regardless of background, testing only basic arithmetic and manual skills.
Its products were simple: the Dawn-I spirit energy stove, which burned wood more efficiently and provided steady heat and faint spiritual illumination.
The Body Tempering Assist Joint Brace, which assisted body tempering and corrected movements.
The Spirit-Seeking Compass, which detected faint fluctuations of spiritual energy nearby and helped locate low-grade spirit herbs or safe water sources...
These things were not technologically sophisticated, yet they tangibly improved the lives of commoners at the bottom and their starting point in cultivation.
More importantly, they brought the concepts of "science" and "creation" deep into commoners' hearts for the first time in a gentle, beneficial way.
The commoner district began to glow with a vitality it had not seen in a long time.
In the open space outside the library, children practiced body-tempering movements while excitedly discussing the "principle of the lever" described in their books.
After classes at the workshop, young people gathered to ponder how to improve the tools in their hands.
Some experienced hunters and herb gatherers began trying out the Spirit-Seeking Compass and sharing their experiences...
Hope, like sparks of fire, ignited in corners once forgotten.
Su Chen could see these changes firsthand, and he felt deeply satisfied. He had never expected that his initial pursuit and concentration of resources would bring such earth-shaking changes to this world and this era.
Indeed, if he had simply pursued resources for profit by any means necessary and done other things, it might not have been so easy to obtain so