The First United Conference

As soon as he finished speaking, a small incense burner appeared above the square, with a thin stick of incense burning inside, its wisps of smoke rising slowly into the air.

At first, no one among the monks in the square stepped forward to sign up, but only a few breaths later...

A few breaths later, many people rushed out to sign up, including a few Golden Core cultivators.

They really lack Spiritual Qi!

With someone taking the lead, most of the remaining people naturally felt less pressured, and everyone eagerly signed up.

The initial stage of any undertaking is quite difficult. Right now, for the Lingxian Sect, there is no more cost-effective labor force than these cultivators who only need to provide Spiritual Qi to work.

Although Lin Xiao and Liao Pantu have made preliminary research results, they have not conducted many experiments and cannot determine the stability of these items. After all, these are items that will be used by ordinary people on a large scale in the future, and their safety must be adequately guaranteed. If any destructive accidents occur due to the instability of the items during use, ordinary people will not have the ability to deal with such accidents.

Therefore, security is of paramount importance.

After the cultivators at Cage Compound finished registering, Yuan Jinsheng also instructed that if they found any problems or areas for improvement during the production process, the discoverers would be rewarded with Spirit Stone.

They can absorb these Spirit Stone directly, or they can use the trading list provided by Cage Compound to purchase the items they need.

As for the materials used in the production process, not only them, but even cultivators in the Mortal Realm wouldn't look at them with any interest, and they wouldn't be afraid of them embezzling them.

This is one of the reasons why Lingxian Sect Cage Compound.

The cultivators here are mostly from the Immortal Cultivation Realm, so their knowledge and understanding of the four arts of cultivation are naturally greater than those of cultivators from the Mortal Realm. Moreover, they are currently easier to manage and provide feedback to.

With the reward dangling in front of them, there's no need to worry about these cultivators not working diligently.

Even if a dozen or so people object, there are so many cultivators in the Cage Compound. With everyone separated and supervised, no one can control everyone's behavior and thoughts.

The first production line in the underground Cage Compound of Xiushui City was put into operation.

Three months passed in the blink of an eye. After three months of project initiation and negotiation, all countries in the Mortal Realm finally participated in the railway construction project, and the funds were all in place in a manner that each country could afford.

When Lin Yun, in his capacity as the city lord of Xiushui City, convened the first Mortal Realm Conference in Xiushui City, together with representatives from seventy-eight countries across the Mortal Realm, this massive project covering the entire Mortal Realm was finally officially launched!

This conference is enough to shock both ordinary people and cultivators in the Mortal Realm, as well as both nations and sects.

When the national teams, each with their distinct national styles, entered Xiushui City, the scene was captured on camera and disseminated throughout the Mortal Realm via newspapers.

This was the first time the Mortal Realm had united so neatly. Not only ordinary people, but even royalty and officials from various countries had never seen anything like it.

Let alone having witnessed the joint efforts of all nations, many officials may not even know about many distant countries.

While sects generally maintain some connection or understanding for various reasons, this is not the case for the seventy-eight countries.

After all, there are only a few countries that border our country.

For a moment, many of the delegations that had come from afar forgot about the novelty of Xiushui City and instead became amazed by the scene of so many national delegations gathered together.

Newspapers became an instant hit after reporting on this first Mortal Realm United Nations Conference, and quickly became popular in all regions of the Mortal Realm.

In many areas, educated people will voluntarily read newspapers to the local people.

Many clever teahouses even arranged for literate storytellers to read newspapers to the audience at fixed times, while also explaining the various contents of the newspapers.

This has added a significant source of enjoyment to the lives of many ordinary people.

Many people couldn't get enough of listening to it once or twice. Whenever they had nothing to do, they would take a stroll and head to the teahouse. Those with money would throw in a few coins for tea, while those without would just listen to the music from outside.

Because newspapers also contain a lot of basic agricultural knowledge, reminding everyone to fertilize during the planting season, and telling stories. There were stories about incredibly skilled martial arts masters who, because of their years of wandering the world and sleeping outdoors in the open, would drink water without boiling it, resulting in their stomachs and brains being filled with invisible worms from the water, which ate them all, leading to their demise in some unknown wilderness. There were also stories about child prodigies who didn't wash their hands before eating, ingesting unseen contaminants and dying from a high fever that night. And there were stories about elusive master thieves who, due to laziness and neglecting to change their clothes, contracted a bacterial infection that caused genital ulceration and died...

In short, these stories have gradually made people pay more attention to personal hygiene.

Not only adults love to listen to it, but children love it too.

Even officials who had access to the imperial gazette enjoyed reading newspapers, but they mostly wouldn't follow the common people to teahouses. They would buy the newspapers themselves and read them at home, making them the main consumers of newspapers at present.

Newspapers don't carry much information about the government affairs of various countries, but they do publish some general policies that benefit the people. However, for educated people, the greatest charm of newspapers is not the little stories or these policies, but the information about the entire Mortal Realm.

This is something that was almost never seen through their previous information channels.

This broadened many people's perspective from their own small domestic territory to the entire 78 countries of the Mortal Realm.

The reports in newspapers about the situations in other countries also allowed them to make more comparisons with their own country, giving them a better understanding of where their own country's current situation stands.

As for why this newspaper can be distributed freely in various countries, it's because it's called "Xiushui Monthly".

It's not a particularly remarkable name, but it's the passport to this newspaper.

The Xiushui Monthly will not report on more private matters such as military equipment, defense, and political policies of various countries, but it will report on the living standards of people in various places.

They will report on disasters and harvests, as well as good local organizations or prominent families and the good deeds they have done to benefit the people.

Some things may not be beneficial in the short term, but newspapers will still use the simplest language to explain to the public the benevolence and righteousness behind these things.