After my grandmother called me home in my dream, my spiritual energy revived

Chapter 272 The Return of Spiritual Energy
The sudden surge of spiritual energy, like rain after a long drought, plunged the world into a frenzy of joy at what had been lost and regained.

Dusty embroidery needles, rusty carving knives, inkstones with dried ink... tools that had been abandoned in a corner for more than a year were dug out again by people rummaging through boxes and cabinets. The prices of handicraft tools that were once sold cheaply on the second-hand market have skyrocketed, and the younger generation has also stepped back into the classroom of elective courses in skills.

The disbanded spiritual lighting department recalled its original practitioners and sent them to the streets to infuse the abandoned spiritual streetlights with spiritual power.

The Lingzhi Kite delivery option has been relisted on online shopping platforms, and the Lingzhi Kites at the delivery points have resumed their space-traveling delivery service.

The most exciting thing is the restart of the hospital's therapeutic spirits, so patients no longer have to endure the torment of traditional treatments.

The spirit food shop, which had already put up a sign for "home-style stir-fries," changed its sign and menu back to the original one overnight. The newly opened shop owner, who was just visiting, looked at the suddenly deserted shop and shook his head with a wry smile: "As expected, everyone still wants to eat spirit food!"

Cities rich in tombs and ruins have once again become popular tourist attractions. On the forums, the long-dormant "Unclaimed Spirit Exploration" section has become popular again, with various posts recruiting teammates flooding the screen: "Urgently need offensive spirit creatures to explore the Western Zhou Dynasty tombs, spirit souls to be split 30/70!" "Cultivators of the fifth rank or above of Azure Spirit are welcome to join the team, target is the Han Dynasty royal tombs, experienced players are limited!"

The price of spirit essence skyrocketed, and market conditions changed three times a day.

Spirit kites kept flying around Zhao Huoyan, and his phone and green bubble kept sending new messages, all from the General Administration and other regional spirit dispatch groups, asking him to continue purchasing spirit souls.

In the end, Zhao Huoyan personally contacted Yan Feng, the finance minister of Xiaozhushan, his words revealing a hint of barely suppressed urgency: "Master Yan, the bureau urgently needs to purchase a batch of high-quality spirit souls, at a price 20% higher than the market price. When do you have time to meet and make the deal?"

When the young lady was preparing for her advancement, Yan Feng had already made preparations for that day.

He was in a small spiritual dwelling specially used for external communication, talking to Zhao Huoyan on the phone. He pretended to be troubled and said, "The spiritual energy has just started to recover, and the spiritual creatures in Xiaozhushan are all in a state of recovery. Miss doesn't have that much energy to nurture cultural relics, so we have to wait for a while."

"Thirty percent! How about increasing the price by another thirty percent from the original price?"

Zhao Huoyan had been dealing with him for many years and knew how difficult he was to deal with. He wouldn't believe they truly had no spirits left, so after raising the price to show sincerity, he appealed to their emotions:
"To be honest, the Spirit Regulation Bureau now suspects that the spiritual energy tide is about to enter its later stages. We must concentrate our efforts to help cultivators with higher cultivation levels break through and trigger a global surge of spiritual energy in order to delay the depletion of spiritual energy. The spiritual soul is an essential thing to accelerate the growth of cultivators!"

“Alright! I did have a batch of spirit souls saved up before, which were originally for Miss to keep for herself, but now, it’s fine to give them to you first, but the price will have to be increased by at least 50%!” Yan Feng asked for an exorbitant price.

"Fifty percent? No, no, no! That's too expensive!" Zhao Huoyan seemed stunned by the price: "Although spiritual energy has surged again, it might disappear again at any time. The country has changed its development policy, aiming to balance the relationship between spiritual energy and spiritual objects and scientific social productivity, revitalize traditional industries such as grain cultivation, textiles, and manufacturing, and emphasize diversified development, allowing spiritual energy and spiritual objects to assist rather than replace the development of traditional industries. Correspondingly, the government's financial allocation to the Spirit Investigation Bureau has also begun to decrease. The Spirit Investigation Bureau simply cannot afford that much money! At most, forty percent!"

"Deal!" Yan Feng said immediately.

Zhao Huoyan immediately realized that he had fallen for this cunning fox's trick again and had overpaid.

But going back on my word would hurt the relationship too much, so I could only accept it with a heavy heart.

Yan Feng smiled and took out the list of spirit souls that he had prepared in advance.

It's thicker than any previous transaction.

Zhao Huoyan was increasingly alarmed as she looked at it. The spiritual energy had been depleted for several years, and their Spiritual Regulation Bureau had almost disbanded. How could Master Song have accumulated so many spiritual souls? Didn't she have enough spiritual power? Just as she was thinking this, she heard Yan Feng say, "These were accumulated during the last surge of spiritual energy. Miss also felt that the spiritual energy tide was trending towards its later stage. The more people who advance now, the better, so she agreed to let me sell them to you."

In reality, the young lady had already researched the method of spirit infusion, rendering the spirits useless to her.

"I see." Zhao Huoyan put aside his doubts.

The surge of spiritual energy is global; there's no spiritual energy anywhere else. How could she possibly still have enough spiritual energy to nurture unclaimed spiritual objects and collect their souls? It seems she had a backup plan beforehand.

"Oh, right! The lease on the artifact warehouse in the underworld needs to be renewed, and the paper doll managers at the artifact management offices of the local spirit mediation groups also need to be rehired. Here are the new contracts, take a look!"

There was precedent for this, so Yan Feng signed the contract after checking that there were no problems.

The surge of spiritual energy showed no signs of abating, acting like a shot in the arm, revitalizing the gradually abandoned cultivation civilization.

The spirit-gathering dolls collected by cultivators are activating again, the trading of spiritual items on the Spirit Adjustment Bureau app is becoming active again, and even people on the streets are discussing returning to cultivation.

Although the country has begun to promote the development of traditional industries again and is preparing to take the path of parallel development of technology and cultivation in order to cope with the possible depletion of spiritual energy at any time, it still provides considerable preferential treatment and resource allocation to cultivators.

Only Song Miaozhu knew the truth.

She sat upright at her desk, sensing the surging spiritual energy around her, and knew clearly that this global surge of spiritual energy was triggered by her breakthrough.

She could sense that the spiritual energy tide had inevitably entered the latter half of its decline.

Looking inward at the spiritual platform, the newly condensed colorful spiritual crystal floated quietly above the black spiritual crystal steps.

The crystals were square and regular, and the flowing rays of light were exactly the same as the colorful light gates in the sky.

As the spirit crystal took shape, her vision suddenly improved, and the once unreachable gate of light was now within reach.

"Nine levels," she murmured to herself. Just like the previous spirit crystal steps, covering these nine levels with colorful spirit crystals would help her ascend to the next level.

This new discovery greatly inspired her.

Where does that portal of light, which has existed in the spiritual space since the beginning of cultivation, lead?

Is it the legendary celestial realm, or an opportunity to transcend mortal life and become an immortal?
As Song Miaozhu gazed at the swirling, multicolored light emanating from the portal, she felt for the first time with such clarity that she was only one step away from the final answer.