My path to immortality began with my posting to guard Dawancun.

Chapter 123 Changes
During Shen Changchuan's seclusion, Dawancun did not encounter any major troubles.

Everything was peaceful and normal.

However, the changes are quite significant.

Since the caravan of the Sanhe Chamber of Commerce, which transports various goods, has already arrived, Si Houqing has already opened a temporary trading post.

In addition, with the news of the deaths of the Three Blood Demons and their bodies being displayed on flagpoles during this period,

Many cultivators passing by would take a look out of interest.

It brought a lot of traffic to Dawancun, and also made Si Houqing's temporary trading post a great success.

Just as Si Houqing had predicted,

As the visiting cultivators entered the mountains to search, they consumed a lot of pills, talismans, and other supplies in the process. They also acquired a lot of rare and precious materials, monster materials, and other cultivation materials along the way, which almost filled up most of their storage bags.

Many cultivators who arrived in the desolate borderlands early and ventured into the mountains were eager to find a place to trade.

But rather,
This desolate land is extremely remote; there are hardly any cultivation markets or markets in this vast area.
Caravans only come to trade during the summer and autumn harvest seasons of the Spirit Valley.

Therefore, those outside cultivators wanted to sell the cultivation resources they acquired and use the proceeds to purchase supplements such as pills and talismans.
So they had no choice but to travel a long distance to Qingcheng, which was thousands of miles away.

This undoubtedly wastes a lot of time.

then,

When the Sanhe Chamber of Commerce established a temporary trading post in Dawan Village,
The cultivators who originally planned to go to Qingcheng subsequently changed their destination and went to Dawancun to conduct their transactions.

Some monks also rented a room here to rest for a while.
Relax your tense mind after a long period of adventuring and exploring in the mountains.

Large flow of people,

It undoubtedly brought a touch of prosperity to this originally remote village.

In order to cope with the large flow of people, they need to build enough houses and earn more spirit stones.

While Shen Changchuan was in seclusion, his maternal grandfather, Han Qinhu, contacted the dynasties under the Tiannan Shen family and asked them to send a group of young and strong martial artists, totaling more than a thousand people.

This led to a rapid surge in the population of Dawang Village in a short period of time.
This also allows the speed of various housing construction projects to increase at an extremely rapid pace.

As a result, the entire village seemed to be changing rapidly, giving Shen Changchuan a sense of constant progress.

Not long after Shen Changchuan emerged from seclusion

Han Qinhu, the maternal grandfather who was originally inspecting preparations for spring plowing in the village's sacred fields, also rushed over.

Seeing his grandfather looking somewhat travel-worn, Shen Changchuan felt a pang of pity.

"Grandpa, you are getting on in years and have so many village affairs to manage. You must be working so hard!"

"Haha, it's not hard at all!"

"It's my own grandson's business, how can I not feel the hardship or worry about it?"

"Besides, I've been aimlessly wandering around for half my life, and in the end, I'm just an ordinary, mediocre person at the bottom of society. A high-ranking official in the court can easily reprimand me. But now, thanks to your connections, I've risen to the top overnight. I see that those once high-ranking kings and generals have to lower their heads when they see me. I'd rather work even harder than not."

Han Qinhu laughed loudly and said,
He appeared to be full of energy, with a rosy glow on his face.

He was clearly in a very good mood.

It seems something has happened that has made him very happy.

Perhaps it was related to what happened during the handover of the newly arrived thousand people, or during the handover between mortal nations?
A thought flashed through Shen Changchuan's mind.

However, I didn't pay much attention to it.

Shen Changchuan was aware of the increase in the village's population.

Han Qinhu had spoken to him about this matter long before he went into seclusion.

When he saw that the village had been reduced to ruins due to the attack of the Three Demons of Blood Slaughter, he agreed to increase the population, considering the potential shortage of manpower, and entrusted the matter entirely to Han Qinhu. Therefore, he actually knew about this matter beforehand, and it was not Han Qinhu acting on his own initiative.

"Speaking of which, I heard that my grandfather suffered a great loss when he was traveling around the world. After being humiliated, he returned to the countryside to buy land and manage his family property."

"Could it be that that matter was related to the high-ranking officials of the mortal dynasty at the time, and that this time, when contacting the mortal dynasty to replenish the population of Dawan Village, it made Grandpa proud?"

Shen Changchuan couldn't help but have this thought.

But then he shook his head slightly.

never mind,

This is my grandfather's private matter, so I don't plan to inquire further.

"Grandpa, that's true, but there are some trivial matters that you don't need to do yourself."

"For example, each time you cross the border, you can leave a steward or someone else to come and report to me what happened during that time. You don't need to run back and forth and add to your troubles."

Judging from the mud on Han Qinhu's clothes, Shen Changchuan could roughly guess that he was leading the villagers in spring plowing.

Upon hearing the news that he had been released from quarantine, he rushed over.

Just think of how my maternal grandfather, Han Qinhu, went to great lengths for me...

After much hard work,

I was actually a little embarrassed.

So, at Shen Changchuan's insistence, Han Qinhu agreed to find a steward to be in charge of receiving him after he left the pass, as well as handling various trivial matters such as conveying and integrating information.

Then came a casual chat.

Han Qinhu was mainly recounting recent news.
Shen Changchuan listened attentively from the side.

First and foremost was the matter that Shen Changchuan was most concerned about, which was also the matter that Shen Tingchu, a Nascent Soul cultivator from the Shen family, had asked him to help with not long ago.

obviously,
There was nothing gained.

Although two months have passed since a large number of cultivators from the outside world entered the desolate borderlands to explore,
But there were still not many gains.

Otherwise, the market wouldn't be so 'calm' now.

Rumors have begun to circulate among cultivators that they have been deceived and that there is no secret realm that produces Azure Essence Water Grass at all.

They were simply used as pawns.

It's unclear whether this was a message secretly spread by the Wu family.

However, such remarks did not constitute a large proportion; they appeared to be merely inconspicuous noises among the many enthusiastic outside cultivators.

After all, the border forest is so vast, and the small villages scattered around occupy only a tiny fraction of the area.

Compared to the untouched areas in the mountains and forests, the area controlled by humans is far too small!
Two months,

It's likely that only about two or three percent of the remote, undeveloped woodlands have been explored.

They've only found this small place, yet it feels like they've carved out the foundation for a family's existence.

That seems impossible no matter how you look at it!

Moreover, there is another reality that is also quite troublesome for the Wu family.

Because the remote and desolate forests are sparsely populated, large areas of the wilderness remain unexplored, resulting in the accumulation of many high-grade ores, spiritual herbs, spiritual fruits, and other rare and precious materials in the mountains and forests.

Although the areas that produce rare and precious materials are very sparse due to the scarcity of spiritual energy in the remote forests.

But the vast wilderness here is a problem, and no one has ever developed it before!
(End of this chapter)