Space swayed around Luo Chen, twisting his vision until he could no longer tell whether the world itself was shifting or whether the distortion had affected his senses. When everything finally steadied, the stone house had vanished, and he found himself in an entirely different place.

Before examining his surroundings, he immediately sent his divine consciousness into his storage ring. Those precious bamboo scrolls could not be taken away, but what about the Spirit Root Pills and other pills he had personally refined, of which he still had extras? 

A moment later, he let out a sigh of relief. "Good, they're all still here."

The pills were only first and second-tier, but the herbs required to refine them were exceptionally rare in the Mountains and Seas Realm. Some were plants he had never even heard of until he studied the bamboo scrolls. Once he left the Land of Fallen Devils, reproducing those pills would be extremely difficult unless he spent a great deal of time altering their formulas and searching for suitable replacements.

The thought made his relief fade into regret. "If these pills could be spread throughout the Mountains and Seas Realm, I might be able to change the entire structure of this world!"

The Mountains and Seas Realm was ruled by cultivators, but cultivators made up only a tiny fraction of its population. The overwhelming majority were mortals. In the Eastern Wilderness, these mortals were raised by major sects as logistical support, gathering basic materials and providing potential cultivation seedlings. The Northern Sea made even greater use of mortals, though they were still little more than expendable labor for the various forces. But if these ordinary people could cultivate using Spirit Root Pills, even if they only reached the early or middle stages of Qi Refinement,...