In the twenty-third year of the great Daxia era, in the summer, the air sultry and humid with rainfall.
[Heavenly Marrow a thousand years]
[Imperial Elixir thirty years]
The spiritual medicine gradually became scarce, and the opportunity for becoming an immortal neared its end.
The imperial court found it increasingly difficult to mine spiritual medicine. Gu Wen himself had spent several hundred years searching to no avail. To avoid harming the populace, he had written a letter to Jiang Jucai a few days earlier, after a gap of three years.
Therefore, due to the search for spiritual medicine, nearly a million people lost their jobs. In Nanshui, crowds of commoners formed groups to go to the capital and demand an explanation. Fights, unemployment, and chaos emerged one after another, especially severe in Lin Chuan.
A million dock-workers depended on this industry for their livelihood. It was an established industry that had been thriving for decades since the previous dynasties.
