To get rich, build roads first.
Although this was a transcendent world where various powerful beings held sway, with the Hundred Schools of Thought, incense-burning Dao of gods, and all sorts of demons, ghosts, and monsters mixed together, no matter how numerous they were, population remained the primary productive force. Having a modern mindset, Shen Ping understood this principle all too well.
Only when the population increased could more geniuses be born, and more incense-burning prayer-power be gathered. The strength of those incense-gods—such as mountain deities, river lords, and dragon gods—would also grow stronger.
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