For cultivators, the vast expanses of the Nine Provinces were a good thing, offering them more room for development and a bigger stage to perform on.
However, for the great dynasties, things were not so friendly, as the establishment of a dynasty relied on force, and the maintenance of it not only required force but also the economy.
Thousands of years down the line, the industries of the dynasties had all reached a bottleneck. Domestic demand was saturated, and they had to look for new markets.
The new demand naturally pointed to other dynasties.
For example, the dynasty of Great Wei had a type of red fruit that tasted delicious and was inexpensive. Consumption of the fruit was beneficial for cultivators. Other dynasties all wanted Great Wei to sell this fruit in their territory, but the problem was that the spiritual energy within the fruit would dissipate completely within months of it being harvested, rendering it tasteless and worthless.
