Chapter 749: The Greedy Elders
The nascent soul realm minister of the Ling Kingdom weighed his words properly in his mind before speaking, for he knew that the current situation was very sensitive. The cooperative agreement they had made before coming here could very easily be shattered by the massive amount of resources in front of them.
The Pink Bottom Pears were worth the assets of an entire sect after all!
It was not a small amount at all. And if any one power got to monopolize it, they could essentially double their strengths. Of any of the three kingdoms got it, they would definitely raise their power before attacking the others.
It would only need the fall of one kingdom, for the rest to become helpless.
The sects were not in the same condition though, as even though they had almost the same level of power or even greater than the kingdoms, the treatises set by the top ten sects and the top three clans was something that could not be broken easily.
If they did, and it was found out, they may very well be exterminated.
It was that treaties that allowed the kingdoms to be free and operate independently without the oppression of the cultivation sects. And it was also the same treaty that also allowed sects to exist within the borders of kingdoms as independent powers.
This would allow the sects to recruit the disciples from the kingdoms’ population as they wanted without any interference from the kingdoms’ side.
Since it worked for both parties, no power under it would tolerate the treaty being broken. After all, if it went unpunished, someone else would try it again. And who knows if it would be them who would be targeted next and eliminated.
It could very well break out into a great war, and that was not something they wanted.
After the rise of the three guardian clans, no such great war had ever happened. Only small battles between kingdoms were allowed, and even then the three guardian clans had the authority backed by their power to stop it if need be.
Therefore, the Ming Dao world was relatively peaceful from larger level conflicts.
The other nascent soul realm elders all gazed at the minister of the Ling Kingdom, ready to act at any moment. Spirit Qi was already circulating within their meridians, their techniques could be executed at any second.
“You all need to see the bigger picture. All these Pink Bottom Pear trees… don’t you find it strange?” The Minister of the Ling Kingdom asked.
“Strange? How?” someone questioned.
“Has the greed for the spirit fruits clouded your thinking that much?” The Minister was a bit surprised. “Don’t you see? All these trees are growing in an order… this is an ‘orchard’.” The minister stated.
Hearing this, the greed-clogged cogs in the minds of other elders started to move again.
“There is no way these trees grew like this naturally… especially not with such a high yield. This is a spirit fruit orchard being nurtured by someone.” The Minister explained.
As soon as the elders heard this, alarm bells started to ring in their heads.
‘Fuck! We forgot whose territory we were in!’ the elders realized.
To the humans living around the millennium forest, the owner of the entire forest was none other than the Twin Lights Liger King. There was no way, such a large amount of spirit fruits would be left alone by beasts.
“But then, who made this orchard? Did some expert make the forest his personal garden?” one of the sect elders asked.
To them, it was the only option. They didn’t even think that the beasts could do this, thus a human doing it was the only choice.
“I can’t tell… but they must be very strong if they can make an orchard like this in the middle of the forest and no beast is around here to eat the fruits. To any beast, this would be a great temptation, no matter how strong.” The minister of the Ling Kingdom said after thinking a bit.
~clap~ clap~ clap~
And just as the minister said this, the sound of clapping could be heard.
“Huh?” all the nascent soul realm were surprised by it and looked at each other, wondering who was clapping.
“WHO!?” But seeing that they were not doing it, they understood the sound was coming from some place else.
“THERE!” One of the nascent soul realm elder picked up someone in the range of his spirit sense.
“Good, good, good.” Some praise was heard coming from the person, but there was certainly a hint of mockery in it.
“Seems like Minister Ting of The Ling Kingdom is certainly wise. I’m thankful that the king chose you to lead this expedition.” The person spoke.
“Who are you?” The minister questioned.
All of the nascent soul realm were confused upon the appearance of this person as they had not felt his presence at all. The person was strange looking too. He was dressed in loose robes and had a rather tall and well built figure.
There was also a hat on his head that hid his face and most of his head as well.
“A monk?” Someone guessed seeing the hat.
The kind of hat the person wore was something mostly monks wore when they were travailing.
“I certainly am a monk.” The person said and slowly lifted his hat.
“WHAT!?” but seeing his furry face, the elders were all stunned.
“A beast?” The one in front of them was none other than the Emeraldine Sky Light Monk Ape.
“I am a beast indeed.” The beast confirmed.
The eyes of the elders narrowed as they tried sensing his cultivation base but were unable to.
“Oh sorry! It was rude of me to restrain this.” The beast said as he let his spirit Qi fluctuations spread freely.
~shua~
‘Child Soul stage of the Nascent soul realm?’ The elders assessed.
“Is this orchard yours?” The minister questioned.
“It is indeed under my jurisdiction.” The beast answered.
