Chapter 757: End Of The Discussion
Minister Ting nodded his head lightly after hearing the Slim Arm Ape King’s warning. He decided to put aside his thoughts of checking it for now.
Even he knew that the kingdoms won’t be able to take on the assault of the Millennium forests alone. While they might have fended off many beast tides in the past, a coordinated attack of beasts would be greatly different.
After all… now not only did they need to worry about powerful beasts, they needed to worry about powerful beasts that actively communicated, cooperated with each other while also having human level intelligence.
It was honestly the worst combination that it could have been for them.
Instead of considering them as just beasts, they would have to put them on the same level as any other power.
And that was also what the beasts had asked as their first condition too.
‘They really are far more clever than I thought… using two pronged methods like this. One pushes us from the front in the form of the condition, while the other hits us back from the shadows.’ Minister Ting thought to himself.
He glanced at the elders and gestured to them.
“We shall take our leave now then.” Minister Ting stated.
The elders nodded their heads, but a few of them still gave gazes of longing. These gazes were directed at the Pink Bottom Peaches of course.
“You can keep that one Pink Bottom Peach as a gift. Our king is generous.” The Emeraldine Sky Light Monk Ape slyly added.
The elder who was carrying the Pink Bottom Peach, could only avoid the gazes of others and hurry on. He didn’t want to give the others this spirit fruit and wanted to keep it all for himself.
Though he was also sure that he will have to surrender it to his sect once he got back as their patriarch was sure to ask for some proof.
‘I’ll have to talk to other sects too… there is no way they will hold back from negotiating this.’ The elder thought.
He was correct in his thoughts as the other elders including Minister Ting was already thinking of ways to extract more benefits from the sect the elder belonged too.
With the talks coming to an end, the elders finally flew away without even thinking of gathering the remains of the arrogant elder who had died before. The sect the elder belonged to will simply have to accept the matter and they will have to inform them about how the elder died along with his conduct.
After all the elder had threated their lives too, now that they thought about it.
Some of them who had a slight change of heart after hearing the conditions of the beasts even thought that perhaps if they had kept to themselves from the very start, they might have gotten even better benefits.
They were of course unaware that their every move was being watched closely. Every fine detail, movement, gesture and twitch was being scanned and analyzed.
Back at the Taiji Celstial’s Tomb, Lin Wu glanced at the reports the system gave him about the elders. Not only were their current thoughts being predicted by the system, it was also giving him information of the elder’s past.
This was something the system had collected before and Lin Wu didn’t even know it had that. It was certainly a bit fun for him.
Lin Wu watched as the entire ‘discussion’ finally came to an end.
“System, how is the link working?” Lin Wu asked lightly.
~DING~
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NOTIFICATION: Transponder Link is working at 100% strength.
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The system replied.
“Good… at least we’ll get to listen to what they say there…” Lin Wu muttered with a smile.
The Crystal Slip with the list that Minister Ting had taken was specially modified by the system. It was better than the normal crystal slips he had made before to pass information and knowledge onto the monkey beasts and also included a way to communicate.
Just like any normal communication jade slip.
Though to take better advantage, Lin Wu asked the system to make it so that the crystal slip continually transmitted information even when it was not being used.
Of course, this functionality was still limited for now and it could only transmit the voice of people around it. It couldn’t transmit any actual visuals… at least not for now without alerting the others around it.
Lin Wu wouldn’t be arrogant as to think that no one could go around the system’s methods. After all, even the method that the system had used was human made in the first place. Even with the improvements and changes made by the system, someone well versed in the same could figure it out.
And Lin Wu knew for sure that the different powers definitely had Formation masters who could do this. Additionally, there was also the fact that transmitting visuals needed higher energy to do so.
While Lin Wu had no problem providing sufficient energy, the side effect of this was also that the spirit Qi fluctuations coming from the crystal slip will be significantly higher than normal.
And the people protecting the king or other cultivators will quickly detect this. The ones that were a bit warier will figure out the anomaly and might get a formation master to learn why it was done so.
Even if Lin Wu had asked the Twin Lights Liger King to pass on a threat on his behalf to not tamper with the crystal Slip, there was still the fact that the humans will take action even if it meant offending him.
After all, if they knew for sure there was a threat to them, they would rather risk the retaliation from the Millennium forest than to let some unknown item spy on them. Such was just the basic self-preservation tendency of humans.
And Lin Wu knew this the best. After all he was a human too… albeit now only his soul was like that…
