Chapter 908: Two Years Of Uncertainty And Change
Two years had gone since the appearance of the Calamity Fiend on the Long continent.
It had given them a life rocking shock and every person on the Long continent knew about it, right from the top most experts to the lowest peasants. To them, this was a disaster that had come into their lives and they didn’t know if peace would ever return.
The southern half of the Long continent had been rocked by the Calamity Fiend and several kingdoms and settlement had been attacked. Even the sects had not been spared, the Chan sect and the Dark Plains sect suffering the most.
Even the Frozen Cloud sect had acted against the beast twice in this time and had been forced to retreat. Though their losses were almost nothing compared to the rest of the powers, thereby giving them a good boost in reputation.
The fall that they had experienced due to their elders being wiped out along with the disciples was almost completely restored. The gain in the disciples in these two years was also a good thing for them and helped them greatly.
It wasn’t just disciples either, the other sects and powers also considered the Frozen Cloud sect a major power now due to their alliance with the Millennium Kingdom.
The kingdom of beasts had changed greatly in these two years. Not only were there now buildings and humans living there, but the forest itself had become lush. Somehow, the forest had started to expand and the tree’s that stayed within a specific radius had grown further.
The Luguo kingdom, the Pale marble kingdom and the Ling kingdom were a bit alarmed by this too.
At first, they were doubtful of this and didn’t know if the forest was really expanding. But a year ago, they had done an area survey and realized that the area of the forest had expanded by nearly fifty kilometers.
This was a massive level growth, especially considering that it was in just a year.
The representatives of the three kingdoms visited the Millennium kingdom and talked to the Emeraldine Monkeys about it. The Emeraldine Monkeys had now become synonymous with the administrative department of the Millennium kingdom.
Their numbers had further expanded and there were now over a hundred of them in the entire kingdom, watching over multiple tasks. They were also the ones who talked with humans since they were the only ones able to talk in the human tongue.
Only after they assured that this was a natural change and no beast attacks would happens did the three kingdoms were satisfied.
After all, the main concern to the three kingdoms was just a beast tide. In terms of the trees and plants growing, it was rather beneficial to them since they could obtain a lot more resources.
Further capitalizing on this, the Millennium kingdom had given out contracts for logging. The human kingdoms needed to sign this contract if they wanted to obtain timber from the forest.
With this, the Millennium Kingdom obtained another revenue stream, and the human kingdoms got the assurance of safety. It lowered the cost of good quality wood among them, while still netting profits for the millennium kingdom.
Earlier, the cost of good quality wood was high since there was a chance of death for the woodcutters. But now there was almost none.
Of course, there were still beast attacks from time to time, but these were due to the normal beasts that were in the body tempering realm or the Qi refining realm.
Even the human kingdoms were fine with it since they hunted these beasts and didn’t complain about it.
As for how they obtained higher ranked beast materials, such as those form the core condensation realm and higher?
A new rule was made.
If a human power wanted them, they needed to have a duel of sorts. This duel could be as simple as just a human cultivator and a beast fighting directly, or as big as a proper battle between two groups.
Of course, the death that occurred in this was to be accepted by both parties.
The only beasts that could not be touched or attacked were those that were directly under Lin Wu. Anyone that attacked them would be met with full scale retaliation from the kingdom.
Thankfully, no one had attempted this, and the three surrounding kingdoms had also done their best to prevent any such thoughts from arising.
They knew that they were in the defense here. If the millennium kingdom wanted, a single beast tide was all it would take to bring them to their knees. This was something unsaid, but was duly understood by them.
The sects that were in alliance with the Millennium kingdom were subject to the same terms, but with some limitations that differed slightly.
But one thing that all of them experienced was getting richer.
The resources from the millennium kingdom were not obtainable from elsewhere, at least not at the rates that they sold it at.
Once such example was Pink Bottom peaches. Only the Millennium kingdom had the method to cultivate them on a commercial scale and sell them. Anyone else that attempted that would only be met with failure.
And it was just one of the many such spirit fruits.
Another aspect that the Millennium Kingdom had grown was entertainment.
The large arena built in it had become popular with humans as well, and even they participated in it. Multiple betting and prize circles had formed due to it with even the Tieba city lords getting interested in getting a piece of the pie.
Unfortunately, a majority of the revue was monopolized by the beasts and they simply couldn’t find a way to get in.
Forcing their way in or threatening was even more useless. It had been tried several times now, and those that did had long since turned into beast dung that fertilized the many orchards of the forest.
And center of this all was Lin Wu, who was silently growing. His strength unknown to all.
