After the immortal disappeared

But the residents there were looking forward to it, and they couldn't stop cheering when they heard that the seeds of the precious tree were finally going to settle in the north.

It seems that the border there is not very peaceful either.

Head Shi Er whispered: "Lingxu City's control over the Twilight Plains is generally not strict, and the forces of various countries move back and forth."

At this time, Tang Xiangguo came out and said some extravagant words. The most indispensable part of every birthday celebration is entertainment, so the open space in front of Baiyun House was quickly cleared, and a whole group of people immediately started performing juggling, illusions and other performances.

The soul-catching mirror suddenly said: "Fushan!"

He Lingchuan immediately took a step back and covered the pillar before asking: "Where is it?"

"I mean the people from Fushan...!" The host moved too quickly, and the mirror said sarcastically, "In the crowd below, to the right of the candied haws seller, is the one wearing the black hat!"

He Lingchuan looked down, and sure enough, he saw a strong man in his thirties wearing a hat next to the vendor selling candied haws.

At first glance, this man looked no different from a commoner, and He Lingchuan might not recognize the difference at first glance. But after the soul-capturing mirror was broken, He Lingchuan quickly remembered that this was Fushan's subordinate, whom he had seen in the noodle shop.

If you want to be able to recognize people, you have to have a good soul-capturing mirror.

This man stared straight at the stage.

He Lingchuan looked at him, then at the old tree man on the stage.

Interesting, Fushan came here for spiritual seeds?

The soul-capturing mirror felt the change in its owner and said curiously: "Hey, what are you laughing at?"

"Nothing." He Lingchuan stared at the strong man, "I was wondering if I could see a praying mantis catching a cicada."

Soon, the seeds of the precious tree were put into the brocade box and collected by the Prime Minister of Tang Dynasty.

The performance on Baiyun Mountain will last for three days and three nights. Of course the people are happy, but the officials and missions will leave first.

I don’t know how Master Shi Er got the news, but he came back and said to He Lingchuan after a while: "Good news, good news, the team escorting the mission to the northern border is being refitted and will set off in an hour. They will also escort the mission by the way. Spirit Seed, it would be best for us to follow you!”

He Lingchuan smiled.

Bega's trade routes are usually relatively safe, but now that the Emperor's Flood has only passed a few days ago, it is still a bit dangerous for foreign caravans. This escort team is the elite sent by Fu Feng City. With them clearing the way, the caravan will be much safer on its way.

This is just like the refugees who like to follow the nobles when they move. The strong ones open the way in front, and they also have a safety guarantee.

Baiyun Mountain is located on the northern outskirts of Fufeng City. After the Spiritual Seed Guards were fully equipped, they set off directly from here.

Several clever caravans followed immediately.

Shimen Caravan is one of them.

Before leaving this huge crater, He Lingchuan took one last look back and was impressed by Gu Luoshu's majestic figure.

A tree ruling a kingdom was something he had never imagined before.

The Demon Country is really a magical place.

At this point the black cat said goodbye to him.

She has seen enough excitement today, and her employer is quite generous, giving her enough silver and dried fish, but now she has to go back to take care of her baby.

"Take the child and come with us. Caravans always encounter rats." It was Master Shi Er who suggested to it, "Enough to eat and drink."

Black Cat was a little moved, and then rejected him: "No. It's easy to find a job in Fufeng City. My children must grow up in a big city. Who is willing to live with you?"

"You heartless woman." He Lingchuan laughed and stretched out his hand to it, "It's a pleasure to cooperate, thank you."

The cat stretched out its mangosteen-like front paws and high-fived him goodbye, then jumped off the sheep's back and left without any regrets.

He Lingchuan saw that it was looking for other humans again. It was still a little girl of seven or eight years old. It rubbed people's hands and acted coquettishly, probably wanting to hitch a ride back to Fu Feng City...

At this time, another acquaintance followed him:

Xu Dongdong.

This guy is also the guard of the Taifu Mansion who followed He Lingchuan out of the mirror world. He has been performing other tasks in the past few days.

He said to He Lingchuan: "Master Sha knows that you are about to leave, so he asked me to escort you for a while. Brother Wu can't leave with Taifu, so he asked me to say goodbye for him."

He Lingchuan thanked him and then asked, "Has Fushan been arrested?"

"Not yet. This guy is very powerful and can run faster than a rabbit. He will run away at the slightest sign of trouble." Xu Dongdong whispered, "But we caught two of his companions and found out the real name of their leader after being tortured. It’s called Fushanyue.”

"This group of people are mercenaries. They kill people, sell goods and fight for the powerful. They do everything. The mission they received this time was to ambush Bai Zhu, the envoy of Shan Yu Kingdom."

"Is it that white python?" Why does it feel like it's a deception?

"Yes." Xu Dongdong scratched his head, "When they were collecting Emperor's Ouyang in Sanxinyuan, they mistakenly killed the deputy envoy of the Ling Kingdom for Bai Zhu. The mission was not completed, so they changed their plan and planned to kill him in Bai Zhu. We will take action after Zhu leaves Fufeng City. As for who his employer is, only Fu Shanyue knows, and his subordinates only follow orders."

"Where did Fu Shanyue come from?"

"Uh, I don't know." Xu Dongdong sighed, "I just heard these two sentences, and before I could finish them, I was sent to find you."

Do you dare to love me or delay him from listening to gossip? He Lingchuan coughed:

"This envoy already knows that he is on the death list?"

"We have informed it." Xu Dongdong said, "We have also sent extra manpower to protect it all the way to the border. I hope it will be safe and sound along the way." Don't lose the reputation of the Treasure Tree King.

He Lingchuan hummed: "Why is it necessary to attack a messenger who is delivering gifts? He also risks offending King Baoshu."

"How would I know?" Xu Dongdong shrugged, "Sometimes these monsters are reckless and unreasonable. There is civil strife in Shan Yu, and I heard that the Ting army is retreating steadily. Maybe this time it is their enemies who sent people to assassinate them."

"That spiritual seed can grow into a border guard by planting it in the soil?"

"Absolutely." Xu Dongdong chuckled, "I don't know the specifics. My king's clone is much more powerful than Shanze. Where it is there, there is no need to appoint Shanze. It's just that this spiritual seed is difficult to produce. It is said that it takes thirty or forty years to conceive one.”

"Then there are only about twenty Gu Luo clones guarding the entire Baoshu Kingdom?" What a simple arithmetic problem.

"Uh." Xu Dongdong felt that he had made a mistake. How do you let outsiders know about this?

He Lingchuan observed the color and knew that this issue was not easy to discuss further, so he changed the topic: "Is the spirit species guard team a temporary one? I think they are all human beings, and their mounts are just ordinary horses. At most, there are more than a dozen wolf monsters accompanying the team. , it seems..."

It doesn't seem too grand.

Head Shi Er interrupted: "I thought Fufeng City would send an army of monsters to escort the spirit species to the north."

Xu Dongdong laughed: "It sounds very majestic, doesn't it?"

"you do not say?"

"When the king's flag is raised, how can there be robbers without eyesight to rob?" Xu Dongdong said, "Besides, how much food does the army of monster beasts need? How can the towns and stations along the way afford it? Horses are the best, with stable temperaments, He has great stamina and eats grass.”

He Lingchuan laughed: "It is indeed an economic account."

Monsters such as tigers and wolves are all big eaters. They have to eat meat when they go out. Each animal can eat dozens of kilograms a day. How can they afford the logistics? Even if it is a herbivorous monster, its food intake is several times that of an ordinary horse.

All in all, riding a horse is the easiest thing to do.

Of course, He Lingchuan understood that this was also because Fufeng City was a bit far away from the northern border, otherwise it wouldn't be a big deal to send a monster guard of honor there.

Furthermore, there is the self-confidence of King Baoshu: Who dares to rob the king's master on his territory?

He Lingchuan also discovered something: even in the Bejia Kingdom, the number of monsters was not as large as he imagined.

Taking Fufeng City as an example, after many days of observation, he found that the ratio of monsters to humans was less than one to ten. Even in the capital of the Treasure Tree Kingdom, where monsters gather, humans still have a complete victory in terms of numbers.

Not to mention the towns he passed along the way, the number of humans was at least thirty times that of monsters. He has been to the most extreme town, with more than 600 permanent residents and only three monsters.

Here we need to distinguish a concept: beasts and monsters are two different things.

In the army of General Zhao Pan of the Yuan Kingdom, there was a Barbarian Bull Charge led by a Barbarian Bull Demon. He Lingchuan almost experienced its power at that time. But strictly speaking, there are only seven bull demons out of the 300 cattle in this group. They are generally larger and stronger in size and very easy to recognize, while the rest are ordinary bulls.

In addition, most of the members of the Rock Wolf clan are ordinary Rock wolves. Only He Lingchuan's Lu Xin and He Yue's Dahei can truly be called demon wolves.

Zhu Erniang's descendants easily exceed 20,000 to 30,000, but the number of elite spider guards who have become demons is less than 180. He Lingchuan was bored when he was staying in the Demon Nest Swamp, and he once counted them with his own hands.

With so many spider guards, it can occupy the best territory in the Demon Nest Swamp, and other big monsters can only swallow their anger.

When He Lingchuan communicated with Xu Dongdong about this, he laughed loudly: "How can the number of monsters be compared with humans?"

"I thought Bejia was a demon country, and monsters could dominate." He Lingchuan listened to plays and read scripts in the Yuan Kingdom. They all said that the northern demon country is full of monsters. How powerful the demon army is, how good the enslaved human civilians will be. awful.

Finally came here to see it with my own eyes, haha.

"The monster kings are noble, and Bega has no shortage of powerful monsters. But without humans, how can such a huge empire be maintained?"

Master Shi Er also smiled and said: "Other than humans, who can operate and produce?"

He Lingchuan thought the same thing. People like Zhu Erniang who are good at agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and sideline fishing are already an outlier among monsters.

Most monsters follow their nature and are free and loose. They are not as careful as humans, and it is difficult for them to work in groups like humans day after day.

If production and management are not people-led, no food will grow in the ground, no one will exploit the mines, and business will not be possible at all. Where will wealth come from?

At this time, the protective mirror intervened again: "The weakening of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is the main reason why the number of monsters is not growing. In the early Middle Ages, monsters were still everywhere. If you go out and shoot an arrow casually in the wild, the person you hit may be a rabbit monster. . But people are different... No matter how thin the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is, people are still humans and will not become monkeys."

It is precisely because the demon clan is weak that they must unite. In ancient and medieval times, demons and fairies were rampant, each occupying the north and south of the world as their overlord. How could there be a demon country like Bega?

After all, it is nothing more than a product of the current situation.

That night, the team stayed in a small town on the edge of the official road.

There were about three hundred people in the escort, and more than a thousand in the caravan behind them. Even the carriages, horses and goods could not be accommodated in a town.

Fortunately, there was a second town five miles away, and the Shimen caravan went there to settle down.

Other businessmen came over to chat, and He Lingchuan heard a piece of news:

"Actually, there are not only the escort team resting in that town, but also three foreign missions, which seem to be the Xuluo Kingdom, the Chiyan Kingdom, and the Baixiang Kingdom. The escort team invited them to live with them."