Walker Of The Worlds

Lin Mu continued to listen to the conversion of the royal nephew, and uncle as they talked.

"But what is it that they wanted with us, Uncle Kou?" The king questioned.

"Oh, it was the same old, people needing thousand year old Hong Lin trees. I told him that we don't have the location for any such trees as of now. Instead of that, we are willing to provide them some wood from our own reserve storage that they can take." Kou answered.

Hearing this, the king furrowed his brows.

"Hmm… the number of Hong Lin trees that reach a thousand years has greatly fallen over the years for us. I think it may be time to enact the measures father had chosen back then." The king spoke upon hearing Kou.

"Those measures were controversial and you know that. If we really do announce them, our trade will fall and so will the taxes we gain from our people." Kou replied.

"But if we really don't do anything, we will be losing our heritage, the Hong Lin trees. You of all people should know well uncle, there must always be at least ten thousand year old Hong Lin trees living, or the entire forest will start to die.

They are the mother trees that we protect, but if others cannot replace them later on, if some accident happens, we won't be able to do anything and it will be too late to regret it." The King said in a concerned voice.

~Sigh~

that has troubled us for a long time now. Many past ministers and kings tried to find some solution, but it was never suitable for

is unknown which trees have the potential to survive till a thousand years and become thousand year old Hong Lin trees. If we forcibly protect all trees and prevent them from being cut down, just for the fear that it might be the potential thousand year old tree, it will only

his head and closed his eyes to focus on his

which could be considered to be very sensitive. Lin Mu had evidently gotten to learn several sensitive secrets of

was that there were ten mother Hong Lin trees being actively protected by the royal family somewhere and that not all Hong Lin trees had the potential of becoming a

people. The customers for this were both the citizens from the Hong Lin kingdom

bought them as well, just for the hope that the tree might reach thousand years and grow to

find out about this, there was a great chance they would be offended, despite

of trees that were actually a hundred years or older. One

there was a way he could take

to his own room to cultivate for now. Lin Mu observed both of them for a while and saw that they were not doing anything other than cultivating and thus decided to take his

should get to the repository so I can see the records about

the repository was located. It was located right below where the king's court was and even had a direct entrance to it from

into the repository. Luckily for him, there was no one in the hall