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~

troubled us for a long time now. Many past ministers and kings tried to find some solution, but it

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,

shook his head and closed his eyes to focus

both of them, Lin Mu had heard their entire conversion, which could be considered to be very sensitive. Lin

trees being actively protected by the royal family somewhere and that not all Hong Lin trees had the

Mu knew that there were actually people that sold Hong Lin saplings to various people. The customers for this were both the citizens

well, just for the hope that the tree might reach thousand

there was a great chance they would be offended, despite the fact that the natural survival chances of a Hong Lin tree only decreased once it lived

than 5% of trees that were actually a hundred years or older. One could only imagine how difficult it would be for a Hong Lin tree to

there was a way he could take advantage of this

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

can see the records

right below where the king's court was and even had

he directly descended into the repository. Luckily for him, there was no one in the hall for the time

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