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~

past ministers and kings tried to find some solution, but it was never suitable for the time period. Even now, we cannot do

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

his head and closed his eyes

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

by the royal family somewhere and that not all Hong Lin trees had the potential of becoming a thousand year

there were actually people that sold Hong Lin saplings to various people. The customers for

just for the hope that the tree might reach thousand years and

they had been intentionally misinformed. If they did find out about this, there was a great chance they would be

were less than 5% of trees that were actually a hundred years or older. One could only imagine how

and wondered if there was a way he could

and went back 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

so I can see the records about me and

where the king's court was and even had a direct entrance to it from the back. Its main entrance for others

Luckily for him, there was no one in the hall for the

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