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~

a problem that has troubled us for a long time now. Many past ministers and kings tried to find

If we forcibly protect all trees and prevent them from being cut down, just for the

closed his eyes to focus

entire conversion, which could be considered to be very sensitive. Lin Mu had evidently

royal family somewhere

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

that the tree might reach thousand years and grow to

If they did find out about this, 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 past five hundred

there were less 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

about this all and wondered if there was a way he

now. Lin Mu observed both of them for a while and saw that they were not doing anything other

get to the repository so I can see the records

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

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