Chapter 352 (2/2)

In the Jiu Empire, all eight towns were located around the Capital City of Nine Lotus and was where life could be said to be truly safe, away from the worries of being ransacked and plundered by bandits.

Although Knights would be regularly dispatched around the empire to patrol the villages, the vast distances between each of them makes travelling very difficult even with the ability to fly and would sometimes took months before the village was visited by another Knight. After all, there were several tens of thousands of villages spread across in the Jiu Empire and only some were closely connected to the Airtrain station, where their security would be easily guaranteed by the nearby military outpost.

To put it simply, the Jiu Empire simply does not have enough resources to protect common villages from harm!

At most, there are only several thousands of Official Knights and a few hundred of Titled-Knights in the Jiu Empire. Majority of them were either tasked to protect the border or were sent out on missions and expeditions.

This therefore, left only a handful of them which limits their effectiveness despite actively travelling between villages. As a result, a massacre like the village they were in right now would sometimes occur.

”Don't worry too much. Now that our Lord has become the Imperial Overseer, things will definitely change. I don't know how much money he got, but one time I saw him playing dominoes with several thousands of high quality spirit stones..” Fei Longwei said with a sour taste in his mouth as he recalled what he saw.

Just a single high quality spirit stone was already enough to hire a group of powerful cultivators to protect a village for a set duration. Not to mention that thousands was being treated like toys in the eyes of their Lord.

”Yeah.. I guess you are right.” Wei Shang let out a stifled laugh as he nodded to Fei Longwei's words in agreement.

Only their Lord would treat high quality spirit stones like copper coins!

”Anyway, let's get to our main task and ask around if they had seen the Lord's mother before.”

Fei Longwei nodded as they went around collecting information.

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Meanwhile, inside a spacious study room filled with countless rows of books on the numerous affairs of the Jiu Empire in the Imperial Palace, Shen Lu and Utmost Being was seeing each other for the first time.

”Damn.. you really do look like him!” Shen Lu said, unable to tell the difference between Duan Li and this clone of his.

”You must be blind. I'm more handsome and manly than him.” Utmost Being promptly replied with a stern look on his face.

”Ah..” Shen Lu's mouth twitched.

I just spot the difference...

”Enough useless talk. Out of all the followers he has, you are the only one with the suitable level of, albeit admittedly, sub-par intelligence to comprehend what I am about to teach you, so listen and study well!”

Huala!

Utmost Being waved his sleeve and a few books flew to the top of his table from the shelf.

He decided that, from now on, Shen Lu needs to upgrade his level and knowledge base about the Jiu Empire as well as several important strategies to handle certain unique situations if the need arises in the near future.

Although Shen Lu realized that he was just being called as dumb by the other party in a somewhat lengthy sentence, he had to admit that this clone of Duan Li truly had the capabilities to teach!

In just a few moments, the two of them were absorbed in their discussion, one the mentor and the other the disciple.

It was from then on that the legendary strategist of the Jiu Empire was born.

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In a containment laboratory somewhere in the Imperial Palace, Guo He could be seen copying the results of his experiments with concocting medicine to his personal journal.

”Very good. You really have talents in alchemy, or specifically in concocting medicines! Come, let me show you the next experiment and how to handle them to produce various differing results without wasting ingredients!” praised Ju Zhianhu, the Chief Doctor of the Imperial Palace.

”Thank you master!” Guo He clasped his fists together in respect and veneration towards the other party.

Although it feels weird to learn alchemy from his Lord's disciple and called the later as his master, contradicting his own seniority between them, he felt that it was somewhat justified as he was learning from the top notch expert in the field that he liked the most!

In the near future, he will eventually be called as the Alchemy Medicine God!

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