136 Chapter 136 Great Aspiration of Lingyun (1/2)

Hesitating slightly, Lian Fan said, ”I heard about this place when I was at Cloud Saint City! Has Young Master heard about Lianhai City and Fenghua City?”

Zong Shou thought back. The other ”Zong Shou” was someone who didn't know about world matters, so there would definitely be nothing in his thirteen years of memory.

All that he could rely on would be the large amounts of books he had read in his last life. After a long while he finally found the information.

They were all average size cities, a few grades lower than that of Cloud Saint City. They each managed around a thousand miles of territory, with each having a population of three to five million, and could be considered countries.

Although their population was large, they were different from the Monster race. Everyone in the Monster race practiced martial arts, and relying on their talents, they all had great skill.

Gantian Mountain had four million people under them; deducting the old, young, and women, there were at least a million who could wear armor. There were a million Grade Three Martial Warriors, a hundred thousand Martial Masters, and three thousand Mythic Masters!

And apart from that, there were the subordinate troops of the various cities, which could casually number in the millions.

That was why when they were prosperous they could control seven provinces. Even after havig shrunk now, they still spanned four provinces, and were true top power in the west of Donglin Cloud Continent.

Based on what Zong Shou had deduced, the reason why Zong Weiran didn't send the army to unify Donglin was because he was disturbed by the various sects and forced to turtle up in a corner.

On the other hand, cities like Lianhai City and Fenghua City, although there had millions of people, they could only put two hundred thousand onto the battlefield. As for the number who could compete with the Gantian Mountain Monster race soldiers, it was less than three percent of that number. They only had a hundred Mythic Masters, at most!

However, for a human race city, their strength was quite decent.

In his memory, these two cities had been long destroyed before the spiritual energy wave began.

Since Lian Fan opened up on the topic, he didn't worry anymore, ”Cloud Saint City is quite well informed, which was why I heard about it. This Lianhai City and Fenghua City are competing for a mind stone mine. The war continued on and on and there has been over ten battles already. News has it that surrounding cities also interfered, sending over more troops. Two months ago, the number of troops they sent were around five hundred thousand. These refugees mostly escaped for that reason. Everywhere the army passed, nothing lived. They were already in a drought and didn't have much stored up grain, even that was taken away. News had it that there are already a hundred thousand who died from hunger...”

Zong Shou frowned, waves crashing through his mind. Mind stones? Those things were much rarer than beast crystals. They could be used to craft talisman weapons and Spiritual Artifacts, refine pills, display magic, or obtain true qi. One could also directly absorb them and increase cultivation.They were really pure and thus rare, which was why all high Grade martial and spirit cultivators saw them as treasures.

However there were just too few mind stones, which was why even those Shrines and Spirit Houses craved them.

This close to million man war was mostly orchestrated by those sects to obtain these mind stone resources. The ones who were harmed were the people who lived in the area.

What he forgot was that this era was one where the strong ate the weak, a chaotic time where the weak were usually eaten up until even their bones were gone.

He expressionlessly looked at the dirty-clothed, exhausted, and despairing people. Most of them were holding onto their children and kids, wobbling like they were about to fall down at any moment.

When those people looked at the two carriages, it was like they had seen some hope. But once they saw that the foals and carriage was hanging in mid air forty feet from the ground, they continued on their way in disappointment.

Zong Shou was thinking solemnly as he took off a bag from his body. He took out a portion of the things inside and causally threw them towards Lian Fan. ”These few hundred beast crystals, help me pass it to those two City Lords. No matter what, at least let some of these people live!”

The price of grain in war-torn areas would definitely be really expensive. Although the hundreds of Grade Three beast crystals were a gigantic fortune, it was still not enough.

Even with the few Grade Five crystals from Cloud Saint City Lord Xu Zhengyuan and tens of Grade Four crystals, it was barely enough.

What was unfortunate was that this place was secluded and there probably wasn't a branch of the Sanlu bank. He had a huge fortune, but no way to use it.

Within the Donglin Cloud Continent, fifty silvers was enough for a person to live for a month. A Grade Four crystal would be worth a hundred Grade three crystals, worth a hundred thousand silver.

Which was why in Cloud Saint City, when Zong Shou shouted out a bid of ten thousand Grade Three beast crystals, Zong Ling scolded him for wasting money.

The reason was because in this era the number of beast crystals were just too little. The ratio between beasts killed and crystals earned was less than ten to one, and there were also many cultivators who needed these crystals. All these beast crystals were sold for sky high prices.

Calculating it precisely, there was one Xiantian per million people in the Cloud World. And a Xiantian expert who went all out to hunt, disregarding cultivation would only get no more than ten Grade Four beast crystals in a year. As such one could naturally imagine their value.

Within that bag there were a total of sixty Grade Four beast crystals. Even in this era where grain prices exploded, it was enough to support a million people for a year.

Zong Shou expected that the two City Lords wouldn't use it all to solve the crisis and most probably half would be lost due to corruption.