Chapter 99: To Flee Or Not To Flee (Part 2)

  However, this is only theoretically possible if you have many carrier pigeons. But it's not easy to tame them, and generally, only the royal families of large countries, as well as wealthy merchants, can afford such a means of communication.

  Moreover, the way carrier pigeons deliver messages is very secure. In mid-air, it's impossible to get close to them, and even when they're near the ground, their speed is so fast that only those with considerable strength can catch them. And for those with considerable strength, it's not possible to guard a particular point every day, as there will be people watching over important points, making interception almost impossible!!

  With the ability of the fourth prince, it's no problem to raise one or two carrier pigeons, and where he is is also very safe, at least with a safe distance for the carrier pigeon.

  "The best place is in the Tang Empire, it's where all the materials are complete, no mistake, it's the Tang Empire. Others wouldn't think you'd catch me going there, but that's exactly where I was originally headed!!" Xīyáng clapped his hands and said.

  "......" The fourth prince fell silent. He had just said that others couldn't think of it, but he didn't expect Xiangyang to guess it in the blink of an eye, which made him feel ashamed.

  No mistake, he wants to catch the carefree and go to the Great Tang Empire. The Great Tang Empire also has its own secret hiding spots. In case of failure in the future, it can take refuge in the Great Tang Empire. Not many people dare to make trouble on the land of the Great Tang Empire.

  I didn't expect it to come in handy now, but not for myself, but to hide a small family heirloom!!

  Of course, it was worth doing so. He could guess that Xīu Yáo might refine high-grade elixirs. From the materials Xīu Yáo had asked for at the time, he cleaned up a set of high-grade elixir materials. This was absolutely not a coincidence!

  It's worth sacrificing this secret hideout just knowing this one thing!!

  The reason why the fourth prince was so sure was actually because of the elixir given by the eldest sister and her progress with Gu Xing and others. In fact, Xiao Yao and the others had not used high-grade elixirs, it was a misunderstanding. But it just happened to be turned into an advantage by the fourth prince!!

  "Xiaoyao, I'm now very interested in you. You're a great talent and I wonder if you'd like to become my vassal? In the future, Tianfeng Country will be mine, and you'll also become someone who's second only to me!!" The Fourth Prince looked at Xiaoyao, from his displayed abilities, he could no longer regard him as an ordinary house servant, but a talent, one that he urgently wanted to recruit.

  In the mind of the Fourth Prince, Xiao Yao was originally just a small household servant. After hearing the conditions he had set out, he would immediately kneel down and surrender to him!!

  But he was disappointed. Xiao Yao did not respond as he had imagined, but instead refused without any hesitation. Not even a little bit of hesitation!!!

  "Sorry, I'm not interested!!"

  "Why?" The fourth prince was puzzled. Didn't the other person understand his meaning? Even if it were his master who came here, upon hearing this condition, he would be moved, let alone a small servant like him!!

  The fourth prince asked again, "Don't you understand what I'm saying? Don't you know the conditions I've set for you?"

  "I can hear and understand it! But I'm not interested!!" said Xiao Yao casually.

  "Why?" The fourth prince was another why, making Xiao Yao wonder if he was a child who kept asking why.

  "I already said I'm not interested!"

  "Why?"

  He was silent for a moment, then said: "I prefer the profession of being a housekeeper, and I also like my current boss. I don't consider changing jobs or jumping ship, so you shouldn't have any ideas about recruiting me!"

  "...you refused my terms. Is it just because you want to continue being a house servant?" The fourth prince was stunned for a while before speaking, he couldn't believe that there would be such a person in the world who actually liked continuing as a small house servant and didn't want wealth and glory.

  Don't say that the fourth prince doesn't believe it. Even the seasoned masters present couldn't help but reveal their incredulous expressions, they all thought this reason was really far-fetched!!

  "Hmm!" Xīyáng ignored the strange gazes of the crowd and nodded heavily.

  "Are you fooling me? Or are you not clear-headed now?" The Fourth Prince frowned.

  "I'm wide awake and not interested in playing games with you, I know what I'm doing! All I want to ask is if there's room for negotiation, to proceed with alchemy in a cooperative manner, and afterwards, it'll be as if nothing ever happened!" Xīu Yáo looked at the Fourth Prince.

  "You'd better not think of escaping for the rest of your life, just obediently refine medicine for me. Do you think I would give a dan maker who can refine high-grade elixirs to someone else? You're to blame for hiding too deeply, otherwise, I wouldn't dare keep you for myself either, or others wouldn't let me off!" The Fourth Prince looked at Xiao Yao, his eyes filled with mockery, as if saying this was all her own doing.

  "If I say I won't refine high-grade elixirs, will you kill me?" asked Xīao tentatively.

  "Agreed!" The fourth prince said coldly.

  "Alright, I'll follow you, let's go!" Xiao Yao said immediately.

  "Desist! Don't resist, or I won't mind injuring you first and then healing you. I don't mind waiting a bit longer!" The Fourth Prince said, "Tie him up, blindfold him, and take him to the place where he'll be forced to refine the elixir immediately!"

  "Yes!" his subordinate replied.

  "Can't you untie me? I'm very well-behaved and won't run away!"

  "Honestly, believe me! I swear on my elder sister's name that I will absolutely cooperate and won't run away, won't cheat, won't..."

  "Alright! Let's make a deal, can you guys bring my horse along? This is mine!!"

  ……

  "Where is your little monster?"

  After tying up Xiangyao and throwing him on a horse, someone discovered that Chi was nowhere to be seen.

  "That little foodie must have abandoned its owner and run away, how unrighteous!!" Xiao Yao said with a pained expression at this time.

  "Whatever, it's just a small monster, let's go!!"

  ……

  The Great Tang Empire, Lingzhou City, Linyue County!

  Lingyue County is a very mysterious place. If you only hear the name of this place, you will think that Lingyue County is just a county town and must be inferior to the prefectural city of Lingzhou.

  But in fact, it's just the opposite. Lingzhou City is not as good as Lingyue County, and this gap is not small. Some people even don't know about Lingzhou City when they know about Lingyue County!

  The entire Tang Empire knows about Lingyue County, and at the same time, every professional on the continent knows about this place, because in this profession, Lingyue County is a sacred land!!

  And this profession is the alchemist, this is the holy land of alchemists, because there are the most complete medicinal materials on the entire continent, and there are some important medicinal materials that only exist here.

  Lingyue County has a very special family, the largest medicinal herb family on the mainland. They cultivate many high-grade medicinal herbs needed for high-grade elixirs. It is because of this family that Lingyue County has developed to its current scale, exceeding Lingshou City.

  At that time when this family chose here, it was still a very inconspicuous small county town. The scale of the county town had only a few streets and a dilapidated city gate.

  When this family chose to start here, the small county town began to have a different vitality. A medicinal material market slowly took shape and developed over several hundred years, becoming the largest on the entire continent. With the prosperity of this market, the development of the small county town also began to flourish day by day!

  The number of people in the small county town is increasing, and naturally, there are more and more houses, streets, commercial facilities, living facilities...

  Until now, this small county town, no, this super-sized county town is still developing in scale!!

  At the same time, this family is also developing, developing to a point where others can't keep up, although it's the first, there's no one competing, but it can pull away from the second place, from being almost the same at the beginning, to being very different later on, to looking down on each other, and now to being far ahead!!

  It can be seen from this that the development of this family here is a very correct decision, although many people couldn't understand it at first!

  At that time, this family was a well-known medicinal material family in the imperial capital of the Tang Empire. The family was originally located in the center of the Tang Imperial Capital, but one day, the family gave up its status at the time and moved to this inconspicuous small place.

  At this time, everyone is wondering why this family would do such a thing. Are they trying to escape the world? Is the pressure too great?

  Although at that time the family was already one of the top two medicinal families, they were only a medicinal family and far inferior to those pure martial arts families. In the end, they were just merchants who did business related to warriors.

  Perhaps it was because of this that the family would give up their position in the imperial capital, which was not top-notch to begin with and was restricted everywhere, rather than being king in a small place.

  Yes, some people think like that!

  No matter how many reasons everyone guesses, but basically it can be confirmed that the result is that this family is finished, and basically there will be no more play!

  Everyone thought that in Lingyue County, this family would never have a future!

  But the result was beyond everyone's expectation, and the development of this family became better and better. Moreover, it also made the super medicine market that originally existed in the Imperial Capital migrate to Lingyue County, becoming the largest medicine market on the entire continent.

  It wasn't until later that everyone discovered the reason why this family came to Lingyue County. It wasn't just a random small place, but they had found a treasure land, a land where they could thrive and prosper!!

  Because of Lingyue County's location, it has some unknown environmental factors that allow for the cultivation of high-grade medicinal herbs, even top-grade ones.

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  It's almost 390 now, and it doesn't have to be so accurate. Let's just release two chapters together, everyone is working hard, double rewards are in our hands...