The Northern Wolf Kingdom is one of the seven kingdoms of the Northern Wasteland. At its peak, it occupied the entire Hetao Corridor in Youyun, dominating half of the northern world, and almost conquered North Sea City to monopolize North Sea trade.
For nearly a century, it has been the most powerful nation in the Northern Desolation Kingdom!
The Northern Wolf Kingdom occupies the largest grassland in the Northern Wasteland: the Ice Wolf Plain. Although it is covered in snow and wind all year round, the grass and water are exceptionally lush. Even in the winter months, when heavy snow is falling, the grass and water of this strange Ice Wolf Plain do not wither. Under the thick ice and snow, there is an evergreen color that never fades.
It had been so many years since she had returned. Murong Yunji looked at the familiar grassland with a complex expression on her face.
The Ice Wolf Plain remain much the same as before, with wild grasses growing uncontrollably beneath the thick ice and snow, but now they are far more abundant than ever.
The aquatic plants were a vibrant green and much thicker, with each plant the size of a fist. They were comparable to some pastures in Jiangnan. It seemed Chen Qing was right; with the Earth Spirit Revival, everything in the world would change in a very short time!
All things in heaven and earth are undergoing changes, benefiting from the Earth Spirit Revival. Only the human race...
It's not that humans don't benefit, but rather that they benefit much more slowly. Unlike ordinary demons, they can't rapidly grow stronger due to the Spiritual Energy Revival. They need to cultivate gradually, but how can that be as fast as the demons?
Therefore, this is a world of demons, and every time the Earth Spirit Revival, it is a nightmare for the human race.
"We've been walking on this grassland for a long time, why haven't we seen anyone grazing their livestock? Nor have we seen any wolves?" Murong Yunji asked curiously.
Wolf packs are less active in winter, but they are not completely inactive. Herdsmen are even less active in winter, as livestock are most prone to losing weight. Usually, shepherds in the Ice Wolf Plain will force their flocks to graze on snow grass.
But after walking for most of the day across the vast grassland, they saw nothing.
"Grazing is no longer an option," Murong Yunliu a wry smile. "What family would dare to raise livestock now? The grass on this grassland is poisonous. If the livestock eat it, their bodies will mutate. They will either explode and die, or they will turn into monsters, eat the herders, and escape back to the grassland. As early as the first month, the Northern Wolf Kingdom had to kill all its livestock."
"Is that so?" Murong Yunji nodded slightly, once again convinced of Chen Qing's words.
I asked myself that once the Earth Spirit Revival, wouldn't it become as good as Jiangnan?
The Jiangnan's prosperity stems from its spiritual energy being more than ten times richer than the outside world. A variety of high-quality agricultural products are produced one after another, and ranches have developed excellent forage, making grazing cattle, sheep, and other livestock plump and strong, with meat quality and vitality far surpassing what they were before. If Spiritual Energy Revival in this world, wouldn't that be a good thing?
However, Chen Qing's answer was different. The spiritual energy in Jiangnan is controlled. Various Mountain God and river gods use the Power of Faith to slowly change the Earth Spirit. Their original intention is to make the human race with faith stronger, so it is extremely gentle.
But the Earth Spirit Revival is different. That Spirit Energy comes from the resentment of heaven and earth, and is extremely violent. It can make plants grow wildly, but because of the resentment contained in the spiritual energy, it can also make any species that absorb the spiritual energy become brutal.
The shepherd turning around and eating the shepherd is an example.
So, the environment will become increasingly unsuitable for human habitation in the future, but he was very curious about one thing.
"Without livestock, how will ordinary people survive?" Murong Yunji was slightly taken aback.
"It's all thanks to those messengers who led the giant serpents to bring the demon flesh."
"All thanks to bringing them along?" Yuchi Feihong was also taken aback.
He did know that Northern Wasteland was currently accepting demon flesh hunted by those giant pythons, but that relied on being fed by others. Wasn't that a bit of an exaggeration?
"Is there that much demon meat?" Murong Yunji frowned.
"Yes," Murong Yunliu, "After killing all the livestock, we were thinking about how to continue searching for new food sources. We even considered venturing north to find crops, but we never expected those giant snakes to come to us on their own."
"The messenger from the letter has arrived; you'll see him soon."
Murong Yunji and Yuchi were both somewhat surprised, but their doubts were quickly replaced by astonishment.
Northern Wolf Pass wasn't far from Northern Wolf City, and although the group was delayed by the northern people behind them, they still arrived Northern Wolf City before dark.
The scene outside the city made both Yuchi Feihong and Murong Yunji gasp in shock.
Northern Wolf City, there were mountains of demon corpses!
Beneath the ice and snow, the demons were completely dead, and the pungent stench of blood could be smelled from ten miles away.
Murong Yunji and Yuchi exchanged a glance, their eyes filled with disbelief.
While we know that giant snakes hunt demons and raise humans, isn't this quantity a bit excessive?
Are there really that many monsters in the Northern Wasteland?
Murong Yunji felt a little disoriented. She grew up on the grasslands and, having mastered the Divine Wind Spell, was once incredibly arrogant and free. Where on the grasslands hadn't she been? She had been to the dens of the ice wolves and the place where the wolf king resided.
It was only after she had traveled all over the northern grasslands that she realized the number of demons could not possibly be so exaggerated.
If such a thing existed, the Northern Wasteland would have been wiped out long ago; how could they have had the chance to invade the Central Plains?
"That's really true." Yuchi Feihong was also unable to calm down for a long time.
Seeing the shocked expressions on their faces, Murong Yunliu a wry smile, "We never expected it to turn out like this. Afterwards, scouts from our major families went to investigate, and the results were quite frightening!"
"What do you mean?" Murong Yunji asked, frowning.
"The speed at which demons reproduce is completely different from before. Take the ice wolves, which are the most common in our Northern Wolf Plain, for example. A mother wolf can give birth to hundreds of pups at a time, and they grow extremely fast. In almost a month, they can grow to be taller and fiercer than adult wolves. Almost every month, hundreds of thousands of fierce ice wolves are born on the grasslands."
"If this were happening right in front of us, our Northern Wolf Kingdom would probably be devoured by these wolf cubs, leaving not even a bone fragment!"
"But with these giant pythons, the endless stream of demonic beasts became our food for the winter."
"That's outrageous?" Yuchi stroked his chin, utterly shocked. No wonder his lord said that the arrival of the ancient times would be a catastrophe for ordinary people!
Given the growth rate of these demons, without a powerful force to control them, the entire human race would likely have been wiped out in the first month.
A single she-wolf can give birth to over a hundred pups at a time; with such an exaggerated rate of troop production, how can the human race possibly withstand it?
How many years of effort does it take to train a bloodline soldier? From childhood, they are meticulously raised and subjected to all sorts of training. And what about the demons?
They just need to keep having more children.
How can we possibly win?
For a moment, Yuchi Feihong felt that the world was somewhat terrifying. Even in Jiangnan now, facing such a crazy world, could the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people really be protected?
"Let's go inside first," Murong Yunji said calmly. "The envoy isn't outside. Won't the Earth Mother attack passersby?"
Yes, besides the mountain of demons outside the door, there was also an enormous python, so big that it looked like it could almost encircle the entire area!
It was clearly the same as the one that Yuchi killed in North Sea City.
"Judging from the past, it seems unlikely," Murong Yunliu his head. "Each envoy brings one of these Earth Mother, and these Earth Mother always stay obediently outside the city. Even if passing caravans come by, they won't be attacked. Look, now that the gates of Northern Wolf City are wide open, these Earth Mother don't seem to have any intention of rushing in."
"Each envoy will bring a Earth Mother?" Murong Yunji suddenly frowned. "Are you sure?"
"Probably," another member of the Murong family said. "Three different envoys from North Wolf City have come, and their conditions were almost all different. The only thing they had in common was an ridiculously huge earth python."
"Really?" Murong Yunji suddenly sensed something was amiss.
According to Chen Qing, this Earth Mother is extremely precious; every ten of them can bring down a true dragon-level Heavenly Python to the Heavenly Python Palace!
There shouldn't be any extras, so... if it was an ambush, why send something like this? Why not those so-called messengers?
These people described how powerful the envoy was, how such a precious item was killed by Murong Feihong, and how he has yet to face any retaliation.
This made Murong Yunji suddenly feel that something was wrong.
If each Earth Mother has a messenger overseeing it, then why is there one in North Sea City?
Could it be a fish that slipped through the net?
Just then, a hearty laugh rang out from the doorway, "I was wondering where you'd been all this time. Turns out you went to welcome some VIPs! Come on, come on, it's snowing heavily outside, hurry up and come into town!"
Standing at the city gate was none other than Murong Yuntian, the Laoda of the Murong Family!
Murong Yunji and Yuchi Feihong, however, did not look too good.
The fact that Shen Yuntian was able to stand guard at the city gate so early meant that they were being monitored the entire time.
Combined with the idea of a Earth Mother and a Messenger, Murong Yunji felt a chill run down her spine, and a terrifying thought surged into her mind.
Could that envoy be among their ranks?