The News Jianghe Brought Back

If it weren't for the fact that everyone is busy with their own affairs, they could stay here idly forever.

Fortunately, everyone remained rational. Seeing that it was getting late, they all got up, said goodbye to Senior Liao, left the Yaoguang Small World, and returned to their respective posts.

Lin Xiao, realizing he hadn't watered the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree much lately, fetched a bucket of water from the small spring at the foot of Returning to the Garden Mountain Dwelling, took out a few Spirit Stone, and went to the entrance of the mountain path.

Just as he was watering the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree and feeding it Spirit Stone, he saw a figure walk out of the Heart-Questioning Road.

Upon seeing this person, Lin Xiao immediately smiled.

"Hey, Jianghe, you're back!"

The person who arrived was none other than Qin Jianghe.

Upon seeing Lin Xiao, his previously expressionless face immediately broke into a smile, and he said:

"Brother Xiao, watering the plants for Ten-Li."

Seeing several Storage Bag hanging from his waist, Lin Xiao finished watering the plants, put the bucket aside, and asked him:

"Looks like the harvest this time was quite good. By the way, how's the campaign against Huanyou Nation going? Have you heard any news in the capital?"

Speaking of this, Qin Jianghe's smile faded slightly, and he said in a more serious tone:

"It started half a month ago. Perhaps Huanyou Nation has been focusing its attention on Execution Stone in recent years. Their army was no match for our country and the surrounding countries. Now, the war is generally over."

"On the cultivator side, some remnants of the old Huanyou Nation have come out to assist several countries in wiping out the fleeing royal family and those colluding sect cultivators."

"However, a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Huanyou Nation has a considerable territory, and after the outbreak of war, quite a few remnants of the Execution Stone escaped in the chaos. The punitive alliance has firmly stated its intention to annihilate all their remaining forces. Therefore, Huanyou Nation is still considered to be at war."

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiao was somewhat surprised:

"The remnants of the old country of Huanyou Nation?"

Qin Jianghe sighed and nodded, saying:

"I only heard about it a few days ago. Several hundred years ago, the Huanyou Nation experienced an internal strife, the royal family was expelled, and some sects that had close ties with the royal family were also purged."

"Although some of their people and traditions survived the new royal family's purge, their very foundations were shaken. For hundreds of years, let alone overthrowing the new royal family, simply managing to survive under their suppression and encirclement was a struggle. It was only now that they saw hope in the punitive alliance that they turned to them."

As he spoke, he seemed to recall something somewhat unexpected, and continued:

"And Brother Xiao, do you know that the remnants of the old kingdom have been protecting the descendants of the old royal family for hundreds of years? They actually requested that the allied powers return Huanyou Nation to the old royal family after the war. I originally thought that the countries that the alliance attacked would definitely not agree to this, after all, Huanyou Nation can now be said to be their spoils of war, which they can divide up among themselves."

"But who would have thought that the Allied Powers would agree to the requests of the remnants of the old nation and the old royal family? Moreover, the Allied Powers didn't make any excessive demands or ask for too much money; they only asked for a symbolic amount to offset the losses of the war. Isn't that strange?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Xiao was also somewhat surprised:

"It's indeed strange that those sects didn't raise any objections to the Allied Powers' decision?"

He wasn't familiar with the sects of other countries, but those three sects from the Pusi Kingdom certainly wouldn't let go of a prize so easily, would they? Wouldn't they want to take a big bite out of it?

Given the status of sects within the nation, their attitudes would undoubtedly have a significant impact on this decision.

But then Qin Jianghe shook his head and said:

"I don't know about that. Anyway, Li Zhouxuan didn't mention it, and I haven't heard any rumors of any sects obstructing us."

Hearing this, Lin Xiao frowned slightly and nodded, saying:

"That's rather strange. Logically speaking, given Huanyou Nation's current situation, bordering several other countries, it's entirely possible it could be divided up by them. It's unexpected that the allied nations chose to return it to the former royal family so easily, and the sects didn't seem to object much..."

He muttered to himself for a while, then gradually fell silent and pondered.

Qin Jianghe didn't say anything, just stood quietly to the side waiting for him.

Not long after, Lin Xiao spoke to him again:

"Perhaps there's some connection between the royal families and clans of these countries, and I suspect it might be some kind of historical relationship..."

Qin Jianghe, standing to the side, nodded in agreement:

"Very likely. I found it strange before that these sects agreed to attack Huanyou Nation so easily. Given their nature, I wouldn't be surprised if they dragged their feet for half a year or a year. But surprisingly, not long after the royal family issued the message, they all received replies from various sects agreeing to the attack."

"That's it. I guess their ancestors probably had some kind of agreement or something, and I suspect it's very likely related to a major crisis between them, or even directly to the Execution Stone. By the way, what do you think of the relationships between these countries? Are they close?" Lin Xiao asked while thinking.

After recalling and organizing the various fragmented pieces of information he had obtained from the front lines of the war in Huanyou Nation through special means such as bribing people with money, Qin Jianghe told Lin Xiao with relative certainty:

"It doesn't feel very close; it seems far less intimate than the relationships between different countries and their respective sects."

Upon receiving his reply, Lin Xiao nodded and said:

"That's it. The relationships between the countries aren't very close, but they were able to connect very quickly when this happened, and they were also very willing to hand over Huanyou Nation back to the old royal family. It's probably due to their ancestral history."

"However, these things are not of much concern to us. We just need to focus on managing our own sect well."

This topic has come to an end. Lin Xiao has also finished watering the Ten-Li Peach Blossom Tree. Qin Jianghe originally planned to go back to the Finance Hall to process the gains from this transaction.

However, he seemed to remember something else, hesitated for a moment, and then spoke to Lin Xiao Xiaoluan done to it:

"Brother Xiao, I have some news, but I'm not sure if it's true. I heard that there seems to be a plague outbreak in a remote area of Huanyou Nation. However, it's just a piece of news mixed in with a lot of other news, and I haven't found any clues about it in other news."

However, the source wasn't sure if it was actually a plague. When I received the news, it only said that there might have been a small-scale outbreak, and the symptoms were somewhat strange. Infected people experienced chills all over their bodies, initially hair loss, then fingernails and toenails, followed by teeth, etc. So far, no deaths have been reported."

"Moreover, because there haven't been a large number of patients yet, and the area is remote, it hasn't attracted much attention, and the reports have simply disappeared without a trace."