Chapter 2545

Eaglebeak Town and the Million Mountains are the small worlds he travels between most frequently. Wang Guan's main duty is the allocation of materials and personnel arrangements.

The third small world is "Lian Valley".

Wang Guan can strut about proudly in the Million Mountains small world, but in Lian Valley he mostly has to lower his voice and humble himself, because Lian Valley houses over a hundred masters and experts, each of whom he cannot hope to match.

Lian Valley has a serene environment and fresh air, but Wang Guan's authority cannot penetrate its center; he can only receive and dispatch designated materials on its outskirts, such as the batch of new sea-plate vehicles he just fetched from Lian Valley, arranging for the terraced fields of the Million Mountains small world to be planted before tonight.

As for the daily life, work, and material supply of Lian Valley's residents, those are handled by dedicated personnel; it is not Wang Guan's place to curry favor.

Thus, in his mind, Lian Valley is also a rather mysterious place.

The last small world of the Lingyun Palace is "Liuli Sea".

This is the core area of the Lingyun Palace, and even Wang Guan's rune seal cannot open the permit to enter there.

The existence of this place is merely a legend to the other stewards as well.

Moreover, the seawater in the Lingyun Palace indeed comes from Yanxia Bay, and it is living water—not only does it flow in, but it also flows out, because the sea stars raised in the Million Mountains' terraced fields require nutrients from seawater.

However, the inflow and outflow of seawater to and from the Lingyun Palace are achieved through several magical artifacts, whose filtration function is extraordinarily powerful. If an outsider tried to sneak into the Lingyun Palace by following the seawater, it would be a futile daydream.

Ling Jinbao specifically asked: how many people are there in Yanxia Bay?

Wang Guan also has no exact figure; he only knows it is no less than twenty-five thousand, but the vast majority are slaves and laborers, all toiling in the Million Mountains small world, never seeing the light of day outside. No wonder Yanxia Bay always appears desolate and uninhabited—they are all buried in the small worlds, working as laborers.

Over twenty thousand able-bodied laborers—well, their daily consumption of grain, herbs, and supplies is a considerable sum.

There are also guards, troops, and commercial ventures.

No wonder Baisheng City has to send supplies here every day.

As for the Lingyun Palace's defensive forces, each small world has its distribution. He can be certain that Lian Valley definitely has great demons and immortals.

As for what use the embryo pods gathered by the night demons from Baisheng City have, Wang Guan does not know either. He only takes responsibility for collecting these things and sending them to Lian Valley.

Zhu Xiuer hearing this, said to Dong Rui: "It sounds like Lian Valley houses over a hundred of you—truly terrifying.

A weirdo like him, one is enough to be annoying, but Lian Valley has over a hundred!

Dong Rui glared: "Nonsense! Even if they had a hundred, they couldn't match me alone!"

But deep down he was actually itching to try; hearing that the Heavenly Palace had gathered its high-level puppet masters in Lian Valley, letting them deeply study the Divine Descent Body of the Ruiyin Divine Lord, their approach being completely different from traditional puppet making, Dong Rui was very interested.

Zhu Xiuer asked: "What now?"

Dong Rui interjected: "Naturally, we go to Lian Valley to investigate!"

Naturally, we go to Lian Valley to see the latest developments in puppet research!

"With Wang Guan's permit level, one can only enter the outskirts of Lian Valley, not the core area." Mingke Xianren analyzed, "There must certainly be restrictions or powerful guardians there; even if we borrow his identity, we cannot force our way in."

"The three major divisions of the Lingyun Palace are all our objectives in this trip." He Lingchuan pondered, "Ask Wang Guan whom he knows in Lian Valley; we might start from that angle, which could perhaps be easier."

The dazed Wang Guan then replied that he was recommended by his mentor Deng Yanlong. Deng Yanlong and he originally served together at the Haiya Cliff Puppet Trial Ground in Xingshan; later Deng Yanlong went to Yanxia Bay first as chief supervisor, and three years later, due to manpower shortages, he took Wang Guan over, also counting as promoting his own people.

Yanxia Bay has two chief supervisors in total: Wang Maoshi and Deng Yanlong, both wielding great power; among the Lingyun Palace's auxiliary staff, they basically hold the top positions. Their main duty is to serve the heavenly gods above, parallelly respond to the puppet masters' demands, and below assign various tasks, liaising with all kinds of people. Wang Supervisor mainly handles living supplies and personnel, while Deng Supervisor mainly handles the needs of puppet masters and the trial ground.

Therefore, both chief supervisors not only can have close contact with the various masters and puppet masters in Lian Valley, but also possess the permit to enter the Liuli Sea!

This permit is held by only eight people in the Lingyun Palace.

Moreover, Wang Supervisor's cultivation is formidable, while Deng Supervisor is relatively ordinary.

"It sounds like this Deng surname is quite suitable to serve as our stepping stone." Zhu Xiuer asked, "Where is he?"

"Lian Valley."

He Lingchuan immediately said: "The number of people infiltrating Lian Valley cannot be too many; I am still the best choice. You all should remain in Doukou Garden for now."

Dong Rui suddenly asked: "Have you seen the puppets developed in Lian Valley?"

Wang Guan has seen them, and not just one. Everyone's prior guess was correct—the monster that once ravaged the outskirts of Baisheng City came from Yanxia Bay, Wang Guan also participated in the pursuit, and personally escorted a monster back to Yanxia Bay, then sent it back into Lian Valley.

Dong Rui pressed: "When the monsters were sent back, were they dead or alive?"

"Usually they were beaten to death directly and their corpses brought back, because these monsters have boundless strength and are hard to capture alive. But there were two exceptions." Wang Guan answered, "One was because the monster's movements were sluggish, making control not difficult; another—"

"How?"

"It was the time I participated in the capture." Wang Guan suddenly shivered for no reason, "That monster was not only fierce, but also especially cunning, even knowing how to exploit individual weaknesses, targeting the isolated, and killed over twenty of us in one night. Lingyun Palace spent three days before capturing it, and I heard the higher-ups specifically demanded it be taken alive. The result was that the later it went, the harder it became to catch."

"Why?"

"It, it became increasingly cunning; the same traps and methods, the second time they were ineffective against it."

Dong Rui grew more interested the more he listened: "To catch this monster, how many people died in total?"

"Over seventy." Wang Guan murmured, "About ten or so died later from severe injuries after the fact."

"Then how was it finally caught?"

"The heavenly gods intervened." Wang Guan obviously still has a fresh memory of this, "There is a group of hired farmers north of Baisheng City's suburbs; it hid in the abandoned firewood stacks of the threshing ground, crouching there for two days."

The farmland in the outskirts of Baisheng City is not privately owned; it is all intensively cultivated, farmers do not own the land, those who can work in the suburbs are hired farmers, the grain they grow belongs to Baisheng City, and they only receive wages.

Therefore, scenes of small households forming villages like in other cities hardly appear in Baisheng City.

"When we drove that monster out of the firewood stacks, the local hired farmers were terrified out of their wits. They had two or three hundred people constantly walking back and forth in the threshing ground, yet the monster remained hidden and did not come out to eat people."

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