Chapter 68: A Plea for Help from Humanity (10,000 words, five updates!)

After confirming the direction, Chen Mo summoned the Snow-Treading Fox leader and the Frost Sheep leader.

Chen Mo planned to have the Snow-Treading Fox clan take charge of breeding animals suitable for domestication and establishing experimental pastures.

After all, among all of Chen Mo's subordinate clans, the Snow-Treading Fox clan was considered the intelligent one.

"Your Majesty, what business do you have with me?"

Bing Li lowered her head and asked respectfully.

"Bing Li, I plan to establish several pastures and develop animal husbandry."

Chen Mo said.

"Ying~" (Your Majesty, I do have some experience in this area.) The Snow-Treading Fox leader revealed a faint smile and said, "In our era, my clansmen and I raised a semi-extraordinary creature called the Snow Spirit Rabbit."

The Snow-Treading Foxes lived in the Age of Dharma Decline; spiritual energy had dried up, and ordinary mortal breeds could not awaken to the extraordinary at all.

And most living extraordinary creatures were descendants of kings, and the Great Snow Mountain decreed that king bloodlines were not permitted to slaughter one another.

Under these circumstances, wanting to eat extraordinary flesh was as difficult as ascending to heaven.

So the Snow-Treading Foxes found many female rabbits of mortal breed, then coerced and enticed a Snow Spirit Rabbit, shutting it in a cave every day with those female rabbits to mate.

Through this Snow Spirit Rabbit's efforts, these female rabbits later gave birth to a batch of semi-extraordinary Snow Spirit Rabbits.

This batch of Snow Spirit Rabbits had not awakened spiritual intelligence, but their flesh contained ice-type spiritual power.

And most importantly, the taste was excellent! This successfully solved the problem of extraordinary flesh!

"Then I'll leave this matter in your charge. You can go to the human world or the grasslands and capture some extraordinary livestock suitable for penning, and try breeding them."

Chen Mo nodded.

He had originally assigned the Snow-Treading Fox clan to animal husbandry purely because they were relatively intelligent; he never expected they actually had husbandry experience, which was naturally all the better.

"Ying!" (King, the Snow-Treading Fox clan will not disappoint you.) "Try to find some livestock with astonishing reproduction or growth rates for breeding. Whether or not they are extraordinary creatures is unimportant."

Chen Mo added another reminder.

With the current spiritual energy density, even ordinary mortal breeds, after eating spiritual herbs for a period of time, could rapidly and automatically grow into extraordinary creatures!

Then, Chen Mo's gaze turned to the Frost Sheep leader beside him.

"Roar?" (Frost Sheep leader, do you know of any plants that can make livestock grow faster, or increase their reproduction rate?)

"Baa~" (King, if it's for raising livestock, ice grass might meet your requirements, baa~) The Frost Sheep leader thought for a moment and replied.

Then it took out a seed from the seed ice jar it carried with it and began catalyzing it on the spot.

With the watering of spiritual rain, the seed broke through its sprout and rapidly grew.

Before long, a "spiritual herb" resembling foxtail grass appeared before Chen Mo's eyes.

This spiritual plant called ice grass had extremely strong vitality; with just a tiny bit of ice-type spiritual power, it could survive.

In their era of exhausted spiritual energy, this was the only spiritual plant still visible on the Great Snow Mountain.

"Baa!" (Because this grass has a very low ice-type spiritual power content, it is very easily digested. Herbivorous creatures can eat about 30% of their own body weight in snow grass per day. As for me, I can eat over 200kg a day!) To demonstrate ice grass's easily absorbed characteristics, the Frost Sheep leader directly used itself as an example.

In their era, this had once been the Frost Sheep leader's favorite.

Of course, the Frost Sheep, which now cultivated many precious spiritual plants, no longer ate snow grass.

The difference between delicacies and coarse fare.

"Baa—" (King, moreover, this spiritual herb grows extremely fast. If catalyzed with the Minor Spirit Rain Art, it only takes 10 minutes to mature, baa~)

The Frost Sheep leader continued to explain.

Chen Mo nodded.

"Roar!" (Then first plant this ice grass on the pasture. In addition, try to cultivate spiritual plants that can accelerate the fertilization and reproduction rate of creatures such as chickens, ducks, pigs, and sheep.) "Baa~" (Okay, baa~) Although the spiritual plants the Ice Lion King asked it to cultivate were very strange, the Frost Sheep leader still agreed.

"Roar!" (Furthermore, besides the pasture, I also plan to open two more experimental farms on the grassland below the snow mountain to grow various spiritual plants. Frost Sheep leader, you will be in charge of the farms' construction.) The land suitable for growing spiritual plants on the Great Snow Mountain was ultimately limited; relying solely on the output of Frost Sheep Mountain could already barely supply so many herbivorous extraordinary creatures.

Besides pastures, farms also needed to be established together! And having farms adjacent to pastures would be much more convenient as well.

At this time, crisp wind chime sounds came from outside the ice cave, and several spiritual plants resembling morning glories swayed gently.

This was a spiritual plant "doorbell" that Chen Mo had an Ice Ghost install for himself.

The little black panther Luna flew in.

"Roar!" (Father, there are humans who wish to see you!)

"Roar!" (Bring him in!)

Soon, a young Black officer with a buzz cut, wearing a light green military uniform, walked in.

This was Karam's first time seeing the Ice Lion King again after half a month.

Compared to before, the Ice Lion King's body had become even more massive, and the aura it exuded made it impossible to raise even a single thought of resisting it.

It had become even more powerful.

"Lion King Your Majesty, I am very glad to see you again."

Karam lowered his head to show respect.

At this time, the little ice space sprite beside the Ice Lion King flapped its wings and brought the other end of the Spirit-Communicating Ice Silkworm Silk before Karam.

"Roar!" (State your purpose.) Chen Mo's ice-blue lion eyes gazed at Karam.

"Lion King, I represent Snow City in requesting your help. I hope you can take in a portion of humans."

These past days, the survivors of Tanzanira had already established the prototype of a city on Snow Mountain No. 3, calling it Snow City.

Karam spoke, then began to explain the reason.

These past days, because the revival of spiritual energy had intensified, rat swarms and beast tides had erupted one after another, making the cities outside extremely dangerous.

Many survivors had fled to Great Snow Mountain No. 3 for refuge.

At first, Great Snow Mountain No. 3, which lacked people, naturally welcomed these people joining.

But as more and more people fled to Great Snow Mountain No. 3, it had now far exceeded the Great Snow Mountain's population limit!

Food, management, resources, violence... all kinds of problems emerged endlessly.

Of course, the most important thing is still food.

The food we brought was quickly consumed, and the current No. 3 Great Snow Mountain simply cannot support so many people!

The Tan Sang Ni La military ultimately decided to close off the Great Snow Mountain, allowing exit but not entry.

But faced with ever more people coming to seek refuge, they could not bear to abandon them.

After much thought, they still decided to ask the Ice Lion King, this former ally, whether he would be willing to help them ease the population pressure.

After all, the Lion King had occupied so much territory of the Great Snow Mountain; freeing up just a small area could let many people survive.

For this, even if it meant letting them suffer a major loss, they were willing.

"As an exchange, we can provide you with a batch of monster cores from supernatural beings."

Kalamu opened his backpack; inside were five high-level monster cores of supernatural beings.

(End of chapter)