Chapter 868: Bad news: The pond fishing was empty-handed. Good news: I caught sea fish in the pond.
Mo Cheng used the rare treasure to infuse spiritual energy into the earth for a whole day, causing the entire city to begin to come alive. Green grass had grown in the soil, and new buds had sprouted from the dead trees.
With this activation, the strange treasure operated for a whole day. At dusk, Mo Cheng slowly put away the hexagram ice crystal in his hand.
He used his spiritual sense to sense that the vitality in the city had almost recovered, and starting tomorrow the area outside the city would be used for farming.
The spiritual energy required in that place is much higher than that in the city.
But for Mo Cheng, there was no burden at all. Others thought that he was able to do this by activating the rare treasure, but in fact, he only needed to activate the [Arcane Aura] and stand there in a daze.
After putting away the six-pointed star ice crystal, Mo Cheng curled his lips imperceptibly, "You are so patient that you didn't do anything for so long."
Mo Cheng originally thought that someone would launch an attack today and try to snatch the rare treasure, but he didn't expect that he stood on the city wall from early morning to dusk, and no one came to disturb him.
Is he still observing in secret, or is he being too cautious?
No matter which one it was, for Mo Cheng today it was definitely a day of empty-handedness, and he didn't catch any fish.
But it doesn’t matter. Mo Cheng is very clear that those people will become more and more agitated as time goes by.
In the next two days, Mo Cheng will activate the rare treasures outside the city to restore the land that has been drained of its vitality. For those who covet the rare treasures, outside the city is the best opportunity to get them.
In contrast...
Mo Cheng looked towards several hidden places, sighed slightly, and thought to himself that it was a wrong decision.
According to the news, his physical strength is incomplete and his foundation is damaged. If he takes the rare treasure with him when he goes out, he must have someone accompany him.
But there was no one around him at this moment, and those who coveted the rare treasures were naturally not fools. They could easily see that this was a trap.
This is where the mistake lies. If there are people around, I need to hide my weakness and pretend that my foundation is damaged, and I won't be able to kill all the attackers.
If there was no one around, he could kill as much as he wanted, but others could see that this was a trap.
We can only place our hopes on the next two days. Mo Cheng is gambling, betting that those greedy guys will go there even though they know there is a tiger there.
He was also betting that the other party would be afraid, afraid that the rare treasure would be used with such high intensity by Mo Cheng, causing irreversible damage.
Moreover, the next two days will be outside the city. Compared to having to face Prefect Zhang inside the city, Mo Cheng, who is alone outside the city, is definitely the easiest person to deal with.
They could even just run away after robbing something, without even having to go back into the city.
With the idea that someone would come to his door soon, Mo Cheng slowly walked towards the prefect 's residence.
But the facts that followed told Mo Cheng that there seemed to be some problems with his thinking.
For two days, he was alone outside the city, activating the rare treasure and infusing the earth with spiritual energy, from early morning to dusk, and on the second day he even waited until sunset.
but……
There was no one around. Those who coveted the rare treasures seemed to have made an appointment and completely ignored Mo Cheng.
But this kind of disregard made Mo Cheng vaguely excited. He knew that the calmer the situation was, the more violent the attack he would face later.
After three consecutive days of activating the rare treasures, the surrounding land regained vitality. At the same time, the dissipation of the undercurrent also allowed the residents of the surrounding villages to return home. They wanted to carry out the final planting before the season was over.
As for the source of grain seeds, Prefect Zhang sent people to nearby cities to purchase them at a premium of five times.
But no matter how high the premium is, it is a necessary expenditure. Otherwise, even if the land recovers its vitality but there are no seeds to plant, famine will still be unavoidable a few months later.
Now Magistrate Zhang is extremely busy, trying his best to deal with the food shortage caused by the granary being contaminated by undercurrents. Mo Cheng can only shrug his shoulders and say that he can't help with this problem.
If he had natural skills like [Germination] or [Crazy Growth], it would be able to help a little, but Mo Cheng looked at his skill list...
There are quite a few skills that can cause a thousand miles of barren land and wipe out all human population.
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In the prefectural office, Prefect Zhang frowned as he looked at the man in front of him with white beard, red lips and white teeth. The man was a eunuch in the Northern Qi palace, responsible for bringing oral orders from the palace.
But after hearing what the eunuch said, Magistrate Zhang slammed the table, stood up and glared at him, "What did you say!"
The eunuch smiled slightly and repeated what he had just said, "The palace has issued an oral order that the rare treasure was born in Northern Qi because the emperor has great merits. The rare treasure welcomed the saint and ordered the student Mo Cheng to go to Changluo and present the rare treasure."
Magistrate Zhang did not say anything, but the official seal on the table trembled slightly, and the dragon and tiger energy gathered in the yamen.
Feeling the gathering of dragon and tiger energy, the eunuch was not afraid and even took a step forward, "Zhang Zhifu, please don't use this dragon and tiger energy to pressure me. Others may be afraid of you, but we are not."
As he spoke, the dragon and tiger energies in the yamen suddenly split into two, constantly entangled and suppressing each other.
Prefect Zhang's expression was extremely grim. "The palace asked you to come here just to talk about this shit. What about the matter with the Fourth Prince?"
"What the prefect said, could it be the merits of the saints..."
"Don't tell me this. His Majesty can't hear your flattery from such a long distance. And don't think I don't know what role you played in this."
Originally, he thought that the eunuchs in the palace had come at full speed to give him an explanation, but he did not expect that the reason they came was to ask for the rare treasure in Mo Cheng's hand.
"Zhang Zhifu..." the eunuch sneered, "What you said is really treasonous, but do you want to rebel?"
"I have written a letter to my teacher, fellow townsmen, and colleagues, explaining clearly what the Fourth Prince did to me. If you continue to speak to me like this, tomorrow there will be censors in the court who will accuse the eunuchs in the inner palace of inciting the prince to rebel."
"You meddle in the emperor's family affairs. I wonder if you, a treacherous eunuch, will still have your head chopped off?"
The eunuchs know how to put accusations on people, and the officials in the court know it even better than the eunuchs.
Prefect Zhang didn't say much, and pointed directly to the door, "If the palace's oral order is not related to the Fourth Prince, then you eunuch party, get out of the city, as far away as you can!"
Prefect Zhang had his own backers in the court, and would naturally get along well with the eunuchs when there were no conflicts. However, the oral order from the palace conveyed by the eunuch made Prefect Zhang not want to see this eunuch in the city.
As he spoke, Magistrate Zhang held down the official seal and said, "If you don't leave, I will ask you to stay in the clinic for ten days or half a month."
The threat was extremely clear.
"Good job Zhang Junmao, we'll see!"
"I wonder how long you can protect that student!"
The eunuch knew that if a conflict broke out in the city, he would definitely not be a match for a powerful official like Prefect Zhang who had jurisdiction over the entire area, so he left immediately.
The eunuchs knew one thing very well, that is, the prefect was not allowed to leave his jurisdiction without necessary things. As long as Mo Cheng dared to leave this place, the eunuchs had plenty of ways to deal with him.
Prefect Zhang was also very clear about this.
That night, Magistrate Zhang told Mo Cheng in his study what had happened that day.
