Outside Chang'an City, a tall tree with a height of 600 meters stands tall and lush.
If one walks underneath, one cannot help but feel that the tree is blocking out the sky and the sun.
There is a three-foot-high fence surrounding the big tree.
This fence is no ordinary fence, but a peerless formation arranged by Lin Ze himself, the last protective umbrella of the Jianmu Sacred Tree.
Under the saint, even if the third realm of heaven comes, there is no way to break through Lin Zebu's formation and harm the sacred tree of Jianmu.
After all, there was the last demon emperor cutting off the Jianmu Sacred Tree, so Lin Ze had to be careful.
Outside the fence were one hundred and eight fully armed guards.
Everyone has a sixth-level martial arts cultivation, and they are responsible for fertilizing the Jianmu Sacred Tree and controlling the number of people who worship the Jianmu Sacred Tree every day.
Lin Ze's method of controlling the number of worshippers is very simple. Everyone who comes is given a piece of paper with a number written on it.
Every day, people are released in order of numbers to worship in front of the Jianmu sacred tree until the number reaches 10,000.
If there are people who do not turn up on the same day, it will be postponed to the next day. If the number is passed and the person does not come, it will be deemed as invalid.
In this way, the person who has received the number can roughly calculate when it will be their turn, and there is no need to wait until the date is close to take a look.
In just one year, the number was issued to nine digits.
Further outside, there is the yamen servant of the third captain Anfu.
These people assisted the Praetorian Guards in maintaining order, preventing people from causing trouble, and privately stealing the papers with the first numbers and selling them for money.
At first, some people were greedy for profit, and they did do similar things. Until Lin Ze issued an order to send the caught people and their families to hard labor camps, and confiscated all their property, there was basically no trace of them.
Some money can only be spent if you have the life to take it.
Three hundred meters away from the Jianmu Sacred Tree, a small house covering an area of three acres was built very unexpectedly.
This house was specially built by Lin Ze. Zhuang Zhou usually lived in it and guarded the sacred Jianmu tree.
After all, the formations set up by Lin Ze can only block heavenly beings, but not saints. If the Jianmu sacred tree that he worked so hard to cultivate was cut in half by someone, Lin Ze would probably be angry to death.
Just in case, Lin Ze and Zhuang Zhou would take turns to come and watch.
And today, it happened to be Zhuang Zhou's turn.
Lin Ze entered the house quietly without alerting the guards guarding the Jianmu Sacred Tree.
Zhuang Zhou, who was meditating for enlightenment, suddenly woke up. He opened his eyes and looked at Lin Ze in front of him. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Junior brother, your cultivation is getting more and more advanced."
Lin Ze smiled and said: "No matter how high you are, you can't be higher than senior brother."
Previously, Lin Ze felt that Zhuang Zhou had not long been promoted to the Saint Realm and his cultivation level should not be too high. However, this year, as his cultivation level improved, he felt that Zhuang Zhou was unfathomable.
The ignorant are fearless, which may be what it means.
Zhuang Zhou did not answer, but asked: "Junior brother, are you here because the growth rate of the Jianmu Sacred Tree suddenly slowed down?"
Lin Ze nodded and said, "That's right. Senior brother, do you have any opinion on this?"
Zhuang Zhou shook his head slightly and said: "I can't say what I think. I asked Wu Fan to tell his junior brother about this guess. It is very likely that the Jianmu Sacred Tree has entered the second stage, and the daily growth limit has been reduced."
Lin Ze frowned slightly and said: "It's less than two hundred feet. Logically speaking, it should be far away from the second stage. It has to be more than three hundred feet."
"Otherwise, at the end of the ten stages, the Jianmu Sacred Tree will not even reach 10,000 meters. How can it reach the Heaven Realm and connect to the Nine Netherworld?"
Zhuang Zhou laughed when he heard this and said: "Junior brother, what you said is wrong. Whether the Jianmu Sacred Tree can reach up to the heaven and down to the Nine Netherworlds has no direct causal relationship with the height."
"The end of the ten stages means that the Jianmu Sacred Tree has fully grown and possesses the power to connect heaven, earth and the world."
"Now that we have entered the second stage in less than a year, not only is it not a bad thing, it is actually a good thing. Junior Brother should be happy."
Lin Ze quickly browsed through the information he received when he started to revive the Jianmu Sacred Tree a year ago, and found that what Zhuang Zhou said was indeed recorded.
"But junior brother remembers that the second stage of building the sacred tree is after 330 feet. Now it is nearly half ahead of schedule. Is it okay?"
Three hundred and thirty feet, Lin Ze did not just come up with it out of thin air, but it was recorded in the information he received.
Zhuang Zhou looked thoughtful, and said hesitantly: "The ancient books record that it is indeed three hundred and thirty feet. Am I wrong in my guess?"
"It shouldn't be. The daily upper limit for each stage is fixed. Under the same conditions, there is no reason why the upper limit should be reduced by 30%."
Lin Ze also looked confused: "Maybe it's because the treasures of heaven and earth and the power of faith are missing."
Zhuang Zhou nodded slightly: "This possibility cannot be ruled out, but whether it is because of this, we have to observe tomorrow."
Lin Ze immediately made the decision: "There is no rush, so let's wait one more day and see what happens."
"The heavenly materials and earthly treasures invested today will be doubled, and the people who worship the Jianmu sacred tree will also be doubled. Junior brother will make arrangements immediately."
After saying this, Lin Ze immediately sent a message to the leader of the guards guarding the Jianmu Sacred Tree.
The leader of the imperial guard listened attentively for a while, bowed in the direction of Chang'an and said: "The general will obey the order."
Then the leader of the imperial guards walked up to the people who were queuing up to receive their numbers and said loudly: "Your Majesty has just sent an order to the general, saying that there will be an additional 10,000 places to worship the sacred tree today."
"As the saying goes, it's better to choose a day than to hit it. With these quotas, Your Majesty means to choose from among you. It's really an advantage for you."
"Come here, immediately speed up the production of 10,000 pieces of paper numbered from 01 to 10,000, and distribute them on site until supplies last."
Ordinary people queuing up to receive their numbers immediately cheered and shouted: "Long live your Majesty, long live the Western Qin Dynasty."
Lin Ze listened on the sidelines and his face turned dark. A bunch of unruly people, who do you look down on? Do I and Xi Qin only have long live?
After the guard leader finished speaking, a guard soldier whispered: "General, wouldn't it be bad to do this? Wouldn't it be unfair to those with numbers in front?"
The leader of the imperial guards gave his men a cold look and said with great disgust: "How dare you disobey His Majesty's will? Do you think your neck is too hard and you can't stop cutting it?"
The guard soldier's face turned pale, his head became dizzy and he said, "Is this really your Majesty's will?"
The face of the leader of the imperial guards changed greatly: "Asshole, if it were not His Majesty's will, would I dare to falsely pass on the imperial edict?"
"Come here, Meng Ran ignored the superior's order and was disrespectful to the superior. He pulled down the cane and slapped fifty military sticks to make a warning to others."
The Guards soldiers were immediately pulled aside and served with big sticks as thick as fists.
The leader of the imperial guards spat hard at the punished men. They are brainless. How many brains in labor and management dare to falsely pass on the imperial edict? Isn't it a good thing to live?
Lin Ze saw the incident involving the Imperial Guards, but did not intervene.
From Lin Ze's perspective, there really aren't many things in the world that he cares about.
Lin Ze then took out a jade plaque from his arms and threw it at Wu Fan, who was in the palace dozens of miles away.
"Take my jade pendant and go to the inner treasury to collect 1,500 pieces of medium-grade heavenly materials and earthly treasures, and transport them to the sacred tree outside the city as quickly as possible without any mistakes."
Wu Fan took the jade pendant with both hands. He was stunned for a moment, then bowed in the direction of the Jianmu Sacred Tree outside the city: "I obey the decree."
Wu Fan then mobilized a team of Jin Yiwei elites, dragged the carriage, and headed straight for the inner treasury.
The imperial guards and chamberlains guarding the inner treasury saw Wu Fan approaching from a distance with a group of guards in royal robes, and they immediately said loudly: "The important place of the inner treasury is not allowed to be approached by ordinary people except by His Majesty's decree. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed without mercy.
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Wu Fan raised his jade pendant high and shouted: "According to your Majesty's order, a batch of supplies will be mobilized to leave the city. Please cooperate with your colleagues."