Qianye and Li Kuanglan understood after a little thought. Reproduction is not a problem at all for the human race, but it is a big problem for the dark race. The more powerful the bloodline, the harder it is to get offspring. Even prince and duke-level powerhouses cannot guarantee that all offspring will have strong bloodlines. In fact, it is normal for descendants to have much worse bloodlines than their ancestors. This has caused the dark powerhouses to worry about their descendants.
Among the four dark races, the devils are notoriously difficult to reproduce. Once this kind of wine is produced, one can imagine how crazy the strong demons will be.
However, Qianye had other concerns, and said, "If we sell this kind of wine to the demon descendants, wouldn't it increase the number of their powerhouses? Wouldn't this be detrimental to the empire?"
Ji Tianqing said: "You don't know how crazy those demon clans are about their descendants. We sell this wine to them, and they can ask the price at will. They can get whatever they want. Even if they only need magic iron, they can squeeze their strategic resources. It's also good. Procreating offspring is not a matter of one or two years, and it takes decades or even hundreds of years for the offspring of the Eternal Night Race to grow up. What we win is the current advantage."
This makes sense. But in the long run, there may be a legacy of raising tigers.
Ji Tianqing knew what Qianye was thinking, and said, "What are you afraid of? There are more demons, so we just need to kill a few more. What, do you have no confidence in yourself, or in us?"
What Qianye was thinking about was the night in the city of the unfallen, the scene where he and the witch confronted each other across the air. To this day, he still remembers the instinctive trembling at that moment. That is life's instinctive fear of destruction. It's just that all the fears at that time were suppressed, and Qianye at that time never returned.
It's just that he didn't expect so many things to happen later, and the trajectory of his life changed completely at that moment.
Demons, an ancient race, have accumulated countless secrets for thousands of years. The only thing limiting them is their low reproductive capacity. But the key to unlock the shackles is hidden deep in the maelstrom. What if the key falls into the hands of the demons
"No, you can't sell it to a demon!" Qianye said firmly.
"The blood race, the nerubians and werewolves are quite capable of giving birth, and they can't afford a good price." Ji Tianqing was still thinking about it.
"No matter which race it is sold to, it is possible for their strong to get descendants."
"There are so many descendants, how many can be compared to the ancestors? If you are really worried about the empire, then come back. As long as the empire has you, the opposite is that every duke will have one more descendant, and we are not afraid."
Although Ji Tianqing's words were meant as a joke, they were also true to a certain extent. Qianye's combat strength at this moment has long been able to compete with the strongest of the younger generation of the two camps. Today's Qianye can no longer be described as a young genius. No matter where he is placed, he has the ability to stand alone. If you really want to work hard, the god general who has just been promoted may also be in danger of falling.
As long as Qianye returns to the empire, the empire will immediately gain a core force. In time, it would be impossible for Qianye to start a family by himself.
But when thinking of the empire, Qianye would think of Yetong in the cell. The pain was indescribable, it was so painful that he gave up his family, his brother, and walked away to the neutral land alone with Ye Tong.
From the moment he left, he had no intention of going back. Qianye is still willing to fight with his former brothers, willing to fight against powerful enemies with a confidante like Kuanglan Tianqing, but he is absolutely unwilling to serve the empire, let alone accept orders from the military. In fact, not uprooting the forces that the Imperial Army had planted in the neutral ground was already the result of being tolerant for Song Zining's sake.
Therefore, Qianye remained silent about Ji Tianqing's proposal to return to the empire.
Li Kuanglan interjected at this time: "If you're worried about your blood status, that's not a problem. It's easy to change your identity, and no one will bother you about this matter."
Qianye's face darkened, and he said coldly: "Why should I change my identity? Is it because I am afraid of the military department? I am in a neutral place, and the military department wants to kill me, just send someone. Let me change their appearance , that's a no-brainer!"
Li Kuanglan knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he turned his head away, not daring to look at Qianye again.
Ji Tianqing hurriedly brought the topic back, and said: "These wines actually have other uses. Well, they can greatly increase the desire to reproduce, but it's not just to increase desire, but to improve the vitality of the body in all aspects. Thereby increasing the probability of reproduction. In fact, its improvement of the body is not limited to prolonging life. In other words, drinking this wine often will help break through the bottleneck in cultivation."
Qianye wondered: "Why didn't I feel it?" He also tasted a small sip, but he didn't realize the effect of improving the body in an all-round way that Ji Tianqing said.
Ji Tianqing glared at him and said, "A monster like you still needs to improve your body?"
Qianye suddenly realized that his body had been transformed by Burning Gold Blood first, and it was already the physique of an ancient blood race. Afterwards, there was the tempering of the morning light, and the quality could be improved again. Only in this way can one move freely in the depths of the maelstrom and independently fight against the cold night. This kind of body is no longer something that ginkgo wine can improve.
But it can increase the probability of breaking through the bottleneck, which is also an extremely useful effect, enough to make countless people in the empire who are stuck at the Warrior Pass or God General Pass go crazy. However, in comparison, it is still not as valuable as the effect of multiplying offspring.
Ji Tianqing rolled her eyes and said, "Qianye, we don't need to sell it, but others will. As long as this kind of wine appears, there is no way to prevent it from flowing into the hands of the demons. Rather than letting the money be taken by those black-hearted businessmen, it is better We earn it ourselves. At least, we will know where to spend the profits we get."
These words sounded reasonable, but Qianye always felt that something was wrong.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, this is the practice of exchanging the long-term for the present. It takes at least a hundred years for the demon descendants to increase their descendants to cultivate them into talents. And in exchange for ginkgo wine, the price they paid was to tighten the current strategic resources, thereby weakening the current war strength. The empire increased its war power accordingly.
In other words, if the empire can seize the opportunity within a hundred years and grow bigger in one fell swoop, it will be able to curb the prosperity of the demons a hundred years later. If it fails to develop, then a hundred years later it will have to deal with an even more difficult situation.
In the final analysis, Ji Tianqing still trusted herself and the young strong men of the same generation more. She hopes that history can be created in her own hands, so she is willing to do everything possible, even taking risks, to increase the resources in her hands.
Qianye also wanted to understand this truth, but he did not agree with this approach. This move is still too risky, if another witch appears from the demon descendant, it may change the entire situation of Yongye. But Ji Tianqing didn't seem to care about it, and she didn't know whether she had confidence in herself or Qianye.
Ji Tianqing didn't intend to continue the fight, but said: "On the way back, we will collect as much resources as possible. The next time we want to come here, we don't know when it will be."
Qianye also guessed at this moment, the area where the three of them are currently in, I am afraid that only the generals can survive, and they cannot be weak generals. Thinking about it again, apart from him having no problems, Li Kuanglan and Ji Tianqing might be promoted to the rank of god general in a few years. The channel of the maelstrom is extremely sensitive to the cultivation base of the original force. Once it crosses the gate of the gods, it will cause a violent storm of the original force when passing through the channel. Therefore, every time the Eternal Night Empire entered the maelstrom, it was mainly young geniuses below the general level.
Perhaps because of this, the people who entered the maelstrom were not strong enough to go deep into this area, and they did not find such a fetish as Bai Guo.
Qianye suddenly remembered something, and said, "The three of us entered the area very close, but what about the others? Where did they all go?"
Ji Tianqing and Li Kuanglan looked at each other, obviously they had already guessed about this issue. Ji Tianqing said in a calm voice, "Do you think that if other people fall near us, will they survive?"
"really."
Qianye had seen people from aristocratic families and even the imperial family who needed to enter the maelstrom. Although I don't know the exact identity, I have probably seen them before. The strength of these people is far from that of Li Kuanglan and Ji Tianqing. Entering such a harsh world, they might not even be able to survive the first night.
In this world, dead people don't even keep their corpses. During the day, they will become food for various creatures, and they will be eaten until there are no bones left. Even armor or weapons may be extremely strong by the standards of the empire, but in this world, the hardness of any tree surpasses the armor alloy of a battleship, not to mention stone, or even the metal weapons used by the natives up.
"Should we bring some indigenous weapons back?" Qianye is not a weapon expert, but instinctively feels that the metal in this world should be different.
"We can't take that much. We can only take as much as we can fit in the space equipment. On the way back, when passing through the passage, what we can take is weight rather than size. The gravity in the maelstrom passage can reach up to Dozens of times, that is to say, even with your weight-bearing capacity, you can't carry too many things."
Li Kuanglan also said: "Metals, wood, and even random stones here are good strategic resources to return to the empire. It's a pity that our ability is really limited, and we can't take away those rare resources, let alone such large resources. Yes. Don’t you have a map of the Tiansun Grassland of the Song Clan? You’ll know when you go there. If you can take out 1% of what’s produced there, it’s pretty good.”
"Tiansun Grassland! Do you have the location of Tiansun Grassland?" Ji Tianqing was instantly excited.
"What do you want to do?" Qianye suddenly became vigilant.
"Of course I want to grab one!" Ji Tianqing didn't seem to notice the change in Qianye's expression at all, and said, "Tiansun Grassland produces many kinds of precious medicines, all of which are good things. More importantly, there are several kinds of medicines in it It can be added to the ginkgo wine in our hands to further strengthen the effect. Anyway, the Song Clan doesn't have the ability to take it out, so what does it matter if we get some?"
"This, it's not very good." Qianye smiled bitterly.
"There's nothing wrong with it. Anyway, Song Zining gave you this map for you to get it. It's just that you have two more helpers now, so what's wrong with getting more?" Li Kuanglan said it as a matter of course.