However, this was only theoretical. It required having many information networks to achieve, but messenger eagles weren't so easily trained. Generally, only great nations' royal nobility and great clans or wealthy families could possess such information transmission methods.
Moreover, the messenger eagles' transmission method was very safe. In high altitude, naturally there was no way to approach them. Even when approaching ground level, the eagles' speed was very fast—those without certain strength couldn't catch them. Those with certain strength couldn't guard those points every day either. Important points would have guards, making interception almost impossible!
With the Fourth Prince's capabilities, raising one or two messenger eagles shouldn't be a problem, and his location was also very safe, at least having a safe distance for the eagles.
"The best place is in the Great Tang Empire—that's where materials are most complete. That's right, the Great Tang Empire. Others wouldn't think you'd capture me and take me there, and that's where I was originally going," Xiaoyao clapped his hands.
"..." The Fourth Prince fell silent. He had just said others wouldn't think of it, but unexpectedly Xiaoyao guessed it instantly. How could he bear this?
Indeed, he wanted to capture Xiaoyao and take him to the Great Tang Empire. The Great Tang Empire also had his secret hideouts, prepared for when he failed in the future and could receive protection in the Great Tang Empire. Not many people dared cause trouble on Great Tang Empire soil.
He hadn't expected it to come in handy now, though not for himself but for hiding a small servant. Of course, doing this was worthwhile. He could guess that Xiaoyao might be able to refine advanced pills. From the materials Xiaoyao had requested back then, he had sorted out a set of advanced pill materials—this definitely wasn't a coincidence.
Just knowing this point, even sacrificing this secret hideout would be worth it.
The reason the Fourth Prince was so certain was actually because of the Young Miss's pills and her progress along with Guxing and others. In fact, Xiaoyao and they hadn't used advanced pills—this was a misunderstanding, but the Fourth Prince happened to be accidentally correct.
"Xiaoyao, now I'm very interested in you. You're quite talented. Are you interested in becoming my retainer? In the future, the Heavenly Wind Kingdom will be my domain, and you'll become someone below one but above ten thousand!" The Fourth Prince looked at Xiaoyao. From the abilities Xiaoyao had demonstrated, he could no longer regard him as an ordinary servant, but as talent—talent he urgently wanted to recruit.
In the Fourth Prince's thinking, Xiaoyao was originally just a small servant. After hearing the conditions he offered, he would definitely immediately kowtow and submit to him!
However, he was disappointed. Xiaoyao didn't agree as he had imagined, but refused without the slightest hesitation—not even a bit of hesitation!
"Sorry, I'm not interested!"
"Why?" The Fourth Prince didn't understand. Didn't the other party understand his meaning? Even if his master came here and heard these conditions, they would be moved, let alone a small servant like him!
The Fourth Prince continued questioning: "Don't you understand what I'm saying? Don't you understand the conditions I'm offering you?"
"I understand and comprehend, But I'm not interested!" Xiaoyao replied casually.
"Why?" The Fourth Prince asked "why" again, making Xiaoyao wonder if the other party was some kind of "why" child.
"Didn't I say? I'm not interested!"
"..." Xiaoyao fell silent for a moment, then said: "I rather like the profession of being a servant, and I also quite like my current boss. I'm not considering changing jobs or switching employers, so don't have any recruiting ideas about me!"
"You're refusing my conditions just because you want to continue being your servant?" The Fourth Prince was stunned for quite a while before speaking. He couldn't believe there were such people in the world who would actually prefer to continue being a small servant rather than have wealth and honor.
Not only did this Fourth Prince not believe it, even the experienced experts present showed expressions of disbelief. They all felt this reason was really far-fetched!
"Mm!" Xiaoyao ignored everyone's strange looks and nodded heavily.
"Are you playing with me? Or are you not thinking clearly right now?" The Fourth Prince frowned.
"I'm very clear-headed, and I'm not interested in playing with you. I know what I'm doing. I just want to ask—is there room for negotiation? We could proceed in the form of cooperation for alchemy, and afterward I can act like nothing happened," Xiaoyao looked at the Fourth Prince.
"You'll never think of escaping for the rest of your life. Honestly, refine medicine for me. Do you think I'd give an alchemist who can refine advanced pills to others? You can only blame yourself for hiding too deeply. Otherwise, I wouldn't dare collect you—others wouldn't let me go," The Fourth Prince looked at Xiaoyao with mockery in his eyes, as if saying this was self-inflicted.
"If I said I can't refine advanced pills, would you kill me?" Xiaoyao asked tentatively.
"Yes!" The Fourth Prince said coldly.
"Fine, I can refine them. Take me away," Xiaoyao immediately said.
"Disperse the formation, Don't resist, or I don't mind injuring you first, then healing you—I don't mind waiting a bit longer," The Fourth Prince said. "Bind him, blindfold him, and when we reach the place, have him immediately refine pills."
"Yes," his subordinates responded.
"Could you not bind me? I'm very sensible and won't try to escape"
"Really, trust me! I swear by the Young Miss's name—I'll absolutely cooperate, won't escape, won't use tricks, won't..."
"Alright! Let's make a deal—could you bring my horse? It's my lifeline!"
"Where's your little monster beast?"
After binding Xiaoyao and throwing him on the horse, someone noticed Chi Chi was missing.
"That little glutton probably abandoned me as its master and ran away. Really disloyal," Xiaoyao said with great anguish at this moment. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ NoveI(F)ire.net
"Forget it, it's just a small monster beast. Let's go up!"
Great Tang Empire, Lingzhou City, Lingyue County!
Lingyue County was a very magical place. If one just heard this place's name, they would think Lingyue County was a county seat and would definitely be inferior to Lingzhou City, the prefecture seat.
But in reality, it was exactly the opposite—Lingzhou City was inferior to Lingyue County, and this gap wasn't just a little bit. Some people even knew Lingyue County but didn't know Lingzhou City.
Throughout the entire Great Tang Empire, many people knew Lingyue County. At the same time, everyone in a certain profession across the entire continent knew this place, because in this profession, Lingyue County was a holy land.
This profession was alchemists. This was the holy land of alchemists, because it had the most complete medicinal materials on the entire continent, and some important materials that could only be found here.
Lingyue County had a very special family—the continent's largest medicinal material clan. They cultivated many advanced medicinal materials needed for high-level pills. It was because of this family that Lingyue County formed its current scale, causing it to surpass Lingzhou City.
When this family originally chose this place, it was still an inconspicuous small county seat. The county's scale only had a few streets and one dilapidated city gate.
When this family chose to start here, this small county began to have different vitality. A medicinal material market began slowly developing. After several hundred years of development, this medicinal material market had become the largest on the entire continent. Due to this market's prosperity, the small county's development also began advancing rapidly.
The small county's population grew larger and larger. Naturally, there were more and more houses, more and more streets, more and more commercial facilities, more and more living facilities...
Until now, this small county—no, this super-sized county—was still developing its scale.
At the same time, this family was also developing, reaching heights others could only dream of. Although they were first with no one competing, they could still widen the gap with second place—from initially being similar, to later being much different, to being beyond reach, to now being utterly unattainable!
From this, one could see that this family's development here was a very correct decision, although many people couldn't understand it at first!
At that time, this family was already one of the top medicinal material families, operating in the Great Tang Empire's capital. The family was originally centered in the capital, but suddenly one day, this family abandoned their position at the time and migrated as a whole clan to this inconspicuous small place.
At this time, everyone was puzzled why this family would do this. Did they want to retreat from the world? Was the pressure too great?
Although at that time this family was already among the top medicinal material families, they were only medicinal material families—much different from pure martial world clans. Ultimately, they were just merchants, just doing business closely related to martial artists.
Perhaps it was because of this that this family abandoned their position in the capital. Originally, this kind of position wasn't top-tier anyway, restricted everywhere—better to be kings in this small place.
Yes, some people had this kind of thinking.
But regardless of how many reasons people speculated, basically everyone could determine one result—this family was finished and basically had no future.
Everyone thought that in Lingyue County, this family wouldn't develop.
But the result was beyond everyone's expectations. This family's development grew better and better, and they even caused the super medicinal material market that originally existed in the capital to migrate to Lingyue County, becoming the entire continent's largest medicinal material market.
Later, everyone discovered that this family came to Lingyue County for a reason—they didn't randomly find a small place. They had discovered a treasure land, a treasure land that could make them prosper.
Because this place, Lingyue County, actually had special environmental factors of unknown origin that could cultivate some advanced medicinal materials, even top-tier ones, and also...