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That Medusa had sent Yue Mei to investigate the Xiao Clan, Xiao Lin naturally did not know!
However, even if he did know, Xiao Lin would not care too much anyway. The current Xiao Clan was developing very steadily, and its reputation outside was also very good. Xiao Lin was not afraid of his future granddaughter-in-law's investigation at all!
At this moment, after leaving the imperial palace of the Holy City of the Snake-People Clan, Xiao Lin was once again escorted out of the Tagore Desert by Yan Ci, who was one of the Eight Great Commanders.
Only, throughout this journey, the look in Yan Ci's eyes as he watched Xiao Lin was considerably complex. He had not expected that, with the attitude of just giving it a try, Xiao Lin had actually managed to negotiate and finalize the cooperation matters with their Queen!
In this way, between the two sides, they could also be considered allies. To be honest, if it had been earlier, Yan Ci would never have believed even if he were beaten to death that their Snake-People Clan would form an alliance with a human force.
This matter would definitely have an impact on the Snake-People Clan as well.
It was only because Medusa held absolute authority over the Snake-People Clan; otherwise, this matter of the Xiao Clan cooperating with the Snake-People Clan might not have necessarily passed.
As for the aftermath, if the Xiao Clan really backstabbed the Snake-People Clan, then it was estimated that Medusa's prestige within the Snake-People Clan would also drop by a large margin. Of course, these were merely hypotheses.
As long as Xiao Lin was still around, the Xiao Clan could not possibly do such a backstabbing thing!
"Hum— Xiao Lin, I hope you are sincerely cooperating with my Snake-People Clan, otherwise, my Snake-People Clan will definitely retaliate against you with all our might!"
Before escorting Xiao Lin out of the border of the Tagore Desert, Yan Ci uttered harsh words.
In addition, Yan Ci originally wanted to keep calling Xiao Lin "human". However, considering that their Snake-People Clan had already reached an initial cooperation with the Xiao Clan, he forcefully changed the form of address.
"Commander Yan Ci, you are welcome to visit my Xiao Clan as guests!"
Xiao Lin did not give a reply to Yan Ci's words, but instead extended an invitation with a smile.
At this very moment, saying any more guarantees would be useless.
Everything still had to be spoken through practical actions!
Xiao Lin believed that after the Snake-People Clan and the Xiao Clan cooperated for a period of time, they would drop their prejudice against the Xiao Clan.
The human race did not equal the Xiao Clan!
Xiao Lin went back.
After silently watching Xiao Lin's back for a while, Yan Ci also turned around and returned into the Tagore Desert.
Very quickly, Xiao Lin returned to the Xiao Clan.
As for the matter of Xiao Lin going to the Snake-People Clan to negotiate with Queen Medusa, the upper echelon of the Xiao Clan by now already knew about it.
Sure enough, just as he returned, the several Elders of the Xiao Clan, also including the husband and wife Xiao Zhan and Yang Xiyue, all crowded around him.
"Father, are you alright?"
"That's great, Father, you have returned safely."
"Clan Leader, you scared us to death!"
"Yeah, Clan Leader, how could you act so recklessly?"
"It's too dangerous, Clan Leader, you can never do this again in the future!"
"You are the pillar of our Xiao Clan, our Xiao Clan can do without anyone, but we cannot do without you!"
"Next time there is this kind of thing, just let me go, Clan Leader!"
"At worst, we can just open up a new trade route, Clan Leader, there is no need for you to take this risk!"
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Surprisingly, not to mention the husband and wife Xiao Zhan and Yang Xiyue, among these high-level Elders of the Xiao Clan, at this moment, not a single person cared about whether the transaction with the Snake-People Clan was successful or not.
But instead they were all caring about Xiao Lin's safety.
This made Xiao Lin's heart fill with emotion as well.
Such a Xiao Clan was worth his protection and worth his dedication, was it not? It could be said that the current Xiao Clan was absolutely united to the point where they could not be more united!
This point could be seen right now from the present situation.
"Alright, alright, what does it look like for a group of you to gather here? Have all those matters of the Xiao Clan been handled completely? I have already returned safely, what are you blindly worrying about?"
Although his words were stated this way, Xiao Lin was smiling.
Immediately, after Xiao Lin dismissed everyone, the various high-level Elders departed one after another. As for the cooperation matters with the Snake-People Clan, Xiao Lin put the Elder of the Xiao Clan's Medicinal Pill Hall, Xiao Li, in charge.
By letting a female handle this type of matter, they would usually be a bit more meticulous.
After receiving this order from Clan Leader Xiao Lin, Xiao Li also immediately went to make preparations. In two days, Xiao Li would likely lead a portion of the clan members to the Snake-People Clan to discuss the specific details of the cooperation.
Just like that, the days Xiao Lin spent staying in the Xiao Clan became peaceful once again.
Once Xiao Li took a trip to the Snake-People Clan and returned, the matters regarding the cooperation with the Snake-People Clan were considered completely finalized.
After the merchant caravan on the Xiao Clan's side finished its formation, it could finally enter the Tagore Desert completely unobstructed. Not only that, but the Snake-People Clan also dispatched quite a few clan members to act as guards for the merchant caravan.
With the guards from the Snake-People Clan present, whenever the merchant caravan passed through certain territories where bandit forces were entrenched, the other party did not dare to make a move at all!
This not only greatly saved the travel time of the merchant caravan, but also saved the manpower of the Xiao Clan. Of course, when a single merchant run was completed and the Xiao Clan delivered half of the net profits from the completed run into the hands of the Snake-People Clan.
Those voices within the internal ranks of the Snake-People Clan that previously had quite a few complaints about cooperating with the Xiao Clan vanished entirely!
Even Queen Medusa breathed a sigh of relief regarding this.
She had actually been somewhat worried that the Xiao Clan would not keep their word. Although the results of Yue Mei's investigation showed that the Xiao Clan's reputation within the Jia Ma Empire was very good.
However, the two sides belonged to different races after all, and Medusa could not guarantee that the Xiao Clan's good reputation would remain the same toward the Snake-People Clan!
Fortunately, after completing one merchant run, that heart Medusa had been hanging in suspense could be considered to have basically landed on solid ground.
If this happened two or three more times, it was believed that the Snake-People Clan, having tasted the sweetness—from Queen Medusa, the Elders, and the Commanders at the top, down to every single ordinary Snake-Person—would no longer have any criticism toward this matter!
In fact, in the future, the Xiao Clan's merchant caravan might even expand the scale of its trade. In this way, the benefits the Snake-People Clan could obtain would be even greater. Just like that, the cooperation between the Xiao Clan and the Snake-People Clan stepped onto the right track.
What about Xiao Lin?
Staying in the Xiao Clan, on ordinary days, besides accompanying his eldest grandson Xiao Ding to play, he also had one more thing to do.
That was to manufacture high-level formation plates!
Do not forget, there was still less than a year left before the opening date of the Spatial Trade Fair over on the Central Plains. Xiao Lin did not want a situation where he took a fancy to something when the time came, but did not have the money to trade for it.
This money, naturally, referred to all kinds of precious resources, which included medicinal pills and formation plates.
These were hard currencies!
As for medicinal pills, Xiao Lin did not know how to refine them.
After all, he was not an alchemist.
Even if he had some high-level medicinal pills in his hands, at that kind of occasion, it was estimated that they would still not be enough to use. But manufacturing formation plates, to Xiao Lin, was without any pressure.
During his last trip to the Central Plains, Xiao Lin had not only collected materials for refining weapons along the way, but also collected things for manufacturing high-level formation plates!
One must know that it was just like refining pills.
The higher the level of the formation plate, the higher the level of the materials required for its manufacture would definitely be. Fortunately, during his journey to the Central Plains, Xiao Lin had collected quite a lot of materials for manufacturing high-level formation plates.
Therefore, in the following period of time, Xiao Lin naturally had to begin manufacturing high-level formation plates with all his might. These formation plates were exactly what Xiao Lin would hold in his hands to use as money at the Spatial Trade Fair!
"Then, next, let's begin manufacturing Rank 4 and Rank 5 formation plates!"
A Rank 4 grand formation, in the hands of a formation master, could already contend against a Dou Zong powerhouse.
As for a Rank 5 grand formation, even if no one was controlling it, it could block a Dou Zun powerhouse for a certain period of time; if someone was controlling it, suppressing a Dou Zun powerhouse would not be a difficult matter!
A formation plate, on the other hand, could allow a non-formation master to control a formation, so would you say it was valuable?
This was Xiao Lin's money-making technique.
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