Love to work

Everyone stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do.

From a huge palace not far away, an immortal in a purple dress with a body as big as a giant tower walked out.

Everyone stood there in a daze, which made Xu Shulou a little confused: "Aren't you going to run?"

"You can't run away," the fairy beside shuddered, "I saw someone run away before, and it would be miserable if he was caught."

Xu Shulou was particularly curious: "What kind of death would be more miserable than being ground into medicine?"

"..." Perhaps because she thought she was too good at chatting, the fairy shuddered again and ignored her.

The Purple Skirt Immortal quickly approached and looked down at the rabbit that had fallen to the ground without making a sound: "Who did this?"

Everyone trembled under her gaze.

Everyone has their own share of responsibility. Xu Shulou sighed and took a step forward: "I killed him."

"Oh?" The purple-skirted fairy seemed to glance down at her, her tone was calm, with neither sadness nor anger, she just said lightly, "Since you killed it, then you should take its place."

“…”

"come over."

Xu Shulou followed in bewilderment, until the purple-skirted fairy brought him into the palace, held him in her arms and caressed him twice, and then he understood the fairy's intentions. He spoke with difficulty: "I thought the fairy wanted me to pound medicine for it."

A very cold voice sounded above her head: "Since it is a replacement, of course I want to make medicine for you and be your pet."

“……”What a strange trend!

Xu Shulou felt like crying but had no tears. She had no experience in being a pet, whether for humans or fairies.

She couldn't do it, and the Purple Skirt Fairy looked at her with disdain: "You are too small, there is no rabbit to touch."

Xu Shulou had a blank expression on his face: "Just touch it as you like."

The Purple Skirt Immortal thought for a moment and said, "Later, go to the Hundred Flowers Garden and ask for a flower to eat. Then tell them that I asked you to go. They will give me this honor."

Xu Shulou was stunned: "If you eat flowers, you will grow bigger?"

"Um."

"Why is it getting bigger? And how big is it going to get?"

"You're not as quiet as a rabbit." The fairy in purple skirt was disgusted again.

Xu Shulou, who was despised, was also helpless: "Then I will go to the Hundred Flowers Garden and not bother you here anymore."

"Did you do your job well?" the purple-skirted fairy suddenly asked.

"Maybe it's not so good."

"Then go later. It's useless to go there now, or you'll be used as fertilizer for the flowers."

"Fertilizer?" Xu Shulou was horrified. "Those fairies who go to catch insects are actually going to be fertilizer for the flowers?"

"Of course not."

Xu Shulou breathed a sigh of relief.

The Purple Skirt Immortal continued, "Only a small part of them is needed."

"..." Xu Shulou rolled his eyes and jumped out of her arms.

"What are you going to do?" asked the fairy in purple skirt.

"Save people."

"Why?"

“Because it’s life.”

"Life is not a precious thing here."

"..." Xu Shulou looked up at her, "I know these are all fake, I shouldn't be angry about this, but you, you people, what's wrong with you?"

"I'll give you one last chance. Stay by my side and be my pet. I can save your life." The Purple Skirt Immortal suggested.

"Thank you, but that's not necessary."

"..." The fairy in purple skirt watched her fly away quietly, with no joy or anger on her face.

Xu Shulou groped her way to the Hundred Flowers Garden. She flew in mid-air and suddenly entered this world of flowers. Her eyes were filled with colorful flowers, full of vitality. There were colorful butterflies and melodious birds flying among the flowers, accompanied by the elegant and refined fragrance of the garden, which was so beautiful that it was intoxicating.

In the distance, a tall and beautiful fairy was picking flowers. After picking a flower, she closed her eyes and sniffed it. Then, she smiled and put the flower into the basket on her arm. This scene looked poetic and picturesque, which was in line with most people's fantasy of the fairyland.

Thinking so, Xu Shulou slowly withdrew his spiritual power and landed on the ground. The moment he landed, a bloody smell hit his face.

Amid the thick smell of blood, there was no trace of fragrance left in the nose.

Looking up, I couldn't see any flowers, only huge flower stems. From this angle, it seemed a bit eerie.

This flower garden, looking down from a high place and looking up from the bottom, seems like two completely different worlds.

For those tall immortals and these low-level immortals, this place is indeed two different worlds.

It was the low-level fairies who nourished them with their flesh and blood, making their bodies grow larger and larger.

"..."Xu Shulou sighed softly. She just wanted to leave this painting world as soon as possible.

Her embroidered shoes stepped on a patch of red soil. She tried not to think about what dyed the soil red, and groped her way to find the fairies who were sent in to catch insects.

It’s a pity that I forgot to ask her name before. If I call out “Qingxiu Xiaoxian” now, I don’t know if anyone will respond.

Just as she was in distress, the pretty fairy very considerately gave her a scream as a reminder.

Xu Shulou flew over following the sound and saw several small pits dug under a giant flower in the middle of the garden. An ugly rhizome was exposed in the pit. At this time, a fairy with a flower hoe raised her finger to pick up the pretty little fairy and threw it into the hole to fill it with soil.

"Let her go!"

The fairy holding the flower hoe looked at her calmly and said, "Let her go. You can be the fertilizer for her flowers?"

Xu Shulou asked out of confusion: "You want them to be fertilizer for the flowers, and then you eat those flowers to grow bigger? Why not just eat people directly?"

The fairy looked at her strangely: "Would a mortal eat insects directly?"

“…”

"That would be too barbaric," the fairy shook her head, "Besides, I don't like meat."

"..." Very logical, leaving Xu Shulou speechless.

As she was speaking, the Flower-Hoe Fairy had already spread the soil and was just about to tamp it down with a hoe.

If the hoe hits it, can the people inside still survive? Xu Shulou subconsciously drew his sword. Compared with the huge hoe, the sword was like an ant trying to shake a tree. Unexpectedly, the sword actually pushed the hoe back a little and smashed it onto the empty ground nearby.

The flower hoe fairy frowned, raised the flower hoe with both hands and smashed it hard at Xu Shulou.

Xu Shulou had never faced an opponent with such a huge disparity in strength. She concentrated her attention, dodging and moving under the flower hoe, and also had to be careful not to fall where there were people, so as not to implicate others.

After dodging several blows, Xu Shulou saw that he would not be able to turn around in mid-air and would not be able to avoid the next blow from the hoe. So he simply rushed forward with all his strength and threw himself towards the Flower Hoe Fairy.

Of course the fairy would not use the hoe to hit herself, but only freed up one hand to catch her.

Xu Shulou was in mid-air. He stepped on her fingers to gain leverage and leapt to a height where he and the fairy could look each other in the eye. He then thrust his sword through all his spiritual power and stabbed it towards her forehead.

The fairies below were all dumbfounded. They had never seen low-level fairies dare to challenge the fairies like this.

Xu Shulou felt his sword penetrate the forehead of the Flower Hoe Fairy without any hindrance, leaving a tiny bloody hole in her forehead. The Fairy's huge body fell down, and the ground shook. The exposed roots of the giant flower smelled the blood, and greedily stretched out a root to wrap around her body.

Xu Shulou himself was surprised by his success this time: "How could it be so easy?"

She fell to the ground in confusion. The pretty fairy was looking at her with a pale face: "You killed her, how dare you kill her?"

Is this the question again? Xu Shulou was stunned for a moment, then he looked down at his hands and replied, "It's just following my heart..."

Before entering the painting, the steward's words "there is no real dead end" flashed through her mind.

She suddenly raised her head and looked at the people around her: "Have you ever tried to kill them in reverse before?"

"Of course not," someone answered her, "Once you enter the fairyland, you'll be scared to death by seeing these towering figures. And when you see your companions fleeing and being killed, who would dare to resist? You can only pray every day that you're not the next one to be killed."

Xu Shulou frowned: "But there are so many of you, if you unite, you can always give it a try."

"Actually, there is a way to avoid being killed here," the little fairy in white clothes said. There were a dozen little fairies standing beside him, and they seemed to be relying on him as their backbone. "As long as you do everything according to the rules, don't stand out, and don't cause trouble, you won't be killed. You see, the only ones who were killed at the banquet were those who didn't dance well."

Xu Shulou looked at the pretty fairy: "What's wrong with you?"

"I don't know... I guess it's because I didn't do much work today, but we," she looked at the other fairies who were rescued from the soil with a pale face, "we were delayed by something."

"...No!" A fairy who was rescued from the soil suddenly looked at the fairy in white who had just spoken, "This morning you said that someone from Yuyin Palace asked us to go over there for something, but when we went there we found the palace gates were closed. Ah Xiu was naive and thought you made a mistake. But you deliberately sent us out for nothing, didn't you? Because you guessed that those who were to be pounding medicine and making fertilizer for flowers would do the least work?"

The crowd was in an uproar, and in a blink of an eye they split into two factions, tearing each other apart and blaming each other.

Xu Shulou sighed. No wonder they didn't try to fight back. Firstly, they were so scared that they subconsciously felt that the tall immortal could not be resisted. Secondly, a small number of them realized the way to survive early on and tried to push others to die.

"Stop arguing," she cleared her throat and placed her sword on the ground to intimidate everyone, "What's next?"

Qingxiu Xiaoxian whispered, "Unless there are other orders from above, we will have to go weaving again."

Wow, not only is he a farmhand, but he’s also a non-stop farmhand.

"Since no one is chasing me, let's go," Xu Shulou looked around without putting away his sword, "and weave cloth."

The fairy in white looked at her with a complicated expression: "You still want to go to work?"

"Yes," Xu Shulou said seriously, "I love to work!"

The pretty fairy lagged behind the others and held her back: "Aren't you going to take this giant flower? As long as you eat it, you can become bigger. Here, the bigger you are, the more respect you will get. As long as you eat it, you won't have to work hard anymore."

"No," Xu Shulou raised his sword and cut off the root of the giant flower. "I said, I love to work."

“…”

While weaving this time, many eyes fell on her, perhaps out of awe, or perhaps simply out of curiosity "Why hasn't anyone come out to kill this guy with the chop?"

Xu Shulou carefully wove two pieces of cloth. When she was inspected, the immortal was still not satisfied. He took the shuttle and stabbed her hand: "You haven't woven cloth for two consecutive days. I am not as bloody as others. I will only leave you with a pair of hands."

Xu Shulou dodged, leaped up, flew to a level with her and looked her in the eye: "I am just as bloody as the others. If you want to spare my hands, I will take your life."

“…”

Everyone saw clearly that this girl didn't love working at all. She was just waiting to be picked on and then chopped back.

After killing one more person, Xu Shulou watched him fall down and smash several spinning wheels. He sheathed his sword and said, "If I kill all these people, do we still need to grind herbs and plant flowers next?"

No one can answer this question.

Xu Shulou looked at everyone and said, "I don't care about your disputes, but I am ready to fight my way out. Who will follow me?"

“……” Silence.

The picture froze and a familiar voice sounded in the void: "What are you doing?"

"You can see what I'm doing."

"I can see that, I just don't understand," the voice sighed, "Those people are just people in the illusion. Why did you step forward to save them in the first place? Here, protecting yourself is the most important thing."

"You are right, but if this happens, I will remember this retreat for the rest of my life. Can my Dao heart still be as stable as before?" Xu Shulou asked back, "I am not cultivating the Dao of keeping a low profile."

The voice rang out unwillingly: "Alright, stop harming my fairyland. You have passed this level."

"I'm allowed to pass? Why?" Xu Shulou thought for a moment and asked, "Why did the 'immortal' here fall so easily to my sword?"

"This level tests your courage," the voice explained unwillingly, "Not only you, but everyone else as well. If you dare to raise your sword to resist, you will find that these so-called 'immortals' are just strong on the outside but weak on the inside. I gave them a huge appearance to intimidate them, but I didn't expect the effect to be quite good."

“…”

"Let's go."

"etc……"

"What are you going to do now?"

"You just said, don't harm my fairyland," Xu Shulou blinked, "You mean, this fairyland is different from the previous painting realms, it doesn't exist just for me."

"So what?"

Xu Shulou got straight to the point: "Are there any other people who have entered the painting here?"

“…”

Seeing the other party's silence, Xu Shulou felt more certain: "I roughly remember their appearance. I didn't find them in Xiaoxian. Are they still alive?"

The voice laughed happily: "Who told you that those who entered the painting are still just fairies?"

"..." Thinking of the Hundred Flowers Garden, Xu Shulou was horrified. After a moment, he asked, "This level is not just a test of my courage, right? What would happen if I really ate the flowers that were nourished by flesh and blood?"

"That means you agree to the rules here. Guess what?" the voice said impatiently, "Don't ask so many questions. You have passed the test and can leave."

Xu Shulou was very persistent: "Please tell me if there are other people in the painting here."

"So what?" The voice sneered, "Are you willing to give the opportunity to paint to others?"

"You mean, I can give this opportunity to someone else and take the test again?" Xu Shulou raised his eyebrows. "In this case, do I still have to repeat the previous levels? Or do you design the painting scene for me again? Have you used up all your ideas? Can I choose the scene myself?"

"Wait..." The voice immediately denied, "That's not what I meant. You heard it wrong."