Chapter 7 The Magic in the Sunlight, the Overwhelming Black Mist
“Your Highness, these are seeds of bitter wheat.” The maid said, looking eagerly at the flower fairy on the terrace, holding a leaf in her hand with a small pile of gray-blue wheat grains on it.
After being instructed to deliver wheat seeds to the flower fairy, she specially picked out the plumpest and brightest ears of wheat, carefully rubbed out the seeds, and then selected the most beautiful magical leaves to hold them before delivering them.
It wasn't until the princess arrived in this territory that she saw the legendary flower fairy for the first time. The moment she saw the princess, the rumors she had once heard, which she had thought were both false and absurd, suddenly became real.
It turns out that the flower fairies really do have many pairs of wings, and their hair and wings really do glow!
Just like in the legend, the flower fairies are the most beloved offspring of the flower goddess. They possess a perfect appearance that is never old or changed, bestowed upon them by the gods. One of their eyes holds the eternal sun and moon, while the other holds the mysterious starry sea and night sky. Every word that comes from their lips is a hymn to the flower goddess.
She thought to herself, if this were not a place of sin, then wherever the princess walked, flowers would surely bloom, just as the legend says.
"Thank you, could you please put the wheat seeds on that table over there?" The princess's voice was truly like the most melodious singing; the princess even thanked her!
With great effort, the maid managed to control her trembling hands, which were shaking from excessive excitement, and successfully placed every single grain of wheat seed on the wooden table. She took one last, reluctant look at the flower fairy before flying away.
Shu Xin was oblivious to the maid's intense gaze; she was focused on basking in the sun.
Yes, sunbathing.
Unleashing seven powerful spells in one go had exhausted Shu Xin; her mind was completely blank. So when the bright sunlight shone on her face and body, dispelling all her fatigue, Shu Xin was a little taken aback—what had just happened? How did she suddenly become so energetic?
Standing there in the sunlight for a while, Shu Xin came to her senses. It felt so good, so wonderful, that it seemed strange. She probed the sunlight streaming down from the dome and was utterly shocked to discover an astonishing fact:
The sunlight contained an incredibly pure magic!
Even the magic of sunlight is far greater than that of bitter wheat seeds!
This is so strange!
The sunlight contains abundant and pure magic, but Nono and the others choose to eat bitter wheat with a pitifully low magic content!
Remembering the stench outside the Flower Castle that could make people faint, Shu Xin went through the original owner's memories and found the detection magic.
The magic in the sunlight was endless, and the detection magic was quickly deployed. Shu Xin saw the overwhelming black mist that seemed to be everywhere.
The Tree of Life was emitting a faint light, keeping the flowing black mist outside the Castle of Flowers.
With the help of detection magic, Shu Xin could clearly see that the sunlight that was originally shining on the earth was eventually sparsely falling to the ground due to the layers of interception and obstruction of the black mist.
You should know that she used purification magic three times today to get rid of the unusually strong stench in the air!
Even after three purifications, the black mist still filled the sky and the earth. One can imagine what the situation must have been like before the purification. In that case, no matter how much magic the sunlight contained, it would be useless, because the sunlight could not reach the ground at all, let alone be touched by the flower fairies.
With the help of the detection magic, Shu Xin also saw the source of the black mist—it was a series of tiny, pitch-black dots from which billowing black smoke rose.
Shu Xin remembered that Peng Peng An had said that the Land of Sin was a cursed place, where the land and the sinners would emit a cursed stench. Clearly, the creator of the black mist was a flower fairy slave who lived in the desert like a goblin.
The existence of this black mist and the fact that Pengpeng'an calls the Land of Sin "the cursed land" are likely causally related.
This is likely a vicious cycle:
The flower fairy slaves faced a difficult existence, and for unknown reasons, they emitted black mist. The black mist blocked out the sunlight and blocked out magic, causing the land to become barren. The barren land, in turn, made the flower fairies' survival even more difficult, and the harsher living environment caused the flower fairies to emit even more black mist. In the end, the land became barren, and black mist filled the sky and the earth, making the flower fairies' lives worse than death.
The previous lords must have also noticed the presence of the black mist. Shu Xin used the most basic detection magic, but they certainly wouldn't waste their precious magic power, especially in the Land of Sin, on slaves.
Today, Shu Xin not only used up two magic gems to unleash a large-scale spell, but also used up all sixteen drops of magic condensate that Peng Peng An had taken out, which was almost a hundred years' worth of magic tax.
Anyway, she should have broken this vicious cycle—she should have, right? Shu Xin thought uncertainly.
To be on the safe side, it would be better to cast a few more large-scale purification spells, but the magic power in the sunlight isn't enough to support her casting large-scale spells, and the magic tax has all been used up. The stream needs to consume her soul and life to provide magic power—let her rest for a couple of days first…
Shu Xin stopped thinking about it and turned to look at the wheat seeds the maid had brought, intending to study the bitter wheat. What she saw there stunned her—
The gray-blue wheat grains shimmered in the sunlight.
Shu Xin immediately cast a detection spell on the wheat grains. Under the detection spell's vision, the wheat grains were also glowing, and the light was even brighter than that of the Tree of Life.
Looking at the sun in the sky and then at the wheat grains on the table, Shu Xin poured half of the wheat grains onto the wooden table, spreading them into a thin layer to ensure that the sunlight could reach every grain of bitter wheat.
Thanks to the Flower Fairy's talent or instinct, Shu Xin felt that the magical aura emanating from the wheat grain was gradually increasing. Although it was increasing from one strand of hair to two strands of hair, would the wheat seed change if it were exposed to enough sunlight?
Seeing no immediate results, Shuxin turned her attention to the other half of the bitter wheat and began researching how to remove its bitterness.
Although its color is a strange grayish-blue, the structure of bitter wheat is not much different from the wheat varieties in Shu Xin's original world—at least there is no difference that Shu Xin can see, which makes it easy for her to distinguish that the bitterness of bitter wheat comes from the outer skin of the grain.
After removing the outer skin, bitter wheat actually tastes quite sweet!
The problem is that it is precisely this bitter outer skin that locks in the trace of pure magic contained in the bitter wheat. Once the outer skin is damaged, the bitter wheat is no longer bitter, but the tiny bit of magic inside the wheat seed will also be completely lost. For the flower fairies, who are magical creatures, eating it is as if they have not eaten it at all.
Shu Xin tried to grind the bitter wheat into flour. With magic, she could easily crush the wheat grains into fine powder, and a small pile of fine gray-blue flour quickly appeared on the withered yellow leaves.
The color looked strange, but it didn't taste bitter at all. The magic contained in the wheat seed was not lost at all. Shu Xin thought this was because the outer skin and the inside were evenly mixed together. The outer skin could still lock in the magic, but the bitterness was neutralized by the sweetness inside.
Shu Xin was very happy. She excitedly gathered the leaves and went downstairs to find Nuonuo Li and Peng Peng An.
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