Chapter 147 The Lazy Demon's Wind Chime Flower Hut, Cardamom Glass Furniture...
Hearing that Shu Xin had agreed to let him lead the team out and even allowed him to attend the Wind Market, Xi was very excited. He rubbed his hands together and said, "Leave it to me! I'll buy you lots of seeds! Are you taking the servants this time? Or are you going with the caravan?"
Shu Xin shook her head: "No, I plan to help the servants return to their normal elf forms during this time. As for the caravan, they all have their own plans and arrangements, so you'll have to take the demons with you this time."
"Huh? You want me to bring that bunch of idiots?" Xi immediately made a face.
"Blue Horn is still quite clever," Shu Xin said, speaking up for Blue Horn.
Xi's expression wasn't much better: "There's only one Blue Horn left, right? Can I refuse?"
Shu Xin wasn't going to indulge him: "Then you should stay at home. Those are all your people."
Xi muttered indignantly, "What kind of clansmen are they? We're not even the same race..."
Shu Xin was speechless: "Don't you mixed-race people have any races? If you don't like it, go out by yourself."
Xi flatly refused: "No way! Why should I suffer outside while they get to eat and drink well in their territory!"
Shu Xin ignored him: "Whatever, I'm going to work."
In the end, Xi gave in and agreed to take the demons to the Wind Market. Shu Xin was not surprised to see that Xi had brought all three of her subordinates with her: Blue Horn, Black Foot, and Mountain. They were all there, seemingly ready to share both good and bad times.
Shu Xin glanced at the group of people who were about to be led out of the land of sin by Xi and found it strange that all of them were demons living in the underground city caves.
After some of the demons went to the surface and rented treehouses, Shu Xin assigned some ground work to them during her spare time. And it has to be said, they were all very strong and turned the soil quickly and well. With their addition, a lot of new fields have recently been opened up in the Land of Sin.
The demons who prefer to live in underground caves mostly have a habit of hibernation. After completing their daily training on the surface, they return to their caves in the underground city to sleep. As for the work in the underground city, they work in shifts.
In terms of specific work, in addition to making fish feed according to the Tree of Life's customized recipe, raising edible fish in the underground lake, and regularly cleaning the lake water, catching lake fish and processing them into fish products, they also need to take care of the crops in the planting area. Now, the planting area not only grows delicious mushrooms and glowing moss, but also a lot of magical plants brought back by caravans.
"If you take so many demons out, will the work in the dungeon be able to be arranged? Should I arrange for flower fairies to help?" Shu Xin asked.
Two thousand demons was not a small number before, but now the total number of flower fairies in the Land of Sin is almost ten thousand. Before the harvest month, many flower fairy merchants brought their relatives and friends to the Land of Sin. After the harvest month, at Shu Xin's request, these merchants continued to purchase a large number of flower fairy slaves for the Land of Sin. Now, out of the nearly ten thousand flower fairies in the territory, more than six thousand are slaves, and the remaining three thousand are commoners.
“They can definitely be separated,” Xi said dismissively. “These guys take advantage of the fact that other hybrids can’t beat them, and they just keep crawling into the cave and don’t move. They don’t do any work, so it doesn’t make much difference whether the underground city has them or not.”
Shu Xin understood. She glanced at the tall and strong demons behind Xi. They had also heard what Xi said, and they all looked very proud, standing tall and proud, as if they had been praised.
Shu Xin: "...Okay."
"The workload isn't enough," Shu Xin thought silently. "When they come back, I'll give each of them a free anti-magic bracelet. I'll also give them more work. I'll visit the dungeon more often when I have time. The Land of Sin doesn't allow privileged classes to exist."
Noticing the Flower Fairy's thoughtful expression, Bluehorn lowered his eyes with schadenfreude. It seemed that the good days for these fools were coming to an end. Even Xi, who was a prince, was obediently doing whatever he was told. She, Blackfoot, and Mountain had been working diligently all along. What were these stupid things thinking, daring to slack off so openly? The things they carried on their necks were not even as good as the big mushrooms on the ground. At least those big mushrooms tasted pretty good.
Shu Xin didn't say much. She used a space stone to pack acorn wine and dried fruit and gave them to Xi. Then she watched the demons leave the land of sin in a grand procession.
At Shu Xin's prompting, Xi transformed back into his demonic form. The handsome and alluring young man with long, black, curly hair flew at the forefront, his head adorned with coiled horns, and his jet-black cloak billowing in the wind, as if revealing a corner of the abyss's ever-changing shadows.
The demons on the ground had no formation whatsoever, but they were quite imposing as they ran forward in unison. The rumbling demons in the distance resembled a large thundercloud full of lightning, as if they could unleash a destructive thunderous roar at any moment.
Shu Xin is now really looking forward to the human magicians discovering the existence of the demons. How will they feel when the terrifying demons and the vulnerable elves stand together? Anyway, Shu Xin is in a pretty good mood.
Back on the terrace of the Flower Castle, Shu Xin felt even better when she saw the small, bell-shaped flower buds on the table.
With the number of Flower Fairy slaves increasing dramatically, how to solve the problem of housing for the slaves has become a headache for Shu Xin recently. Whether it was the small round house that was half a Poké Ball at the beginning, the Nut Shell house later, or the mushroom house located underground during the Harvest Month, none of them were very suitable because there were just too many Flower Fairy slaves.
The Tree of Life had previously provided a treehouse for all the flower fairies in the Land of Sin, but after that, the caravan brought back batch after batch of flower fairy slaves. Shu Xin had asked the Tree of Life, and it said that it could draw magic from the air to grow a sufficient number of treehouses, but in return, the magic situation in the Land of Sin would deteriorate significantly—isn't that putting the cart before the horse?
Currently, Shu Xin has settled the new slaves into the treehouses that the Tree of Life allocated to the old slaves of the Land of Sin. They are small in size, and the treehouses are all shaped and built according to the normal size of elves. To be honest, tens of thousands more flower fairy slaves could live there, but Shu Xin does not want to just make do like this. She still wants to provide each flower fairy slave with a small house of their own.
A magical plant brought back by the caravan perfectly solved the problem that had been troubling Shuxin for a long time.
The delicate bell-shaped flowers now displayed on the table are from this magical plant called the Color-Changing Bellflower Vine. It is obvious that it was named this because the shape of the flowers resembles a bell. In Shuxin's original world, there are all kinds of bellflowers, which are also named after their bell-shaped flowers.
Compared to the bellflower in Shuxin's memory, this magical plant is much more amazing. It is an epiphytic vine, and its branches, leaves, and even petals will show different colors due to the influence of the environment. Moreover, its flowers really make a light bell sound when the wind blows.
As an epiphyte, the color-changing bell vine is not very demanding in terms of soil and water. It has a certain requirement for magic concentration, but not too high. It only requires high light and ventilation. However, if the light is too strong or the wind is too strong, it is very easy to dry out and wither. Therefore, it is not easy to grow. Moreover, if the environment changes during the flowering period, whether the light suddenly becomes weaker or stronger, or the surrounding wind speed suddenly becomes faster or slower, the bell vine flowers will fall directly off the branches.
The part that can be used as a magical material is its flower. The petals, stamens, nectar, or calyx are all good materials for making restoration potions. So even though it is not easy to grow, has picky environmental requirements, and often drops its flower buds, many apothecaries still grow it. One of the main reasons is that it blooms densely and profusely. Dozens or even hundreds of flowers can bloom on a single vine, and a single variegated bell vine in full bloom can produce tens of thousands of flowers at once!
Moreover, the flowering period of the color-changing bell vine is very long. It can bloom for seventeen months out of the eighteen months of the year, and for the remaining month, it is in the budding stage.
The magic concentration in the Land of Sin isn't actually that high right now, but it's just right for planting the Color-Changing Wind Chime Vine. It's precisely because the magic concentration is suitable that the caravan brought back its seeds, intending to cultivate and plant them for use as magical materials. However, after learning about the various properties of this magical plant, Shu Xin immediately realized that this flower is perfect for building houses for flower fairy slaves—it's a perfect match!
The treehouses that grow from the Tree of Life can be used as the main support for the color-changing bellflower vines. Within the Tree of Life's coverage, the light and ventilation can be controlled to a suitable level. Even if the arrival of the harvest month causes some changes that lead to the flowers falling off, it doesn't matter. As long as adjustments are made in time, not all of the hundreds of flowers on a single vine will fall off. So even if the bellflower house they are currently living in falls off the branch, the flower fairies can simply move to another flower.
Of course, this requires that the furniture matching the bellflowers be very easy to move, but this didn't stump Shuxin. The cardamom glass, which she didn't know how to use before, came in handy here.
Using illusion magic, Shu Xin first spent some time designing a simple set of furniture: a single bed on the left, a tall round table on the right, and a round-backed chair, all fixed on a flat floor with the bottom directly connected to the floor. A large enough hole was left in the center of the floor so that the flower stamen could pass through. Then, she continued to use illusion magic to design a casting model of the furniture. Finally, using layering magic, she created the physical casting model and, following the process of making fertilizer containers, was able to create a complete set of grass fruit glass furniture.
Shu Xin picked up a bellflower and gently took out a set of grass-fruit glass furniture that looked like a crystal ornament from inside the flower—this set of furniture was something she had just finished making in the last two days.
Although some pollen from the flower stamens rubbed onto the glass floor, the process of removing the furniture was still quite easy. After all, the grass-fruit glass itself is very light, and even if it was made into a set of furniture, the flower fairy slaves could move it with their strength. Not to mention that Shu Xin had specially engraved levitation runes on the bottom of the floor.
Picking up another bellflower, Shuxin tried placing the glass furniture inside. It went smoothly again, and because the flower's stamen wasn't as loose as the previous one, this time she didn't even get any pollen on it. Next, Shuxin tried other flowers, making sure that buds of different sizes could stably place the furniture inside.
After trying all the bellflowers, Shu Xin couldn't help but smile—she succeeded!
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