Chapter 132 Harvest Feast and Snow Dragon Fruit: Unlucky Nonori...
Shu Xin naturally welcomes allies who come to her door without hesitation. There is nothing she needs the Snow Clan's help for now, but who knows what might happen in the future.
After receiving Shu Xin's affirmative reply, Irina was also very happy. She conjured a new invitation and sent it to Shu Xin.
It's called an invitation, but actually it's because this ice-like token looks exactly like the previous invitations. It should actually be called a summoning object. According to Erinaka, as long as Shuxin infuses magic power, she can summon the Snow Clan.
Shu Xin carefully put the keepsake away.
Although the Snow Clan's current situation seems extremely dire, with the revival of the River Spirits, the magical environment of the Twin Moon Snowfield will obviously improve. As a result, the birth rate of both the Snow Elephants and the Snow Clan will inevitably rise. With the Eternal Ladder maintained by generations of Snow Clan members sacrificing themselves, the Snow Clan's population will obviously gradually prosper.
Even now, even though the Snow Clan is on the verge of extinction, their fighting strength is still not to be underestimated. The Ice Spirit possessed by the Snow Clan is formed from the souls of the deceased clansmen. After more than three thousand years of accumulation, the power of the Ice Spirit has probably far exceeded Shu Xin's imagination.
It has to be said that the Snow Clan's reproduction model is perfect. As long as the number of Snow Elephants carrying the Eternal Ladder increases steadily, their tribe's number can also increase steadily. Even if a member of the tribe dies, it will not weaken the tribe at all, but will instead strengthen the entire tribe's power. This is simply a bug-level existence!
The only mistake the Snow Clan made, and a fatal one, was that they only realized their symbiotic relationship with the Snow Elephants, but failed to realize that they also had a symbiotic relationship with the River Elves of the Garnar Plains to some extent.
As for now, even if it's not explicitly stated, the Snow Clan will be the River Elves' strongest support. If any humans were to invade again, the Snow Clan would be even more furious than the River Elves.
After exchanging tokens symbolizing cooperation, Erinaka invited Shuxin to the eye of the snow tornado, the home of the Snow Clan, to attend the snow dragon fruit harvest feast.
It turns out that the magic tides that appear regularly not only exist on the Garnar Plains, but also on the Twin Moon Snowfield. However, perhaps due to the different terrain, the magic tides on the Twin Moon Snowfield appear later than those on the Garnar Plains, and last for a much shorter time. Shu Xin and her group set off immediately after receiving the invitation, just in time for the Snow Clan's harvest feast.
Shu Xin readily agreed. After bidding farewell to Irina, who was unable to leave the Eternal Ladder, she was carried upwards by the ice crystal path beneath her feet, until she reached the end of the Eternal Ladder.
A dazzling sea of stars came into view.
The icy road surface continued to rise, and with an incredibly smooth lift, Shu Xin entered the vast and boundless sea of stars.
In the instant that countless twinkling stars came rushing towards her, Shu Xin seemed to smell the rich fragrance of countless flowers blooming in a sea of flowers, and she seemed to hear the clear sound of countless streams flowing in unison on a vast land. Accompanied by a strange vision that made her dizzy, when Shu Xin came back to her senses, there was no longer any sea of stars in front of her, only a field of bitter wheat that looked like a blue sea.
"The Snow Clan really trusts the River Spirits..." Xi said cryptically. "That's the primordial place where the Snow Clan's spirits were born. But then again, they've already invited you into the Eternal Ladder, so what's one more primordial place?"
Shu Xin looked down and saw that the icy pavement beneath her feet was gone, and now she was standing on soft, white earth, as fine as sand.
The primordial birthplace of the Snow Clan's spirits? That sea of stars? Recalling her feelings in that instant, Shu Xin realized that the so-called "fragrance of flowers" and "sound of water" were likely the manifestation of the Snow Clan's newborns—spirits born from the snow tornado—in her perception. Considering the shifting perspective she experienced after entering that sea of stars, Shu Xin wondered if the Eternal Ladder might be underground.
...What a wonderful experience.
A gentle breeze brushed against her cheek, causing Shu Xin to look up. The icy path that had carried her all the way hadn't disappeared; instead, it had dissipated into wisps of magical light that swirled in the air. As if noticing Shu Xin's gaze, the magical light flowed into the distance, seemingly guiding her. Shu Xin took a step and followed behind.
As far as the eye could see, there were only dark blue wheat seedlings. Shu Xin walked forward for a short distance and reached the edge of the wheat field.
Seeing the guiding magical light fall straight down, Shu Xin peeked down and then realized she was a little afraid of heights.
The Snow Tribe built spiral terraces along the wind walls of the snow tornado. Each terrace was filled with clusters of plants that looked like cacti, all of them bright red. The ridges were made of blue bitter wheat seedlings. Shu Xin was currently at the top of the spiral terraces.
Realizing something, Shu Xin slowly turned around and, sure enough, saw a large expanse of cactus plants behind her.
From an overhead view, the cacti below don't look very big, but they grow neatly and are covered with tender white fruits. The spiral terraces made up of red, white and blue colors are so spectacular that they can make your scalp tingle.
However, the cacti standing not far behind Shu Xin were at least seven or eight meters tall, forming a lush cactus forest at a glance, with enormous, round fruits. Shu Xin looked at them a few more times and realized that each fruit looked like a magnified version of a dragon fruit. Suddenly, she felt a sense of familiarity with these magical plants.
These plants that look just like cacti are probably the snow dragon fruit that the Snow Tribe has carefully cultivated. Thinking about it, the names snow dragon fruit and fire dragon fruit are quite similar!
Although these snow dragon fruit plants were too tall for Shu Xin, considering that the average height of an adult Snow Clan member was over ten meters, Shu Xin felt they were quite suitable. She wondered if these bitter wheat plants were just ornamental plants used to beautify the environment in the eyes of the Snow Clan.
Or perhaps it was the lawn responsible for landscaping? As Shu Xin thought this, she mustered her courage and jumped off the edge of the wheat field. To be honest, jumping from the height of a five-story building is a completely different experience from jumping from the height of a five-hundred-story building!
Shu Xin flew all the way down before she finally saw the Snow Clan.
Just as Shu Xin saw the scene below, Xi's laughter rang out wildly in her mind. Shu Xin landed awkwardly in front of Veranika and asked, "What's wrong with Nono?"
The Snow Clan's harvest feast is very simple. On long, transparent tables made of frozen ice crystals, there are red platters made of snow dragon fruit branches. Each platter is filled with food, but most of it is food exclusively for the Snow Clan: there is lingering mist, stacked ice blocks, and swirling gusts of wind carrying snowflakes.
There weren't many Snow Clan members appearing at the long table, only twenty or thirty scattered around. They were all short and thin, and the shortest Snow Clan member was about the same size as the Flower Fairy commoner. Compared to the Snow Clan leader, Erinaka, she looked like an underage Veranika. In fact, she seemed to be the only adult among the Snow Clan members.
Nono was placed next to Veranika, and on the table in front of them was a piece of diced snow dragon fruit.
The snow dragon fruit, with its white skin, has a dreamy light blue flesh that is also translucent and gel-like, looking a bit like jelly. Shuxin really wants to try it to see what it tastes like.
Because a single snow dragon fruit is enormous, even when cut into small pieces, it's still bigger than Nono's head. Shu Xin didn't know what had happened to make Nono, who was sitting on the ice crystal chair, bury her head in a bowl-shaped piece of peel that had been emptied of its flesh.
Veranika stood there helplessly, seemingly wanting to move Nonori but holding out her hands, too afraid to move. The other Snowfoxes were also looking over in this direction, bewildered and confused.
Upon hearing Shu Xin's question, Veronica turned her head sharply, so quickly that Shu Xin was worried she might twist her neck.
Veranica's speech quickened: "Lord of the Land of Sin, welcome to the harvest feast! I'm so sorry I couldn't greet you at the Eternal Stairway. We are currently entertaining your people, Nonori. We can assure you that the Snow Dragon Fruit is harmless to the River Elves. Nonori is not in any danger; he has only temporarily lost consciousness—I'm truly sorry! We don't know why he suddenly lost consciousness..."
“His soul and his body are safe,” Veranica emphasized. “Please believe me, we would never harm the river spirit!”
Shu Xin believed this too. She still had the token that the Snow Clan leader had just given her in her arms. Xi was still laughing in her mind, making her head buzz.
She tossed the lamb in her arms to the ground, and the wild laughter echoing in her mind finally stopped. Shu Xin walked over to Nuonuo Li, pulled his head out of the large bowl-shaped fruit peel, and after seeing Nuonuo Li's current appearance, Shu Xin couldn't help but laugh as well.
Snow dragon fruit is probably a distant relative of dragon fruit, possessing the same super strong dyeing ability as dragon fruit. Because Nonoli's whole head was buried in the fruit peel, the skin that had come into close contact with the light blue peel of the snow dragon fruit was unevenly dyed with a layer of blue. The color was darkest on her forehead and bridge of her nose, while the blue on her cheeks was lighter. Combined with Nonoli's serious face even when she was not making any expression, the effect was particularly comical.
Shu Xin cast a cleansing spell on Nonoli, but the blue color on his face was still conspicuously present. Shu Xin then cast a waking spell on him, but Nonoli's eyes remained closed, showing no sign of waking up.
Two spells failed in a row, but in Shu Xin's perception, Nono's aura was still full of vitality. She did not notice anything unusual. Finally, Shu Xin turned her gaze to the snow dragon fruit on the table.
Besides the piece of fruit peel that Nonoli buried his face in, there was another piece of fruit peel that had been eaten in front of him, which means that Nonoli lost consciousness after eating two large pieces of snow dragon fruit.
Shu Xin put her unlucky younger brother aside and pointed to the snow dragon fruit on the table: "Can I have some?"
Veranika: "Huh?!"
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