Chapter 124 The Seventh Day of the Harvest Month: Busy Fighting and Busy Working
Raising her claws, she tore apart the humanoid monster that rushed towards her face. Before she could even disperse the gray mist in front of her, a sudden gust of wind sounded behind her head. Xiao Shui ducked and dodged to the side, avoiding the attack from behind. She rolled on the ground, shooting out spider silk that severed a large number of humanoid monsters and knocked over many others. Then she flipped over and jumped up, kicking with her long legs. As she retracted her spider silk, she also kicked away several humanoid monsters that were still forming.
With swift and decisive movements, Xiao Shui shattered one humanoid monster after another into gray mist, her expression remaining unchanged throughout.
She didn't really like these light and strange guys. No matter how much she punched and kicked them, it felt like she was beating the air. It wasn't nearly as satisfying as fighting with other mixed-race people. Especially since Xi wouldn't let them revert to their original forms. It was really inconvenient to fight with only two arms and two legs.
Although she couldn't help but complain a couple of times in her heart, Xiao Shui, like the other demons, obediently annihilated the waves of humanoid monsters surging towards the Land of Sin. After all, only after defeating all these monsters could they return to the dungeon for a meal—the meals these past few days had been plentiful and delicious!
Thinking about the food she could get back to the dungeon, Xiao Shui, who was already starving, immediately swallowed.
Recently, the soup in the big pot has been simmering until it's thick and rich, and it smells incredibly fragrant. The soup balls we get are also quite large, filled not only with big, thick chunks of delicious meat, but also with crunchy, fragrant bones. After finishing the soup, we can also get a big piece of soft, fluffy, steaming acorn bread to eat!
Xiao Shui had never eaten bread, a fluffy and soft food, since birth. Just taking a small bite and chewing it carefully with her teeth and savoring it slowly with her tongue, a wonderful, indescribable feeling would spread from her mouth throughout her body. Xiao Shui could clearly feel herself becoming happy. She heard Lan Jiao say that the taste was sweet, and she liked sweet tastes. Sweetness made her very happy.
In fact, Xiao Shui only tasted soup and bread for the first time after arriving in the Land of Sin.
Before escaping to the poisonous fog wasteland, Xiao Shui would take advantage of her small size to hide in the battlefield and steal the blood splattered from the wounds of purebloods to drink. As long as she could steal a drop of blood, she could last for many days. If she was lucky, she could also pick up the limbs dropped by purebloods and gnaw on them. However, after each time she finished eating, her head and body would ache for a very long time. Several times, Xiao Shui thought she was going to die from the pain, but she never expected to be able to open her eyes again.
After each bout of pain, Little Water would grow larger, sometimes growing extra legs, sometimes extra eyes, and sometimes even losing half of its body. But it was still alive, not dead. Hiding here and there, Little Water slowly grew larger and larger, until it was difficult to hide even on a large battlefield. After being discovered by the purebloods, Little Water had to begin evading their pursuit.
Once, she was almost caught by purebloods. Xiaoshui forcibly shed her carapace and barely escaped. Before her carapace was completely destroyed, with the help of the remaining senses on her carapace, Xiaoshui heard the purebloods say that hybrids had run to the Poison Fog Wasteland and were hard to find. So Xiaoshui also ran towards the Poison Fog Wasteland.
The Poisonous Fog Wasteland was actually easy to find; just follow the poisonous winds, as all the toxic winds originated from it. By the time Xiao Shui arrived, a new shell had grown. Xiao Shui discovered that although the area was filled with highly poisonous fog, there wasn't a single pureblood; everyone was a hybrid. This made Xiao Shui feel safe, and since Xiao Shui herself was poisonous and not afraid of the fog, she stayed in the Poisonous Fog Wasteland, specifically choosing a swampy area with dense fog to settle down in.
By gnawing on lichen on rocks and drinking muddy water from swamps, Xiao Shui survived. However, not all hybrids could withstand the poisonous gas of the Poison Fog Wasteland. Often, poisoned hybrids would attack Xiao Shui in a frenzy, and Xiao Shui would only get a little extra food from time to time.
Until recently, Xi, a powerful hybrid possessing the Demon King's nightmare bloodline and the right to inherit the Demon King's throne, summoned all the hybrids living in the Poisonous Fog Wasteland and demanded that they transform into human form. Perhaps inheriting some kind of talent, Xiao Shui quickly and skillfully transformed into human form.
Back then, she was still him, and had no name. Because she was skilled in water magic, and because there was another, more powerful hybrid who was also skilled in water magic, Xi named that hybrid "Big Water" and named him "Little Water".
After passing through the spatial passage torn open by the prince, Xiao Shui arrived at the material plane in a daze.
The swamp that Xiao Shui occupied in the Poisonous Fog Wasteland was within Blue Horn's territory. Therefore, after noticing that Blue Horn had changed from male to female, Xiao Shui also tried it and found that his gender could also change. After discovering that the power after the change would be even stronger, he quickly became her.
The air in the Land of Sin was so dry that Xiao Shui felt quite uncomfortable. However, after the dungeon was completed, Xiao Shui was allocated her own independent dwelling. Plus, she received a magically infused water ball every day, so she molted again. She filled her shell with water and placed it in the cave, where she slept comfortably in her human form in the water at night. She also defeated many hybrids and successfully obtained a lantern fruit. She proudly displayed the shiny lantern fruit on her carapace, and Xiao Shui was extremely pleased.
Compared to the poisonous wasteland, Xiao Shui would rather stay in the land of sin.
When Bluehorn asked her to defend the land of evil and repel the invading enemies, Xiao Shui took it all for granted. However, she never imagined that the so-called enemies would be so strange—
Her poison had no effect on these humanoid monsters that suddenly appeared from afar like phantoms!
Fortunately, these shadowy things are easy to deal with. Xiao Shui can easily smash them into scattered clumps of gray mist. Although they will quickly reassemble after dispersing into gray mist, they are still easy to defeat. At most, they can be scattered two or three times before they can no longer reform and the mist will become thinner. At this time, the magical creation with a dangerous aura will fly over and swallow all the gray mist in one gulp.
The first, second, and third times were all the same. Xiao Shui watched helplessly as the magical creation grew bigger and bigger every day. This made her a little curious about the taste of the gray mist. She tried putting some in her mouth, but unfortunately, just like her poison was ineffective against the humanoid monster, her mouth could not taste what the mist tasted like.
Starting from the fourth time, things started to change. More and more humanoid monsters appeared along with the gray mist. If it weren't for the incredibly tall white wall behind them blocking these creatures, they probably would have rushed into the Land of Sin.
Xiao Shui could no longer easily defeat the humanoid monsters with just her fists and feet. They were regenerating much faster, and it took them many more times to completely turn into gray mist. As a result, it took the demons more and more time to eliminate the humanoid monsters, and the time they could return to the dungeon for meals was getting later and later.
This is the fifth attack by the humanoid monsters. Little Water is shooting out spider silk more and more frequently. After working diligently with the other demons to scatter all the humanoid monsters this time, the sun is about to set.
The gray fog in the air was much thicker than before. At this moment, the pure black magical creation reappeared. Its size had grown so large that even if Xiao Shui looked up, she could only see its chin.
Watching it open its huge mouth and sweep away all the gray mist, and then its body swelled up a lot, Xiao Shui even suspected that it would eventually become as tall as the wall behind it.
Touching her empty belly, Xiao Shui was about to return to the underground preparation area so she could use the teleportation array there to go to the planting area for a meal when she saw a little flower fairy fly out of the white wall. After saying something to Lan Jiao, Lan Jiao beckoned them to walk into the white wall.
Following the other demons through the white wall, Xiao Shui immediately spotted the giant soup ball floating in mid-air not far away. The rich aroma wafted over, making Xiao Shui even hungrier.
Soon, steaming hot soup balls and soft bread were handed to Xiao Shui. After eating and drinking her fill, Xiao Shui heard Blue Horn announce that meat soup and bread would be provided throughout the day inside the White Wall, and that demons who were hungry due to the long battle could leave the preparation area at any time to return to the Land of Sin to eat.
It turned out that after discovering that the demons were returning to the dungeon later and later, the elven lord of the Sinful Lands immediately drew a teleportation array at the base of the white wall. After cooking soup and steaming bread in the dungeon, he immediately led his people to the surface to deliver food to the demons.
Finally, Bluehorn warned, "No more eating or stealing! If you dare to eat or take more than you need right under my nose, you can go back to the Poison Fog Wasteland and keep eating the ground!"
Xiao Shui instantly realized that she didn't want to go back to the poisonous fog wasteland!
After bringing the cooked soup and warmed acorn bread to the ground and distributing them to the demons, Shu Xin looked up at the darkening sky.
It is now the seventh day of the harvest month. Contrary to her initial guess, all five attacks by the outer continent monsters were humanoid. The vanguard was led by Big Head Dress, followed by Multi-Eyed Mage Robe and his followers. At first, the demons were able to keep the humanoid monsters outside the preparation zone. But when Shu Xin came today, she saw that the humanoid monsters had already reached the city wall formed by the defensive barrier.
In just seven days, they were attacked five times. That's quite a frequency. There are still more than twenty days to go. Shu Xin can hardly imagine what the situation will be like after that.
With high risks come high rewards. Under the stimulation of high concentrations of magic, the land of sin is already a scene of abundance. While the demons are busy fighting, the flower fairies are also busy working.
Whether commoners or slaves, everyone waved their magic wands as they moved through the fields. The fully ripe bitter wheat shone a deep blue under the sunlight, and the grassy fields were laden with bright red cardamom. Not to mention the fruit trees, their branches bent low with the weight of the fruit: golden cherries, glittering ruby cherries, round white moon cherries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries—all exuding a sweet, ripe aroma. If they weren't picked in time, they would probably rot!
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