Chapter 13 The economic base determines the superstructure; the magical base determines the magical...
The three flower fairies shook their heads in unison.
Pengpengan couldn't contain himself and exclaimed, "Your Highness! How did you do that! So much magic condensate and such a huge magic gem! You are amazing! I knew you were omnipotent!"
Shu Xin: "...There are so many things I can't do, Mei Meilin. Didn't you hear anything last night?"
The cook thought about it carefully for a moment, then shook her head: "I didn't hear anything, Fairy Flower. I don't even know when that leaf fell. I only saw it when it floated right in front of me. I reached out to catch it, but it disappeared in an instant."
Shu Xin squeezed the magic gem in her hand, then looked up at Nonoli, who had already looked away and regained her serious expression:
"Nonori, go and bring a slave over. I remember there was a youngest slave among the injured slaves yesterday. Bring her over."
Ananna flew over happily, and then flew back happily.
Following the instructions of the Flower Fairy, she earnestly made a wish to the magic tree, hoping it would give her a dress. The result was obvious: nothing happened.
The young flower fairy was not disappointed at all; on the contrary, she was overjoyed. When she saw her brother waiting in the distance, she sped up and pounced on him.
Ananka was extremely worried. He hugged his sister, who rushed towards him, and whispered, "Why did they call you over? Are you alright?"
Ananna lowered her voice as well, replying softly, "The master called me over to talk to the magic tree! I'm fine! Brother! The Flower Fairy still remembers me!"
Talking to the magic tree? If the master of this land of sin wasn't the noble and holy Flower Fairy, Ananka would definitely think that these big nobles had come up with a new way to torture slaves. After all, slaves are not worthy to approach the magic tree!
But if it were the Flower Fairy—
He had also heard that the Flower Fairy had come to purify the land of evil. Could it be that purifying evil was related to the magic tree?
As for Ananna's claim that the Flower Fairy still remembered her, Ananka didn't believe a word of it. He just thought his sister was talking nonsense again, so he took her hand and flew back.
"Alright, alright, we need to hurry back and check on the bitter wheat. I see that Lanlanze's bitter wheat is already sprouting, but ours hasn't shown any signs of life yet..."
As he spoke, he glanced back and saw the Flower Fairy, more radiant than the sun, looking up at something beneath the enormous magic tree that seemed to support the entire sky.
Shu Xin is organizing her thoughts.
The flower fairy slave's prayers to the Tree of Life did not receive a response, unlike those of the cook, Memeline.
To be honest, Shu Xin wasn't surprised.
Although this situation really seems like the Tree of Life dividing the river nymphs into different classes: only the noble ones are given a glance, while the lowly ones are simply ignored.
But thinking about the weak, tired yet gentle and loving response the Tree of Life gave her, Shu Xin was more inclined to believe that it wasn't that the Tree of Life deliberately ignored the flower fairy slaves, but that the Tree of Life truly couldn't see them.
Just like a person walking in a thick fog, you really can't see the small pebbles in the tree pits along the roadside.
If she's not mistaken, then the Tree of Life—not just the Tree of Life in the Land of Sin—is also lacking in magic.
Ultimately, there is only one Tree of Life of the River Spirits. Whether it is the main tree or the secondary tree, they are all the same Tree of Life. If the Tree of Life has consciousness, then there must be only one consciousness.
While the Tree of Life in the Land of Sin may look desolate, the Trees of Life in other territories are likely still lush and verdant, especially the Tree of Life in the royal territory, which grows in an overwhelming manner.
Why was that silent voice so weak and tired?
This is probably because the Tree of Life suffered a severe injury and has not yet fully recovered.
Even though the Tree of Life was severely injured, it still prioritized the River Spirits—even though these spirits were no longer conceived by it.
Before the Tree of Life gave the cook the recipes, Shu Xin used magic to powerfully dispel the black mist that shrouded the Land of Sin, allowing the magically imbued sunlight to fall. And Xi must have also contributed a considerable amount of magic when opening the windows in the Flower Castle.
Despite possessing such magic, the Tree of Life did not grow a single leaf. Instead, it condensed the magic into recipes and gathered magical gems to help the riverside spirits who were in distress.
Thinking about this, Shu Xin felt that the fact that the Tree of Life had not yet recovered was largely due to the bizarre situation of the strict hierarchy among the River Spirits.
In her world, political textbooks clearly state that the economic base determines the superstructure. Although this world is a magical world that she doesn't quite understand yet, Shu Xin feels that some of the fundamental rules should still apply. For example, the base of magic power determines magical creations.
When the Tree of Life was at its best, the River Sprites certainly wouldn't be in this terrible state now.
When Shuxin thought of recipes, she thought of the Key to Life, both of which exist in the form of leaves.
In reality, leaves are probably just carriers of the key to life and recipes—to put it simply, a leaf is like a USB flash drive carrying information.
Is that Tree of Life a supercomputer with its own artificial intelligence and a vast amount of information?
Shu Shuxin's original territory had collected only a dozen drops of magic condensate in magic taxes over nearly a hundred years, but the Tree of Life was able to condense a magic gem in a very short time after Shu Shuxin made her wish.
The magic gem that Shu Xin used to cast large-scale magic was obtained by Xi after she devoured almost half of her soul and life force!
What exactly is the Tree of Life?
This divine creation, planted by the creator goddess Lefra, is a magical plant that can nurture river elves. It aroused the greed of countless human archmages, and was also fiercely protected by countless river elves.
Shaking her head, Shu Xin stopped thinking about these miscellaneous things. There was no point in thinking about them now. She should go and check on how the bitter wheat she had planted was doing.
Seeds planted yesterday will naturally not sprout today, and fields planted with bitter wheat look no different from wasteland.
And the tiny, grayish flower fairy slaves flying above this wasteland looked even more like mosquitoes...
Shu Xin didn't get close; she only glanced at it from afar before being led by Nuonuo to the wheat field behind the Tree of Life.
Shu Xin originally wanted to get closer to see the current situation of the flower fairy slaves, but as soon as she turned her head, she caught a glimpse of Peng Peng An out of the corner of her eye—the red-haired flower fairy frowned and flung out a thorny vine.
Shu Xin had no choice but to pretend that she had only glanced at it casually before looking away.
In the sheltered spot behind the Tree of Life, there grows wheat fields belonging to the lords of the land of sin. Although bitter wheat, a grain with extremely poor magical properties and an extremely bitter taste, never appeared on the tables of the lords in the past, the dutiful Nonori still arranges for the cultivation of bitter wheat every year.
Shu Xin walked around the massive trunk of the Tree of Life, and a vibrant wheat field came into view.
The bitter wheat plants, which are a deep gray-blue, are actually a light blue. The lush blue wheat fields spread out quietly before your eyes, transparent and light, beautiful and dreamlike, making you feel as if you have fallen into an incomparably romantic and tranquil dream.
Beside the wheat field was a pool of clear, green spring water, and along the water's edge grew two or three clusters of succulent plants that resembled lotus flowers but were snow-white.
There was no wind, and the water was as calm as a crystal-clear mirror, clearly reflecting the snow-white succulents and the light blue wheat fields, as well as the flower fairies flying up from the wheat fields.
Hearing the footsteps of the flower fairy, the flower fairies hurriedly took flight. One of the clumsy ones had a small piece of wheat leaf in his mouth, the edges of which were jagged and uneven, as if it had been gnawed by insects.
Shu Xin snapped out of her daze and saw the flower fairy, who had been biting into a wheat leaf, quickly stuff the remaining leaf into her mouth. She realized almost immediately—
These flower fairies eat the leaves of bitter wheat.
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