Chapter 112 Mushroom Soup Water Ball She would feel sorry
Shu Xin felt a chill run down her spine. She quickly averted her gaze as if she had been burned. Thinking of Xi's evil magic that gouged out eyes directly from their sockets, she felt that these people were indeed Xi's kin, each and every one of them was also very strange!
Unable to imagine what these demons' prototypes would look like, Shu Xin shook her head sharply to stop her imagination from running wild. She looked down at the adorable little lamb in her arms: "Can I use cleansing and purification magic on your kin?"
Although she only glanced at these demons briefly, Shu Xin noticed that they were all covered in dust. However, considering the billowing yellow sand that accompanied their arrival, she thought it was normal—unless they had self-cleaning abilities like flower fairies, anyone appearing in a massive sandstorm would become dusty and dirty...
Xi was quite agreeable now, and he immediately nodded, only offering a tactful suggestion: "Using cleaning magic is fine, but please don't use purification magic..."
Shu Xin nodded: "Understood. Next time you cause any trouble, I'll just throw a Great Purification Spell at you."
Xi: "…………"
Waving her staff and mobilizing the magic in the surrounding air, Shu Xin released a cleansing spell with a wide coverage area downwards. The three demons at the front instinctively wanted to dodge, but they managed to control themselves under Xi's telepathic reprimand. They then helped suppress the large group of demons following behind.
Under the magical light that spread out in an instant, the demons were initially stiff and their expressions were full of fear and unease. However, as the magical light passed over them, they immediately noticed that the dirt and dust on their bodies were rapidly dissipating. As the magical light completely disappeared, an unprecedented cleanliness and refreshment swept over their entire bodies. From their hair to their toes, they felt an extremely light and comfortable sensation. The demons stared wide-eyed.
Shu Xin fell silent as she gazed at the scene below.
The cleansing spell was supposed to take effect immediately, but the magical light emanating from below moved forward at a moderate pace, like the rising tide. The already colorful demons' skin tones became visibly brighter after the cleansing spell took effect, and surprisingly, they looked quite orderly.
When Shu Xin looked at the blue-skinned, brown-skinned, and black-skinned people standing at the front, she found that the one she thought had dark blue skin actually had light blue skin. The guy she thought had brown skin actually had wheat skin. As for the black-skinned person, he was still as black as ever, but his short black hair had turned grayish-white!
Suddenly realizing that the snow-white lamb wasn't so clean anymore, Shu Xin immediately let go of her hand. Xi, confused, hovered in mid-air: "What's wrong?"
Shu Xin, with mixed feelings, gestured for him to look down. The little lamb looked down and, after seeing the scene below, he quickly looked up to defend himself: "I'm different from them! My beast form is a soul form, how could a soul form be dirty! I'm very clean!"
Reluctantly accepting this explanation, Shu Xin still cast a cleansing spell on Xi before taking the lamb back into her arms.
As the light from the cleansing magic below completely dissipated, Shu Xin could feel that the concentration of magic in the surrounding air had dropped to a level that made it difficult for her to breathe—just how filthy were these demons? Had they never taken a bath since birth?!
...Believe it or not, it's actually quite possible. The situation of half-bloods among the demon race seems rather dire; with survival being a struggle, maintaining cleanliness is probably just a pipe dream. They're all pitiful people, Shu Xin thought to herself.
The mighty demon warriors stopped far outside the coverage area of the Tree of Life. Shu Xin first took Xi to the Flower Castle. Even if so many people were just drinking soup, it would require more than two thousand bowls of soup. Relying solely on the cook Mei Meilin to cook the soup would be too much for the poor flower fairy to handle. Shu Xin decided to bring Xi along to help cook the soup, since he was the one she brought!
“If you slack off again,” Shu Xin said with a sneer, repeating her old trick, “then you might as well kill me.”
Xi said timidly, "How could I be lazy... I'll do everything you ask me to do properly..."
After much deliberation, Shu Xin decided to use magic to solve the demons' food problem. She raised her staff and conjured a huge water sphere from the Sun Spring. While instructing Xi to heat the water sphere with a fireball spell, she ordered the cook, Mei Meilin, to throw a large amount of salt powder, acorn powder, delicious mushrooms, and wheat husks into the water sphere. In this simple and crude way, she cooked a mushroom soup that filled a whole water sphere. It can only be said that thanks to the delicious mushrooms, the cooked soup actually smelled quite fragrant.
Even though this water sphere was already quite large, it wasn't enough for more than two thousand people to drink. Shu Xin tossed the cooked mushroom soup water sphere to Xi and instructed him to distribute it. Then she started cooking the next water sphere. She cooked mushroom soup for ten large water spheres, completely using up all the salt powder. The water level of the Sun Spring also dropped by more than five inches before she finally finished cooking this meal, ensuring that each of the more than two thousand demons could get a mushroom soup water sphere.
When Xi Fei arrived at the demon settlement, the hybrids were carefully holding water spheres and sipping soup with great relish.
When they were told to sleep on the ground, the demons found it strange. Wasn't sleeping on the ground all along? Why did they need to be specifically instructed to do so? Being able to sleep on such flat and soft sand was already a very lucky thing. There was no poisonous fog circulating in the air, and the wind was gentle. Not to mention that everyone around them was a hybrid like themselves, so they didn't have to worry about purebloods suddenly appearing and launching an attack. They had never felt so at ease before.
Xi could even hear the mixed-race people chatting relaxedly:
"Slurp, I've never drunk such clean water in my entire life."
“I’m a little better off than you. I was born in the city and I’ve experienced rain. Rainwater tastes pretty good, slurp, but it doesn’t taste as good as the water in this water sphere.”
"Slurp slurp, tell me, what is the prince doing bringing us to the material plane? Slurp slurp."
"I don't know, slurp, it's so delicious! Luckily I passed the human form test, slurp."
"What's in here? Mmm, delicious."
"Mmm, it really is delicious!"
“Your color is different now, slurp, I almost didn’t recognize you.”
"Slurp, I didn't know my feathers were this color. This is the first time I've ever seen the flame magic pattern on my belly. Slurp, no wonder I can breathe fire."
The wind was howling, and Xi couldn't help but smile. He looked around in the air, found Lanjiao and the others, and flew over to them.
Shan had already swallowed the mushroom soup ball and was now drooling, looking back and forth between Bluehorn and Blackfoot. Blackfoot, unable to bear Shan's gaze, turned away, bent over, and secretly licked the soup ball he held. Bluehorn sat upright, staring at the floating mushroom soup ball in his hand, as if deep in thought.
Xi transformed into human form and landed in front of Lanjiao: "What are you thinking about?"
Looking up at the humanoid hybrid nightmare, Bluehorn seemed somewhat dazed: "Xi, you're back."
Sitting cross-legged, Xi snatched the water ball from the blue corner, glanced at it twice, and then stuffed it into her mouth.
Blue Corner: "…………"
Blackfoot looked at the water balloon in his hand, straightened up, and with a pained expression, slowly extended his hand to Xi.
Glancing at the water sphere, now stained blue-black by Blackfoot's venomous saliva, Xi waved her hand dismissively: "Get lost, get lost, get lost."
Blackfoot immediately withdrew his hand and buried his head in licking again.
Turning to look at Blue Corner, Xi continued, "You still haven't told me what you're thinking."
Bluehorn was utterly helpless. He sighed, "I was thinking about what you told me during the day. You said that the landowner possessed a different kind of power, a power that neither you nor I could ever have. I'm starting to believe it now. Despite being an elf, she could treat demons rationally. I could sense that our appearance was somewhat unacceptable to her, but she still expended a lot of magic to cast a cleansing spell on us without hesitation. Not only that, she also meticulously provided food for every hybrid, and she even felt apologetic for making us sleep on the ground."
Bluehorn was somewhat bewildered: "It's as if we're the same as her, equals. She thinks that whatever she has, we deserve too. It's unbelievable..."
Xi nodded, and he sighed as well: "Blue Horn, have you thought about what would happen if I got the Demon King's Crown and became the Demon King?"
Bluehorn paused for a moment, then hesitated before speaking, "Of course I've thought about it. To be honest, anyone who knows you have the blood of the Demon King would think of this, right? If you get the Demon King's crown, you'll wash away your mixed blood and become a pureblood, right? After all, no mixed-blood has ever become the Demon King. If you want to inherit the throne as a mixed-blood, even if you're strong enough, you'll be surrounded and killed by all the purebloods."
“I became a pureblood demon king, and then what?” Xi lowered her eyes and looked at her palm. “Then I will be like the previous demon kings, constantly waging wars to maintain my position and my pure bloodline. The wars will create elemental storms, which will give birth to hybrids. And then I will go and hunt down and kill the hybrids.”
“This is so boring, Blue Horn. What is the point of the existence of a demon realm that repeats everything that has happened before?” Xi Youyou said. “My original intention in leaving the demon realm was to obtain the fragments of the godhood of this continent. As long as I can get the fragments of the godhood, I can destroy everything I want to destroy.”
“Then I met Shuxin.” Xi’s tone was somewhat fascinated. “I had never met a soul like her before.”
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