Chapter 266 What is the Tree of Life? Expanding the Flower Castle
The Antidote Mushroom, which has extremely high requirements for its growing environment, is a rare and precious magical plant. However, the dungeons of the Land of Sin are very suitable for the growth of the Antidote Mushroom. There is a large field in the planting area specifically for growing the Antidote Mushroom. Before setting off, Shu Xin packed a lot of them into her space stone, just in case.
In addition, Popomore City is a large city, and there are quite a few flower fairy doctors living here, as well as many herbalists and pharmacists. After the elf butler took out the antidote mushroom, the doctors and pharmacists immediately came to help.
After clearing out a patch of land, several large pits were dug out. Flintstones were laid on the bottom of the pits and polished, and then the huge leaves of the Tree of Life were tightly packed into the pits. One temporary leaf pot after another was made, and the apothecary's antidote and the herbalist's antidote soup were brewed and boiled in the large leaf pots.
The auxiliary magic wands were engraved with healing runes and were quite effective in treating external injuries. The elven deacons prioritized healing the warriors' injuries and then distributed antidotes to them first. After ensuring that all the flower fairy warriors had recovered, they distributed the magic wands and asked the flower fairy warriors to treat the flower fairy civilians.
Amidst the rising and falling magical glow, the aroma of the mushroom soup grew even stronger. Seeing that the elven deacons had arranged things in an orderly manner, Shu Xin instructed Xi to take the demon deacons to hunt some game in the forest. Then, she and Mimi Lan headed to the Flower Castle in Bobomo City—she had brought so many people with her, and they needed to prepare a place for them to sleep before dark.
The situation in the city is better than in the wheat field. The insects in the round orchard are different from wheat weevils. After being killed by pesticides, they did not mutate or evolve any toxins. The problem is that these large groups of insects flying in the air fall everywhere after they die, and the densely packed insects crawling on the trees also die neatly and quickly in place.
When Shu Xin came last time, the forest was full of insects. Now when she comes, the forest is still full of insects, the only difference is that the live insects have become dead insects.
It's understandable, really. The flower fairies have spent all their time and energy dealing with the wheat weevils in the fields, so naturally they don't have time to clean up these dead insects.
Shu Xin could use magic to wipe out all the insects in one go, but when the casting location is different, even the same large-scale superimposed magic will have completely different casting difficulty and magic consumption. One is a city full of houses and trees and very dense, and the other is a wide open and sunny wheat field. If the latter is a primary school math problem, the former is a college calculus problem!
This is actually like washing dishes. Washing a flat, shallow plate is definitely easier than washing a winding glass oil bottle... Shu Xin decided to think of other methods first. If there really wasn't a better way, she would then do advanced math problems and wash the oil bottle.
While pondering how to more efficiently clean up these insect corpses, Shu Xin arrived at the Tree of Life in Bobomo City.
After the Flower Fairy took away the Key of Life from Mimi Lan, the governor of Bobomo City, she still worked in the Flower Castle during the day, but rested in the city's inn at night. This was because it was not yet the time for the Round Fruit Tree to bear fruit, so she could not build a new house even if she wanted to. She could only stay in the inn for the time being and build her own Round Fruit House after the harvest month.
Shu Xin was unaware that Mimi Lan had already moved out of the Flower Castle, and she vaguely felt that something was amiss.
When Shu Xin came last time, she shrunk her size and didn't pay much attention to the Tree of Life. After all, at first glance, the bark of all kinds of trees looks quite similar. After carefully examining it from top to bottom, she was somewhat surprised to find that, apart from not being infested with insects or bearing fruit, this Tree of Life looked exactly the same as the round fruit trees around it!
Thinking of the Tree of Life in the Land of Sin, Shu Xin belatedly realized that the tree's species seemed to have undergone some kind of change.
The Tree of Life initially had no leaves, only bare branches. Later, leaves grew, and the shape of the leaves was somewhat like a fan-shaped ginkgo leaf. However, after the hair and soul fragments belonging to the true riverside spirits were buried under the Tree of Life, the shape of the leaves changed again. At the time, Shu Xin only felt that they were somewhat irregular, but now that she thinks about it, the species of the Tree of Life must have been changing at that time.
The Tree of Life in the Land of Sin is now clearly a colossal oak tree.
In Western culture, the oak tree is mysterious and powerful, and it also has many sacred symbolic meanings, such as the king of the forest and the sacred tree. Shu Xin didn't think much of it. She thought it was normal for the Tree of Life to be an oak tree. But she never expected that only the Tree of Life in the Land of Sin was an oak tree!
The Tree of Life in Popomo City is not an oak tree, but a round fruit tree. Shu Xin doesn't know what determines the variety of the Tree of Life, but she suspects that it is because the staple food of the Land of Sin is acorns, so the Tree of Life is an oak tree. As for Popomo City, it is probably because the flower fairies' dwelling is a round fruit tree.
...The Tree of Life is truly a magical plant in a magical world.
After a moment of silence, Shu Xin drew her magic wand and, drawing upon the free magic of the world, began to radically transform the Tree of Life before her.
As the pale purple magical glow shone again from the tip of the magic wand, the ground began to tremble slightly, as the roots in the soil spread downwards. A rustling sound began to fill the air, as the branches in the air stretched upwards. The dappled sunlight cast by the trees in the forest, like reflections on the water, rippled and expanded outwards in concentric circles with the breeze and the light and shadow.
Countless new leaves grew in the wind, and the outline of the tree crown changed constantly. Under the light purple magical glow, the Tree of Life, which was almost the same as the surrounding round fruit trees, grew rapidly. When the magical glow slowly dissipated, the tree that could be hugged by one person had become a towering giant that five people could not hug. Several round, pointed tree houses also appeared at different heights on the huge tree's incredibly thick branches.
The light yellow wooden exterior walls all have naturally grown, rounded curves, while the pointed roofs are all covered with layers of lush green leaves. When a gentle breeze blows, the leaves sway slightly, and a bird attracted by the magical fluctuations lands on the roof of the highest treehouse, looking just like a small flower adorning the lush greenery.
Each treehouse has several round windows, with transparent fruit membranes serving as the window glass, and the doors are the distinctive wooden doors of the Flower Castle, with very intricate patterns.
If you look closely, you'll see round fruit houses hanging from the branches of the Tree of Life, and round windows and wooden doors opening into the trunk. The highest tree house even has a small terrace surrounded by a light yellow wooden railing. Clearly, this is a special treatment that Shu Xin has openly and blatantly created for herself by taking advantage of her privileges.
With the expansion of Flower Castle complete, Shu Xin put her magic wand away again.
Looking up at the large, upgraded version of the Round Fruit House nestled among the branches and leaves, Shu Xin felt very satisfied. She thought calmly that it would look even better if the fence were decorated with some flowering vines.
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