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Bamboo shoots are blooming, huh? Mimi is lying in her mother's arms counting the stars... Oh, the stars are so beautiful! Where's tomorrow's breakfast? Bamboo rice~~~~~.
The third morning.
Liu Zhenhong rode the Fire Crane to send off Cui Peishan and Luo Bi, then circled around the Danube Great Wilderness before flying back to Feilongcui. Almost at the moment the Fire Crane landed, the magical flames on the red earth slope went out.
The majestic magical flames vanished instantly, as if they had never appeared before.
After the Flame Spirit dissipated, the ancient stone statue embedded in the middle of the red earth slope suddenly changed from a transparent fiery red to a dark purple color similar to that of grapes. This color reminded many people of the color of an evil aura.
The originally incomplete but majestic face of the stone statue gradually appeared with cracks in the cold wind. These cracks, from one to two, slowly spread like a contagion, and the gaps burst open one by one, like a spider web, covering the massive body of the stone statue.
All the people of Jasper stood with their mouths agape, forming a circle, standing outside the red earth slope, staring blankly at their home.
Daisy the fairy dragon said that the magical flame of "Earth Fire Burning City" was so powerful that it could even split stone castles.
Who dares to belittle a judgment made by a dragon clan proficient in magic?
Every citizen of Feilongcuo has a heavy heart.
"Fall back!" Good's loud voice shouted again. "All of you fall back! Prohibit approaching! In case of collapse, it will cost your lives!"
The militiamen themselves had tears in their eyes, hand in hand, blocking the vassal tribes from surging forward.
The fairy dragon's judgment is reasonable, but also not entirely correct.
Red earth is not stone, even if the stone statue has signs of bursting, turquoise is still turquoise.
One side of the water and soil nourishes one side of the Mongols. The region and its subjects also have the same temperament.
Turquoise, like its own lord, no matter what kind of hardships it has been through, still stands on this vast wilderness, turning all the misfortunes into good fortune.
Through the crimson hillside scorched by magical flames, a twisted heat haze undulates, and on the banks of the Sanggan River, a majestic purple-red Sleeping Beauty reveals her tranquil yet gigantic figure to all the people of Feilu.
The red soil disappeared and turned into a hard, reddish-purple rock. The sand that was originally mixed in the red soil layer was melted and formed a perfectly smooth liquid glass glaze, which flowed slowly from top to bottom on the red soil slope.
Even the giant stone statue with cracks all over was filled with these glaze-like liquids that flowed into the gaps. These glazes were like the best adhesives, quickly covering the shaky body of the statue with a layer.
These overflowing glaze liquids, slowly came to a standstill in the flow, slowly solidified, and gradually solidified into a smooth and round substance on the surface of the red soil slope.
The only thing in the Aegean continent that has such a strange luster is something that only the most noble and wealthy aristocrats of the Kingdom of Bimon have ever possessed - the famous porcelain from the distant Silk Continent.
The people of Feilongcui were overjoyed.
Even Lord Liu Zhen was shocked by the change in Hongtugao. These flowing glaze-like substances left him bewildered.
Originally thought that this big fire could burn the surface of Hongtu Gaochao into brick shape, who would have thought it actually burned into...
"Ceramic"? "Zisha"? Maybe also can be called "brick"?
Liu Zhen was really unsure which title to use.
Zisha and ceramic, Liu Zhen didn't even fire them, he has no right to speak. But firing bricks is at least a profession for him, even if not a good one.
In the past, Liu Zhen was not spared from suffering when earning work points in the production team's earth kiln. To burn bricks, one had to first stomp on the paddy field with their feet to mix the water and mud evenly, then shape the brick embryo, dry it until it was half-dry before putting it into the kiln cave. If there was too much moisture, the brick embryo would easily deform after being fired; if there was too little moisture, the brick embryo would easily crack after being fired.
This has something to do with the fire. At that time, the production team had no money to buy charcoal, and the kiln was burned with wheat straw all night until dawn. Several kiln workers had to watch the fire. If the fire receded a little, the bricks in one kiln would be ruined.
Why was the red earth slope burned like this by the big fire, Liu Zhen really couldn't understand.
According to the "red seven black three" brick-burning convention, it's not surprising that they were burned into black bricks. However, burning out a layer of glaze is quite strange.
But Old Liu has one advantage: he never spends more than a minute thinking about something that doesn't make sense.
Facing such a huge change in Verdandi, the short-tempered Evie couldn't wait any longer and immediately cast a "Storm Spell".
The torrential rain lowered the temperature of the red earth slope to a point where it was approachable, and all the residents of Feilongcui, regardless of how scorching hot the red earth slope still was, eagerly swarmed up the stairs, with great astonishment, closely observing their own homes.
The red earth slope is no longer the red earth slope. The steaming water vapor has turned this place into a hazy dreamland of cloud-shrouded mountains and misty veils. The red earth body has disappeared, replaced by a layer of transparent glaze as hard as iron. Layer upon layer of pale pink flower patterns float on all the purple-red earth walls. Fingers touching the red earth feel incredibly smooth, and tapping it produces a metallic "clang clang" sound.
A twenty-meter-high staircase passage became a real death passageway. A squad of heavily armed giant scythe-wielding men melted their armor, coating this layer of stairs with a silver-white iron liquid.
"How could this be? How could this be?" The fairy dragon, Daisy, floated at the top of the red earth mound, completely stunned by everything in front of her.
The loud and clear "My Home is on the Red Hill" thousand-people chorus replied to Xian Nü Long's question, lingering in the vast wilderness for a long time.
It is unknown since when all the people of Vienna, even slaves, like their lord, liked to express their emotions with songs.
This song, translated by Liu Zhen into the Baiman language, is "My Home on the Red High Slope", of course without the power of a war song. But in the enthusiastic singing, what is contained is the nostalgia for one's hometown. For this belief, the people of Feilongcun can fearlessly face any threat.
The song's inspiring power of faith is no less than that of a war song.
The prisoners of war were escorted from the cellar into the cave. All spoils of war were carried into the storage cave.
The prisoners of war were stunned, gazing incredulously at the red earth slope. Many people who had been driven into the cave after that, desperately scratched the wall. The red earth wall as hard as iron and stone filled their hearts with shock.
Even Ottega, the great master who used this magic, never dreamed of such a result, and was completely stunned.
The Earl of Toti lay on a stretcher under solitary guard. The earl, who had broken several ribs, was now anxiously awaiting his fate.
The Lord of Falion today rode the Fire Crane and did not find any signs of large-scale movement of human troops on the border. His fate will have to wait until tomorrow when the beautiful snake guide returns to give him an answer.
Turquoise has regained its former appearance, but the red soil slope has become harder.
A team of hippo poets and the elder of the mammoth tribe, Old Pogey, also returned from Razorback Mountain.
The fairy dragon has always been puzzled as to why the total number of hippopotamus warriors is forty-eight, but only half of them appear in the battle of the icy river, and now it finally makes sense.
Originally, the Pig Lord's seemingly rough face had never relaxed its vigilance against the Dwarves of Razor Hill from the start of the battle. Half of the Hippo Poets and Mammoth Tribe's elderly women and children, plus the twelve Minotaur blacksmiths on Razor Hill, even if the Dwarves wanted to make any moves, they would have to weigh their strength carefully.
What a deep and sinister plot. The fairy lady, Long Daisi, sighed quietly.
Standing at a height of several dozen meters away from the ground again, many sharp-eyed Fi'zi people discovered a strange phenomenon in the distant bamboo forest.
The bamboo has actually bloomed.
Yellow and white flower buds are scattered among all the Buddha's belly bamboo forests. In the red soil high slope, three or four hundred mu of bamboo forest, the ones closest to the red soil high slope have already bloomed with flowers, clustering together in large patches.
On the flat ground, it was hidden by withered bamboo forests, and such colors were not easy to detect. Now standing in a high place, these pieces of different colors are particularly striking.
Gu De held a bunch of wheat-like yellow bamboo flowers and stepped into the kiln cave with a "thud". He happened to catch sight of the boss leading several beauties holding binoculars, observing the distant bamboo forest.
"Boss... boss... it's not good! The bamboo leaves in the bamboo forest are falling down like rain! The bamboo is actually blooming! Bamboo can actually bloom..." Gu De pinched his big butt, frantically waving the bamboo flowers he was holding in front of the eagle eye tube mirror.
"I saw it yesterday. I didn't expect it to spread so widely in just one day and night." Liu was shocked, pushing his eagle-eye goggles aside, and gave Gu De a sly smile, "Eagle-eye goggles are really very useful for me to observe life from a distance."
"Sir! How can bamboo bloom? Bamboo should rely on its root system to sprout new shoots and multiply! No one knows more about bamboo than our Pantal! I heard from the elderly in the Chensang continent that bamboo blooming is an ominous sign! All the bamboo will wither and die!" The fearless Gude's face was drenched in sweat at the thought of the bamboo dying.
"Nonsense!" Liu Zhen interrupted Pan's ominous words, "Plants also have a spiritual nature. The bamboo blooming is because of the drastic change in climate caused by a magical disaster, which stimulated these bamboos, and coupled with the frantic digging of the bamboo roots by the wild boars, will lead to the bamboo blooming. However, there is one thing you said correctly, after the bamboo blooms, within two or three days, all the leaves will fall off, and then wither and die. But in the ear of the bamboo flower, bamboo rice will be produced, and besides being edible, if planted underground, it will become a bamboo forest again next year. You don't understand, so don't talk nonsense. I have had this experience before."
"Is it edible? What exactly is bamboo rice?" The several beauties all stared at Liu Zhen in shock.
"After the bamboo flowers wither, the seeds in the inflorescence are already bamboo rice. The bamboo flowers wither within two or three days and can be harvested immediately. There is no other crop that can be harvested in such a short time." Liu Zhen said.
"Is it that exaggerated?" Several beauties looked at each other in dismay, all a bit disbelieving.
"I was so confident last night, saying that the grain problem would be left to me. It wasn't because I had come up with a plan, but because yesterday when I was playing with this telescope, I inadvertently discovered that the bamboo in the distance had bloomed. Bamboo blooms in large areas, not just one or two stalks. Today, it has indeed spread widely. So last night I showed off a bit of mystery. Our grain will all depend on the bamboo rice produced by these 400-500 mu of bamboo after they bloom." Liu was shaken and laughed as he hugged Helen's waist.
"Can bamboo rice be eaten too?" Helen also hugged Liu Zhen's waist.
The beautiful snake charmer is gone, and Helen's charming eyes have started to electrocute.
"I don't know about the taste. I haven't eaten it, my mother has. It's said to be not bad." Liu Zhen shook his head, his eyes cast downward, and kicked the hard ground with his foot.
"The Aegean continent does not produce bamboo. It was only in the past decade or so that overseas merchants brought it here. As far as I know, currently only a small amount is planted in the Imperial City of Divus, where the Saint Pauline Church is located. The human Pope gave this plant an Aegean name called 'Emerald Tree'. Generally, the planting quantity of human countries is very small... How did you and your mother have such an experience?" asked the fairy dragon lady, Daisy, curiously.
This question also raised Gottani's curious gaze.
"This is a military secret, I'm not at liberty to disclose." Eve said coldly from the side.
Liu Zhen and Helen exchanged a smile with Jingyu. Daisy turned her face away and pouted.
"Damn it! This big fire has ruined our pandas' rice bowls, and you're all fed up. No way, I'm going to go beat that magician!" Gudd said with a roll of his eyes, as if he was in a huff.
"Alright, I'll even give you a wing if I have to eat flies." The lord patted the bamboo tube at his waist with satisfaction. Kood knew that it contained the Elixir of Life.
"Heh heh. I actually knew the boss would say that." Pan Shuai smiled slyly.
"This fire has sent me a real castle." Liu Zhen thought for a moment and sighed, "But this fire has burned away so many of my treasures! Our 800-year-old golden locust tree was destroyed by the big fire, the oil melon seedlings were also dried up, the bamboo shoots were ruined, and the bamboo forest is gone. Fortunately, I have the 'Spring of Life', otherwise I would really have to take a kitchen knife to cut my throat."
"A single drop can make a plant grow for fifty years, and there's still plenty of 'Fountain of Life' left. There are also many seeds from various trees, and the Golden Sander's Mountain has over a hundred more, what's to fear?" Evie pouted.
"Again the 'Spring of Life' and again the 'Spring of Elements', Lord's treasures are indeed numerous." The fairy dragon, Daisy, blinked her eyes and glanced at the bamboo tube on Evie's waist.
"It's really the Dragon Clan, and you were able to guess the answer so quickly." Evie hummed in her nose, praising Daisy with a tone of insincere praise.
Seeing the awkward scene, Jingyu turned around and entered the kiln cave, using a bamboo tube to pour two cups of water, one handed to Liu Zhenshen, and the other handed to Xiannü Long.
The fairy dragon's angry expression softened.
"My 'Elemental Spring' was swindled from the Entish Treant. To be honest, I've always felt a bit guilty about it. Daisy, aren't your dragon clan quite familiar with the Treants? When will you help me apologize to that old fellow? If I come across any rare and unusual seeds, I'll definitely set them aside for him." Liu Zhen said slowly, sipping his tea.
"Are you often deceiving people?" The fairy dragon, Daisy, furrowed her brow, and the pimple between her eyebrows twitched slightly.
"Are you worried about your spiritual contract with Guoguo again?" Liu Zhen asked, waving his hand at Guoguo who was flying back and forth in the sky on a parrot.
The parrot flew in, shouting "SB! SB!" all the way, and beautifully drew a circle in the air before landing on Liu Zhen's arm.
The fairy dragon's gaze suddenly became eager.
Liu Zhenhong teased Guoguo's small face. Guoguo snatched the bamboo tube from his hand, gurgled and drank several big mouthfuls of water, then rode on the parrot, beating a drum and flying away.
"Let me squeeze that pimple on your face and I'll tell you the answer." Liu Zhen was delighted, turning his head to look at Xian Nü Long with a grin.
"Are you deceiving me? Using that damned soul contract to make me do things for you? Are you... never intending to help me lift the contract?" The fairy dragon dodged Liu's outstretched demonic claws with agility. Her beautiful eyes stared tightly at this master of her own master.
"You don't understand me." Liu's eyes looked at Daisy with a complex gaze, "Things that I get my hands on, I've never had the habit of letting go again."
"I am not a thing!" The fairy dragon was furious.
This sentence made Liu Zhen stunned and amused.
"I am a noble dragon clan! Not an object." Daisy knew she had made a slight mistake in her haste and quickly corrected herself.
"You've provoked me, and yet you tricked me into giving Evelyn the venom of the Wyrmwood viper. But we also fought side by side together. This time, when Feilong and the Sharba family clashed, why was there zero casualties? It's not just because Feilong is more courageous than the Mongol warriors, but also because our weapons are superior! Look at how many human weapons were cut off! And what about our rattan armor? It was made according to your idea, using amber to temper it and grinding snail shells and clamshells into powder to apply a fireproof coating! If not for your suggestions, we would have been done in by the first wave of phosphorus rockets on the Death Staircase. Liu Zhen shook his head and patted the shoulder of the dragon girl, "I've taken note of your contributions. Think about it carefully, did I and Guo Guo ever treat you as a demonic pet? Am I not good enough to the dwarves of Razor Hill? I said before, as long as they acknowledge me as their lord, I will treat them equally! Do you see this war spoils? Who do I let clean up the battlefield? Is it the dwarf warriors? Although I still don't fully trust them, have I wronged them?"
"What exactly do you mean by that?" Daisy looked up at Liu Zhen with her head tilted back.
Liu Zhenhong slowly unbuttoned his clothes, revealing a robust and hairy chest.
"What do you want to do?" The fairy dragon Daisy was shocked and immediately teleported behind Gatanee.
"With your figure, I'm not even interested. Come, take a look at this." Liu Zhen took out the 36-ounce gold chain from his neck. The gold chain on the side of the leek had four crystal-like pearls inlaid on it, dazzling and eye-catching.
"Water-avoiding Dragon Bead, Fire-avoiding Dragon Bead, Wind-avoiding Dragon Bead, plus a Beauty Saint Treasure, and the Feiwenli Mang Pearl." Liu Zhen shook his head slightly as he showed it to the Fairy Dragon, "Adding the Polaris Sand Flame Crane, even if I'm facing your dragon tribe, do I have any chance of winning?"
"There's also a Dust-repelling Dragon Bead." Evie pinched her own sachet and waved it.
"No wonder you were able to emerge unscathed from the forbidden spell 'Inferno'. I thought you had some magical equipment like a 'Flame Cloak' or something. It turns out you're actually immune to all four elements of magic! Dragon God above! You've even slaughtered four giant dragons?" The fairy dragon's expression changed slightly.
"It's just that I've killed a Hell Black Dragon, it's not that exaggerated. The four major systems of magic on the Aegean continent are 'air, fire, water, earth'. Although I'm an all-rounder, don't forget that there are also spatial magic, dark magic, plant-based magic and lightning-based magic and other niche magics. I just wanted to tell you my true strength." Liu Zhen added, "I heard that among the dragon clan, the Rainbow Dragon uses a rare metal system magic."
As soon as the seven-colored dragon was mentioned, everyone's attention turned to the ring on Xian Nu Long Daisy's finger.
The fairy dragon bureau hastily turned the jade-faced ring on her hand.
Ning Yu's pair of eyes that could see through people's hearts immediately saw a lot of hidden anxiety and difficulty from the expression of the Fairy Dragon.
"We are all emotional animals. After several months of getting along, I have to say that my initial resentment towards you has dissipated a lot. Sometimes differences in stance always bring countless regrets." Liu Zhensheng used the eagle-eye dagger in his hand to brush aside his unevenly long hair on his forehead, "Sometimes when it's deep at night, I also wonder if I'm barbarically occupying the living space of the aboriginal people of the wasteland? Or is there a strong invasive nature within me?"
"This is the kind of talk that conquerors and victors usually like to hear." The dragon fairy sneered, "It's meaningless to say this to a noble dragon clan. If you really have gained some insight into life now, then you should give me freedom."
"Wherever you want to go now is wherever, don't you have freedom?"
"Help me break the spiritual contract, I am truly free!" The dragon fairy roared, "I am a noble dragon clan! Not an ant that is manipulated by people at will! I don't want to be anyone's magical pet!"
"Daisy...do you really understand ants?"
"Of course I understand."
"But have you ever noticed...” Liu Zhenhong paused for a moment, then continued, “...an ant can lift objects that are dozens of times its own weight. And as for us humans, even the strongest warriors under my command who have undergone rigorous weightlifting training, we can at most only lift objects that are five to ten times our own body weight. I believe that even you dragons would not be able to lift objects that are dozens of times your own weight."
"I admit that," Daisy nodded, "I know in the War of Gods and Demons, the already extinct insect tribe was indeed much more impressive than the Mong--Anterian ant workers."
"If ants had wisdom, in the eyes of ants, we would definitely be a high and mighty existence. Our strength must be too powerful for ants. Our fingers can easily crush a large group of ants. Even if the strongest ant bites our finger with its defensive weapon - mandible, it will not hurt our skin at all." Liu Zhen said, "The dragon tribe is the terminal of all powers on the Aegean continent. You are incredibly powerful, and no other race can compare to you. The beastmen of Bimon are probably as small as ants in your eyes, aren't they?"
The fairy dragon neither nodded nor shook her head. She was waiting for Liu Zhenlei to continue speaking.
"Even the weakest of races have something to be proud of. Innate strength does not represent a race's absolute nobility, it only represents that race's good fortune. This good fortune cannot become a reason to enslave other races." Liu Zhen's mouth twitched, with a hint of mockery in his smile, "The relationship between the summoner and the demonic pet is one of kinship and partnership, they are partners who can share life and death, they are partners who can entrust their lives to each other! The spiritual contract between the summoner and the demonic pet is a bond that exists within the short span of life, it is the most noble promise. This is something you deliberately try to ignore but cannot ignore. Even if Guo Guo and you dissolved your spiritual contract, this mark that once existed, did it disappear?"
"If, according to your theory, I am a being with four-system magic immunity, possessing power not inferior to that of the dragon tribe, without having hundreds of powerful warriors as followers. Among them are mages, illusionists, and land-sea-air warriors! My son is an incredibly powerful Frost Snow Pikachu, my daughter is a lovely little piglet who can scatter dense water arrows. I also possess a Far Eastern mystical Fire Crane that can rival the giant dragon. I am also the creator of the unique Battle Song Scroll - just like the majority of the dragon tribe, most of whom are only magic-immune and not element traders like you. My evil Halo Scroll is ineffective against the Fairy Dragon, but should be effective against other dragons, right? Let me tell you something else you don't know: I also possess golden puppet warriors weighing 200,000 pounds each. So, hasn't my overall strength already surpassed that of the dragon tribe? Doesn't that mean I now have the basic conditions to enslave you?"
Daisy didn't know what to say anymore. She felt a bone-chilling coldness from the power that Pig suddenly unleashed at this moment.
"Wait for your fiancé to come. I promise you, as long as your fiancé can help Avril find the antidote to break the venom of the Fenwenli snake, I will not make things difficult for you, considering how much you have helped Feilong." Liu Zhen shook his head slightly and smiled, "This is the first time I've been so easy-going."
"What if I never find this antidote?" The fairy dragon finally squeezed out a sentence after half a day.
Jing Yu once again sensed the inexpressible awkwardness and difficulty that appeared on Daisy's face.
"If you've done your best, I won't force it. To know that I have no intention of binding anyone's freedom. But a girl as lovely as a flower has become poisonous, and as a dragon clan who knows how to repay kindness and has noble character, shouldn't you feel a little bit guilty?" Liu Zhen asked, pointing at Aylie.
The fairy dragon's eyes were filled with tears, on the verge of falling.
Kotani pouted beside him.
This guy is obviously in the wrong, but he always manages to come up with a bunch of grand excuses for himself, as if others owe him an apology. The Swan Maiden Knight thought back on her own experiences and couldn't help but feel a sense of regret.
"Alright, now you're the military advisor. I don't want you to have any reckless thoughts." Liu Zhen helped the Dragon Fairy wipe away the tears from the corner of her eyes. "I'm going to the Temple of Gods tomorrow. Although there were no signs of human anomalies on the border today, I still need to be cautious. The war preparations must be tightened up!"
"I'll head back to Blade Mountain first and oversee the production of the second batch of new-style weapons. If anything comes up, just have Guo Guo's spiritual sense call me." The fairy dragon nodded.
"What you just said to Daisy, is it true or false?" Seeing the fairy dragon disappear instantly, Jingyu pulled Helen's hand and asked Liu Zhen with her head tilted.
"It's a dilemma." Liu Zhenhong sighed with a bitter smile, "She has also helped me a lot. Although it was out of helplessness, she is not a bad person either. I really don't have the face to be too excessive."
"Haven't you noticed that Daisy has been secretly harboring unspoken grievances in her heart? It's been more than two months since she was caught by you to be a laborer, so why hasn't her fiancé come yet? Among dragon clans, there is a mysterious spiritual communication method. If she wanted to notify her fiancé, it doesn't make sense that he still hasn't appeared until now?" Jingyu slightly opened and closed the shell behind her back, expressing the doubts in her heart.
"I'm also wondering." Liu Zhenhong sighed, "Now that the great enemy is in front of us, don't mess with our enemies! A magician escaped, damn it! Even if we killed that bat person, Dolote still has his uncle, and there's a whirlwind mercenary group. Between these two, one of them must have a decisive battle with us."
"You used to be so rough, how come you're speaking so eloquently today, one sentence after another?" Helen laughed and hugged Old Liu.
"We want ideological struggle, not armed struggle." Liu said with a smile.
