Beast World: A Fragile Beauty Blessed with Many Children-Chapter 138 - 137: Rootless Flower
"Here, Zhi Le. This is a one-hundred-square-meter Storage Ring. From now on, you can use it in front of outsiders without worrying about our space being discovered."
Si Shuo threaded the Storage Ring onto a stretchy Spirit Plant that served as a cord and placed it around Zhi Le’s neck.
The Spirit Plant coiled around the ring, disguising it as a common vine ornament and making its presence completely unnoticeable.
Besides her and Xu Chi, who had Sumeru Spaces, the other Beast Husbands each only had a five-cubic-meter space and a four-acre planting area that they shared with her.
The over 230-meter perimeter of the planting area was lined with one-meter-wide shelves to make the most of the space. They were mostly filled with the hides, meat, tendons, and bones from various hunted Fierce Beasts, as well as homegrown fruits and vegetables.
But everyone needed some private space. Plus, it was inconvenient to carry too many things when they went out hunting. This five-meter-high, one-hundred-square-meter space was incredibly convenient.
A Storage Ring would bond to its owner, only becoming ownerless if its master willingly abandoned it or died.
What made it even more valuable was that a Storage Ring of this grade also came with a decent preservation function.
Slightly excited, Zhi Le clutched the Bone Ring on his chest and began refining it. As he sensed the space inside, his mind was already racing. ’What treasures can I stockpile for her?’
Si Shuo chuckled lightly. "I still owe you one more Storage Ring, Zhi Le. I’ll give it to you in three days!"
’I haven’t forgotten about Zhi Le’s clone,’ she thought. ’I can’t play favorites.’
Zhi Le pulled her into his arms. ’I don’t really need an extra share of resources compared to the other Couple Brothers just because of my Clone Ability,’ he thought. ’My main body and my clone can share one. But since she’s the one giving it, I’ll take it. I’ll just have to pull some extra weight in the future!’
Si Shuo went back to managing the stall, and Yimei wasn’t idle either. She had already asked Hang He to spread the word about her Healing Ability. Any female who was feeling unwell, pregnant, or about to give birth could ask her to come over.
Yimei also needed to use her Healing Ability constantly to improve it and level up.
Si Shuo and the others returned to yesterday’s stall. By now, quite a few young females were already waiting in line.
Ji Liang was in charge of running the stall and selling, while Si Shuo sat next to Li Hui, chatting. One of them condensed Spirit Plants, while the other wove bracelets and necklaces.
Zhi Le was off to the side, lazily placing Spirit Plants into the golden cages. Meanwhile, Yin Jiang was surrounded by a group of males, all talking animatedly.
"Si Shuo Divine Female, can you condense this kind of rootless flower too?" a young female asked expectantly. She was holding a flower with four petals—two large and two small—so pale you could see her hand through it. In the center was a long pistil with a rounded stigma, flanked by two stamens, resembling a slender, transparent butterfly.
Yin Jiang glanced over and stepped forward to explain to Si Shuo. "Shuo’er, that’s a rather famous rootless flower from the grasslands.
This flower doesn’t root in the soil. It can absorb nutrients from the air and drifts with the wind, scattering its seeds everywhere.
Its seeds do take root and sprout in the soil, but once the flower blooms, the roots and stem wither and break off... The rootless flower is nearly transparent, so it’s not easy to find..."
Si Shuo nodded repeatedly as she listened, then took the flower from the young female’s hand with a smile.
The flower contained both male and female parts. After pollination, the seeds were nurtured to maturity inside the ovary, and then the swollen pod would burst open.
She pinched the pod open, revealing twenty to thirty sesame-seed-sized, jet-black seeds!
Si Shuo put half of the seeds into her space and placed the rest in her right palm. Pinching one between her thumb and forefinger, she activated her Fertilization Ability.
The jet-black seed in her hand quickly took root, sprouted, grew a stalk, and blossomed. Sure enough, once the flower bloomed, its roots and stem automatically withered and fell away.
The young females who had gathered around adored the exquisite, tiny rootless flower in her palm, which resembled an ice sculpture.
"Si Shuo, what does this rootless flower do?" Li Hui asked curiously.
Si Shuo carefully sensed the rootless flower playfully rolling around in her palm, and her eyes lit up slightly!
She didn’t say anything, just turned her head to look at Yin Jiang and said with a smile, "Yin Jiang, channel your Spiritual Power into it and see what happens."
Yin Jiang nodded, took the rootless flower from her hand, and injected his Fire Element Spiritual Power into it. As the fiery red Spiritual Power flowed in, the rootless flower turned crimson, trading its former pale translucence for the dazzling brilliance of a flower in full bloom.
Only after Yin Jiang had fed it ten percent of his Spiritual Power did the rootless flower stop its greedy absorption, comfortably stretching its petals. You could feel its pleasure just by looking at it.
"Now that you’re full, it’s time to get to work," Si Shuo said with a smile, poking the rootless flower.
Only then did the rootless flower shake its petals, slowly beat its wings, and fly up, moving behind Si Shuo and growing larger.
Its stamens intertwined into several soft vines, fastening themselves to Si Shuo’s shoulders, waist, and legs. The petals then flapped gently, lifting Si Shuo lightly into the air!
The females all squealed with envy and excitement. The wings were beautiful, and they could fly! Even though they couldn’t compare to Flying Beasts and only moved at twenty to thirty miles per hour, they immediately became the young females’ new favorite thing.
As long as they weren’t in a hurry, whenever females went somewhere far, they needed males to carry them or give them a ride. Now, with these wings, they could fly over slowly on their own.
Flying on their own was a completely different feeling from being carried by their Beast Husbands.
"Si Shuo Divine Female, can you grow one for me?"
"Si Shuo Divine Female, I want a rootless flower too..."
The females couldn’t hold back any longer and all started begging for one. Their excitement and insistence were even greater than when they had seen the other types of vine-like Spirit Plants.
Of course, Si Shuo agreed with a smile and focused first on growing only the rootless flowers.
The rootless flower was an herbaceous plant, not a perennial vine. It consumed less Spiritual Power to grow and could be produced quickly—basically one every ten seconds.
In half an hour, Si Shuo had grown over one hundred and fifty of them. At that moment, she felt her Catalyst Technique make a huge leap forward. The Spirit Plants she created were now produced faster and were even purer!
She checked her Skill Attribute Panel, and sure enough, her Catalyst Technique had advanced to the Second Level. Its overall attributes were ten times higher than the First Level.
However, Si Shuo’s Catalyst Technique was already heaven-defyingly powerful. Even though she could feel that she could now work twice as fast, she still controlled her speed and the purity of the plants so that outsiders wouldn’t notice anything amiss.
Only her Beast Husbands, who were always watching her, sensed a momentary surge in the purity of her Spiritual Power.
Taking advantage of the level-up, Si Shuo continued growing them for another half an hour. Only then, at the forceful insistence of Zhi Le and the others, did she reluctantly close up the stall. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝕨𝕖𝗯𝚗𝚘𝕧𝕖𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝕞
Over three hundred rootless flowers were sold, and Dongye Middle Square was suddenly filled with numerous females flying lightly about with wings of various colors. Each one was smiling happily and charmingly, with their Beast Husbands following behind them.
On the way back, Yin Jiang’s expression was cold. He fully unleashed the pressure of a Level 13 Beastman, deterring any males who wanted to offer themselves to her.
Back home, Si Shuo condensed two more rootless flowers, one for herself and one for Yimei.
