CH 72.1

In the beautiful crystal coffin lay a beautiful long-eared elf.

Her surroundings were dotted with greenery and bright flowers. The elf maiden’s face was pale, and below her eyes were dark shadows.

This was the elf princess the elf leader was talking about.

Her surroundings were woven into a room by the use of green vines, as if the building had come straight out of a fairy tale. Kingfishers hovered on the roof, chirping one song after another.

Bai Lixin walked up to the elfin maiden and looked down at her young face.

“This is our princess,” the elf wiped his eyes, “she is really lovely, isn’t she? Her hair is as mysterious as the night sky, and her face is as delicate as a rose. If you have the chance, you should see her eyes. She has eyes that even the gods of the forest are jealous of, eyes as green as the forest itself. Why is God too cruel to her?”

Bai Lixin: “……”

Your way of talking is also quite cruel to me.

Bai Lixin quietly walked over to the young girl. He gently took her wrist and began to take her pulse.

The young girl’s skin was warm, and she had a pulse, although it was very weak.

The pulse of the elves is different from that of humans, and Bai Lixin was only able to determine that her pulse was calm and weak.

Her life seemed to be coming to an end, but something was hanging on to her life to keep her from falling into death.

Bai Lixin tried to use the power of the necklace.

A warm white light enveloped the princess at the same time, and the system prompt rang out, [Ding! Healing target is invalid, healing failed.]

The white light dissipated, and Bai Lixin’s eyes, hidden in the long eyelashes, flashed with surprise.

The target is invalid?

It must not be because of the race, because he had healed the Night Elves who were hit by arrows.

The elf on the side came over: “How is it?”

Bai Lixin shook his head: “It’s a bit tricky.”

The elf’s original expectant look was gradually replaced by disappointment, but he quickly calmed down: “The elf king has a request.”

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The Elf King seemed to have just woken up from sleep. He was not wearing any formal clothes, and only had on a pure black robe. The belt was loosely tied around the waist, casually revealing a large area of his chest.

He looked about 30 years old and appeared taller compared to the other elves. His handsome features had an aloof and indifferent expression. He just sat on the throne, towering over Bai Lixin.

The elf king’s gaze lingered on Bai Lixin’s face for two more seconds before he spoke coldly: “Are you the human magician who can heal?”

The other party’s voice was quite nice, a bit like the ethereal dolphin voice of the sea.

Bai Lixin: “Yes, it is an honor to meet you, Your Highness the Elf King.”

Elf King: “You should have been punished to death for entering the elven race privately. But as long as you can revive the princess, not only will our Elf clan not blame you, but we will also give you the Elf Clan’s secret treasure.”

He drew a sharp turn: “But on the other hand, if you can’t save the princess, I want you to atone for the crime.”

With that, a black shackle suddenly burst out of the Elf king’s sleeve. The shackle, like a sinuous snake, wrapped itself around Bai Lixin’s wrist and merged into his body.

Bai Lixin flipped his wrist over and saw a black chain pattern on his wrist, with a shackle mark cuffed in the middle of the chain.

Underneath the chains was a countdown timer, and the time was one hour.

“This is the strongest elf contract, I give you one hour.”

Bai Lixin: “……”

1 hour? This is simply unreasonable. Even capitalists are not so roguish.

He raised his head to look at the tall and handsome elf king in front of him and said, “I can cure the princess only if the princess can be cured.”

Thinking of the “target invalid” prompted by the system earlier, Bai Lixin continued, “But can the princess really be cured?”

“Can someone be led to the respected and noble princess at will and without the permission of the Elf King? The guards around her are pitifully weak. ”

[Ding! Congratulations to the player for discovering the princess’s false disguise.]

[Ding! Congratulations to the player for gaining the Elf King’s appreciation.]

[Ding! Congratulations to the player, for triggering a new plot.]

The Elf King finally stood up from his throne and walked over to Bai Lixin.

“You are very observant,” the Elf King surveyed Bai Lixin’s eyes, “indeed, that wasn’t the princess, it was just a disguise that I made up with plants. If one couldn’t even detect the disguise, what power do they have to save the real princess.”

The Elf King chanted and swept his hand over Bai Lixin’s wrist. The time was immediately extended from 1 hour to 48 hours.

“This is your reward. Follow me.”

Bai Lixin: “……”

This reward is not much better.

He held the wolf cub and silently followed the Elf King in front of him. The two walked through the lush grass until they walked deep into the hinterland in the center of the forest.

In the middle of the forest stood five huge ginkgo trees. Vines twisted around the trunks of the five large trees to form a circle.

The elf king walked to the middle, opened his hand and chanted to the vines for a moment.

It was as if the dense vines came to life. They slowly opened up and revealed the scene inside.

In the middle of the vines lay a young girl that looked exactly like the princess he had just seen.

Only, this girl’s hair was emerald green, and her dress was made of flowers and plants.

The Elf King spoke: “It is true that someone is sick, but not my princess. It is the forest princess. I don’t know why she fell into a deep sleep. She is the goddess of the forest and if she keeps sleeping like this, the forest will die and our race won’t have a home. ”

“I ask you to save her.”

“Frankly speaking, the forest princess is like the lifeblood of the Night Elves’ existence. If you can wake her up, the matter of her sleeping will be a thing of the past, and I will not worry about this matter spreading. ”

“If you fail, the contract will silence you. Only the dead can keep secrets.”

“I’m sorry, imposing the contract on you is selfish, but this is about the fate of the entire race.”

The Elf King seemed to be explaining patiently, but the words carried a vague sense of arrogance, he didn’t care if the other party lived or died.

Bai Lixin: “Has anyone tried healing the forest princess before me?”

The curse was to become an undead after death, and this contract was to just let the player die.

Everything was interlocked, doesn’t this mean there was no way out?

The Elf King smiled, “All I can tell you is that you are not the first, but I hope you are the last.”

“Do not try to hurt the forest princess. The contract I imposed on you includes a penalty for malice. Once you have any evil thoughts about the forest princess, the countdown will speed up. Once you try to harm the Forest Princess, the timer will directly skip to 0. When the time comes to an end, even the gods will not be able to save you. ”

“Good luck.” With those words, the Elf King left Bai Lixin alone.

Deep in the vast jungle, only Bai Lixin, the wolf cub in his arms, and this forest princess in the vines, were left.

Bai Lixin could vaguely see the evenly rising and falling chest of the forest princess in the hammock.

He tried to use the Mermaid Heart, and got a reasonable and expected system prompt.

[Ding! The target’s level attributes are too high for healing, proficiency was not increased.]

Bai Lixin took a step forward, and the vines that had been dormant suddenly leapt at him.

Bai Lixin reached out to block them, and the thin, serrated leaves grazed the back of his hand, leaving a tiny red mark.

[Ding! Trace amounts of toxins have been detected. Poison resistance has been activated. Poison resistance proficiency has increased and is now at lv2.]

Bai Lixin looked at the vines with some surprise. The vines were actually carrying toxins.

These vines extend from the ground, so such vines should not have toxicity.

He thought of something and casually tore off a leaf from the green plant at hand. He crushed it and applied it to the cut that had not yet healed.

The system prompt rang out again.

[Ding! Trace amounts of toxins have been detected. Poison resistance has been activated. Poison resistance proficiency has increased but is still at lv2.]

Bai Lixin threw the leaf in his hand away and pulled another one. This time, he put it in his mouth and chewed it twice. Unsurprisingly, the system prompt rang out again.

Because the body has poison resistance, Bai Lixin wouldn’t die easily.

An hour later, he had tried all the plants around him, and without exception, all of them carried trace amounts of toxins. His poison resistance was thus raised to lv4.

Toxins can only be contained by certain plants, not all of them. Since all the plants carry trace amounts of toxins, the problem was likely to be at the source.

The land, or the water source.

Bai Lixin did not focus too much on the forest princess. He grabbed a handful of soil from the ground this time and put it on the cut.

Once again, the system issued a toxin warning.

It wasn’t just the plants that were poisonous.

Throwing away the soil in his hand, Bai Lixin used water magic to clean the dirt off the cut.

He looked at the forest princess in the vines, and like the fake princess at the beginning, this one had dark shadows under her eyes.

The lips were also a blue-purple, which was a sign of being poisoned.

Bai Lixin approached again, and the vines did not try to attack him this time

He looked at the palm of the forest princess and found that her palm was also a little blue. The fingertips were swollen and slightly red, and the index finger nail had some traces of red powder.

The other fingers were clean, so this red powder in the finger nail was particularly striking.

Bai Lixin took out a piece of white paper and a fine needle from his backpack and carefully picked out some of the red powder. The paper was folded and carefully placed in the backpack.

He lifted the forest princess’s eyelids; the pupils were lax, and her eyes looked dull.

The setting of this world was very much like a fairy tale.

The Forest Princess was a goddess, so this world that had four major races had ordinary people and gods in it.

But there was no mention of a “god” in the undead race, so he didn’t know whether the gods existed only in the Night Elves, or other races too.

Dijia seemed to have guessed Bai Lixin’s doubts, and he said: “Rumor has it that there used to be gods on the continent, then the gods left the continent and went to the divine world. However, some gods and mortals combined to have children, but because they were demigods, they didn’t have pure bodies, and so they couldn’t go to the divine world. They were left in Sibi.”

“The Forest Princess should be such an existence.”

Bai Lixin pointed to the nail of the Forest Princess: “Do you know what that is?”

Dijia: “It’s just powder, it’s hard to tell what it exactly is. But I have three suspicions. ”

“First, it might be the red spores of poisonous mushrooms. Second, it might be a powder ground from red cherry fruit after drying. Third, it might be a poisonous red stone powder.”

Bai Lixin: “The forest princess seems to have been poisoned, and the only way to revive her is to give her an antidote to the poison.”

So far, he had only obtained a few fragmented pieces of information.

The plants in the forest all carried trace elements of the toxin.

The root cause of the plant’s toxicity was most likely the water source.

There was an unusual red powder on the forest princess’s index finger.

If he knew what the forest princess had been poisoned with, making the antidote would be relatively simple.

It would be nice to take a bit of blood or saliva from the princess to study it.

[Ding! The player’s intention to harm the Forest Princess has been detected, and the time is deducted by 2 hours. The player is requested to cherish his feathers and not to have any unintentional thoughts.]

Bai Lixin: “……”

When did I ever have any ill will towards the Forest Princess? I just wanted a sample!

[Ding! A friendly reminder: any attempt to create wounds on the body of the Forest Princess is a malicious act. If it’s just a thought in your head, you will be warned and given a penalty of time deduction. Three times is the upper limit, and after the warnings is direct elimination.]

[Friendly reminder: if the thoughts of harm are put into action, it will be considered as an act and the timer will immediately go to 0. I wish the player a happy gaming experience.]

Bai Lixin cupped his chin and his other hand subconsciously stroked the furry body in his arms.

In other words, he could only observe.

Then he could only take it one step at a time.

First is to find the root cause of the forest princess’s sleep. If it is true that the forest princess is the lifeline of the forest, as the elf king said, then she should be powerful. The forest itself comes with its own purification function, so it wouldn’t be easy to become like this because of the poison.

Bai Lixin intended to find a few elves to ask for clarification.

With his departure, the vines that were open just now were rewound and returned to the state they were in when he came.

As he walked, he did not forget to taste the branches and leaves of the new varieties of plants he found on the way.

Just as he suspected, all the plants carried toxins. In addition to that, he found that the toxins were getting stronger as he walked.

The toxins in the plants around the forest princess were at best, trace amounts, and as he moved away from the forest princess’ residence, the toxin strength changed from trace amounts to small amounts, and then to medium amounts.

He even wondered if he would find highly toxic plants if he went deeper.

He walked for a while, and his ears suddenly heard the tinkling sound of gurgling water. He followed the sound and saw a small river.

The river was crystal clear, but there were no fish or marine life in the crystal clear water.

Bai Lixin cupped a handful of water. He did not dare take a mouthful of water, but stretched out his tongue and made a small lick.

[Ding! High amounts of toxins have been detected and poison resistance has been activated. Poison resistance proficiency increased, still at lv3.]

[Ding! High levels of toxins have been detected. Poison resistance has been activated. The dosage is too low and can be detoxified. Because the toxin is too strong, the detoxification process will be painful for the body. Asking the player to endure.]

The system’s voice fell, and Bai Lixin felt a sudden, overwhelming pain in his stomach.

This pain lasted for more than ten seconds before it quickly disappeared.

[Congratulations, player, your poison resistance proficiency has increased; it is now at level lv6.]

The full level of poison resistance is 10, and Bai Lixin even felt that his resistance would have reached its full level by the time he went out of this forest.

His eyes fell on the incomparably clear river. It was hard to imagine that the clear river had such a vicious toxicity hidden in it.

The plants on the riverbanks were only a dozen centimeters high, and there wasn’t any grass around.

Bai Lixin pulled at the plant closest to the river and chewed the leaf.

The system immediately announced that this leaf contained a large amount of toxins.

Obviously, this small river was the culprit for the toxins in the forest.

But why would a clear river have so much toxin? He could only go to the source of the water to see.

Bai Lixin stood up and changed his direction. He started going upstream of the river.

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