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"What exactly does this mean?" You Xia was very confused about the current situation.

He frowned and thought for a few seconds, then suddenly remembered something, and looked up at Ogst: "Is the holy pool you mentioned just now the one that happened in the Yingdeng Forest that you mentioned to me a long time ago? Is the lake the holy pond?"

"Well, I'm not very clear about this, you should ask your parents!" August replied with a haha.

Immediately he put away his staff, patted the shoulder of Les, who was also standing in a daze, and said very wittily: "Come on, little devil dragon, let's avoid it for a while, the next topic is not something we foreigners can hear." It's gone."

Rice glanced at You Xia, nodded to him, and then obediently followed August into the woods.

Until they walked a certain distance, Youxia still vaguely heard the old man asking Les what the two of them were doing while sitting on the shore hand in hand in a gossip tone.

As for what Rice answered, he couldn't hear it, because Li Youmen in front of him had already asked the question.

"This is the manor you bought?"

You Xia nodded obediently.

Li Youmen cut to the point and asked: "The holy pool and the sacred tree should have appeared not long ago. How did they appear?"

You Xia was very embarrassed, he really couldn't find a good reason to explain, but he didn't want to make up too outrageous lies, so he could only deal with it vaguely: "Well... Anyway, they just appeared like this."

However, this time it involves the lifeblood of the whole family's reproduction, adult elves are not as easy to fool as before.

Li Youmen looked at him solemnly, and asked in the next sentence: "Did you know in advance that the holy pool and the sacred tree would appear here when you bought this manor?"

You Xia was about to prevaricate, but then he heard the other party say slowly: "Or, you put them here?"

The moment his voice fell, Youxia's arms suddenly had goosebumps, and cold sweat was about to break out on his forehead.

He secretly thought in his heart that he was really terrified, these hundreds of years were really not in vain!

Although the gap between the information he and Li Youmen received spanned two eras, the other party was still able to flexibly integrate various pieces of unusual information and dig out the truth from it.

Seeing the frightened expression of the cub, Li Youmen retracted his serious expression, softened his tone slightly, and asked, "God has given you other gifts, right?"

You Xia nodded and shook his head, but finally he just said cowardly: "It's nothing."

There are only a hundred houses, a glass greenhouse and some flower seeds left.

Li Youmen didn't know whether he believed him or not, but he didn't ask any more questions.

You Xia quickly took advantage of this gap to change the subject: "So what exactly are the sacred tree and the holy pool, and what function do they have?"

"The sacred tree of life is the origin of our ethnic group and our mother tree."

Li Youmen lowered his eyebrows, turned around and looked at the sacred tree in front of him, and explained as concisely as possible: "You should have heard from Ogste that something happened to the holy pool in Yingdeng Forest. This accident refers to nothing else, but that it has dried up 200 years ago. Without the nutrients given by the holy pool, the sacred tree stopped growing and lost the ability to breed new life. Therefore, over the past 200 years, Ying There have been no elves born in the Forest of Lights."

You Xia suddenly realized: "This ancient glowing tree is the sacred tree that can give birth to wood elves?"

Li Youmen: "If there is no accident, it should be."

After such an explanation, Youxia understood. He thought for a while and asked: "Then transplant the sacred tree from the Yingdeng Forest, can it recover the ability to breed elves?"

Li Youmen shook his head: "We had similar thoughts before, and the king went to Luoluo Island because of this, and exchanged a promise for some water from the holy pool under the tree of the light elves, but that didn't work."

Li Youmen frowned lightly, and said in a somewhat heavy tone: "A sacred tree can only accept the support of a holy pool, and the mother tree that gave birth to our clan has survived tens of thousands of years in the clan, and it is indeed gone now. Entering a period of decline, the wood elves' ability to perceive life elements comes from our mother tree, so we can feel that the life of the mother tree is coming to an end, and we can do nothing about it."

When it came to the word "powerless", You Xia saw a glint of tears flashing in his dark green eyes, and his heart suddenly became uncomfortable.

However, Liyoumen's voice was still steady: "For hundreds of years, we priests have been divination to find out where there may be new wood elf holy pools and sacred trees. Whenever there is any news, the king will go out to investigate in person. Search, but all are lost and returned."

As Li Youmen said, he suddenly turned around and looked at him: "That's why, when Ogste came to Yingdeng Forest and said that there were underage wood elves outside, our people were so excited."

"Are you referring to me?"

"Well, we think it is very likely that you were born from another sacred tree. Perhaps there is another wood elf group in a more hidden part of this continent, with another holy pool and sacred tree," Liyou said. The door said, "But when I first met you and asked about your origin, you said that you grew up in a human country since you were conscious, and you didn't know anything else."

You Xia felt a little guilty, pursed his lips and said, "I'm telling the truth."

"I'm not going to pursue this with you." Li Youmen's expression became stern unconsciously, "It stands to reason that the new sacred tree and holy pool have been found, and I should immediately pass the news to the king and the high priest, but After all, this is something you took out, and I need your permission."

You Xia waved his hand and said, "Hey, why are you being polite to me? We are all of the same race. Of course I have an obligation to help the wood elves solve the problem of race continuation!"

"But this land is your land, we can't take away a cub's assets for no reason." Li Youmen said solemnly, "So when the time comes, the king should talk to you about the terms of exchange."

Youxia didn't care, anyway, the holy water pool and the ancient tree of life didn't have any substantial effect on his single elf. Instead of keeping them for ruining, it's better to give them to the same race who are in a crisis of reproduction. Saving others is also saving oneself.

Of course, since they are all given away, it would be good to get some benefits from the Elf King, so he simply nodded and said, "Okay."

After obtaining the cub's consent, Li Youmen immediately took out a piece of parchment and a quill from the space ring.

The parchment printed with the dark green magic circle pattern was suspended in the air. Li Youmen used magic to control the quill to quickly write words on the paper, and then snapped his fingers, and the parchment suddenly ignited a bright yellow flame. Suddenly, even the fire and the paper disappeared without a trace.

You Xia was stunned for a while, and it took a while to realize, and asked: "Is this the message of flame?"

"Well, there are wood elf priest runes and teleportation circles painted on the letter paper, which can directly send messages to the high priest."

"That's cool, can I learn it?"

"Yes, but," Li Youmen looked at him, "Have you practiced fire magic?"

Youxia smiled sheepishly, chanted the spell and snapped his fingers, a small blue flame ignited between his fingers, not even as violent as the flame of a lighter.

Li Youmen was silent for a while, and then said: "From tomorrow onwards, temporarily put down other magic, and first increase the progress of fire magic."

At this moment, You Xia felt that he had turned back to the original devil teacher.

·

That night, You Xia and the others slept in the wood elf's luxurious tree house.

Although Elgin left him a huge castle-style mansion, for Youxia who is used to modern facilities, living in that house is really inconvenient, not as good as the tree house given by the game.

Although the tree house is small, it has all internal organs.

The two-story wooden building has a living room, kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and balcony, and the interior decoration is also very fresh and natural. The floors and ceilings are painted wood panels, hanging lamps and ladders They are all made of intertwined branches and vines, which are very forest-like.

It’s just because I didn’t expect that Ogste and Liyumen would come over at the beginning, and Youxia only took out a tree house when setting it up. At this time, he felt weird to conjure a tree house out of thin air, If Li Youmen didn't mention it, August would definitely use that kind of yin and yang tone to tease him.

Fortunately, the tree house given by the game has two rooms, and they can live in a crowded room. Youxia and Les live in one room, and Ogst lives in one room by himself. As for the Lew Gate, he never returned. room to rest.

"In the clan land, our twelve priests will take turns guarding the mother tree. Now I am the only priest here, and I must take this responsibility." Li Youmen explained.

So, when You Xia went to the lake early the next morning, he saw the adult elf sitting on the lantern tree beside the pool, with his back leaning against the trunk, one leg on the branch, and holding a small black puppy in his arms. leopard.

"Teacher!" You Xia called him from below, "I have to go back to the city, do you and Mr. August want to stay here?"

Li Youmen looked down at him, and then jumped down from the tree lightly.

You Xia didn't pay attention to the little black panther in his arms at first, and was about to ask the question again, when he was about to speak, he suddenly realized what was wrong, and turned his eyes to the little black panther's back.

I saw a pair of small black wings sprouting out of Heizai's originally shiny fur, which made the whole leopard's painting style suddenly become mysterious.

"How could it be like this, isn't this an ordinary little leopard?"

Li Youmen put Hei Zai on the ground, Hei Zai immediately ran to You Xia's feet, hooked the elf cub's ankle with his long tail, and then lay down on the ground.

"It's not an ordinary black panther." Li Youmen said, "I remember that there are records in the ancient books. In the first era, our wood elves once had a flying mount with such an appearance, like a black panther and some kind of bird. The combination is a kind of alien beast.

"The records say that this kind of alien beast is intelligent and loyal, and its speed, stability and endurance are all outstanding among flying mounts. However, because they are rare in number and difficult to reproduce, they only existed for a short period of time and became extinct at the beginning of the second era. gone."

You Xia swallowed his saliva, and looked at Hei Zai at his feet. He never thought that the mount that the system randomly gave him had such a unique history.

"It should have been impacted by the life energy last night, so it grew wings overnight."

After saying that, Liyoumen specially told the elf: "You raise it well, maybe it can be cultivated into a unique flying mount on this continent."

You Xia nodded thoughtfully, knelt down and gently touched the little black panther's wings, and agreed, "I will."

"En." Li Youmen replied, and before Youxia could recover from the stimulation of the sudden growth of wings by the well-behaved black panther, he threw out another big news without changing his expression.

"The high priest has sent a message. The king has brought the big elder and two priests here. If you hurry up, you may arrive today."

You Xia raised his head in surprise, digested the amount of information in his words for a few seconds, and blinked: "So many people..."

Probably amused by his expression, Li Youmen rarely raised the corner of his lower lip, reached out and patted the elf cub's head, and said comfortingly, "Don't be nervous, they are all very talkative elders."

After a pause, he added: "At least, that should be the case for you."

It would be fine if he didn't say the latter sentence. After saying the latter sentence, Youxia immediately remembered Oghst's evaluation of the wood elf king-"unreasonable", "difficult to get along with", "ridiculous" , "old-fashioned", these are the words the old man used when he mentioned the Wood Elf King.

Especially this time, not just one person came, but a group!

Thinking of facing four unfamiliar elders soon, even though Li Youmen's guarantee was in front, You Xia's heart still felt a little thumping.

"I see." He stood up and said, "Since there are so many seniors coming over, I have to be ready to welcome them. How about eating hot pot together tonight?"

Li Youmen nodded: "Yes."

"Then Les and I will go there first. When the elves from the Lantern Forest arrive, you and Mr. August will take them to Rose City."

"Ah."

·

It happened to be lunch time when we returned to Rose City, and Youxia asked Les to help him book a few rooms for the Elf Elders in the most luxurious hotel in Schlevog, while he went back to the hot pot restaurant to arrange dinner.

Upon entering the hot pot restaurant, You Xia was taken aback. The entire first floor of the hot pot restaurant was full of sixteen tables, and the business was extremely good.

Apparently, the double promotion of leaflets and full discount coupons has begun to work. It is only the third day, and the business of the hot pot restaurant is better than the first day by more than 01:30.

Yesterday’s business was also good, and the number of tables received reached 72. The combined number of tables in the first two days successfully unlocked a new soup base for You Xia—Mushroom Pot.

The preparation of the mushroom pot bottom is much simpler than that of the butter pot, so at two o'clock in the afternoon, when the store was resting, You Xia taught the two chefs how to make the new pot bottom.

Two and a half hours are more than enough to cook and fry the mushroom pot bottom. The two pots were tested at the same time, and the chefs mastered the method of the new pot bottom after only a few attempts.

When the last finished product came out, You Xia tasted it and found it to be quite good. Compared with the bone soup pot, the mushroom pot has obvious vegetarian delicacy, so the delicious bottom of the pot without meat is just suitable for entertaining people from the forest. The wood elves elders who came out.

But then he remembered the heavy taste of Liyoumen, and he became unsure again. Maybe, the whole wood elves can eat spicy food?

You Xia struggled to look through the different types of pots in the mall, and when he saw the four-grid hot pot, his eyes lit up.

Very good, it's up to you!