Jack and the Beanstalk
Before Jasmine could finish speaking, a loud bang was heard. In the distance, something the size of a bean sprout was shooting rapidly upwards into the sky, until it disappeared into the clouds. From where Lu Li and the others were, it looked as if there was a line between the sky and the earth.
"What's going on?" one of the spirit envoys Jasmine brought asked blankly. Both of these spirit envoys were B-rank spirit envoys and were very young. It seemed that the Cordila Group had long been dissatisfied with the previous batch of spirit envoys and had probably been secretly training a new batch of spirit envoys, but had not made it public due to the regulations of the Spirit Envoy Committee.
"I don't know either, but I feel it's necessary to tell you that even though this is still in the Middle Ages, all sorts of absurd props and black magic are everywhere here, so please put away any unnecessary Pride." Lu Li looked at the vine that stretched straight to the sky with great interest.
"We still have plenty of time, let's go check that out first, maybe we'll find something unexpected," Lu Li suggested. With his eyesight, he could vaguely see a figure climbing up the vines.
Jasmine nodded. Their main purpose in entering the Dreamlands this time was to explore the way and, incidentally, establish a small organization as a bridgehead, to build a stable cooperative relationship with the local residents, and to facilitate future trade between the two worlds.
Since such a strange thing happened over there, it would be reasonable to go and investigate. So Jasmine nodded to the other spirit messenger.
This spirit servant Lore. Due to her special abilities, she was specially chosen as the person to go to the Dreamlands. The other spirit servant is named Mond, and their spirit weapon abilities are more supportive.
A layer of spiritual light shimmered around Lore, which spread to the other three people, and a pair of armor appeared on his body as well. The next moment, the four of them rushed towards the vine at an extremely fast speed.
Lore's spiritual weapon ability is called Free Movement. Anyone covered by his spiritual light will not feel any resistance when moving forward, and their weight will be reduced by half. If the speed is fast enough, they can even run and fly.
They weren't far from where the vines had risen. With Lore's ability and Jasmine's control of the wind to create propulsion behind them, their speed was truly like the wind. In no time, they arrived near the vine that reached straight to the clouds.
This is a small farmhouse, and it looks like only one family lives here. The vine is spreading out from the farmhouse's yard. This place isn't remote. The vine made a loud noise and shot straight up into the sky. I guess it won't be long before someone comes here.
Below the farmhouse stood an old woman, holding an axe. Seeing Lu Li and his group, she said in a menacing voice, "Who are you? Get out of here! My son traded a cow for the seeds of this vine, and it's growing in our yard. If you don't leave, I won't be polite!"
"Is this a pea shoot?" Mond looked at the huge vine, raised his head to look up. This pea shoot was growing so high in an extremely unreasonable way. According to the physical structure, unless the vine was extremely strong and had a huge root system on the ground, it would be impossible for it to support such a height.
However, judging from the current situation, this vine is very fragile, and its root system may not even be well-developed. In other words, this vine is completely unreasonable.
"Did you hear me? These are our property! If you don't leave, I'll kill you all!" The old woman, carrying an axe, had bloodshot eyes and looked extremely abnormal.
"Something's not right." Jasmine's spirit flashed, and she completed her armor transformation. She used her ability to create a strong wind, but the wind had no effect on the pea sprouts. Instead, pale purple flowers bloomed on them, releasing a large amount of pollen with the wind. In the blink of an eye, the pollen disappeared into the air.
"These pollen flowers should have hallucinogenic and hypnotic properties. As long as you inhale a certain amount of pollen, you will lose most of your sanity, just like that old woman across the street." Jasmine erected a barrier of strong winds to keep the pollen flowers away.
"Since you won't heed my warning, then I'll kill you all!" The old woman, her eyes red, raised her axe and was about to charge at Lu Li and the others, but then one of them slid down from the vines and shouted happily, "Hey, Mom, look what I found!"
The man was a boy of about fifteen or sixteen. He ran over excitedly, carrying a cloth bag in his hand. As he ran, a jingling sound came from inside. Lu Li recognized the sound; it was the clinking of gold coins.
"I found a castle above the clouds, filled with wonderful things: countless gold coins, a hen that lays golden eggs, and a harp that automatically plays beautiful music. Unfortunately, there's a giant inside the castle, otherwise I would have brought everything down."
"Oh, do we have guests? Hello, my name is Jack." The boy stared at Lu Li and the other three with clear eyes, seemingly oblivious to the strange atmosphere. His mother, the old woman, seemed to recover from Jack's cheerful voice, and her eyes returned to their normal color.
"Excuse me, we're very kind guests. Would you like to come in and have a seat? I almost mistook you for bad people. I'm so sorry," the old woman said kindly, putting down the axe in her hand, as if she wasn't the one who had been so aggressively threatening to kill them.
"Yes, gentlemen, please come and sit in my house. You can also climb the vines with me later and kill that giant so we can get all its treasure," Jack said enthusiastically.
"Isn't this wrong? Breaking into someone else's castle and killing the castle owner?" Lu Li looked up at the clouds connected by vines, squatted down, and looked at Jack, saying, "Do you think this is a good thing?"
"There's nothing wrong with that. It's just a giant. Giants eat people, so it's normal for people to kill giants, isn't it? Just like people eat animal meat, and animals can hunt humans. Isn't that all perfectly normal?" Jack asked, tilting his head in surprise.
"That's alright then. We have some things to do. We'll visit your home again next time." Lu Li stood up, winked at Jasmine, and then the group left together.
On the way out, we could see people heading this way, all looking at the towering pea shoot with expressions of amazement, as if they had discovered a treasure.
"Such a big pea sprout, I wonder how big the peas it will grow to be. I bet one pea would be enough to feed a family for several days."
"Why would we eat them? We'll plant the seeds, of course, so we can have a pea sprout just as big."
People excitedly arrived at Jack's house, where Jack were warmly welcomed inside. Jack loudly recounted his experiences in the clouds, and the group followed him up the vines to climb towards the clouds.