His Highness the Crown Prince Always Wants to Marry Me

Chapter 588: A Lot of Thought and Effort

Yu Qing Qian didn’t take away all the spiritual herbs and poisonous herbs here, but left some of the mother herbs. She always liked to not do things to the extreme.

The demonic plants seemed to be vying for favour, constantly coming forward to please her, shouting ‘I want to eat’.

Yu Qing Qian tossed all the spiritual items in the box that were suitable for nurturing demonic plants to them, then dug out the emperor-level Nourishing Mud in the tree hole and gave it to the Nine-Coloured Magic Lotus, before her mind became quiet again.

“Master, tell me about the memories of that demonic plant.”

Gu Yan sorted out the memories of the demonic plant and said: “This Land of Imprisonment really is a strange and weird place. The demonic plants can actually transform into a human when they reach the level of Spirit King. This can only be done by demonic plants with the cultivation base of Spirit Venerable on the advanced continent.”

Yu Qing Qian nodded: “Do you know why?”

Her demonic plants could transform into the appearance of magical beasts, but that was just a form of imitation, and they couldn’t transform into the human form at all.

“It should be caused by the special spiritual force and environment in the Land of Imprisonment. There’s indeed no sun and moon here. Demonic plants occupy the majority, and humans are only a minority.”

Gu Yan paused, then continued: “I saw from the memories of this demonic plant that humans and demonic plants actually coexist in many cities in the entire Land of Imprisonment. The most important thing is that there are no spiritual plants here. Only a very small number of humans can form contracts with demonic plants, and most people are Body Tempering Masters.

“Then there’s also another very important characteristic.” Gu Yan said rather strangely: “Women in the entire Land of Imprisonment are objects of protection or competition, that’s why when those demonic plants suddenly saw you, they were extremely stunned and wanted to capture you to be their wife.”

“…” Yu Qing Qian had a forehead filled with creases, “What’s the reason?”

“There are too few women, and there are also very few female demonic plants. Moreover, the human race and the demonic plant race can actually intermarry and give birth to offspring as usual. In comparison, there are more human women than female demonic plants, so they’re very popular.” Gu Yan cleared his throat dryly.

Yu Qing Qian’s lips twitched. What kind of world was this, it was actually this weird.

“What’s the ratio of men to women?”

“For example, among a hundred children, there are less than ten girls, or even none.”

Gu Yan summarised the memories of the demonic plant and said: “In every city, as long as there’s an ownerless woman, it will cause competition among the men of the human race and the demonic plant race. Therefore, the status of women here can be said to be very high, but the risk when going out is also very high, and they may be captured at any time.

“Another point is that a woman here may have several husbands. Even if the woman is very ugly, she won’t have trouble getting married.”

He added: “Whether it’s a human man or a male demonic plant, there are ways to identify the auras of men and woman, so even if you use potions to change your appearance, they can still recognise that you’re a woman.”

Yu Qing Qian rubbed her chin. Such a world wasn’t completely unacceptable.

After all, during the apocalypse, there were more men than woman too. It’s just that because of the difficulty of survival and the crisis everywhere, although women could be taken care of, but their status wasn’t very high. Many women were dependent on strong men like dodders flowers¹ just to survive.

“No wonder Huo Li Ruo led me to the night market to buy the Thousand Illusions Mask. So it turns out that he had already considered this.” Yu Qing Qian took out the Thousand Illusions Mask and sighed.

Huo Li Ruo knew that she had the teleportation jade piece in her hand, and he was very familiar with the lifestyle of the Land of Imprisonment, so he gave her the Thousand Illusions Mask all in order to help her smoothly find the third small pagoda—he truly put a lot of thought and effort into this.

¹the 菟丝子 (tu si zi), in this case, author used 菟丝花 (tu si hua), ‘hua’ being ‘flower’, but anyways, is a parasitic plant that, according to google, can synchronise its flowering time to match its host’s reproduction cycle.