Chronicles Of Primordial Wars (Ch. 271-500)

ch. 361-362

Chapter 361 – True Genius

Shao Xuan followed the old man along to circle around the mountain. If they saw the plants they needed, the old man would go and get it.

A low brown grass was cut by the old man. From a growing spiral tree, a skin was peeled. There were even some Shao Xuan had not seen before. The old man also picked some flowers.

“You’re going to…” Shao Xuan asked, seeing the old man’s actions.

“Use it to put down that batch of wild rats!” The old man’s tone was like it was obvious. For those he suspected were the thousand gold grains, he was determined to win and never let those wild rats eat those ears.

“Poison them?” Shao Xuan asked. Those wild rats were many, so if he wanted to poison them, even if he concocted an herbal medicine, the amount should be very large too. Unless he was actually going to concoct a specific drug.

However, the old man did not want to directly poison the wild rats.

“It is useful for them to stay in this barren mountain. If we need more thousand gold grains in the future, we may have to rely on them to find it so they cannot all be poisoned. I am just trying to stun them now.” The old man’s hands were full soon after. Although he actually wanted to pick less as there was not much grass growing in every part of the mountain, but the old man had to in order to concoct something in time. He moved fast, going to places he had in his memory for some of the plants he needed. In a moment, his hands were full.

“I’ll take it, you go on.” Shao Xuan turned his attention to the grass on the old man’s hands.

The old man did not decline. He handed the herbs to Shao Xuan and told him, “Be careful with those. Do not touch the fractures, the grass juice is bad for you too. And don’t take a whiff of it, or you’ll fall first and I wouldn’t be able to put all those wild rats down.”

The two men quickened their pace. Those wild rats’ movement showed that the plant at the mountain top would soon be fully mature. They had to collect everything and seize the right timing.

By following the old man, Shao Xuan had learned a lot of things, but it would be impossible to reach the old man’s ability to get the materials on the spot, when they were rushing for time. The old man would not say a lot, so Shao Xuan could only memorize as they go along. Perhaps he could use these later.

The mountains that seem to be short of trees and weeds everywhere was a treasure paradise for people like old Ju. Whether it’s waste or treasure, that depended on the person. Some plants alone might not have much ability, but together it could be different. What the old man wanted to concoct was a combination of a variety of plants to get the medicine.

“All right, that’s all.”

The old man sat on the ground and began to prepare things to make the medicine.

With a small copper tripod, a few odd-shaped knives, and he would be able to deal with all these.

“Shao Xuan, go to the mountains to get more ‘single-lined fruit’. Find the kind that had a small opening, not something with no opening or has been completely opened.” The old man did not lift his head as he spoke to Shao Xuan. He was busy with his hands and simply did not have the time to look for it himself. He also could not match Shao Xuan’s speed to search for said herb.

“Okay.” Shao Xuan did not ask much too, since he knew what kind of plant the old man was talking about. On the way, the old man had taught him how to recognize it.

Shao Xuan remembered that most of the plants of the “single-lined fruit” grew in the valley between the two mountains. He had seen it quite a few times as he walked along the narrow part of the valley.