Chronicles Of Primordial Wars (Ch. 271-500)

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Chapter 403
 
After being fed meat of wild fearsome beasts, the Thousand Grain Golds seem to despise regular wild animal meat. When they brought it regular animal meat, another two died. Qi Qi and the rest quickly tossed several pieces of fearsome beast meat on the ground when they saw this. 

If it wasn’t for the fact that Shao Xuan was the Elder, he would probably have been beaten up by both Qi Qi and Quan Bai. They had the opinion that Shao Xuan did not care about the plant. In truth, he definitely did not place much importance on the plant. After that, he spent more time deciphering on the cloud patterns so he did not spend much time on the plants. 

Shao Xuan had eaten the Thousand Grain Gold before and felt the benefits of it. However, he did not think it was anything special. There were at least three types of plants from the Taihe tribe that could achieve the same effect. Those plants were way easier to plant! 

It was not worth it to keep supplying the plants with fearsome beast meat. The tribe’s main occupation wasn’t agriculture anyway, and they brought back plants and fruits of medicinal value from the forest after every hunt. Why spend so much effort on this one? Hunting fearsome beasts requires risking your life, just to feed a few plants? Not many people would be willing to do this. 

Qi Qi, Quan Bai and the rest had not eaten the grain before. He wondered if they would still be this passionate if they tasted it after so much hard work. 

One day, Shao Xuan walked out of the house while rubbing his tired eyes. He walked into the yard to check on the plants he hadn’t seen in a long time and suddenly stopped. 

Perhaps due to competition for resources, even though several kinds of beast meat and fertilisers were used, several still died. There were thirty-four left now. They were as tall as his shoulders, not sure when they would be ready for harvesting. 

Shao Xuan was shocked when he saw the plants. The leaves were wider and longer than he remembered. Every plant was way healthier and fatter than the plant the mice were fighting over. 

He touched a needle-like leaf. It felt different. 

Was it due to better environmental conditions? So it’s healthier?

If that’s true, would the grains have a stronger medicinal effect? 

Shao Xuan checked on all the thirty plants. Every plant had larger leaves than he remembered. Qi Qi said they were still growing and would grow much taller. No one knew what would happen then. 

If the outcome was worth the hard work, they would try planting more. However, if it wasn’t worth it, he would just distribute them to be eaten. Who knew how long these grains could last? He didn’t ask Ji Ju. Here, even the most experienced farmers didn’t know. 

Shao Xuan tapped on a leaf, whispering, “We’ll see how well you do.” 

It had been half a year since last year’s winter when he started deciphering the cloud patterns. There was progress, at least he could feel the ‘door’ where Taihe’s ancestors couldn’t. This was because he built on their work. Opening this door would be difficult and he was stuck.

It was as if he desperately wanted to open this door but it was locked and he didn’t know how to open it. He could see the view behind the door! 

After talking to Duo Kang and Guang Yi, he knew that the shamaness and the chief had sent a team to the coast where Shao Xuan arrived. Shao Xuan had brought them there once. A team stayed to watch the area and every now and then, the shamaness and the chief would send another team for exchange. They were there to observe any changes in the coast. Perhaps one day there would be a change.