Chapter 523
Veins of the Sky
If it wasn’t in the cave, could it be scattered somewhere on the ground?
Filled with curiosity, Shao Xuan went around the area to search. He only found some grain-like plants but it didn’t seem like something the Ji family would plant. The plants seemed like it was native to the land, he had seen plants like this here before. He remembered someone telling him that the earlier tribes would plant the grains they brought here but switched them out to different species which had higher yields which left the original grains to be forgotten by people.
If he could spot any plants that were more common a thousand years back it would only be because of the small tribe that lived here once. With a cave here that was used to store the grains, there should be some that were dropped in the ground and lived.
However, nothing around the area looked special enough for the Ji family to bring over a thousand years ago.
After searching for some time, Shao Xuan hasn’t found anything that fit the requirements.
Could it be that the three from the Ji family didn’t bring any seeds with them? Or their seeds really rotted to dust?
Or did someone come by here and dug everything away?
No, that isn’t it. Robber Eleven and Robber Twelve were here two or three years ago. If someone was here before this, the longevity leaf wouldn’t be theirs to claim.
Perhaps I thought wrong?
Shao Xuan stood at the mouth of the cave and looked at his surroundings.
There were a lot of weeds, different types of plants he didn’t know the name of. There weren’t many trees, only a few weak saplings and sad looking shrubs. The area looked comparatively empty.
On this piece of land, there were much fewer trees than the other areas. The weeds seemed to be growing well but that was only because of the abundance of them. If one were to look closely, they weren’t growing well too.
Shao Xuan remembered that in places where the Thousand Grain Gold were planted, they sucked all the nutrients from the soil. Even though it didn’t seem obvious that the grain was planted here before but there were hints showing that it did.
Yes! There must be something here!
Shao Xuan scanned the area once again but this time he didn’t focus on the grain-like plants, he looked at the area as a whole. It was then his gaze stopped at a plant no taller than his knee.
He didn’t notice this plant before when he was looking for grains but at a second look, this plant seemed familiar.
Shao Xuan walked through the forests a lot so he was familiar with different sorts of the plant but this plant didn’t seem like something he would see in a forest. After thinking about it, the plant looked like a crop he saw at the Ji family’s field.
During his visit to the Ji household, the family members brought him to their fields and he got to know many common plant species they had there. Many were crops to feed themselves while some were special plants.
One of them was called “Veins of the Sky”. In the Golden Grain fields, there was a large, heavily guarded plot of land for that specific plant. The slaves were not allowed in the area and the plant was tended by the owners themselves. When Shao Xuan passed by the area, the members of the Ji clan didn’t say much and brought him away.
The Golden Grain fields were famous for their grains, so the owners mostly introduced their different types of grains. Shao Xuan would have forgotten the look of Veins of the Sky if he hadn’t seen it then in the forest.
The plant he was looking at now looked very similar to the Veins of the Sky that the Ji family planted. In comparison, the plants in their fields had more leaves and looked healthier whereas the ones here looked sickly. If one didn’t pay attention, they might not even connect those two plants together.
There was another reason Shao Xuan didn’t notice it at first. He had only seen the upper half of the plant before. He knew the most valuable part of the plant was at its roots that looked like human veins, that was why it was called Veins of the Sky.
Was it really that special plant?
Was this the plant that those three members of the Ji family brought over?
After looking around once more, Shao Xuan noticed a few more plants but they were all far from looking as healthy as those in Golden Grain fields.
Shao Xuan stabbed his sword into the ground and took out a dagger to dig out one of those plants. Two-step forward and Shao Xuan felt that something was wrong. He tilted his head to look at a bush ten meters away from him. At first, he thought it looked like a normal bush but he now felt that something was off with it.
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