novelraw Chapter 350 - 208: The Ancient Immortal’s Messenger, the Immortal Grass of Fox Mountain Returns Home (Part 2)
Chapter 350 - 208: The Ancient Immortal’s Messenger, the Immortal Grass of Fox Mountain Returns Home (Part 2)
"Awooo, yipyipyipyip!"
... All clean, no need to be polite!
It picked up a piece of succulent beef brisket soaked in tomato juice and brought it to the Master’s mouth.
"Yipyipyip, awooo!"
... This piece of beef brisket is the biggest and juiciest, left especially for the Master!
Bai Mo grinned and opened his mouth to eat it.
"No matter what kind of mischief the Ancient Immortals are up to... Anyway, they’re definitely starting to communicate."
...
The sky was overcast with dark clouds, the ground whipped by violent winds.
Bai Mo sat in the Ghost Cry Forest, leafing through the documents recorded on the Copper Plate.
"Hmm... like this?
"More Three-layered Grass, add more!"
Two fiery red figures immediately responded!
"Yipyipyip!"
Overalls rummaged through the Small Medicine Box, pulled out a pile of Three-layered Grass, and threw it into the Stone Slot.
"Awooo!"
Black Gloves gripped the Stone Hammer, and with a "clang clang clang" began pounding the Three-layered Grass, quickly mashing it into a pulp.
Bai Mo continued to instruct.
"Add a drop of Purple Condensing Fragrance, just one drop..."
The Bronze Mask immediately flew over with the Medicine Bottle clamped in its mouth, handing it to the Fox Claw.
These days, Bai Mo’s study of the Marquis Qing Yue’s documents was progressing extremely well. The learning speed was astonishing to the mask!
Back in the day, the Marquis took several months to study these things. Now Bai Mo, within a few days, was nearly catching up to the Marquis’ progress!
Not just the Ghost Cry Forest, but the entire Fox Mountain, all work was advancing rapidly.
The digging site was continuously uncovering cases of Withered Grass Revives from back then.
In the medicine fields, fiery red figures moved around, diligently tending to the medicinal herbs.
Vehicles traversed the fields, loaded with fertilizer, running farther and farther, reaching the edges of the fields, reaching newly developed medicine fields.
In the newly opened fields, the black and yellow soil was smooth, loose, and fertile, already sprouting tender grass buds.
"Yipyipyip!"
Black Star held the large seeding cart, wagging its tail, applying fertilizer in the fields.
The fertilizer in the Aquilegia viridiflora, through the Plowshare, was dripped bit by bit into the soil.
"Awooo!"
It fertilized happily as it went along.
The Crystal Green Beans planted in this field had already sprouted tender shoots.
The Master said that Crystal Green Beans could warm and nourish the medicine field, making it more fertile.
Planting one season of Crystal Green Beans could elevate the fertility of the medicine field to a higher level!
And the Crystal Green Beans, such a magical medicinal material, such a useful thing, of the newest thousand acres of medicine fields on Fox Mountain, it was these, planted by Black Star itself with its own paws!
"Yipyipyip!"
It cocked its plump head, grinning broadly.
While holding the seeding cart, fertilizing, and observing the Crystal Green Beans in the field, watching the newly sprouted fluffy buds.
"Awo?"
It suddenly felt as if something was not quite right.
Why has this row of Crystal Green Beans not grown taller?
How can their short stature be worthy of the fertilizer applied?
Could it be that this batch of seeds is not very good?
"Awo?"
It continued fertilizing, came to the next row of Crystal Green Beans, and again felt something was amiss.
Why is the soil next to this Crystal Green Beans dry and barren, not at all rich and moist?
Could it be that there is a problem with the soil’s microbial community?
It didn’t know what "microbial community" meant, but it had heard the Master mention it.
"Awo?"
It continued fertilizing, holding the seeding cart, came to the next row of Crystal Green Beans, and again felt something was off.
The leaves of this Crystal Green Beans were even curling at the edges?
In newly cultivated land, with so much fertilizer, the bean sprouts should be very lush?
The seeding cart was getting lighter and lighter, with all the fertilizer in the Aquilegia viridiflora having been emptied.
It set the seeding cart aside, cocked its plump head, wrinkled its brow, and looked again at this medicine field... If there were problems here, they were minor ones.
But it just felt something wasn’t right!
Something just seemed off no matter how it looked!
It lay on the ground, crouched between the fields, tail in the air, cautiously creeping forward, tilting its fox head, eyes looking sideways, staring at each bean sprout, examining their roots.
"Yip?"
"Awo?"
"Awo?"
Finally, it spotted the thinnest one!
It furrowed its brow tightly!
Why was this bean sprout so thin?
Fox Mountain had spent so much time, so many resources, so much herbicide, so much fertilizer, why was this bean sprout so thin?
It stealthily extended its Fox Claw, suddenly clenched it hard, and with a "whiz," pulled this bean sprout out, exposing the root system clasping a large clump of soil to the air and the howling wind.
"Ying?"
It frowned, looking at the root system.
The roots are large! How come the sprout is so thin?
"Ao?"
It suddenly realized something was off!
The sprout of the crystal green bean has been raided!
The root system of the crystal green bean is tangled with a thin, small, purple root system!
Is the nutrition of the crystal green bean stolen by this purple root system?
"Ao?"
What is this purple root system?
Has the entire herb field’s abnormal growth been influenced by it?
How much advantage did it take from the Fox Mountain’s herb field?
How much nutrition did it steal from the fertilizer spread by Fox Mountain?
Black Star couldn’t accept it!
"Ying ying ying!"
It suddenly sprang from the ground, grabbing the sprout of the crystal green bean, and the thin purple root system, and dashed out of the herb field!
Just in time to see a car delivering fertilizer passing by, it shouted "Ao ao" and rushed up, stopping the Butterfly Knot driving the car, and jumped into the cabin.
"Ao ao ao! Ying ying ying ying!"
It held up the purple root system, speaking fox language, asking Butterfly Knot to take it to find the master!
...
Swish!
The car quickly came and went.
Bai Mo got off, followed by three foxes also jumping down, fiery red figures rushed into the grass field, heading towards the hole left by Black Star pulling grass just now, six fox claws clawed around, and from the soil again pulled out a few thin purple root systems.
"Ying ying ying!"
Black Star held up the purple root system, complaining to the master!
"Ao ao ao!"
Black Gloves held the soil, this soil wasn’t oily enough, it’s the purple root system causing trouble!
"Ying ying ying!"
Overalls widened its eyes, this kind of weed harming Fox Mountain must be filled up with herbicide!
Bai Mo stood by, looking at this crystal green bean grass field, with a strange expression.
"This growth... not really bad, but still tolerable.
"It’s just starting to be affected.
"Has it been pulled out by Black Star already..."
It’s akin to a cafeteria purchaser embezzling two cucumbers, barely starting down the road of corruption before the director catches their hand.
"Indeed... very keen! Quite good!"
Black Star raised its head and puffed up its chest, grinning, patting its chest, very proud.
In regard to crystal green beans, it is an expert, no one can fool it!
Bai Mo picked up a purple root system, looked at it, sniffed it, and sent his divine sense inside, observing the interior for a long time.
"A bit similar, but is it really..."
Then he squatted on the ground, his palm pressed on the soft soil, his divine sense surged forth like an intangible wind, infiltrating underground!
He could observe that indeed, in the underground soil, at some unknown time, a trace of purple root stem had appeared!
All these root stems grew upwards from deeper underground, driven by the scent of fertilizer and their inherent instincts.
"Let’s look further down."
Bai Mo’s divine sense twisted into a stream, drilling deep into the underground like a tentacle.
Drilling down past the fertile soil, then past a thick sand layer, but beneath the sand layer, he detected a dense cluster of purple root stem threads.
"Hmm? This deep? No wonder it wasn’t discovered before."
Bai Mo closed his eyes, focused his divine sense, expanding horizontally, continuing to scan underground.
He suddenly discovered that the purple root stem thread cluster had a vast spread, extending hundreds of meters underground!
He opened his eyes, stood up, patting the soil off his hands.
"I didn’t recognize this grass before.
"But, in Qing Yue Marquis’s literature, it happens to be mentioned.
"If I’m not mistaken, this should be... from Sequence Six, the Immortal Grass, Purple Earth Dragon.
"It has been underground for millions of years, already withered, without any new sprouts.
"Just driven by instinct, reaching out to the surface, trying to acquire some of our fertilizer."
Purple Earth Dragon?
The foxes looked at each other.
Sequence Six?
Their eyes glistened, overjoyed!
They circled the master, raising their front paws, bouncing, shaking heads and tails, dancing around!
"Ying ying ying!"
"Ao ao ao!"
"Ying ying ying!"
It was a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!
Not a weed sneaking a meal!
It’s Sequence Six’s Immortal Grass, finding its way home!