Chapter 403 - The Secret of the Cloud Patterns
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 had been staring at the Ding Cauldron for days due to the bottleneck. While he couldn’t draw the patterns from memory, he was familiar with the entire thing. Everything he saw outside could be related to the patterns. That was why he could relate the map and the cauldron.
He scattered the leaves and then arranged them in order according to the picture on the cauldron. Then, he tried to draw on his sand tray using a branch. He only drew the important lines and left out lines meant to mislead the reader.
The cloud patterns on the cauldron were words and a map!