The prehistoric infrastructure maniac

Chapter 137 Shen Nong tastes hundreds of herbs

At the top of Babao Peak on Jiuding Tiecha Mountain, Shi Monan, who had been in seclusion for a long time, finally gave a sermon.

Jin Yan brought a group of earth core fire dragons who had all achieved success in their cultivation and almost all of them were Golden Immortals and Taiyi Golden Immortals. Jin Yuan also brought a group of monkeys to listen to the teachings.

Under the peach tree, after finishing his sermon, Shi Mo suddenly looked at an inconspicuous skinny monkey among a group of monkeys behind Jin Yuan.

He was only a Golden Immortal, but he wore a black mink robe like the humans. He looked a little funny as he listened to the sermon in a serious manner.

Moreover, Shi Mo noticed that there were two small ears behind each of his ears.

"Six Ears." Shi Mo's heart was moved. He couldn't help but ask the old ape Jin Yuan, who was now at the peak of the Daluo realm but whose potential had been exhausted: "Jin Yuan, is he also your descendant?"

"That's not the case. His name is Liu'er, and he is from outside. I brought him here to listen to the teachings because I thought he was quite smart," Jin Yuan said after looking at the six-eared monkey.

"Hmm," Shi Mo nodded slightly. He saw through the fate of the six-eared monkey at a glance and saw that the monkey really had not had any great opportunities or luck. He had been practicing for quite a long time and had achieved his current level of cultivation entirely through hard work.

Shi Mo seemed to see in him the shadows of many ordinary people who had worked silently in their past lives. After a moment's hesitation, he said, "Six Ears, huh? Would you like to become my disciple and become my sixth direct disciple?"

When Liu Er heard this, he was stunned with astonishment. Then he reacted and, at Jin Yuan's urging, excitedly stood up and knelt respectfully before Shi Mo, saying, "Disciple Liu Er greets the teacher. May the teacher live forever!"

"Haha, you are quite good at talking. Get up!" Shi Moqing raised his hand and smiled, then took out a set of armor he had refined in his early years, a ninth-grade karmic fire lotus and a black divine iron stick and gave them to Liu'er, whose eyes were red.

Then Shi Mo stretched out his hand and touched his brow, and taught him many methods of cultivation and magic and escape techniques. After he came to his senses, he waved him over, whispered some instructions to him, and sent him away.

After leaving Jiuding Tiecha Mountain, Liu'er first went to Wuyi Mountain and told Duobao about Shi Mo's instructions. Then Duobao took him to the human race.

Duobao went to the Jiang tribe to meet Shennong. After revealing his identity, he showed Shennong his Luobao gold coins and instructed Shennong to use them to imitate copper coins. Thus, the human race officially had a currency that could be used in commodity transactions.

Liu'er and Duobao both gained some merit power because of this, but the biggest benefit for Duobao was that the Luobao gold coins could be connected with the luck of the human race. As the human race used the coins more and more frequently, the merit accumulated slowly and turned into merit spiritual treasures. Later use of the coins could also reduce the loss of Duobao's own merit luck.

However, since metal coins are difficult to mint, as commerce prospers among humans, some circulating currencies such as shells, jade, and even gold and silver have gradually emerged.

The human race became more and more prosperous, but the dangerous and harsh environment, unpredictable climate, poisonous insects and ferocious beasts in the primitive times all threatened human survival, but the more troublesome thing was disease.

How can people not get sick if they eat all kinds of grains? But among the human race today, there is no effective way to deal with disease, and almost everyone relies on their physical strength to resist it.

Therefore, the torture and death brought by illness, while making humans afraid, also caused Shennong a headache.

Therefore, under the guidance of Master Xuandu, Shennong made up his mind to find various medicinal herbs that could cure diseases, and to understand their medicinal properties by tasting them himself, so as to solve the great problem of disease for the human race.

Shennong left the tribe alone and headed towards the densely forested mountains in the southwest of Honghuang.
He carried two treasure-packing storage bags, one for non-toxic herbs and one for poisonous ones. Shennong climbed over mountains and hills, and walked across plains. His straw sandals were worn, and his animal skin clothing was torn, like a beggar. But his eyes were bright and persistent.

Decades later, Shennong came to a valley in the southwest of Honghuang where all kinds of exotic flowers and plants grew, and discovered many medicinal herbs he had never seen before.

So, Shennong stopped and began to taste them one by one. Eating those magical herbs would make people feel refreshed and enhance their cultivation. However, eating some highly poisonous herbs would often cause Shennong great pain.

Fortunately, Shennong had tasted many exotic flowers and herbs along the way, and some of the medicinal properties remained in his body, which could resist the highly toxic herbs. In addition, Shennong's cultivation was becoming more and more profound, so ordinary poisonous herbs could not do anything to him.

However, Shennong unfortunately tasted a plant of the extremely poisonous heartbreak grass, which almost killed him from the pain.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, Master Xuandu appeared and took out an antidote to save his life.

Afterwards, Master Xuandu began to teach Shennong the art of identifying medicines and refining elixirs. He also gave Shennong a medicine furnace made from the Eight Trigrams Furnace of Taishang Laozi, and instructed Shennong to go to Panwang Mountain in the southwest to ask Panwang Patriarch for an ochre whip that could identify whether the medicine was warm or cool and whether it was poisonous.

Speaking of this ancestor Pan Wang, he is also an outlier in the prehistoric world.

He is a descendant of the Wu clan and the human clan, and has the blood of the Wu clan, but because he was too thin when he was young, he was not accepted and recognized by the Wu clan.

Later, he left the Wu clan in a fit of anger, and experienced life and death in the ancient times. Relying on the wisdom and talent brought by the human blood in his body, he successfully practiced and achieved the Daluo Dao Fruit in just a few thousand years.

Moreover, the ancestor Pan Wang has learned a lot of knowledge, and is particularly good at the art of poison. His ability to control and use poisons is unique in the prehistoric world, so much so that many Daluo Jinxians dare not provoke him easily.

His Panwang Mountain is full of poisonous creatures and can be regarded as a forbidden area in the southwest of the prehistoric world.

Although Pan Wang had a bad temper and was difficult to get along with due to his early experiences, he admired Shennong for testing poisons on himself for the sake of humanity.

Shennong was able to enter the dangerous Panwang Mountain because he consumed so many magical herbs and medicines along the way that he was almost immune to all poisons and even made poisonous creatures retreat on their own.

When Pan Wang Laozu learned about Shennong's experience and purpose, he hit it off with Shennong and even took the initiative to teach Shennong how to identify some poisonous substances.
Afterwards, Shennong identified herbs and medicines in the southwestern mountains of the prehistoric world, built a hut and refined elixirs, and finally completed the first medical book and herbal medicine collection in the entire prehistoric world, "Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica".

After Shennong returned to the human race, he taught them how to use herbs to treat diseases. Combined with the widespread cultivation of grains among humans, he helped humans solve the two major problems of disease and hunger, and greatly enhanced Shennong's reputation among humans.

After consultation, the elders of the human race and the leaders of various tribes jointly nominated Shennong as the new emperor of the human race, so that the increasingly prosperous human race once again had a leader.

Shaoding was somewhat stimulated by Shennong's sudden becoming the Emperor of Mankind, so he decided to settle down and manage a human tribe.

This human tribe also has an interesting name, Youxiong.
(End of this chapter)