Chapter 287 Shennong tasted hundreds of herbs and the girl died
Hearing that Shennong was going to try hundreds of herbs on himself, many ministers were surprised and stepped forward to dissuade him, but Shennong had made up his mind and would not allow anyone to refute him. Many ministers had no choice but to follow Shennong and taste hundreds of herbs themselves.

Tasting hundreds of herbs is not as simple as eating them. You need to clearly state how you feel after eating them, what symptoms you have, whether it can be cured, if it needs to be cured, how much it will cost, what kind of herbs can be used for treatment, whether the herbs that can be used for treatment can be planted, whether the planting time is too long, etc.

These questions must all be answered before we can say that this scourge has been eliminated. Otherwise, it would be in vain to eat the poisonous weeds. Why can't so many humans accidentally eat the poisonous weeds and explain why?

Shennong originally wanted to travel light, but after considering these issues, he decided to let these ministers follow him.

At the same time, he also relied on the protection of the great wizard Xuandu, so he dared to make a seemingly reckless decision. Otherwise, he would have to at least bring dozens of witch doctors to the battle.

Shennong led his group and headed southwest. The south was humid and had countless mountains, making it the place most likely to breed poisonous insects and weeds, and it was also the place with the most problems that needed to be solved.

The group of people crossed mountains and rivers when they encountered them, and walked for 9981 days. They encountered many poisonous insects and weeds along the way. With the help of Master Xuandu, Shennong also wrote down methods to deal with these poisonous insects and weeds.

However, because he ate too many poisonous herbs and was bitten too many times by poisonous insects, Shennong's appearance changed greatly. His originally strong body became even larger, about ten feet tall. Two large horns grew on his head, like bull's horns, and his nose became bigger, his eyes protruded, and his lips sunken. From a distance, he actually looked like a bull's head.

If the huge body and the gigantic bull head could be ignored, then his belly would be truly eye-catching.

His stomach was completely transparent, and one could see his heart, liver, spleen, lungs, kidneys, and nine palaces and twelve intestines.

However, Shennong was quite satisfied with this, because when the poisonous grass entered his stomach, the first things to change were his organs. With this transparent stomach, he could observe the changes in his organs more easily.

It was precisely because of this transparent stomach that whenever Shennong ate some poisonous grass, the ministers around him could rely on the mutation of his organs to come up with some antidotes to help him detoxify.

But one day, Shennong accidentally ate a seemingly ordinary wild grass. As soon as he ate it, he let out a scream, his whole body turned green and his face turned purple. Some ministers hurried over to check his stomach and found that the wild grass had disappeared, and his intestines were breaking into pieces, which looked extremely terrifying.

These ministers had never encountered such a change, and immediately took out a lot of antidotes and fed them to Shennong. However, after Shennong took the antidotes, not only did his condition not improve, but his intestines broke even faster. For a moment, many ministers panicked and didn't know what to do.

At this critical moment, the great magician Xuandu arrived, but he did not cast a spell to remove Shennong's poison. Instead, he said, "As the saying goes, there must be an antidote within a hundred steps. Since this herb is poisonous, you should search carefully within this hundred steps. Maybe there is an antidote."

The arrival of Master Xuandu has been a matter of days, and many ministers have anticipated this. They immediately followed the instructions of Master Xuandu and searched for rare medicinal herbs nearby.

What's more, they actually found a rare medicinal herb in the end.

This herb is straight all over, with nine leaves, nine flowers and nine fruits. If it were just that, it would be fine, but the strange thing is that ordinary fruits grow on the branches, but these nine fruits grow on the tips of the leaves.

The veins on these leaves were like human meridians, vibrating slightly, as if they were supplying nutrients to the nine fruits. The nine fruits were bright and juicy, with different colors. Such a peculiar performance made the ministers dare not act rashly.

There must be something wrong when something is abnormal. This herb is too strange and they have never heard of it before. For a moment, they did not dare to act rashly.

Some people were smart and wanted to ask Master Xuandu, but Master Xuandu disappeared without a trace after saying this. They were helpless. Seeing that Shennong's breath was getting weaker and weaker, his intestines had been severed and the disease was beginning to spread to his internal organs, they had no choice but to feed the herb to Shennong.

As soon as this herb entered his stomach, his liver, which had been almost completely corroded, recovered instantly, and his severed intestines spontaneously connected themselves. Shennong also opened his eyes from his coma and secretly felt lucky.

When an official asked Shennong if he was feeling better, Shennong simply said, "This herb is too toxic and it broke my heart. From now on, it will be called the Heartbreak Herb, and that herb will be called the Resurrection Herb. If you take this herb within three days after you die, you will be able to be resurrected and all the toxicity will be eliminated."

After saying this, Shennong just took a breath for a while, then stood up and walked away. Many ministers were naturally impressed by Shennong's selflessness, and no one chose to give up, and they all continued to follow Shennong.

But before the group had gone far, Master Xuandu came again, but this time he had a strange whip in his hand. The whip was flesh-colored and gave off a faint fragrance.

Shennong was not unfamiliar with this fragrance. It was the fragrance of grass and trees, and everyone in their group had this fragrance.

But Shennong came to his senses and immediately bowed, shouting: "Greetings, teacher!"

Master Xuandu smiled and said, "You don't need to be polite. It is a great good deed for you to taste hundreds of herbs for the human race. As your teacher, I naturally support you. But it is too slow for you to taste them one by one and search over mountains and hills. Your ministers only live for a hundred years. If you do this, I am afraid that even the youngest one will die of old age before you have tasted all the poisonous herbs."

Shen Nong humbly asked: "Teacher, may I ask, how should I do this?"

Master Xuandu pointed out, "Go south for thousands of miles. There is a poisonous mountain there. It is Shennongjia, where the legendary witch Shebishi lived. I gave you this name because it was destined. Shennongjia has all the poisonous herbs in the prehistoric world. This way, you can save countless time."

After that, Master Xuandu took out the flesh-colored whip in his hand and said, "It's good for you to taste all kinds of herbs, but it's too dangerous. This whip is called the ochre whip. If you come across an unknown herb, use this whip to hit it. If it's a poisonous herb, this whip will emit a black light, the more poisonous, the darker it is; if it's a detoxifying herb, this whip will emit a green light, the greener the better; if it's something that can satisfy hunger, it will turn into white light, the whiter, the easier it is to grow, which is very useful to you. If you accidentally eat a poisonous herb, just use the ochre whip to whip the poisoned person, and the poison will be driven out."

Then Master Xuandu threw the ochre whip to Shennong. Shennong was overjoyed and extremely excited. With the ochre whip, he no longer had to fear the effects of the poison.

Just as Shennong led many ministers to Shennongjia, a major event happened in the Lieshan tribe.

Unlike Fuxi who remained single throughout his life, Shennong married a woman when he was an adult. The woman even gave birth to a daughter for him. Unfortunately, childbirth was too dangerous and the woman died during the process.

Shennong was extremely sad about this, and treated his daughter as the apple of his eye, spoiling her very much. He named her Nvwa, which sounds like Nvwa, hoping that the Virgin Mary would take care of his daughter.

Although the girl was spoiled by Shennong when she grew up, she was usually humble and polite to others. Like Shennong, she was born with precocity. She was able to be fair and judge things at a young age. Many tribesmen regarded her as the next chief of the Shennong tribe.

But even though Nvwa was precocious, she was just an ordinary girl, and naturally had a playful heart. One day, Nvwa went out to play. Because Fengyan tribe was located on the coast of the East China Sea, Lieshan tribe also migrated to the coast of the East China Sea after Shennong became the leader of the human race. It was very close to the sea, and many tribesmen grew up by the sea. Nvwa naturally played by the sea. Nvwa was born with a beautiful figure. Although she was only a dozen years old, she could be seen to be stunningly beautiful. Her beauty attracted people's attention, and naturally attracted some bees and butterflies.

Seeing the vast sea, the girl was excited and immediately went swimming in the sea, but this inadvertently attracted the attention of an evil dragon.

The evil dragon saw that the girl was very beautiful, and dragons are lustful by nature, so naturally he became interested in her.

Ordinary races generally do not intermarry with other races, simply because they have different views on beauty. In their eyes, the stunning beauties of other races may not even be as good as the ugliest members of their own race. However, this is not a problem for the dragon race.

Dragons naturally like to mate with other races. For example, the nine sons of Zulong look different because their mothers are from different races.

Although these nine sons are all dragon ancestors, the normal dragon clan has horns like deer, heads like camels, eyes like rabbits, necks like snakes, bellies like clams, scales like fish, claws like eagles, paws like tigers, and ears like cows. The three dragon ancestors, Zulong, Zhulong, and Qinglong, all look like this.

However, these nine sons are only similar in one or two places. If they were not powerful and their father was not the Ancestral Dragon, they would have been expelled from the dragon clan long ago.

From this point of view, we can see how much the dragon race loves beauties of other races.

Nvwa is naturally one of the beauties of the human race.

The evil dragon that set its sights on the girl was naturally no ordinary one; he was the third prince of the Dragon King of the East China Sea. Because there were a large number of humans near the East China Sea, the dragons of the East China Sea also loved human beauties.

The Third Prince had an evil thought in his mind, and immediately swam towards the girl, wanting to abduct her to the Dragon Palace and make her his 999th concubine. He even laughed an evil laugh, "My little beauty, your husband is here."

Nuwa had lived by the sea for a long time, so naturally she knew some legends about the dragon clan. It was said that the dragon clan liked to capture beauties from other races to enrich their harem. Nuwa had originally just listened to it as a legend, but she didn't expect that one day she would actually become the target of capture.

Naturally, she didn't want to become anyone's concubine, so she swam upstream immediately. However, the dragon clan was aquatic elves, and humans were born to stand on the earth. How could she defeat the dragon clan in the water? No matter how the girl struggled, she was finally entangled by the third prince of the dragon clan.

Seeing a huge dragon head emitting a fishy smell towards her, with the evil thoughts in its eyes revealed undisguisedly, the girl felt even more disgusted. Without thinking, she punched the dragon head on the nose. This was originally a subconscious action, but she did not expect that it actually allowed her to break free from the restraints.

The whole body of this dragon is extremely hard, and its reverse scale is the hardest of all, but its nose is a vulnerable spot.

The Dragon King's third prince was salivating at the sight and offered no defense at all. Unexpectedly, the girl punched him on the nose. He felt so much pain that stars appeared in his eyes and his head felt dizzy.

Upon seeing this, the girl immediately swam towards the shore. The third prince of the Dragon King felt pain and was angry. He immediately shook his tail. A huge wave suddenly surged up and immediately knocked the girl to the bottom of the sea. Although the girl was a little strange, she was just a mortal after all, and was drowned alive soon.

But unlike ordinary mortals, Nvwa is the daughter of Shennong and the daughter of the current leader of the human race. Naturally, she has a trace of human destiny in her.

Although her body is dead, her soul is immortal and possessed by a small bird with red claws and white beak. Carrying the resentment before her death, it keeps bringing stones and branches from afar, determined to fill up the sea. It keeps calling "Jingwei, Jingwei" from its mouth, and is also called the Jingwei bird.

The disappearance of the girl soon attracted the attention of many people. These people searched everywhere for her. Finally, some immortals searched the sky and the earth and finally came to the conclusion that the girl was drowned in the sea.

As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused a huge uproar. They didn't dare to imagine Shennong's expression when he returned to the tribe and learned that his daughter had drowned.

Shennong, who was far away on the Shennongjia, was tasting hundreds of herbs when he suddenly felt a pain in his heart for some reason. He couldn't help but shout, "My son!" and then fainted on the ground.

Many ministers thought that Shennong had taken the wrong medicine, so they immediately took out many detoxifying herbs and fed them to Shennong. There were also many antidotes for coma, and the effects were excellent. Shennong woke up within a few minutes of falling down.

When Shennong woke up, the pain in his heart became more and more intense, as if something had happened to his closest relative.

Shennong involuntarily began to call for Master Xuandu. Master Xuandu naturally knew what had happened and was reluctant to answer, but seeing Shennong's stubborn eyes, he could not help but sigh: "Nuwa was swimming in the sea and was entangled by the Third Prince of the Dragon King of the East China Sea. Nuwa struggled to break free and accidentally injured the Third Prince. In the end, she was drowned by the Third Prince at the bottom of the sea and drowned alive."

After hearing this, Shennong spat out a mouthful of blood towards the sky, feeling even more tormented. He wished he could send troops to attack the East China Sea Dragon Clan directly, but he couldn't.

Although he is the girl's father, he is also the leader of the human race. If he rashly attacks the East China Sea Dragon Clan, it will definitely cause countless casualties. No matter how heartbroken he is, he cannot make such a decision because it is irresponsible.

"Oh, by the way, I also have the Resurrection Herb!"

Shennong thought of this idea immediately when he was sad, but Master Xuandu seemed to see through his thoughts and sighed again: "This place is extremely far away from the East China Sea. Even if I use my magic to travel through space, it will take more than 30 days. What's more, the girl was drowned at the bottom of the sea and her body was eaten by fish. Although the resurrection grass can bring the dead back to life, it also has a prerequisite, that is, the body must be intact."

Seeing that this method was rejected again, Shennong was even more sad.

Although he was heartbroken at that time, he was not dead and still had a breath. So after eating the resurrection grass, he was able to recover immediately as before. So strictly speaking, he was not resurrected at that time.

But the girl is already dead. If she wants to use the resurrection grass to truly bring her back to life, her body naturally needs to be intact.

Shennong was listless for a few days, and then he once again set out on a journey of tasting hundreds of herbs, both for the sake of responsibility and to forget the pain.

(End of this chapter)