Chapter 110 (1/2)

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Chapter 110

Laying The Trap In The Valley

After harvesting so many Rainbow Sickle Senna flowers, Li Chengfeng realised a serious problem. Who would he sell this to? What use were these flowers to him?

Sell to Zhang Jinbao? Hmm, that's a valid solution but this fat dude must realise he had been tricked already. After realising that he had been used and tricked into hurting Zhan Qisheng, the dude might be planning to squash Chengfeng to death the next time they met.

Sell to Huangfu Song? That Cangjin Senior Brother might be waiting to skin Chengfeng alive…

Sell to the Cangjian Court? But who would buy from him? This bunch of broke beggars had to resort to swindling and extortion to raise funds. How much money would they have to buy these herbs?

Sell to Cangqing Court? He did not know anyone there. Could he knock on their door and ask?

Wouldn't he be robbed immediately?

Keep for himself? But how would he use these plants? Chengfeng did not know!

After the initial excitement, the string of questions dampened his spirit.s He realised he was just an old farmer with a granary filled with rotting stock!

The fragile-looking flowers did not look hardy at all!

Chengfeng stared at these freshly plucked flowers and sighed. “You think we should just stir fry these?”

“What?” Su Yuehan, who was drinking water, almost choked. She coughed, then widened her eyes. “Young Master, what did you say?”

He sighed. “Then what do you think we should do? I have so much of these but I don't know how to use it and can't sell them either. Keeping them will be trouble too. Might as well eat them, right?”

Su Yuehan was stunned speechless. Naturally, she knew what Senna flowers could be used for.

The Medicine Saint of Nine Cauldrons Sect wrote about the uses of Senna flowers in the Book of Herbs and Pills:

Leaves- mildly sweet, neutral nature, non-poisonous

Stem- bitter, warm nature, non-poisonous

Roots- bitter, cold nature, non-poisonous

Treatment for: unorderly meridians, bleeding and damaged internal organs, unbalanced sanjiao

Consumption: two taels of Black Mist Beast blood, two taels of Wu Ling Zhi*, grind into powder. Pound one thousand Rainbow Sickle Senna flowers into pulp, extract the essence, mix with water from the Heavenly Saint Pond. Able to revive a dead patient.

Pill concoction: mix the 30g of leaves and stems each with a Three Yuan Saint Pill, 20g of Luogen Gra.s.s, one scorpion's sting, 30g of stingray bones, one thousand-faced demon internal pill. Heat in a golden cauldron for 42 hours to create the Heavenly King Saint Pill. Consume to increase internal abilities by several-fold.

[T/L Note: Wu Ling Zhi is a type of flying squirrel's dried dung, used in trad chinese medicine to relieve postnatal pains]

But… how would she tell Li Chengfeng all of this? How would she explain how she knew about this?

Several sects had worked together to destroy the Nine Cauldrons Sect a hundred years ago so the magical items, pills and land in their possession were all lost. Even the Book of Herbs and Pills were copied by each sect and then declared a forbidden book that could not be circulated publicly. Very few cultivators were qualified to read it.

There were seventeen uses of the Rainbow Sickle Senna stated in the book, most of them for medicine. It was considered a treasure, extremely useful to cultivator and martial arts sects.

However, just as Li Chengfeng expected, the plant was only most effective when it was fresh. Once dried and pulverised, its efficacy would greatly decrease.

However, even then, it would still be worth a few thousand silver pieces! You can't just stir fry it!