Rewriting the Gods

Chapter 338 Shennong’s Crystal Belly!
In the blink of an eye, Shennong's quasi-saint-level spiritual attainments vanished into thin air, and he was completely reduced to a mortal. It was just like when Shennong used merit to improve his cultivation. This cultivation came easily and went away easily.

The power in his body that was enough to tear the heavens and the earth apart and turn the world upside down disappeared, and his body became heavy again. The constraints of heaven and earth returned to him again.

The sense of the surroundings also became obscure, and the immortal consciousness degenerated, and it was no longer possible to comprehend the area of ​​billions of miles in a single thought like before.

Shennong moved his body slowly, with a hint of regret on his face, but his eyes were still firm!

The purpose of tasting hundreds of herbs is to identify the plants around the human race and understand the functions of these herbs, whether they are edible, poisonous or harmful, and whether they have other uses.

All of this is based on the ordinary people of the tribe, and I do this for the sake of the ordinary people. There are not many quasi-saints in the human race, and these unknown herbs and trees cannot poison a quasi-saint to death.

If he had retained his quasi-saintly cultivation, he wouldn't have needed to taste all these herbs.

This vast cultivation was originally obtained through the promotion of merit. If it is abandoned, I don’t know how much merit has been wasted. To promote a mortal to the quasi-saint level, the merit consumed is equivalent to a perfect level of merit golden body.

It is better to use these merits within the clan than to waste them.

Shennong's face was full of regret, but his eyes were still firm. It was a pity to waste so much merit, but compared with tasting hundreds of herbs himself, it was not worth mentioning at all. Understanding the uses of herbs and making them useful to human beings was the most important thing.

To put it bluntly, my merits and virtues are nothing more than discovering four kinds of edible plants, inventing farming tools, and refining firewood coins. If I could annotate the functions of the surrounding plants, that would be a real great merit!

No one knows how many good things are hidden in these unknown plants and trees!
That’s right, in addition to the merits of cultivating four types of grains and minting the fire coins, Shennong also invented the first agricultural tool for mankind, which was used to cultivate grains. Heaven once again bestowed merits on him.

Shennong came back to his senses, looked at and felt his own body, his face frowned again. With his current mortal body, he was afraid that he would be poisoned to death before he could taste a few herbs.

Shennong's face was solemn. Putting aside other things, just the grass in front of him, if he ate it without any cultivation to protect himself, he would die here.

As Shennong's thoughts came to mind, suddenly, a mighty force surged into Shennong's body. Shennong was stunned for a moment. He looked up and saw that a golden cloud of celebration had floated above his head, containing extremely pure power.

Shennong was stunned. What is this?
What Shennong didn't know was that when Shennong dispersed his cultivation just now, all his skills vanished into nothingness and turned into endless spiritual energy that gushed out and nourished the surrounding heaven and earth.

However, these are just the magic power stored in Shennong's body. The quasi-saint cultivates Taoism and comprehends the great Dao. For the quasi-saint, magic power is just incidental. The realm and perception are still there, and he can have as much magic power as he wants. These are the key to Shennong's strength!

Similarly, these were also the key to the accumulation of merits in the first place.

And with the key to Shennong's Taoist realm, these cultivations turned into merits again and gathered above Shennong's head, just like a auspicious cloud. It neither merged into Shennong's body nor dissipated, but continued to gather above Shennong's head.

Shennong gave up his cultivation and became a mortal. His five senses degenerated and his immortal consciousness disappeared. Naturally, he could not notice the auspicious cloud of merit above his head.

However, as Shennong's mind changed, the auspicious clouds of merit above Shennong's head poured into Shennong's body like a funnel, and the power of creation surged, changing Shennong's body.

When Shennong saw this scene, he was stunned on the spot for a moment. It was not until all the auspicious clouds of merit were absorbed into Shennong's body and a look of enlightenment arose in his mind that Shennong came back to his senses.

Then Shennong bowed to the sky and a gentle smile appeared on his face.

As the auspicious clouds of merit entered his body, Shennong also understood the causes and consequences of all this. It turned out that merit was a gift from heaven, a reward from heaven and earth to people with great virtue. It could not be abolished at will. As long as it was within the prehistoric realm, the merit was useful and could not be abolished!

However, this part of Shennong's merit has evolved into cultivation and cannot be integrated into Shennong's body again to form a golden body of merit. No, to be precise, it is a cloud of merit and celebration, because the current Shennong still has the golden body of merit to protect him, and it is a golden body of merit and perfection.

The merit of discovering corn earlier allowed Shennong to condense a complete golden body of merit, and he still had merit left over. The subsequent inventions of three kinds of grains, the invention of farm tools, and the merit of minting firewood coins had already allowed Shennong to once again possess a complete golden body of merit!

So, these merits just hung over Shennong's head until new ideas came into Shennong's mind, and then these merits were integrated into Shennong's body again.

The way of heaven is fair. Merits and virtues that are yours will always be yours. Even if it is your own, you cannot easily give them up.

Shennong looked at his belly with a smile, and found that his belly had turned into a transparent crystal belly, and his internal organs were clearly visible. There were also invisible energy flowing in it to ensure the normal functioning of the body.

And next to the heart, in the center of the abdomen, there is a small golden pill suspended in it, filled with rich life essence. This is the remaining merit, the purest source of life power, which can create all things, give life or death, flesh and bones, prolong life, and reverse life and death!
With this life essence, even if I am a mortal, I can still taste all kinds of herbs, identify the surrounding plants for my people, and make use of them!

With the addition of this crystal belly, one can directly observe the effects of herbs after consumption, observe the changes in the internal organs, and intuitively see the effects of herbs.

Shennong showed a satisfied smile on his face. With this life essence and crystal belly, all his troubles were solved!

Looking at the grass in front of him that poisoned the fox, Shennong smiled, put it into his mouth without any hesitation, chewed it, swallowed it, and then immediately looked at his stomach.

After the plants entered the stomach, they immediately turned into colorful auras that moved around in the body. Among them, there was an obvious black aura that flowed directly from the stomach into the blood and then flowed into the internal organs.

The next moment, Shennong felt a cramped pain in his abdomen, as if his internal organs were being tightly grasped by someone. Shennong grimaced in pain, and the life essence in his abdomen was ready to move, wanting to merge into Shennong's body and repair his injured body.

However, Shennong simply held back and suppressed the life essence in his body. Shennong wanted to see what the use of this grass was and how poisonous it was!
As time went by, the corners of Shennong's mouth became numb, he felt nauseous and groggy, and the scene in front of him became blurry.

However, Shennong still held back, and tightly suppressed the restless life energy in his body. As time passed, the feeling became stronger and stronger, and Shennong even wanted to throw himself headfirst into the ground, but he still held back.

He forced himself to suppress his nausea and dizziness, and tried his best to concentrate and observe his stomach. It was not the right time yet, and he had not reached his limit yet. In a blink of an eye, half an hour had passed, and Shennong was surprised to find that his condition seemed to have stabilized. As time went by, Shennong's symptoms became lighter and lighter, and his physical condition gradually improved.

Shennong was overjoyed. Sure enough, this grass was not lethal, or perhaps just this one grass was not fatal. The fox died after eating it, but the human body was much larger than the fox. A grass could poison a fox, but not a human.

Another half hour passed, and Shennong's symptoms had eased a lot. Although he still felt very uncomfortable, he felt much better.

Shennong thought for a moment, and did not eat grass, nor did he use the life essence in his stomach to recover. Instead, he looked at his stomach quietly.

I found a rock nearby and sat down.

When he was hungry, he picked some wild fruits that were confirmed to be edible to fill his stomach, and kept watching the reaction of his stomach. After a day, Shennong's symptoms had weakened to the extreme, and he basically could not feel any problems, except that his body was a little weak.

Two days later, Shennong completely recovered and his internal energy returned to normal.

After eating this grass for one day, the patient can recover to 90% of his condition, and after two days, he will be completely cured.

Shennong wrote down the time, then walked to the previous place, plucked two small grasses from the ground, and put them in his mouth. As the grasses entered his stomach, a more severe symptom than before swept over him, and Shennong showed an uncomfortable look on his face.

However, it was still not fatal. After two days, Shennong had recovered by 90%. After three days, Shennong was completely cured.

After recovering, Shennong stood up again, pulled out three grasses and put them in his mouth. As the grass entered his stomach, Shennong's face distorted instantly, and became more and more confused as time went by. After two quarters of an hour, Shennong's eyes turned black, and the life essence in his body surged instantly, with rich vitality emerging. His internal organs, which had been eroded by 99% of the black, began to recover instantly, and recovered rapidly under the action of the life essence.

After a breath, Shennong's symptoms were completely cured and he returned to normal.

At the critical moment, the essence of life pulled Shennong back from the gates of hell.

However, it is also true that the life essence actually wanted to repair Shennong's body the moment it was damaged, but it had been suppressed by Shennong, so it could not be repaired. However, as Shennong lost consciousness, the life essence lost its suppression, and all of Shennong's injuries were healed in an instant.

After understanding this, Shennong smiled even more. This was good, as it would allow him to test the true moment of death.

Shennong recalled the scene just now. Through the previous two times, Shennong had been able to confirm that the toxicity of this unknown little grass would reach its peak half an hour after being taken. If he could survive this time, he should be able to survive.

But it had only been two quarters of an hour, with only a quarter of an hour left. The toxicity of the grass might not be fully exerted before he could not hold on any longer.

Shennong thought for a moment, stood up again, pulled out three small grasses, and took only half of the third one and ate it.

Two and a half quarters of an hour later, Shennong lost consciousness, and the vital energy in his body surged, expelling all the poison.

Shennong showed a thoughtful look on his face. He wrote down the result again and then picked up another grass. After repeating this process for more than ten times, Shennong finally tested out the toxicity of the grass. Just slightly more than two grains could cause death!

Two is a critical value!
Afterwards, Shennong tried grasses of different sizes and slowly experienced the toxicity of the grass. After he had fully understood it, Shennong began to observe the effects of the grass in his stomach.

After eating it many times, Shennong discovered that although this grass was highly poisonous, after taking it, a warm current would rise in the body, making people feel warm all over. However, compared with its toxicity, this point was ignored by Shennong at the beginning.

Shennong wrote it down and took it again, observing it carefully.

After nine months, Shennong took out a piece of animal skin and wrote on it:
“Wucao, also known as Aconitum, is spicy, warm, and highly toxic. It grows in valleys and can soothe the vital energy, restore yang, replenish fire and dispel cold, and can... remove its toxicity..."

After a long time, Shennong stopped recording, his eyes brighter than ever!
Sure enough, what I thought was right, absolutely right!

The unknown plants and trees around are hidden treasures. Even if they are poisonous, they can still have other uses.

This is true for poisons, let alone other things.

For a moment, Shennong felt full of energy. Looking at the endless mountains and rivers before him and the villages hidden around the mountains and rivers, Shennong's face was full of determination!

I must taste hundreds of herbs and unlock the treasures of heaven and earth for my race!
After noting down the situation of the black grass, Shennong collected a lot of it and looked at the other unknown grasses around him.

We have almost understood the situation of black grass. All we have to do now is to try it slowly and see what will happen when combined with other herbs. That will take a long time and require the cooperation of other herbs. So take your time and don't be in a hurry.

After taking a few steps, Shennong found his target. His eyes lit up, he raised his hand, pulled it up, threw away the dirt, and put it directly into his mouth.

After swallowing the grass, Shennong immediately looked at his stomach to observe the changes in the herb. As time passed, streams of aura flowed in Shennong's body, and Shennong observed it carefully.

When it stopped working, Shennong would eat it again, and repeat this cycle over and over again, constantly testing the efficacy and effects of this new herb.

After tasting it clearly, Shennong ate the grass in his hand together with the black grass he had tasted before, and began to observe the effects of eating the two kinds of grass at the same time.

In this way, Shennong started his journey of tasting hundreds of herbs. However, for a whole thousand years, Shennong did not come out of the mountains and forests where he started. There were so many plants and trees that human beings were not familiar with.

(End of this chapter)