Since it is possible to use the naless plants within the Spider Cave to treat the severe spider poison Rodney and others are suffering from, it suggests that using herbal redies for detoxification and treatnt is viable. This indicates that Austin’s Chinese dicine treatnt thods from his previous life also hold so relevance in this world.
If the dicinal properties and habits of various wild herbs known to the Beastn can be gathered and personally sampled, and if the folk redies mastered by so Beastman Tribes can be compiled and systematically organized to establish a dical system akin to Chinese dicine, it would greatly benefit the developnt of the Dragon Nest Tribe.
However, Austin, who finds the laborious task of establishing an Otherworld version of a dical system cumberso, has left it to Quik, the Fox-faced Man, who has a keen interest in it.
This is a very complex grand project, so Austin only offers a word or two from the sidelines, sharing so occasional Chinese dicine theories from his previous life with Quik, and gives him guidance on how to set up this dical system.
The Blue Young Dragon has no intention of personally dedicating significant ti to building this dical system.
Subsequently, Quik began visiting every Beastman in the Dragon Nest Tribe, asking them about their experiences with ailnts. For instance, what herbs they used when their hands or feet were injured, what the Tribal Elders had them eat when they suffered abdominal pain, what herbs they applied when bitten by prey, and what redies helped them recover from headaches and chills.
Beastn have been breeding and thriving in the Kawa Great Forest for thousands of years, through various chances or necessities, so tribes have discovered quirky folk redies. Of course, only two or three out of ten redies are actually effective, and they require systematic sorting before becoming truly robust.
The establishnt of a dical system cannot be rushed. After delegating the task to Quik, Austin continues his grand venture of cultivation and reclamation with a group of Beastn.
Earlier, a portion of the river plains had already been developed; although Rodney’s situation later occupied Austin’s focus, the elite troops from the Dragon Nest Tribe, led by the Blue Young Dragon, continued working on the land cultivation tasks left by Austin while also guarding the Dragon Nest Tribe.
When the Blue Young Dragon returned to the river plains, the twenty-acre field had already been thoroughly turned by the Beastn using tools like wooden shovels and sticks, exposing the underlying soil.
But this does not an planting can begin; turning over this vast land is only the first step.
The purpose of soil tillage is to loosen the ground unchanged for centuries, allowing oxygen to enter and aiding root oxygen absorption when planting yams, thereby increasing yam yield.
The second step is to level the soil, smoothing the loosened land into flat terrain.
This arable land is called a plain, but in reality, it is uneven, with dips here and mounds there, easily flooded in low areas during heavy rains, while high areas don’t retain water well, significantly impacting yam cultivation.
The best approach is to divide the twenty acres of arable land, with high areas and low areas separated like terraced fields, ensuring yield and reducing the Beastn’s work load drastically.
However, doing so requires ticulous planning. The Beastn are careless and may not execute these precision divisions well. Moreover, Beastn have significantly better physical stamina compared to humans, so increasing their workload isn’t problematic.
Thus, under the Blue Young Dragon’s command, the Beastn worked relentlessly.
They leveled the high areas, filling the low-lying zones with soil.
Despite the efforts of the Beastn and given that the river plain terrain isn’t overly uneven, it still required dozens of Beastn working together for a whole day to consolidate the arable wilderness into a twenty-acre flatland.
At a glance, the entire wildland had been completely leveled into a smooth terrain; despite so inconvenient wooden stakes left behind, the arable land had indeed been preliminarily arranged.
But it was not yet ti to plant yams.
Due to the influence of magic tides, the Kawa Great Forest is hot and rainy nine months of the year, akin to Tropical Rainforest climate.
If yams are planted directly on this reclaid flatland, the area often becos muddy, and during downpours the entire field is soaked.
Yams typically grow on higher terrains like mountains, which are relatively dry lands, indicating yams dislike waterlogged muddy areas; prolonged water imrsion could severely affect yam output.
Therefore, the third step is to create ridges on this arable land.
Ridges provide yams with more sunlight exposure, enhancing photosynthetic efficiency, improve soil perability promoting root growth, and most importantly simplify irrigation managent versus flat bed cultivation.
During downpours, rainwater automatically channels down ridge furrows and drains out, unlike flatlands where large water deposits hinder yam production.
Initially, Austin thought creating ridges was the simplest step.
Yet, he didn’t anticipate the Beastn had grass growing in their brains instead of brains.
While digging ridges, they skewed off course after three steps, and two Beastn even dug into each other’s paths.
Seeing the skewed and unusable initial ridge furrows, Austin almost jumped with anger.
In the end, the Blue Young Dragon used vine-made ropes to draw a straight line from end to end directing the Beastn in one direction, marking a path to prevent skewing during ridge formation.
Over three busy days, preparation for planting yams was finally complete, with rows of ridge fields neatly aligned.
The final step was planting yams.
According to yam growth thods, options include cuttings, root heads, layers, and seeds. In this Otherworld, Austin was not particular, using cuttings to plant, slicing thick yam vines, removing the leaves, directly planting them on ridges, and watering them.
In his previous life, planting yams required attention to many details, but the Blue Young Dragon was not omniscient and didn’t expect the transplants to yield high returns. As long as yam production is achieved, it was deed successful.
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