Around twenty years ago, Zhang Heng's father—a hunter named Zhang Yusheng—announced that he had discovered a method for cultivating heavenly treasures. This claim created a sensation throughout Baicao Country; even the president of the medical university, a renowned Inner Force Realm master famous across multiple nations, paid him a personal visit.
However, the situation took a sharp turn for the worse. The heavenly treasure that Zhang Yusheng claimed he could cultivate was a medicinal herb known as blue grass. This herb was quite common, and medical texts recorded that it was typically used to treat ailments like colds and chills. On very rare occasions, however, an individual blue grass would turn crimson. This Crimson Blue Grass was a true heavenly treasure, and what Zhang Yusheng claimed he could cultivate was precisely this crimson variant.
Right around that time, the National Medical University of Baicao Country was rocked by its largest-ever theft. The victim was a scholar in the university's Department of Medicinal Materials, the Inner Force Realm expert Scholar Xide. His research notes had been stolen, and these notes contained records detailing the artificial cultivation of Crimson Blue Grass. According to Scholar Xide himself, however, the research was still in its infancy and nowhere near the stage where artificial cultivation was actually possible.
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