With Chosen One Dr. Chen Ao stripped of his Plundering Medical System and fitted into knee-high yellow rubber boots, the ten-story golden eyesore in the center of Emerald Plaza was officially shut down.
However, when seventy-five-year-old Elder Bai and twenty-year-old Lady Bai Zhi led Gu Changsheng, Auntie Qin, Grandpa Yao. Ten-year-old Su Nuannuan out to inspect the ten million acres of terraced herb mountains surrounding Emerald City, they discovered a serious agricultural problem left behind by Dr. Chen Ao’s six-year monopoly.
“Immortal Master Gu, Madam Qin, Senior Yao, look at the soil in these terraces,” seventy-five-year-old Elder Bai sighed heavily, kneeling beside a row of yellowing astragalus plants and crumbling a handful of dry, gray-white dirt between his fingers.
“For the past six years,” Elder Bai explained, “in order to force his fifty-thousand-stone ‘tonic ginseng’ to grow ten times faster. Moreover, Feed his Blood-Leech breeding vats, Chen Ao ordered his overseers to drench eighty percent of the public herb fields on Worlds #4 and #5 with chemical Bone-Ash Accelerant!
It drained all the natural wood-spirit vitality out of the earth, leaving the soil acidic, hard as brick, and sterile! At normal recovery rates, our three billion herb-farmers will have to leave these fields fallow for thirty years before they can grow clean two-copper medicine again.”
