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Seventh Arc: The Monsters’ Ideal State I
Catching the very tail end of the fifth month, the Stone Gate Merchant Caravan crossed into Beijia’s territory.
The sky was clear and the air crisp. Vast fields stretched endlessly on either side of the road, crops lush and vivid green. Farmers bent over at their work, weeding.
He Lingchuan was studying the plants as they passed.
They were not rice, not wheat, and not even tea.
“What are they growing here?”
It was not that he could not tell the five grains apart. When he had helped his father survey the counties around Dunyu, he had spent plenty of time running back and forth through fields and farmlands. He had learned to recognize the usual crops just by looking.
But this plant, he truly had never seen before. The scale alone was astonishing, with at least several dozen hectares, all planted with the same thing. They had been walking for over two hours and had not seen a single other crop.
Second Boss Shi, who was right beside him, said, “Tobacco leaves.”
“Huh? This is tobacco?” The answer caught He Lingchuan off guard. “With land this flat, I thought they’d grow staple crops.”
“This red soil isn’t good for grain,” Shi Congshui said with a laugh. “But along the border, good land or bad, it’s all planted with tobacco. Almost every monster king’s...
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