Chapter 1460 - Stone Rune
There were many kinds of magnetic fields, and the Nine Dragon Palace's palace lord had heard of some before. Right now, though, the only thing that mattered was resolving the crisis of the withering spiritual herbs.
If they couldn't solve this problem, they wouldn't be able to fulfill this year's orders on time and would have to pay an enormous amount in compensation to those who had ordered from them.
The Nine Dragon Palace could afford to pay, but their reputation would take a heavy blow. For the past million years, the Nine Dragon Palace had never once failed an order, after all.
"Wuxie, stop teasing us and just tell us what's going on," the palace lord said, changing his form of address from "Young Master Liu" to "Wuxie" in an attempt to draw him closer.
Ding Yuan also stared at Liu Wuxie with undisguised anticipation. They had been searching for answers for months and found nothing, yet Liu Wuxie had pinpointed the issue within ten minutes of his arrival.
Only Chang Wu's expression grew terrifyingly dark, and a cold smirk lingered at the corner of his lips.
Liu Wuxie smiled faintly, swept his gaze over the herbal field, and finally let his eyes stop on a large boulder.
"When was that boulder brought over?" Liu Wuxie asked, looking toward the three elders who oversaw this herbal field.
"About half a year ago. We mainly use it to divert the spring and keep the springwater from flowing away," Ding Yuan explained. The boulder looked ordinary enough and existed for a simple purpose—to block the flow of springwater, gather it into a pond, and use that pond to irrigate the herbal garden.
"Did no one examine it when they brought the boulder here?" Liu Wuxie asked.
Ding Yuan's heart tightened, and a bad feeling rose within him. Could the boulder truly be the root of the problem? It sounded absurd.
The palace lord's figure flickered, and he appeared beside the massive boulder. At first glance, it resembled nothing more than an ordinary rock, ten feet tall and five feet wide. Placed here, it looked like a small hill, blocking the spring and forming a lake at its base.