How could it possibly be as advanced as a Panacea Potion? Zhang Tie nearly laughed.
"It isn't as advanced as a Panacea Potion. It doesn't even need to be as refined as rice brew!" Zhang Tie shook his head. "All it takes is a little vegetable leaves, roots and stems, kitchen scraps, fruit peels, fruit pits, and other odds and ends that people cannot eat and would otherwise throw away as garbage. Ferment them together with yeast and water, and you can obtain it. Ordinary people and ordinary households need only prepare a bucket in their kitchens to produce it endlessly. Someone made this sort of thing long ago. Most people like to call it environmental enzyme, but I prefer to call it Earth Nectar. Just a tiny amount mixed into water and used to irrigate the fields can slowly restore the microorganisms and bacterial colonies damaged in the soil, even bringing them beyond their former levels. This is another way of giving back to the earth, aside from fertilization..."
Something he had occasionally done in his youth had unexpectedly revealed enormous value to Zhang Tie at a time when Great Xia was facing a food crisis. Even Zhang Tie did not know whether it was fate—just a little enzyme mixed into water and poured into soil whose microorganisms and bacterial colonies had been damaged by demonized crops could restore those microorganisms and bacterial colonies to normal levels. Moreover, the enzymes used to irrigate fields required even less demanding fermentation conditions; everyone could make them.
As the saying went, the earth bestowed fertile richness upon me, and I returned to the earth nectar—vegetable leaves, roots and stems, kitchen scraps, fruit peels, and such all came from the earth's nourishment. Once these things were turned into enzymes containing vast amounts of