A thousand years had passed since Jiang Shennong became the leader of the tribal alliance and ruled the world in the name of the Flame Emperor.
Over those thousand years, the Shennong Clan beside Jiang Water had grown ever stronger.
A thousand years after Shennong invented wheat, it had become a mature edible crop, greatly easing the tribespeople's food shortages.
Not only that, Jiang Shennong had also invented more medicinal herbs, as well as other edible grains.
These edible plants were called the five grains.
They were rice, broomcorn millet, foxtail millet, wheat, and beans.
With all five grains now present, the Shennong Tribe also grew and flourished considerably.
By now, nearly ten thousand people had gathered there.
Likewise, the populations of the countless tribes throughout the Great River Basin grew rapidly because of the emergence of the five grains.
Shennong had governed the world for a thousand years without any change in his appearance, and songs had long hailed him as a living god.
Not to mention that he truly was the son of a god-the son of the strongest member of the Divine Clan, at that.
The one thing the people of the Shennong Clan found fault with was that Shennong had no son!
This was a very serious problem.
For, going back to the Jiang Tribe, the predecessor of the Shennong Tribe, Jiang had passed the position of tribal chief to his son Shennong. Thus, in the future, Jiang Shennong would also have to pass the position of chief to his own son.
But Shennong had no offspring, so this step could not be carried out.
Nor did the tribespeople of the Shennong Clan wish to imitate the Fuxi Clan, which had long since declined and vanished, by passing the position to someone other than a son.