Chapter 310: Frog Factory Opens, Orcs Go Into Business
Over the next three days, Yuan Zhu entered a rare slow-paced life.
This was mainly because the Mountain Lord’s Domain deep in the Misty Mountains was still in the grind period. The 36 Heavenly Dipper Formation he had set up was grinding and fine-tuning daily with the overlapping Yin Mountain’s promotion depth.
The Deed was also progressing at a rate of ‘how many decimal places per day?’ in a meteoric rise.
This grind not only involved the expansion of the Domain, but the more core part was the condensation of the Divine Position behind the land. Once fully stabilized, Yuan Zhu would form a deep bond with Du Ling Star.
He could even forcibly open native supernatural paths such as Blessed Earth Immortal or Industrial God Kingdom through this connection.
He was full of patience about this and not eager to set up the subsequent 72 Earthly Fiend Formation. He only regretted that this wave of grinding and fine-tuning couldn’t last longer—slow work yields fine results, after all.
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The Haunted House had been cleared out, with Little Brother (A Tiao) guarding it; the new home (Domain) was still in property certification… So he poured all his energy into the Frog Factory.
He spent the whole day by Nie Yin’s side, listening to the autistic girl’s “Frog Farming Wealth Scripture” while transforming into a ‘Holy Light Hireling’ to assist her with frog seedling nurturing work.
Speaking of which, this frog farming work specifically supporting the Frog School didn’t have particularly high technical content. Without supernatural powers, as long as one was serious and careful enough, and had professional training, ordinary people could actually do it.
The trouble was in the cumbersome process. And the frog seedlings were extremely picky about food, water quality, and living environment. Each one was delicately raised, dying suddenly at the slightest disagreement—true Sudden Death Kings!
Take feeding frog seedlings’ feed as an example:
First, purchase special feed rich in various nutrients as the base food. On that basis, before each feeding, additionally add Holy Water to stir the feed for food sterilization and disinfection. No impurities or pollution can mix into their food.
This single step raised the already inflated feed cost by another level.
After all, even if Holy Water was cheap, it was still a supernatural supply. Each feeding consumed some, the more Sudden Death Kings raised, the higher the total Holy Water consumption, which over time became a huge expense. And it couldn’t be skimped on, or they’d Sudden Death right in front of you.
If conditions allowed, when stirring with Holy Water, finally mix in some Holy Ash to add Holy Light mummy protein powder at the end, which helped improve feed quality and boost the frog seedlings’ immunity.
Frog-Type centered on ‘muscle reinforcement (fitness)’, and fitness naturally required protein powder. Was there a holier supplement than the ‘Divine Protein Powder’ from burning Holy Light?
On this basis, breeders also needed to drip different concentrations of Body Tempering Fluid into the food according to the frogs’ growth and development, purposefully guiding the frogs to accelerate transformation in specified directions.
The higher the development level, the more Body Tempering Fluid dripped, the better the frogs grew, and the better their physique!
According to Nie Yin, for now, just adding these two steps to the food preparation process was enough.
The technical content wasn’t high, but it was tedious and troublesome. This operation was mandatory before every feeding; otherwise, if the ‘feed’ polluted the frog pool, the whole batch of frogs would die suddenly, and all investment would go down the drain.
For ordinary frog farming workshops, without a money-saving combo like ‘Yuan Zhu + Nie Yin’, the expense of just ‘Holy Water + Body Tempering Fluid’ could eat up most of the profit.
Not to mention the purification and disinfection of the pools where the frogs lived and inside the Frog Factory—same trouble, requiring at least two on-site purifications by Holy Cultivators per month on average.
It also required constantly adjusting the frog pool water’s pH based on frog seedlings’ development progress, adding various agents and evolution guides… In the end, just supplying the Academy with ‘experimental frogs’ was barely earning hard labor money.
Unless expanding the Frog Factory scale and going for volume. That’s what Yuan Zhu did—his Frog Factory was the largest and most formal among the many frog farming workshops in Running Local. He even built supporting Spirit Medicine Greenhouse and Underground Laboratory, showing momentum toward ‘upgrading to the pharmaceutical industry’.
However, for ordinary workshops, once choosing volume, it consumed more energy and inevitably required hiring more workers, while ensuring no mistakes in any link.
Ordinary people without relevant experience or professionalism naturally couldn’t handle it. They could only hire technical personnel recommended by the Frog School, skyrocketing wage costs and reducing profits again.
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After personally working two days at the Frog Factory, Yuan Zhu couldn’t help sighing: “Pure frog farming doesn’t have much profit; only a golden money-saving combo like us can make a little.”
He felt it necessary for Nie Yin to upload a series of complete ‘frog farming experiences’ via Anti-Law, forming Experience Package + intelligent program, downloading to Brain Eggplant CPU. Then arrange a batch of non-eating, non-drinking Eggplant Goblins to 007 in every farming facility of the Frog Factory, working madly overtime!
With Nie Yin’s ‘work experience’, Immortal Scripture’s backend intelligent command issuance, his own cheap Holy Water + corpse protein powder supply, Nie Yin’s original soup turned original food extraction of Body Tempering Fluid… And no need to pay wages to Intelligent Eggplant Goblins.
Wow! This way, the larger the scale, the greater the profit! This Frog Factory has potential! It’s just a pity the construction team hasn’t left yet, so he didn’t dare expose the Eggplant Goblins rashly.
Only after the construction team fully leaves and the Frog Factory is left with his own people could he openly start Intelligent Eggplant Goblin 007 sweatshop mode.
Abbreviated as Intelligent Factory 1.0!
Nie Yin, unaware of Yuan Zhu’s mad plan, nodded in approval: “Profits are indeed low. So we can keep half the finished frogs for ourselves to make Basic Body Tempering Fluid. Whether selling to the Academy or to the underground fighting circle or Black Market, it’s a good deal.”
Without considering Intelligent Factory exploiting goblins to greatly save costs, just selling Body Tempering Fluid would only boost revenue a small level. Still no heaven-defying huge profits.
Yuan Zhu suddenly said: “Something’s off! Little Yin, I have a strange feeling that your Academy seems to have some issues with acquiring ‘experimental grade frogs’? I heard from Senior Student Chen that the Frog School accepts all market-standard ‘experimental frogs’, buying as many as available at standard prices without haggling. That means the demand is huge?”
“But around Running Local, there are quite a few frog farming workshops like mine, though mostly average scale. Mostly suppliers cooperating with Rain Courtyard. The Academy doesn’t limit these ‘frog workshops’ output, no supply quotas, even low sales are fine, as if not extremely eager?”
Candle commented: “It feels really contradictory!”
Nie Yin nodded: “There is that situation; it’s not hard to understand. First, Power Path ability users (Frog-Type) have extremely stable supernatural states, high cost-performance, and are compatible with most Supernatural Systems. Thus the user market is huge; Rain Courtyard is the largest Body Tempering Fluid supplier in the West Coast Taixi city circle radiation range. Plus, many medical institutions settled in Running are also producing different styles of Body Tempering Fluid.”
“Therefore, whether Rain Courtyard or other institutions, they’ve all built ultra-large-scale frog farming farms in the Spirit Layer. Specializing in raising different tuned frog types, extracting Body Tempering Fluid for external sale. This scale is completely beyond what our Frog Factory can scam.”
Yuan Zhu then somewhat understood why Rain Courtyard didn’t care about the output of various large and small workshops in Running Local.
If the Academy’s farms in the Spirit Layer produced billions of frogs daily, naturally they wouldn’t care about small factories like Yuan Zhu’s with monthly output of thousands or tens of thousands.
Then a new question arose: “If so, why does the Academy still acquire experimental frogs from small frog factories like mine? Can’t they just transfer from the Spirit Layer? We small workshops and factories have no way to survive.”
Nie Yin shook her head: “Not so! Due to Du Ling Star’s ‘low pollution’ special environment, factories like ours have high value. You should know the ‘three generations decline, five generations sever’ rule. Any soul or bloodline invading ‘pollution’, as long as Du Ling stably and low-key breeds three generations (marrying ordinary people to have children), can largely remove pollution traces from the bloodline; five generations drops below safety line, fully whitewashed.”
“What the Academy needs is absolutely healthy ‘flawless frogs’ bred in this special Du Ling environment. Only such sufficiently pure frogs untainted by any pollution can participate in Frog School or other institutions’ experimental research to produce unique new varieties. Conversely, those mass-raised in the Spirit Layer have fixed bloodline templates, won’t degenerate or optimize, just rigid mature products.”
Yuan Zhu realized: “You mean the Spirit Layer environment can’t produce Du Ling Star’s infinite-potential ‘blank slate frogs’? Then what about sending Du Ling-bred ‘potential frogs’ to the Spirit Layer for mass breeding?”
Nie Yin shook her head: “Doesn’t work. Du Ling has some strange traits; textbooks uniformly name all creatures multi-generation bred on Du Ling Star as Pale Species. Don’t ask me what Pale Species is; the textbook doesn’t explain. I only know Pale Species entering the Spirit Layer quickly lose that trait, offspring no longer have it, and lose Pale Species identity.”
“Conversely, your purchased ‘half-blood orcs’ and descendants like me with thin Elf Bloodline. Clearly ancestors were Crystal Wall Universe aliens or otherworlders, but after generations of reproduction, judged from soul origin, they’re standard Pale Species just like you. Just culturally bearing racial discrimination, but essentially no difference.”
“Instead, natives who’ve continuously bred on Du Ling Star since ancient times, after cultivating different Supernatural Systems in modern times, ascending to Spirit Layer or second ascension to immortal or god. Their descendants, no matter strength, status high or low, power overwhelming, from then on lose Pale Species identity. Unless migrating back to Du Ling Star and breeding another three to five generations to re-whitewash.”
Candle finally got the inside story and summarized: “So Rain Courtyard doesn’t lack frogs or Body Tempering Fluid, just lacks Pale Species experimental frogs bred on Du Ling Star. The Academy buys them unlimited not just for pharma, but for professional experiments?”
Nie Yin nodded: “Exactly. Our Frog Factory’s frogs can not only sell to Rain Courtyard but also to other institutions. Actually not just frogs; the ‘goblins’ you privately acquire are the same. Sewer environment harsh and filthy with massive ‘pollution’, but they’re still heavily acquired by institutions because of their Pale Species identity.”
Yuan Zhu: “With you saying that, everything livestock on Du Ling Star feels high-end!”
Nie Yin nodded: “For pollution life unable to enter the present world, everything on Du Ling is very precious. But for present world natives, Pale Species is meaningless, worthless.”
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Over these three days, Yuan Zhu stayed by Nie Yin’s side, fully participating in feed making, frog pool maintenance, shit scooping, etc., familiarizing with the entire process.
While doing his main job, holding various wild bullfrogs and big mice captured from nearby wetlands and grass, igniting their life with Holy Light, spewing ‘just and blazing’ Holy Light from seven orifices, performing Holy Light Purification on the newly built 3, 4, 5 Frog Raising Farms.
Fresh Divine Protein Powder and Holy Water byproducts, sent hot to Factory 1 and 2, as extra meals for the frog seedlings.
Under his and Frog Killer Girl’s careful care, this first batch of frog seedlings rapidly metamorphosed and developed, growing four legs dragging a big tail, already able to cling and crawl on frog pool walls, hopping around.
Besides pouring energy into the frog farming undertaking, quickly learning various professional skills.
He also took time to introduce Yuan Tang to Senior Student Chen.
Thus the outwardly elementary school-looking (6 years old) Yuan Tang.
Every morning followed Nie Yin and Yuan Zhu, learning how to tend frogs, stir feed, observe and adjust water quality…
After lunch, went to the other end of the construction site, following Senior Student to learn supervising sites, reviewing ledgers, inspecting Underground Laboratory progress.
Then, followed Senior Student to the greenhouse, assisting while learning Plant School’s Spirit Medicine planting. And showing talent from Cicada City: Corpse Seed, together with Senior Student creating environment suitable for insect pollution seed development and growth.
So far, they hadn’t nurtured any plant.
At night, Yuan Zhu drove the van, carrying Yuan Tang siblings, Nie Yin, and 5 half-blood orcs, frequently entering and exiting Running Local’s amateur black fist arenas.
