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Chapter 310 The Frog Factory Begins Construction, the Orcs Resume Business
For the next three days, Yuan Zhu entered a rare period of slow-paced life.

The main issue is that the Mountain Lord's Domain deep within the Misty Mountains is still in its adjustment period. The 36 Heavenly Gang Formation he set up is undergoing daily refinement and adjustments to deepen its integration with the overlapping Yin Mountain.

The land title deed is also progressing at a rate that's 'unknown decimal places per day?'

This process of adjustment involves not only the expansion of the [Law Domain], but more importantly, the condensation of the [Divine Position] behind the land. Once things are completely stable, Yuan Zhu will forge a deeper alliance with [Du Ling Star].

This connection could even be used to forcibly open native extraordinary paths such as [the Immortal Land of Blessed Virtue] or [the Divine Kingdom of Industry].

He was very patient with this and not in a hurry to set up the [72 Earthly Fiends Formation]. He only regretted that this round of fine-tuning and adjustments could not last longer, as the saying goes, slow and steady wins the race.

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The haunted house was emptied, but his little brother (A-Tiao) was guarding it; the new house ([Law Domain]) was still in the process of property certification... So he devoted all his energy to [Frog Factory].

He spends all his time by Nie Yin's side, listening to the autistic sister's "Frog Raising for Wealth" while also acting as a "Holy Light Employee" to assist her in raising "frog seedlings".

To be honest, this kind of frog-raising work specifically designed for the "Frog School" isn't particularly technically demanding. Even without superhuman abilities, ordinary people who are diligent, meticulous, and receive professional training can accomplish it.

The trouble lies in the cumbersome process. And the 'frog larvae' are extremely picky about their food, water quality, and living environment. They're all pampered and prone to sudden death at the slightest provocation—the "Kings of Sudden Death"!
Take the feed for frog fry as an example:
First, you need to select specialized feed rich in various nutrients as their basic diet. Then, before each feeding, you must add "holy water" to the feed and mix it to sterilize and disinfect the food. You must not allow even the slightest impurity or contaminant to get into their food.

This single step raises the already inflated cost of feed to another level.

After all, even if Holy Water is cheap, it's still a supernatural resource. Each feeding consumes some, and the more "Kings" you raise that die instantly, the higher the total amount of Holy Water consumed. Over time, this becomes a huge expense. And you can't even save on it, or you'll just die instantly.

If conditions permit, when mixing in [Holy Water], it is advisable to also add some [Holy Ash] and Holy Light Desiccated Corpse Protein Powder at the end to improve feed quality and enhance the immunity of baby frogs.

The Frog series focuses on 'muscle strengthening (fitness),' so protein powder is naturally essential for fitness. And what supplement could be more sacred than the 'Holy Protein Powder' that burns through the 'Holy Light'?
Based on this, breeders also need to add different concentrations of "tempering fluid" to the food according to the growth and development of the 'frogs', in order to guide the frogs to accelerate their metamorphosis in a designated direction.

The higher the development level, the more [tempering fluid] is added, the better the frog grows and the better its figure!
According to Nie Yin, these two steps are simply added to the food preparation process.

It's not technically demanding, but it's incredibly tedious and troublesome. This process must be repeated before each feeding; otherwise, if the feed contaminates the frog pond, the entire batch of frogs will die, and all the investment will be wasted.

In a typical frog-raising workshop, without a cost-effective partnership like 'Yuan Zhu + Nie Yin', the cost of 'Holy Water + Body Tempering Fluid' alone would cover most of the profits.

Moreover, the same troublesome process of purifying and disinfecting the ponds where the frogs live and the inside of the frog farm requires hiring 'holy monks' to come and purify the environment on average at least twice a month.

It is also necessary to continuously adjust the pH of the 'frog pond' water quality according to the development progress of the frog seedlings, and add various drugs and evolution guides... When you think about it, simply supplying 'experimental frogs' to the college is just a hard-earned money.

Unless they expand their frog farm and focus on volume. That's exactly what Yuan Zhu did; his frog farm is arguably the largest and most professional of all the frog-raising workshops in Runing. He even built supporting facilities like a medicinal herb greenhouse and an underground laboratory, seemingly aiming for a transformation and upgrade in the pharmaceutical industry.

However, for ordinary workshops, once they choose to focus on volume, they will have to expend more energy, hire more workers, and ensure that every step is flawless.

Ordinary people without relevant experience and professional skills are naturally unable to handle the job. They can only hire technicians recommended by the [Frog School], which immediately increases wages and further reduces profits.

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After working at the frog farm for two days, Yuan Zhu couldn't help but sigh, "The profit from simply raising frogs isn't much. It's only when we're a 'golden money-saving duo' that we can make a little money."

He felt it necessary to have Nie Yin upload a complete set of 'frog-raising experience' through [Anti-Law], forming an [Experience Package + Intelligent Program], and download it into the [Brain Eggplant CPU]. Then, he would arrange for a group of [Eggplant Spirits] who don't eat or drink to work overtime like crazy in every breeding farm of the frog farm!

With Nie Yin's 'work experience', the intelligent command release from the background of the [Immortal Scripture], the ability to provide cheap holy water and corpse protein powder, and the ability to extract [body tempering fluid] from Nie Yin's original soup and original food... and there's no need to pay the [intelligent eggplant essence] a salary.

Wow! The bigger the scale, the bigger the profit! This [Frog Factory] is promising! It's just a pity that the construction team hasn't left yet, so he doesn't dare to expose [Eggplant Essence] rashly.

Only after the construction team has completely left the site, leaving only his own people at the [Frog Factory], can he openly and legitimately activate the [Intelligent Eggplant Essence 007 Sweatshop Black Factory] mode.

This is commonly referred to as "Smart Factory 1.0"!
Nie Yin, unaware of Yuan Zhu's insane plan, nodded in agreement: "The profit margin is indeed very low. So we can keep half of the finished frogs for ourselves to make our own [Basic Tempering Fluid]. Whether we sell them to the academy or to the underground fighting circle or the black market, it's a good business."

Without considering the significant cost savings achieved by the [Smart Factory] through exploiting goblins, the profits from simply selling [Tempering Fluid] only increase slightly. It still doesn't generate the kind of phenomenal profits one would expect.

Yuan Zhu suddenly said, "Something's not right! Xiao Yin, I have a strange feeling. It seems that your [Academy] has some problems with the acquisition of 'experimental-grade frogs'? I learned from my senior that the [Frog School] accepts any 'experimental frogs' that meet the standards on the market, buying as many as there are, and always at the standard price, never haggling. Does this mean there's a huge shortage?"

“But around Running, there are quite a few frog-raising workshops like mine, but they are all of average size. Most of them are suppliers that cooperate with [Rain Academy]. The academy doesn’t restrict the output of these ‘frog workshops’, there are no supply quotas, and it doesn’t even matter if they sell less. It doesn’t seem like they are very eager to raise them?” Zhu Zi commented, “It feels very contradictory!”

Nie Yin nodded: "That's true, and it's not hard to understand. First, the ability users of the [Power Path] (frog type) have very stable extraordinary states, making them extremely cost-effective, and they are compatible with most [Extraordinary Systems]. Therefore, the user market is huge, and [Rain Academy] is the largest supplier of [Body Tempering Fluid] within the radiation range of the West Coast Taixi City Circle. In addition, many 'medical institutions' that have settled in Running are also manufacturing different types of [Body Tempering Fluid]."

"Therefore, whether it's the Rain Academy or other organizations, they have all built super-large-scale frog breeding farms in the Spirit Realm. They specialize in raising different types of 'modified frogs' to produce 'body tempering fluid' for sale. This scale is something our Frog Factory can't possibly compete with."

Yuan Zhu then understood why the Rain Courtyard didn't care about the output of the various workshops, large and small, in Running.

If the academy's farm in the [Spirit Realm] produces hundreds of millions of frogs daily, then naturally they wouldn't care about a small factory like Yuan Zhu's, which only produces a few thousand or tens of thousands per month.

Then a new question arises: "If that's the case, why does the academy still need to purchase experimental frogs from a small frog farm like mine? Why not just transfer them directly from the Spirit Realm? Small workshops and factories like ours have no way to survive."

Nie Yin shook his head: "That's not the case! Due to the special 'low-pollution' environment of Duling Star, our kind of [Frog Farm] is very valuable. You should know the rule of 'decline after three generations, and extinction after five generations.' No matter what kind of 'pollution' invades the soul and bloodline, as long as you live a stable and low-key life on Duling for three generations (marrying and having children with ordinary people), you can greatly remove the traces of pollution in your bloodline; after five generations, it will drop below the safety line and be completely cleansed."

"What the academy needs are absolutely healthy 'flawless frogs' bred in the special environment of [Spirit Realm]. Only frogs that are pure enough and uncontaminated can participate in the experimental research of the [Frog School] or other [institutions] and give birth to unique new varieties. On the contrary, those frogs that are raised on a large scale in the [Spirit Realm] have already fixed bloodline templates and will not degenerate or be optimized; they are just rigid, mature products."

Yuan Zhu suddenly realized: "You mean, the environment of the [Spirit Realm] can't nurture the 'blank frogs' with unlimited potential produced by [Du Ling Star]? Then what if we send the 'potential frogs' nurtured by Du Ling to the [Spirit Realm] for large-scale breeding?"

Nie Yin shook his head: "It won't work. The [Du Ling] possesses some strange traits. Textbooks uniformly name all creatures that have reproduced for multiple generations on Du Ling Star as the [Pale Race]. Don't ask me what the [Pale Race] is; the textbook doesn't explain it. I only know that once the [Pale Race] enters the [Spirit Realm], that trait will be quickly lost, and its offspring will no longer possess it, while also losing their [Pale Race] identity."

"On the contrary, the 'hybrid orcs' you buy, and my descendants who have a thin 'elven bloodline' in their blood, are clearly aliens or otherworldly beings from the [Crystal Wall Universe]. But after several generations of reproduction, judging from the origin of their souls, they are also standard [Pale Race] no different from you. It's just that they have to endure racial discrimination in culture, but in essence, there is no difference."

"However, those native inhabitants who have been multiplying on [Duling Star] since ancient times, because they cultivated different 'transcendent systems' in modern times and ascended to the [Spirit Realm Layer] or 'ascended twice' to become immortals or gods, their descendants, regardless of strength, status, or power, have lost their identity as the [Pale Race]. Unless they migrate back to [Duling Star] and multiply for three to five generations, they can regain their identity."

Zhu Zi finally understood the intricacies and summarized, "So, the Rain Academy doesn't lack frogs or tempering fluids; what it lacks are the pale experimental frogs bred on Duling Star. The academy's unlimited purchase of them isn't simply for pharmaceuticals, but also for professional experiments?"

Nie Yin nodded: "That's right. Our frogs from the Frog Factory can be sold not only to the Rain Academy, but also to other organizations. In fact, it's not just frogs; the 'goblins' you privately acquire are the same. Although the sewer environment is harsh and filthy, with a lot of 'pollution,' they are still bought up in large quantities by various organizations simply because of their 'Pale Race' status."

Yuan Zhu: "Now that you say it, all the animals on Duling Star seem much more sophisticated and high-class!"

Nie Yin nodded: "For polluted life forms that cannot enter the mortal world, everything about the Duling is extremely precious. However, for the native inhabitants of the mortal world, the [Pale Race] is meaningless and worthless."

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For the past three days, Yuan Zhu stayed by Nie Yin's side, participating in the entire process of feed preparation, frog pond maintenance, and cleaning up after them, until he became familiar with the whole process.

Some, engaged in their profession, wield various wild bullfrogs and rats captured from nearby wetlands and grasslands, igniting their lives with holy light and spewing out righteous and blazing holy light from their seven orifices to purify the newly built frog farms No. 3, 4, and 5.

Fresh [Holy Protein Powder] and the byproducts of [Holy Water] were delivered to Frog Farms No. 1 and No. 2 while still hot to supplement the 'frog seedlings'.

Under his and Frog Killer Girl's careful care, the first batch of frog fry rapidly underwent metamorphosis, growing four legs and dragging a large tail. They were already able to climb, hop, and jump on the walls of the frog pond.

In addition to devoting my energy to the "frog-raising business," I also quickly learned various professional skills.

He also took the time to introduce Yuan Tang to Senior Chen.

So, on the surface, Yuan Tang, who had just started elementary school (6 years old), looked like a child.

Every morning, I followed Nie Yin and Yuan Zhu, learning how to care for the frogs, stir their feed, and observe and adjust the water quality...

After lunch, I went to the other end of the construction site and followed behind my senior to learn how to supervise the construction site, review the accounts, and inspect the progress of the underground laboratory.

Next, they will follow their senior to the greenhouse, where they will assist and learn about the cultivation of medicinal herbs from the [Botany School]. They will also showcase their talent with the [Cicada City]'s "Corpse Seed" and work with their senior to create an environment suitable for the development and growth of the 'Insect-Type Pollution Seed'.

To date, the two have not been able to cultivate a single plant.

At night, Yuan Zhu would drive his van, carrying Yuan Tang and his siblings, Nie Yin, and five mixed-blood beastmen, frequently to and from amateur underground boxing rings in Running.

(End of this chapter)