The first spiritual material Li Ye needed to increase production of for external sale was honey.
Whether sold internally to the Alchemy Hall or externally to the Merfolk Clan, that honey was in short supply.
Moreover, at the trade fair on Cloud Island this time, quite a few foreign races had expressed interest in buying it.
But the number of Dew-Bearing Magnolias was limited.
And the Dew-Bearing Magnolias sent over later were all ordinary ones, with no need for bound symbiosis.
So Li Ye had to think of other methods.
"I currently have a total of one hundred and thirty Dew-Bearing Magnolias. The amount of honey produced each day is getting smaller and smaller—only one hundred and thirty jin—but the quality is far better than before."
Li Ye looked over the spirit grove, where the Crystalline Spirit Bees had nearly connected everything with beeswax, making it shimmer brilliantly beneath the sunlight, and began to ponder.
In his view:
The first method was naturally to use cuttings to increase the number of Dew-Bearing Magnolias. With Jianmu's Water of Life, Xuan Tortoise Shell Powder, and Earth Vein Spirit Emulsion, it should be enough to make saplings grow to maturity in an instant.
The second method was to help the Crystalline Spirit Bees advance, while also consolidating the bee colonies so they would no longer remain in their current state of fighting separately. Production should rise further as well.
But both methods had their drawbacks.
The drawback of the first was that simply increasing the number of Dew-Bearing Magnolias would inevitably cause the bee population to surge as well.
Bees reproduced extremely quickly. No matter how tightly he controlled them, it would be difficult to keep them completely in check.
The drawback of the second was that it might affect the binding.
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