Luo Yu guessed that the "Youth -Youth-Preserving Flower" was a plant watered by the Dripping Rain Butterfly, so its beauty-enhancing effect must be quite good.
After all, this talent can only give the plants that have been ripened a beautifying effect when the heart of the Dripping Rain Butterfly dies. This prerequisite is too harsh!
Generally, the more difficult a talent is to activate, the stronger it tends to be.
It's worth noting that the Dripping Rain Butterfly isn't particularly intelligent, perhaps only a level above the Ink Fish. Getting this creature to give up on life... is really difficult.
However, for the sake of the "Youth-Preserving Flower," Luo Yu had no choice but to take a gamble.
It's not just about Shui Wuyue, nor is it just about the business opportunities that beauty plants can bring. If this stuff is successfully cultivated and proven to be effective, then it will represent...
Luo Yu has obtained a ticket to a mysterious sea!
As is well known, the patterns of encounters in some of the Seven Mysterious Sea Regions have been summarized by humankind.
For example, in the "Sea of Ghosts," Beast Taming tamers with Soul Talent are several times more likely to encounter it than Beast Taming with other talents!
As long as you don't stay on the island forever, you are 100% guaranteed to encounter the Sea of Ghosts at least once in your lifetime.
Secondly, there's the "Sea of Merfolk." People with high looks and charm are far more likely to encounter this mysterious sea than ordinary-looking Beast Taming.
Some scholars speculate that good-looking people possess a unique life magnetic field that resonates with the Sea of Merfolk.
It can be said that good looks are the ticket to the "Sea of Merfolk".
Therefore, the beauty industry of this era is not a simple industry... but an important industry concerning "human evolution".
No one doubts the wonder of the "Sea of Merfolk," because it is essentially a sea where humans have gained the same power as mutated beasts, while retaining the power to Beast Taming them.
Furthermore, high-level mermaids can freely switch between being human, a mermaid with powerful elemental talents, and a fishman with powerful physical talents. It can be said that there are only benefits and no drawbacks.
The "Deep Sea Kingdom," one of the five major human settlements, is currently ruled by mermaids. Leveraging their racial advantages, they enjoy abundant underwater resources and are the core settlement of mermaids worldwide...
Naturally, in order to turn more of its citizens into mermaids, the "Deep Sea Kingdom" has the most developed medical aesthetics industry among the five major gathering places. Many Beast Taming from the Azure Billows Continent risk huge sea voyages to go to the Deep Sea Kingdom for transformation in order to become more beautiful.
"If they get a batch of beauty products, Mirror Moon Island will probably be known as a mini Deep Sea Kingdom."
"After frequent encounters with Sea of Merfolk, it's not impossible to form several fleets composed entirely of mermaids, which could greatly enhance the fleet's 'underwater combat' capabilities."
"Are there any fruits or vegetables that ripen quickly?" Luo Yu immediately wanted to try.
The farm is now built, though it's not very big, because Luo Yu didn't originally plan to grow too much. When the farm was being established, Lin Li also asked for a piece of land, wanting to grow some fruits and vegetables for everyday cooking.
Luo Yu planned to go to Lin Li's vegetable field to see if there was anything he could steal.
What's the point of QQ Farm if you don't steal crops?
"This should be a cucumber seedling, right?"
Luo Yu stopped in front of a vegetable field and squatted down. Because the Earth's natural energy is now abundant, it only takes about three weeks from planting to picking the first cucumber.
If a large number of Dripping Rain Butterfly are watered with Growth Fluid, this speed can be accelerated. If the Dripping Rain Butterfly are of a high enough level and watered frequently enough, they can even bear fruit in less than a day.
"It'll be cucumbers." Luo Yu planned to ripen a batch of cucumbers quickly and harvest them.
Having chosen the plant, all that's left is to make the "Youth-Preserving Flower" (Dripping Rain Butterfly) give up...
Even if the Bee Empress could command the Zerg, she couldn't easily accomplish something like this.
It can excite, make happy, and joyful other insects through praise, or display its majesty to instill fear in others. However, the state of being heartbroken cannot be achieved through simple interaction.
However, Luo Yu has a way...
The Dripping Rain Butterfly certainly can't be viewed as a human. There are many things that can break a human's heart, but for a simple butterfly, its life actually consists of only two things: eating and reproducing.
One method is to use Growth Fluid to accelerate the growth of small plants, achieving self-sufficiency and allowing you to grow whatever you want to eat.
Secondly, they seek a spouse to pass on their genes.
Or rather, most living things actually spend their entire lives busy with these two things.
Therefore, it is possible to manipulate the two major instincts of the Dripping Rain Butterfly.
Not long after, Luo Yu arrived at the Dripping Rain Butterfly breeding farm, found dozens of newly hatched male Dripping Water Worm, and asked the Bee Empress to use her Empress's Power to enhance their growth rate.
The Dripping Water Worm to Dripping Rain Butterfly is not an evolution. During this process, the species level will not increase, and no new abilities will be added, unlike the Purple Wind Worm. Therefore, it is just normal growth. Even if it stays at level 1, it can grow up on its own as long as it eats enough.
Now, enhanced by the Empress's Power, they quickly passed through the larval and cocoon stages, transforming into Dripping Rain Butterfly that flew in the air. Among them, naturally, was a "Youth-Preserving Flower" Dripping Rain Butterfly.
It had no idea what it was about to face...
"Listen carefully, you are all adults now and eligible to reproduce. Her Majesty the Empress is kind-hearted and has decided to give each of you a beautiful wife," Luo Yu said after taking a Doctor Capsule.
"However, you're not the ones choosing; you're the ones being chosen. Whether you find a partner depends on your own abilities."
After Luo Yu finished speaking, he instructed the Bee Empress to find a group of wild female Dripping Rain Butterfly and enhance their charm. Before long, the Bee Empress completed her task and brought back a group of extremely charming female Dripping Rain Butterfly. The Dripping Rain Butterfly in the research institute, which had just matured, could not resist such temptation and began to dance and display themselves.
"Begin." Luo Yu gestured, Bee Empress gave the group of wild Dripping Rain Butterfly Command: choose a mate you like and go, but don't choose any one of them, she specifically instructed.
Having received Command in secret, the first female Dripping Rain Butterfly flew out and chose a mate... At this moment, the individual "Youth-Preserving Flower" was still filled with anticipation.
The second one has chosen a mate, but it is still waiting.
The third... the fourth... Seeing that half of the Dripping Rain Butterfly had gone in pairs and no female Dripping Rain Butterfly had chosen her yet, this "Youth-Preserving Flower" individual began to panic, her mood changing from anticipation to trepidation.
After a short while, only a quarter of the male Dripping Rain Butterfly remained unselected, and its mood had turned uneasy.
Until finally, only three Dripping Rain Butterfly remained unchosen... and this was one of them.
However, upon discovering that there were still 6 female Dripping Rain Butterfly Dripping Rain Butterfly, while only 3 males remained, it couldn't help but feel happy again. Surely, now it would be chosen...
However, none of the six female Dripping Rain Butterfly even glanced at it, preferring not to choose it rather than become its mate.
Even now, the "Youth-Preserving Flower" Dripping Rain Butterfly was almost heartbroken, unable to understand why.
"It's alright, we can have another batch." Luo Yu asked the Bee Empress to find another batch of female Dripping Rain Butterfly to meet this "Youth-Preserving Flower" Dripping Rain Butterfly.
Faced with one beautiful female butterfly after another, the "Youth-Preserving Flower" Dripping Rain Butterfly yearned for love, mating, and reproduction. However, after seeing it, these female butterflies all shook their heads and flew away, giving it no chance whatsoever. One, two, three... it was rejected by more than a dozen beautiful female butterflies in succession. Finally, the Bee Empress sensed an extreme sadness and despair in this "Youth-Preserving Flower" Dripping Rain Butterfly.
When more beautiful female butterflies flew in, even the "Youth-Preserving Flower" Dripping Rain Butterfly stopped gazing at them and ceased fluttering and displaying itself, seemingly disillusioned with life and becoming indifferent.
"That's good, it's formed."
"Let it water the cucumbers."
Heartbroken, done!
The Empress orchestrated a "secret matchmaking" scheme, causing the "Youth-Preserving Flower" Dripping Rain Butterfly to believe she was unloved by the opposite sex and had no reproductive value. This led to her despair, extreme negativity, and numbness, as she lost all hope for the continuation of her bloodline.
At this moment, under the Empress's arrangement, he was like a walking corpse, mechanically flying to water the cucumbers.
Although you may not be able to have a sweet romance, you can still become an excellent employee.
[Bullying a Dripping Rain Butterfly?] Even though she was in cahoots, the Bee Empress couldn't stand it anymore; this was too cruel and hurtful.
A butterfly, full of anticipation for mating, is rejected by hundreds of potential partners, watching others find their own couples...
"Won't we suffer retribution for this?" "There's no other way; it's all to unleash its potential."
"To master divine skills, one must first castrate oneself!" Luo Yu also felt the heartbreak in that statement. He'd make it up to it later... Sigh, thinking about it carefully, at least this Dripping Rain Butterfly had him to make amends, but many of his colleagues in his past life had similar experiences. Luo Yu had drawn inspiration from them, and instead of receiving the world's favor, they faced the apocalypse...
"I promise I won't let it work for too long. It will definitely retire early. When that happens, I'll help it build a harem and give it 100 Dripping Rain Butterfly wives," Luo Yu, patting his conscience.
The Bee Empress fell into deep thought. She didn't doubt Luo Yu's promise, but she was a little worried... would this Dripping Rain Butterfly still be interested in the opposite sex by then?
In the state of mental death, the Dripping Rain Butterfly's special ability, which is a gift of the "Youth-Preserving Flower," does look somewhat different. It is not like a normal transparent droplet, but rather has a hint of gray!
With the Bee Empress watching from behind, amplifying its ripening power, the first cucumber soon grew with the Empress's help.
"Is this the Beauty Cucumber?"
With its green skin covered in small thorns and a tender yellow flower at the tip, it looked like an ordinary cucumber. After picking one, Luo Yu didn't try it himself, but instead had the Bee Empress summon a Honey Water Bee to feed it!
The next moment
Under Luo Yu's continued observation, he noticed that the Honey Water Bee's fine hairs began to shimmer softly in the light, and in the blink of an eye, the black and gold stripes on its thorax and abdomen seemed to become more regular and clear.
The wings, as thin as Water Wings, shimmered even more, like delicate glass gauze, and even emitted a faint iridescent glow when flying in mid-air.
The whole little bee is like a work of art, as if it had been carefully sculpted.
"How is it?" Luo Yu sensed that this Honey Water Bee had changed, but only someone of its own species could truly judge it. The Bee Empress nodded.
From its perspective, this Honey Water Bee that ate the Beauty Cucumber has become one in a million among Honey Water Bee, extremely beautiful. Even its physique has become much more beautiful.
"So, it worked!" Luo Yu was in a good mood.
Over the next two days, in order to harvest more Beauty Cucumber, Luo Yu began to have several other individuals with the beauty-preserving talent who had never experienced reproduction also undergo heart death, so that the heart death squad could grow cucumbers together.
Until... the Seven Stars Chamber of Commerce's merchant ships arrived at Mirror Moon Island once again.
"Haha, Scholar Luo Yu, it's been a long time." Deacon Qian Lai was delighted to see Luo Yu.
"Steward Qian, why did you come in person?" Luo Yu had thought that they would just send a merchant ship to deliver goods to him.
"I was just about to head to headquarters," Qian Cai said with a smile. "The Seven Stars Chamber of Commerce headquarters inquired about our Future Town branch's rock-type resource exchange after hearing about it."
"Later, the higher-ups wanted to see the effects of the honey and goat milk from Mirror Moon Island, so they asked me to send some samples. Maybe if they see good results, they'll want to let the other branches switch products as well."
Luo Yu smiled and said, "That would be a bit difficult for Mirror Moon Island. With Mirror Moon Island's production capacity, we can only trade with the Future Town branch at most. With so many Seven Star branches, we can't supply them with goods."
"Don't say that," Qian Lai said. "As long as the results are truly good, and the higher-ups see the value, maybe we can attract investment?"
"The Seven Stars Chamber of Commerce can fund Mirror Moon Island to expand its production scale... or... buy out the technology at a fixed price, thus saving Mirror Moon Island the trouble of figuring it out itself." Or... use Mirror Moon Island's products to put pressure on Thousand Rock Island, forcing them to lower the price they pay for their resources. Of course, Qian Lai didn't mention this.
"We'll see," Luo Yu said, not wanting to discuss the rock-elemental nutritional supplement business with the other party, because Luo Yu looked down on that market...
Mirror Moon Island isn't very big to begin with, so where would we find so much land to produce rock resources?
Before a way to build the island is found in July, the land on Mirror Moon Island is being used piece by piece, and there's no way to use it all for this kind of niche and unpopular business.