Chapter 1576: 402: Breeding Ranch, Spirit Breath Crisis_2

But Spirit Food was different. This was a daily rigid demand for the player.

No matter how versions changed, no matter how the Star Vein System evolved, players would never be able to part from Spirit Meals.

Enjoying a Spirit Meal was also one of the most anticipated parts of every player’s daily activities.

But the prices of Spirit Meals in the Trading House were generally high.

The main reason was the shortage in ingredient supply, and the fact that ingredients were sold at prices beyond their intrinsic value.

Many players on the forum had once said they wanted to build a Breeding Farm to drive down the price of Spirit Beast Meat in the Trading House.

But these kinds of statements were basically just talk.

Site selection, pen construction, breeding, daily management... ordinary players, even small teams, simply did not have enough energy to complete this.

There was also the huge risk of being wiped out at any time by descending forces.

Large investments in the early stage would ultimately end in failure.

But Little Mage saw a business opportunity here.

He realized that the "Life Weaving" biotechnology mastered by the Spirit Breath Clan had a significant advantage in this area.

The selective breeding, large-scale farming, and continuous optimization that players lacked the patience to carry out happened to be what the Spirit Breath Clan was best at.

Before entering Monster World, the Spirit Breath Clan had already mastered powerful Life modification technologies.

They also had special logistics units dedicated to breeding Super Beasts.

Thus, this Spirit Beast breeding factory rose from the ground.

In choosing breeding species, he referred to the price differences of various ingredients in the Trading House.

In the early stage, he actually faced a problem.

Many ingredients in demand in the Trading House simply had no corresponding Spiritual Beasts to be found on the Illusion Flower Plain.

Even with advanced breeding technology, a clever housewife could not cook without rice; he could not access those highly profitable ingredient markets.

He had considered searching near Spirit Breath City for other Spiritual Beasts that could be farmed, but this model carried a certain risk: the ingredients produced from the Spiritual Beasts he captured might not be wanted by Spirit Chef Players.

He preferred those "mature-demand" ingredients in the Trading Market.

Such ingredients had already been developed by Spirit Chef Players into various Spirit Meals, with massive daily consumption; once listed at a suitable price, they would be snapped up instantly.

But to obtain such Spiritual Beasts, he would have to go back to the village.

Yet this was clearly unrealistic.

Once he went back, he might never be able to return.

Camping at the village entrance for a massacre was by no means a forum joke; many players wanted to do exactly that.

The group of players he had "screwed over" in those years now had many who were already management or even leaders of Big Guilds.

They all still remembered this debt.

So as for how to acquire Spiritual Beasts, he could not find a solution.

Just as he was about to decide to cultivate new varieties that did not exist in the Trading House and attempt to carve out a new ingredient route, a turning point quietly arrived.

The Trading House system underwent a major update, launching a "Pet Trading" category.

It enabled convenient cross-Space trading of living organisms.

And among the dazzling list of Pets in the Trading House were mixed a large number of species that could themselves produce high-quality ingredients.

Players were only paying for combat power, but what he saw was a Treasure Vault of top-tier ingredients waiting to be developed.

No longer needing to pay a huge price to develop them, now he only had to spend sacrificial power to directly take into his hands those "delicious potential stocks" scattered among countless players.

After this update, the possibility of establishing a high-yield ingredient supply chain became within arm’s reach.

Next, he started large-scale procurement.

Even if he had to buy at a premium, he did not hesitate.

These live samples, after being purchased, were sent to the Super Beast Research Center in Spirit Breath City.

There, the top breeding masters of the Spirit Breath Clan used Life Weaving technology to perform genetic Decomposition, adaptive modification, and edibility-oriented optimization on these Pets.

The sole purpose of the research was to convert them into edible varieties that could be standardized and produced on a large scale.

The current vast Spirit Beast Breeding Farm was built precisely on the basis of this strategic objective.

Inside, independent environments suitable for the growth of different Spiritual Beasts had been created, separated by Energy Barriers.

And the first batch of mature Spiritual Beast varieties were the Howling Wind Beasts.

Just as Little Mage’s gaze swept across that pen shrouded in swirling Wind Element, a Spirit Breath Clan breeding supervisor in dark red attire, looking sharp and capable, strode quickly up to him.

Five steps away, he dropped to one knee, head lowered deeply, and reported respectfully:

"Blood King, the first batch of five hundred heads in Howling Wind Beast Pen No. 1 have fully matured. The saturation rate of Qi-Blood in their bodies has reached the optimal standard you specified and can be slaughtered at any time."

In response, Little Mage’s expression remained calm as he slightly nodded:

"Begin."

The order was given.

A squad of Spirit Breath Clan slaughter warriors, who had long been on standby, slid open the Energy Barrier and stepped into the pen.

Facing the restless Howling Wind Beasts, the warriors’ movements were ghost-fast and perfectly coordinated.

Operating in pairs, they wielded specially made Energy-absorbing Bone Spears, piercing with pinpoint precision into the specific Qi-Blood circulation nodes behind the Howling Wind Beasts’ necks, instantly cutting off their neural transmission and Elemental convergence ability, plunging them into painless paralysis.

Immediately after, another two warriors stepped forward.

They held Biological Energy Blades that emitted a soft white glow.

With blades rising and falling, they cut along the natural Energy patterns of the Howling Wind Beasts, avoiding blood vessels and glands that would contaminate the meat.

The tough hide and fur were silently peeled open, revealing the interior meat, faintly tinged with green and infused with a surging Wind Element—top-quality flesh.

Aside from ingredients, the Howling Wind Beasts also carried materials that could be used to make Spiritual Medicine.

The warriors responsible for collection stepped up, aligning a conduit with the crystalline horn on the Howling Wind Beasts’ foreheads to guide and extract the most refined Wind Essence Liquid within.