Chapter 033

Chapter 033

Bai Xiaoyu was woken up by the noise, with little ones clinging to him. With the help of the robot and Yu Xi, he managed to return the cubs to their energy compartments in the nursery. The newly hatched cubs could still stay inside, where they would be cleaned and fed, thanks to the intelligent system.

After being fed, the little ones played for a while before falling asleep again. In fact, these little guys had barely slept last night, as they had been fighting each other all night long.

Now that they were separated, they behaved much better.

After settling the little ones, Dahei also entered the energy compartment to eat and rest.

Bai Xiaoyu finally had some time to go online.

Opening his optical brain, a flurry of messages popped up.

Browsing through them, he found that many were from his siblings who had cut off contact after he left.

Most of the messages contained sarcastic remarks and threats, hinting at their fear of his rise to power and return.

Bai Xiaoyu glanced over them without much concern.

He was surprised, however, when he saw that his previously unreachable mother had reached out this time.

Seeing her inquiry about his well-being, he thought for a moment and replied: "I'm fine, don't worry."

Without waiting for her response, he clicked into the homepage of his nursery, as the system had reminded him that there were numerous incubation applications pending approval.

The person waiting for Bai Xiaoyu's response frowned. How cold this child was! If he didn't take the initiative, how could she bring up the matter of sending the little one in her belly?

After waiting for a long time, she couldn't help but send another message, but received no reply.

Her face turned sour. Bai Qing had asked her to inquire about the master alchemist, but now she realized that Bai Xiaoyu wasn't responding at all, making it impossible to continue the conversation.

On Bai Xiaoyu's side, he opened the application list and found over a hundred pages, each containing a hundred application entries.

And the number was still increasing.

Since the applications came from all over the galaxy, he sorted them by planet and discovered that Imperial Star ranked first, accounting for a third of the total.

Glancing through the information, he noticed that many were from the clans of his siblings.

He scoffed; these people had the audacity to mock him while simultaneously sending their clan's eggs to test the waters here?

Bai Xiaoyu selected all the applications and rejected them.

The major powers of Imperial Star had indeed wanted to send their eggs for testing, but after submitting their applications and waiting overnight, they found that Bai Xiaoyu, once a nobody, had rejected all their requests without giving any face.

This Bai Xiaoyu actually dared to do it! Didn't he want to come back? With so many powerful factions, securing support from just a few should have guaranteed his return.

For a moment, the various factions on Imperial Star were seething with anger.

However, upon learning that others had also been rejected, they felt a bit better.

In the galaxy, cross-regional incubation applications depended on whether the nursery would accept them. For interplanetary applications, it was even more challenging. Unless there was no nursery in the region, like the one Bai Xiaoyu took over, which was directly allocated by the authorities, other nurseries would not accept such applications. However, if they did, the local nursery would not provide free incubation services for those eggs. The full cost of incubation must be paid.

This arrangement generally applied to ordinary galactic citizens, who would find it prohibitively expensive to pay for incubation fees individually. They had no choice but to use the nurseries in their own regions, even if the incubators' skills were subpar.

For those who could afford it, it was common practice. Local nurseries included this revenue in their operations. After all, nurseries received partial funding from the royal family, with the remaining expenses covered by the local region. One-third of the revenue went to cover venue and operational costs, another third to the nursery, and the final third to the incubator as compensation.

Capable incubators naturally earned a decent income, but many could not attract eggs from outside their region.

Some regions were poorer, like Bai Xiaoyu's area, where funds were issued every three months, totaling only 900,000 credit points, enough only for basic cultivation fluids and the lowest-grade equipment.

Typically, such nurseries attracted few visitors.

Yet, Bai Xiaoyu's area on D36 had received more applications than any other, nearly overwhelming the system.

There was also the option of private incubation by the nursery's incubators. As long as it did not interfere with official tasks, they could take on egg sources privately, paying only for the venue, equipment, and cultivation fluid costs, keeping the rest for themselves.

The better the nursery, the more private incubations it would receive.

Looking at the nursery's revenue for the month, Bai Xiaoyu saw a big zero.

As expected.

Bai Xiaoyu quickly rejected most of the applications, as those who sought him out first were wealthy and influential.

He would be busy soon, so for now, he focused on the eggs allocated by the region.

If everything went as planned, there should be plenty of eggs sent over.

The nursery had thirty-six energy compartments.

Currently, excluding Dahei, there would be only thirty-five slots available. He needed to prioritize the eggs from this region.

Looking at the equipment, Bai Xiaoyu realized it was far inferior to what he had seen elsewhere.

But even these basic devices added up to over twenty million credit points.

The nursery's revenue could be used to upgrade its equipment, but with the current zero balance...

Checking his account, Bai Xiaoyu had over ten million credit points.

Previously, he had earned some money, and the XVI Legion had given him two million credit points for this quarter, mostly due to the herbs provided by them. They insisted on payment, leaving no room for refusal.

Later, he used most of it for alchemy.

Most of it was nutrient solution, and Dahei and Yu Xi were basically bottomless pits, so they finished it all.

So looking at the ten million credits, which translated to a thousand bottles of nutrient solution, gave him no sense of security at all.

At this moment, he suddenly received a message from one of the parents in the parent group.

"How outrageous! The Huang family is using Master Bai's reputation to promote their new medicine!"

"Clearly, Master Bai himself is a great alchemist, and the hatchlings have nothing to do with them!"

"I've already argued with them, but no one believes me. It's so frustrating!"

"However, there are people helping out, like a game streamer from Imperial Star and an unknown private breeder."

Bai Xiaoyu clicked on the link and found that the Huang family was indeed causing trouble.

He had not forgotten that the repair agent the Huang family gave Xiao Yi back then. The research results showed that it contained an unidentified substance that didn't seem like any herb. If his guess was correct, the failure rate of this repair agent would be as high as 99%.

And last time, when Su Ran urgently sought his help to refine battlefield medicines, as many as possible, it turned out that those military medicines were provided by the Huang family and took half a month to arrive.

Now, with their new medicine, he instinctively did not trust it.

So he extracted the data of the first batch of users of this medicine, the hatchlings that Ding Lan had incubated.

Their physical constitution and mental strength were actually lower than those of other breeding facilities, dropping a minor grade overall.

Beastkin hatchlings usually reached B level, but among his five beastkin hatchlings, three were B-, two were C+, and the demibeasts and pure humans were mostly D or E.

This data seemed normal at first glance, and few people suspected anything.

Soon, different voices emerged.

Those who spoke up for him included familiar IDs, specifically the first batch of visitors to his StarNet Pharmacy.

"Master Bai Xiaoyu has a master alchemist by his side who can produce top-quality nutrient solutions! This time, the perfect ratio of hatchlings was achieved using the nutrient solutions provided by that master alchemist, not your greedy Huang family's medicine!"

"As an alchemy appraiser, none of the Huang family's medicines reach the level of that master alchemist; the quality is far inferior!"

"I was lucky enough to get some once, and our breeder used it for a hatchling born three days ago, a demibeast whose physical constitution and mental strength are close to A level. Look at the hatchlings Ding Lan incubated; their physical constitution and mental strength are low."

But these voices were quickly drowned out by the fervent supporters of the medicine.

Seeing this, Bai Xiaoyu finally logged into the original owner's Starblog, ignoring the previous cringe-worthy posts, and directly wrote: "The hatchlings I incubated have nothing to do with the Huang family's new medicine. The medicine used for the hatchlings is not from the Huang family but is far superior."

With the real person appearing, a crowd flooded into Bai Xiaoyu's Starblog.

"Is the medicine you mentioned supposed to enhance the physical constitution and mental strength of the hatchlings after hatching?"

"Where can we buy such medicine?"

Bai Xiaoyu: "Yes, soon. The next step is mass production."

"Is the master alchemist planning to collaborate with large-scale medicine producers? What is the current progress? How large will the production scale be?"

"Currently, there is only one alchemy refining machine."

Everyone: "..."

When will this ever happen? We'll wait and see.

Supporters of the Huang family's medicine laughed, thinking that what they thought was a king turned out to be just a broken piece of junk, daring to challenge the second-best medicine company in the entire galaxy?

Bai Qi also laughed in anger, thinking Bai Xiaoyu must be crazy. He could argue with him, but to challenge the Huang family behind him?

Ignoring their sarcasm, Bai Xiaoyu opened the system grid, where the nutrient solution refining machine looked very similar to the equipment he had seen online used by alchemy forces.

Don't let its small appearance in the grid fool you; once taken out, it stretched over ten meters long.

It was a massive piece of equipment.

Small alchemy companies on the Starweb usually start with one machine, and now he owned an exceptionally advanced one.

Yes, Bai Xiaoyu now planned to open an alchemy company. After incubating the eggs of Xiao Yi and the others and seeing these adorable hatchlings, he felt compelled to do something.

Producing large quantities of high-grade nutrient solution was currently what he could offer to the newborn eggs of the galaxy.

Parents saw the information and started asking questions in the group.

After Bai Xiaoyu gave a positive response, they seemed to get busy.

Soon, in the parent group, the parent of Xiao Shiwu appeared: "Master Bai, the land near the east side of your breeding facility can be applied for as a medicine research department. Do you need help applying? I can expedite it, and it will be approved soon."

The parent of Xiao Qi: "I'm familiar with registering trademarks and establishing brands, and can help with the entire process."

Parents offered help: "And me..."

Half a day later, Bai Xiaoyu watched as a high-tech three-story building was rapidly constructed next door.

Duan Yang and his partner, along with members of the Sixteenth Legion, helped and then left, leaving him in awe.

He once again witnessed the power of future technology and the enthusiasm and action of the parents of various identity hatchlings.

Bai Xiaoyu brought the Dahei egg over to the newly built medicine research and production department, where two tall men stood guard.

These were guards left by the XVI Legion, skilled but unable to pilot mechs due to injuries sustained in battle, so they were transferred back from the front lines.

After greeting them, they went inside.

Inside, apart from the potion synthesizer, everything else that should be there was present.

He was both surprised and very satisfied as he finally went to the alchemy room. Seeing the spacious area inside, he released the cultivation fluid synthesizer he had won from the system's lottery.

Instantly, a sophisticated instrument over ten meters long appeared.

The cultivation fluid he had synthesized himself required nineteen types of herbs, and this machine had nineteen herb inlets accordingly. It was powered directly by an energy box, which was currently full.

Bai Xiaoyu ordered a thousand sets of cultivation fluid herbs, placed them into the inlets, and started the program.

An hour later, a thousand bottles of top-quality S- grade cultivation fluid appeared, automatically filling the prepared empty bottles.

Exactly a thousand bottles, no more, no less. However, the grade was one level lower than what he could produce. According to the system's detection, his cultivation fluid was rated S, but in reality, it reached 2S, the highest possible grade.

Even more surprising was that there was no dark matter present in any of these.

Despite this, it was still much faster than synthesizing each bottle individually.

Usually, he would synthesize ten sets of herbs at once into a concentrated version, taking one hour per batch.

Bai Xiaoyu was very pleased; cultivation fluid was the most crucial potion for hatching new stellar eggs.

Thus, he quickly listed the cultivation fluid for sale. The pharmacy 'Bai Bai's Dear Dahēi' suddenly had a thousand bottles of cultivation fluid available!

S- grade, top-quality cultivation fluid!