When Jiang Xing revealed the production blueprint for the Golden Sunflower, he played a small trick by pulling up Dr. Amru's banner.
It wasn't because he wanted to "rehabilitate" Dr. Amru's reputation, improve public opinion of him, or curry favor with him...
Jiang Xing had already messaged Dr. Amru about it before. The man simply didn't care. He casually replied with an "okay," then immediately went back to discussing Friendship-related topics...
The real reason Jiang Xing did this was because, before publishing the paper, he remembered a question Dr. Xu had once asked while teaching him how to squeeze research funding—
"Do you expect every researcher to work purely out of passion?"
And the answer was yes—there were an enormous number of Pet Beast scholars in this world, and their status was extremely high.
But not every Pet Beast scholar pursued lofty ideals like exploring the mysteries of Pet Beasts or researching all kinds of evolution paths.
A great many scholars didn't carry grand ambitions like 'I want to become a doctor' or 'I want to change the Beast Taming era.'
Some of them simply wanted to earn funding, or use the Pet Beasts they researched to build wealth and change their lives.
But throughout that process, they still genuinely contributed to the Beast Taming world. They advanced the field of Pet Beast studies and solved one mystery after another.
Their contributions couldn't simply be ignored because of their personal motivations.
Besides, researchers like Jiang Xing—people backed by a system, capable of casually pulling bizarre little inventions out of nowhere and endlessly producing new results—were ultimately rare.
The overwhelming majority of researchers didn't have that many achievements to their name, nor could they secure much funding.
Very likely, the patent and blueprint for a single evolution item represented all the wealth they possessed—the very thing supporting their continued research and motivating them to move forward.
Under those circumstances, Jiang Xing had finished researching an evolution form and then publicly released the item blueprint alongside it.
He himself wasn't short on money. Playing the saint felt great.
But what about everyone else?
Were they supposed to release their blueprints too?
And if they didn't, wouldn't they suddenly gain the label of being "stingy" for no reason?
Jiang Xing had no desire to become someone who ruined the broader environment. He still wanted to rally more scholars to explore entirely new fields alongside him.
So he deliberately dragged Dr. Amru into it.
That way, the situation shifted from "I'm selfless, so I'm making it public" into "I'm releasing it out of gratitude to the doctor."
Not only could he help clean up Dr. Amru's reputation a little, he could also avoid creating an impossible standard for other researchers while showing off his own broad-mindedness at the same time...
Jiang Xing won public image, Dr. Amru won reputation, and the people won the blueprint...
Everyone came out winning—this was a four-way victory!
Sure enough, once the evolution requirements for the Little Healing Fairy were revealed, social media instantly filled with praise.
"Thanks to Boss Jiang Xing for open-sourcing it! Thanks to Dr. Amru too!!"
"High-grade healing medicine is way too expensive right now. We seriously can't afford it... Hopefully with the Little Healing Fairy around, prices will drop a bit so my little Chrysanthemum Hound can finally afford proper medicine too."
"What if production goes up, but the prices still don't come down?"
"Relax, brother. I'm already on my way to the breeding house right now. I'm buying a Honey Larva and raising one myself ASAP. Cheap and practical guaranteed!!"
"Exactly. There are tons of nanny-type Pet Beasts like Honey Attendant in every city. No way they'll be hard to buy."
"Throw in a serving of Healing Honey too—one portion each! Otherwise people might think we can't afford it."
"A few days ago I got absolutely brutalized by the Rainbow Dragon Hatchling during a match. I was seriously about to become an anti-fan... But now I officially declare that I'm Boss Jiang Xing's dog!"
"Bro, that's a bit much. But honestly, who would've thought a Necromancy-type doctor could actually design a Light-type item..."
"You forgot? Dr. Amru isn't just a Necromancy doctor—he's also an Item doctor! Who says Necromancy can't believe in the light too?"
The Honey Attendant was an insect-type Pet Beast.
Even though Jiang Xing insulted bugs every single day, at moments like this, the superiority of insect-types became obvious.
They reproduced quickly and matured fast. As long as people were willing to breed them, their numbers could rapidly increase, and prices wouldn't fluctuate too severely.
On top of that, the Golden Sunflower used as the evolution item didn't strictly require nonrenewable "Secret Realm Stones" as crafting materials—it could also use renewable "Energy Stones."
Because of that, everyone could already foresee a future where Healing Honey's production exploded and replaced the currently common high-grade healing medicine.
In fact, they wouldn't even need to wait that long.
Not long after Jiang Xing published the paper, the government and the Beast Tamer Association jointly announced plans to breed Honey Attendant populations across various regions and help them evolve into Little Healing Fairy.
At that point, hospitals would not only sell Healing Honey, but all certified Beast Tamers would also be eligible to periodically receive one free portion of Healing Honey.
The moment that news was released, the price of high-grade healing medicine immediately began a cliff-like collapse.
Many medicine companies had stockpiled massive quantities of high-grade healing medicine. Hoping to sell them off before the Little Healing Fairy truly entered large-scale production—and before the market completely crashed—they hurried to dump their inventory.
Otherwise, once Healing Honey truly entered the market...
That would be when the prices of high-grade healing medicine truly bottomed out.
And as the popularity of the Little Healing Fairy and Healing Honey rapidly exploded, even nanny-type Pet Beast schools across various regions were affected.
Pet Beasts like the Honey Attendant, Sweet Cocoon, and Honey Larva were sold out everywhere, even without any specialized training.
Meanwhile, the Pet Beast school in Yuzhong City remained unaffected because Jiang Xing had already swept through and bought up a huge batch ahead of time.
At most, they simply found something rather strange—
Principal Liu and the others clearly remembered that when Xiao Xian had returned to the school before, she had possessed a pink petal dress and a golden antenna crown.
But in the evolution paper for the Little Healing Fairy, the evolved forms instead had golden petal dresses and silver antenna crowns.
Was it because Xiao Xian herself was special?
But as far as they remembered, Xiao Xian wasn't a shiny Pet Beast.
...
'The authorities really trust me, huh? They publicly announced such massive news before even starting large-scale breeding or testing the actual production output of Healing Honey.'
'Aren't they afraid I faked my research?'
When Jiang Xing had first published the paper, the price of high-grade healing medicine had only declined slowly.
Clearly, the medicine companies hadn't fully believed the contents of his paper.
Dozens of times the production output from a single Pet Beast? That sounded way too outrageous.
But once the authorities stepped in and completely shattered their last bit of wishful thinking, the prices of high-grade healing medicine immediately went into freefall.
Even if the authorities had done it intentionally, it still proved the degree of trust they placed in Jiang Xing's academic capabilities.
After all, by publicly backing him this early, if the Little Healing Fairy failed to achieve such high production output, the credibility of the authorities themselves would suffer.
Fortunately, Jiang Xing wasn't some certain professor from the Pokémon world. He wasn't going to fake research data and end up on the run.
As for the impact the Little Healing Fairy and Healing Honey would have on medicine companies...
Jiang Xing could only say that if the Beast Taming world wanted to progress and develop, then as all kinds of brand-new achievements continued to appear, the resulting impact on existing systems was simply unavoidable.
Just like how the Rainbow Dragon Hatchling completely dominated low-level competitions, or how the Abyssal Water Phoenix Fledgling suppressed Fire-type Beast Tamers...
And in the future, how Fairy-types would shake the very foundation of Dragon-types.
These were all inevitable developments. They wouldn't change simply because of individual will.
So it wasn't Jiang Xing who harmed the medicine companies—it was the era itself that doomed them!
Besides, "high-grade healing medicine" wasn't the name of one specific item, but a collective term for an entire category of items.
Behind those items—and behind the medicine companies themselves—stood the ancient "medical clans" passed down since the old Beast Taming era.
The Secret Realms, items, and resources they controlled and monopolized extended far beyond ordinary high-grade healing medicine. They also possessed top-tier healing medicine, enhancement drugs, and all sorts of top-grade Wood-type, Light-type, and Life-type resources.
A single Healing Honey still wasn't enough to shake their position.
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