Chapter 43: Bravery and Perseverance

  Definitely collect it if you haven't already, fellow villagers! Little Three thanks you!

  Time flies quickly when it is full, and November has run far away like a galloping wild horse, leaving only a handsome back shadow in people's memory.

  Located in East China, Haicheng is a city with four distinct seasons. As the weather gradually cools down, many trees outdoors turn yellow and fall, revealing a desolate landscape. However, in Duan Lei's cultivation laboratory, the growth of the calabaza squash remains robust, its green leaves and thick vines would surely amaze anyone who sees them!

  During this period of time, swallowing calabaza has always been a stable growth, making Duan Lei worry less.

  After getting out of the bathtub, Duan Yue continued to practice 'Lian Ti Quan' in the empty space in front of the house as usual. After more than a month of hard training and medicinal baths, Duan Yue has now successfully entered the third layer, which is considered to be just beginning to understand the basics.

  Duan Lei's solid and well-structured moves, combined with his sharp and fierce punches, make it clear to anyone, even those unfamiliar with the sport, that he is practicing real combat techniques, not just fancy forms.

  "Hmm, progress is quite good!" Tingting said with a pretentious tone, supporting her chin: "Next, just need to persist in practice, no need for medicine baths and medication for now!"

  "Ah?!" Duan Yue was shocked and asked: "Now it's only the third layer, isn't 'Lian Ti Fist' supposed to have nine layers?"

  During this period, Duan Yue has almost put all his energy into practicing 'Refining Body Fist', and he has already enjoyed the thrill of his physical strength increasing wildly. Now that he suddenly hears Ding Ding say that he doesn't need to take medicine baths or medication for the time being, it makes him feel a little reluctant to give up.

  In the past, Duan Yue was quite strong due to his frequent physical labor. When working in the gardening field, he could easily carry a 50kg bag of urea on his shoulders and walk briskly. However, after practicing the "Body Refining Fist", Duan Yue felt that carrying a 50kg plastic bucket filled with phenol waste liquid was as light as nothing. Having only reached the third layer of the "Body Refining Fist", Duan Yue estimated that his strength had increased by at least two times or more compared to before. How could he not be full of anticipation for his future cultivation?

  "You've made rapid progress during this period, but your foundation is a bit unstable. It's better to settle down and consolidate before moving forward!" Dingding knew Duanlei was puzzled, so he explained: "The bottleneck between the third layer and the fourth layer requires you to use water-grinding techniques to break through. Relying solely on medicine won't work!"

  According to Dingdang, 'Lian Ti Quan' is divided into stages every three layers. There will be a bottleneck between each stage, and once it is broken through, the power will surge. For example, there is a bottleneck between the third layer and the fourth layer, which requires Duan Lin to concentrate and settle down before he can make progress.

  As an experienced Bio Brain, Ding naturally knows when to be brave and make rapid progress, and when to take a gradual approach during cultivation. With her guidance, Duan Lei can avoid taking detours.

  Upon hearing this, Duan Lei knew that his cultivation journey had to be put on hold for the time being and he needed to shift his focus back to entrepreneurship.

  During this period, the growth and harvest of the calabaza have been as usual. Duan Lei has sold all the refined silver to "Yonghe Building" and the profit has exceeded 500,000 yuan. However, the purchase of a large number of wild and precious Chinese medicinal materials during this period also cost nearly 300,000 yuan, which made Duan Lei somewhat speechless.

  The poor are literate and the rich are martial.

  If there wasn't a way to refine pure silver, Duan Lei thought that advancing to the third layer in a short period of time was simply a fantasy!

  Having only reached the third layer and already spending so much money, Duan Lei thought about the medicinal materials needed for higher-level cultivation in the future, his scalp felt a bit numb.

  In Duan Yu's original plan, he wanted to use the 'Opening Liquid' to open a pet store, train various pets and sell them for profit. This way, not only would his cultivation expenses be covered, but he could also slowly accumulate funds, laying a good foundation for entrepreneurship after graduation.

  But after Duan Yue finished talking with Tang Fu, his mind began to undergo a tremendous change!

  Indeed, opening a pet store may be profitable, but it's not a very good career platform. Although running a pet store is not embarrassing, it's not impressive either. The most important point is that the audience for pet stores is limited and there's little room for growth.

  So, the pet store's plan became a useless thing.

  After some deliberation and consultation with Ding, Duan Lin decided to focus on industries related to his own profession. This way, the technical output would be traceable and not seem out of place.

  With the experience of cultivating loofahs that absorb pollutants, Duan Lei naturally placed his next research object on plants that absorb pollutants.

  According to the information provided by Ding, in fact, every living organism has genes like switches. As long as you can grasp its secrets, you can control the characteristics of various organisms at will and make them serve humans.

  Taking the example of absorbing calabaza, it is first cultivated with 'absorbing grass' nutrient solution to change some genes of the calabaza seeds, allowing them to absorb dissolved silver elements through their root system and finally purify them into white silver.

  On the planet of Maika, biotechnology has reached an unprecedented level, with many things that are beyond the imagination of Earth's civilization. What Duan Yue needs to do now is to start from simple genetic modification and gradually showcase the biological technology of Maika civilization on Earth.

  Now, with the development of industrial civilization on Earth, pollution has almost become a global topic. Especially in China, where economic development is rapid, due to legislative, conscious and various reasons, people have put more attention on developing economy and increasing GDP, while paying far less attention to environmental protection, resulting in increasingly severe pollution.

  Not to mention the distant ones, even this pond rented by Duan Lei was caused by water pollution from leather enterprises, and fish and shrimp have disappeared, making it impossible for aquaculture production, leaving only abandonment. At first, Duan Lei rented this pond with the idea of using the conditions here to cultivate plants that can control pollution.

  Swallowing the calabash is really too shocking, Duan Lei can't just take it out bluntly, otherwise things will get complicated!

  However, cultivating the carnivorous calabaza has extremely high reference value for Duan Lei. Duan Lei can use his experience in cultivating carnivorous calabaza to cultivate a plant that can solve pollution problems. Firstly, it can alleviate some pressure on the already overburdened earth, and secondly, it provides an entrepreneurial platform.

  After carefully comparing and browsing through the plant encyclopedia borrowed from the library, Duan Lei initially determined a type of plant as the research object.