In the following days, Shouyan did not rush to ask Su Yuan to search for the divine artifact. Instead, he actually started to study ways to make money.

Since the person in charge wasn't urging him, Su Yuan wasn't in a hurry either. In any case, Mu Yue had already gone back, so his need for the artifact was negligible.

So he spent this time busy with his tasks: harvesting wheat, removing the bran, and grinding flour.

The city in the Shattered Ice Valley has been built, but it has not yet been named. Some beast girls are moving through the fields outside the city, harvesting the ripe star-patterned wheat.

"Removing the bran and grinding the flour... hand-kneading and grinding is too time-consuming, but using machines is something we can't research and develop at this stage..."

Su Yuan shook his head, looking at the harvested star-patterned wheat. The surface of the wheat had a layer of dark bran, which absorbed the moonlight at night and then emitted a faint starlight when there was no light.

Not only the endosperm, but also the bran can be ground into food. However, flour with bran naturally doesn't have the same delicate and delicious texture as white flour made from endosperm.

As for separating them, or even making them into flour, what is needed at this stage is a set of cleaning and grinding processes, such as stone mills, sieves, etc.

"It seems we still need to discuss with Red Fox and the others about combining technology and magic. It would be even better if magic could improve the efficiency of the stone mill."

While the wheat harvest was still underway, Su Yuan immediately returned to the seaside conference hall and called over Red Fox, Black Sheep, and the others who were busy at work.

Where's the deer bell?

“Lu Ling is still practicing stone carving in the city. I’ve already sent someone to inform her,” Red Fox explained to Su Yuan.

Since she was no longer required to do the dusting and was assigned to stone carving by Su Yuan, Lu Ling seemed to have taken a liking to her new job. She controlled her sharp metal magic power to meticulously carve exquisite stone statues.

It's much more interesting than a life where all you do is smear dust the moment you open your eyes.

"Let's leave her for now. There's something we need you all to work together to figure out."

Su Yuan explained to everyone how Star Pattern Wheat was made into flour. The process involved separating the sand and weeds, washing and moistening the wheat with water, and finally grinding it into flour.

During this time, a disheveled, antler-wearing woman walked in from outside. Seeing her dirty appearance, Su Yuan was too embarrassed to laugh out loud and continued to explain.

“From now on, Star-patterned Wheat will be our staple food. We can’t put the food for these thousands of people, or even tens of thousands in the future, into hunting with uncertain harvests. So we not only need to handle this batch of food properly, but we also need tools to facilitate the handling of food in the future.”

If we disregard the personnel involved, he could easily have these mages process the Star-Patterned Wheat: wind mages would use gentle breezes to remove impurities, water mages would rinse it, and then fire mages would dry it.

Finally, the Deer Bell's Sharp Metal Magic turns these wheat grains into flour.

This process would require at least four different elemental magicians, essentially shamans from primitive societies. It's a bit too extravagant, and we can't keep relying on shamans to complete the work indefinitely.

"......"

After Su Yuan finished speaking, everyone looked at each other, still somewhat confused about what Su Yuan meant by wheat, bran, and flour.

"Hey, come with me, I'll demonstrate."

The group followed them to the outskirts of the city. The star-patterned wheat had already been harvested, and the tall piles of wheat emitted a fragrant aroma. The area was surrounded by many beast girls.

"Su Yuan, this smells delicious, but it tastes awful."

In the crowd, Zizi came up to him with a wheat stalk in her hand, chewing it with a bitter face. Judging from the gap in the wheat stalk, she must have taken a bite out of it, just like when she stole the grapes.

"Why are you here?"

"Hehe, I heard from Sister Fox Nine that our new territory is finished, and it's really big! So I secretly came over to take a look."