With the addition of Dean Nong, specializing in Spirit Plant-related projects, the progress has indeed accelerated significantly.
More importantly, possessing a vast and specialized knowledge base can help avoid most erroneous directions at the beginning of a research project.
One must know that the most critical aspect of research success is the direction.
With a clear direction, many tasks can be broken down into minor, low-difficulty steps that can be assigned to those laboring scholars.
Given the caliber of those laboring scholars, it's impossible for them to deduce the complete details of the entire project from the minor steps they're assigned.
If they could achieve that, they wouldn't be mere laborers...
These dispersed minor steps are actually the most time-consuming, energy-draining, and require a step-by-step approach with no shortcuts.
And this is just one direction.
