From zero to completion, research and development often take years or even decades, but if it's just assembly or even branding, it becomes much simpler.
"The principle is actually quite simple, drawing life and adding a 'Holy Fire Module' would do, the former is a universal module, while I hold all the technology for the latter..."
Lu Ping'an's "Life investment" is a "simplified" cheater for nurturing and grafting Magic Plants.
It turned the difficult and time-consuming "Random Gene Inheritance" into a simple stacking of building blocks; the result of "Biological Modularization" was that he could easily produce the needed Magic Plants based on the actual situation.