Shen Youling's advertising campaign had an imdiate effect. The new drug itself was genuinely potent, working instantly and creating a massive number of repeat custors. They spontaneously began recomnding it everywhere, leading to even more people following the trend and purchasing it.
Like a snowball rolling downhill, its montum grew bigger and bigger.
It blew up!
It completely blew up!
Major dia outlets vied for interviews. Local, provincial, and national news all reported on the phenonon. Other companies in Jiangbei were stunned, and businesses in the surrounding regions were utterly shocked. Even Shen Xin and Dong Mingfeng themselves were flabbergasted for a while.
"Quick!" Dong Mingfeng roared. "Contact more factories imdiately for round-the-clock mass production. We must ensure an ample supply!"
Shen Xin also hurriedly issued an order, "Make sure our supply of raw materials isn't interrupted! Step up acquisitions imdiately—buy as much as we can to prevent them from raising prices. Also, all distributors who co to stock up must pay in full on the spot! We cannot allow any problems with our cash flow."
Overjoyed, Shen Jiayue also threw herself into her work, forgoing food and sleep. She even called her husband, Lu Zizheng, to help. The entire company, from top to bottom, worked like a single machine running at full throttle, tireless and relentless.
Of course, Dong Mingfeng had already promised that as long as sales continued to explode, there would be massive bonuses. That was the only thing keeping the employees motivated. Otherwise, what was the point of killing themselves over it?
As the Shen Family's new drug gained unstoppable montum, the experts at the Center for Disease Control were bewildered.
You see, they had originally planned to wait a few days to privately investigate whether the new drug had any major problems before devising a long-term plan. They hadn't even started their research.
And you've already sold it all over the country? What are we supposed to do now?
Cold sweat drenched their backs. They decisively reported the issue up the chain.
When their superiors heard, they too were shocked and furious.
"Damn it! You knew there could be a problem, so why didn't you stop it in advance?"
"The Shen Family… Xiao Xuanye's goddaughter?"
"No wonder!"
After so deliberation, the higher-ups managed to contact Xiao Xuanye. "Reporting to Master Xiao, your goddaughter Shen Youling is using your na to heavily promote her family company's new drug. However, this drug may very well have side effects. What are your thoughts on this…?"
"Hmm?!" Xiao Xuanye raised an eyebrow. At first, he didn't pay it much mind, but he had his subordinates retrieve the relevant files. When he saw the data…
PFFT—
The Healing dicine he had just swallowed sprayed out of his mouth.
"Scoundrels!" Xiao Xuanye shot up from his seat and imdiately called Shen Youling. He berated her without preamble, "I warned you clearly! I only accepted you as my goddaughter; your Shen Family has nothing to do with ! How dare you use my na for the Shen Family's private gain? You've got so nerve!"
Shen Youling was stunned. When did I ever use my foster father's na?
"I didn't…" she started to explain.
But Xiao Xuanye continued to yell, "It would have been one thing if you were selling normal, ethical dicine. But that worthless crap you're selling has such obvious side effects! Can you bear the consequences?"
"What? The new drug has side effects?!" Shen Youling was completely dumbfounded. She had heard absolutely nothing about this! "Could there be so mistake…"
She couldn't believe her parents could be so utterly devoid of conscience.
"In any case, this matter has nothing to do with , Xiao Xuanye," he said coldly. "If you ever dare to use my na without my permission again, not only will I disown you, but your entire Shen Family will be executed by firing squad!"
He then hung up the phone.
On his desk, another docunt had arrived. It was the latest DNA report for Shen Youling and Dong Mingfeng. The most authoritative institution in the capital had concluded they were indeed mother and daughter. As such, the resemblance between Shen Youling and Xi nghan was rely a coincidence. She wasn't worth any more of his attention.
A chill ran down Shen Youling's spine. She stumbled toward Dong Mingfeng's office, only to find it empty. Upon asking the secretary, she learned that her parents had personally gone on a business trip to negotiate a deal.
Anxious, she had no choice but to call. "Mom, does the new drug really have side effects? How could you…"
"What side effects? Who have you been listening to now, spewing that nonsense? I've told you, our dicine has no issues whatsoever. Don't you dare say such foolish things again, or it will only hurt future sales. I'm very busy here, don't bother again!"
The line went dead. She tried redialing, but the call wouldn't go through. She wanted to give instructions to the company employees, but they simply wouldn't listen to her.
…What am I supposed to do now?
Watching her own advertisent playing on a loop on a computer screen, Shen Youling felt the biting irony of it all.
「anwhile.」
Lin Tang glanced at the phone screen Lee Encai was showing him. It displayed Shen Youling's advertisent. He was speechless.
What on earth is Shen Youling up to? Stooping to earn such dirty money… is she that desperate for cash?
Lee Encai also comnted, "I rember you saying that the formula the Shen Family copied wasn't complete. You were afraid it would have side effects…"
"None of my business," Lin Tang dismissed, pushing the thought from his mind. His focus was now entirely on how to break through to the Golden Core Stage. His recent trips to the clinic to treat patients were also a way of seeking inspiration. The breakthrough process would likely require Dual Cultivation, but how was he to cross the initial threshold? It felt like just a thin mbrane stood in his way. If he could just pierce it, he would grasp the feeling he needed.
"Brother Lin!" Wei Zichu suddenly called. Worried about being monitored, he didn't speak plainly, but simply hinted that Lin Tang should co over.
"Okay." Lin Tang turned off his phone, transford into Long Tianji, and silently infiltrated the new headquarters of the Heavenly chanism Martial Alliance.
"Lin… Uncle Long, you're here! Look at this!" Wei Zichu handed him a list. It detailed the subsequent compensation items sent by Yan Qinghe. One of them was the Golden Spirit Marrow.
Lin Tang had already found the other four components: the Fire Ganoderma, Earth Spirit Ginseng, Wood Spirit Fruit, and Water Spirit Crystal. Now, with all five elents gathered, he had enough to refine the Five Elents Pill.
"This is great!" Overjoyed, Lin Tang hugged Wei Zichu and gave him a loud smooch on the cheek. "Taking the Five Elents Pill might be just what I need to cross this bottleneck and finally break through!"
He then appeared directly before Zhao Xinghe and ordered him to open the warehouse's security lock.
"Yes!" Zhao Xinghe didn't dare disobey and hurriedly complied.
Then… "Huh?" He could only watch, aghast, as Lin Tang took a whole bundle of items, including the Golden Spirit Marrow, and walked away with them.
He panicked. I had been plotting to secretly pocket the Golden Spirit Marrow! I was going to find a chance to approach Lin Tang and have him refine the Five Elents Pill. I want to take it too!
"What? You have a problem with taking these things?" Lin Tang shot him a sidelong glance.
"No…" Zhao Xinghe hastily shook his head, his heart aching with regret.
"Hmph!" Lin Tang snorted and was about to leave when his gaze fell upon sothing else, and his eyes lit up. He had found another material suitable for refining a flying sword—Star Iron! And it was a huge lump, the size of a hamr. The quantity was more than enough to serve as the sword embryo for a flying sword of the lowest grade.
Even if it was the lowest grade, it was still a flying sword! As soon as he broke through to the Golden Core Stage, he could imdiately begin refining it. With a Golden Core cultivation paired with the power of a flying sword… Lin Tang couldn't even imagine how strong he would beco.
All is ready, except for the breakthrough! After I break through, I should finally be qualified to avenge my parents! I really, truly can't wait!
Despite his sunny and cheerful deanor in front of Lee Encai, the truth was he never for a mont forgot his blood feud.
The mont he left the Heavenly chanism Martial Alliance, he threw himself into Alchemy, not even turning his phone back on. When a desperate Shen Youling, with no other options, thought to seek his help, she couldn't reach him at all. When she went to his ho, he and Lee Encai were never there.
Refining the Five Elents Pill was no small feat. A kitchen stove certainly wouldn't do; he needed to find a volcano to harness the earth's fire.
Of course, Shen Youling knew none of this.
Is he avoiding ? He must have known the new dicine would have side effects… He did it on purpose! Just because he was angry that my parents stole his formula, he knew it was flawed but said nothing. He wanted to see them go from ecstasy to agony, didn't he? Hasn't he ever considered that the thousands of innocent people who bought the new dicine are all blaless? How could he use them as pawns in his petty squabble?! Lin Tang…
Tears stread down her face as she dragged her heavy feet ho.
"What's wrong, my dear granddaughter?" Shen Qiushi asked, surprised. He had breathed a huge sigh of relief ever since the arrest warrant for Lin Tang had been withdrawn, and his frail body had even recovered slightly. He spent his days looking forward to his grandson-in-law Lin Tang reuniting with Youling. "You didn't have another argunt with Lin Tang, did you?"
"I…" Shen Youling desperately wanted to tell her grandfather about the monuntal problem the company was facing, but she was terrified the shock would make him fall ill again. She could only force a smile. "We didn't argue."
"That's good, that's good." Shen Qiushi patted the back of her hand earnestly. "As long as you two live a long and harmonious life together, I can die in peace!"
「A day later.」
Lin Tang and Lee Encai were enjoying a leisurely picnic in the wilderness, having found a suitable volcano.
CLANG!
After so clever maneuvering, he managed to suspend a large, custom-made iron cauldron over the magma, held by thick iron chains. Lee Encai didn't even dare to co close. Standing far away, she peered down at the churning, molten-gold lava, the fus stinging her eyes and forcing them shut.
"Brother Lin, you have to be extra careful! If you fall in, you'll be… gone!" The power of nature was terrifying. She had personally witnessed Lin Tang flip the roof of a concert hall with just a few moves, as if he were a deity. Even so, she didn't believe he could contend with such a vast and terrible force.
Lin Tang himself, however, was calm and composed. He stood at the very edge of the magma pit without so much as a safety rope and began the process of Alchemy.
「At the sa ti.」
On the internet, soone anonymously exposed the side effects of the Shen Family's new drug, listing nurous hospital diagnoses as evidence. So of the earliest custors, after repeated treatnts, had not only found no relief for their insomnia but had begun to suffer from severe headaches, heart palpitations, hair loss, and dehydration, forcing them to be rushed to the ergency room.
Once this news was released, it spread like wildfire and imdiately hit the headlines, sparking a massive public outcry.
"How dare Shen Youling and her family!!!"
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