Everyone was taken aback.

Zhong Yongxi's eyes shone brightly as he excitedly said to Shen Qiang, "As expected of the grand-uncle master, a single surgery and you've already subdued the competitor."

Director Liu smiled, sighing as he said, "I asked briefly about the specific situation, and it's not just you. After searching through the entire Medical University Affiliated, I believe there's probably no one in the surgical department who could beat Shen Qiang."

"So amazing!" Ding Yuhuan said with eyes full of admiration.

Shen Qiang, on the other hand, didn't feel much and simply said indifferently, "You flatter me."

Zhong Yongxi continued excitedly, "It's not flattery. It's only natural for the grand-uncle master to win easily."

The crowd looked at Zhong Yongxi with some curiosity due to his sudden change in attitude.

His constant reference to 'grand-uncle master' made Shen Qiang frown, but given the crowd, it was not good to say too much, so he changed the subject: "Let's talk about your situations."

The chubby man laughed.

Ding Yuhuan's face immediately turned somewhat embarrassed and after hesitating for a moment she said, "I feel I would also lose. In the department of bone surgery, the chubby man is far more skillful than I am, especially his bone-setting techniques, which are unbelievably powerful."

Hearing this, Shen Qiang looked at the chubby man in surprise with a sense of pride.

"Is their family especially skilled in bone-setting and massages?"

Meanwhile, the slim female doctor let out a long sigh and said, "I am no match for Zhong Yongxi. He is much stronger than I am."

Indeed, the situation of the others was almost as Shen Qiang had anticipated.

"But no matter what, we have at least become acquainted. For the following week, just as he said, even if we cannot win, let's treat it as an opportunity for further study!" Ding Yuhuan cheered up again.

The overall atmosphere improved as well.

However, the slim female doctor then said with a smile, "But the ones leaving are not just the three of us. Among you strong individuals, there will still be those who get eliminated."

At these words, Shen Qiang, Zhong Yongxi, the chubby man, and Geng Liang all lit up with anticipation.

After all, there were only three slots available for those who could stay.

In the afternoon, it was business as usual.

The staff in Shen Qiang's operating room had increased, with most of the new faces being doctors from the tumor surgery department.

They were clearly there to witness Shen Qiang's extraordinary surgical skills firsthand.

Shen Qiang didn't have much choice in the matter.

After all, with the growth of his cultivation, even without engaging his precision, his surgical speed was already far beyond that of a normal person.

To return to the days of slowness was now impossible.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the surgery was completed, and Shen Qiang, without any other arrangements, got off work early.

Instead of heading straight home as he usually did, he went to the herbal medicine market. On one hand, Shen Qiang needed to replenish some ingredients for the Gathering Qi Powder, and on the other hand, he wanted to try his hand at alchemy and to search for elixir pill formulas that were cheap and had readily available materials.

After all, as practice, if the cost of refining a single pill was in the tens or hundreds of millions, even Shen Qiang, with his financial resources, couldn't afford it.

And while Shen Qiang was walking through the numerous stalls of the herbal medicine market in the afternoon sun, optimizing his time to search for the right herbs,

In a room luxuriously decorated on the top floor of a building in the city center,

A beautiful girl with bare, delicate feet, clutching a photo of Jing Haotian with a smile, curled up on the couch in the luxurious living room, gazing out the window at the city swathed in sunset, and muttered to herself: "Brother, I still haven't found that masked bastard, but that's alright, I've already thought of a way to lure him out."

"He's a subordinate of Qian Shanxue, after all. If I find Qian Shanxue, it means I've found him."

"And if by that time, Qian Shanxue won't tell me where he is, Xiao Hua, you will definitely help me kill her, won't you? But her cultivation has reached the Mixed Element Realm, can you do it?"

As the stunning girl spoke,

Thorny vines suddenly covered the couch, blooming with seductively blood-like flowers, swaying as if smiling at her.

"You say you need to borrow my body to be able to fight her off? No problem! I knew you wouldn't let me down! Once we find that masked guy, not only am I going to grind him to dust, but I'll also help you get the Daluo Heavenly Tribulation Heart Sutra!"

The blood-like enchanting flowers excitedly swayed about.

Medicinal material market.

At this time, the day was already turning to evening, and some stall owners had begun to pack up their things, preparing to close shop.

But Shen Qiang still had not found the appropriate medicinal materials for experimentation.

Before coming to the medicinal material market, Shen Qiang initially planned to use Pei Yuan Pills as a practice for refining.

The most basic characteristic of this type of pill is that the raw materials are cheap, classified as consumables, almost equivalent to an advanced version of Qi Gathering Powder. It has a very strong effect in promoting cultivation for cultivators below the Nascent Soul Stage.

If he were to refine Pei Yuan Pills, on one hand, Shen Qiang could use them, and on the other, this item was always in high demand at any time.

Because the structure of the Cultivation World is a pyramid.

The lower the cultivation, the more numerous the people.

The most are those below the Foundation Establishment Stage, followed by those between the Foundation Establishment Stage and below the Nascent Soul Stage, which means that the elixir pills suitable for cultivators at these two stages, as long as the pricing is not too outrageous, will always be in a state of supply falling short of demand.

But unfortunately.

The medicinal materials needed to refine Pei Yuan Pills were indeed available in the medicinal material market, but the prices were exorbitantly high. Shen Qiang did some calculations on the cost, and to ensure success in every attempt of refining, the cost of a single Pei Yuan Pill ranged from 3.4 to 3.6 million.

If purchased in bulk, it's likely that the cost would increase even further.

Such a price for materials just to practice was truly extravagant.

Even if there was a two-thirds success rate, just refining a single Pei Yuan Pill would cost around five million.

In other words, buying materials with a hundred million in funds would result in only about twenty Pei Yuan Pills in the end.

Refining pills with such high costs is simply burning money.

Only a fool would use it for practice.

Yet in the end, Shen Qiang still couldn't control his strong desire for power and spent 10.33 million to buy enough materials to refine three Pei Yuan Pills.

But this was hardly any practice at all; if he made a mistake, he would lose several million. He would go bankrupt before his technique could become skilled.

Just as he was scratching his head, Shen Qiang had already moved to the back of the medicinal material market where a large truck was unloading.

Bang!

A big bag of medicinal materials fell down, the opening of the bag came undone, revealing the branch-like slices inside.

Upon seeing it, Shen Qiang's eyes brightened, and he casually asked, "Boss, how much for the Fangfeng?"

A short, chubby man with a bag slung across his body, looking somewhat slovenly, sized up Shen Qiang and said, "Twenty-seven thousand per ton, no retail sales."

"Twenty-seven thousand per ton, makes twenty-seven yuan per kilogram, thirteen yuan fifty per half kilogram!" Shen Qiang's eyes instantly shone as he immediately said, "How much do you have? I'll take it all for twenty-five thousand!"

The short, chubby man was stunned, his eyes shining even more frighteningly than Shen Qiang's, "This is high-quality Fangfeng from HB, we have three hundred tons in stock. If you're taking it all, the price is 26,800 per ton."

"Twenty-six thousand, no dawdling, I'll take it all!" Shen Qiang raised an eyebrow.

"Twenty-six thousand five hundred per ton, that's the lowest price I can offer," the short, chubby man said.

Shen Qiang turned to leave: "Then forget it."

The short, chubby man became anxious, "Hey, boss, don't go. Let's talk it over, your price isn't workable."

"No discussion, can you do it or not, just give me a straight answer," Shen Qiang stood his ground.

Seeing Shen Qiang's firm stance, the short, chubby man hesitated, made several phone calls, and made Shen Qiang wait for almost half an hour before finally gritting his teeth and saying, "Alright, twenty-six thousand it is, consider it making a friend."

Seeing him nod, Shen Qiang's heart blossomed with joy.

Because this Fangfeng, although it couldn't be used to refine Pei Yuan Pills, was instead the raw material for another type of pill that had been a bestseller in the Immortal Realm for a million years and was treasured by every cultivator – the Guiyuan Pill!

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