Realm-Hopping Martial Master

Although it must be said, the raw materials used in refining the Disguise Pill are all Heaven and Earth Treasure Medicine.

But the First Rank Heaven and Earth Treasure Medicine of Xia Country could be cultivated in high volumes.

The price, in fact, wasn't that high.

And skincare and beauty products are inherently more expensive than Gold!

Calculated out, it amounted to an extremely considerable profit!

Jiang Shu spoke very casually.

Meanwhile, Ye Zhenzhen, who understood women even better than he did, stared wide-eyed.

If what Jiang Shu said was correct,

then the entire cosmetics market would be transformed by this tiny elixir!

Her hands trembling, she took the elixir from Jiang Shu and couldn't resist heading to the bathroom.

A full half-hour later,

Ye Zhenzhen finally emerged from the bathroom.

Her pretty face was damp with water.

She was somewhat dazed; the existence of the Beauty Elixir had shattered her previous understanding of cosmetics.

No skill was required.

One could apply makeup quickly just by looking in the mirror!

As for removal, ordinary water couldn't wash the "look" away at all; only hot water could.

For women, this not only provided excellent discretion,

but also perfectly solved the pain point of difficult makeup removal!

This elixir... was simply revolutionary!

Even if it couldn't be mass-produced,

it could still fetch a high price at auction!

As a woman, she knew all too well how obsessed some women could become over their appearance.

The magic of this Beauty Elixir could literally make a woman in her forties or fifties look like a young maiden again!

Faced with a table laden with aromatic dishes, she had no appetite whatsoever.

She just stared blankly at Jiang Shu, her eyes filled with disbelief, and stammered,

"How... how did you achieve this?"

"Jiang Shu... you're going to strike it rich!"

...

After discussing some preliminary advertising campaign shoots with Ye Zhenzhen,

Jiang Shu returned home to practice his Martial Arts.

As miraculous as the Beauty Elixir was, and as profitable as the company might become,

it held little significance for him in the initial phase.

He had established the company to develop an Alchemy AI,

to enhance the standard of Alchemy, and to quickly refine elixirs to counteract the Cold Poison within his body.

However, reaching this stage evidently still required considerable time and exceptionally talented individuals.

Launching the Beauty Elixir, aside from initially accumulating some capital, was more importantly about attracting talent. He needed to make high-end professionals feel that his new company had lucrative prospects.

After all, however much Xia Country promoted Martial Arts,

it was still only on a very superficial level.

Ordinary people were unaware of the status of a Martial Arts Grandmaster.

The only public-facing identity he could present was that of a professor at Jiangnan Academy.

For the general public, money was the true core attraction.

Jiang Shu was well aware of this.

He wasn't in a rush. The company was already established, anyway.

He had also sent the formula for the Disguise Pill to the researchers in the company's laboratory.

Now, they just needed to research the Yin, Yang, and Five Elements of the Disguise Pill, then reformulate it using Xia Country's First Rank Heaven and Earth Treasure Medicine.

This way, the Disguise Pill could truly be mass-produced.

The sun set in the west, and the bright moon hung high.

The development of Shuyan Pharmaceutical Company proceeded just as Jiang Shu had anticipated.

Under his generous compensation packages,

the researchers under him all erupted with immense enthusiasm.

Working almost day and night, in just half a month, they had developed three refining protocols for the Beauty Elixir.

Regrettably, however, based on the simple adjustments made in the laboratory, the combination of these Heaven and Earth Treasure Medicines couldn't bring about a true qualitative change.

Although they did possess some cosmetic effects,

it often required a copious application to achieve a change across the entire face.

This resulted in a significant waste of resources.

Moreover, the formulated beauty liquids and creams couldn't achieve the long shelf life of elixirs.

Indeed, everything exists for a reason. It seems refining elixirs is still the way to go, he mused.

He opened the Pill Furnace and began Alchemy.

It had to be said, the efficiency of this top-grade Pill Furnace was truly different.

Jiang Shu found it increasingly easy to use; each batch yielded around thirty "Beauty Elixirs."

Let them research it a bit more, Jiang Shu mused. If it's truly unachievable, then we'll preserve the medicinal effects to the greatest extent possible and segment it into high-end and mid-to-low-end markets.

With this thought, Jiang Shu took out ten elixirs, drove to the company, and gave them to the laboratory researchers for further study.

However, just as he was leaving the laboratory,

a young man, no older than thirty, came jogging out.

"Boss, this Beauty Elixir of yours... may I take one?"

Jiang Shu paused. Shuyan Pharmaceutical Company didn't have many employees in its early stages, so he naturally recognized this young man.

He was Fu Cong.

A doctoral graduate from Jiangnan Academy, Fu Cong possessed an extremely solid theoretical foundation in medicine. It could be said that he deserved much of the credit for the rapid progress of the Beauty Elixir. With his keen hearing, he naturally knew that the employees privately called him the "Grind King," as he had spearheaded the trend of working day and night.

"In principle, it's not permitted, as this is a trade secret. However, if there's a special reason, principles can, of course, be flexible," Jiang Shu replied.

Hearing Jiang Shu's affirmative response,

Fu Cong let out a long sigh of relief.

As a doctoral graduate from Jiangnan Academy, he knew better than his other colleagues just how formidable his boss was!

A professor at Jiangnan Academy... That might be this young man's most useless and inconspicuous title!

Of course, he hadn't come to Shuyan Pharmaceutical Company to curry favor or ride on coattails.

He was there entirely... for his friend!

"It's just, I have a friend. A year ago, a major fire broke out in the residential complex where he was renting..."

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「Jiangnan City.」

Inside the First Hospital, in a private room, the smell of disinfectant permeated endlessly.