"The second day of the Lunar New Year!" The director of the investment promotion office laughed and said, "This time of year is busy for everyone, including Shen Qiang. On the first day of the New Year, there are many visits and it's bustling. By the second day, all the visits are done, and it's the perfect time for us to drop by."

Hearing this, Deputy County Chief Zhang said, "Alright, let's do it this way. To boost the economy, I'm willing to put myself out there. We'll visit Shen Qiang on the second day."

"That's settled then." The director of the investment promotion office laughed, "With your words, I'm relieved."

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, it was New Year's Eve.

Early in the morning, around three or four o'clock, the sound of sporadic firecrackers could be heard in the village. It got liveliest around four or five.

Lv Shuyao, in his arms, breathed softly, half-awoken by the noise of the firecrackers, but her face, though tired, was infinitely satisfied, and she continued to sleep soundly.

Shen Qiang was already awake, unable to sleep, as he silently observed the already evolved anthrax bacteria within his Sea of Consciousness.

The anthrax bacteria now had many versions and had evolved to its extreme.

If those scientists' research reports were correct, these evolved anthrax bacteria could effectively target melanoma, rectal tumors, and breast tumors. If applied in clinical medicine, they could absolutely benefit humanity.

However, to conduct further relevant research, it definitely couldn't be done at home. At the earliest, he would need to wait until Shen Qiang returned to the Provincial City, and with the equipment and mice at the Tianyou Medical Research Center, he could proceed.

This means, according to the old habits and traditions of his parents at home, he definitely wouldn't be able to return before the fifth day, so this line of research couldn't start until at least a week later.

Apart from this.

Shen Qiang couldn't commit to his own cultivation either.

In fact, Shen Qiang now possessed the Space Secret Technique, and if it was for cultivation, he could completely enter another space for it, thereby achieving great improvement in his cultivation in a very short time.

However, even if he entered another space.

Time still existed, and what was consumed was still Shen Qiang's life.

This wouldn't cease to exist just because it was in another space.

And every time he entered there for hard cultivation, Shen Qiang couldn't adapt to the life there for about a month. After all, the long and lonely cultivation wasn't so easy to endure. For instance, the last time he entered that space, he spent a year and a half there.

Although it seemed to others that Shen Qiang had merely disappeared for a moment, for Shen Qiang, it was truly enduring alone for a year and a half.

No conversation.

No entertainment.

Besides cultivation, cultivation, and more cultivation, there was only the howling of the sea wind and the overwhelming waves.

In this situation, if it was just for short-term cultivation, it wasn't necessary to enter there. If it was for long-term cultivation, Shen Qiang honestly felt a bit frightened by that endless loneliness.

So, whether it was cultivation or the medical application of anthrax bacteria, Shen Qiang could only set them aside during the Chinese New Year, enjoy the festivities first, and deal with the other matters later.

Because it was New Year's Eve.

Everything that needed to be prepared for the New Year had already been prepared.

So after breakfast, Shen Qiang went nowhere and just stayed home with his parents.

The girls were also all playing, either playing mahjong or surfing the net.

No one was watching TV.

So Shen Qiang quietly accompanied his dad, watching the unchanged New Year program from year to year, but just as the time reached nine-thirty in the morning, his phone rang.

"Boss, some cultivators from out of town are here, wandering near your home."

Hearing this news, Shen Qiang laughed.

"Keep an eye on them, see what they're up to."

He hung up the phone and, seeing his father's curious eyes, Shen Qiang smiled and said, "This year's female host is beautiful."

Shen Qiang's dad paused, "Beautiful what, nowhere near our Bai Jiao and the others."

Shen Qiang smiled.

Then he logged into the Immortal Realm Forum on his phone.

There were tons of posts wishing a happy New Year in the forum.

But the click-through rates were mostly in double digits; the more lively ones remained the posts about the Timeless Beauty Pill.

Moreover, the noise and heat hadn't diminished due to the New Year.

Upon entering, Shen Qiang immediately saw that there were two groups of people arguing in the posts.

The focal point of the argument was that one side believed Shen Qiang had the ability to refine the Timeless Beauty Pill as a matter of course, and most of them were just ordinary cultivators. Meanwhile, the other group, mostly alchemists, thought such a magical pill couldn't exist, believing that Shen Qiang was just boasting.

This made Shen Qiang find it amusing.

Because, in Shen Qiang's view, the Timeless Beauty Pill was just a failed product of the Timeless Beauty Pill.

What's there to argue about?

Despite thinking this way, Shen Qiang continued to scroll through out of boredom.

And then he was amazed to see a post by Wei Sheng Qian Dai.

"Shen Qiang's abilities are beyond doubt. Since Bai Jiao says there's a Timeless Beauty Pill, then it must exist, so please be rational and objective, don't act all high and mighty, because I do not decide, that Shen Qiang, who can refine a Jiazi Pill, cannot refine those ordinary pills."

Under her comment, there were no alchemists refuting her words, nor was there any sneering, after all, Bai Hua Jade Girl Wei Sheng Qian Dai, still had face in the cultivation world.

Aside from that.

Further down, the reply from the mixed-race beauty Nalan Tianyu was quite explosive.

"There are many alchemists in the world, but none surpass Shen Qiang; he is truly the number one alchemist!"

Perhaps some cultivators had heard of the Dragon Group's Taming Department, but the name Nalan Tianyu was completely unfamiliar to them.

So there were all kinds of sarcastic remarks, a veritable landslide of ridicule.

"Are you a joke sent by Shen Qiang? That Shen Qiang doesn't even have a decent sect, how could he be the number one alchemist?"

"What nonsense, that Shen Qiang is a good hand at controlling demons, but when it comes to alchemy, he's just a nobody."

"This must be Shen Qiang's hired navy, apart from bragging, Shen Qiang can't do anything else."

Besides, Shen Qiang saw an interesting post, where the poster's ID was an English name, and the avatar was of a woman standing under a cherry blossom tree, with her face covered by a mask.

She said in the post: "I personally saw Shen Qiang's Pei Yuan Pill, judging by the refinement technique, it was absolutely exquisite, practiced to perfection, far beyond the ordinary alchemist's ability."

But bizarrely, no one paid attention to her comment.

This made Shen Qiang find it humorous yet a bit dull, so he directly exited the Immortal Realm Forum, just then, noticing a small red dot with the number 3 on the Bounty Hunter platform app. For Shen Qiang, who usually paid little attention to the Bounty Hunter platform, this was unusual.

So Shen Qiang couldn't help but click on the Bounty Hunter platform and was then amazed to see a private message:

"The boss took a mission, meeting at Phantom, the fifteenth day of the New Year, Provincial City, stadium."

"Do not be late."

"It's a truly exciting super mission, you'll love it."

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