NOVEL NEXT Ch. 17
Chapter 17: Group Relocation, New Product Launch!
Liu Changqing's efficiency at handling matters had been astonishingly high under the drive of enormous interests.
By the very next day, a sect approval document had been delivered into Chu Feng's hands.
The content was simple: in view of outer disciple Chu Feng's outstanding contributions in organizing chores disciples to be self-reliant and in alleviating the sect's burden, it was specially approved to allocate an abandoned old Pill Institute on the West Mountain to him for the purpose of “continuing the innovative pilot of sect resource reutilization.”
At the same time, the Pill Pavilion had also received Liu Changqing's “instruction” that from then on all medicinal dregs and waste discarded daily by the Pill Pavilion must be packed and uniformly sent to this old Pill Institute.
When the news arrived, the Ascension Group erupted in jubilation.
“We... we are moving?”
“I heard the old Pill Institute on West Mountain is huge — at least ten times bigger than here!”
“And the Pill Pavilion's medicinal dregs! Oh my, those are the treasures we have been dreaming of!”
All the members' faces flushed with excitement; when they looked at Chu Feng their gaze had almost become that of worshipping an omnipotent deity.
Following President Chu really meant there would be meat to eat!
“Family members, this is only our first small step toward success!”
Chu Feng stood on the platform, enjoying the adulation of the crowd and timely delivering a rallying speech, “Our goal was the stars and the sea! Now, everyone, pack up. Destination: West Mountain. We were going to build our better new home!”
A grand and vigorous relocation began.
Hundreds of disciples shouldered alchemical furnaces, carried medicinal materials, pushed carts, and in great numbers set off for West Mountain.
When they arrived at the destination, everyone was stunned by the scene before them.
Although the West Mountain old Pill Institute had been abandoned for a long time, its scale was grand.
The courtyard walls rose high and it occupied vast grounds; merely the standard alchemy rooms inside numbered in the dozens, each equipped with complete ventilation and fire-prevention facilities.
In the center of the yard there was also a huge plaza large enough to hold assemblies of over a thousand people.
“Heavens... this will be ours from now on?”
Zhang Daniu touched a half-human-high bronze alchemy furnace and was so excited that he could not speak.
Although the furnace was also a discarded item, compared to the shabby goods they used in the Chores Courtyard, it was basically a divine artifact!
Leng Yanran stood in the center of the yard, looking at this brand-new world and feeling deeply moved.
Only a dozen days earlier, she had still been a genius kept in a corner at the Pill Pavilion, guarding a broken furnace and being ostracized by others.
Now, she was about to become the Chief Product Officer of this vast “factory.”
The transformation felt surreal.
“Cold CPO.”
Chu Feng's voice sounded beside her, “Were you satisfied with the new home?”
Leng Yanran nodded and gave a cool “hm.”
“Satisfaction was good.”
Chu Feng smiled, “Then next, our new product would be launched.”
“New product?”
Leng Yanran asked, somewhat puzzled.
“Yes.”
A glint flashed in Chu Feng's eyes.
“Our users had already completed the original ‘subsistence’ stage. Now, they needed better things to stimulate them to create more ‘value.’”
He took out a blueprint from his bosom, which he had simplified and modified based on the “perfect SOP” Leng Yanran had provided earlier.
“Now we had better equipment, more stable raw materials (medicinal dregs), and with your technique, you could finally exert yourself a bit.”
Chu Feng handed the blueprint to her.
“I needed you, within one week, to base it on this blueprint and launch our second flagship product — ‘Premium Qi Nourishing PillV1.0.’”
“I positioned it for the mid-range market. Its efficacy must reach at least ninety percent of an ordinary Qi Nourishing Pill. Quality must be stable. It would no longer be a free welfare item but a ‘high-end product’ that required a large amount of ‘contribution points’ to exchange.”
“The purpose of its existence was not to let everyone be full, but to give those ‘family members’ who worked the hardest and contributed the most a goal to strive for, a visible hope!”
Leng Yanran took the blueprint and studied it carefully.
This process was countless times more refined than that “rough version,” yet it was greatly simplified from her original version, perfectly balancing quality and efficiency.
She knew this was Chu Feng giving her the opportunity to display her talent.
“All right.”
She nodded heavily, and in her eyes the long-missing flame belonging to an Alchemy Genius ignited.
In the days that followed, the entire West Mountain Pill Institute once again became a bustling construction site and production factory.
Under Chu Feng's planning, departments were redrawn, assembly lines were redesigned — everything seemed more “professional” and “formal.”
Leng Yanran dove headfirst into the alchemy rooms, leading her “Product R&D Department,” working day and night to crack the production process of the “Premium Qi Nourishing Pill.”
One week later.
The Ascension Group's first “new product launch” was held grandly on the Pill Institute plaza.
When Chu Feng displayed that pill — although still somewhat mottled, it already faintly gave off an alchemical fragrance — and announced that it would require a staggering 100 contribution points to redeem, the whole crowd erupted.
100 points!
That was almost what an ordinary member could save in a month only by starving.
But the high price did not make people back down; instead, it ignited their inexhaustible fighting spirit!
This was the goal! This was a symbol of status!
Whoever redeemed the Premium Pill first would be the most outstanding person in the Group!
However, just as the Group prospered internally and everyone sank into beautiful reveries about the future, a cloud filled with jealousy and malice began to gather in the sky above Qingyun Sect.
In the inner sect, inside a luxurious cave dwelling.
“What did you say? That trash Chu Feng not only wasn't expelled from the sect but has set up some Pill Institute on West Mountain and gathered hundreds of people under him?”
Li Aotian listened to his follower's report and angrily crushed the jade cup in his hand to pieces.
His handsome face contorted with jealousy and rage, looking particularly hideous.
He could not accept that an ant he had trampled underfoot — a worthless creature he could have crushed with a mere flick — had risen up, and risen far higher than he had imagined!
For him, this was a tremendous humiliation!
“No! I absolutely could not allow him to develop like this!”
A trace of vindictive malice flashed in Li Aotian's eyes.
“A piece of trash who cheated with his mouth dares to act like king in Qingyun Sect? I must let him and his band of worthless followers know what true strength is!”
“Go, find out exactly what he was up to! I wanted him ruined and disgraced!”