The crackling of firecrackers rang out through the streets of Tian Fang City.
Today marked the opening of a pill shop called Golden Pill Workshop.
Before the shop had even opened, a massive crowd had already gathered outside, waiting for its doors to open.
When the firecrackers stopped, the shop opened, and people surged inside in a flood.
The interior buzzed with voices. The shop assistants, who had long been prepared, loudly greeted customers, filled orders, and collected payments, working themselves to the bone.
Such a scene had rarely been seen in Tian Fang City before. A newly opened pill shop normally needed to accumulate customers over a long period before it could gradually build a reputation and begin making money.
This sort of overwhelming popularity on opening day was simply unprecedented.
The reason was simple: the shop's owner was Lin Zhen.
Lin Zhen was currently the hottest figure in Tian Fang City. His popularity should have faded after the Virtual Battlefield ended, but the opening of this pill shop had drawn doubts from the big names in Tian Fang City's pill industry, who claimed they would come wreck the place. Instead, it pushed Lin Zhen's popularity to even greater heights.
Some had come because of Lin Zhen's fame, some because of his Saint-Level Alchemist title, and even more had come simply to watch the excitement and see the show that would unfold here today.
Lin Zhen's opponents, doubters, and supporters made up such a chaotic crowd that the shop could barely contain them all.
Many had come merely to watch the spectacle, only to discover that many of the pills sold here were actually quite good.
For example, the Gathering Essence Powder condensed star power more effectively than those from other pill shops. The Frost Mist Pill was also