The Public's Chorus of Complaints

<After more than half a month, pharmaceutical stocks suffered another devastating blow!>

<To date, the share price of Billion Medicines Group, the largest pharmaceutical giant, had shrunk by 65 percent from its peak, with over one trillion in funds wiped out!>

<Yi Chen, the killer of the pharmaceutical industry!>

<The establishment of over a thousand Cultivation Method Research Institutes was nothing but a joke. Put together, they still could not compare to a single Yi Chen!>

<This site had long predicted that Yi Chen was the founder of this cultivation method, as well as its only Pioneer and trailblazer!>

While the pharmaceutical industry wailed in misery and the public felt utterly stifled, major news outlets across the entire Milky Way instead welcomed a carnival feast. ✻

Every major news site desperately pushed out one front-page headline after another.

Each replacement brought in traffic so terrifying it practically exploded.

"It's over. It was all joy for nothing!"

"These Cultivation Method Research Institutes had delayed releasing a New Cultivation Method for so long that I already had a bad feeling. I never expected my premonition to come true..."

"From now on, I will respectfully call Yi Chen God Yi! With his strength alone, he instantly crushed over a thousand Cultivation Method Research Institutes. His talent for creating cultivation methods is simply divine!"

"In the field of cultivation, Yi Chen had indeed reached a height beyond all imagination. Even if you beat me to death, I never would have guessed that in the end, over a thousand Cultivation Method Research Institutes that had cost hundreds of billions would achieve absolutely nothing!"

The viewer count in Yi Chen's Live Stream Room soared to several tens of billions in a short time.

Everyone was full of complaints.

The major Cultivation Method Research Institutes were drowned in curses.

"So depressing. I already broke through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level, but now I've been stuck there without moving forward. Does that mean that if I want to reach the Spirit Release Realm Second Level, I still have to wait for Yi Chen to suddenly feel inspired and record the improved version of the Chaos Art?"

"You broke through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level that quickly? By that reckoning, the guy above is a genius too! You weren't lured in by the high salaries offered by the Cultivation Method Research Institutes and didn't join them. You really escaped a calamity."

"You really did escape a calamity. Quite a few of those geniuses who joined the Cultivation Method Research Institutes suffered irreparable damage to their meridians and Qi Sea."

"Even if they can receive huge compensation, no amount of money can buy back lifespan. Breaking through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level can increase the maximum lifespan by 120 years. Who knows—after breaking through the Spirit Release Realm Ninth Level and entering an even higher realm and level, the maximum lifespan might increase by another 120 years."

"Break through the Spirit Release Realm Ninth Level and reach a higher realm and level? You people really know how to indulge in wishful thinking. Right now, the most pressing headache is when we can get the improved version of the Chaos Art."

"Forget about hoping Yi Chen will suddenly feel inspired and record the improved version of the Chaos Art. The only hope is that after the people of the Flame Mountain Tribe break through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level, Yi Chen will release the improved version of the Chaos Art."

"But there are also many uncertain factors in that."

"First is what Yi Chen himself is actually thinking."

"He might merely want to release the first-generation Chaos Art, allowing his tribesmen to break through to the Spirit Release Realm First Level and gain some ability to protect themselves. He might not intend to teach all his trump-card cultivation methods to the tribesmen and add instability to his own rule."

"Second is whether the Flame Mountain Tribe's people will still maintain their reverence for Yi Chen once their strength rises to the point where they can kill Ferocious Beasts by themselves."

"Even though the High Priest had already begun turning Yi Chen into a myth, a tremendous surge in strength would inevitably make people float on air, their hearts soaring into the heavens."

"If the tribesmen of the Tribe could not maintain their reverence for Yi Chen after their strength and realms rose by the day—"

"Then, given Yi Chen's personality, even if he intended to pass on the improved Chaos Art, he would abandon that thought."

"Though this possibility was not high, it was not entirely impossible either."

"So, anyone who wants to learn the improved Chaos Art has to pray that Yi Chen wants to teach it to the Flame Mountain Tribe, while the Flame Mountain Tribe's people are capable enough not to provoke Yi Chen's anger!"

Everyone sighed and lamented.

There was no longer any hope from the Cultivation Method Research Institutes.

If they wanted to break through to the Spirit Release Realm Second Level, they could only hope Yi Chen was willing to teach the improved Chaos Art to the Flame Mountain Tribe.

Only then could they continue to secretly learn the improved Chaos Art.

But there were also quite a few uncertain factors involved.

Whether it could be achieved depended entirely on luck.

Very soon, someone had a flash of inspiration and proposed a new idea.

"Do you think we could bring Yi Chen out of Exile Planet, have him release the improved Chaos Art, or even focus entirely on creating cultivation methods and then make them public?"

"This idea... actually seems workable!"

"Workable my ass. Exile Planet is known as the Federal Government's most secure prison. For thousands of years, not a single prisoner has escaped."

"But Exile Planet's existence has also always been hugely controversial. The most controversial point is that the descendants of Serious Criminals are likewise stripped of all human rights, just like the Serious Criminals themselves."

"Back then, the entire Federation argued itself into an uproar over this matter. But in the end, it was still decided that the policy would continue."

"Because Exile Planet truly was the most perfect prison. Not only was escape impossible there, but the living environment was harsh. After the abolition of the death penalty, it was unquestionably the greatest punishment for Serious Criminals."

"If the descendants of Serious Criminals were not stripped of all human rights, it would mean they had to be brought out. There were far too many variables involved, and the cost would be enormous."

"Given Yi Chen's personality, what do you think he would think if he learned that he had been inexplicably stripped of his human rights for more than a decade?"

"Given his personality, what do you think he would think if he learned that tens of billions of people watched him every day and even secretly learned the cultivation methods he created without his consent?"

"Remember, he is the founder of this cultivation method. And the cultivation methods he created are incredibly miraculous. For all we know, he might be able to create a cultivation method that lets him control the minds of anyone who learns it."

"Besides, he is Yi Tenglong's grandson. Quite a few of Yi Tenglong's remnants are still hiding. Once Yi Chen is brought out..."

"With Yi Chen's personality, intellect, talent, and ambition, he would certainly bring an unpredictable upheaval and disaster upon all humanity."

"True. If Yi Chen were really brought out, then even without all that messy stuff, his personality and ambition would keep him from obediently being a tool whose sole purpose was creating cultivation methods."

The newly proposed idea initially made the eyes of countless people light up, rekindling their hopes.

But it was quickly refuted until it was utterly worthless.

As for other plans, there actually were some.

It was only that ordinary people, limited by their horizons, could not think of them even if some among them were intelligent.

Nor did anyone know that while everyone was complaining bitterly—

Those top tycoons and figures of towering power were brewing a new storm.