Chapter 819

Chapter 819: Counterattack (Part 2)

As Zhu Fengchun walked out of Caring World Hall, he couldn’t help but glance back at the sign hanging above the clinic’s entrance.

The three golden characters of “Caring World Hall” gleamed brilliantly.

But the eyes of this manager from Huichun Hall were filled with rage and resentment.

He had a fallout with Wang Chen.

Although Wang Chen had taken a step back, Zhu Fengchun couldn’t agree on behalf of many of his colleagues in Taiwu City.

Because the profits from business with ordinary families were substantial, it made no sense at all to give up letting Caring World Hall dominate the market.

However, Wang Chen refused to concede further, showing no regard for this manager from Huichun Hall in his words!

Zhu Fengchun felt an unprecedented humiliation.

Yet, fearing Wang Chen’s status as a cultivator, he did not confront him directly but secretly made a vow.

“Let’s wait and see!”

Just as Zhu Fengchun left, a capable-looking young man approached Wang Chen, saying, “Immortal Master, Zhu Fengchun has quite a bit of influence. He won’t rest easy unless he achieves his goal.”

“It’s alright.”

Wang Chen smiled and replied, “Let him use any tricks he has; I will handle them all!”

He said to the young man, “Little Mo, I need to focus on refining elixirs in the next few days. Please put more effort into keeping an eye on the clinic.”

The young man was also from the Mo Family and was Mo Han’s cousin, sent to Wang Chen’s side to assist him, always by his side.

Although Little Mo was young, he was sharp and capable, and he had a good understanding of the medical field. Therefore, Wang Chen entrusted him with the daily operations of Huichun Hall, allowing himself to concentrate on refining elixirs.

Little Mo patted his chest and said, “You can count on me!”

In the following days, everything was calm; even the number of people coming to Caring World Hall for medical consultations continued to rise.

Because there was a limited number of number tokens released each day, in the case of “more monks than rice,” fixers started appearing.

But Wang Chen had anticipated this and instructed the guarding martial masters responsible for distributing the tokens to hand them directly to the patients. If the tokens didn’t match the patients, they would be refused entry and their numbers would be canceled.

Wang Chen put in much effort to earn merit, not for the profit of the fixers.

And would patients who paid a High Price be grateful to him?

Even if they were, it wouldn’t be much!

The fixers were a minor issue, easily resolved, but the colleagues whose interests had been affected were not so easy to deal with.

The backlash from Zhu Fengchun and others soon appeared!

“Immortal Master.”

In the elixir refinement room, Little Mo wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, “You were right; several major pharmacies in the city have stopped selling medicinal materials to us, and some have raised their prices by three to four times!”

Medicine and treatment are inseparable from medicinal materials, and the sources of medicinal materials in Taiwu City mainly fall into two categories.

One is wild collection, gathered from the wild, and the other is from medicinal fields.

The effectiveness of the two varies greatly, but the latter has the advantage of being reliable and available in large quantities.

Most medicinal fields are located outside the city, and these fields are generally controlled by large clans and businesses, leaving Caring World Hall to purchase the materials needed for elixir refinement through the pharmacies.

The current actions of the pharmacies are effectively choking the throat of Caring World Hall.

But how could Wang Chen be unprepared?

“It’s alright,” Wang Chen said lightly. “Let’s go and check the situation at the medicinal fields.”

Days ago, Wang Chen had taken out a large sum of purple coins and commissioned the Mo family to send people to other cities to procure medicinal materials.

The elixirs he had refined, along with the materials he had stockpiled earlier, were enough to sustain Caring World Hall for a long time.

Thus, Zhu Fengchun’s tactics were futile.

However, Wang Chen’s true plans were not confined to Taiwu City—Caring World Hall was too small.

A mere clinic with three or five doctors couldn’t generate much merit.

From the very beginning of Caring World Hall, he had been planning to acquire a large amount of land outside the city to cultivate various medicinal herbs.

Not only that, Wang Chen also intended to relocate Caring World Hall to the medicinal fields outside the city and build a larger workshop.

These efforts had been ongoing all along!

Since Wang Chen was willing to spend money, the purple coins flowed like water, enabling the rapid construction of the medicinal fields. Thousands of acres were filled with different herbs, meticulously tended by experienced farmers.

No matter how powerful Zhu Fengchun and his allies were, their influence didn’t extend to the remote areas outside the city.

Unless it came to armed conflict.

But Wang Chen feared nothing when it came to battle!

Moreover, he had built an academy next to the medicinal fields.

White Deer Academy.

Once completed, this academy would attract many impoverished students to study literature and Martial Arts, offering free tuition, meals, and generous rewards for outstanding achievements!

Healing the sick and nurturing talent, Wang Chen aimed to create a wave of humanitarianism in this world, propelling himself to great heights!

Aside from Hu Jiao Jiao, no one knew of his grand ambitions.

Yet many watched in astonishment as Ci Shi Pharmacy and White Deer Academy were established and began operations.

Hundreds and thousands of poor patients received treatment, and even more impoverished students were given the opportunity to change their destinies.

Wang Chen spent a high price to hire a large number of experienced physicians and martial masters, constructing a large hospital and a vocational school outside Taiwu City, benefiting countless families both within and outside the city!

There were many obstacles along the way, but Wang Chen easily resolved them thanks to his substantial financial resources and capabilities.

However, the growing scale of Ci Shi Pharmacy and White Deer Academy made some people increasingly uneasy!

“Master Ji Yun…”

In a hidden chamber of Qinyun Palace on Qinyun Peak, Zhu Fengchun, with a bitter expression, pleaded to the monk seated on the cloud couch, “If you don’t step in to uphold justice, our clinic and pharmacy will be unable to continue operating!”

The manager of Huichun Hall looked several pounds thinner than last year, appearing weak and lacking vitality. His presence as an innate martial artist had dimmed significantly, making him seem rather pitiful.

Though his words were somewhat exaggerated, they weren’t far from the truth.

Currently, Ci Shi Pharmacy employed over a hundred physicians and was even training new ones, receiving thousands of patients daily. This had taken away most of the business from other clinics and pharmacies in the city.

Previously, Zhu Fengchun had collaborated with the local pharmacies to cut off Caring World Hall’s supply of medicinal materials. However, he hadn’t anticipated that the latter would purchase materials externally and cultivate their own medicinal fields, rendering their blockade a joke.

Wang Chen also offered extremely high salaries, attracting many physicians who flocked to join Caring World Hall.

Over the past year, Zhu Fengchun had used every trick in the book to counter Caring World Hall.

Yet none of his efforts succeeded.

His losses were substantial, and the dissatisfaction from other clinics and pharmacies was widespread. Their alliance against Caring World Hall was on the verge of collapse.

Left with no other options, Zhu Fengchun could only reach out through his connections to Qinyun Palace, hoping that this Immortal Master would intervene.

“Wang Chen!”

Master Ji Yun snorted coldly, his sallow face filled with resentment. “I understand. Go back and wait.”