Reps Medical Device Research Center.
After a dozen treatment pods were scrapped consecutively with no results, both the head of the research center and the president of the Reps Medical Group were agitated, annoyed, and even a little panicked.
Their group's main source of profit was major anti-cancer drugs. It was no exaggeration to say that over 80% of the group's annual net profit came from this sector.
In addition, many of the major projects they had invested billions in over the years were also anti-cancer drugs.
One could imagine the losses incurred by the introduction of the treatment pods.
After their opposition and attempts to obstruct failed, they could only try to buy more treatment pods to research. If they could replicate them, it would be even better. As for patents, they believed that as long as they developed them, the groups and countries aligned with them would actively assist them. They would even support them in making the wrong seem right and finding ways to circumvent patents.
They had initially been quite confident in their research capabilities, but that confidence was gone. Because no matter how careful they were, as soon as they tried to reverse-engineer the cellular-level robots within the treatment pods, the entire treatment pod, along with the cellular-level robots inside, would self-destruct. The cellular-level robots, in particular, would turn to ashes, making it impossible to even find remnants to study.
This brought their reverse-engineering efforts to a standstill.
However, if they could not produce any significant results in the short term, their group's stock price might not just be halved but could very well be wiped out.
How could they not be panicked?
In fact, it wasn't just them; many large foreign pharmaceutical and daily chemical groups were in the same situation. Since Ding Yun launched her treatment pods, their stock prices had plummeted. It was no exaggeration to say they fell in response.
Therefore, they had all, to varying degrees, attempted to dismantle and research Ding Yun's treatment pods and nutrient solutions, hoping to break through and restore their original monopoly.
However, all their attempts failed.
The results of dismantling and researching the treatment pods were similar to those of Reps Group – no gains. They did have some success with the nutrient solutions, but the nutrient solutions they replicated lacked the innate and acquired yin-yang energy derived from Ding Yun's absorption of the essence of the sun and moon using formations. Without this acquired yin-yang energy, the nutrient solutions were not so easily able to modify the body.
They achieved less than a tenth of the effect of the genuine product.
People would become bloated from soaking in the nutrient solution, and their skin would only be slightly modified. To achieve complete modification, their skin might rot before it was done.
And this was just for the skin renewal function.
Activating other functions would only be slower.
Ding Yun had made things so complicated specifically to prevent them from buying the nutrient solution and attempting reverse-engineering.
If she had only used technology-based methods, Ding Yun could have achieved it, but it would have been easy for countries with good technological capabilities to imitate. That's why she deliberately mixed some immortal cultivation knowledge into the complete set of treatment pod technologies, which were mostly composed of technological knowledge.
This would not only disrupt their thought process.
But also delay their analysis time.
They would try to analyze some difficult parts of immortal cultivation using technological knowledge and rack their brains without success. Instead, their research direction would be skewed.
This was a trap Ding Yun had specifically set for them.
However, even if they achieved nothing, they clearly wouldn't sit idly by.
Therefore, they soon began to criticize Ding Yun for monopolizing and demanded anti-monopoly investigations. They also spread false news that they had already achieved some results in certain areas and would release them soon, temporarily stabilizing their stock prices.
Furthermore, various underhanded tactics emerged endlessly.
There were even several assassination attempts.
If Ding Yun hadn't changed her name and made her appearance resemble her soul more closely when she appeared, her original body's entire family might have been implicated, or threatened by kidnapping.
Facing these actions, although Ding Yun was not afraid, she was undoubtedly very angry. Therefore, she quickly collected all the evidence of the major daily chemical and pharmaceutical groups targeting her and disclosed it to the public.
She then announced sanctions against them.
All individuals working for those daily chemical and pharmaceutical groups, from employees to shareholders and stock investors, including senior management, would be added to the treatment pod's blacklist and would be unable to use the treatment pods henceforth.
To be removed from the blacklist, they had to provide proof of complete severance from those groups. For example, employees would need to provide proof of resignation, and shareholders would need to provide proof of selling their shares. Stock investors would face the same.
However, those who issued the orders were not within the scope of this special exemption.
Finally, Ding Yun feared that this sanction might not be enough to completely destroy those groups. She specifically announced to the public that in the near future, she would launch a treatment pod that would rejuvenate people from their skin surface to their internal organs and bone marrow, allowing them to live to at least 140 years old.
Once that treatment pod was launched, she would lock the blacklist, making it a one-way street. Even with proof of resignation, removal from the blacklist would no longer be possible. She hoped that everyone already on the blacklist would make their decision quickly and not delay themselves.
This action and announcement caused a sensation and impact that was undoubtedly immense.
It far surpassed the impact of the previous treatment pod launch. The previous launch only had an initial impact domestically, and its influence gradually spread worldwide after its effects became clear. But now, Natural Beauty Group was no longer a small company whose influence was limited to its own country.
Her press conferences would be actively reported worldwide.
Therefore, the contents she mentioned quickly spread around the world within an hour.
Unlike ordinary people, the focus was more on discussions about when the nutrient pods that could truly reverse aging and allow people to live beyond 140 years old would be released.
The employees, executives, and even shareholders and investors of those major daily chemical and pharmaceutical groups were instantly plunged into a state of panic. Simultaneously, they flocked to various medical and beauty institutions that owned treatment pods to check if they had indeed been blacklisted and were unable to use them.
Upon discovering that they were indeed blacklisted.
And unable to use the treatment pods.
The foolish ones continued to furiously criticize Natural Beauty Group online. The smart ones were either selling their shares quickly to prove they had no connection to those groups at the moment, or they were rapidly resigning. Even small shareholders were desperately selling their shares.
In an instant, those major global daily chemical and pharmaceutical giants, which could still barely sustain themselves and would definitely not have a problem surviving, almost came to a complete halt. Their stock prices plummeted to unimaginable levels because their stocks were no longer a matter of value, but rather, no one was willing to take them.
Some were even willing to pay money to sell them.
But still, no one was willing to take them.
They feared that if they took over, they would also be blacklisted.
It could be said that Ding Yun's sanctions were more effective than the sanctions imposed by some countries. Those major daily chemical and pharmaceutical groups collapsed within a single day. Some of them, after their stock prices fell to an unsustainable level, were personally dissolved and declared bankrupt by the major shareholders. This was because bankruptcy at least meant the stocks would disappear, and they wouldn't have to worry about no one taking over their shares, keeping them perpetually on the treatment pod blacklist.
Although Ding Yun's move quickly eliminated the groups that opposed her, it instilled fear in many countries and other international giants. For a time, the international atmosphere became somewhat strange, and rumors began to circulate that cellular-level robots could remain in the bodies of patients, even controlling their thoughts and lives.
Within a few days, Ding Yun was criticized as a being akin to Satan, attempting to subvert the world. Other countries, meanwhile, wanted to launch a crusade against her.
Despite the immediate danger, her influence was undeniably established.