While many people were indignant about the operations of overseas pharmaceutical companies, arguing with foreigners online, wanting to explain the benefits of the Taotie Art.
Most people were indifferent.
Because the Taotie Art was free and easy to spread, even if all foreigners believed it, they wouldn't make much money and would be taken advantage of for no reason.
So, if they didn't believe, they didn't believe.
It was even better if they didn't believe.
The thought that those who didn't believe, upon contracting cancer, could almost freely cure it by practicing the Taotie Art, while they had to spend their fortunes on various anti-cancer drugs, even brought a subtle sense of schadenfreude.
It was a pity that those who felt this subtle joy didn't last long.
To be precise, the overseas pharmaceutical companies were all useless.
They couldn't even find the right way to deceive and mislead people.
Those overseas pharmaceutical companies thought that by widely publicizing that the Taotie Art was poisonous and harmful, Eastern witchcraft, and that practicing it would lead to hell and walking with Satan, they could completely prevent overseas users from trying to practice the Taotie Art. However, they didn't realize that originally very few people overseas knew about the Taotie Art, and their actions only increased its promotion.
As for going to hell and walking with Satan.
This might have been effective decades or even a century ago, but nowadays, perhaps only the older generation would believe it. The younger generation would mostly become more excited, more thrilled, and more eager to try this so-called thing that could lead to hell and walk with Satan.
After all, it was much more stimulating than attending church.
Furthermore, the promotion of Eastern witchcraft also sparked the interest of many. It wasn't the time hundreds of years ago when witches were widely hunted. Witchcraft had long been equated with magic in traditional novels.
In overseas countries where superheroes, mutants, and superpowered movies were prevalent, many people became even more interested upon hearing that the Taotie Art was Eastern witchcraft.
Therefore, on the internet in various overseas countries, although there were accusations against the Taotie Art everywhere for a time, and few people defended it, many people privately began to try downloading and learning the Taotie Art.
This included some terminally ill patients.
The reason was simple: some terminally ill patients, finding their pleas to their believed deities useless, were willing to sell their souls to the devil, and it was perfectly reasonable for them to do so.
Then, those pharmaceutical companies incited public opinion again, saying the Taotie Art was a devilish creation, and those people mistakenly thought practicing the Taotie Art was a method of summoning devils.
They tried their best to practice it, wanting to summon devils.
Exchanging health for it was perfectly normal.
In terms of practical effects, those pharmaceutical companies completely misunderstood. Compared to criticizing and smearing it everywhere.
Banning discussion and preventing dissemination would undoubtedly be the best way to control it.
However, up to this point, those overseas pharmaceutical companies had not realized their mistakes, because the vast majority of people who downloaded the Taotie Art faced a huge hurdle: they either didn't know Chinese,
or even if they did, they found the content difficult to understand.
It was no joke. If people of the same culture with sufficient knowledge and background struggled to understand it, how could people of different cultures and distant lands comprehend it?
If comprehension was difficult, then trying to practice it was even more so. If no one tried to practice it, then no one could succeed, and if no one succeeded, no one would discover the true benefits of the Taotie Art and attempt to promote it.
Therefore, those overseas pharmaceutical companies naturally didn't think their operations were wrong; they thought they were very correct.
Fortunately, they had laid the groundwork and launched their preemptive strike.
They blocked the possibility of the Taotie Art spreading overseas.
And protected their overseas markets.
But as the saying goes, paper can't wrap fire. Those who want to learn, even with the existing problems of language and cultural barriers, can eventually learn if they are willing. Not to mention that many Chinese people are very willing to help and spread their culture.
So, about half a year later, after the overseas pharmaceutical companies had largely relaxed, countless people suddenly emerged in various overseas countries, claiming to have learned the Taotie Art, and many claimed that the Taotie Art had cured their terminal illnesses. Most importantly, they didn't refute the previous rumors. Instead, they widely promoted that this Eastern witchcraft was incredibly effective. They declared, "If medicine can't save us, the devil can. We are willing to fall into hell and pledge allegiance to Satan."
Eventually, they even started the Church of Satan.
And the scripture was the Taotie Art, but they translated it differently, changing it to "Greed and Gluttony."
Because through their understanding of Chinese culture, they knew that Taotie was a divine beast that devoured the sky and earth, eating everything. Didn't this perfectly correspond to the Seven Deadly Sins of Greed and Gluttony? This clever connection made them very confident that the Taotie Art was related to Satan.
In an instant, the beliefs in Mammon, the demon of greed, and Beelzebub, the demon of gluttony, gradually flourished.
Although it seemed a bit off track, the Taotie Art did inevitably spread. At the same time, in order to learn the Taotie Art, even with the help of many people in translation and understanding, all learners had to go through those translations and learn some Chinese culture.
Only then could they correctly practice the Taotie Art.
It had to be said, it was truly a cultural victory.
During this process, those overseas pharmaceutical companies did try to struggle and tried to stop it. Even the Church of Light attempted to intervene. However, when the deities of the Church of Light couldn't cure terminal illnesses, only asked for money in exchange for indulgences, and the pharmaceutical companies couldn't provide treatment drugs, while the suppressive drugs were prohibitively expensive, and the Taotie Art, which was free to practice, could cure terminal illnesses.
Unless one's faith was very strong.
Who among the rest wouldn't be willing to embrace the devil?
The afterlife was too ephemeral; it was more important to be healthy, have money to spend, and enjoy life in the present.
With this breakthrough, the spread of the Taotie Art encountered no further difficulties. There was no need for Ding Yun or the Chinese people to worry. Those Satanic cults and Greed and Gluttony Demon Groups were already working hard to promote it.
It was a pity that Ding Yun didn't need the influence this time.
Otherwise, it would have been an easy win.
Years later, the Taotie Art had basically become a universally used basic discipline. Almost every capable country had established research institutions and centers to decipher the mysteries of the Taotie Art, hoping to understand the mysteries of human evolution and advance further.
Meanwhile, Ding Yun was busy processing the items obtained from signing in with the Myriad Worlds Gourmet Sign-in Device. After getting tired of it,
he quickly sold his fixed assets to realize cash.
He divided the realized money equally among his children.
Then, to prevent his body from being unable to be cremated and to avoid subsequent troubles, Ding Yun chose not to have his soul extracted at home. Instead, he specifically entered a deep mountain forest, found a hidden cave, and changed into a set of personal clothing made of silkworm silk that would not decay or be damaged by water and fire for ten thousand years. Only then did he feel at ease and depart.