As these alchemist tool-persons arrived, shortly after, Zhou Yi, who had been notified by Mu Jinyu, also rushed to Qinling an hour later.

Upon arriving at Qinling, when Zhou Yi saw Mu Jinyu was concentrating on alchemy, he did not disturb him.

Instead, he started to package the newly matured spiritual medicines into batches that could directly be used to make Essence Qi Pills.

He worked quickly, and after preparing the medicine packages, seeing that the spiritual medicines were still being matured, he followed Mu Jinyu and started making Essence Qi Pills together.

Of course, his speed in alchemy was not as extravagant as Mu Jinyu's, but it was much faster than those automated pill furnaces, typically completing in one minute.

The number of pills formed ranged from six to seven!

This was very impressive indeed.

Not long after, Xia Ruochen had brought in traditional Chinese medicine doctors from across the country, who mostly arrived at Qinling by special flight.

Afterwards, Zhou Yi stopped focusing on alchemy.

Instead, he divided the matured spiritual medicines into medicine packets and taught these people how many grams of each main and auxiliary herb were needed to make a portion of Essence Qi Pills...

These people were not foolish, and they already understood a certain amount of pharmacology.

Soon, they clearly remembered the various auxiliary and main herbs for the Essence Qi Pills and their quantities, and then began distributing the herbs to the alchemist tool-persons.

Zhou Yi saw they were basically correct, only wasting a little medicine, and felt relieved, then continued to refine the pills.

Everyone was racing against time to urgently produce Essence Qi Pills, aiming to distribute one to as many people nationwide as possible before the cold snap hit, so that they could survive the first day.

Ten hours later.

The sky across the world was grey and hazy; the sun was obscured, just like during that dark chaos, leaving no daylight visible.

All around the world, no matter where, fine snowflakes began to descend from the sky everywhere, turning into heavy, down-like snow, and soon the ground was covered in a vast sheet of white, the whole world draped in silver!

The oceans froze completely not long after!

The terrifying cold snap was about to arrive...

And the people living in the southern regions, at first seeing their areas snowing in June and feeling no heat at all, many were excited and thrilled, and even started snowball fights outside.

But quickly, with the topics trending online, everyone began to realize something was wrong; that sense of novelty and excitement gradually faded, and staring at the thick snow outside the streets, they fell silent, then grew fearful.

Everyone began hiding indoors, no longer playing on the streets, donning thick down jackets, drinking hot water for warmth, and engaging in heated discussions online.

"It's snowing all over the world, what's happening to the world? Is another dark chaos about to occur?"

"It's so cold, why is it snowing in the summer? Why is this strange weather happening? Can you imagine it? My neighbor just went out for some unknown reason and froze to death right in front of me. Damn it, who knew it would snow in June, my heating's already been off for ages, what do I do now? It's already minus 40 degrees here, I feel like I can't hold on much longer..."

"Damn it, I'm also from the north, the air conditioning isn't working, I should have flown to the south to escape yesterday, now the snow has blocked the roads, the planes can't fly, the cars can't drive, are we just going to sit and wait to die?"

"Ha, there's no difference between north and south now! Stop talking about dry cold and wet cold, it's minus dozens of degrees here in the south too, and the snow is crazy heavy, the roads are all blocked!"

"Yes, coordinates Yang City, the climate here, I could still wear short sleeves in November, but now I'm nearly frozen to death, just saw a lot of people frozen on the streets on my way home..."

"Oh my, it's so terrifying, who will come save us!"

"My grandma's health wasn't good to begin with, I put several layers of down jackets and blankets on her just now, but she still couldn't hold on, sob sob..."

Everything happened too suddenly.

As the night passed, the blizzard arrived in full force, all roads were blocked, the wind howled, and the ocean was frozen...

The world turned white!

That night, an unknown number of people died worldwide, at least in the billions!

Everyone cried out in sorrow!

"Huff..."

"It's so cold... how can it be this cold inside Qinling, can't imagine what it's like outside now..."

"It's probably already turned into hell!"

"I don't know how my family is doing now, I'm so worried about them..."

"It should be fine, the manager just said, our families will definitely get Essence Qi Pills first, to strengthen their essence and resist the cold, so we can focus on refining pills..."

Inside the folded space within Qinling, the group of alchemist tool-persons, rubbing their hands and throwing medicine packets into the pill furnaces, discussed with worried expressions.

They knew the situation outside was dire, just feeling the cold within the folded space of Qinling told them.

As the folded space of the famous mountains does not exist within the real mountain terrain outside, the snow cannot fall in, only the cold wind can blow in through void cracks.

Thus, many of these alchemist tool-persons were just ordinary people, only feeling a bit cold, no need for down jackets.

At this moment, they were extremely grateful to have been chosen by the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow to come to Qinling for alchemy, or to select herbs.

Not only were they safe, but during the frightening cold snap, Xia Ruochen also had someone give the first batch of refined Essence Qi Pills to their families first, allowing them to focus without worries.

After that, the Essence Qi Pills started being distributed across the country for use by those in need to resist the cold snap!

"How are things now?"

At this point, Mu Jinyu, who had been immersed in alchemy, came to, looked to the side at Zhou Yi, and asked.

Zhou Yi, not having entered a fully immersive alchemy state, upon hearing Mu Jinyu, while refining pills, shook his head and sighed, "Things are very bad, many people have died, but fortunately, we prepared a lot of Essence Qi Pills in advance, helping many people survive, unfortunately, there's only over six million pills, it's still not enough to supply everyone nationwide..."

Mu Jinyu could refine nine Essence Qi Pills in a minute, and yesterday he spent the whole day urgently refining, now producing a total of 770,000 Essence Qi Pills.

This number sounds like a lot, but compared to the billions of population, it's simply a drop in the bucket...

And the over 7,000 pill furnaces were basically all working at full capacity yesterday, constantly refining pills without interruption.

The pill furnace produces a batch of Essence Qi Pills in ten minutes, with around five pills formed, thirty pills an hour, each furnace could refine around 720 Essence Qi Pills a day.

Even with all the 7,000 plus pill furnaces working at full capacity, they only produced a little over five million Essence Qi Pills!

Adding Mu Jinyu and Zhou Yi's pill formation, they produced just over six million Essence Qi Pills yesterday, still not enough to supply everyone to resist the cold!

Mu Jinyu, upon hearing this, fell into silence.

Ultimately, humans cannot triumph over nature!

However, although he was unwilling, he wasn't in despair, for he was not a god and could only strive to save more people under the divine might of nature, unable to save everyone.

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