At sunrise, a crisp chime echoed across seventy-two major commercial districts in the thirty-six Cave-Heavens.
From Cloud-Mist Market in the east to the volcanic foothills of Pill-Cauldron Mountain in the west, seventy-two storefronts opened their polished glass doors.
Above each entrance hung a gleaming dark-green and gold marquee: Taichu Benevolence Pharmacy.
Master Lu Jian’s automated assembly units and Ba Shan’s two thousand logistics brothers had worked through the night.
They had acquired, renovated, and stocked seventy-two flagship dispensaries, positioning every single location directly across the street from a Pill-Cauldron Syndicate outlet.
Ba Shan’s men had erected velvet queue ropes, shade awnings, and hydration stations along the sidewalks.
Tang Xiaomi had installed twelve high-speed Heavenly Morality POS Terminals at each branch, capable of scanning a customer’s karmic merit frequency in a tenth of a second.
Lin Mo stood on the second-floor executive balcony of the Pill-Cauldron foothill branch, sipping hot jasmine tea.
