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Chapter 516 Science Fiction Elements Inspire Jack Ma

Ma Huateng seemed lost in thought and remained silent.

At that moment, he felt an urge to buy IBM's touchscreen phone technology and make domestically produced touchscreen phones.

A smartphone with powerful functions, just like the one in Cao Sheng's book "Cultivation Chat Group".

If Tencent could produce such a phone and promote it widely, what kind of impact would it have?
The smartphones in "Cultivation Chat Group" have clearly changed the entire world.

The male protagonist wants to order takeout, and using the food ordering app on his phone, he can quickly have what he wants delivered to his door.

If he wants to hail a taxi, he can simply open the ride-hailing app on his phone, and a taxi will soon be waiting to pick him up.

If you want to chat online, you don't even need to find a computer. Just log in to QQ on your mobile phone and you can chat with netizens all over the country.

and many more.

This kind of phone has far more powerful functions than the button phones commonly found on the market.

If Tencent can promote such mobile phones worldwide, will Tencent become a Fortune 500 company? No! It will most likely become the world's number one multinational corporation.

As he thought about it, Ma Huateng felt a surge of emotion.

I really want to put this idea into action.

but……

The words just spoken by the head of the technical department were like a bucket of cold water poured over his head, making him much more clear-headed.

IBM developed a touchscreen phone in 1992, so why hasn't it become widespread? The answer is cost! Even keypad phones aren't widespread in China or many other countries, and their prices are still high. How much more expensive would a more advanced touchscreen phone be? And how many people can afford it right now?

"The time is not right...the time is not right!"

Ma Huateng sighed regretfully to himself.

The head of the technical department didn't hear clearly and asked curiously, "Mr. Ma, what did you say? Who's missing?"

Ma Huateng snapped out of his daze, looked at him, and smiled, "Oh, I was saying Mr. Li hasn't arrived yet. Alright, this is none of your business, go ahead and do your thing!"

"Yes, Mr. Ma!"

……

The "science fiction elements" in Cao Sheng's novel "Cultivation Chat Group" are still being presented to readers as the plot unfolds.

However, to avoid drawing readers' attention too much to these "science fiction elements" in the early stages of the work, Cao Sheng didn't include many "science fiction elements" in the first few tens of thousands of words.

He has been paying attention to the frequency of these elements being presented.

The first few tens of thousands of words mainly describe the interesting conversations between some members of the cultivation chat group after the male protagonist accidentally enters the group, as well as... a heavenly tribulation mentioned by one of the group members.

A younger member of a certain group member's family is about to undergo a heavenly tribulation.

Furthermore, coincidentally, the location of the tribulation was in the city next to the male protagonist's city.

The male protagonist kept this news in mind, wanting to see if anyone in the neighboring city would actually undergo a heavenly tribulation at that time.

This will help determine whether the cultivation-related topics discussed by the members of this cultivation chat group are true or false.
Are all the members of this group mentally ill?
As the days passed, just when the male protagonist had forgotten about the heavenly tribulation, a torrential downpour suddenly descended.

Dark clouds gathered over the neighboring city, and strange bolts of lightning all struck in one direction.

The protagonist notices that everyone around him is surprised by the lightning in the sky above the neighboring city.

Everyone said they had never seen lightning like that before.

These words triggered the male protagonist's memories, reminding him of the heavenly tribulation mentioned in the cultivation chat group.

He quickly logged onto QQ and opened the cultivation chat group.

I noticed that many people in the group were discussing that calamity.

Everyone in the group is asking one member – did his junior successfully overcome the tribulation?

The group member, who had been pressed by everyone for answers, did not reply for a long time. He finally came online late at night and replied: "Failed! An unexpected situation occurred during the tribulation, but it's not a big problem. After resting for a while, I can try to undergo the tribulation again."

Upon seeing the group chat content, the male protagonist was astonished and skeptical.

I wonder if the strange lightning in the neighboring city today and the tribulation being discussed in the group are just coincidences.

At this moment, another member in the group announced a simplified version of the Foundation Building Potion recipe.

This potion recipe piqued the male protagonist's curiosity.

He seemed to see an opportunity for cultivation presented to him.

He hesitated for half the night, but finally decided to give it a try the next day.

He searched several pharmacies in real life but couldn't find all the Chinese herbs in the medicine formula, so he finally went to Taobao, a mobile shopping app owned by Ali.

I easily bought all the missing Chinese herbs on Taobao.

I also bought an induction cooker and a hot pot pot on Taobao.

The next part of the plot involves the male protagonist inventing the use of an induction cooker and a hot pot to refine foundation-building potions.

What's outrageous is that while refining potions, he awakened an astonishing talent for alchemy—intuition. He had a strong intuition about when to reduce the heat of the induction cooker and when to add water when combining multiple medicinal herbs.

And so, he successfully refined the Foundation Building potion for the first time using an induction cooker and a hot pot.

Moreover, despite his anxiety, he bravely attempted to refine the potion and it actually produced the effect of Foundation Establishment. His strength increased dramatically, his muscle definition became more prominent, his skin became whiter and smoother, his eyesight improved many times over, and he even grew two centimeters taller.

And so he embarked on the path of cultivation.

……

For more than a week, the novel "Cultivation Chat Group" serialized this storyline, leaving readers both surprised and delighted.

Surprisingly, the plot is so fantastical that the male protagonist actually uses an induction cooker and a hot pot to concoct a foundation-building potion, and he actually succeeds.

I enjoyed the constant laughs in this book.

The members of the cultivation chat group have different personalities and characteristics. There are those who are sarcastic; there are senior cultivators who seem generous on the surface but have a very strong desire for revenge; there is also a bronze divination master who never makes accurate divinations and can only produce the opposite hexagrams... and so on.

The biggest laugh-out-loud moment was when the male protagonist actually managed to refine the Foundation Establishment potion using an induction cooker and a hot pot.

When the male protagonist shared this news with the group members, it brought out many group members who had been lurking for years.

Everyone was stunned.

No one could believe that a foundation-building potion could be successfully refined using an induction cooker and a hot pot.

The male protagonist instantly became the most popular person in the group.

This also caught the attention of the pharmacist who had previously published the simplified version of the Foundation Building Potion formula.

This senior pharmacist was clearly obsessed with alchemy.

She immediately asked for the male lead's address in the group chat, saying she wanted to come and see for herself how the male lead successfully concocted the potion.

The male protagonist says he has no money left to buy the ingredients for brewing potions, and the senior pharmacist says, "No problem! I'll provide the ingredients!"

The male protagonist said that he was still in college and lived in the dormitory, so he had no place to entertain his senior. The pharmacist senior said, "It's okay! I don't need you to entertain me."

……

The senior pharmacist quickly arrived in the city where the protagonist was located and found him. In the protagonist's dormitory, he witnessed firsthand the entire process of the protagonist using an induction cooker and a hot pot to concoct a pot of medicine.

Not only was it not satisfying, it also piqued their even greater interest.

Therefore, the senior pharmacist bought a villa next to the male protagonist's university and casually registered it under his name.

When the members of the group heard about this, they all tried to curry favor with this senior pharmacist.

After all, everyone needs high-quality pills for cultivation, especially during the critical period of each breakthrough, when they need key pills that are hard to buy.

Therefore, everyone tries to curry favor with the senior pharmacist.

They offered all sorts of medicinal herbs to the senior pharmacist as if they were free.

As a result, the protagonist obtained a large amount of medicinal materials for refining foundation-building potions.

……

Huizhou.

Qian Zhenyu has already returned to Shanghai.

Cao Sheng's life returned to peace and became very regular.

Every morning I write about "Cultivation Chat Group," every afternoon I write about "The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts," and every evening I write about whichever book I feel like.

In a calm and regular lifestyle, his writing is also very stable.

This is a state that many people cannot understand.

For example, before his rebirth, his parents, relatives, girlfriend, and others did not understand his state.

Sometimes his parents would call him suddenly, asking him to come home to do something, or they would call him to attend a relative's wedding.

Cao Sheng, who had been immersed in writing for over a month and rarely left his home, would find himself in a difficult position when he suddenly received a call from his parents like this.

Reason told him that if he agreed to his parents' request, his writing rhythm during this period would be disrupted, and he might never be able to regain it.

But he couldn't refuse.

Therefore, he usually follows his parents' arrangements.

But afterwards, it's really hard to get back to the writing state you were in before.

Sometimes, when his work has just been published and is at a crucial time where he needs to maintain its quality and strive for better results, he will explain to his parents that he is very busy lately and cannot find the time.

At this point, his parents didn't understand.

People often ask, "You write novels, not all day long, and you often go fishing, so why can't you even spare half a day when we need to call you?"

……

Sometimes, his friends would call him in the middle of the night to invite him out for drinks.

Cao Sheng said he didn't have time.

Even friends won't understand.

They thought he was just being disrespectful; how could he not have time when he had so much free time to write a novel?
……

In the past, Cao Sheng was often troubled by such things.

A few days ago, when Qian Zhenyu suddenly came to Huizhou to look for him, he was also annoyed by it.

But in the past week or so, his life has returned to normal, and he has been able to maintain a good state of mind for writing, writing with great pleasure.

The works they wrote and published received very good reviews.

This is not.

That afternoon, after finishing a chapter of "The Romance of Chinese Martial Arts," he took a short break, logged into Qidian, found his "Cultivation Chat Group," and looked at the posts in the book review section... almost all of them were positive reviews.

For example: "I can't believe this book was written by Ah Hui. The pace is so slow, and the plot is so funny. It's a completely different style from the 'Chinese Martial Arts Chronicle' next door. He can actually write both of them, and even write them at the same time. Amazing!"

"Using an induction cooker and a hot pot to refine pills... and it actually succeeded! It's outrageous that a mother would open the door to something so outrageous, it's outrageous to the extreme! The key is that the author actually wrote it quite reasonably, making me think that the male protagonist could actually succeed by doing it."

"The Ali in the book is so much more awesome than the real Ali, right? He even has a Taobao website with such complete functions? Ah Hui, I know you received Ali's endorsement fee and also invested in this company, but isn't it a bit much to exaggerate a company that Ali doesn't own?"

……

What Cao Sheng didn't know was that when he was reading these book reviews in the "Cultivation Chat Group" book review section, he saw posts mentioning Ali and Taobao.

Hangzhou.

Alibaba headquarters.

A high-level meeting is underway.

Jack Ma, the leader, sat in the main seat of the conference room, earnestly trying to brainwash all the attendees.

In the original timeline, after Ali's successful IPO in the United States, Jack Ma became the richest man in China, and various media outlets at home and abroad reported on him.

When the Chinese public first saw him on the news, they were stunned.

No one can believe that the new richest man looks like this.
Many people can't understand how he succeeded.
It wasn't until as time went on and people saw more and more videos of him speaking on various media that they gradually understood what made him so exceptional.

eloquence!

This guy is a top-notch speaker.

The phrase "eloquent and fluent" probably describes someone like him perfectly.

He can talk about anything in a very logical and reasonable way.

And in fact?
He already has excellent speaking skills.

In the conference room.

Everyone was watching him, listening intently to his brainwashing.

Jack Ma: "Everyone here should have finished reading all the content of 'Cultivation Chat Group' so far, right? Have you all seen the Taobao website that appears in this book? In this book, your Chairman Cao, who is also the author of this book, Zhongyuan Yidianhui, has given our company a lot of face. He not only promoted our Ali, but also wrote a website called Taobao for Ali."

Do you know how I felt when I saw this website?

Surprise! Shame! And... delight!
I think everyone can understand why I was surprised. I believe you were all surprised when you read this book and saw this plot, right?

The attendees nodded in agreement.

Jack Ma smiled and continued, "Speaking of shame, what I'm ashamed of is that Chairman Cao has flattered us. We didn't create Taobao, the shopping website mentioned in this book, which has such powerful functions, such a complete range of products, such convenient and fast logistics, and such convenient payment!"
And the surprise? Has anyone guessed why I was surprised? Has anyone guessed?

His piercing gaze swept around, taking in the reactions of the attendees.

A female executive raised her hand and said with a smile, "Mr. Ma! Are you thinking of starting Taobao, the company mentioned in the book?"

This topic clearly piqued everyone's interest, and everyone was keeping a close eye on Jack Ma.

Jack Ma laughed.

He nodded with a smile, "Yes! That's right! The reason I was so surprised is because Taobao's creativity, functionality, and convenience have shown me the direction Alibaba should take!"

Imagine this, everyone! What would happen to our company if we created the Taobao described in this book? What kind of future would each of you have? Do you dare to imagine? Hmm?

(End of this chapter)