396: Chapter 846 Holy crap! Foundation Establishment Pill! Public opinion explodes!

"First row."

"First! God Zhao is amazing!"

"God Zhao, stop keeping us in suspense! Just tell us directly!"

"Damn! God Zhao has been so active lately!"

Under Zhao Yang's Weibo post, the number of comments increased very quickly; within just a minute or two, the comments hit 999+.

In less than half an hour, there were already twenty or thirty thousand comments!

The popularity was extremely high!

At first, it was just fans rushing to grab the first spots and spamming memes, but before long, many ordinary netizens flooded in, and the comment section turned into a massive scene of people demanding updates.

"God Zhao, you are too good at keeping us in suspense. Is GG Studies also on your cross-disciplinary list?"

"Damn, so is it actually called a Foundation Establishment Pill or not! If it's a Foundation Establishment Pill, I'll buy it; if not, I won't!"

"Waiting online, it's quite urgent. Can you release a pre-sale link so everyone can get a taste?"

"If this medicine is really called a Foundation Establishment Pill, I'm going to set off firecrackers in front of the gym!"

"Hahaha! Count me in! Foundation Establishment Pill! I want it!"

Just as the comment section was in chaos, someone posted a screenshot of the newly updated announcement on the Spark Technology official website.

"Everyone, go check the Spark Technology official website! The press conference time is set. In three days, it will be held online at the Spark Technology Yanjing headquarters, with simultaneous broadcasts on several major portal websites and video platforms."

As soon as this news came out, the comment section exploded.

"Looking forward to it!"

"There's an online live stream! Amazing!"

"Uh, why is the live stream in the afternoon, and on a weekday to boot? What the hell am I supposed to watch?"

"? Bro, when did Saturday become a weekday?"

"We only get one day off!"

"A moment of silence for our brother..."

As the online atmosphere heated up, the offline buzz also climbed in tandem.

In the early hours of the day of the press conference, traffic near the technology park was already much more congested than usual, and a batch of media broadcast trucks had parked on both sides of the headquarters building in advance.

At the entrance to the main venue, staff repeatedly adjusted the positions of signs and barricades, and at the registration desk, new camera crews arrived every few moments to sign in and collect their passes.

When Chen Haifeng appeared at the press conference venue, he was dressed in a crisp suit, looking very energetic.

When he stood on stage, the flashes below crackled like firecrackers.

He first introduced the development history of Spark Technology, then spent about ten minutes explaining the clinical data of SOD-2, including the scale of Phase I and II subjects, the statistical mean of training efficiency improvement, and the evaluation results of safety indicators; each piece of data was displayed with charts on the big screen.

After he finished explaining all the technical parameters, the screen switched, and the moment the product name of the medicine was displayed, the reaction in the entire live broadcast room and the online comment section exploded almost simultaneously.

"Foundation Establishment Pill!"

These three words hung directly on the screen.

Chen Haifeng announced on stage in a very formal tone, looking at the camera with a smile.

"The product name has been decided after internal company discussions and referencing the suggestions of many Users, and it has finally been named the Foundation Establishment Pill."

The online comment section began to scroll wildly.

This entry rushed to the top of the trending list with unstoppable momentum, suppressing the celebrity gossip and new movie promotional entries behind it.

"I thought it was just an internet meme; God Zhao actually went and registered 'Foundation Establishment Pill' as the product name. He really does have a heart for cultivation."

"Hahahaha! I'm so happy! Ah! I'm really so happy! It's actually called the Foundation Establishment Pill! Must buy!"

"Haha, interesting. By the way, can you really register 'Foundation Establishment Pill' as a product name?"

"Thanks to God Zhao for fulfilling my cultivation dream. From now on, every morning when I wake up, I'll take a Foundation Establishment Pill, then go to the playground and run five kilometers; if anyone asks, it's closed-door cultivation. I want to undergo the heavenly tribulation, I want to ascend!"

"So when can we actually buy this medicine? Can the Spark official website put up a countdown page? I've already got my ID card ready; I'll accept any purchase restriction methods."

While domestic netizens were crazily playing with memes, the comment section on foreign websites was a completely different scene.

On Twitter, someone circled the three characters for "Foundation Establishment Pill" in a screenshot of the press conference and tweeted, asking what these three Chinese characters meant and why all the Longguo netizens were spamming about cultivation and heavenly tribulations in the comment section.

The foreigners in the comment section were collectively confused; some said they used translation software for a long time and only got "Foundation Building Pill", making it even harder to understand—were the Longguo people eating medicine or immortal pills?

Soon, netizens who understood Chinese began to explain, interpreting in the comment section what cultivation novels were, what the foundation establishment stage was, and why this name caused such a big reaction on the Chinese internet.

After the explanatory posts were sent out, it sparked another wave of discussion.

Some foreign netizens said that Longguo people are indeed too interesting when it comes to naming products, as they can even name regular prescription drugs like something plucked out of a potion textbook.

Others said that Zhao Yang was very different from the serious scholar image they had imagined.

At the end of the press conference, Chen Haifeng added the sales plan.

"The release date is July 26th, one month from now. Online and offline purchase channels will open simultaneously, but purchases will be subject to strict real-name registration and ID card restrictions. Each person is limited to two boxes per month, and the first batch will only be sold within Longguo."

He explained that this restriction was mainly to prioritize domestic supply and to prevent scalpers from reselling and cross-border smuggling.

"Finally seeing a clause that prioritizes domestic citizens written into a press conference. God Zhao is amazing!"

"Isn't this just adding a defense system to the domestic Foundation Establishment Pill? Hahaha!"

"If there's a purchase limit, will I be able to grab one? God Zhao, can you please ask the scalpers to go easy on us?"

Less than half an hour after the press conference ended, Zhao Yang posted an update on Weibo with only one sentence.

"Does the name 'Foundation Establishment Pill' meet everyone's expectations?"

The comment section became lively again.

Someone posted a series of memes kneeling and calling him daddy, and others said, "God Zhao, have you been lurking in our group? Otherwise, how did you accurately grasp everyone's memes?"

Zhao Yang smiled as he scrolled through the comments, then put away his phone, got up, and walked toward his office. In the office, several students were there.

Among this group of people in the mathematics direction, Doctoral Student He Changyan was the only Doctoral Student Zhao Yang had selected.

His undergraduate studies were at Moscow State University, and his master's degree was at École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His foundation in Analytic Number Theory was very solid, and that test paper had left a deep impression on Zhao Yang.

To be honest, Zhao Yang didn't really like recruiting Doctoral Students originally, because most of their ways of thinking were already set, and their cultivation value was not high.

But He Changyan was an exception, because his approach to answering questions made Zhao Yang make an exception and recruit him.

When Zhao Yang pushed the door open and entered, He Changyan was standing on a small podium explaining something to a few junior students, holding a document in his hand.

The eyes of the few people in the class all turned in unison toward Zhao Yang on the side.

And when he saw Zhao Yang come in, his movements paused slightly, but he didn't panic; instead, he continued to calmly finish explaining the remaining content.