After Ding Yun finished her exchange with the Blood River Demon Emperor, she gained some understanding of the external changes over the years and made adjustments to her subsequent plans, adapting to the current changes in the demon realm.
Following this, she formally stated her stance and ideas in a meeting, issuing various orders to continue pushing forward with the revised plan.
As the meeting concluded, the long-unchanged missions from the Contribution Hall were rapidly updated, and Ding Yun's subordinates became busy, diligently and systematically expanding outwards and cautiously accepting those who sought refuge with the demon race.
Unlike other demons who, out of fear, moved their entire families to subordinate worlds for temporary refuge, Ding Yun's approach was to isolate those who pledged allegiance in subordinate worlds to determine if they were infected before allowing them into her domain. Those found infected were still provided with treatment.
However, the Blood River Demon Emperor, who was originally responsible for this, was reassigned by Ding Yun, who personally took charge of overseeing the matter. This was not because Ding Yun distrusted the Blood River Demon Emperor or suspected him of corruption, but rather because she wished to research and analyze the viruses herself, hoping to develop relatively cheap, somewhat effective special medicines.
These medicines did not need to be perfectly effective or capable of instant cures; they merely needed to have some effect. With even a slight effect, Ding Yun could, through her concept-level river god abilities or her newly acquired river god techniques, evolve and enhance them, transforming slightly effective drugs into highly effective ones, or even into true special medicines.
However, before Ding Yun could achieve any significant breakthroughs, the other nine Demon Venerables approached her. They did not come in person but sent trusted Demon Emperors under their command to congratulate Ding Yun. It was only upon entering Ding Yun's territory that these nine Demon Emperors realized how well she had managed the situation and that she had not held any Demon Venerable celebration. They seemed somewhat abrupt and redundant in their arrival.
But this could not be entirely blamed on them. Normally, anyone breaking through to the Demon Venerable realm would be overjoyed and immediately hold a celebration. In such a context, their arrival to offer gifts, congratulate her, and subtly convey overtures from other Demon Venerables would be entirely logical.
Yet, who could have anticipated that Ding Yun would not hold a celebration at all? It was akin to arriving at someone's birthday party that wasn't held and hadn't sent out invitations, with a few acquaintances showing up to offer congratulations. While not a bad thing, it felt rather abrupt and awkward, like an uninvited guest.
Facing the arrival of these Demon Emperors, Ding Yun did not meet them personally. Instead, she dispatched one of her clones to summon them, stating that the demon realm was currently a time of unrest, with many demons afflicted by viruses and the populace in a state of panic. To avoid the spread of crowds and the rampant spread of the virus, she had chosen not to hold a celebration. She then expressed her gratitude for their visit. Regardless of whether she welcomed these individuals, she still had to extend courtesy and exchange pleasantries. As for the overtures from the other Demon Venerables, Ding Yun agreed to none of them, skillfully evading them like a master of Tai Chi.
Subsequently, Ding Yun claimed to be busy and dismissed the Demon Emperors, returning to focus on her research into various viruses. She intended to make a name for herself through these viruses. If she could develop special medicines for them, why would she need to worry about fame or prestige? Within a few days, her reputation as the newly born Seven Emotions Demon Venerable would far surpass that of the other nine veteran Demon Venerables, which would undoubtedly be highly beneficial for her territorial expansion. Furthermore, if she could publicize that almost no demons died within her territory during the viral outbreak and that all infected demons received full treatment, it would truly signify popular support and widespread acclaim.
However, all of this hinged on Ding Yun's successful development of special medicines. Therefore, the plan remained just a plan, and Ding Yun continued her research into the viruses, uncertain when inspiration might strike.
The Demon Emperors who were sent away naturally returned to report everything they saw at Ding Yun's to the Demon Venerables they followed. Their focus of attention differed; some primarily described the safety within Ding Yun's territory and her exceptional care and generous treatment of ordinary demons infected with viruses. Others focused on Ding Yun's unfathomable strength, while some considered her to be overly benevolent and lacking ambition. Different people, with different thoughts, even when observing the same things, would have varying points of emphasis and draw different conclusions, much like how a thousand readers will have a thousand interpretations of Hamlet.
The veteran Demon Venerables also had their own varied thoughts. Some scoffed, deeming Ding Yun insignificant. Others treated her as a formidable opponent, while some were even considering whether it was necessary to seek guidance or cooperation from Ding Yun. However, they were not swift in their actions or decisions. Thus, Ding Yun continued to develop steadily.
Over a year later, Ding Yun, by changing her research direction, finally managed to develop special medicines for those viruses. More accurately, she developed special high-grade innate spiritual treasures capable of healing those infected. Initially, Ding Yun's research focused on developing special medicines for a specific virus, and the overall research progress was relatively smooth. Within a month, she had some results and, using her concept-level river god abilities, successfully evolved a drug with only minor healing effects into a true special medicine. However, as Ding Yun's research deepened and she developed more and more special medicines, she discovered that this approach was no longer viable because the viruses kept mutating. By the time she developed a special medicine for one virus, two or three new viruses might have already mutated outside. Although the original special medicines still had some effect on the mutated strains, their efficacy was greatly reduced, and after several mutations, they became completely ineffective. Given the number and mutation rate of these viruses, Ding Yun's research progress was somewhat slow, unable to keep pace with the virus's mutation rate.
Therefore, Ding Yun had to change her research direction from developing special medicines to researching something that could broadly eliminate all viruses. Since medicine was proving ineffective, Ding Yun decided to try using laws to treat the ailments. Her subsequent main research direction became refining various acquired spiritual treasures imbued with certain laws, and then continuously evolving these acquired spiritual treasures into high-grade innate spiritual treasures. What happened next could only be attributed to perseverance. Through Ding Yun's continuous research and experimentation, after her seventy-ninth refined acquired spiritual treasure transformed into a high-grade innate spiritual treasure, it finally cooperated with the high-grade innate spiritual treasure derived from her forty-sixth refined acquired spiritual treasure to eliminate viruses while simultaneously healing the injuries of the infected.