Chapter 350: Dragon Vein Qi Gathering! An Unexpected Accident!
Chen Han saw that Feng Shui formation through the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone and subconsciously glanced at Minister Ma.
He had really been born in the right era; otherwise, Nine Clans Match-3 would probably have to be played for real.
If they had run into an emperor with a heavy killing intent who enjoyed slaughter, and he decided to play a Ten Clans Match-3, then just by sharing this one car ride with the other side, he might already have become one part of the match-
Minister Ma noticed the gaze of this Chen Family Head, which left him very puzzled, because he read too many different emotions in that look.
Surprise, shock, sympathy, pity, relief…
That gaze shifted many times in an instant, leaving him completely confused, unable to understand what was going on.
Or had he misread it?
Chen Han had already turned his attention to the game prompt that had just appeared in his mind:
【A Feng Shui Formation Diagram has discovered a special Feng Shui formation, “Dragon Vein Qi Gathering,” but due to insufficient understanding of geography and terrain and a shallow, ignorant arrangement method, the current “Dragon Vein Qi Gathering” formation is incomplete and cannot take effect!】
This was also why Chen Han told Minister Ma to be bold.
The Conceal Wind Gather Qi Feng Shui formation counted as one of the common Feng Shui formations, generally used to improve the environment. Of course, powerful ones could change the climate, just like the Chen Clan’s Conceal Wind Gather Qi.
However, such Feng Shui formations had extremely strict requirements regarding geography and terrain. The Chen Clan had only managed to set theirs up successfully because of the game system.
And there were many variants of the Conceal Wind Gather Qi formation. This Dragon Vein Qi Gathering was one of them, and in ancient times only the emperor could use this Feng Shui formation.
This formation did not even require a formation diagram and was one of the publicly known formations.
One vein rises in vast hues, branches split to the four directions, shifting like living forms, deep pools or high ridges…
Dragon-bone earth as robe, dragon-fur qi channels long, layers of true veins revealed, tangled branches to be examined…
With facing peaks ahead and back support behind, arms encircling and jade belt winding, bright sand and proper acupoint store dragon qi, generations prosper with stable luck…
…
The mnemonic for Dragon Vein Qi Gathering could be said to be the most completely preserved one in Daoist Feng Shui books.
It was just a pity that, even so, even with it made public, in ancient times no one dared to use it.
Because aside from the emperor, if anyone else used it, that was treason. Even the crown prince could not.
It was said that after one emperor experienced the Dragon Vein Qi Gathering Feng Shui formation, he forbade anyone else from using it. To prevent it, he directly ordered people to cut down all the dragon veins under heaven.
Unfortunately, that emperor did not understand Feng Shui or geography and terrain. How could such things be cut by human effort? He was fooled by his subordinates into believing that the dragon veins of the world had been severed.
Now, seeing that Minister Ma actually intended to arrange such a Feng Shui formation, how could one not be shocked?
However, in modern society people no longer cared about that, and there was no more actual Nine Clans Match-
Minister Ma was even more surprised when, in the next moment, he saw this Chen Family Head take out from his Daoist robe a long sword made from coins.
He naturally recognized this as the Five Emperors Sword.
Their department had also produced many Five Emperors Swords, and they already had special instruments capable of testing whether a Five Emperors Sword was effective, as well as its quality.
As long as they were in a place with geographical terrain, they could use that special instrument to activate the Five Emperors Sword and see everything clearly.
Finally, the car entered the mountain canyon.
When they got out, he once again saw a shocking scene: the white formation lines sketched by the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone outlined a dragon-shaped phantom, which at this moment remained motionless, like a dead thing.
This was because the formation had not been activated yet and had not even been successfully arranged; they were only at the stage of finding the dragon lair.
Of course, when he looked in the direction of the capital city, he again saw that terrifying crimson red giant dragon.
Their car had come quite a distance from the city area, yet considering the size of that crimson red giant dragon, even here it would be only a few steps away.
Truly horrifying.
When Chen Han got out of the car, he naturally drew the attention of everyone in the canyon. Anyone who could be here had learned some Feng Shui.
After all, this was the Special Intelligence Analysis Department. If they did not even know what Feng Shui was, they certainly would not have been recruited.
“That is the Chen Family Head,” a young man said in surprise.
The people around nodded and turned to look in unison.
During this period they had tried who knew how many times in this canyon, but the Feng Shui formation simply would not activate, leaving them at a loss.
Someone had previously suggested inviting this Chen Family Head to give guidance; they had not expected that the higher-ups would actually invite him.
An older expert frowned slightly and said, “I just worry that he is so young, and those Feng Shui books were left by his ancestors; he might just be using the reputation, while he himself does not have much real skill and is simply overblown.”
Another young man said, “Old Wu, that is not quite fair. The Feng Shui formation at Sima Chengzhen’s residence, we could not get it right, and he fixed it in a short time.”
Old Wu was unconvinced. “That was only because he had mastered the core knowledge. If the knowledge were made public and conditions were equal, would we be inferior to him? Now we can easily handle the Feng Shui formation at that Sima Chengzhen residence ourselves.”
The young man curled his lip at these words, clearly unwilling to argue.
If conditions were to be equal, you also needed to have a matching foundation.
Many renowned experts had one failing: they treated only their own words as truth, believed everything they said was reasonable, then stood on the pedestal of authority and decided that others were no good.
Simply put, they hid behind seniority.
Some even thought that, just because they bore the title of expert, if they said something like “the bride price in modern society is still not high enough,” people would believe it.
Not quite right: people really would believe it; those little fairies were all believers.
Thinking of that, he could only say he was speechless.
He also knew what Old Wu was thinking. After all, Old Wu was currently in charge of a small group, leading them in analyzing and drawing the Feng Shui formation trend diagrams.
This made him feel like an authority figure, so naturally he felt unconvinced about others, especially those younger than him.
So the best way to handle such a person was simply to ignore him.
At this moment, Minister Ma had already taken out a walkie-talkie and said, “All group persons in charge, come over. I have invited an external support for everyone; come and meet him.”
Following his words, quite a few people came over, including Old Wu.
Once everyone arrived, Minister Ma continued, “You should all know this gentleman. He is the Chen Family Head who proposed Feng Shui Science, and of course also a top expert in Feng Shui, who has been granted the Title of ‘Grand Scholar.’”
Everyone did indeed know him.
To be honest, all of them should properly thank him. Why? It was obvious.
Without him proposing Feng Shui Science and demonstrating its practical use, this department would never have been established, they would never have been gathered, and they would not enjoy such good treatment.
They did not even have to go through the civil service exam; a lifetime iron rice bowl in the capital city had simply fallen into their laps, which was a delightful thought.
Minister Ma said with a smile, “We invited the Chen Family Head this time to help us study this Feng Shui formation in front of us and give us some guidance.”
Most people applauded at these words.
Especially the younger ones; they admired truly capable people, particularly those close to their own age who had real ability.
Old Wu also clapped, since he had to keep up appearances, but while clapping he wore a smiling expression that hid his intentions. “Chen Family Head… ah… ouch…”
No sooner had he spoken than his legs suddenly did a split, and he cried out in pain.
At his age, doing the splits like that meant a pain one could well imagine.
Chen Han calmly lowered his raised hand, glanced at him, and said in an even tone, “At your age, with so little real ability, you should just retire in peace. You have taken so long on a single formation trend without any progress; what business do you have being a group leader?”
These words made Minister Ma pause for a moment, then he frowned and looked at Old Wu, directly instructing the secretary beside him, “Let Expert Wu go for recuperation. We should show concern for our veteran comrades. Later, arrange some lighter work for him.”
He knew very well how capable the Chen Family Head was. The fact that this old fellow had done the splits right as he opened his mouth, combined with Chen Han’s comment, made it obvious what was going on.
If you were going to posture as an expert, you should at least not do it in front of this man.
He had probably intended to ramble at Chen Han, but Chen Han did not give him the chance.
The secretary did not dare hesitate and immediately arranged for people to help Expert Wu out.
Seeing this, quite a few people looked a bit gloating. Clearly, many had long found that expert unpleasant.
Chen Han was already walking deeper into the canyon. From within the canyon, he could clearly see the formation lines drawn by the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone all around.
And, just like at Wudang Thunderfire Alchemy Peak, there were mistakes everywhere in the arrangements, with Feng Shui Stones placed incorrectly; some places that should never have been dug out had been gouged into gullies.
This was pure half-baked dabbling: trying to handle profound things with shallow understanding and ending up as nothing.
However, he suddenly looked toward one position, his face full of surprise.
There he saw some special instruments, with Five Emperors Swords placed upon them.
The key was that those Five Emperors Swords were clearly effective and seemed, through those special instruments, to be connecting with the surrounding geography and terrain.
That was truly surprising.
This was probably what real integration of technology and cultivation of the Dao looked like.
Almost as soon as the thought arose, a game prompt appeared:
【New game section loading… System has detected new Data Packet Fragments. Data Packet （4） fragments are being collected…】
“???” Chen Han was genuinely stunned.
More data packets were being collected.
Data Packet （3） had not even finished collecting yet, and now Data Packet （4） had started.
This was really unexpected.
And the collection process was quite long.
Take Data Packet （3） for example; it had been collecting for so long without completing.
At this point, Minister Ma, who had followed him inside, could not help asking, “Chen Family Head, how would you rate our arrangement of this Feng Shui Formation Diagram?”
“Our people set it up according to the content of those two Feng Shui books of yours, but once we completed it, we have not been able to activate the formation.”
Indeed, after his previous talk with that leader, someone had delivered the two complete Feng Shui books compiled by Chen Han and those Daoist priests.
They had used some special means to obtain them, of course.
There were so many palace temples in the Daoist Sect. Many Daoist priests had a sense of confidentiality, but against certain special professional soldiers, that was not enough.
Especially when those priests took the books out to study every day; at those times, their guard was down.
They had even obtained the contents from several palace temples and only started research after confirming the texts matched.
From the Daoist Sect’s standpoint, such methods were perhaps disgraceful; from their standpoint, it was not wrong. After all, they were studying these things to serve 4 billion people in the future, to protect this land.
Chen Han did not find this surprising. He had given those two books to various palace temples fully aware that the books could not remain confidential for long and would soon spread.
For a power guided by principle, obtaining two books was nothing remarkable. It was even possible that the higher-ups had gotten them without the Daoist priests realizing.
Hearing Minister Ma, the people of the Special Intelligence Analysis Department also looked at Chen Han. They had indeed tried many times, but the adjusted Feng Shui formation would not activate.
Now that the Chen Family Head who had proposed Feng Shui Science was here, he should be able to clear their doubts.
“Every part is wildly wrong. How could you possibly activate a Feng Shui formation?” Chen Han spoke frankly, with no softening.
These words made the brows of the Special Intelligence Analysis Department staff furrow.
They felt a bit hurt.
So many of them had gone all out, only to be told that every part was wildly wrong?
Seeing their expressions, Chen Han added, “Minister Ma, have someone prepare paper and pen. I will draw this formation diagram for you.”
Minister Ma did not hesitate and immediately gave the order.
Soon, paper and pen were all prepared for Chen Han.
Chen Han did not waste time. He led people through the mountain canyon and along the surrounding mountain roads, sketching the structure of each part of the Feng Shui formation.
This did take quite some time. Even late into the night, Chen Han was still working, to the point that Minister Ma and the Special Intelligence Analysis Department staff were physically exhausted and unable to keep up with his pace.
The limited night visibility left the department members amazed as they whispered to each other:
“Can the Chen Family Head really see anything this late at night?”
“When I look around, all I see is darkness.”
“Could it be that what he sees is different from what we see?”
Hearing this, Chen Han really wanted to tell them they had guessed right.
In the night, the formation lines drawn by the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone were even clearer.
For a large-scale Dragon Vein Qi Gathering Feng Shui formation like this, setting it up was far from simple. There were far too many details and connections involving geography and terrain.
By the next day, he had finally completed the Feng Shui Formation Diagram and handed it to Minister Ma. “Minister Ma, have people arrange it according to this diagram. As long as there are no mistakes following the blueprint, and you use the Five Emperors Sword to activate the formation, there will be no problem.”
Minister Ma did not hesitate at all. He took the diagram and directly handed it to someone beside him, instructing, “Immediately perform engineering analysis based on the Chen Family Head’s diagram and start work at once.”
He had no doubt and no skepticism.
After all, he was an outsider, and everyone in the department was half-baked. They had struggled for so long without figuring it out, so to question the Chen Family Head’s diagram now would be overestimating themselves.
In this situation, following the Chen Family Head one hundred percent was the best choice.
After that, Chen Han did not need to handle the construction work. If Minister Ma and his team could not manage this, then their department had no reason to exist.
Minister Ma understood this as well. Seeing that Chen Han had worked through the night, he arranged a car to take him back to rest.
Chen Han did not refuse. The Feng Shui formation was large; if the Chen Clan were to set it up themselves, it would definitely take quite a bit of time.
But Minister Ma and his people represented principle, so no one knew how long they would take to finish this formation.
The power of principle was not to be underestimated; they had gotten a hospital built in just a few days.
However, Chen Han had the driver head straight for the Robot Mecha League venue.
There was a beginner puppet match that morning; he could go see how his junior sister was doing.
To be honest, having a beginner puppet in this kind of competition was a bit bullying on his part, but it was only for this one time. After that, he would just let his junior sister have fun.
Chen Han got out of the car and entered the league venue, hearing the host’s loud voice echoing out.
The match was about to start.
When he reached the competition area, he saw his junior sister preparing.
The audience on site also noticed that the controller today was not the Chen Family Head. Many of them had been attracted by yesterday’s video and had deliberately grabbed today’s tickets just to see the Chen Family Head’s mecha.
As the match began, the junior sister was already controlling the beginner puppet to attack.
However, her control of the beginner puppet was not as effortless as his, so she could not immediately finish off the opponent’s robot.
Instead, the mecha appeared somewhat clumsy; she was nervous for her first time.
But this scene only made the audience even more excited, because if it could be controlled without the Chen Family Head, did that mean anyone could control it?
What about them?
If one day such a mecha appeared on the market, could they buy one to control themselves?
The more they thought about it, the more excited they became, shouting wildly one after another.
Despite the difference in skill, even with Xiao Yu’s weaker control, the outcome came quickly. She directly had the mecha kick the opponent’s robot over with one strike, instead of destroying it in one sword blow like Chen Han.
What surprised Chen Han was that, at the end of the match, two clusters of white light appeared on the opponent’s robot.
His junior sister could trigger item drops too?
This was probably the same logic as controlling the lion head goose to fight the Dog Demon Tribe and getting Dog Demon Meat drops.
So Chen Han entered the Robot Fighting Cage once again, pretending to examine the opponent’s robot while actually putting the dropped items into the Game Warehouse.
【Special Formation Puppet Stone x2: This is a special type of puppet stone that can be used to renovate a complete puppet. Using a special secret technique, you can fuse this puppet with a formation to make it a Formation Guardian Puppet, able to control the formation according to your orders and increase the formation’s power.】
It was this item again, and once more it had dropped two at once.
If these could be fused with a Feng Shui formation, he would have no problem making four Formation Guardian Puppets to patrol and protect the Chen Clan.
After all, he had cinnabar, and he had solved the other issues. He also had some Primary Spirit Stones in his Game Warehouse; several runs of the Demon Extermination Instance had dropped quite a few.
But just as he thought of this, he suddenly realized a problem: he did not seem to have the secret technique for it.
The remark information said that a special secret technique was needed to fuse puppets and formations.
That was exasperating.
He could only hope that the afternoon and next day’s matches would drop this kind of thing; otherwise, it would be awkward to have four items he could not use.
“Senior brother.” After Chen Han came out, Xiao Yu ran up to him in surprise, wearing a look begging for praise. “How did I do just now?”
“Nicely done.” Chen Han smiled and gave his junior sister plenty of emotional value. Seeing her happy expression, he smiled as well. One sentence to give emotional value; her standards really were too low.
What made things awkward was that in the afternoon match, the opponent surrendered directly. The match did not even happen, their robot never entered, and no items dropped.
After one night, on the second day, things were even more awkward: that opponent also surrendered.
This…
Chen Han just wanted to ask where their backbone had gone.
Why surrender? Come and fight a match.
How would you know you were outclassed if you did not even fight?
Damn.
Damn it.
He did not want to go home empty-handed without a few more useless items.
At the end of the competition, Minister Ma came to find Chen Han again. As soon as they met, he said, “Chen Family Head, we have already arranged the Feng Shui formation according to the diagram you drew, but when we tried to use the Five Emperors Sword to activate it, we failed. The Feng Shui formation does not seem to activate.”
Chen Han froze for a moment at this. Their speed was truly astonishing; they had fully completed the arrangement according to his diagram in such a short time.
No wonder, given the power of principle on display.
Hearing that the formation would not activate, he asked, “Minister Ma, could it be that your activation method for the Feng Shui formation is incorrect?”
Minister Ma explained, “Our method has been tested at Sima Chengzhen’s residence, and it works every time. Now I do not know what the problem is; we still need you to take a look, Chen Family Head.”
At the mention of Sima Chengzhen’s residence, Chen Han immediately realized that the Feng Shui formation he had repaired there had become their practice room.
If they could activate that formation with a Five Emperors Sword, then in theory they should also be able to activate the one in the mountain canyon.
So the situation suggested that their technology-assisted method still had flaws; it was definitely not that the method itself was invalid.
Nor could it be that the formation diagram was wrong; it had been produced by the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone.
“Let us go take a look.” With that thought, Chen Han went with Minister Ma back to the mountain canyon.
Once again arriving there, Chen Han saw that things inside were indeed different. The Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone had already indicated that the current Feng Shui formation had been completed, and as long as it was connected to the geography and terrain, the formation here could be activated.
So the diagram from the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone was not the problem.
Thus he said to Minister Ma, “Minister Ma, this Feng Shui formation has been arranged correctly. I will help you activate it, and then I will tell you why you could not.”
“Thank you, Chen Family Head.” Minister Ma immediately expressed his gratitude and accompanied Chen Han toward the center of the canyon.
The people of the Special Intelligence Analysis Department had already gathered there, operating the special machines used together with the Five Emperors Swords.
Seeing Chen Han arrive, they all turned to look at him in unison. Several older experts even had doubt in their eyes.
After all, Minister Ma had mustered full strength to complete this Feng Shui formation as quickly as possible, only for it not to activate.
Was that not a waste of their effort?
But the other party’s reputation was huge, and he had been invited by Minister Ma. Even with doubts, they did not dare confront him.
Moreover, the image of Expert Wu doing the splits was still vivid in their minds.
Chen Han naturally noticed those looks, but he did not care. He directly had them remove those special machines and Five Emperors Swords, then raised his own Five Emperors Sword, circulated his true qi, and began to connect with the surrounding geography and terrain.
With his strength, this step was easy. He immediately started to draw the geography and terrain power into the Feng Shui Stones of the formation, to activate it.
But as he controlled it, his expression suddenly changed.
The geographic power that had already been stirred up suddenly calmed down in his shock, then fell completely silent, no longer responding to his guidance at all.
What was going on?
For a moment, standing there holding the Five Emperors Sword, he might as well have been performing mime, looking somewhat like an idiot.
