Chapter 310: You Think The Chen Family Head Is Cultivating? That’s A Bit Much!
Chen Han heard Daoist Priest Li’s words and asked in confusion, “Daoist Priest Li, what is shocking the internet?”
Daoist Priest Li’s laughter came through. “Chen Family Head, you will know soon. Anyway, the negative news about superstition online is about to be lifted, so I am specially informing you. I still have to notify the other purple-robed daoist priests, hanging up now.”
Chen Han hung up the telephone and also smiled. It was a good thing that those negative reports about promoting superstition online were being resolved.
It should be that the Daoist Association was about to make a move online.
So he also took out his mobile phone and went online to check the situation on Douyin.
Before long, he keenly noticed that the popularity of Wudang Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit had started to drop.
The most direct sign was that its ranking on the hot search list kept falling.
He curiously tapped into the hot search list and found that many videos about Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit had disappeared, such as those that deliberately guided things toward promoting superstition.
《Those daoist priests at Wudang gathering together, if they are simply studying Daoist scriptures, there is nothing wrong with that. But if they insist on forcing some natural scientific phenomena into metaphysics, then…》
Chen Han was watching this fairly popular video when, in the next moment, the video vanished.
Scrolling down, he indeed found that this type of video was disappearing one by one.
It was likely that Douyin’s review editors were reviewing and banning them one after another.
The ranking on the hot search list is based on the total popularity of the trending topics, combined with a special algorithm.
With these videos banned, the popularity naturally dropped sharply.
It seemed the association’s intervention was very strong.
Not only did Chen Han see this news, many people following this matter also noticed it.
For example, the bald-headed new CEO of a certain temple.
He had spent a lot of money and arranged for many people to report that exchange meeting on the other side for suspected superstitious promotion.
After that, he also arranged people online to guide public opinion, framing that exchange meeting as promoting superstition, all to sling mud so people would stop focusing on the mysterious side of Feng Shui and instead fix their attention on superstition propaganda.
That way, it would not take long for the relevant departments to step in and demand rectification. Once an announcement came out, the matter would be decided, and platforms like Douyin would definitely not dare to give Feng Shui-related videos any traffic for a while.
Then that popularity would be suppressed.
In this way, they could keep securing more time for their scripture-chanting masters to continue trying to crack the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》.
As for Feng Shui, even if they themselves did not know it, they could spend money to get it later; there was no way they could not obtain it.
But what he never expected was that the heat he had paid to stir up about promoting superstition online was actually pressed down so quickly.
All related videos on Douyin had been banned.
“Damn it, Douyin suppressing the popularity like this, are they not afraid the relevant departments will be displeased?” The bald CEO’s expression turned gloomy. He had orchestrated so many reports that the relevant leaders would definitely be paying attention to this matter.
Douyin was making trouble for itself.
He immediately called someone over and instructed, “Contact Douyin and ask them why they are suppressing the matter of promoting superstition. Do they not know this violates the regulations?”
That person nodded and hurried out to make contact. Not long after, he awkwardly returned. “Abbot, something is wrong. The people at Douyin simply will not respond. They only said there is no need to explain to us.”
“…” The bald CEO frowned tightly, even a little annoyed. “They really do not know what is good for them. Once the relevant department leaders notice, they will suffer. Arrange for people to keep reporting and push the relevant departments to act quickly.”
The man nodded and was just about to leave when another bald man hurried in holding a mobile phone. “Abbot, a call from the Association Secretary-General.”
Just like Ma Yuan of the Daoist Association, the Buddhist side also had such a supervisory figure.
The bald CEO was puzzled and answered immediately. “Amitabha, Secretary-General, do you have any instructions? We will definitely comply!”
But the voice on the other end immediately began scolding. “Tell me, are you people brainless? Do you really think the higher-up leaders cannot see you are behind those reports?”
“The key thing is, what gave you the confidence to believe you could use such tactics to suppress our own traditional culture?”
“Do you know you made me take an unwarranted punishment for lax supervision and poor guidance? Just wait, you will also face rectification and punishment!”
“???” The bald CEO was clearly stunned by the scolding. Why was the situation completely different from what he imagined?
The online heat questioning that exchange meeting for promoting superstition was so high, and he had arranged for so many people to report it. Normally the relevant departments should have noticed and then demanded rectification through the Daoist Association, right?
But before he could say anything more, the other party had already hung up.
This made him realize the situation was serious. He hurriedly ordered the man from before, “Suspend the reporting.”
But just as he gave the order, he received another call. This call made his expression drastically change. He immediately took out his mobile phone and logged into the Buddhist Association’s official website, where there was a rectification and punishment notice about their temple.
《In view of the irregular development of **Temple… serious violation of relevant requirements, damaging unity… a rectification punishment is hereby imposed…》
The bald CEO’s face turned extremely ugly.
Although he had only just taken office, he knew the association’s style. Under normal circumstances, they would never go this far.
They would only do this if something was really serious.
But he had merely targeted Wudang’s exchange meeting a little. Why did they go so hard?
Most importantly, once this announcement was released, would those who were already watching their joke not take the chance to kick them while they were down?
The reason the previous incident had spread so quickly and ruined their reputation across the entire internet was thanks to those people. Even paying money to suppress the topic had not worked; it was like they held some deep grudge.
Thinking of this, he hurriedly took out his mobile phone and checked online, and in moments his expression turned even darker.
On Douyin, news of their announced rectification and punishment had already become a trending topic.
《After the first CEO’s scandal, **Temple is publicly punished again!》
《Honestly, we wronged Jiumozhi in the past. Even his comment was too mild.》
《A place of cultivation, yet it is always involved in money-grabbing, scandals, and punishment news. Who still believes in them?》
《Haha, what is the difference between public punishment and public execution? This is truly delightful to see!》
Seeing the videos with such headlines, the bald CEO was grinding his teeth.
Did they really have a grudge against them?
The key question: what was Douyin doing? When it was their turn, their news shot into trending topics in such a short time, right?
But when it came to the other side, Douyin directly suppressed the popularity, right?
This was blatant double standards.
He could not help wanting to curse out loud in his heart.
But something even more infuriating appeared. In that instant, a trending topic surpassed the heat of their punishment news.
《At the Daoist Scripture Exchange Meeting, many daoist priests jointly compiled new-era Feng Shui books, demonstrating the Mystic Sect’s spirit of keeping pace with the times!》
“???” When the bald CEO saw this news, he felt the malice of the world was overwhelming.
They themselves had done nothing, yet they were publicly punished, humiliated in front of the entire internet.
But the other side had already been questioned for promoting superstitious Feng Shui. Earlier they had to use scripture exchange as an excuse and even had to come out to declare “believe in science,” looking quite embarrassed.
Yet now they were openly promoting Feng Shui books?
And using praise like “new era” and “keeping pace with the times”?
Could the differential treatment be any more blatant?
But when he opened this trending topic and saw the videos inside, he was stunned.
Especially when he saw how Feng Shui was connected with geography and illustrated with real locations, he was even more confused. Was Feng Shui like this?
If Feng Shui were this simple, how could their predecessors in the past have only obtained such a little bit of Feng Shui knowledge?
If it were this simple, he was convinced that long ago in ancient times Feng Shui would have belonged to them.
The crucial point was, once a Feng Shui book like this was compiled, was it still Feng Shui?
Even as a monk, he knew this was geography and science.
This also made him sense a very troubling situation.
The Daoist sect seemed to have moved ahead of them, integrating better into the wave of the new era.
Was that the reason for Douyin’s blatant bias?
Obviously, this CEO never would have imagined that higher-up leaders were already paying attention to this.
Online, while netizens were eating the “**Temple punished” melon, they also saw the sudden news about the Feng Shui books.
Previously, when the Wudang exchange meeting was rumored to be a Feng Shui exchange, those daoist priests had all denied it together and asked everyone to believe in science.
So what was going on now? How were they openly promoting Feng Shui books?
Many people were already following this matter, so they clicked into the trending topic and saw some of the contents of the published Feng Shui books.
Even people like Ma Yuan and the higher-up leaders were baffled when they saw this Feng Shui content, let alone ordinary netizens.
Seeing extensive geography knowledge attached below the Feng Shui knowledge, they suddenly realized that Feng Shui did not seem that difficult.
In their own place, it looked like they could learn it too.
This made them unsure whether this was still “Feng Shui” in the sense they had imagined.
It could be said that this suddenly exploding video quickly reached a peak of popularity, and the comment sections were very lively.
“666, this Feng Shui suddenly feels like an olympiad problem turned into a primary school question.”
“Damn, it seems the end of believing in science is metaphysics.”
“It is kind of ironic that daoist priests engaged in metaphysics proved that Feng Shui is geographical science, while the experts who wanted to prove Feng Shui uses geography never managed to prove it.”
“…”
The appearance of these Feng Shui books attracted all netizens’ attention in a short time.
It showed that people were still interested in traditional culture; the most important thing was to make it understandable, not obscure and inexplicable.
In fact, the Feng Shui books that Chen Han compiled using the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone were simply stripped of their “inheritance encryption.” In the past, Feng Shui also emphasized sect inheritance, deliberately making it mystical so that not everyone could understand.
Only those truly proficient understood the inner workings and passed it down generation by generation, while outsiders were left dizzy by layers of cryptic mysticism.
This was actually one of the reasons many traditional cultural practices declined and were lost.
Was there not once a movie about an ancient medicinal formula? Without knowing the plot, you would think it was just a medical prescription, but reading it alone, it looked like a poem about love. Who would know it was a formula?
But that was understandable. After all, everyone protects their own knowledge. The same is true today; look at those company formulas, all hidden tightly.
Before long, another video about the Feng Shui books suddenly went viral.
《Is no one paying attention to who authored the Feng Shui book? It is the Chen Family Head, and Xiao Mi is the geography consultant!》
With this level of popularity, it was hard for such a video not to explode.
Actually many people had already noticed the name “Chen Han （Da Xuan）” on the cover.
It was just that under normal circumstances, no one linked it to the Chen Family Head.
Most people who knew or followed this Chen Family Head had only heard, watched, and commented on the words “Chen Family Head.”
As for his actual name, many had never paid attention.
So when people saw this video, many were shocked to realize that this Chen Han was the Chen Family Head.
My god, unbelievable.
This awesome Feng Shui book was actually compiled by the Chen Family Head?
This news spread at the fastest speed, leaving many people dumbfounded.
“I am really stunned. No wonder the Chen Family Head can be a purple robe.”
“Considering his age, it is not surprising he can keep pace with the times. After all, he is a new-era purple-robed big shot.”
“I used to wonder how someone his age could be purple-robed. Now I see he is truly awesome.”
“What is with Xiao Mi being the geography consultant?”
“Isn’t Xiao Mi that national style internet celebrity from the Chen Clan? So this Feng Shui book is related to her too?”
Many people suddenly felt this Feng Shui book was becoming more and more legendary.
In one move, not only Chen Han but also Xiao Mi was thrust into the spotlight.
As Xiao Mi’s popularity rose, those bloggers and graduate students she had previously contacted were surprised to realize they had unknowingly participated in something big.
The key was they clearly knew that Feng Shui was not just simple geography. Back in the group, that Xiao Mi had consulted many questions about meteorology, astronomy, and so on.
Now only the content related to geography and terrain had been made public, which was probably the simplest part.
The truly profound parts were still hidden in those daoist priests’ daoist temples, not revealed to outsiders.
Unfortunately, that group had already been disbanded and deleted by them.
They had never thought this far back then, and now they could not find any evidence even if they wanted to.
However, this made Xiao Mi even more famous in the internet celebrity circle.
Especially among those national style girls who were familiar with her.
For example, Crooked Mouth Dragon King, Widow Saint Body, and others.
They were currently in *zhou attending a national style ceremony. They had thought this event would have considerable popularity and bring them a lot of traffic.
But the ceremony barely gained any heat. Instead, the sudden punishment notice for **Temple and the news that the Daoist sect had compiled some new-era Feng Shui books swept up all the traffic.
All other events had their popularity suppressed.
Including the national style ceremony they were attending.
However, the Daoist Feng Shui books did draw their attention. Even though their grades had not been great in school, they could actually understand the knowledge in the Feng Shui books.
This showed how capable the compilers of the Feng Shui books were.
“Now it is getting harder to survive online. Even the Buddhist and Daoist sects are coming out to fight for popularity, and the heat is so high,” Little Celestial complained somewhat.
She had carefully prepared a set of Hanfu this time and spent a lot of money.
At this moment, Crooked Mouth Dragon King exclaimed, “My god, this Feng Shui book was actually compiled by the Chen Family Head, and Xiao Mi is the geography consultant for it. No wonder she has not been joining national style events lately; she was quietly doing something big.”
The other girls were also surprised at this news and quickly took out their mobile phones to search.
When they saw that the geography consultant position on the cover indeed had Xiao Mi’s name, they could not help but feel envious.
The online popularity of this Feng Shui book was obvious. Xiao Mi would definitely get a huge share of that terrifying traffic.
They hurriedly opened Xiao Mi’s account and found that her fans were already close to six million, up by nearly one million from the previous five million.
Envy and jealousy surged.
The key thing was what they saw next: Xiao Mi’s account name had been changed to “Xiao Mi （beginner Feng Shui master）”.
She really knew how to ride the wave.
These girls did not hesitate. They all took out Weixin to contact Xiao Mi. No matter how envious they were, they still knew each other and had to offer congratulations.
The main thing was to probe for information about the Feng Shui book and any inside stories.
That way, during their live streams tonight, they could talk about these things and attract some traffic.
They were sure many streamers would be talking about this tonight.
Natural heat.
Various so-called “inside stories” would definitely fly all over the place, making it hard for people online to tell truth from falsehood.
…
In Xiao Yu’s car, Xiao Mi was scrolling through Douyin videos when she received messages on Weixin from those national style girls and some internet celebrities she knew, all trying to get information from her.
At this time, Chen Han had focused all his attention on the game prompts in his mind:
【Congratulations… reputation +1】
【Congratulations… reputation +1】
…
【Congratulations… reputation +1】
This was because people had learned he was the one who compiled basic Feng Shui, and those who saw it started to follow him.
All the way along, the prompts of increased reputation in his mind never stopped, which meant his followers kept increasing.
Before long, he had gained one million new followers, pushing his total followers past ten million.
By the time he returned to the Chen Clan, he had gained 5 million, bringing the total to 5 million.
This showed how high the popularity of the Feng Shui books was this time.
By nighttime, Chen Han’s followers had already exceeded 12 million, an increase of three million in a short time.
His reputation naturally broke past the four million mark again.
Online, the heat of this topic continued, and many experts had joined the discussion, trying to get a share of the attention.
A geography expert started a live stream, explaining that seven years ago he had said Feng Shui was the utilization of geography and terrain. “Now look, is it just as I said?”
Of course, when people in the live room asked why, back then, when everyone wanted him to prove it, he could not offer solid proof, he ignored those questions and pretended not to see them.
Another expert also started a live stream. He had helped compile a middle school geography textbook, and one section of that geography content happened to be identical to a geography section in the Feng Shui book.
This expert smiled and said, “When I wrote this part of the textbook, I was already thinking of that Feng Shui pattern. I have always believed Feng Shui is the scientific utilization of geography and terrain.”
No one knew how capable these experts truly were, but one thing was certain: their faces were thick enough. One after another popped out like demons and ghosts.
During dinner, Chen Lin reported, “Xiao Han, about the development at the back mountain, the bamboo, pines, and plum trees you requested have already been planted over a large area. Should we keep planting?”
“Uncle, keep planting,” Chen Han instructed with a nod.
Those were the Three Talents Plants needed to upgrade the sect base.
Since the game system had not indicated that the requirement was met, it meant the area planted was still insufficient.
They just needed to keep planting.
After that, Chen Dagou, Chen Shuisheng, and Xiao Yu each reported on the Chen Clan’s matters in recent days.
Once they finished, they eagerly chatted about the online heat surrounding the Feng Shui books.
The entire Chen Clan felt proud that Chen Han had compiled such a Feng Shui book.
After dinner, Chen Han went back to his courtyard and came out holding three items.
They were the purple robe, record book, and decree that Daoist Priest Li, president of the Daoist Association, had bestowed upon him at Wudang.
These three items were proof of a Daoist sect mage and a Daoist family.
Although in the current Daoist sect and Daoist Association he was already purple-robed and the Chen Clan had already opened its own branch, in the game storyline these three items had to be presented to the Heavenly Lord with incense at the altar.
So he had to bring these items to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, report to the Heavenly Lord, place them on the altar, and offer incense daily until the Heavenly Lord granted these three items their proper attributes.
When Aunt-Grandmother saw him arrive, she wore a smile.
She also checked the news online and naturally knew that her family head had written a Feng Shui book with great influence.
This made the Chen Clan appear even stronger.
The hall wardens and family members who had come to help, upon seeing their family head, all showed respect.
With the three items in hand, Chen Han came to Aunt-Grandmother and instructed, “Aunt-Grandmother, these three things are our Chen Clan’s credentials. We must report them to the Heavenly Lord and place them on the altar so the Heavenly Lord can bestow blessings on them.”
Aunt-Grandmother did not know if the Daoist sect had such a rule. At least in her days in the Chen Clan there had been no such practice, because the Chen Clan could not possibly produce a purple robe, had no record book, and certainly no decree.
This was the first time.
So if the family head said so, it must make sense, and they naturally had to do it well.
She respectfully received the three items, piously placed them on the altar, and then led several hall wardens in chanting scriptures.
Some tourists who were there at the Golden Great Hall to offer incense and join the lucky draw saw this scene and curiously used their mobile phones to record. When they noticed Chen Han, they became even more excited and focused their lenses on him, taking continuous shots.
His heat online was huge today. The Feng Shui book he had written was understandable even to them, giving them the illusion that cultivating the Dao and learning Feng Shui seemed easy, as if they could do it too.
After Aunt-Grandmother finished chanting with the others, Chen Han also took incense and offered it, then received a game prompt:
【You have placed the family record book, purple robe daoist robe, and mage decree upon the altar and offered incense. Please keep the incense burning until the Heavenly Lord descends and activates their attributes!】
Seeing this game prompt, Chen Han understood the attributes of these three items could not be activated in a short time. He then left the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
Back at his attic, he went into the bathroom and took a long shower. After changing clothes, he opened the room where the special soul summoning banner was placed and went in.
The special soul summoning banner was still operating. On the screen were those special rune code patterns, occasionally flowing and rotating with a faint air of mystery.
Chen Han took out the Illusion Breaking Bead from the game warehouse, and at that moment he received a game prompt:
【Congratulations, the soul summoning banner has detected an external plugin available for assembly. Do you want to assemble the Illusion Breaking Bead?】
Chen Han had already known these two items needed to be used together.
But a soul summoning banner having an “external plugin” and “assembly” — did it really think it was a computer, connecting to the Illusion Breaking Bead via bluetooth over the air?
Complaints aside, he chose to assemble it.
In the next moment, the Illusion Breaking Bead flew toward the screen of the special soul summoning banner and then merged into it.
The game system sounded again:
【The soul summoning banner has a new plugin assembled. The new plugin’s function is being read: illusion module x】
Seeing this, Chen Han realized it would not be ready immediately, so he returned to his room and sat down to cultivate.
He took out an intermediate spirit stone and cultivated the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture advanced Qi cultivation method》 for a while, then continued to practice the Immortal Light Merging spell.
But the cyan and white dual energies required for Immortal Light Merging were extremely difficult to control. Until the next day, he had only made a little progress.
After returning to the Chen Clan, he resumed his usual routine: first checking on the refinement of the insect puppets, then going to the courtyard to collect the Moon Gazing Sand.
In the days he had been away, nine grains of Moon Gazing Sand had formed. He collected them all, while the White Rabbit seemed somewhat impatient.
After some time apart, it eagerly jumped into his hands, affectionately rubbing its head against his fingers, seemingly even smarter and better at acting cute.
Its tiny body, pure white fur, and bright round eyes made its cuteness lethally strong.
Picking up the Little White Rabbit, he went to the special spiritual aperture to cultivate. After finishing, he went to Uncle’s Kitchen to prepare medicinal cuisine.
Another half day passed. After lunch, when he went to check on the special soul summoning banner, he received another call from Daoist Priest Li.
This priest had been calling quite frequently.
When he answered, Daoist Priest Li congratulated him. “Chen Family Head, congratulations. The entire internet is now full of news about that Feng Shui book. As the chief editor, you are basking in honor.”
Chen Han teased him, “Daoist Priest Li, I do not think you specially called just to say polite things, right?”
Hearing this, Daoist Priest Li instinctively asked, “Chen Family Head, can you stop a typhoon?”
“What?” Chen Han was dumbfounded. “Daoist Priest Li, are you treating me like an immortal?”
Stop a typhoon?
With his current strength? Was that his job?
On the other side, Daoist Priest Li awkwardly looked at Ma Yuan beside him. “Brother Ma, you see, what you are asking is making things difficult. How about you first have people check if those town *buildings and *statues have any Feng Shui formation diagrams from their construction?”
“We can only do that,” Ma Yuan sighed, then left Daoist Priest Li.
“Phew…” Watching him leave, Daoist Priest Li muttered quietly, “They really think this group are cultivators of immortality. Even the Chen Family Head would not dare claim to be a cultivator of immortality.”
Still, he could not help feeling a bit excited about what the secretary-general had mentioned. If they really found some Feng Shui formation diagrams.
Then…
…
After Chen Han hung up on Daoist Priest Li and put away his mobile phone, a game prompt appeared indicating the soul summoning banner plugin assembly was complete:
【Congratulations, the soul summoning banner’s special plugin assembly is complete. The banner has expanded with a new illusion module xPlease check the soul summoning banner notes for the activation conditions.】
Seeing this prompt, Chen Han immediately checked the soul summoning banner’s notes and was left dumbfounded.
Were these conditions not a bit too demanding?
Was this forcing him to ask Doubao for help?
