Chapter 162: Thunder Bamboo Forest Expands! System Renovation Complete!
【Yin Feng Cave blood-guiding bee: This is a special blood gu that Yin Feng Cave specializes in refining. Its refinement method comes from the tracking method of the golden silkworm gu. It is said that the golden silkworm is the most terrifying gu technique of Yin Feng Cave. Even if an expert conceals their aura, they cannot escape its detection and will be tracked down.
This blood-guiding bee inherits the tracking ability of the golden silkworm gu. As long as there is residual aura locked onto, and it is within a certain range, it can easily be tracked down!
Number of uses: 3/】
He did not expect that after the thief demon bees invaded, such an item from Yin Feng Cave would actually drop.
The use of this thing goes without saying. It is used to track and find people and to hunt them down. Within a certain range it can absolutely leave the target with nowhere to hide.
In that old adapted Shu Shan drama, this thing had already perfectly demonstrated its effect.
It was just that in reality, although it could be used three times, its function seemed rather limited, since he did not need to hunt anyone down.
Unless one day some blind fool came to cause trouble for the Chen Clan, or sabotaged the Chen Clan and then ran away at the first moment, and he needed to find them. Then he might use this thing.
In that case the other party would definitely have no escape.
He only hoped no such unlucky person would appear.
Just as he was thinking this, the game system suddenly popped up a game plot prompt:
【When you were controlling the clan’s Mysterious Frost Lion Head Goose group to eliminate the invading thief demon bees, you discovered that one of them was actually carrying demonic energy and its whole body was blood red. This seemed to be the notorious blood-guiding bee from Yin Feng Cave. Behind this thief demon bee invasion of the Chen Clan, there appears to be the shadow of a demonic cult rogue.
The other party may be targeting the Chen Clan’s current Demon Suppressing Grand Gathering. After all, the clan has been in high fame recently and has attracted the attention of major demonic forces.
But Yin Feng Cave’s Green Robe Old Ancestor is a demonic path magnate, clearly not someone the Chen Clan can currently contend with. Therefore, you decide to report this matter to the Shushan Immortal Alliance!】
Chen Han was surprised. He had never expected that this routine thief demon bee invasion task would actually have such a follow-up plot.
The Green Robe Old Ancestor, that was the real boss.
At this moment, he felt rather glad he had not actually transmigrated successfully. At least in reality the Green Robe Old Ancestor could not really appear.
Chen Dagou stepped forward and said, “Xiao Han, these thief demon bees come invading from time to time. This cycle is really annoying. We should go up the mountain once and root them out.”
“Uncle Dagou, that’s not necessary. If they want to come, let them. We can just have some fun with them,” Chen Han shook his head with a smile.
What a joke. As long as these thief demon bees could still trigger tasks and still drop items, he wished they would come as many times as possible, preferably several times a day.
That way he would definitely have the joy of crazily farming item drops.
However, speaking of going up the mountain, he felt he did need to go once. He looked at the white light shield still covering the Chen Clan.
The last “Daoist Sect Characteristic: Minor Punishment as a Warning” renovation was not finished yet. The renovation light covering them had not disappeared.
But that was not important. The important thing was that after the mountain behind became the Chen Clan’s merit industry, the Chen Clan’s territory had expanded.
Previously, the materials for making Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea came from the bamboo forest controlled by the Chen Clan, which had been classified as the Thunder Bamboo Forest.
That bamboo forest was only a small part of this mountain. Now the entire mountain, within the contracted years, was the Chen Clan’s merit industry, and there was also an area of bamboo forest on the mountain.
Would this automatically be classified within the Thunder Bamboo Forest?
So he needed to go take a look.
If it was as he guessed and was automatically classified within the Thunder Bamboo Forest range, then the Chen Clan’s Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea yield could increase again.
Thinking this, he went to the crucible room where Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea was produced and also called Uncle Shuisheng on the telephone.
Uncle Shuisheng was in charge of the Chen Clan’s specialty product department. It was not just Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea. When the bee boxes for royal jelly stabilized later, they would also be assigned to the specialty product department.
He entered the crucible room. Inside it was very lively. The clan members making Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea were cooperating on stir-frying while chatting enthusiastically. For the finished Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea, some people specifically sampled brewed tea to ensure success.
Because they were initially worried about yield limitations, when Uncle and the others built the crucible room, they made several crucibles. Now more than half of them were unused.
So if they increased production, there would be no problem on the crucible room side.
What they lacked now was enough bamboo leaves.
In the Chen Clan’s original bamboo forest, production had already reached its limit. If they increased further, the regrowth of bamboo leaves simply could not keep up.
“Patriarch!”
“The patriarch is here.”
“…”
When those clan members saw Chen Han enter, they all greeted him respectfully and worked even harder to repay the patriarch.
After all, this job paid 7,000 yuan, with no annoying nonsense, surrounded by familiar clan members, and close to home.
You could say, aside from their own clan, no one else would give them such a good job.
They now deeply understood the benefits of having family protection, so they were naturally very respectful to this patriarch.
“Patriarch, please taste this, a batch of premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea just stir-fried,” said the clan member responsible for inspecting finished product, handing him a cup of Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.
Chen Han took it, drank a sip, and immediately felt the special effect of the Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea. He nodded and said, “Mm, not bad!”
Then he instructed, “You must not make mistakes in stir-frying this Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea. We cannot lose the reputation that our Chen Clan finally built up.”
These words made those clan members all promise that there would be no problems.
As vested interests themselves, they were even less willing to see issues with Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea. Otherwise, if they lost this job and had to go back to working outside again?
Chen Shuisheng soon arrived and hurriedly asked, “Xiao Han, you sounded urgent on the phone. What do you need?”
Chen Han smiled and said, “Uncle Shuisheng, bring a few people and come up the mountain with me. These two days I have been checking the classics. It seems the clan’s Feng Shui array is built upon the geographical formation of the mountain behind us. Recently, the array’s energy is overflowing, and it seems to have affected the vegetation on the mountain. I want to go check the bamboo forest there. Maybe its bamboo leaves can also be made into Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.”
“Really?” Chen Shuisheng’s eyes lit up at these words.
“Not certain yet. Uncle Shuisheng, first take some people and come with me,” Chen Han ordered and walked out of the crucible room.
Chen Shuisheng immediately followed and called a few people in charge of picking tea leaves to come along.
The mountain behind the Chen Clan covered a considerable span. One side bordered the Chen Clan, and the other bordered Shangyuan Village. The bamboo forest area was on the side near the village.
So Chen Han led the group out of the Chen Clan and into the village.
Now the entire Shangyuan Village had changed a lot. The village road had been cleared, looking very clean, and the village paths had also been cleared and paved with stone slabs for tourists to walk on.
Some houses clearly had tourists going in and out. This showed that the village’s bed and breakfast resources had already been put into use.
After all, the number of tourists the Chen Clan received every day already exceeded the Chen Clan’s accommodation capacity and had spilled over into the villagers’ bed and breakfasts.
In addition, on a privately retained hillside in the village, they had already started building a very large grass-skiing project. Once this project was completed, since the tourists were already here and it was so close, they would definitely go play.
When they reached the foot of the mountain, they could see that the village had opened up a large pond. Chen Han knew the village planned to make it into a fish pond, providing fishing for tourists and even activities like catching snails and loaches in the fields.
Some people said tourists would not be so bored as to play that kind of thing.
No, they actually would.
Scroll through more short videos and you would know how popular these kinds of projects are. Those tourists rolling around in the mud and having a great time would make people from the countryside shake their heads.
“Patriarch Chen.” Guo Zhen saw Chen Han and his group and immediately ran over, panting, to greet them.
“Village chief,” Chen Han replied politely.
Guo Zhen took a couple of breaths and asked somewhat embarrassed, “Patriarch Chen, I heard that the Chen Clan’s own people are almost fully hired now. If the Chen Clan needs to recruit more in the future, please consider the young people in the village.”
This information was impossible to hide if anyone cared to ask.
Now most of the Chen Clan members who had been working outside had basically returned. The ones who remained out were those who went to university and had good jobs. These people would not come back to do manual labor for just over 5,000 yuan, or a bit over 7,000 yuan.
Even at 7,000 yuan, those doing physical labor would not hesitate to come home to work, but some office workers sitting in air-conditioned rooms earning 7,000 yuan would definitely not return. They even felt physical labor was not respectable, even though on 7,000 yuan outside they might not save anything.
Different environments, different educational backgrounds, and different experiences led to different mindsets.
So, for future projects, the Chen Clan would inevitably have to recruit externally.
Guo Zhen felt he might not have the ability to lead everyone to wealth, but he could still help them cling to a strong backer. So when he saw the patriarch’s group, he hurried over.
Chen Han thought for a moment and said, “Village chief, strictly speaking, our Chen Clan’s household registration is also in Shangyuan Village. If there is an opportunity, we will of course give more help to the village.”
Just as the village chief said, when the Chen Clan launched more projects later, they would definitely have to recruit from outside.
For example, on this trip up the mountain, if the bamboo leaves there could be used to refine Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea, then the crucible side would definitely need more people. The clan members who had stayed or returned were basically all assigned.
The plan would be to transfer some clan members currently on lower-paying jobs to Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea stir-frying positions with higher wages, then hire people to fill their previous posts.
Also, once they had the rapeseed seeds ready, they would definitely cultivate rapeseed flowers, and the planting area would be very large. The demand for people would also be very high.
When the clan alone was not enough, they could only recruit externally. Uncle, Uncle Dagou, and Uncle Shuisheng had already discussed this.
Their idea was to start with relatives. After all, the Chen Clan had married off many daughters and taken many daughters-in-law. Their families all had young people needing jobs and would be very willing to work a 5,000 yuan job back in their hometown.
Naturally, if they could recruit relatives, there was no reason they could not recruit villagers. As the saying goes, distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors.
However, whether recruiting relatives, villagers, or in the future people from nearby villages, supervision had to be in place.
Those clan members who performed well would certainly be promoted to basic management.
It was like long ago, when there were rebel soldiers and bandits. The Chen Clan would gather young and strong men from the surrounding ten miles and eight villages, and the outstanding Chen clan members would basically serve as captains of each small team.
Only then could the patriarch’s orders be fully passed down so that every young man followed command. Otherwise, even if they gathered the young and strong, it would be hard to exert strength, let alone resist rebel soldiers and bandits.
Now, although it was a new era without rebel soldiers and bandits, some practices were definitely similar. They still had to use outstanding clan members to manage others.
“Thank you, Patriarch Chen.” With this answer, Guo Zhen was overjoyed.
He could see that the Chen Clan would definitely continue to grow stronger. By holding onto this strong backer, Shangyuan Village’s young people, like the Chen clan members, would not have to drift outside and could become well-off at home.
Then he, Guo Zhen, would not have been a village chief in vain.
After parting with the village chief, Chen Han continued leading Uncle Shuisheng and the others up the mountain and into the bamboo forest.
His first order was, “Uncle Shuisheng, pick some bamboo leaves from various places and mark their locations. Let me see if they can be used to make Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.”
“Alright.” Chen Shuisheng nodded immediately and led people to work.
Chen Han also picked some bamboo leaves from a few bamboo stalks in front of him, then stored them in the game warehouse and checked the remark information:
【Bamboo leaves: These bamboo leaves appear to be ordinary bamboo leaves, but they seem to have a special use!】
Seeing this remark, Chen Han was already pleased inside.
Because in the previous bamboo forest, the leaves also appeared ordinary outside. It was only that those ordinary bamboo leaves within the system-designated range, when combined with the system-designated crucible, could trigger the Thunder Bamboo Leaf attribute and produce Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.
Now, this remark information meant that to a great extent this new bamboo forest belonging to the Chen Clan had also been recognized by the system.
Chen Shuisheng and the others were already very skilled at picking bamboo leaves. Before long, each person had picked a small bag of leaves from different directions for Chen Han to inspect.
Chen Han pretended to examine each bag of bamboo leaves, then took the chance to store some into the game warehouse and saw almost the same remark information:
【Bamboo leaves: These bamboo leaves appear to be ordinary bamboo leaves, but they seem to have a special use!】
With joy on his face, Chen Han ordered, “Uncle Shuisheng, immediately take people back and make these bamboo leaves into Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea separately, then check the results.”
“Mm!” Chen Shuisheng nodded, also with a trace of joy.
From the happiness on Chen Han’s face, he could roughly guess that these bamboo leaves were very likely also usable for Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.
Once it worked, the number of 7,000-yuan positions provided to the clan would definitely double.
This was absolutely great news.
The group hurried down the mountain and returned to the Chen Clan.
When Chen Han returned to his courtyard, his junior sister and Xiao Mi brought three girls to visit. He had already met Lobster and also that Crooked Mouth Dragon King.
This third one, if he remembered correctly, should be that girl with uncoordinated limbs who always embarrassed herself while dancing, the Innate Unwidowed Saint Body, right?
She was truly unique among national style beauties, with male fans’ lecherous attributes maxed out.
As the master of the Chen Clan, it was normal for Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi to bring them to pay a visit. Also, Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi needed to discuss the performance programs with him.
The Chen Clan National Style Event would last three days. The performances, including those by Chen clan members and the few national style girls, were limited in number. They could not just use them all up in one day.
So the programs had to be staggered across three days. Xiao Yu had even gone to find Ming Di and the other demonic cult rogue, having the two come and perform for free.
Arrangements for this matter took more than an hour of discussion before a result was reached.
In the evening, Chen Han invited the three girls to have dinner together to show some hospitality. After dinner, he went to the spirit field to continue modifying Spirit Plant Dew and watering the rapeseed. If nothing unexpected happened, they should bloom tomorrow.
When he returned to his courtyard, the sky was already completely dark. He washed up, took out a primary spirit stone, and began cultivation.
Overnight, his true qi clearly grew stronger again. After going out to continue cultivating at the Special Spiritual Aperture, he once more climbed the Three Old Elm Trees to collect some dew to send to Aunt-Grandmother.
She needed time to recruit suitable hall wardens and start collecting dew.
As for the dew collected yesterday, after one night, it had already lost the effect of rootless water, and even the faint spiritual energy in the dew had dissipated.
It seemed ordinary bottles could not preserve rootless water.
After that, he prepared the medicinal cuisine and went again to the spirit field. Today, seeing the rapeseed he had planted, they had not only matured into plants but had indeed grown flower buds.
At this speed, they would all bloom by the end of the day. Then they only had to wait for seeds.
Back in the courtyard, he thought about the future planting of rapeseed flowers. This would be a major merit industry, and the planting area would not be small. Just the land rental alone would cost quite a lot, not to mention recruiting workers and all kinds of expenses.
So he thought for a bit and directly sent a message to Mr. Liu: “Devotee, there is a merit industry here from the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s dream. Would you like to help fulfill the heavenly lord’s dream together?”
Almost as soon as he sent the message, Mr. Liu replied with a voice message: “I am willing, I am willing. Patriarch Chen, I returned to the group headquarters early this morning. Please keep this opportunity for me. I will rush over immediately to pay my respects to you.”
Chen Han was satisfied with his attitude. The other party had clearly become a very pious believer.
After that, he picked up his mobile phone and started scrolling videos. Today, Douyin pushed him all positive content, worthy of likes.
If it were not for the last video featuring an “expert professor” spouting nonsense about the current situation of young people, it would have been great. This professor quoted classics and belittled today’s young people as worthless.
In the end, with a sorrowful face allegedly “for the good of young people,” he offered them a “piece of advice” in the video.
Chen Han felt there should be fewer such professors; they were more like beasts in academic robes. Stop always trying to “offer young people a line.” Young people do not lack your line. What young people need is a sum of money.
Without a sum of money, a boyfriend or a girlfriend would also do.
Stop sitting high above and just offering young people a line.
Just as he put down his phone, Uncle Shuisheng hurried in with others, each holding a cup of tea.
Seeing this, Chen Han’s eyes brightened slightly. He could roughly guess what had happened.
“Xiao Han, good news. It all worked. The bamboo leaves from all directions in that bamboo forest can be used to make Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea,” Chen Shuisheng said, having people place the tea on the table.
Chen Han took a few sips from each cup. Almost instantly he could feel that unique sensation belonging to Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.
Which meant it was all Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea indeed.
This really was good news.
The Chen Clan’s Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea yield could be increased.
Almost at the same time, the game information of Minor Punishment as a Warning renovation success appeared in his mind. The Sect Base information on the mental light screen also updated, showing new upgrade requirements.
And the effect of this Minor Punishment as a Warning, as well as the new upgrade conditions for the Sect Base, really surprised him.
Especially these new upgrade conditions. How was he supposed to obtain this stuff?
