Chapter 139: A Righteous Path Skill! Demonic Beasts Invade The Family!
Chen Lin saw that as his nephew waved the fan, a gust of wind curled out.
Normally wind could not be seen, but when it swept up fallen leaves and dust from the ground, the force of the wind could clearly be seen.
His nephew’s fan really had waved out a curling gust of wind.
Chen Lin was very clear that what he had worked on was only a roast duck stove, yet what was happening before his eyes, could it really be connected to a roast duck stove?
At this moment, Chen Han also understood what “a roll of clear wind” meant. It really was a roll. The leaves and dust lifted by the wind followed that spiral, rolling and rolling and rolling.
Also, the strength of this wind spiral was truly limited. It could only lift leaves and dust from the ground; anything heavier could not be swept up.
Was this not a gentle breeze?
It was just that its manifestation was a spiral of wind, like a tornado with its power shrunk countless times.
Chen Lin subconsciously asked, “Xiao Han, is this really wind produced by the fan?”
Chen Han smiled, lifted the green pheasant fan, and gave it another wave. Another spiral of wind blew out, sweeping up the leaves and dust on the ground.
At this time, the first spiral of wind in front had already died down, and as it dissipated, the leaves and dust it had lifted all fell back to the ground.
Although this spiral of wind had no real destructive power, it was still extremely spectacular.
Chen Lin, full of expectation, asked, “Xiao Han, can I have a try?”
Chen Han smiled and passed the fan to his uncle. Without true qi it could not be activated.
Sure enough, after his uncle took the fan and waved it once, nothing happened. He waved it two more times in a row, and still nothing happened.
“No, why is that?” Chen Lin asked in confusion.
Chen Han did not answer directly, instead he asked back, “Uncle, then why do you think only I can use this roast duck stove to refine artifacts?”
“To use a magical artifact, you must first cultivate the dao. Go read those daoist sect texts. After you gain some insight and achieve something in cultivation, uncle, you can do it too.”
The idea was the same anyway: you must first read the daoist sect texts, cultivate the dao within them. Only after gaining insight can you achieve cultivation. If you see nothing in them, then you lack that comprehension. In that case, what magical artifact could you hope to use?
Chen Lin immediately shook his head. If he could sit still and read books, he would not have gone to learn carpentry and cement work.
Someone who could not get into reading, let alone daoist texts.
He instead started to worry about another problem. “Xiao Han, can this furnace still refine other magical artifacts?”
Chen Han quickly shook his head and said offhandedly, “If we want to refine more magical artifacts, it depends on whether the conditions are there.”
Without materials, he had no way. Ordinary things could not be used for artifact refining; having an empty furnace meant nothing could be refined.
In the game, he had only gotten this one set of materials, and it was offered daily by the Dog Demon King.
Hearing his nephew’s words, Chen Lin said, “I understand. It’s overflow from the feng shui array’s energy again. Actually this furnace is just a cover, a medium to mislead people. It can only be used when the feng shui array’s energy overflows again. This fan can produce wind because of the energy influence of the feng shui array.”
Chen Han froze for a moment.
Very good, his uncle, like his junior sister, was very proactive with his imagination.
Feng shui arrays were really becoming more and more omnipotent.
Chen Han instead looked at Chen Lin. “Uncle, this fan has another wind ability. It makes people sneeze. I really want to experiment with it, but I am short one test subject.”
What he meant, of course, was sneeze wind.
This skill came from how the green feather pheasant released feather dust to make enemies sneeze, then seized the moment to escape. So the sneeze wind of the green pheasant fan would make people sneeze.
This skill was not continuous. It only worked within the time before the wind dispersed. So, with his uncle right in front of him, he really could not resist wanting to test it.
“Xiao Han, try it on me,” Chen Lin volunteered.
“Uncle, that’s not good,” Chen Han said at once.
“If it’s not good, why did you deliberately mention it in front of me?” Chen Lin exposed him, then added, “Come on. Sometimes sneezing once or twice actually feels quite good.”
Chen Han did not say more. He directly fanned the green pheasant fan at his uncle. A clear gust of wind blew toward his uncle, and one could plainly see faint, barely noticeable powder carried within it.
If he had not eaten that moon gazing sand and gained vision clearly stronger than an ordinary person’s, he would not have seen it at all. Also, this wind was not in the form of a spiral; it was a normally spreading wind, with a large area. Only a small portion struck his uncle.
Chen Lin felt the breeze blow against his face, but it was just a light wind, like a gentle breeze brushing past.
But in the next moment, he felt an itch on the tip of his nose and could not help letting out a huge sneeze. After that first sneeze, he immediately sneezed again.
But that was all. Just two sneezes, and no more.
That meant this sneeze wind had the effect of only two sneezes. No wonder the game system had given two skills at once; like that “roll of clear wind,” this was rather chicken-rib.
After sneezing twice, Chen Lin rubbed his nose, and his eyes suddenly lit up. “Xiao Han, these two sneezes really feel quite good. Give me another one.”
“???” Chen Han waved the fan again, sending another sneeze wind at his uncle. His uncle indeed sneezed twice more. Watching him rub his nose, with an expression that looked quite enjoying it.
Seeing this, Chen Han could not help trying it on himself.
In that instant, he felt a slight itch at the tip of his nose, then he let out two sneezes in a row.
“Huh!” Chen Han exclaimed in surprise. It really did feel very comfortable.
What principle was this?
He instinctively took out his mobile phone to investigate and indeed found there was a scientific principle.
Simply sneezing twice could release pressure. The muscles of the nasal cavity and chest suddenly contracted and then relaxed, similar to a “decompression” movement, which could ease tension in the nasal mucosa and bring a feeling of lightness.
Then there was nerve feedback. During the sneeze reflex, nerves transmitted signals prompting the body to react. After completion, the brain might receive a “stimulus cleared” signal, which produced a comfortable feedback.
Of course, if sneezing went on for a long time, then it might be a cold or something similar.
Seeing this, Chen Han’s eyes lit up. So sneezing really could make people feel good.
If that was the case, then he finally had a positive skill.
He could even call it sneeze stress-relief technique.
After a while, Chen Han went back to editing his video.
This video was very abstract, and the main part of the edit was adding subtitles.
When the furnace was completed, his lines said that the hall elder had inscribed spiritual markings one by one, light flickering, so he could add bulinbulin special effects to show runes flashing on the artifact refining furnace.
After he finished editing, he uploaded the video with the title: 《To deal with demonic cult rogues, specially repairing the artifact refining furnace to refine a magical artifact!》.
After uploading, he scrolled through some videos. The ones he saw today were quite relaxing, without any hostility.
But as soon as that thought came up, a piece of news about a cleaver squad popped up for him. The hostility in that news was heavy, and after what had happened with the devourer of news, it resonated with him.
At a riverside scenic spot, a safety patrol villager had rented 60 rafts to tourists to go down the river. Then the villager contracted to patrol safety used a cleaver to puncture two of those rafts.
The matter blew up. Many people criticized that the scenic spot itself was also doing this business, so of course they would target him; otherwise how would the scenic spot do business?
Others said that without safety measures, rescue measures, or safety patrol staff, if an accident happened in this business, the blame would certainly go to the scenic spot. Then the scenic spot would definitely shift responsibility onto the safety patrol villager, since the business had been contracted out.
In short, both sides had their own arguments.
Chen Han thought of what had happened with You Fu being stabbed. If You Fu had lost control and someone had died, the Chen clan really would have been finished, and he himself might have been implicated.
He could understand the anger of the scenic spot. After all, in scenic areas, there were too many cases where tourists got themselves killed and in the end the scenic spot had to pay.
As for whether the conflict arose because the scenic spot also did this business, he did not know. But taking a blade to it was definitely a big problem.
After a while, he saw data prompts start to appear for his uploaded video.
And as time passed, the numbers grew quite fast.
Looking over the comments, he laughed. Just as he had expected, many people thought it was all editing.
“Definitely editing. After burning for so long, his hand wouldn’t be burned?”
“Upstairs, are you dumb? No need to check if it burns. That’s a feather fan. If it were roasted in the furnace, it’d already be charred black or burned up.”
“Chen Family Head’s editing skills have improved, but his special effects skills have regressed.”
“Last time the demonic shadow effect was so realistic, so impressive. But this time the wind spiral is too low. At least make a tornado.”
“Haha, obviously last time’s special effects cost too much, so now we are back to cheap five-cent effects.”
“Go check out the hall elder. He also posted a video.”
“…”
Chen Han chuckled and went to look at his uncle’s video as well. The title was: 《The patriarch refined a magical artifact. With a wave of the fan, heaven and earth changed color, and a tornado appeared.》
“666, so that was called a tornado!”
“You call that a tornado? It only lifts leaves, right?”
“…”
There were quite a few people roasting his uncle’s video.
That night, after dinner, he went again to the 10-mu spirit field area, heading straight to the water reservoir to convert it into spirit plant dew and water the peach trees again.
Those peach trees had already put out small buds. With watering today and again tomorrow, the peach blossoms should fully bloom.
By then, with the beginner cloud and mist shrouded wonder attribute over the 10-mu spirit field, it would definitely be very stunning.
Night.
Chen Han called Xiao Mi, Xiao Yu, Chen Dalong, and Chen Jun to his courtyard.
Each of them already held a new edition daoist scripture notation. He had asked his junior sister to buy them at the Xinhua bookstore in the county.
Except for Xiao Mi, the others all held their scripture notation with pained expressions.
He planned to teach them the scripture notation, since the role of 《ancient quiet heart art》 needed to be brought out.
After all, the underground formation was not truly a feng shui array. It was a qi manipulation formation designed to work with the 《ancient quiet heart art》.
The remarks in the 《ancient quiet heart art》 read: during the construction of the family residence, the family elders discovered that the underground of the residence possessed special earth qi that could dispel some negative qi（special daoist qi, not hostility）. They thus used this earth qi to lay down a special qi manipulation formation.
By calmly sitting and soothing one’s qi, and reciting or listening to the 《ancient quiet heart art》 recorded by the family elders, one could harmonize one’s own qi with the formation, gaining a calm mind +2 effect, dispelling negative qi and achieving a state of no distracting thoughts.
If one could reach a state of no distractions and complete calm, it would definitely be beneficial whether for study or for artistic inspiration.
So this 《ancient quiet heart art》 had to be put to use, and it would surely attract a wave of high-end tourists.
But he could not personally chant scriptures for those tourists, so they needed to train scripture chanters. That was why he had Chen Jun and Chen Dalong come try it.
As long as they could learn it, they could then teach others.
But seeing them holding daoist scripture notation with pained faces, they looked exactly like his junior sister.
Only Xiao Mi had managed to learn it; his junior sister had almost fallen asleep with a whoosh.
But Xiao Mi was a big internet celebrity and could not serve as scripture chanter for the Chen clan.
Watching Chen Dalong and Chen Jun study, even just their pronunciation was a mess. He taught a single line of the ancient quiet heart art and they still could not get it. Asking them to learn the scripture notation from scratch would be worse than killing them.
On thinking about it, it made sense. Asking someone with no music foundation to study music could be extremely painful. Failing to remember an entire song was not surprising.
So scripture notation was even more difficult.
No wonder daoist scripture chanters were so important, counted among the three treasures of daoist scriptures. It was truly not something ordinary people could master.
Chen Han could only instruct, “Xiao Yu, see if there is anyone in the clan who studied music, works in the music industry, or is interested in music.”
He could only set his sights on those high-end talents in the clan. People who had left to study or who were doing well usually would not care about a few thousand yuan of clan salary and would not come back.
If such people existed, he would have to use his patriarch’s privilege. Bringing someone home would not be difficult.
For a high salary.
“Okay, senior brother.” Xiao Yu answered excitedly.
If she could have learned it, she would have already done so when following Xiao Mi Jie earlier.
Then she remembered something and said to her senior brother, “Senior brother, one more thing. The flower sea offering tickets went online tonight. We tentatively opened 500 and will adjust later.”
Chen Han nodded. After Xiao Yu and the others left, he checked the reservations for the flower sea offering and found that all 500 tickets had already been booked. This showed the flower sea offering was very popular.
Indeed, after the news of the overnight blooming came out, the Chen clan’s flower sea offering had become a focal point for many people.
Especially after Xiao Yu’s promotional video, the aesthetics and brilliance of that sea of flowers truly attracted a lot of people. Many wanted to visit.
Even without filters, the flower sea alone was attractive enough.
So many people simply could not get a ticket.
Seeing this, Chen Han was relieved. He put away his phone and took out spirit stones to cultivate the 《nine heavens profound scripture basic qi cultivation method》.
Cultivation was a day-by-day repetition.
The next day, when Chen Han got up, he checked his stats.
The artifact refining video’s numbers from yesterday were fairly average. Everyone treated it as an abstract video and assumed what happened in it was all editing. It did not blow up. In the end it might get two hundred thousand likes.
There was nothing he could do. The blend of truth and fabrication in his abstract videos was something people online simply could not understand.
Only when they saw it with their own eyes might they realize it was real.
After that, he washed up and went downstairs. Without moon gazing sand today, he could only ride You Fu to the special spiritual aperture.
Xiao Yu, Xiao Mi, and his uncle and the others had already arrived.
When his uncle saw him, he said, “Xiao Han, we have bought almost all the medicinal herb seeds for refining body tempering pill. This morning I will take people to plant them all.”
“Mm.” Chen Han nodded, then sat cross-legged, took out the consumed Hundred Flowers Palace Spirit Jade, and after a spiritual energy rinse, began cultivating.
Since Chen Lin and the others had no cultivation method, sitting in spiritual energy only allowed their bodies to instinctively absorb some.
So once the spiritual energy rinse ended, they felt nothing more. Unlike Chen Han, they did not need to refine the energy they had taken in.
But they could feel that with the energy wash from the feng shui formation eye, the effect of their martial arts training was clearly better than just eating medicinal cuisine.
After Chen Lin and the others got up, they went back to the Chen clan, had some congee, and informed the work hall members to head together to the 10-mu plot to plant medicinal herb seeds.
When they arrived at the 10-mu plot, everyone was surprised. Most of the blossoms on the peach trees had already bloomed. The densely packed peach blossoms were very beautiful.
At this speed, by tomorrow all the peach blossoms should be in full bloom under the energy of the feng shui array. With the clouds and mist, how beautiful would that look?
Inside, Chen Lin instructed everyone to plant the medicinal herb seeds in their respective areas.
“Chen Lin, these are all medicinal herb seeds. What are we planting them for?” someone from the work hall could not help asking.
The body tempering pill had long been known to many in the clan, so he did not hide it. “They’re all herbs for refining body tempering pill. In future, as long as clan members perform well, they can also receive this body tempering pill as a reward.”
The eyes of the work hall members lit up, full of expectation.
Many people in the clan knew about the body tempering pill, and they knew Chen Jun and Chen Dalong had received training with it. It was said that in the Demon Subduing Hall they were now the most capable after Chen Dagou, having trained something real under him.
But those two had been the patriarch’s tagalongs since childhood. Special treatment from the patriarch could not be helped.
Now, hearing that others who performed well could also receive it, they all became hopeful. They themselves were older and did not need it as much, but for their sons and grandsons, it would be useful.
After all, who did not want their descendants to do better?
…
When the spiritual energy refinement in his body ended, Chen Han opened his eyes, walked out from the pavilion, returned to the Chen clan, put the little white rabbit he had taken to the spiritual aperture back, and then put armor on You Cai.
You Cai immediately strutted out of the courtyard, barking to summon his younger brothers. The spirit dog tribe began patrolling the mountain.
Naturally, he headed to his uncle’s kitchen, took out green feather pheasant meat from the warehouse, and started preparing medicinal cuisine.
Once one portion of medicinal cuisine materials was processed and put on to stew, a game prompt suddenly appeared in his mind:
【Urgent reminder: while patrolling for the family, the guardian spirit dog tribe has discovered special demonic beasts invading the family territory, and they are numerous. They have chased these demonic beasts to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s Blessed Land!
Because there is a clan restriction there, the spirit dog tribe does not dare rush in. However, as there is a Statue of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation at this place, to prevent these demonic beasts from disturbing the Heavenly Lord, please deal with them as soon as possible!】
“???” Chen Han was instantly confused.
Demonic beasts invading the clan. After he had settled the Dog Demon Tribe and repeatedly defeated demonic cult rogues, this had become a very unfamiliar phrase.
Key point: what demonic beasts were so eager to come deliver themselves?
Were they not just delivering food to his door?
