Chapter 102: This World Is So Absurd! What Level Is The Heavenly Lord Of Demon Subjugation?
“Xiao Ni, now that the covering mirror is removed, do your eyes still hurt?” Chen Xiaoyan asked, almost crying with joy.
After going to so many hospitals without finding a method, she had nearly broken down, terrified that her daughter’s eye was really blind.
Now they tried coming back to her mother’s home, and it actually worked. How excited she was could easily be imagined.
“Mom, it doesn’t hurt anymore. It’s cool and icy, so comfortable!” Xiao Ni was young, and her joy was written all over her face.
Chen Xiaoyan almost did not hesitate. She quickly pulled her daughter along to bow to Chen Han. “Family head, aunt-grandmother, thank you, thank you so much.”
Zheng Yu also hurriedly bent down, thanking them with sincere expression all over his face. Now he did not dare show the slightest disrespect.
He was completely stunned.
Chen Han waved his hand and said, “Alright, take the child back to rest first and see how it goes afterward.”
“Okay, okay!” Chen Xiaoyan nodded, gave a greeting, and then left the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall with her husband, taking their daughter first.
Chen Shuisheng followed them back as well. He was clearly still very concerned about his granddaughter.
Several tourists watching this scene just felt it was so fake.
Even if you, Chen family head, have some kind of kung fu like leaping over walls and running along eaves, to then have praying to a deity and drinking a bowl of soup cure an illness that many hospitals had no method for; even television would not dare to show that.
Honestly, if a television show or a movie dared to depict such an unreliable plot now, it would definitely be flamed to death.
As bystanders, they were clearly like looking at flowers through fog, utterly unable to see the inner situation, let alone know how shocked the people involved were.
Only after Chen Xiaoyan and her husband brought their daughter back to her father’s house did they hear the girl’s excited voice. “Mom, Dad, I can see clearly from this side now. Uncle and grandmother-in-law are amazing, they cured my eye. They’re better than those doctors.”
“Really?” Chen Xiaoyan asked excitedly.
Her swelling had subsided in such a short time just now, and now her vision was already starting to recover?
This was too fast.
If she did not already know her daughter’s exact condition, she would have thought the child had been acting for her before.
Zheng Yu was already rummaging through the luggage. He took out a simple vision chart, used to roughly test a child’s eyesight. When children had eyesight issues and went to the hospital, the hospital would always give one.
“Xiao Ni, close your right eye, look here!” Zheng Yu immediately started testing his daughter and discovered that her vision had improved by a large margin. In his excitement, he suddenly remembered something and could not help asking Chen Shuisheng, “Dad, would the Chen family head treat outsiders?”
He recalled something: the big boss of the company’s father also had an eye problem. The big boss had taken his father to hospitals many times. If he told the big boss this news…
However, he did not know the Chen Clan’s attitude.
…
On the other side.
“Uncle, go to the vegetable garden with me.” After coming out of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, Chen Han remembered another reward from this upgrade: the ten-mu spirit field modification tablet. He still had to transform those ten mu of spirit field.
“Okay.” Chen Lin nodded and did not ask.
He knew his nephew must have a purpose. As a competent guardian, he only needed to carry out his nephew the family head’s instructions.
Before long, the two of them arrived at the vegetable garden. Chen Han looked at the location of the vegetable garden and the wasteland by the mountainside beside it, then asked, “Uncle, can we expand another ten mu of land in the back? Recently I have developed a clever use for a family underground Feng Shui formation. If we experiment a bit, there might be unexpected gains.”
Chen Lin nodded directly and said, “No problem. I’ll have people rent farm machinery this afternoon. We can get it done in two days.”
“Alright.” After entrusting this matter to his uncle, Chen Han went back to his own attic to study the Daoist plants classics.
Spirit field modification not only had to be within the family residence but also required planting spirit locking plants at the corresponding locations and arranging a spirit sealing formation for it to take effect.
The Daoist sect had many plants with various uses. The five offerings, seven sages, and nine spirits were common. Spirit locking plants were relatively uncommon; the general idea was that they could lock in spiritual energy and similar substances.
After checking, he roughly understood which plants were considered Daoist sect spirit locking plants:
pine trees, peach trees, soapberry trees, cypress trees, gourds… and so on were all very good spirit locking plants.
He chose one that was more suitable and easy to plant: the peach tree.
Once his uncle finished preparing those ten mu of land, he could use the spirit field modification tablet to transform them, then order peach trees to plant there. After arranging the spirit sealing formation, the spirit field would take effect.
After making his decision, since there was nothing else, Chen Han took out that spirit stone with not much spiritual energy remaining, then sat cross-legged and began to run the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture basic qi cultivation method》 to cultivate.
As he absorbed and refined the spiritual energy from the spirit stone, true qi surged through his meridians. When he stopped cultivating, the sky outside was already completely dark, and the spiritual energy in the spirit stone in his hand had been exhausted.
Without the impact of lung cancer, his true qi increased clearly faster, with better effect, and his strength improved a lot.
He stood up, took out a toothpick, and activated the sword control technique. The toothpick started flying and darting between his palms, moving with great agility. As the true qi in his dantian grew, controlling this Thunder Bamboo Spirit Sword clearly became more effortless.
With a flick of his finger, the toothpick shot out with a snap toward the table and actually pierced into the tabletop for a small length.
Chen Han stepped forward and pulled out the toothpick, leaving a small hole in the table.
If that stabbed into a person, he did not dare imagine it. It would definitely hurt more than the old crone’s needle.
At that moment, he received a message from his uncle, telling him he could come over for dinner.
He went downstairs into the courtyard. You Cai came running over, barking, asking him to help take off the armor.
And the white light floating over You Cai’s back brought joy to his face.
It was another piece of Green Feather Pheasant meat. It seemed the doggy had been obedient and gone up Green Luan Peak again.
A good dog indeed.
As he helped the doggy unfasten the armor, he also sent that Green Feather Pheasant meat into the warehouse, then headed toward the uncle’s courtyard.
This time You Cai the doggy followed along.
When they arrived in the courtyard, the big black dog his uncle had adopted was eating heartily. Suddenly seeing another head poke in, it was instantly startled. Seeing that it was You Cai, this little local dog, it immediately and respectfully gave up its spot.
It kept its head lowered, completely looking like “boss, you eat first.”
Seeing this, Chen Han smiled and went into the kitchen.
Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi had already arrived and were waiting for him at the dining table.
However, Xiao Yu’s face was gloomy. Clearly something had happened. When she saw him, she said, “Senior brother, look at this video. What happened this afternoon in the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall has been uploaded online.”
As she spoke, she handed him a video.
Chen Han saw at a glance it was a video posted by a tourist. It already had over one hundred thousand likes; clearly, it had gone viral. The title was: 《The Chen Clan used a ritual method to cure a little girl’s eye.》
The footage showed exactly aunt-grandmother performing the pray for blessings dance and Xiao Ni kneeling on the cushion.
The framing was really well shot, and with that title, it was very easy to cause misunderstanding.
He opened the comments, and sure enough:
“Holy crap, I can understand martial arts training, but this shaman dance is a bit much.”
“Treating illness like this, are you kidding me? If this could fix my eyes, why did I spend 400,000 at the hospital?”
“The Chen Clan has already proven traditional speed, there’s no need to prove superstition too, right?”
“……”
Obviously, what Xiao Mi worried about had still happened.
Looking at this video blogger “Wu Hao Loves Life,” he had more than one hundred thousand fans. Before posting this video, he had already shot several videos at the Chen Clan about You Fu and You Cai, that ox and dog, purely piggybacking on popularity.
What is piggybacking on popularity? It is when something or someone gets hot, and these people immediately buy tickets to go there and film videos to ride the wave.
Being able to piggyback his way to over one hundred thousand fans, he must have spent quite a bit of money.
For such tourists, there was no way to completely prevent them. It was just that he happened to shoot this particular scene, and it happened to catch heat, causing netizens to misunderstand, which was rather troubling.
Moreover, the entire comment section was filled with comments accusing them of feudal superstition. It was unclear if there was intentional guidance; if so, then Wu Hao’s intentions were quite malicious.
Xiao Mi looked at him, took out her phone, turned on recording, and said with a bright smile, “I have a lot of fans on my account. I’ll record a clarification video for you advocating belief in science!”
Chen Han nodded and spoke to Xiao Mi’s lens. “Hello everyone, I am the Chen family head. I saw a video online claiming that we of the Chen Clan cured an illness with ritual methods, and I find that extremely absurd.”
“To clarify, that was a pray for blessings dance inherited from the Daoist sect. Our Chen Clan is a Daoist sect heritage family. We have a tradition of elders performing the pray for blessings dance for younger generations.”
“This absolutely has nothing to do with treating illnesses. Everyone should neither believe nor spread rumors and should believe in science.”
Xiao Yu and Chen Lin watched him calmly tell lies on camera and sincerely admired him.
After all, they both knew that it really was treating illness, and the effect was very good.
“Senior brother, how do you manage to talk nonsense without batting an eye when filming?” Xiao Yu stared at him, full of curiosity and admiration. “When I film, just reading lines makes me want to laugh. I feel so unnatural.”
Chen Han said irritably, “Junior sister, what nonsense are you talking about? Everything I said is the truth. When did I lie?”
“???” Xiao Yu could not help rolling her eyes at him.
Senior brother was treating her like a fool again.
Xiao Mi was already editing the footage on her phone and uploaded it to her own account with the title: 《This is the Chen Clan’s tradition, elders performing pray for blessings for younger generations. It is absolutely not treating illness. Everyone should believe in science.》
She thought for a moment and then tagged: @Chen Daoist Priest @Daoist Priest Li @Daoist Priest Xuanshen…
She tagged over a dozen Daoist priests in a row.
She remembered that these Daoist priests had previously come out to piggyback on the heat… spread the Dao once. Now they could come out to continue preaching again.
Then she clicked upload with a mischievous smile.
Xiao Mi had nearly four million fans. Once she uploaded this video, it naturally attracted a lot of attention, including from those she tagged.
Chen Daoist Priest was one of them. These past two days he had been thinking about what video to shoot. Since he was a cultivator of the Dao, he could not casually film anything he liked; there were many rules.
Promotion was not so easy to do, especially for them with their special mystic sect identities. They had to consider many influences.
Seeing that he had been tagged, he naturally checked immediately. He saw that the video featured that Chen family head. After hearing his clarification, he quickly checked what had happened and then found the video claiming the Chen Clan used ritual methods to treat illness.
He had cultivated the Dao all his life and could easily see that the Daoist priestess in the video was performing the pray for blessings dance; she was just too old to be very agile.
Now he understood what the Chen family head’s statement meant. Their family elder was performing a pray for blessings dance for a younger generation, yet someone had slandered it as using ritual methods to treat illness. That was going too far.
However, this finally gave him material to film. He immediately opened his phone to record. “I just watched the video claiming the Chen Clan used ritual methods to treat illness and I am very angry. That Daoist priestess was only performing a pray for blessings dance for her junior. It has nothing to do with using rituals to treat illness. I hope everyone does not casually spread rumors based on one video. You must believe in science!”
As he spoke, he also demonstrated a full set of the pray for blessings dance. People could see that the movements and steps were almost the same as in the so-called slanderous video, clearly proving that the “Wu Hao Loves Life” video was fabrication.
He clicked upload, and Chen Daoist Priest also reported that slanderous video.
Not only Chen Daoist Priest but also Daoist Priest Li, Daoist Priest Xuanshen, and the other priests who had been tagged saw this chance to piggyback on heat… and spread the Dao again. For the sake of their inner doctrines and the deities they served, they had no choice but to step into the spotlight.
Moreover, this popularity did indeed involve their Daoist sect. That pray for blessings dance was precisely the most basic ritual dance in the Daoist sect. To call it ritual methods to treat illness and to promote superstition was slander.
Too much.
As the Chen family head said, one must believe in science.
For a while, Douyin was once again full of Daoist sect activity, with Daoist priests posting videos one after another.
Qingmin City airport.
Wu Hao watched the no-longer-rising data in the Douyin backend and was very excited.
This time he had gone to stay at the Chen Clan for two days, spent fifteen hundred yuan, shot several videos piggybacking on popularity, and the numbers were good. He had already profited. He did not expect that before going home today, the new video he uploaded would bring an extra surprise and explode.
He had actually cut out a large section from this video. Otherwise, the girl’s parents, with their emotional words and exaggerated reactions, would have looked too much like hired shills.
He deliberately chose that title, because he knew very well that only by creating conflict could he gain high attention. Just look at all the comments in the comment section accusing the Chen Clan of feudal superstitious propaganda.
This was exactly the conflict he wanted. Only then would the video’s popularity soar.
But he soon noticed that something was off in the comment section.
“Damn, does making up rumors cost nothing now?”
“You’re too good at making things up.”
“You’re done. You made up one rumor and not only got the Chen family head to come out to refute it, but also dragged out a whole bunch of Daoist sect priests. You’re the first!”
“……”
“???” Seeing these comments, Wu Hao knew something was wrong. He instinctively searched and found the clarification video on Xiao Mi’s account featuring the Chen family head. “Hello everyone, I am the Chen family head… it has nothing to do with treating illness. Everyone should neither believe nor spread rumors and should believe in science.”
“What the hell is this supposed to mean?” Wu Hao immediately lost his composure.
This afternoon at your Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, that was not what you were saying.
You were clearly treating that little girl’s illness.
Her parents even said that several hospitals had no way, and after going to your place once, she was cured.
Now he had merely stated a fact, with a clickbait title, and you came out and said there was no treating illness, even saying he was spreading rumors and that people should believe in science?
Wasn’t that going too far?
Looking at the comments about other Daoist priests, he quickly searched and was completely dumbfounded.
What did he see? One Daoist sect priest after another had come out with videos.
Especially Daoist priests like Chen Daoist Priest from Wudang and the others, who were very well-known and had many fans.
Yet all of them, in unison, said it was the pray for blessings dance and had nothing to do with treating illness, directly accusing him of spreading rumors and telling people to believe in science.
Wu Hao felt his head buzzing. Did these Daoist priests know the facts before accusing him of making things up?
Can anyone understand what it feels like when a group of Daoist priests, who cultivate and talk about metaphysics and deities, all unanimously say, “believe in science”?
Suddenly, the world felt a bit absurd.
Just then, he noticed that his own video was gone, and the backend sent a system prompt. Because it triggered a special type of rumor violation, his account was banned for one month.
“Damn…” Seeing this, Wu Hao cursed out loud.
He suddenly felt like the whole world was acting against him.
Chen Han naturally soon received news that the “Wu Hao Loves Life” account had been banned. He also saw that Xiao Mi had tagged Chen Daoist Priest and the others. One could say that the banning of “Wu Hao Loves Life” was all thanks to Xiao Mi.
With so many Daoist priests involved, this touched on issues of religion and faith. For rumor-related matters, having the account banned was perfectly normal.
After dinner, Chen Lin reported, “Xiao Han, the flower sea for offerings will have flowers delivered tomorrow for planting, and the heavenly lord’s dharma body has already been shipped. At that time, you will need to preside over the consecration to invite the heavenly lord to the flower sea. So for the next three days, you must burn incense and change clothes in advance.”
“Alright.” Chen Han nodded. Although the Chen Clan was like Daoist sect rogue cultivators and usually quite casual, at important moments there were rules, and they had to be followed.
So after dinner, back in his room, he carefully bathed, then put on a Daoist robe and headed to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
Burning incense and changing clothes is the Daoist sect’s embodiment of “respect the deity as if present in person.” Changing clothes is for solemn respect, maintaining neat appearance and unified body and mind. Burning incense is to connect with the divine and calm the heart. Only by achieving true communion can one reach the deities.
For consecrating a statue of god, depending on the deity being worshipped, incense and changing clothes usually began three days in advance.
Aunt-grandmother saw him arrive and understood his intention. She also specially prepared three incense sticks for him.
At this moment, he had to use three intact incense sticks, light them with open flame, and if a flame rose, wave his wrist side to side to extinguish it. He must not blow it out with his mouth.
Holding the incense to pay respects required facing the statue of god, raising the incense with both hands to the level of his forehead, and bowing. This was respect for the deity.
These were all specific regulations. Chen Han had learned them from his father before, so he handled them with ease. But then a sudden game prompt appeared, making him freeze for a moment:
【System detection: new data packet fragment found. Data packet （2） fragment collection has greatly increased……】
“???” Chen Han sensed that something was wrong.
And very wrong.
This was the third time.
The first time was praying when the new statue of the heavenly lord of demon subjugation was installed.
The second time was bringing Xiao Ni to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall to receive aunt-grandmother’s pray for blessings.
Now the third time was him coming to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall to burn incense and change clothes.
All of these seemed related to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
Could it be that if data packet （1） was related to cultivation, then data packet （2） was related to the divine path?
In Shu Shan Swordsman, besides cultivation sects like the Emei Sect, there were many divine lords, such as Dongting Jun, the water god of Jun Shan, and so on. There was even the son of the Green Emperor, exiled from the heavens to the human world.
So there was a question: if this was true, what level would the heavenly lord of demon subjugation be in Shu Shan Swordsman?
And who knew, if data packet （2） was loaded, to what degree this game system would become abstract.
