Chapter 99: Abnormal Sword Control! This Really Isn’t Special Effects!
Clothing, the previous chapters mentioned more than once that the deducted money was taken by the system for charity, and there were transfer records. You still do not trust the system handling things?
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When Chen Han received the game prompt, he was immediately attracted.
He looked at the sect residence information in his mind at once:
Level: level 4 sect residence
Effect: simple and unadorned +2, ornamental value +2, sturdiness +
Special Daoist sect place effect: by calming the mind and sitting in meditation to ease one’s qi, reciting or listening to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation family elder’s recorded ancient calming mind formula, one can bring one’s qi and formation into harmony and eliminate negative qi, achieving the effect of a mind free of distractions and calming mind +2!
Special Daoist sect residence effect: as long as it is housing belonging to the Chen Clan Daoist sect, and spirit locking plants representing the li, kun, and center three directions are placed in the corresponding positions in the room, it can activate the attribute effect of warmth in winter and coolness in summer +2!
Upgrade requirements: 100 million money 8132 million/100 million. reputation 500,000 487,414/500,
With this upgrade, the sect residence did not reward any special effect, so no renovation phenomenon appeared this time.
If one has to say so, the 10 mu level 1 spirit field modification card should count as a special effect.
However, the sect residence upgrade conditions had once again increased by a large margin; the money directly required 100 million, and the reputation was 500,
Just as he had expected, reputation at this level was not lacking; 500,000 reputation could be met soon. What was still lacking was money.
One hundred million was definitely not a small amount.
After the system deducted 10 million for the upgrade, there were only more than 8 million left in the account.
Moreover, of this more than 8 million, around 5 million was for taxes and clan members’ salary.
Many companies all have dedicated tax accounts and dedicated general salary accounts, right?
Chen Han planned to have his junior sister go tomorrow to set up a dedicated tax account and a dedicated salary account and transfer the money in.
These two sums could absolutely not go wrong, nor be moved.
“Senior brother, what are you spacing out for?” Xiao Yu saw him suddenly stop and asked.
“Nothing.” Chen Han smiled, continued walking toward the Chen Clan, and did not forget to instruct, “Junior sister, go to the county tomorrow and open another tax account and salary account. They must be used exclusively for that purpose.”
“Mm, got it.” Xiao Yu nodded and accepted the task.
As Chen Han walked, he also looked toward the warehouse.
Inside, there was indeed one more special emerald-green tablet and a crystal-clear jade slip.
The emerald-green tablet was somewhat like the previous sect residence construction tablet, but thinner, with fewer runes on it. Focusing his attention, he saw the remark information:
Level 1 spirit field modification card 10 mu: this is a special spirit field modification card, a special prop required for Emei Sect players to construct spirit fields. After use, it can modify 10 mu of level 1 spirit field.
Level 1 spirit field effect: crops planted are delicious +1, crops’ nutritional value +2!
Modification conditions: within sect residence range. plant Daoist sect spirit locking plants to construct a spirit sealing formation to prevent the spirituality of the spirit field from dissipating!
Use the spirit field modification card and obtain the spirit sealing formation planting position diagram?
Seeing this remark information, Chen Han did not rush to use it.
A spirit field is something that anyone who has read novels or xianxia film and television should know about. It is where cultivators plant their crops.
The crops planted in such a place definitely would not be ordinary crops.
Moreover, from the remark information it could be seen that spirit fields were also divided into levels. This one was only the most basic level 1 spirit field, and its effects were crops delicious +1 and crops’ nutritional value +
Crops delicious +1 did not seem to have much function, just making what was planted taste better.
But the other, crops’ nutritional value +2, was rather awesome.
Although this seemed to have nothing to do with cultivation and did not contain any spiritual energy, what if the spirit field were used to plant medicinal herbs?
If you look at nutritional value from another angle, is it not medicinal properties?
That would be incredible.
For example, goji berries. People say that once you reach middle age, you must drink goji berries in a thermos.
Now goji berries have almost no effect; no matter how much you eat, if it does not work, it does not work.
What if that nutritional value becomes +2?
If one cup could make you ferociously vigorous?
And okra. People say that when men eat it, it is good for both him and her, but once you try it, you know it is still not good.
What if that nutritional value becomes +2?
Chen Han hurriedly reined in his thoughts.
Why did getting “ferociously vigorous” caught by Xiao Mi earlier today make him keep thinking along these lines?
Anyway, the attribute of crops’ nutritional value +2 was definitely very awesome.
However, constructing a spirit field could not be done just anywhere. He still had to choose a place, and also plant spirit locking plants.
So, for now, he could set this aside.
What most concerned him now was the Basic Sword Control Technique.
The people of this country have a deep chivalrous complex, but the xianxia complex is no weaker.
Many boys should have fantasized about themselves flying on a sword, overlooking the nine heavens, right?
Sword control is a man’s romance.
Basic Sword Control Technique: this is the most basic part of the sword control technique for Emei Sect beginner disciples. It was comprehended by the transmission elder from the opening section of the Primordial Sword Classic and is very suitable for disciples who have just started to cultivate, so it is widely passed on to beginner disciples!
After reading the remark information of the Basic Sword Control Technique, Chen Han could not wait to return to his own courtyard to try it.
On the way, he chose to use the jade slip of this Basic Sword Control Technique.
As the jade slip in the warehouse turned into starlight, related cultivation method information appeared in his mind, allowing him to grasp the method of cultivation.
But at the same time, he was a little disappointed.
This Basic Sword Control Technique was not what he had imagined. It was really just a basic sword control technique, not the soaring midair sword flight he had envisioned.
The basic sword control technique only allowed beginner disciples, after cultivation, to initially control a sword: that is, allowing the sword in the hand to leave the palm, float around the body, and, while the person remained still, the sword could already fly out to attack an enemy from a distance.
His expectations had been too high.
But thinking about it, he felt relieved. Even if it was the most basic, it was still a sorcery of cultivation.
In the secular martial world, even top experts could not make weapons leave their hands and attack under remote control. Those who could do this were almost all innate-level peerless experts.
But in the cultivation world, this was only a basic means.
Back in the attic, entering his room, he took down a sword hanging on the wall and placed it on the table in the middle.
This sword had been given to him by his junior sister.
At the time, he had seen at a glance that it matched the one his junior sister was using as a pair of lovers’ swords, since it so obviously had “gentleman’s sword” and “lady’s sword” carved on it.
The key point was that he did not practice swordplay, so it had always hung on the wall as an ornament.
Looking at the sword on the table, he immediately followed the formula of the Basic Sword Control Technique he had obtained, urging his true qi while locking his intent onto that gentleman’s sword.
Lock the sword with intent, drive it with qi, that is sword control.
Yet, even with true qi urged, intent locked, and the formula activated, the sword did not move at all.
He even felt a kind of difficulty.
He tried again, but it still did not move.
“…” Chen Han froze and suddenly realized a problem.
He had used the Basic Sword Control Technique jade slip and indeed grasped the cultivation formula, but his strength had only just guided a bit of true qi into his dantian, which was not enough to support sword control.
This…
He immediately went to the bamboo potted plant, snapped off a small piece of bamboo, thinner than a chopstick, and once again performed the Basic Sword Control Technique formula.
As he urged it, that small piece of bamboo suddenly gave a little jump.
This made his expression brighten.
Just as expected.
In the next moment, that small piece of bamboo suddenly flew up, floating above the table.
But only for a moment. The small bamboo trembled and then clacked back down onto the table.
This was because he was not yet skilled and his strength was limited; he could not sustain it.
It was a bit frustrating.
He could not even control a small piece of bamboo thinner than a chopstick. Was he really that weak?
In the end, he looked at a box of toothpicks on the nearby cabinet, refusing to believe this would not work.
He walked over, picked up the box of toothpicks, took one out, and placed it on the table.
Activating the Basic Sword Control Technique formula again, he saw the toothpick float up from the table. With a light movement of his finger, the toothpick flew from the table to float above his hand.
His face lit up with joy.
This finally felt like sword control.
Continuing to control it, the toothpick nimbly circled around his wrist, his control precise.
He then cast it several more times in succession, all skillfully and flexibly. Finally, the toothpick sword stopped and hovered in his hand.
Not bad, not bad. The sword control of the “toothpick sword” had made small progress.
Now, he did not dwell on it. As a certain predecessor said, everything can be a sword, even flying flowers and falling leaves, so why not a toothpick?
He did not have a good sword now, only this toothpick sword. No, it was made of bamboo, so it was a bamboo sword.
He could only control the bamboo sword.
Thinking this, he quietly hung the gentleman’s sword back on the wall.
An ornament should hang in its proper place.
Afterward, he picked up another toothpick and continued to practice the Basic Sword Control Technique until his uncle sent him a message telling him to come for dinner.
When he arrived at Uncle’s Kitchen to eat, besides his uncle, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Mi, Uncle Shuisheng was actually there as well.
If there was no medicinal cuisine, he and Uncle Dagou would not come for dinner.
After seeing him sit down, Chen Lin reported, “Xiao Han, the person with a difficult eye symptom that the hospital could not cure, the one you asked us to find, has been found. But she does not fully count as someone from within the clan; she is Shuisheng’s granddaughter.”
“His daughter married to the city. This year a water mosquito got into his granddaughter’s left eye, and she kept rubbing it until it became red and swollen. They went to the hospital, and that doctor said it was nothing and gave eye drops, but after that, the vision in that eye got worse and worse.”
“Later they went to the hospital to demand an explanation, but the hospital did not cure it and said that doctor was on leave. They just dragged it and ignored the matter. Later they went to other hospitals in the province, but it still was not cured.”
“If possible, I will have Shuisheng notify his daughter to bring her over tomorrow for you to take a look.”
“Mm, let them come over.” Chen Han nodded and also understood why Uncle Shuisheng was here tonight.
Besides, since it was Uncle Shuisheng’s granddaughter, strictly speaking, he could be considered the little girl’s maternal uncle in the clan sense.
Without hesitation, Chen Shuisheng happily called his daughter.
He was very worried about his granddaughter’s condition. Now this was definitely a chance. At the very least, he believed that Xiao Han was definitely more reliable than that hospital doctor.
Qingmin City.
Chen Xiaoyan was really distressed.
Her daughter’s eye could not be treated, but they did not have enough evidence to sue the hospital. They were even told by the hospital to collect evidence with her husband, but how were they supposed to do that?
The ophthalmology department at that hospital did not welcome her anymore and treated her like a plague god.
Obviously it was them who made her daughter’s eye like this.
“Mom, look, dad bought me a doll!” A cute little girl ran in, holding a doll. Only the patch covering her eye damaged that cuteness.
After her daughter’s eye developed a problem, it became more and more serious; now light hurt it, so she had to cover it.
Her husband came in and shook his head at her, meaning that the hospital they tried today also could not find the cause.
Chen Xiaoyan could not help but sigh and really wanted to curse that doctor.
If he had not been suspended and gone missing, she truly wanted to take a kitchen knife to him.
Her mobile phone ringtone sounded. Seeing it was her father calling, her expression showed a trace of hope, because today she had heard him say that the patriarch had a special drug that might be able to treat eyes.
She had some impression of the current Chen Clan patriarch, Chen Han, who was a few years younger than her and a direct descendant of the main family.
When she was young in the Chen Clan, many elders had reminded the younger generation to give way to him a bit since he was the future patriarch.
But as she studied, even going to university, she scoffed at such things. Patriarch? What era was this?
Everyone only lives once; why should she yield to him?
She even felt that the Chen Clan, which still retained such outdated clan traditions, was the dregs of the new society.
She had never expected to cross paths with him again.
Even more to her surprise, he had actually become an internet celebrity.
After hearing her father mention him, she had gone to look him up intentionally, and then saw the news videos of the ox guiding tourists, the dog wearing armor patrolling the mountain, and the patriarch leaping over walls and running along eaves.
They left her dumbfounded.
Why had she never seen any of this in all her years in the Chen Clan?
Had she lived in a fake Chen Clan when she was young?
“Dad!” After answering the phone, Chen Xiaoyan spoke directly.
Chen Shuisheng said, “Xiaoyan, bring Xiao Ni over tomorrow and let Xiao Han take a look.”
“Okay, alright!” Chen Xiaoyan agreed immediately. As long as there was hope, she had to try.
So she said to her husband, “Take a day off tomorrow and go with me to the Chen Clan. They have medicine there that we can let Xiao Ni try.”
When Zheng Yu heard his wife, his brows furrowed at once. “That Chen Clan your dad’s family has, with its feudal remnants, are you just grasping at straws? With something like this, instead of going to proper hospitals, you believe in folk remedies?”
Hearing this, Chen Xiaoyan got angry. “Then was it not a proper hospital that made Xiao Ni’s eye like this? And have several proper hospitals not been helpless?”
“This…” Zheng Yu slapped himself.
That was indeed the case, yet he had defended the hospital.
He was in the wrong.
But he still said worriedly, “But the Chen Clan’s feudal situation, they are still into superstition. What if some folk remedy makes Xiao Ni even worse?”
Chen Xiaoyan did not know how to respond, so she just took out a video and handed it over. “This is the current patriarch of the Chen Clan.”
Zheng Yu looked at the video in confusion and saw a man stepping on the wall to gain momentum and then getting onto a roof more than five meters high.
“Holy shit…”
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On the other side, after hanging up, Chen Shuisheng reported to Chen Han, “Xiao Han, I told Xiaoyan to bring her daughter over tomorrow. I will be troubling you then.”
“Mm.” Chen Han nodded. In his head he was thinking about how to feed the Moon Gazing Sand to the little girl.
The simplest way would be to just give it to her directly, but that would look low-class and be too easy.
He could first have her rest quietly for two days, drink some herbal tea or grass root soup, and also arrange for her to go pay respects to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation. Then have Aunt-Grandmother dance for blessings and perform a ritual, followed by a cup of talisman water and finally feed her a Moon Gazing Sand.
That way it would all seem mysterious and profound, making people realize how rare the thing was. After going through all that and finding that it actually worked, they would probably be in awe on the spot.
Chen Han decided to do it like this.
In the future, no matter how rich someone was and how much money they threw around, these steps had to be followed. The droppings were from the Moon Gazing Rabbit; how to feed them to people was for him to decide.
He was rather pleased with his own imagination for coming up with these pretentious yet awe-inspiring methods.
After dinner, Xiao Yu said, “Senior brother, I am going back to edit the video of your filing at the county today. Xiao Mi Jie, let’s go!”
As she spoke, she took Xiao Mi’s arm and went back together.
After eating, Chen Han also returned to his room, checked some video data, and saw that the Dog Demon plea for help video had already reached 78 million likes. That video was definitely a big hit, and it had pushed his followers past 500,
However, after surpassing 5 million likes, the growth rate had slowed down. It would be difficult to break 3 million.
So he planned to shoot another video. Now he just happened to have material, so he could let people online see what sword control technique was. It would definitely attract a lot of traffic.
Of course, people would definitely treat it as special effects again; the Douyin special effects prompt was indeed awesome.
But that was exactly the effect he wanted, real and fake intertwined.
He took out his mobile phone, set up the position, and started recording. He then solemnly said to the lens, “Today, as patriarch of this family, I studied the family books and learned a sword control technique. I am here to demonstrate it for all fellow daoists. Also, it is not special effects, not special effects, really not special effects!”
