Chapter 106: Just Doing Morning Class! Brothers, Time To Get Rich!
When all the spiritual energy he had absorbed into his body was completely refined, Chen Han opened his eyes and saw that some tourists had already gathered around him, filming in his direction.
It seemed the matter of the new fence also needed to be sped up by his uncle.
After taking You Fu and You Cai back to the Chen Clan, he went to Uncle’s Courtyard to prepare medicinal cuisine.
Noon.
When Junior Sister, Xiao Mi, uncle, Uncle Dagou, and Uncle Shuisheng all came over to eat the medicinal cuisine, they saw Junior Sister smiling broadly at him as she said, “Senior Brother, you’ve gone viral again. Someone filmed you sitting cross-legged early this morning by the Three Elm Trees, and they’re saying you’re using a cultivation method and cultivating there.”
“????” Chen Han knew someone had filmed him cultivating by the pavilion, but a video of him just sitting cross-legged there could go viral?
The key point was that there really was a cultivation method!
He took out his mobile phone to check, and sure enough, a video titled 《The Chen Family Head seems to be cultivating》 had surpassed fifty thousand likes shortly after being uploaded.
After reading the comments, he understood why this video had blown up:
“Holy crap, I tried sitting cross-legged and my legs went numb so fast. This Chen Family Head can sit like that for so long.”
“There’s no way an ordinary person can sit cross-legged that long without moving at all!”
“This really does look a bit like cultivation. The Chen Family Head seems like he’s in samadhi!”
“……”
Chen Han felt that with this video out, there would probably be plenty of tourists coming specifically to watch him cultivate tomorrow.
At this moment Xiao Mi added, “Everyone thinks you’re cultivating, but Chen Daoist Priest and a few other Daoist Priests have helped clarify it for you.”
When Chen Han heard this, he searched and opened that Chen Daoist Priest’s account page, and sure enough saw a new video: 《That is the Chen Family Head doing morning class, everyone don’t make a fuss, trust in science》.
This video by Chen Daoist Priest was also very popular, getting over thirty thousand likes in a short time.
With the video playing, they heard Chen Daoist Priest say, “If everyone is not very familiar with Daoist Sect culture, you can look up more related Daoist Sect information. The Chen Family Head is doing morning class.”
“Our Daoist Sect morning class time is usually related to the Daoist concept of ‘following heaven and earth’s laws,’ generally at sunrise, that is during the Maoshi hour （5:00 – 7:00）.”
“This time period is considered when the heaven and earth’s yang energy is first born, which fits our Daoist morning class goal of ‘welcoming yang energy and purifying body and mind’ in cultivation practice.”
“And the fact that the Chen Family Head can enter samadhi without being disturbed by external things is very rare. Even Daoist Priests who have cultivated for a long time might not manage it. So everyone, don’t be too surprised by the Chen Family Head doing morning class, and trust in science.”
Seeing someone help him patch this bug, Chen Han was really pleased. He directly gave Chen Daoist Priest’s video a like and commented: The Daoist Priest is right, trust in science.
With the main figure himself liking and commenting like that, it naturally pushed Chen Daoist Priest’s video data even higher. Many people, seeing this, went to the 《The Chen Family Head seems to be cultivating》 video to explain things to others.
The urge to play teacher is a common flaw in most people. When others do not know something and they do, if they see people babbling nonsense or being misled in confusion, they cannot help wanting to correct them.
In the Chen Clan tourist center restaurant, a couple was eating when the girlfriend suddenly said, “Honey, turns out what the Chen Family Head was doing wasn’t cultivation. It was morning class. A Daoist Priest has already explained it, and the Chen Family Head liked it and admitted it.”
The boyfriend picked up his phone and checked, then said in surprise, “So that’s how it is. I’d only seen Daoist priests talk about morning class on TV before. Turns out the Chen Family Head was doing morning class.”
The girlfriend could not help teasing, “It’s pretty funny. We ordinary people keep trying to interpret Daoist Sect practices as something mysterious, while the Daoist Sect people keep reminding us to trust in science.”
“The positions are reversed,” the boyfriend also found it amusing.
Maybe that divine beast was too terrifying, so in the new era even the Daoist Sect had to start talking about science.
…
Chen Han put down his mobile phone and did not forget to instruct his uncle, “Uncle, hurry up and add another layer of fence around the Three Old Elm Trees, so the tourists can’t get too close. Once the branches and leaves on those bamboo slats grow dense, they won’t be able to see inside either.”
“Alright.” Chen Lin nodded, then added with emotion, “But Xiao Han, since when did you get into the habit of doing morning class?”
Hearing this, Chen Han thought for a moment and said, “Uncle, if you can get up before five in the morning, you can come sit by the pavilion too. There will be benefits.”
With the spiritual energy rinse, even a cow and a dog like You Fu and You Cai could feel the benefits. If Junior Sister and his uncle went, they should be able to feel the benefits as well.
However, the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》 could not be taught to others, at least not for now. Even if he were to teach it, it would have to wait until he obtained a more advanced cultivation method, or after he made a breakthrough in his realm.
When Xiao Yu and Chen Lin heard this, they were obviously stunned. They clearly heard that him going to the pavilion early in the morning was not just for morning class, but for other reasons as well?
And since he said there were benefits, it obviously was not simple.
Chen Lin subconsciously asked, “Xiao Han, is it also because of the Feng Shui array under the family?”
Xiao Yu and the others all looked toward Chen Han, full of curiosity.
Seeing this, he smiled and said, “You could say that.”
When something could not be explained, when there was no way to explain it, all things went back to the family Feng Shui array.
The key was that his uncle and the others were firmly convinced that there was a Feng Shui array beneath the family grounds. That was already a fixed fact.
Sure enough, Xiao Yu and Chen Lin were all curious and full of expectation, wanting to know what was special over there.
So they would have to get up a bit earlier tomorrow morning.
After Chen Han finished the medicinal cuisine with everyone, Chen Dagou’s mobile phone ringtone suddenly rang.
He answered, then said in surprise, “You’re almost here? You’ve agreed on the meeting place, right? Good. The Family Head and I will come over right away.”
After hanging up, he immediately reported to Chen Han, “Xiao Han, the fish has bitten.”
“So fast?” Chen Han naturally knew what the fish was.
It meant the lure-the-monsters strategy had worked. The demonic cult rogues were coming over to explode spirit stones for him.
Chen Dagou explained, “I chopped a few more stone slabs to pieces in front of those two thieves, and had the old man who broke his leg the day before yesterday lie down and say he got hurt when things were stolen. The other side was so scared their faces went white. They cooperated very eagerly and lured them over overnight.”
Hearing this, Chen Han asked, “And the communication with Captain Li?”
Chen Dagou nodded. “Yeah, they’re just a couple of petty thieves. He only said not to let it turn into a big incident.”
The two of them did not state things too directly; they could not say it outright.
Li Rui giving them this courtesy was not strange. Previously they had basically handed him free merit.
In short, with communication settled, there would be no problem.
Those two petty thieves were indeed easy for the Chen Clan to handle. Having Uncle Dagou send the injured old man to seek attention by making accusations was a vicious trick.
Honestly, unless you were obscenely rich, even thieves would be afraid of this move.
Chen Han immediately led people out toward the Crucible Room and saw three strong men and four old men guarding there.
The three strong men were newly recruited members of the Demon Subduing Hall. Among the four old men, one held a magical artifact spirit cane.
Three of them were naturally the three family elders stationed here, and the one holding the magical artifact spirit cane was a stronger elder brought specifically to suppress the two demonic cult rogues.
Under his prestige, the two demonic cult rogues sat there more obediently than the dogs around them.
When the Chen Clan people saw Chen Han arrive, they all respectfully called him “Family Head.”
In the Chen Clan, the older they were, the more they respected him as Family Head. After all, the elders had a stronger sense of clan.
Chen Han nodded in response, then looked at the two thieves with a smiling face. “What’s the situation?”
One of the thieves quickly explained, “Family Head Chen, we’ve already notified them. Once they reach Shangyuan Village, they’ll contact us, and then I’ll tell them the location. If we told them the place all at once, it would make them suspicious.”
“Let’s go get ready,” Chen Han instructed Chen Dagou.
The ones being lured over this time were all people who had committed crimes, one of them even on the wanted list. For safety’s sake, they naturally could not handle this inside the Chen Clan grounds, where there were too many tourists.
So they could only do it in Shangyuan Village, in a relatively remote and vacant house.
The house’s owner had bought a place in the county and no longer lived in the village, leaving it vacant.
The place had been suggested by the two dog thieves, because such a spot matched the kind of location a thief gang would choose when planning a job.
The ropes on the two thieves had long been removed. As they followed Chen Han and the others out of the Chen Clan, they truly did not dare think of running, not only because they feared that local dog biting their balls, but also because that old man with the cane was too terrifying.
The moment he came in, he lay down at their feet.
For hell’s sake, how long had it even been since their attempted theft failed?
If that old man stuck to them again, they did not dare imagine it.
The key was, they would not be able to explain themselves. There were so many people in the Chen Clan.
Were they expecting the police and judges to trust a couple of thieves with criminal records?
Honestly, the Chen Clan people were too evil. Beating them up would have been fine, but instead they used such unorthodox tactics as dogs biting balls and old men lying at their feet.
The mental intimidation hurt far more than physical pain.
In Shangyuan Village, on the second floor of the Village Chief’s house, Ming Di sat by the window, pointing his mobile phone toward the Chen Clan gate.
He had specially set up this room. The environment was quite good now, comfortable to live in and suitable for live streaming, much better than the room he gave his assistant.
Today he planned to shoot a video and stream a bit. He had not streamed for two days.
Just as he was thinking, he saw a group of people come out from the Chen Clan and head toward Shangyuan Village. Leading them was none other than the Chen Family Head, with a group of dogs in armor following behind.
The tourists around all saw this and took out their phones to film the Chen Family Head and his people.
Ming Di looked at the dogs. That little local dog in armor at the front was none other than his brother, the Dog Demon King.
He did not hesitate. Wasn’t this filming material delivered right to him?
He immediately started a mobile phone recording. As the Chen Family Head led people toward the village, he began narrating, “After a period of arduous effort, I have infiltrated the Chen Clan’s territory and gained the trust of rogue cultivators attached to the Chen Clan, giving me a greater chance to ambush the Chen Clan.”
“But today I saw the Dog Demon King brothers. They are already wearing the armor made by the Chen Clan to shackle their freedom. The light in their eyes is gone. They have completely become the Chen Clan’s dogs.”
“No… I will definitely destroy the Chen Clan and rescue the Dog Demon King brothers. I have now gathered some demon persons. The Chen Family Head clearly has some purpose on this trip, so I will send these demon persons to probe his depths.”
After shooting, Ming Di sat down at the computer to edit the footage.
As for gathering demon persons? He did not even know where any demon persons were. It was purely for plot.
The video was simple to make, so it was quickly edited and ready to upload.
Now his account Ming Di （Demonic Cult Rogue） had recently ridden quite a bit of traffic. Once he posted a video, quite a few people would see it.
Accidentally becoming a demonic cult rogue had truly been a turning point on his path as an internet celebrity.
On the other side.
Chen Han followed Chen Dagou into the house under their control in Shangyuan Village.
The two thieves stood to the side trembling, with that little local dog leading the rest of the dogs in staring at them. Wherever they went, the dogs went.
They really did not dare move at all.
And they were starting to suspect this dog had really become a spirit, otherwise how could it understand all this?
Chen Daguo and Chen Lin were already making preparations, tools in hand.
Xiao Yu, who came to Join the Fun, had even brought her sword.
Chen Han took out his mobile phone and started recording. “By capturing two demonic cult rogues, we have successfully lured the remaining demonic cult rogues and set up an ambush, waiting for them to walk into the trap.”
The two thieves stared blankly at this scene.
They finally understood that the Chen Family Head had never taken them seriously, treating them purely as filming material.
They even suspected that the Chen Family Head had them lure the gang over just to make a video.
Wasn’t that insane?
What kind of internet celebrity uses a thief gang as content, and then after filming, sends them off to his uncle?
Maybe his uncle would give him an outstanding citizen award.
But wasn’t he treating them thieves like they were invaders from a certain country in an old war?
After recording a short video, Chen Han took a few toothpicks out of his pocket, just in case.
It did not take long for the thief’s phone to ring. He immediately answered, “You’ve arrived? We’re in Shangyuan Village. I’ll share the location with you.”
After hanging up, he quickly reported to Chen Han, “Family Head Chen, they’ve arrived. Should I share our location with them?”
“Do it,” Chen Han nodded.
At this moment, a minivan slowly drove into Shangyuan Village.
The van was very shabby, with peeling paint, but inside it was crammed with five or six people.
Sitting in the front passenger seat, Wu Wei looked at the shared location sent via Weixin and said excitedly, “It’s just up ahead. We pull off a big one this time, then find a chance to go have fun in Thai Country.”
At first, he had looked down on this deal that came knocking, since the other party was just a petty thief, not on the same level as their thief gang.
But what the other party described really tempted him. Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea. In the province a single tube cost 240,000 yuan and was not necessarily available. He had a buyer who had said if they could steal Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea, he would buy it according to the usual under-the-table rules.
Top-grade tea was 240,000 a jin. Steal ten jin and that was 4 million…
Sell it under the rules, and it was still a huge profit.
Just thinking about it made him determined. As long as they stole enough Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea in one go, they could live it up.
As for the Chen Family Head and the Chen Clan knowing martial arts? They would come in the dead of night, when people were sound asleep. Besides, they had several watermelon knives in the van, not just little daggers.
No matter how good your martial arts were, you still feared a cleaver.
They had their messy, random chopping style. Who wouldn’t be scared of that?
Soon the van pulled up at an empty house in Shangyuan Village, where the shared location matched.
“This is the place,” Wu Wei said. When the van stopped, he led the group out and walked into the house.
As soon as he entered, he froze. There were many people inside, each holding tools.
“You called this many people too?” Wu Wei blurted out, his brows slightly furrowing.
Too many people meant less to split at the end. Having too many was a headache.
But then he sensed something was wrong. That young man looked a bit familiar. Just as he was thinking, he heard the door slam shut behind him.
