Chapter 113: Can This Be Taught? Renovating The Spirit Field!
Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi went upstairs with looks of surprise. That growing sense of inner calm made them subconsciously stop and listen to the chanting.
As they listened, their minds became more focused. Their heads seemed clearer, and the clutter of stray thoughts grew fewer.
Because of the Chen Clan National Style Event, there had been many details they could not sort out. At this moment, a sudden flash of insight in their minds straightened many things out.
This made the two of them look at each other in disbelief, seeing shock in each other’s eyes.
Before long, the chanting stopped. Xiao Yu stepped forward and knocked on the door.
Chen Han opened the door and, seeing his junior sister and Xiao Mi outside, smiled and asked, “What brings you here?”
As he spoke, his gaze subconsciously dropped to their chests again. They still did not seem to have gotten bigger…
“Senior brother, what kind of look is that? How could a new vest work that fast!” Xiao Yu noticed his gaze, shot him a glare, then said, “I have two things to report to you.”
“The first is still the accommodation problem. The original 300 rooms plus the 150 rooms cleared out by clan members, plus the vacant detached courtyards, are still not enough. The empty rooms cleared out by the clan were snapped up as soon as they were listed. There will be even more people during the National Style Event, so we still need to find another method.”
Chen Han had expected this and said, “Then we will talk to the village. There are quite a few vacant houses in the village. If that is still not enough, we can only have tourists stay in the county. I have already discussed it with the culture and tourism side. They will arrange dedicated bus routes.”
“Mm!” Xiao Yu nodded, then said, “The other matter is that you previously had uncle open up 10 mu of land and said we still needed to plant peach trees. The land is ready. Part of the peach trees I ordered has also arrived. We can start planting tomorrow. I do not know if you have any special planting requirements for the peach trees. If it is not enough, we will have to order more.”
Chen Han thought for a moment and said, “Tomorrow I will go over and see the actual situation first, then decide how to plant the peach trees.”
These 10 mu of land were to be used to transform 10 mu into a level one spiritual field. Right now, that Level 1 Spirit Field Modification Card was still in his warehouse. Planting peach trees was to use these spirit plants to construct the Spirit Sealing Formation, so that the spirit field effect could be activated.
As for the specific positions of the peach trees needed for that Spirit Sealing Formation, he did not know yet. He would only get the detailed planting locations after using the Spirit Field Modification Tablet.
Xiao Yu nodded. After finishing the two matters, she looked at her senior brother expectantly. “Senior brother, have you finished your research on that 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》? Just now, when I was outside listening to your recitation, I felt calm and focused.”
“My head was clear too, and my thinking was sharper,” Xiao Mi added in agreement.
“Mm.” Chen Han nodded. In fact, when he had just been chanting, he had felt it himself. Looking at the two girls, he began to recite again, “When people are still, they are at peace; when affairs are still, they go smoothly; when the heart is still, it prevails… mind and spirit become one…”
As he chanted, Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi again felt that wondrous sensation: tranquil mood, focused mind.
Having recently read quite a few Daoist sect classics, Xiao Mi knew that in ancient times there were often big shots who, when vexed or unsettled, went to daoist temples to quiet their hearts and recuperate. Listening to daoist priests chanting scriptures could soothe their mentality and bring inner peace.
The most famous examples were several emperors.
The most recent one was Yongzheng.
Although that emperor was from the Qing dynasty and people generally had a poor impression of the Qing court, it was indeed recorded that for a period after he ascended the throne he suffered from something like manic depression. In the end, it was by listening to the chanting of a profound daoist priest that his symptoms improved. Thus he later became highly devoted to the Daoist sect, even composing eulogies for many legendary Daoist figures, and he would often incorporate Daoist elements into his governance.
Previously, she had not understood this at all. A person with manic depression should need silence. If there is sound nearby making noise, that would make them more irritable. They would not even be able to tolerate music.
Now, listening to Chen Han reciting the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》, she realized that Daoist chanting really could have such a miraculous effect.
Finally, Chen Han’s chanting ended again.
Xiao Yu could not help asking, “Senior brother, can I learn this 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》?”
“You can!” Chen Han said with a smile.
This 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》 had only one restriction: it was only effective here with the Chen Clan. According to the records on the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》, it had to be used together with the formation beneath the Chen Clan to work. It had no effect outside.
As he spoke, he handed her that Daoist Scripture Notation. “Junior sister, once you learn this Daoist Scripture Notation, you can study the musical composition of the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》.”
Xiao Yu immediately took the scripture notation and began reading it carefully. But after a short while, the Daoist notation symbols, which were like musical notes, began to look to her like tadpoles swimming.
Then she felt as if those tadpoles were drilling into her mind and tearing open her skull.
Her head hurt so much!
She immediately started acting spoiled. “Senior brother, can you just directly teach me how to recite the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》? Would that work?”
“It can work. I will recite a line; you try to follow,” Chen Han said, then recited, “When people are still, they are at peace; when affairs are still, they go smoothly; when the heart is still, it prevails…”
“???” Xiao Yu instantly went blank. She followed one word, but did not remember the rest at all.
She had thought it would be simple to repeat after him line by line, but those notes and tones…
Chen Han smiled. The special notes and tones of Daoist chanting were actually harder than following along in music lessons.
And as for his junior sister, even having her memorize classical poetry was a major project, let alone chanting scriptures.
So he recited the line again in front of her.
“Mind and spirit… mind and spirit…” Xiao Yu followed for two words, then collapsed.
Why was it so hard?
Chen Han could not help sighing. “Junior sister, you already struggle with five-character poems. These special notes and tones are indeed difficult for you.”
At this point, Xiao Mi followed along and recited aloud, “Mind and spirit as one, qi should follow in harmony, with space to spare between, unshaken by ten thousand changes…”
Chen Han looked at her in surprise. Although she still made many mistakes, she managed to learn it once through and recite the entire line.
A top student was truly a top student.
Xiao Yu, on the other hand, looked at Xiao Mi with utter admiration. In her eyes, Xiao Mi was exactly the version of herself she dreamed of being.
In the end, she came up with a perfect solution. “Let Xiao Mi Jie learn it first. Once she learns it, she can teach me. I have to go find uncle now to talk about planting the peach trees tomorrow.”
She seemed to have forgotten one thing: whether taught by her senior brother or her best friend, it made no difference, because it did not change the fact that she was a slow learner.
After saying that, Xiao Yu hurriedly ran out. Only once she reached the courtyard did she breathe a sigh of relief. Her senior brother would mock her, but Xiao Mi Jie was better; when she taught her, she would not mock her.
In the second-floor room, only Chen Han and Xiao Mi were left.
The atmosphere suddenly felt a little off.
“Has the effect worn off?” Chen Han’s gaze grew hard to control as he casually asked.
Especially when he thought of that fair…
That clearly fuller curve.
Xiao Mi could not help letting out a soft hum. “I do not know. It was still… before, but after you messed around this afternoon, it stopped.”
Chen Han suggested with a smile, “How about we try again? See if there is any increase?”
Xiao Mi immediately complained, “You need to show some restraint. Do you not know your own physical condition?”
“I will just check the size, I promise…”
“You and your promises, always ‘just check’…”
“Mm.”
“Ah… you said just check…”
“Once we are trying, we might as well…”
…
Sometimes learning really can bring joy, and teaching others to learn can bring joy too.
So, Chen Han was very happy.
Xiao Mi was clearly very happy as well, but she still complained, “Why do you not understand restraint? And this was so simple. Could you not undo it? You broke the strap again.”
As she spoke, she tossed the item at him, then, feeling angry, tidied her hanfu, picked up the Daoist Scripture Notation, and left.
They had agreed to study the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》, but after all that time, she was not sure how far they had gotten.
She took this Daoist Scripture Notation first to deal with Xiao Yu, and would also self-study a bit.
Right now, she was quite interested in Daoist scripture notation.
Before long, she returned to Xiao Yu’s courtyard and saw Xiao Yu again sitting at the computer working on the proposal.
When Xiao Yu saw her come back, she asked expectantly, “Xiao Mi Jie, have you learned it? Huh… what is that smell on you? Did you sweat?”
“Ah, I probably did. I ran over,” Xiao Mi hurriedly made something up, then quickly shifted the topic. “How could the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》 be learned so quickly? Your senior brother spent so long studying it. Why don’t you look through this scripture notation yourself?”
As she said that, she deliberately handed Xiao Yu the scripture notation.
Xiao Yu looked at the notes, which again seemed to turn into swimming tadpoles, and quickly said, “Xiao Mi Jie, I still have to work on the proposal.”
Watching Xiao Yu busy at the computer again, Xiao Mi guiltily slipped into the bathroom.
This would not do. She could not let him keep trying. With such intense exercise like before, who knew when there might be a huge impact that caused complications in his body. What if his cancer cells flared up?
He did not have much time to begin with.
Sigh…
…
After Xiao Mi left, Chen Han thoughtfully looked at the two aprons in the game warehouse and at the game prompts appearing in his mind:
【This is an undergarment left behind by the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy. It seems to still carry a faint flower fragrance from her body!】
【The family seems to have sounded an alarm. It seems something has happened. A clan member immediately reports that the Hundred Flowers Fairy, who was a guest, claims that a thief has stolen her apron. Truly hateful. The fairy says that if she catches the thief, she will take his head!】
“???” Chen Han was dumbfounded.
What an injustice.
She clearly left it herself.
He now understood the weight behind the saying “women all lie.”
Just then, another game prompt appeared:
【Because you have successfully stolen the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy’s apron twice in a row, you have triggered a special behavior task. If your current behavior reaches 5 successful times, you can obtain the ‘G-string Maniac’ title. Title effect: charm +2!】
“???” Chen Han knew that games had title systems, but could this system be a bit more truthful?
It was slandering his pure reputation.
Cursing twice in his heart, he felt that the saying “the people who wrong you are the ones who know best how innocent you are” was also very accurate.
Besides, in this case he was being wronged by the system itself.
In the end, speechless, he took out a spirit stone and began cultivation, circulating the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》.
As the spiritual energy from the spirit stone was drawn into his body, it was gradually refined into true qi, strengthening his own true qi.
Time passed. When the alarm clock rang the next day, Chen Han’s face showed joy. After a night of cultivation, his true qi had grown significantly. He again tried to impact the first of the eight meridians, the Chong Meridian.
Crucially, this time he actually succeeded, directly breaking through the Chong Meridian. True qi surged through it, and as it emerged from the meridian, it had grown stronger again.
More importantly, he could feel that his physique had clearly improved.
This was also the benefit gained from opening one of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians.
It was thanks to the demonic cult rogue dropping the spirit stone. Otherwise, who knew how long it would have taken to break through this first meridian.
When Chen Han got up and stretched, he could feel how good his physical condition was. Then, the first thing he did was check his life status.
Lifespan: 68 years 7 months.
After opening one Chong Meridian, his lifespan had increased by another 5 years.
These 5 years of lifespan were no longer just recovery of lost life but an extension on top of his original base. In his subsequent cultivation, every step forward would bring this kind of increase in lifespan.
After that, he checked his stats again. The 《Defending Against the Demonic Cult Rogue》 video’s data had stopped rising, but his fans had already reached more than 660,At this rate, he would soon break one million.
Then he checked the sect resident location data:
100 million money（1,613,200/100 million）. Reputation 500,000（612,414/500,000）.
Reputation had already exceeded 600,000, but the money, after transferring taxes into the dedicated account and transferring payments for peach trees and flowers to his junior sister’s side, was even less than before.
The past two days of tourist consumption added up to only 61 million. He would have to wait until Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea was sold to boost money again. There was also Moon Gazing Sand, which needed to be put to use.
The miraculous effect had already been proven. As long as he targeted the right wealthy tycoons with eye diseases, even asking for over 100 million directly, they might be willing to pay.
Snapping back to himself, Chen Han went to the bathroom to wash, then went downstairs into the courtyard. Today, when he looked at the Moon Gazing Rabbit Hutch, he received an unexpected surprise.
There were already 2 points of starlight inside.
That meant 2 more Moon Gazing Sand pellets.
Or maybe three.
So he opened the hutch lid and stared at the White Rabbit. Sure enough, it cooperatively stuck up its butt, and another pellet of Moon Gazing Sand came out.
“Smart of you,” Chen Han said with a smile, flicking the White Rabbit’s head with his finger. Watching the confused White Rabbit nibbling on a vegetable leaf, he collected all three Moon Gazing Sand pellets.
He swallowed one, then took out the elm wood tube and stored the other two inside.
Once the Moon Gazing Sand took effect, he felt a cool, comfortable sensation in his eyes.
Seeing You Fu coming over, he sat on its back and had it carry him and You Cai together to the Special Spiritual Aperture.
On the way, he saw uncle and the others, and also Xiao Mi and Xiao Yu coming out. At the main gate, they ran into Uncle Dagou and Uncle Shuisheng.
After learning of the Special Spiritual Aperture’s wonders, they were all very motivated to get up early every morning.
When the group reached the Special Spiritual Aperture, as the first ray of sunlight spilled over the mountain, they again felt that substance enveloping their bodies, and that marvelous feeling of physical nourishment returned.
This time, Chen Lin and the others, as well as Xiao Yu, wanted to try entering samadhi in that state. But time passed, and once the special substance’s enveloping state faded, all their attempts had failed. When they looked at Chen Han, their eyes were full of respect.
What Daoist Priest Chen had described as samadhi was truly beyond them, even though they had watched his video explaining how to enter samadhi.
When Chen Han opened his eyes, the others had already left, and he headed over to uncle’s place to prepare medicinal cuisine.
When he reached the kitchen, he saw that his junior sister and uncle were in the courtyard discussing. When they saw him, his junior sister said, “Senior brother, uncle and I are waiting for you to go together to those 10 mu of land. We also need to see how you want to plant the peach trees. Today Uncle Dagou will have people from the Demon Subduing Hall come help too.”
“Mm, you go on ahead,” Chen Han nodded. After leveling up, he had obtained the Spirit Field Modification Tablet, and now he could finally transform the spirit field.
He just needed to get the medicinal cuisine into the pot for stewing before heading over.
