Chapter 119: Is This Really The Praying For Blessings Effect? The Rogue Cultivators’ Anomalies!
In the kitchen.
As usual, Chen Han was stewing a serving of medicinal cuisine, and at the same time simmering a small pot of herbal tea beside it.
This was prepared for President Wang.
The other party had donated ten million, and today he would bring his father over for treatment.
On aunt-grandmother’s side, everything was ready for the blessing.
Naturally, the blessing was a cover, and this herbal tea was also a cover. The single grain of Moon Gazing Sand added to the tea at the end was what truly worked.
As the medicinal fragrance of the dish spread, his junior sister came in from outside. “Senior brother, did you watch that Ming Di video? He wants to learn our alchemy, but ended up eating himself into the hospital. Is alchemy something that easy?”
His junior sister spoke with a hint of smugness, then picked up the medicinal herbs to process them. The meaning was obvious: she could perform alchemy, and she was very proud of it.
She quickly refined a Body Tempering Pill and said to him, “Senior brother, after Xiao Jun and Dalong took the Body Tempering Pill and trained yesterday, they both felt in great condition today. From now on, I plan to give each of them one pill a day to specially cultivate them, and in the future they can even act as performance actors.”
“How about I start practicing some sword move routines recently, then they can cooperate, and we can also use this as a reward to honor outstanding clan members each month.”
“Mm, junior sister, you decide.” Chen Han nodded.
After the Chen Clan’s development, some reward and punishment mechanisms were necessary. Using the Body Tempering Pill as a reward, once the clan members knew the effect, they would all work hard to perform, especially parents striving for their children.
In the cultivation world, this was the same as cultivation resources.
Among the younger clan members who had returned to the Chen Clan, some had just had newborn children.
Once these children grew a bit, if they had Body Tempering Pills, at least their physical constitution could be trained to be very good. Even if they did not practice martial arts, they might achieve great results if they took the sports path.
In the future, the Chen Clan might even produce many sports celebrities.
Chen Han finished stewing the herbal tea and let it cool for a while. It was also time to add water to the medicinal cuisine. Just as he finished adding the water, President Wang called.
After taking the call, he instructed his junior sister to carry the herbal tea over to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, while he went out to receive President Wang.
“Patriarch Chen, this is my father. Right now, he can basically no longer see anything.” Seeing Patriarch Chen again, Wang Xinhe immediately introduced his father’s condition.
Chen Han glanced at the old man’s eyes. The old man’s eyes were slightly squinted and even somewhat red and swollen. One look showed his state was bad, so he nodded and said, “President Wang, bring them with me to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.”
“Alright, Patriarch Chen.” Wang Xinhe nodded and, together with his brother-in-law Chu Hui, helped his father follow along.
Before long, they arrived at the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
Looking at the hall, Chu Hui was utterly baffled. Seeing the setup before him, was this really just for a blessing?
He could accept secret traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions, but blessing curing his father-in-law’s eyes was something he really could not believe.
Chen Han led the three into the hall. They saw aunt-grandmother already prepared, as well as his junior sister, and the herbal tea, cups, and so on already set out.
“Mr. Wang, please go offer an incense stick.” Chen Han invited with a smile.
Wang Xinhe nodded and supported his father over to the altar.
Chen Han also turned to aunt-grandmother who was waiting. “Aunt-grandmother, this old gentleman is the one receiving the blessing today.”
“Offer incense first.” Aunt-grandmother nodded and handed the prepared incense sticks to the three of them.
After receiving the incense, following the guidance, Wang Xinhe bowed and offered incense to worship the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.
Once this first step was completed, Chen Han spoke again. “President Wang, next we will perform the blessing. The three of you, please have a cup of herbal tea first.”
As he spoke, he poured each of the three a cup of herbal tea. Naturally, the cup given to the old man had Moon Gazing Sand added. He watched the old man drink it down.
Wang Xinhe and Chu Hui were a bit puzzled. Drink herbal tea before performing a blessing?
To them, this was extremely strange.
Especially Chu Hui. He certainly did not believe a blessing could truly cure illness. If the other side could really cure his father-in-law’s eyes, perhaps the reason lay in this herbal tea.
So he immediately took a sip himself, but it really seemed to be just herbal tea.
“Gentlemen, we will now bless the old gentleman.” When aunt-grandmother saw the old man finish the herbal tea, she guided him to kneel on the cushion.
During the blessing, Wang Xinhe and Chu Hui could only wait to the side.
Aunt-grandmother picked up the fly whisk and began a blessing dance. She put her whole heart into it. As someone who had served the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation for many years, she treated this as an act of deep piety.
But she was old after all, so her blessing movements were somewhat distorted, and as before, still somewhat resembled a ritual.
Chu Hui watched in confusion and could not help quietly asking Wang Xinhe, “Can this really work?”
If this really cured his father-in-law’s eyes, those ophthalmology experts might as well jump into a river.
Around them, some tourists who had come in were attracted by the blessing inside the hall. They gathered around to watch and raised their mobile phones to film.
Previously, the blessings at the Chen Clan’s Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall had made the news. Some people had maliciously claimed the Chen Clan was using rituals to treat illness and promoting superstition.
Later, those Daoist priests spoke out in support and directly had the rumor mongers’ accounts banned. Tourists who came to the Chen Clan having done their research all knew this was just a simple blessing.
A girl dressed in a flashy style looked shocked. “This old man’s status is not ordinary. And that guy standing next to him, that custom suit he is wearing costs no less than two hundred thousand, and that watch is a three-million IWC.”
“Really? Someone that rich believes in this?” a skeptical man beside her asked. “Could the watch be fake?”
“Heh…” The girl gave him a disdainful look. She could mistake her own boyfriend, but she could never misjudge these things.
Her words also amazed the other tourists. For such a tycoon to believe in the Chen Clan’s blessing suggested the Chen Clan really had something.
Finally, when aunt-grandmother stopped, the blessing was finished.
“This… this really works!” After the blessing ended, the old man rose in disbelief and rubbed his eyes.
Seeing this, Wang Xinhe hurried forward to ask, “Dad, how do you feel?”
The old man’s face was full of surprise. “I can see, and my eyes feel very comfortable.”
Hearing this, Chu Hui felt it was impossible and rushed to examine his father-in-law’s eyes. He could clearly see that much of the redness, swelling, and bloodshot streaks had faded.
It actually had an effect?
The conversation among them stirred a sense of déjà vu among some tourists nearby. In their trip planning, they had seen the story of the Chen Clan being falsely accused of using rituals to treat illness, seemingly also involving eyes.
Now the dialogue of this tycoon and his father… it seemed… apparently also about eye problems?
After the blessing, that old man could see?
Could it be that last time was not slander?
“Patriarch Chen, can this blessing really treat eye conditions?” As an ophthalmologist, Chu Hui could not help asking. He knew his father-in-law’s symptoms: a rare neural lesion, something even top experts in the capital were helpless against.
Chu Hui’s question instantly drew all the tourists’ attention. One by one, they looked over, seemingly wanting to know the answer.
But Chen Han only smiled and said, “Sir, you must be joking. Our blessing only prays for safety and has no therapeutic effect. If you have an eye disease, you must go to a hospital. The specialized eye hospital in Qingmin City is very good.”
“…” Hearing this, Chu Hui looked extremely embarrassed. He was the chief physician in that hospital. If they could have cured it, his father-in-law would not have needed to come to the Chen Clan.
The key point was that Patriarch Chen outright refused to acknowledge it.
He glanced at the herbal tea in his hand. Perhaps the statement that the blessing did not cure illness was not false, and the truth lay in the herbal tea.
Thinking this, his eyes lit up. He quietly moved aside, took out a small bottle from his bag, and poured in some herbal tea.
If he could detect the composition, that would be something.
At this moment, Chen Han also said to Wang Xinhe, “President Wang, the blessing has finished. I hope your father will be safe. If he needs another blessing, you can call me in advance.”
“Alright, Patriarch Chen.” Wang Xinhe understood what he meant: if his father’s eyes were not fully recovered, they could come back, and this man would take responsibility.
Right now, he was also very curious about his father’s exact eye condition, so he planned to take his father and his brother-in-law Chu Hui back to the city hospital for a scientific examination.
After a long journey, they went directly to the ophthalmology hospital in Qingmin City for tests.
Chu Hui personally examined his father-in-law. When he saw the results, he was truly stunned.
Many of his father-in-law’s symptoms had disappeared, and his eyes were rapidly recovering.
Because he had been familiar with his father-in-law’s condition from the start, he was all the more shocked. The experts from the capital had spent so long only to conclude it was a rare ocular nerve disorder.
Now, after just one blessing at the Chen Clan, his father-in-law was cured.
If those experts from the capital heard this, they might be utterly embarrassed.
“Dad, how is it?” After the examination, Wang Xinhe immediately asked.
The old master simply said, “In a couple of days, take me to the Chen Clan to fulfill my vow to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation. Their blessing is more capable than those experts.”
“Alright, Dad.” Wang Xinhe answered with joy. As long as he was better, that was all that mattered.
He had already known the Chen Clan had something special. Now he was even more certain, so even if his father had not said so, he had planned to do this.
Visiting the Chen Clan from time to time could only be beneficial.
Watching the two, Chu Hui slightly shook his head. He still did not believe the blessing was effective and focused entirely on the herbal tea he had brought back.
Once he identified the medicinal component, his brother-in-law and father-in-law would understand.
So, after his brother-in-law and father-in-law left, he immediately went to the hospital laboratory and asked the lab director to test the herbal tea.
He stayed and waited the whole time, even treating them to lunch at noon. It took a full three hours to get the results.
“How is it?” Chu Hui asked with great anticipation.
But the lab director just stared at him, dumbfounded. “Director Chu, are you so bored you are teasing me? This is just ordinary herbal tea.”
“How is that possible?” Chu Hui froze, grabbed the report, and read through it.
Honeysuckle, chrysanthemum…
The components really were just typical herbal tea materials.
He quickly recalled the situation. At the Chen Clan, his father-in-law had only drunk this herbal tea, and then there was the blessing.
If the tea really was just ordinary herbal tea…
Was it really the blessing that cured him?
This thought made his eyes widen in shock. He instinctively took out his mobile phone and called Wang Xinhe. “Brother, remember to tell me when Dad goes to the Chen Clan to fulfill his vow.”
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The Chen Clan.
Chen Han put on a Daoist robe and practiced the consecration Big Dipper steps with aunt-grandmother. This was also the prelude to Summoning the Heart and Guiding the Spirit. After stepping the Big Dipper pattern came the heart-consecration.
The Big Dipper steps, also called walking the firmament steel, originated from the Daoist Sect’s special view of the cosmos. The steps contained the Big Dipper’s seven stars and were split into the first four stars and the last three.
These exercises were not hard. What was hard were the variations, such as “feet stepping Eight Trigrams, swaying and pinching Nine Stars” and other changes.
At the same time, the Big Dipper steps had to be paired with the 《Big Dipper Incantation》.
All these things needed practice. Fortunately, Chen Han cultivated the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》. His physical fitness was strong, his memory even stronger, and he could master it easily.
Aunt-grandmother was very satisfied. “Patriarch, your talent for cultivating the Dao is really high. No one has ever learned the Big Dipper steps as fast as you.”
“Aunt-grandmother, you flatter me,” Chen Han replied modestly.
But aunt-grandmother reminded him, “The day after tomorrow is the newly chosen consecration date. Patriarch, you should have the clan members come quickly to get familiar with the rehearsal.”
“Alright.” Chen Han agreed.
The date for the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s consecration could not be chosen randomly. Within this month, only the day after tomorrow was suitable for the consecration of the Statue of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.
So the time was indeed tight.
After leaving the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, a game prompt suddenly appeared in Chen Han’s mind:
【Spirit sealing plant cultivation completed, Spirit Sealing Formation successfully constructed, spirit field renovation in progress…】
He immediately went to the ten-mu plot. The entire area was still enveloped in a closed White Light. Those marked white light clusters had already been planted with peach trees.
Clearly, this White Light Shield would only disappear once the spirit field renovation was complete.
And the spirit field renovation was not something that could be done in a short moment.
“Xiao Han.” When Chen Lin saw him arrive, he came over with Chen Dagou to greet him.
Seeing them, Chen Han also instructed, “Uncle, Uncle Dagou, notify the clan members who will participate in the consecration ceremony and have them go to aunt-grandmother for rehearsal.”
“Alright.” Chen Lin nodded.
Soon, Xiao Yu also got the news and came to him. “Senior brother, let’s go shoot a promotional video for the consecration ceremony.”
“Mm.” Chen Han nodded.
The Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s dream mission required completing the grand consecration ceremony. The sixty-lineage aspect was fine; the clan members were already prepared.
The three hundred votive worshippers were the problem. Although the number of rooms booked meant there would definitely be more than three hundred tourists the day after tomorrow, they might not all go to worship.
So they still needed to attract more tourists, and filming a promotional video was a good approach.
The shoot took more than an hour. He left the editing work to his junior sister and Xiao Mi.
After shooting, he went to the water reservoir for the offering flower sea. Since the consecration ceremony was about to begin, he could now transform the Spirit Plant Dew to water the sea of flowers.
Calculating the flowering time after the offering flowers matured, plus the effect of the Spirit Plant Dew, he could ensure the sea of offering flowers would bloom rapidly two to three days after the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation consecration ceremony.
At that time, this could be linked to the Heavenly Lord’s Blessing.
Also, he did not know what reward would come from completing the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s dream mission. After all, this was the first mission of Data Packet （2）.
The reward would likely differ from that of Data Packet （1）.
The water reservoir for the offering flower sea was built on the other side. It could not be right next to the sea of flowers, or it would affect its ornamental value.
When he arrived, the reservoir was already full. Without hesitation, he took out the Hundred Flowers Palace Spirit Jade, put it into the water, activated the runes, and transformed it into Spirit Plant Dew.
As the reservoir’s water was shrouded in a layer of White Light, the transformation completed moments later. He immediately went to activate the watering function.
In a short while, Spirit Plant Dew was sprayed over the sea of offering flowers and the flower beds in various places in the Chen Clan.
After finishing, Chen Han returned to the Chen Clan.
That night, after having dinner at his uncle’s, his junior sister sent him the consecration ceremony video. “Senior brother, it’s edited. Xiao Mi Jie and I have both uploaded it.”
Chen Han nodded and also uploaded the video to the patriarch’s account. After thinking for a while about the title, he wrote: 《The Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation descends to bestow blessings upon everyone!》
This kind of special ceremony video could not be made abstract. It was filmed very formally, so its performance on his account likely would not be great.
Sure enough, after uploading, although the numbers were much better than at the beginning, it still did not attract attention like the previous videos.
After watching for a bit, he returned to his room, washed up, and took out a spirit stone to cultivate.
However, when the alarm clock rang the next morning and he finished cultivating and got up, he was surprised by the video stats. While his own Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation consecration video had not gone viral, another video about the Chen Clan’s Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation had.
《A tycoon of a listed group actually believes in the Chen Clan’s Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation blessing!》
Seeing this title, Chen Han immediately guessed the reason. Opening it, he found it was indeed the video of aunt-grandmother blessing President Wang’s father from yesterday.
A tourist had filmed it and posted it online, and crucially, someone had recognized President Wang’s identity.
Thus the video drew attention.
If it had only been ordinary people believing in the Chen Clan’s Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation blessing, it would not have attracted much interest and might even have been mocked as ignorance. But when a tycoon of a listed group believed in this blessing, it felt completely different.
This was also why people everywhere scrambled for the first incense.
Would the same thing now happen at the Chen Clan because of President Wang?
While surprised, Chen Han saw that the Maoshi hour was near. He quickly washed up and went out. Today there was no Moon Gazing Sand, so he could only ride the ox and bring the dog.
His junior sister and uncle had arrived first today. When they saw him, they greeted him.
He sat down cross-legged, took out the Hundred Flowers Palace Spirit Jade, and, as spiritual energy rinsed over him, he began cultivating with the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》.
When he finished cultivating again, his junior sister and the others had already gone back. He stood up, mounted You Fu, and rode toward the Chen Clan.
As he neared the entrance gate, he was surprised to see many Shangyuan Village villagers gathered in the direction of the village office.
Such a scene meant something major had happened in the village and everyone was being gathered to discuss it.
Just then, in his mind, the game system suddenly displayed a prompt:
【You receive a report that the rogue cultivators attached to the Chen Clan have suddenly gathered on a large scale, seemingly discussing something in secret. Moreover, your covert investigation discovers traces of familiar demonic energy lingering among them. This immediately arouses your vigilance. The gathering of these rogue cultivators may be related to demonic cult rogues!】
