Chapter 126: Sword Control Technique Improved! The Flower Really Bloomed!
The sky gradually darkened.
The Chen Clan was still very lively, and the free Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea supply points everywhere were still serving tea.
Even those who had not reserved a Feng Shui Room, who booked hotels in the county or came to play in the county, could drink it for free.
Especially those from the county who came to join the fun had already posted the photos and videos related to the Chen Clan’s consecration ceremony on Moments again and again.
The girl that Zhu Jie brought was like this; she had posted on Moments several times in a row. It could be said that today the Chen Clan had completely gone viral in the county.
The girl sipped the Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea in her hand and said sweetly, “This Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea is really delicious, but even an ordinary tube costs twenty thousand, so expensive.”
When Zhu Jie heard this, he immediately said, “Do you like it? I’ll buy you an ordinary tube.”
“No, no, it’s too expensive, I can’t accept it.” The girl looked resistant and hurriedly shook her head. “I’m not the kind of girl who accepts such expensive gifts from others.”
Hearing this made Zhu Jie like her even more. Although he already understood that she treated him like a simp, she had not deceived him for anything, and she even refused when he offered to give her Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.
Where could he find such a good girl?
He had to give it.
Sincerity would definitely move her.
So, before long, he painfully bought a tube of ordinary Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea for the girl. Only after her repeated refusals did she reluctantly agree to accept it.
The moment the girl took the Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea, she could no longer suppress the smile at the corner of her mouth. She immediately picked it up, took a selfie, and posted on Moments: “Chen Clan Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea, more than twenty thousand a tube, today I was fortunate enough to buy one.”
Besides her, many tourists today were also posting about the Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea, which quickly spread the fame of this bamboo tea in this way.
Seeing the girl so happy made Zhu Jie smile as well.
If she was happy, he was happy.
After that, the two planned to go to the Chen Clan restaurant to eat something before returning to the county. They were really a bit hungry, but found that there were too many tourists, and the Chen Clan restaurant had no seats at all, with a very long line already formed.
Fortunately, when they arrived at the cultivation market outside the Chen Clan, they saw someone setting up a stall selling snacks and hurried over to buy a little food.
At this moment, the entire cultivation market was also very lively.
Guo Zhen was running a grass jelly stall, serving several tourists bowls of grass jelly. Handmade and cooked in an iron pot, grass jelly with honey was very popular with tourists.
The idea Mr. Lin gave was really good. Bringing some snacks to sell at the cultivation market today, business was indeed very good.
But when he thought of today’s Chen Clan consecration ceremony, he once again looked toward the Chen Clan with awe.
He had participated in the ceremony the whole afternoon; that blessing was that fine drizzle falling down… that miraculous feeling…
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After a busy day, once the Chen Clan members finished wrapping up, they all returned home and resumed normal life, though the discussion in the family group about today’s ceremony did not stop.
It was obvious that after this consecration ceremony, the participating clan members all gained an indescribable sense of cohesion.
Only a family with cohesion would have a future.
Chen Han and Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi had already arrived at Uncle’s Kitchen and were sitting at the table having dinner together.
“Xiao Han, the Chen Clan has not been this lively for a long time. This is all your merit. Your uncle toasts you with a bowl!” Chen Lin beamed with a smile. Tonight he specially brought out homemade rice wine and drank a big bowl with Chen Han.
After Chen Han finished the wine and put down the bowl, he said to his junior sister, “Junior sister, I have discussed with the county culture and tourism bureau. From now on, every year on this day we will cooperate to hold a Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation blessing god parading activity. After you finish eating, go tell Aunt-Grandmother and record it.”
Hearing this, Xiao Yu asked, “Senior brother, then should today’s date be recorded according to the Gregorian calendar or the lunar calendar?”
Chen Han froze for a moment at this. Today, July sixteenth, was the Gregorian date, not the lunar date, and the corresponding dates of the lunar and Gregorian calendars change every year, which would cause confusion.
“Use the lunar calendar,” Chen Han immediately said. After all, the auspicious times and dates in the Daoist sect are based on the lunar calendar.
“Okay, got it,” Xiao Yu nodded, then said excitedly, “Senior brother, the online popularity about our Chen Clan consecration ceremony has already risen. Many tourists posted videos this afternoon, and it will definitely ferment tonight. Tomorrow there will definitely be huge popularity.”
Chen Han was also looking at the situation on Douyin and knew this as well. Because enough tourists had posted videos today, the change in quantity had led to a qualitative change, naturally fermenting and triggering the traffic pool.
The Chen Clan needed to make use of this popularity.
So he said, “Xiao Yu, in the next few days, specifically teach uncle, Uncle Dagou, Uncle Shuisheng, and even Aunt-Grandmother how to use Douyin. If necessary, form a team to expose the Chen Clan from multiple angles.”
“For example, Uncle Shuisheng can be responsible for specialty products. Although there is only Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea for now, he can film its daily production. Uncle Dagou can film the daily training in the Demon Subduing Hall. Aunt-Grandmother can also film some videos about everyday Daoist etiquette.”
“This will be very beneficial for maintaining and preserving the Chen Clan’s popularity, attracting traffic through multi-angle promotion.”
“Got it.” Xiao Yu agreed immediately.
Previously, uncle had shot one or two videos, but very casually. Now the popularity would definitely explode. If handled carefully, uncle and the others could also gain a lot of attention.
After dinner, Chen Han returned to his own courtyard.
You Cai and the Fu Lu Shou Three Bulls were not around. As path-clearing spirit beasts, they had a big feast today and had been taken to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall to eat.
Back in his room, after a good shower, he took out a spirit stone and began to cultivate.
After circulating the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》, he estimated the true qi in his body and thought that today he might be able to try to impact the second belt meridian.
In wuxia-style cultivation, using inner strength to open the belt meridian was not easy because its position was special. Unlike the ren and du and chong meridians that run vertically through the whole body, the belt meridian circles the waist and abdomen like a “belt,” connecting the meridians of the upper and lower body.
This horizontal distribution made it easy for “blockage points” to form when inner strength flowed there. Opening it required precisely guiding inner strength to flow horizontally, which was harder than vertical meridians.
Moreover, the belt meridian “restrains all meridians.” It is like adding a “fixed band” for all the body’s meridians. Once opened, it allows the circulation between upper and lower body to be more coordinated, but because it involves so many meridians, opening it requires mobilizing more inner strength at once. The slightest mistake could cause chaotic qi. Martial artists often had to build a solid foundation of inner strength before attempting it.
But for cultivators, it was much easier. The energy quality of true qi is higher than that of inner strength. As long as there is enough true qi, it can just charge straight through the belt meridian.
Tonight, Chen Han would consume another spirit stone, and the consumption was faster than before, because with more true qi in his body, the speed at which he absorbed spiritual energy from the spirit stone had also increased.
Once this spirit stone was exhausted, he should be able to impact and open the belt meridian.
As his true qi circulated, he closed his eyes and began to cultivate.
After entering samadhi, time seemed to pass without notice. The only thing he sensed was when the spiritual energy in the spirit stone was completely depleted and its flow into him suddenly halted.
Seeing that his true qi had strengthened again, he did not hesitate and mobilized all his true qi into the belt meridian. Sure enough, it was like splitting bamboo; the obstructions there were crushed like fragile porcelain tiles.
Only when his true qi had completely opened the belt meridian, run a full circuit, and poured back into the dantian did his true qi undergo another round of quenching, becoming of higher quality.
He could also feel that at the instant he opened the belt meridian, his physique had improved a lot.
Chen Han’s face showed excitement as he opened his eyes and looked at the toothpick box on the table.
He instantly performed the Sword Control Technique, and a toothpick flew out of the box, then a second, a third, a fourth…
More than a dozen…
Twenty.
At twenty-one, he finally felt his limit. The toothpicks floating above the tabletop began to show signs of instability.
Seeing this, he waved his hand, and the toothpicks spun and danced in the air above the table before quickly shooting toward the tabletop, neatly nailing into it.
Only then did Chen Han stand up and walk to the table to look at the toothpicks.
He tried pulling them, and each one had pierced in a good section.
When he pulled all the toothpicks out, they left a series of small holes on the tabletop.
Rural tables are generally made of solid wood like oak or pine. To a certain degree, if you hit the right place, the human body is easier to pierce than solid wood, such as the eyes, testicles, throat, and so on.
So strictly speaking, these toothpicks in his hands were no longer just simple toothpicks, but could become blood-soaked weapons.
You have to know, how many bullets does a gun have?
He could carry many boxes of toothpicks on him and control 21 lethal toothpicks at once. If he added a few spirit stones to restore true qi…
Then…
Fortunately, he was the patriarch of a righteous-path family, upright and righteous. Otherwise, to a certain extent, he might really consider whether cattle should be eaten or not.
After testing the Sword Control Technique again, he took the last spirit stone from the warehouse, circulated the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》, and resumed cultivation.
Opening two of the eight extraordinary meridians was not the limit of cultivation. It was still only just stepping into cultivation.
He cultivated until it was close to the Maoshi hour. When the alarm clock rang, he stopped, put away the spirit stone,
got up to check the stats, and his face lit up with joy.
Fans: 195 million.
Reputation: （125 million/500 thousand）
Due to enlightening the spirit oxen and the popularity of yesterday’s consecration ceremony, he had directly gained more than 300,000 followers that night, and his reputation had also increased by more than 300,
Most importantly, the Chen Clan’s Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation activity yesterday had gone viral. As expected, it had entered the Douyin hot search list, and at a very high position, even generating a topic.
Curious, he clicked on the topic; it was all videos posted by tourists about the consecration activities.
Three videos had the most likes, two of which were posted by tourists.
《It’s real. After the Chen Family Head called for the Heavenly Lord’s Blessing, a fine drizzle fell from the sky. The rain felt very comfortable on the body, as if it improved one’s whole state.》
《A tourist spoke disrespectfully at the Chen Clan and immediately received punishment, to the point they could no longer walk straight!》
These two videos carried a hint of miraculous flavor, which attracted a lot of attention.
The other video was related to Ming Di, that demonic cult rogue.
It turned out he had recorded the scene of the Chen Clan’s heavenly sweet dew during his live stream, particularly the rainbow that appeared under the sunlight, which was really attractive.
The key was that the rainbow seemed to cover only the Chen Clan, and coincidentally, the consecration ceremony was underway beneath it, giving it an even more miraculous feel.
These layers of wonder stacked together attracted a lot of attention and naturally generated tremendous popularity. It seemed his fans and reputation would increase by a large margin again today.
This time, despite the huge popularity, no one came out to accuse them of promoting superstition, because the Linhe County culture and tourism bureau posted videos of the consecration ceremony at the scene, and even the city culture and tourism bureau posted as well.
Obviously, the county and city had coordinated and were very optimistic about tourism at the Chen Clan.
So anyone with a bit of sense could tell from this that it was an officially promoted traditional culture ceremony as tourism.
Under such circumstances, no one would be stupid enough to cause trouble.
With more than a million reputation now, Chen Han thought of the Cloud Barrier Cauldron. He did not have enough money to upgrade it, but he had an excess of reputation, so he felt he could repair the Cloud Barrier Cauldron.
He immediately took out the cauldron from the warehouse.
【Do you want to spend 30,000 reputation to perform a beginner repair on the current damaged Cloud Barrier Cauldron?】
With 1 million reputation in hand, there was no need to hesitate over 30,He directly chose yes.
【You have spent 30,000 reputation. The Cloud Barrier Cauldron is being repaired…】
He could see the cracks on the cauldron beginning to mend, and the runes on it starting to flow.
However, repairing this magical artifact was clearly not something that could be completed immediately.
So he stored the Cloud Barrier Cauldron with its roaming runes back into the warehouse and went downstairs.
Today the Moon Gazing Rabbit had not produced any Moon Gazing Sand again.
Unwilling to give up, he went over, opened the lid, looked at the White Rabbit for a moment, and flicked its head twice. These were all prompts.
Given how much this little guy usually liked to show off, it should have comprehended it already. The fact that there was no movement now meant it really could not produce it.
He had no choice but to ride You Fu to the special spiritual aperture.
Today, besides You Cai, the two Old Oxen also followed, very eagerly. Obviously they had learned from You Fu about the benefits of the spiritual aperture.
The only difference was that You Cai hopped onto the back of one Old Ox and lay on it comfortably, very much with the air of a landlord’s dog riding in a sedan chair.
But at the special spiritual aperture, the pavilion’s space was limited. Uncle and Xiao Yu and the others had already arrived, sitting cross-legged inside the pavilion, so there was no space for the two Old Oxen; it was already full and could not be forced.
They could only stay around the outside of the pavilion, where they could also enjoy the spiritual energy rinse.
Xiao Yu greeted him with a bright smile. “You’re the last again.”
Chen Han smiled and sat cross-legged.
There was nothing to compete about here.
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Time passed. Although the sun gradually rose higher, the tourists in the Chen Clan were also waking up one after another.
Wang Xinhe was staying in a detached courtyard. The hall and courtyard were below, and the three of them lived in the attic above. This special Feng Shui Room was very comfortable.
They had studied it all night and still could not figure out the principle behind the Feng Shui effect, nor how three sets of potted plants could form a Feng Shui pattern.
In the end, they could only marvel at how impressive the Chen Clan was.
Old Master Wang was old and had always slept little. Early in the morning he was already in the courtyard. After his eyes had healed, he could move freely, and his mood had grown better and better.
For this he had to thank the Chen Clan.
If not for the Chen Clan’s blessing that healed his eyes, he would not only still be blind now but also suffering from the pain of swollen eyes.
Seeing his son come out, he said, “We haven’t exercised in the morning together for a long time. Walk with me.”
“Okay.” Wang Xinhe nodded and followed his father out. It had been a long time since he had taken a walk with his father.
They had not gone far when they saw a flower bed surrounded by many tourists. As they approached, they heard astonished comments:
“Those flowers have bloomed. They weren’t blooming yesterday, right?”
“No, they weren’t. With such bright and beautiful flowers, I wouldn’t have missed them. And they smell so good!”
“Could it be related to yesterday’s consecration ceremony? Didn’t they say that drizzle was heavenly sweet dew, and then they bloomed?”
“…”
These tourists were clearly very surprised, each holding up their mobile phones to film.
Old Master Wang and Wang Xinhe were also drawn over and looked at the flowers in the flower bed.
“These are not in season.” After retiring, Old Master Wang had been growing flowers and plants in his villa courtyard. He recognized peonies and lilies.
So he was very surprised to see them blooming at this time. It had to be either a new cultivar, hormones, or artificial intervention.
The key thing was that in terms of flower quality, petal layers, and that enchanting fragrance, they were all abnormal, far beyond what ordinary peonies and lilies could have.
Could it really be related to yesterday’s heavenly sweet dew?
If so, it should not be only this flower bed that had bloomed.
With this thought, he hurried toward the flower sea of offering flowers of the Chen Clan.
Wang Xinhe seemed to understand his father’s intention and followed. Soon, from a distance, they saw the sea of flowers, and both father and son were instantly captivated.
“They… they really all bloomed!” Even though he had guessed it, Old Master Wang still looked utterly incredulous at this moment.
