Chapter 155: Dew Infused With Spiritual Energy!
Chen Han went to the library to look up some related Daoist books.
According to the records, rootless water is not only rainwater; dew also seems to count as rootless water.
If it was dew, he could go up the mountain to a higher location, where dew should be found, so it would not necessarily have to be on a rainy day.
However, that would require going up the mountain at dawn, and at this time of day it was impossible to find any dew.
So he decided to first prepare the other things and then try drawing this Prayer for Blessings and Peace Talisman.
The talisman brush, yellow paper, cinnabar and such things were not hard to find. After all, the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall kept them prepared year-round. He directly asked Aunt-grandmother for a set, then returned to the courtyard and took out the cinnabar inkstone.
The cinnabar inkstone was similar to an inkstone. Cinnabar itself could not be used directly to draw talismans; it needed to be mixed with liquid into a viscous state before talisman drawing could be done.
Chen Han took out some cinnabar and drew some water from the water reservoir to mix it.
The water in this water reservoir had been transformed by him into spirit plant dew, used to water the orchids in the courtyard.
After mixing the cinnabar to a viscous state, he also picked up the talisman brush and began to draw according to the method of drawing talismans for the Prayer for Blessings and Peace Talisman.
The strokes for drawing the Prayer for Blessings and Peace Talisman were not complicated, and when Chen Han had obtained the method of drawing talismans, it had already become completely proficient in his mind.
So, as soon as he lifted the brush, he began drawing on a sheet of yellow paper and smoothly completed two talismans in a row.
When he stored them in the warehouse, he saw the remark information:
【This is a failed Prayer for Blessings and Peace Talisman. Because rootless water was not used for drawing, the runes cannot retain energy during prayer!】
Sure enough, talismans drawn without rootless water were wasted talismans.
Chen Han also put all tools and materials into the warehouse. Now he could only wait until he had collected rootless water before continuing to draw.
At this time, he saw that the family group suddenly became very lively.
It was an announcement from Xiao Yu: 《From now on, everyone working in clan positions must uniformly wear hanfu work uniforms. Before tomorrow, you must go to Chen Xiaoyan to register your sizes. Anyone who fails to register and later does not wear hanfu while working will have that month’s bonus deducted.》
It was common for staff in an ancient building scenic spot to wear hanfu uniforms; it had already been implemented before, only without clear rules and without strict enforcement.
So there were still some clan members who, for various reasons, did not wear hanfu while working.
Now, because of the national style event, this rule was made explicit.
After all, the national style event was already offering discounts for visitors wearing hanfu, so if the staff still did not wear hanfu, it would not make sense.
Moreover, ancient buildings plus hanfu was indeed a very good combination. With more people in hanfu coming and going, it would give people a different feeling.
Chen Han looked at his own casual clothes. To avoid having his junior sister dock his bonus, he went into his room and changed into Yun Tianhe’s clothes.
Not the savage outfit from the game, but the Qionghua sect attire.
Three robes were more than enough for his daily wear and changes.
Only then did he quickly realize something speechless: he had no salary and no bonus, so he did not need to worry about any deductions at all.
Fine, just cooperate with junior sister’s work.
With nothing else to do next, Chen Han checked the time and went around to inspect various places in the clan.
The Chen Clan’s current development could not possibly compare with those mystic sect holy lands that casually received tens of thousands of tourists a day, even more than one hundred thousand at peak.
But the numbers were definitely not small. Around the consecration ceremony, they had already been exceeding one thousand people a day.
With such visitor numbers, problems might arise in some areas.
Fortunately, after his inspection tour, he did not find any major problems. Minor ones could simply be notified for rectification later.
However, when he went to the cultivation market, he saw a familiar figure. Was that not Captain Li Rui from the county criminal unit? Previously, the dog thieves and theft ring cases had been handled by him and his people.
He was leading a pure white police dog, with a very handsome appearance.
Seeing him, Chen Han stepped forward to greet him. “Captain Li, are you here to inspect today?”
Suddenly seeing this Chen Family Head, Li Rui instinctively grew nervous and quickly steadied himself. “Chen Family Head, I just came over for a look. The county now attaches great importance to the Chen Clan.”
After all, he had come with a purpose and did not want this person to know.
Chen Han did not suspect anything. After chatting for a few sentences, he left.
Only then did Li Rui breathe a sigh of relief and start wandering with the dog. Before long he saw a pack of dogs running in the distance, and his eyes lit up.
He immediately squatted beside the police dog and pointed at the leading local dog. “See that local dog? Go and take him down.”
As he spoke, he unfastened the leash and let the police dog run over. This was his precious girl and she was in heat recently.
He had observed that local dog’s cleverness, and he had every reason to believe it was a genetic mutation, the so-called Dog King from the older generation’s stories.
If that gene could be inherited by his girl’s offspring, they might be trained into very powerful police dogs.
Watching his girl run over, his lips showed a foolishly infatuated smile. But in just a moment, his smile froze.
That local dog actually despised his girl, directly avoiding her, avoiding her as if she were a plague. Then his girl was surrounded by other dogs.
He saw a big black dog mount her back.
“Hey, not that one!” Li Rui panicked at the sight, hurriedly rushing forward to stop them, his face full of anxiety.
Woof woof!~
Woof woof!~
But as soon as he got close, that local dog led the other dogs to block him, barking at him.
The whole pack glared at him like tigers eyeing prey, making him instinctively dare not move.
And he saw that the big black dog and his girl had already begun.
He was instantly on the verge of tears.
At this moment, a laugh sounded next to him. “Captain Li, you have lost both your wife and your soldiers.”
It was Huang Xin. He had just been patrolling with his men and had seen Li Rui’s actions and understood his intention.
Only, the result was clearly unexpected.
“…” Li Rui.
…
Time passed and night fell.
Now at night the Chen Clan was still very lively. In the tranquil environment many tourists came out for a walk.
Chen Han had gone back to his room early. After taking a shower, he took out a primary spirit stone and began cultivating.
Previously he had already been on the verge of opening the third of the eight extraordinary meridians, the Yang Wei meridian.
After cultivating tonight, he would definitely be able to open it.
He sat cross-legged and circulated the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》. As the spiritual energy from the spirit stone was absorbed into his body, he quickly refined it into true qi.
The circulating true qi grew stronger bit by bit.
In samadhi, time flew by. When it was about right, he guided his true qi to rush into the Yang Wei meridian, pushing through the entire meridian in one go.
In that instant, his true qi increased again and became more solid, starting to show faint traces of viscosity.
In Shu Shan Swordsman, the liquid condensation stage, the fourth realm of cultivation, was exactly the process of true qi turning to liquid. Only when true qi became completely liquid did one qualify to impact the spiritual meridians and fully enter the liquid condensation stage.
The appearance of a faint viscosity showed his strength had grown and his true qi had already begun to liquefy.
With the Yang Wei meridian opened, Chen Han’s strength improved by a large margin.
He raised his hand and performed the sword control technique. The toothpicks on the table… from within the sword case, toothpick swords shot out rapidly, one after another.
Previously, after opening two of the eight extraordinary meridians, the limit of toothpick swords he could control had been twenty-one. This time, it directly doubled, and only when he reached forty-five toothpick swords did he hit his limit.
Who could understand this?
Controlling forty-five toothpick swords at once definitely made him a sword control expert.
So he thought that he should upgrade afterward and get a few larger-sized swords to practice with, like those of Master Kongxu or Deng Tai’a, small swords hidden inside little boxes.
Those had quite the sense of style.
Just as he was thinking this, he suddenly received a game system prompt:
【Congratulations, the special spiritual aperture has upgraded successfully and now has special effects:
First, the range of the spiritual aperture’s special effect has increased: +2 comfort and refreshment in the vicinity of the aperture, +2 fresh air in the vicinity of the aperture.
Second, once every day at the maoshi hour, it can generate a spiritual energy rinse. The rinse duration has increased, and the quality of the rinsing spiritual energy has increased.】
Chen Han had not expected the special spiritual aperture to upgrade successfully in the middle of the night.
After the spiritual aperture’s upgrade, its general attributes did not change much, but the range of comfort, refreshment, and fresh air around it had increased.
Previously the range had only been that covered by the three old elm trees. Now, it was obvious that a wider area enjoyed that effect.
Of course, what he cared about most was still the spiritual energy rinse. It still occurred at the maoshi hour, but the duration of the rinse had become longer and the quality had increased.
This was what he cared about most.
A longer duration meant he could absorb more spiritual energy with each spiritual energy rinse; better quality meant he could refine and absorb it with better effect.
This was an upgrade of cultivation resources.
However, in the middle of the night he did not go to check, since the spiritual energy rinse had to wait until the maoshi hour.
So he sat cross-legged and continued cultivating with a primary spirit stone.
Only when the alarm clock rang the next day did he wash up, hurry downstairs, and head for the special spiritual aperture.
In the courtyard, the Moon Gazing Rabbit hutch had two points of starlight.
Moon Gazing Sand x
This drew his gaze to the little white rabbit.
As expected, it lifted its bottom and produced another grain of Moon Gazing Sand.
Moon Gazing Sand harvest:
The little fellow knew how to behave, fully aware that working in front of its master counted as real work.
He directly picked up the little white rabbit and carried it out of the courtyard.
Outside, the Fu Lu Shou Three Bulls and You Cai had long been waiting.
You Fu immediately crouched at his feet, carrying him toward the special spiritual aperture.
Today, even before reaching the range of the three old elm trees, he could clearly feel that sense of comfort, refreshment, and fresh air.
The range had indeed increased.
Judging from the distance to the three old elm trees, the range had doubled.
Inside the pavilion, Uncle, Uncle Dagou, Uncle Shuisheng and the others, as well as Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi, had already arrived.
They were discussing in amazement. Seeing him come, Uncle asked, “Xiao Han, the special feeling around the array eye seems to have increased in range.”
Chen Dagou agreed. “Yes, I felt it first thing this morning.”
Chen Han smiled. “Don’t worry, this is a good thing.”
Hearing this, they were relieved, then started chatting about clan matters, until the sun rose over the mountain and the spiritual energy rinse appeared.
Chen Han immediately circulated the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》 to cultivate and indeed felt that the rinsing spiritual energy was richer and of higher quality.
Thus, in the same amount of time, the effect of absorbing spiritual energy for cultivation would be better.
While Chen Han sat cross-legged cultivating, Chen Lin and the others also clearly felt a difference. The energy enveloping their bodies was obviously richer.
They also noticed that when the energy was sufficient, a trace seemed to burrow into their bodies. The sensation was very strange, as if their whole bodies had become lighter.
Only when that feeling vanished did they get up and leave the pavilion in astonishment.
Outside, they could not help but verify aloud:
“This time it seemed to last longer.”
“Mm, and the effect was better. It felt like energy was entering the body, and I feel light all over.”
“Looks like, as Xiao Han said, this is a good thing.”
…
When Chen Han opened his eyes, his feeling was even stronger. This time, the effect of absorbing and refining spiritual energy was fifty percent better than before.
The key point was the higher quality, a huge increase.
Given the scarcity of spiritual energy in reality, this was a tremendous benefit.
After the spiritual energy rinse ended, he was about to leave. But when he looked up at the three old elm trees, he suddenly made a surprising discovery.
Amid the dense branches of the three old elm trees, some leaves seemed to carry crystal-clear dew.
This was somewhat astonishing.
After all, the Chen Clan’s location was at the foot of the mountain, and in this weather it was basically impossible for dew to appear.
Moreover, at this time the sun had long since risen.
Perhaps this was related to the special spiritual aperture. The surrounding comfort and fresh air, plus the spiritual energy rinse, had condensed dew.
Overall, within the range of the three old elm trees, the state was unaffected by sun or weather and remained fresh and comfortable. Coupled with the dense rinsing spiritual energy, dew had condensed.
Once he understood, he did not hesitate. He set the little white rabbit on You Fu’s back, then lightly leapt up onto the pavilion roof.
With his increased strength, his physique had become stronger, and together with the +2 lightness effect of his robe, he was practically using lightness skill. With one step on the pavilion roof to borrow strength, he leaped toward one of the old elm trees and landed on a branch.
Sure enough, on the surrounding branches he could clearly see tiny droplets of dew.
Without hesitation, he picked a few leaves to fashion a simple container and began collecting the dew among the branches.
Liu Ye was still staying with the Chen Clan and had not returned. The group company would be fine even if he was not there, as he could just listen to daily reports.
Now that the symptoms of his rheumatism had been completely cured through the Chen Clan’s prayer for blessings, he felt it necessary to build a closer relationship with the Chen Clan, for example by later investing in Linhe County and developing peripheral tourism products.
He planned to develop a high-end resort on the mountain opposite the Chen Clan, then develop an eco-forest garden tourism project.
This had been approved by the Chen Clan.
So being here meant more to him. Besides, since the deformed knee from his rheumatic paralysis had recovered, he would come out every morning for exercise and walk around near the old elm trees.
“Mr. Liu, this poor monk will return this afternoon,” Master Xin Yan said as he accompanied Liu Ye to the old elm trees.
Now that he knew of the Chen Clan’s miraculous nature, as a Buddhist sect member he felt as if sitting on pins and needles. If it were not for Mr. Liu’s fifty million donation, he would have wanted to leave already.
Luckily this man had a broad view, or perhaps he was in good spirits after his recovery. When Xin Yan proposed to return, he had no objection.
This also meant that those fifty million had indeed gone to his temple.
But as the two of them looked up, they were stunned to see a figure on one of the old elm trees leaping from one branch to another, the body light and graceful like an ape unbound by altitude.
“Is that the Chen Family Head?” Master Xin Yan was full of shock.
“It seems so,” Liu Ye said in surprise. “Is this lightness skill? Master Xin Yan, does anyone at your temple know it? Ah… forget it, surely no one does.”
“…” Master Xin Yan felt helpless. This Mr. Liu was getting better and better at dealing blows.
The key was that what the other said was true, and he had no way to refute it.
Meanwhile, the Chen Family Head moved back and forth among the branches, even leaping from a lower branch to a higher one over two meters above.
Was that something a human could do? At that height, gravity’s effect on a body midair increased; it should have been impossible.
Master Xin Yan was shaken. No comparison was possible. Even if he gathered all the martial cultivators of the Buddhist sect, they would not match this.
Chen Han quickly collected a fair amount of dew. When he put the makeshift leaf container into the warehouse, he saw the remark information:
【Special dew: this is a special kind of dew, formed when dense spiritual energy collides with plants. It contains some spiritual energy. It can be used in alchemy for an increase in effect, and can also serve as rootless water for drawing talismans. When used to successfully draw talismans, it grants special effects!
Prompt: Please use as soon as possible. As time passes, the spiritual energy in the dew will dissipate, turning it into ordinary water with no special effect.】
Seeing this, he was delighted. It really worked.
He directly jumped down from the more than ten-meter-high branch, stepping twice on the branches to unload force. With the attributes lightness +2 and unload force +2, he landed easily on the ground.
Just as he turned to mount You Fu’s back, he saw two stunned figures: Mr. Liu and Master Xin Yan.
“Mr. Liu, Master, we meet again,” Chen Han said. He knew they had seen his movements just now, but he did not mind. Instead, he smiled and greeted them.
“Chen Family Head, I did not expect your lightness skill to be so terrifying,” Liu Ye said with deep emotion. In the videos of Mr. Chen’s earlier feats, the lightness skill he had shown had already provoked so much doubt. Many parkour enthusiasts had cited all kinds of arguments, just to discredit the Chen Family Head’s lightness skill.
Who knew that what he showed before had been extremely restrained. What they had just seen—jumping from more than ten meters high and reaching the ground with just two light steps on branches—would make those parkour people’s jaws drop. They would shout that it was special effects, absolutely special effects.
“Mr. Liu, you flatter me. There is no such thing as lightness skill. Believe in science,” Chen Han replied with his catchphrase and rode away on You Fu.
Hearing that same line again, Mr. Liu could not help asking Master Xin Yan, “Master, why is it that the Chen Family Head clearly has real ability but likes to pretend he has none, while you mystic sect people who have no ability always put on the appearance of experts?”
Master Xin Yan felt that Mr. Liu was using a veiled insult and including him in it, but he had no evidence.
And besides, how would Liu know?
He himself did not possess such abilities.
Chen Han had already gone far, back into the Chen Clan. He went straight to his own courtyard, since he had to grind the cinnabar with that special dew and draw the Prayer for Blessings and Peace Talisman. Otherwise, he did not know how long it would take before the dew turned into ordinary water.
After taking out the dew, Chen Han quickly brought out all the materials for drawing talismans, then used the dew to grind the cinnabar.
After that, he picked up the talisman brush, dipped it in cinnabar, and began drawing the Prayer for Blessings and Peace Talisman on yellow paper.
He completed one talisman in a single smooth motion. At the end, he circled the command rune lines to form the final closed loop of the talisman.
But this time was different from before. At the moment the loop closed and the talisman was formed, he looked at the runes he had drawn, and his eyes widened in astonishment.
