Chapter 163: Minor Punishment As A Warning Is A Rule-type Attribute!
【Congratulations, Daoist Sect Characteristic: minor punishment as a warning renovation succeeded. Within the sect residence range, the characteristic of minor punishment as a warning will be gained.
Within the Chen Clan sect residence range, offenders harboring malicious intent such as harming others for personal gain, debauchery and perversion, sowing discord, slander and defamation, greed, misconduct, unfilial and disloyal behavior… will trigger the attribute of minor punishment as a warning.
Minor punishment as a warning duration: determined by the degree of malice! 】
After Chen Han saw this attribute of minor punishment as a warning, he was immediately astonished.
This was a rules-type attribute.
The key thing was, were these not precisely some of the precepts of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation?
For example:
Is “harming others for personal gain” not the precept against sinister plotting and harming others for one’s own benefit?
Is “debauchery and perversion” not the precept against corrupting purity through lust and defilement of spiritual energy?
And “slander and defamation” is it not the precept against befriending the unworthy and dwelling in filth and disorder?
Only, this attribute of minor punishment as a warning targeted everyone within the entire sect residence range, including outside tourists. These people were not true members of the Daoist Sect, nor Believers of the Heavenly Lord, so it did not strictly follow the precepts of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation, but simplified the standards aimed at ordinary people.
The key thing was, this attribute was quite interesting. You had to know, who are the people the scenic spot hates dealing with the most nowadays? Brats and unreasonable, troublemaking aunties.
Under normal circumstances, when this kind of person throws a tantrum and makes a scene, even the police often cannot do anything, and most of the time can only smooth things over.
If this happened in the Chen Clan, the police might not be able to handle it, smoothing things over would still be fine, but they would be greeted with a minor punishment as a warning.
There were also other greedy types, like petty thieves and scalpers. Sorry, the moment they start, before their scams even unfold, they would be greeted with a minor punishment as a warning.
Those with improper conduct, doing things like secret filming, would also be greeted with a minor punishment as a warning.
And “debauchery and perversion” was interesting too. If married and unmarried people messed around in that way, they would probably also be “congratulated”.
If it worked like this, then the Chen Clan would become a model place of morality. In the future, people with such issues would likely not dare to come to the Chen Clan.
Someone might say, if this spreads, would that not be equivalent to rejecting many tourists?
But losing that type of tourist is no loss at all. What do you want them here for? They might even cause trouble. Is this not a perfect way to filter?
Now the only question was to what degree this minor punishment as a warning would punish.
According to the Daoist Sect code of conduct and doctrines, it should be literal: a small punishment, yet deeply memorable.
However, this would have to be studied later.
He then shifted his attention to the light screen in his mind, because with the final minor punishment as a warning renovation completed, the sect residence had already shown new upgrade conditions:
Level: level 5 sect residence
Effect: simple and unadorned +2, ornamental value +2, sturdiness +2…
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Upgrade requirements: 200 million money （9132 million/200 million）. 1 million reputation （5546 million/1 million）. 10,000 wish power (0/10000).
For the level 5 sect residence upgrade conditions, this time the money and reputation only doubled once, and as before, reputation was not lacking at all. It already met the upgrade requirement and even exceeded it by a lot.
But for the 200 million in money, he was still short by a huge amount.
Besides that, this time the sect residence upgrade had an additional wish power requirement, needing ten thousand wish power to meet the conditions.
Perhaps this was also why the money and reputation only doubled this time.
But what exactly was this wish power?
He pondered carefully in his mind and roughly had a guess.
After all, in the Mystic Sect, combining Daoist Temple scripture text and meanings, it should not be hard to understand.
As he was thinking this, he received a telephone call from his aunt-grandmother.
He answered, and the old woman’s voice came: “Patriarch, I have already recruited several hall wardens for the fourth hall. They need to undergo the rite of guiyi and transmission. Patriarch, you need to be present.”
“Understood.” Chen Han replied, hung up, and walked toward the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
The Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation hall wardens were to truly enter the Daoist Sect and were bound by many precepts. They could not be as lax as ordinary clan members.
By now, with the Chen Clan’s development, the registry was no longer maintained, and ordinary clan members basically did not abide by many precepts, but due to all the recent mysterious phenomena, many clan members now held awe in their hearts and began voluntarily following certain rules.
Back when the Chen Clan was flourishing, hall warden positions were not something branch members could hold. Those positions carried higher status among the clan and were only taken by members of the Main Family.
Alternatively, people like his uncle, Uncle Dagou, and Uncle Shuisheng, who had branched off only one or two generations prior and were closest to the Main Family, could take those roles.
Now there were not so many requirements anymore, since he was the only one left of the Main Family.
Before he got the game system, he had even thought of coaxing his uncle into blind dates to have a child who could be adopted into the Main Family and inherit it.
When Chen Han arrived at the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, he happened to see a few pretty girls offering incense under Xiao Mi’s guidance. Each was wearing hanfu, with great figures and very good appearance.
After all, they were all national style beauty internet celebrities.
If one said other types of internet celebrities rely entirely on beauty filters and cannot face people offline, national style internet celebrities were definitely among the toughest.
Because they mainly rely on offline activities. They actually do not stream that much, and their offline appearance fees are often higher than those of regular internet celebrities.
To be able to frequently attend offline events, one’s appearance must be fairly strong.
Otherwise, they would really become a joke offline. Even that beauty internet celebrity Xing Gou, who had many fans, got criticized a few times offline and then rarely appeared offline afterward.
These few were likely guests for the Chen Clan National Style Event. Besides Lobster, Crooked Mouth Dragon King, and the Innate Unwidowed Saint Body, the other two seemed to be the Innate Sun Saint Body and the Little Celestial.
Just the appearance fees for these few alone had cost Xiao Mi quite a bit, but having them as guests was also one of the keys to the event’s success.
Among the over five thousand ticket buyers, many were coming specifically for them. National style internet celebrities really had that much pull offline.
Also, with several of the top ten national style beauties gathering, many in the national style circle, including small internet celebrities and clip-editing groups, would gather as well.
After the few girls finished offering incense and walked out, they ran into Chen Han coming in.
Xiao Mi led the girls over to him, introduced the two new girls, and then said, “You have probably seen their videos too. This time they are coming at a friendship price, their appearance fees are very low, so we need to compensate them.”
When Chen Han heard this, he immediately sensed something off, because Xiao Mi said “we,” not “I”.
So this compensation was not for her to give, but probably for him to provide.
He could not help but look at her with a strange expression.
Xiao Mi realized he had seen through her thoughts, so she said, “You have had some popularity lately. It is abstract, sure, but popularity is popularity. So they want to invite you to film a video with them. You have lightness skill, right? We will shoot a video of you leaping down from the roof to deliver them a bouquet of flowers. The plot is roughly: the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy comes to support the Chen Clan, and you present spiritual flowers to express your gratitude.”
Chen Han smiled when he heard this. So it was the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy now, huh?
However, this was simple enough. Instead, he smiled and asked, “Then should I film a different one with you? At first you are on the roof, then I leap over walls and run along eaves up to the roof to give you flowers. After that you ask how to get down from such a height, and I hold your waist and fly down from the roof with you. That would definitely be more attractive.”
“Can you really do it while carrying someone?” Xiao Mi looked at him in surprise.
Now that Chen Han had opened up three of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, plus his clothes had lightness +2 and force-dissolving +2 attributes, this was an easy matter for him.
But he talked it up, saying, “I will prepare a big umbrella then, just like Wong Fei-hung using an umbrella as a parachute.”
This was actually unnecessary, but since he was all about believing in science with his mouth, how could he not add some “scientific” elements?
Holding a beauty and descending with an umbrella, Wong Fei-hung had already demonstrated this to everyone in the movies, and did the movie director not say this really happened and was realistic? So does that not make it science?
“Then let’s do that one!” Xiao Mi’s eyes lit up at once. Later she could have someone add special effects of rose petals filling the sky; it would be extremely romantic.
But as the two were chatting, they suddenly noticed Lobster, Crooked Mouth Dragon King, and the other girls all staring straight at them.
“Xiao Mi, what about the compensation you promised us?” Lobster suddenly spoke.
Crooked Mouth Dragon King also took the chance to look at Chen Han. “Chen Family Head, you have to treat us the same as Xiao Mi.”
Chen Han felt awkward when he heard this. In theory, he really could not treat everyone exactly the same.
So he could only ask Xiao Mi, “Well, how about filming the same style of video with all of you?”
Xiao Mi understood the implication immediately.
Did he even need to ask?
She could not help rolling her eyes at him.
If she said no, then Xiao Yu would definitely want one later too, and might even start getting suspicious about things.
So she could only say, “It should not be a problem. In fact, it can stack popularity, as long as you can handle it physically.”
She was worried about him. Even though he had once received the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s blessing, his cancer was not cured yet.
“Then it is no problem.” Chen Han nodded in confirmation. After all, this was Xiao Mi’s idea, so he could not be blamed for impropriety between men and women.
This made Lobster, Crooked Mouth Dragon King, and the other girls eager to try.
This kind of video really had not been shot before, mainly because in such ancient building scenes, it was not worth setting up wire rigs for filming. The cost was too high, and the rent alone was a big expense.
The key issue was that the national style circle lacked a male internet celebrity with both sufficient fan base and good enough appearance to pair with them.
This Chen Family Head might be a bit abstract, but he now had over 3 million fans and very good looks. Videos shot with him would be easily accepted by fans and attract more viewers to follow.
“You go prepare the shooting location and tools. I have something to take care of here first,” Chen Han said to Xiao Mi when he saw his aunt-grandmother already waiting with people.
“Okay.” Xiao Mi nodded, then left the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall with the girls to get things ready.
Chen Han walked over to the offering table.
The four clan members beside his aunt-grandmother hurriedly bowed to him with a Daoist rite. “Greetings, Patriarch!”
From this, one could also see why his aunt-grandmother chose them.
After being instructed, they had also put on Daoist plain clothes.
Later, once they officially became hall wardens, they would be issued dedicated Daoist robes and fly whisks.
Of course, before that they still had to undergo the rite of guiyi and transmission.
In the orthodox Daoist Sect, such a ceremony was very complicated, with a process lasting two to three days.
However, for inheritance branches and inheritance families, many steps were greatly simplified.
After all, some Daoist Temples and Patriarchs could not even gather all the people required by the full ritual and could only simplify it.
Some aspects of the Daoist Sect were flexible and not so rigid.
The Chen Clan’s ritual was similarly very simple.
It only needed to be held in the Consecration Hall. The clan members receiving the transmission wore plain clothes, knelt before the statue of god in the Great Hall, and showed pious hearts.
Then his aunt-grandmother, as the hall-guarding elder, and he, as Patriarch, jointly submitted a memorial to the Heavenly Lord, recited incantations and formed seals, inscribed a golden light talisman and protective talisman above the clan members’ heads, then granted them transmission certificates, and the recipients worshiped while kneeling…
Later teachings of cultivation practice methods, establishment of the myriad dharma altar and related techniques, as well as instruction in the eight protective magical artifacts, were all simplified…
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After a series of steps, the ritual process was completed, and more than two hours had passed.
The few clan members officially became Chen Clan hall wardens.
“Incense worship!” At the end, his aunt-grandmother took a handful of lit incense sticks and distributed them to the four clan members.
Now they needed to perform three bows and offer incense to the Earthly Duke, Heavenly Duke, and Heavenly Lord.
One incense for the Earthly Duke, one incense for the Heavenly Duke, one incense for the Heavenly Lord.
Each incense set was three incense sticks.
When his aunt-grandmother guided the four clan members to finally offer incense to the Heavenly Lord, Chen Han was suddenly shocked by the prompt that appeared on the light screen in his mind:
【Congratulations, you have obtained 1 wish power!】
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【Congratulations, you have obtained 1 wish power!】
Chen Han subconsciously looked at the four clan members offering incense. Four consecutive game prompts, a total of four points of wish power. Even a fool would know what was going on.
So, did offering incense provide wish power?
But that was not right. Those internet celebrity girls had also offered incense just now, but they had not provided wish power.
There had to be a reason. It was not just the incense.
Perhaps it was not solely related to incense, but also to whether they were Believers, because those girls were not Believers of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation at all, while these four clan members were.
Or rather, after experiencing so many mysterious events, the clan members who returned to the clan were probably all Believers of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.
Thinking of this, Chen Han instructed his aunt-grandmother, “Aunt-grandmother, as the hall-guarding elder, lead the hall wardens to offer another round of incense together.”
He wanted to run an experiment.
His aunt-grandmother was a bit puzzled, because this step was not part of the ritual, but since the Patriarch had given the order, she followed it. She took a new handful of incense sticks, distributed them to the four hall warden clan members, and led them in bowing and offering incense.
Soon, they finished offering incense, and Chen Han was surprised to see another game prompt in his mind, but this time there was only one:
【Congratulations, you have obtained 3 wish power!】
Chen Han looked at his aunt-grandmother in astonishment. This time the prompt clearly came from her. The other four clan members had not provided wish power again. That meant wish power, like reputation, could probably only be gained once per person per day.
The key thing was that his aunt-grandmother’s three wish power points were two more than the others.
This must also be related to the degree of piety, because his aunt-grandmother was definitely more pious than those four clan members.
So, the way to obtain wish power was for pious Believers to offer incense here in the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall?
If that was the case, he had just thought of a method to farm a wave of wish power every day.
