Chapter 180: So Far Away Yet Right In Front Of Us!
Chen Han suddenly realized that the cross-dressing guy in front of him might be the demon impersonating the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy.
Cross-dressing as a woman, was that not the biggest disguise of all?
If the other party did not speak, he really would have thought he was a woman.
If this person went on Douyin to stream with a voice changer and a beauty filter, that would be outrageous.
“Chen Family Head, I am Lin Shengchen, a hanfu cross-dressing blogger. Can I film a video with you?” Lin Shengchen stepped forward with a face full of expectation.
He had actually come to the Chen Clan’s national style event just to piggyback on its popularity. After all, with events like this, just showing up and filming a few videos would get him a lot of traffic.
If he could shoot a video together with those national style goddess guests, he could gain even more popularity.
One day, when he had enough fans, he might be invited to such national style events as an on-site guest himself, and then it would be others trying to piggyback on him.
Today, he had not expected his luck to be so good, running into the Chen Family Head first thing in the morning.
“Sure, let’s film a video together.” Chen Han did not turn him down; he also wanted to test whether this guy was the demon impersonating the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy.
Lin Shengchen did not hesitate. He took out his mobile phone, started recording, and walked up next to the Chen Family Head. “I am really lucky to have run into the Chen Family Head. He is truly handsome.”
After cooperating with him to film a video, Chen Han also picked up his own phone and pointed it at Lin Shengchen. “I, the family head, have discovered another possible female demon target!”
With that, he eagerly slapped a manifestation talisman from his hand onto the other’s shoulder. Surely it would work this time?
However, after the manifestation talisman stuck onto Lin Shengchen, there was no reaction at all.
Chen Han was dumbfounded. So this guy was not it either?
Was this a joke?
The one with plastic surgery was not, the cross-dresser was not either.
Then how was the demon supposed to disguise herself?
Could it be that among the Chen Clan’s tourists there was also an expert? For example, a trans demon?
That was the only thing he could think of.
Otherwise, he really could not imagine what form the impersonation might take.
Chen Han retrieved the manifestation talisman and could only continue searching for the next target to see if there really was a trans tourist.
But all the way until noon, he still found nothing.
However, the Chen Clan National Style Event had completely blown up online, not only because of the previous two videos, but also many videos about tourists winning prizes.
In particular, at that LDE advertising board in the parking lot, after the first tourist successfully sold royal jelly, people started camping there. Later, whenever someone came to sell a prize, others would film it and upload the video to Douyin.
That also drew a lot of attention. After all, winning a prize and selling it for twenty or thirty thousand was eye-catching, and many were curious who the rich person buying up prizes was.
However, Ming Di had already started a live stream there.
Seeing a tourist come out with a sachet containing Premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea, he immediately said to the live room, “Another righteous person who obtained resources has appeared. It seems they obtained the Chen Clan’s Premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea that can assist cultivation.”
“This is good stuff. Looks like I should mark them with a trace of scent. After this Demon Suppressing Grand Gathering ends, these cultivation resources are destined to be mine.”
It could be seen that Ming Di’s live stream once again exceeded 5,000 viewers.
On Douyin, that already put him in an A-level traffic pool. Even live streams by internet celebrities with several million fans rarely broke 5,000 viewers. Many with five million fans only had just over 1,000 online.
It was also clear that viewers in Ming Di’s live room did not give him any face at all:
“Stop running your mouth. Make a move now.”
“Don’t be a coward, we want to see you kill and rob him right now!”
“We’ll give you five seconds. Take him out and snatch the cultivation resources.”
“……”
They were all just entertainers.
As time passed, besides the matter of the Chen Clan’s three cows seeking out lucky tourists, which people were looking forward to, another matter also drew tourists’ attention.
Another video had come out of the Chen Family Head filming an abstract video, searching for the demon who had infiltrated the Chen Clan. Now the Chen Family Head was holding a talisman and searching everywhere for the demon.
In the new video from the Linhe County Television Station reporter, it was revealed that the talisman in the Chen Family Head’s hand was called a manifestation talisman; it could force the demon to reveal her true form.
This made many people curious about who the demon would be.
After all, in such a video, the Chen Family Head would surely have chosen actors in advance. Looking among tourists now was just to get more footage and to add another element to the national style event.
In the end, when the demon transformed, they would probably add some pretty good special effects in the video, right?
While netizens were making up a perfect script for Chen Han, he himself was looking utterly miserable, because he simply could not find anyone.
He even saw two unlucky girls appear; he did not know what they had done to trigger the Minor Punishment as a Warning.
Logically, those who triggered Minor Punishment as a Warning would at least be demonic or unorthodox, yet they still were not impersonating demons.
He really could not find her.
Was he supposed to test each female tourist one by one to find the true trans demon?
No, he needed two. Two manifestation talismans, two demons.
But that would be too awkward.
Still, overall, the Chen Family Head’s search for the demon was very amusing to many tourists.
Especially later, when several girls who had been targeted by the Chen Family Head posted videos filmed with him, it made many female tourists start hoping to be chosen as the Chen Family Head’s target.
That way they could film a video with the Chen Family Head too, which would be an unexpected surprise.
By noon, since he really could not find the infiltrating demon, Chen Han had to return to Uncle’s Kitchen, bring out the medicinal cuisine, and take out a number of special bowls to fill them.
Some tourists had already won prizes; these were for those lucky winners.
After finishing this, Chen Han checked his own stats.
Reputation 1,000,000（1,865,600/1,000,000）.
Fans: 01 million.
10,000 wish power（635/10,000）.
In just one morning, the online popularity had increased his reputation by more than 300,000, and his fans had surpassed 3 million.
This should be the greatest benefit he had gained from this national style event.
Moreover, in one morning his wish power had risen to 635 points; tourists offering incense had contributed more than 200 wish power.
However, this did not mean the Chen Clan National Style Event could only increase his wish power by that much. It was just that the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall’s lucky draw only opened at 10 o’clock, so most tourists only started offering incense around 10, had to queue, and the number of incense offerings was limited.
His junior sister soon brought people over to take the medicinal cuisine away and deliver it to the prize winners.
No one was buying up the Chen Clan Inheritance Medicinal Cuisine, since it was only one bowl and basically similar to ordinary Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea, so the lucky winners could only eat it themselves.
But the winners were not disappointed. After all, people online had already guessed that this medicinal cuisine was what the Chen Clan people used to assist cultivation.
So there was some anticipation about what exactly this medicinal cuisine would do.
Hong Hao was one of them. He had started following the Chen Clan after seeing the Chen Clan master in a white vest take care of the dog thief in a couple of moves.
Back then, the dog thief had already pulled out a dagger. In such a situation, even professional fighters would avoid it, since this was happening in real life.
A professional boxer had once been chased down several streets by a thug with a dagger. As for why he was chased, apparently he had not kept a certain part of himself under control.
But that Chen Clan master in the white vest had taken down the armed criminal in just a couple of blows.
When a bowl of medicinal cuisine was delivered, Hong Hao smelled a rich medicinal fragrance. That alone was extremely enticing, and he could not help taking out his mobile phone to film a video. “The Chen Clan’s medicinal cuisine that assists martial arts training. I was lucky enough to win a bowl. I’ll taste it for everyone.”
With that, enveloped by that medicinal fragrance, he could not wait to start eating.
In just a short while, surprise appeared on his face. He picked up his phone again. “I am sure this medicinal cuisine is definitely used by the Chen Clan to assist martial arts training. The feeling after eating it is incredible.”
Not only him, but all tourists who had won the medicinal cuisine felt a warm sensation spreading through their whole body soon after eating it.
When they finished, each of them found it unforgettable.
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On the other side, after eating the medicinal cuisine, Chen Han, his junior sister, Xiao Mi, Uncle, and the others saw his junior sister excitedly holding her phone. “Senior brother, the popularity of our Chen Clan national style event has broken out. There are already several trending topics. I believe by tomorrow we will definitely be at the top of the hot search list.”
Xiao Mi reminded her, “So, the performances this afternoon have to be perfect. We can’t let anything go wrong.”
“Don’t worry, Xiao Mi Jie.” Xiao Yu was full of confidence. She was very confident in her performances. For three days, she would perform tai chi on the first day, swordplay on the second, and on the third day join Xiao Mi Jie in a runway show.
“Oh right, senior brother, about that video you are filming of searching for the demon, everyone is curious now. Who are you letting play the demon?” Xiao Yu asked with great curiosity.
Xiao Mi also looked at him.
“Can I say that even I don’t know?” Chen Han said helplessly.
But his junior sister and Xiao Mi obviously did not believe him, staring at him like he was still keeping a secret.
“……” Chen Han.
As the afternoon arrived, the first-day climax of the Chen Clan National Style Event also came.
Besides many people still lining up at the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall to offer incense and join the lucky draw, several people were also brought over to Chen Han by the three cows to receive gifts.
Naturally, another thing people were looking forward to was the afternoon performance program, especially those tourists who had finished the draw and could now refocus on the event itself and watch the performances.
Ding Lei and He Yuan were like this. Before the program began, they had already gathered around the performance stage at the martial arts field, waiting for the show to start.
At this time, the area around was already packed with tourists participating in the event, most wearing hanfu. It was absolutely a grand national style spectacle.
Chen Han, his junior sister, Xiao Mi, and several national style girls were all getting ready backstage.
He checked his game warehouse; there were still many apples and lotus flowers inside. He was holding a small cloth bag in his hand.
That was his performance tool.
Just like how a magician has a magic hat to pull things out of, his ancient technique pulling things out of this cloth bag would be no problem, right?
The number of items this cloth bag could produce, however, would definitely be astonishing enough to make jaws drop.
Xiao Mi had already changed into a brand-new fairy costume. She walked in delicately and instructed several national style girls, “It is almost time for the performance. Let’s make our final preparations.”
At a national style event, the invited guests’ runway show segments were usually the longest performances, giving them ample time to interact with the surrounding audience.
As the performance program began, spectators packed tightly all around the performance stage. Almost all the tourists who had come today crowded around, and most of them pulled out their phones to film the stage.
Ming Di had long since taken the front row spot at the performance stage. He and Zhu Xueqin would perform the next day, so he had free time today.
And as a demonic cult rogue infiltrating the Chen Clan, he naturally had to activate the Spirit Shadow Mirror to transmit the latest status of the Chen Clan’s Demon Suppression Assembly to his fellow practitioners.
Those who had secured the best spots beside him were all national style clip bloggers and some national style photographers.
These people attended the most national style events and always managed to secure the best vantage points.
At that moment, music started playing on the performance stage, and at the same time a female voice said, “Welcome, everyone, to the Chen Clan’s national style event…”
The speaker was Xiao Yu.
For this national style event, she and Xiao Mi would take turns serving as on-site abbot.
As with other national style events, Xiao Yu’s opening remarks contained plenty of empty talk, and then she announced the first runway program would begin.
After that came the usual national style entrance music. Xiao Mi and several national style girls walked onto the stage one after another with the music.
Each girl made playful, cute, or elegant expressions and greeted the audience all around.
Then they followed a rehearsed choreography, moving to their respective areas on stage, and began various interactions.
Among these girls, the one most effective in interacting with the audience was naturally Lobster.
Some clip bloggers shouted to her, “Lobster, you look so good today.”
When Lobster heard this, she put her hands on her hips and stepped forward to ask, “Tell me, why do I look good today?”
The clip blogger immediately replied teasingly with a smile, “Because Wu Susu is not here today.”
Wu Susu was another national style beauty, like Lobster, one of the girls from the gout duo.
Saying in front of one girl that another girl looked better was a killing blow.
So Lobster immediately pouted and snorted, “Hmph, if Wu Susu looks better, go film her instead. Don’t film me!”
Her expression was a little tsundere and cute.
Of course she was not actually angry. It was just an interaction routine, and the enthusiasm of the surrounding tourists filming made that clear.
In their eyes, it looked like Lobster was being playfully teased by this clip blogger, and paired with her adorable, pretty, tsundere manner, it made many tourists grin as they filmed.
After all, beauties are pleasing to the eye, and a beauty acting like an adorably teased tsundere is even more pleasing.
This was why people said Lobster’s in-person interactions were the best.
She was open, could take a joke, and that tsundere playfulness was irresistible for many guys.
Suddenly, elsewhere, a catchy “wealth comes” dance tune rang out. A tourist had asked Crooked Mouth Dragon King to dance the “wealth comes” dance during an interaction.
Crooked Mouth Dragon King, of course, started dancing, and even pulled the Innate Unwidowed Saint Body over to dance together. Tourists around them were filming with equal enthusiasm. Today, Moments and Douyin videos were definitely full of material.
As these national style girls walked the runway, their clips were uploaded online at top speed, such as Lobster’s banter and Crooked Mouth Dragon King’s “wealth comes” dance, all drawing a huge amount of attention.
Naturally, all these videos carried the Chen Clan National Style Event tag, sending the Chen Clan’s popularity and attention soaring.
The girls’ runway show lasted a full half hour, giving the surrounding tourists ample time to film. When they were about to leave the stage, Xiao Yu, as abbot, called them together and started chatting with them.
She asked whether they thought the Chen Clan’s place was beautiful, whether the environment was good, and so on, and then gave a plug for the hanfu brands they were wearing, since those sponsors had put up a lot of money.
Finally, Xiao Yu deliberately shifted into abstract mode. “Xiao Mi Jie, Lobster… in my senior brother’s abstract cultivation world, today is the Chen Clan’s Demon Suppression Assembly. What are your identities in the abstract cultivation world?”
The abstract side of the Chen Clan’s Demon Suppressing Grand Gathering was also very popular, so of course they had to ride this wave. After all, they could not be adding the Hundred Flowers Palace suffix for nothing.
If they really managed to ride it successfully, they would become the Hundred Flowers Palace fairy group. As long as the Chen Family Head’s abstract cultivation world stayed hot, they could keep riding that heat.
At this question, Lobster was the most enthusiastic. She took the microphone and said, “We are all Hundred Flowers Palace Fairies. We have come to the Demon Suppressing Grand Gathering today to contribute to the righteous path and eliminate demonic cult rogues.”
As she spoke, she pointed the microphone toward where Ming Di was standing, causing the clip bloggers around him to instinctively aim their cameras at him.
Seeing this, Ming Di deliberately put on a nervous look and said to his live room, “Why do I feel like I’ve suddenly been targeted? Has my infiltration been discovered?”
Viewers in his stream had of course seen Lobster’s gesture, and the barrage instantly filled with rows of
No one had expected such a seamless interaction.
Backstage, Chen Han smacked himself on the forehead hard. He felt he had been unbelievably stupid.
He had finally figured out who the two demons were.
The game system had clearly said “Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy,” and the ones it recognized as Hundred Flowers Palace Fairies were the fellow disciples invited here by Xiao Mi, the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy.
So did he even need to ask who the two demons impersonating Hundred Flowers Palace Fairies were?
Earlier, because they had even sent over the Hundred Flowers Palace Random Seed Gift Pack, he had not suspected them at all.
When he heard his junior sister announce that the next program would be her own tai chi performance, he took out his phone to start recording and at the same time pulled out a manifestation talisman.
On the performance stage, Xiao Mi was leading several national style girls down from the stage into the backstage area when they heard a loud shout: “Hey, demon, reveal your true form!”
They saw Chen Han aiming his phone at them, a talisman in his hand.
At that moment, the talisman in his hand began fluttering wildly.
