Chapter 182: Is He Openly Casting Spells?
Chen Han saw Guan Yi walk onto the stage and said with a smile, “Then now, let us begin the ancient technique performance!”
As he spoke, he opened the Cloth Bag again and aimed it at the surrounding tourists. “Everyone, watch again. Right now there are many lotus buds and apples in the Cloth Bag, but under the effect of the spell, you simply cannot see them.”
He also showed the Cloth Bag to Guan Yi, letting him see the completely empty bottom.
A look of understanding appeared on Guan Yi’s face.
This Cloth Bag could be seen through at a glance, and no matter how you looked inside it, there was no way to fiddle with it.
So this Cloth Bag was only a distraction; the real trick should be in the Hanfu on the other party’s body.
Having figured this out, he felt more confident.
But Chen Han did not hesitate. He had already reached his hand into the Cloth Bag and, right in front of everyone, took out a lotus bud and an apple.
This immediately caused an uproar among everyone.
Just now they had been staring at the Cloth Bag in the Chen Family Head’s hand, yet they only saw him reach his hand into the bag and then take out a lotus bud and an apple.
They had not seen any other movement at all.
Guan Yi also froze for a moment. He had been staring fixedly at this Chen Family Head just now and simply had not noticed how the other party had moved.
He had only put his hand into that Cloth Bag.
But with just that alone, there was absolutely no way he could complete this magic trick.
Unless the other party’s speed was really pushed to the extreme.
But how was that possible?
He himself was an expert in this field, with exceptionally sharp eyes. How could the other party be so fast that he could not react at all?
Chen Han walked forward with a smiling expression, handed the lotus bud and apple in his hand to Guan Yi, and said with a smile, “Welcome to the Chen Clan.”
Guan Yi awkwardly accepted the lotus bud and apple.
He felt he was being mocked. Otherwise, why would the other party give these to him? Wasn’t it just to say that he could not see through the trick?
The other party had better not perform another one; if he did it again, he would definitely be able to catch it.
But just as he thought this, he saw the Chen Family Head reach into the Cloth Bag again and, right in front of him, take out another lotus bud and an apple.
“???” Guan Yi was directly stunned. How had he done that just now?
The surrounding tourists also cried out in surprise. Another lotus bud and apple had appeared.
They really could not see where the Chen Family Head had hidden these things.
“Welcome to the Chen Clan.” Chen Han, smiling, handed that lotus bud and apple to a tourist.
Then, right in front of that tourist, he reached into the Cloth Bag, took out another lotus bud and apple, and handed them to another tourist.
The surrounding tourists erupted again. Even at such close range, they still had not discovered how the Chen Family Head produced the items.
He simply put his hand into the bag and took them out.
Chen Han continued to reach into the Cloth Bag, continuing to take out a lotus bud and an apple, handing them out to the visitors in the front row.
All those tourists stared with wide eyes, but not one of them could figure out what was going on.
Guan Yi’s expression grew uglier and uglier, because he also could not figure it out. All he saw was the Chen Family Head gripping the Cloth Bag with one hand, putting the other hand into it, and then taking out a lotus bud and an apple.
It really seemed just like the Chen Family Head had said, that he had placed a large quantity of items inside the bag and, because of a spell, others simply could not see them.
But even if they could not see them, whether anything was inside or not was impossible to hide. The Cloth Bag clearly did not look like it was holding anything.
By the time the fifth set of lotus bud and apple was taken out, cold sweat was already seeping from Guan Yi’s forehead.
When he saw that the Chen Family Head was still continuing to take lotus buds and apples from the Cloth Bag, his face showed a bit of panic.
This was simply no longer something that magic could explain. With so many items, there was nowhere on the Chen Family Head’s body where he could hide them, and this stage did not have any special setup or mechanisms to cooperate with him.
If there were, he would definitely have noticed.
That was terrifying.
Guan Yi suddenly thought of those videos about the Chen Clan he had seen. This Chen Clan really seemed to have some mysterious and profound things.
He realized he had made a huge mistake. Clearly he had watched those videos about the Chen Clan, yet he still thought the Chen Family Head was only using simple ancient techniques and came to expose him?
Amid the tourists’ incredulous exclamations, the Chen Family Head produced yet another set of lotus bud and apple.
Guan Yi was finally a little afraid. He thought of how the Chen Clan possessed true kung fu, thought of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s blessing on the Chen Clan, and thought of how those who did bad things would suffer misfortune at the Chen Clan.
Thinking of this, he began to worry that, having come to seek attention like this, would he be targeted by the Chen Clan with some special method? He could not withstand that kind of means.
The more he thought about it, the more panicked he became. He did not dare stay any longer and hurriedly slipped off the stage, squeezing his way out to the outside of the Chen Clan.
This scene was naturally noticed by the tourists, and one after another they could not help booing.
They had thought they would see some exciting contest between magic and ancient techniques, but who would have thought that this Southern Magic Competition Champion would be scared off directly.
But then again, with the Chen Family Head’s terrifying methods, could they really be explained by ancient techniques?
The items he produced simply did not show any sign of being hidden anywhere on him. Or rather, they could not be hidden at all; no matter how you hid them on your body, there would be traces.
Yet crucially, there were no traces at all on the Chen Family Head. This was likely beyond the scope of magic.
“Chen Family Head, can we have a look at your Cloth Bag?” a nearby tourist could not help calling out.
Chen Han smiled, walked over to that tourist at the edge of the stage, opened the Cloth Bag, and held it out in front of them.
The tourist looked inside and even reached in to feel around, but could not feel anything at all; the tourists next to him also mustered their courage to reach in and feel around.
But they also could not feel anything.
“There is nothing inside.”
“Right, nothing, and there are no holes or anything like that.”
“I did not touch anything at all.”
“…”
Those tourists all spoke up, very surprised and feeling highly involved.
What surprised them even more was that Chen Han reached into the Cloth Bag again, once more took out a lotus flower and an apple, and handed them to the tourist who had spoken up earlier. “Welcome to the Chen Clan.”
At that, the tourists were completely in an uproar.
Especially those who had just examined the bag. The Chen Family Head had actually taken something out of the Cloth Bag again.
Was the Chen Clan’s ancient technique really this powerful?
Once the performance reached this point, Chen Han also stopped, smiling as he said to the surrounding tourists, “Thank you all for visiting the Chen Clan. My ancient technique performance has ended. It was very simple. Sorry to have made you laugh.”
When the tourists around heard this, they all looked at him in a daze.
Very simple?
Are you sure?
But as soon as Chen Han finished speaking, he left behind a crowd full of astonishment and went into the backstage.
His junior sister’s voice quickly sounded again. Next, Xiao Mi would go on stage alone to perform an ancient-style dance.
Originally, she was not very good at dancing, but after eating so much medicinal cuisine here at the Chen Clan, she found that her body had become very good, her flexibility was excellent, and learning dance actually became easy.
The key was, she found that her figure seemed to be getting better and better, and she did not know if it was related to running around with Xiao Yu.
Because Xiao Yu’s figure had also become better than before.
Obviously, she did not realize it was because she was wearing the ring that Chen Han had given her.
And having a better figure was definitely a bonus for dancing, so she also started to learn to dance.
“Where are the others?” When Chen Han came in, he found no one else there; only Xiao Mi, who was about to go on stage, was in the backstage area.
Xiao Mi explained, “Lobster and Yaxi went to wash their faces. Their faces were full of dust. The others were curious and went to watch.”
Chen Han laughed when he heard this. That was the Manifestation Talisman automatically applying makeup.
After Xiao Mi went on stage, he once again checked the game system in his mind. The part of the family task to find the two demonic creatures had already been completed.
Next, what needed to be done was to drive these two demonic creatures back to the Thousand Illusions Marsh.
This had to be planned carefully. He could not just directly tell Lobster and the others, “Go play in that pond with the mud,” right?
If the Crooked Mouth Dragon King’s mouth twisted down, it would really twist. He was afraid of being bitten.
He left the backstage as well, planning to search within the Chen Clan for that remnant master from Ci Yun Temple. If the other side was, as he suspected, a wanted criminal,
and if he could be wanted, he must have committed no small crime. Coming to the Chen Clan, he would definitely be very unlucky.
However, what he found instead were two unlucky tourists, but they were only a little unlucky. After testing, they clearly were not the target.
He could only continue searching.
With such a troublesome family task triggered this time, he felt that if the game system did not give him a good reward, it would be unreasonable.
…
On the Performance Stage, the shows were still continuing.
Xiao Mi’s dance performance was not exactly professional, but her physical condition was good, and her figure had improved, so her national-style dance was very attractive.
Ming Di had been live streaming the on-site performances the whole time. Only when the Chen Clan’s first day of performances ended did he close the live stream and return to the village.
Once back where he lived, he took out his computer and began editing clips from that day’s live stream, especially the footage of the ancient techniques performed by the Chen Family Head.
But when he finished editing, he found that the trending topic online about the Chen Family Head’s ancient technique performance was already on fire.
Moreover, there was a 《“The Chen Family Head’s miraculous Cloth Bag”》 video with a huge number of likes, clearly a video shot by a national-style clip blogger.
This blogger had a decent number of fans and usually filmed videos of girls in national style, but today had obviously been shocked by the Chen Family Head’s ancient techniques and had specifically posted a video of them.
In this video, the Chen Family Head’s ancient technique was truly unbelievable. He was seen taking out set after set of lotus buds and apples from the Cloth Bag and giving them to tourists.
The quantity was simply beyond what he could hide on his body, and they could not see how he produced them at all. It was as if he really took them out of the Cloth Bag.
Even that Southern Magic Competition Champion, who had originally wanted to ride the Chen Family Head’s popularity, was scared into running away.
Previously, many people had claimed the Chen Family Head’s ancient techniques in earlier videos were just editing tricks, but now he had performed live in front of so many tourists.
The shock was imaginable.
Instinctively, he checked the comments:
“I can only say holy crap, you really cannot tell those things were hidden on the Chen Family Head’s body.”
“When I saw the previous ancient technique videos of the Chen Family Head, I really thought they were special effects. Now that I see this, I can only say, amazing!”
“Has anyone considered something? If the Cloud Barrier Technique is real, then is what the Chen Family Head said about casting a spell on the Cloth Bag also real?”
“Can this really be explained by ancient techniques? I suspect the Chen Family Head is using ancient techniques as a cover to perform real spells!”
“……”
People online who watched this video were all shocked and also even more excited for the Cloud Barrier Technique.
Even Ming Di felt that maybe the Chen Family Head had used this excuse to openly cast spells.
However, with this incident being so popular, if he did not try to ride the wave, that would be a real waste, so he immediately uploaded his own edited video.
Unfortunately, as time went by, his video did not gain much traffic.
It just was not distinctive enough. The Chen Clan National Style Event was extremely hot this time, and many people had posted similar videos, such as that 《“The Chen Family Head’s Cloth Bag”》 video.
The popularity was split; everyone was trying to ride the wave.
But with the Chen Clan National Style Event being this hot, just getting a tiny slice of the traffic was not enough. He could not let this opportunity go.
To best ride the wave, he already had experience. He needed to stir up something.
This made him look toward a house in Shangyuan Village, and then open the report from the villager he had arranged.
The person had bought a pile of instant noodles and had stayed in the Room all day without coming out.
When cleaning, they saw that the ID Card at the person’s bedside seemed different from the one registered.
The key point was that the person seemed very guarded.
For a villager to follow his instructions and find out this much showed they were clever. It was not for nothing that he had taken them in as a runner.
On top of that, the person had previously seemed unlucky at the Chen Clan and had fallen badly, so they might have done no small amount of evil.
Thinking of this, Ming Di picked up his mobile phone, aimed it at that house, and recorded an Abstract Video: “I have already been infiltrating the Chen Clan for half a day today, using the Spirit Shadow Mirror to transmit the situation of the Chen Clan’s Demon Suppression Assembly to all fellow daoists. You have also seen how the Chen Family Head, with just a small display, had strength that was shocking, and how the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy’s strength was also surprising.”
“So, trying to infiltrate the Chen Clan to lie low, stir up trouble, and rescue the Dog Demon King Brothers is rather difficult. We can only rely on other forces to attract the Chen Clan’s attention.”
“I seem to have discovered a very powerful demonic path expert who has also infiltrated the Chen Clan. For the sake of the Dog Demon King, I can only let this fellow practitioner be harmed.”
