Chapter 199: Surrounded By A Sea Of Flowers! They Really All Bloomed!
Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi could hardly believe what they were seeing and hurried forward to check, even reaching out to touch the blooming flowers.
The touch felt extraordinarily real.
“They really bloomed,” Xiao Yu said, her face full of surprise.
Yesterday she and Sister Xiaomi had personally taken part in planting these flowers, as well as the climbing vines.
So they knew very clearly how unbelievable it was for these flowers to bloom overnight.
A startled exclamation also came from the courtyard next door.
The voice belonged to Chen Clan members in the nearby courtyard.
They walked out of their courtyard and were even more shocked.
Because the courtyards of the other clan members were the same: the flowers and climbing plants planted just yesterday had all bloomed, drawing the eye from afar, stunningly beautiful.
At this time, the two also saw Uncle Dagou walking over with a face full of surprise and quickly greeted him.
When Chen Dagou saw Xiao Yu, he instinctively asked, “Xiao Yu, you saw it too. Do you think this might be related to last night’s rain?”
Xiao Yu had already thought of that and nodded. “Very likely. Just like when the Heavenly Sweet Dew descended during the last consecration ceremony, didn’t those offering flowers all bloom overnight? Last night was probably the same.”
After receiving her agreement, Chen Dagou added, “Maybe it’s also related to that stone tablet. Before the tablet was set up, Xiao Han specifically instructed us to plant these. There must be a deeper meaning.”
Xiao Yu agreed very much. She knew her senior brother would not give such instructions for no reason, and immediately said, “We’ll ask senior brother about it later.”
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After washing up, Chen Han went down into the courtyard and was similarly drawn to the orchids there.
Previously, most of the orchid plants had only one blossom each, which is typical for many orchids.
But after last night, he clearly saw that most orchids which had only one blossom had now produced another. At a glance, there were visibly more orchid flowers throughout the courtyard.
He knew this was definitely the effect of the Hundred Flowers Sweet Dew Talisman.
However, there were no starlike specks at the Moon Gazing Rabbit Hutch today.
Which meant there was no Moon Gazing Sand.
Even so, he still planned to take the Little White Rabbit to the special spiritual aperture.
When he opened the lid, the Little White Rabbit seemed to have been waiting eagerly, its eyes swirling as it looked at him, as if it also knew the benefits of the special spiritual aperture and was waiting for him.
And just as he lifted the lid, it raised its hindquarters, and a speck of white light appeared. It was another grain of Moon Gazing Sand.
Chen Han smiled and put away this grain of Moon Gazing Sand.
Then he picked up the Little White Rabbit and headed out.
But he did not go to the special spiritual aperture first. There was still time, so he went over to the Qionghua Tree Forest. Before he even got close, a faint fresh fragrance drifted over.
It was the unique scent of Qionghua blossoms. When there are enough of them, the gathered scent can easily drift in all directions.
Sure enough, when he got closer, he saw that the entire Qionghua Tree Forest had fully bloomed overnight. Clusters upon clusters of Qionghua blossoms formed a true sea of flowers, dazzling beyond compare.
Among the Qionghua trees, the decorative plants that had been interplanted had also all bloomed, intertwining with the Qionghua blossoms to present a perfect scroll of beauty.
Now, though, he was worried that such a scene, once it attracted tourists, would lead to people with itchy hands, trampling and so on.
There had been countless precedents.
An elderly, solitary farmer’s rice field had not bothered anyone. But when harvest season came, the golden fields looked beautiful. Then an internet celebrity went down into the field to film, with the title: “Even an unattended field can look this beautiful on video.”
The video went viral, and crowds swarmed in, trampling all the farmer’s rice, leaving him with no harvest.
In the end, the satisfied smiles of those who filmed videos and the image of the solitary old farmer collapsing in the field in tears formed a stark contrast.
Many people nowadays do not have such high moral standards; you could say they are lower than one might imagine.
Usually, it is only because they are restrained by secular law and certain customary norms that they look somewhat like decent people.
But when facing a situation, as long as one person breaks those restraints and benefits from it, many others will follow. As more people join in, they give themselves the excuse of “everyone does it; the law does not punish the crowd.”
In fact, they all understand that they must not trample on someone else’s rice, that growing rice is hard work, and that a lush, beautiful rice field could not possibly be unattended.
They simply pretend not to know in that moment and abandon morality for the small sense of satisfaction from filming a video.
Fortunately, when his uncle planted the Qionghua trees, he had already built fences all around, and likewise planted climbing plants on the fences, which had now become the best barrier and shield.
Since this was a scenic spot, many people would also restrain themselves a bit. Together with the deterrent power of the legends of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation, such infuriating behavior likely would not happen.
Even so, they still needed to assign people from the Demon Subduing Hall to keep watch.
With that thought, Chen Han headed toward the special spiritual aperture. When he arrived at the pavilion with the cow, dog, and rabbit, his uncle, Uncle Dagou, and his junior sister and the others were already there.
They were clearly all waiting for him.
As soon as she saw him, his junior sister could not wait to ask, “Senior brother, you definitely know already, right? All those flowers bloomed. Was it because of the stone tablet you set up?”
Chen Han had expected this question and nodded with a smile. “It should be. That stone tablet was dug up from underground by the county’s road construction crew. It says that it was a gift to our Chen Clan from the Hundred Flowers Palace, and a formation was inscribed on it.”
“What?” Xiao Mi sensed something off and asked, “Isn’t the line ‘a gift from the Hundred Flowers Palace’ something you added?”
When Chen Han set up the tablet, she had naturally paid attention and seen it.
Recently she had been self-studying ancient Daoist script, so unlike Xiao Yu and Chen Lin, she could roughly understand the characters on the stone tablet.
Previously, she thought the tablet and its inscription were made by Chen Han.
After all, the Hundred Flowers Palace was something from his abstract videos, and she was even the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy in them.
For the Hundred Flowers Palace to gift a stone tablet with an inscribed formation to the Chen Clan was too absurd; at a glance it seemed like something straight out of the plot of Chen Han’s abstract videos.
Yet now Chen Han was telling her that the inscription was not done by him, that it was truly dug up from underground.
Did the Hundred Flowers Palace really exist in the past?
Her mind buzzed all at once.
Xiao Yu, Chen Lin, and the others instinctively looked at him.
Chen Han quickly said, “The Hundred Flowers Palace is a coincidence. This stone tablet really was dug up from the ground and personally delivered by the county leaders. I checked classical records and found mentions of such formation stone tablets.”
“As long as we use methods like heavenly stems and earthly branches timing, eight-gate positioning, geomantic orientation, and so on to determine the position for erecting the tablet, it can connect to the energy of the feng shui array and activate the runes of the formation carved on the stone tablet. It might really have an effect.”
Xiao Yu and Chen Lin were completely confused by talk of heavenly stems and earthly branches and eight-gate positioning.
But when they heard “feng shui formation,” they understood.
It was all thanks to the family underground feng shui formation.
“Do not publicize this,” Chen Han instructed.
Xiao Yu immediately nodded. “Senior brother, we understand. To outsiders, we believe in science.”
As they spoke, the spiritual energy rinse of the special spiritual aperture began. Chen Han sat cross-legged and operated the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》 to absorb the spiritual energy and cultivate.
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The Chen Clan soon became lively.
Exclamations were heard from everywhere.
Many people could not believe that after just one night of sleep, they were suddenly surrounded by blooming flowers.
Chen Jun was like that. When he went out, he stared in disbelief at the flowers in full bloom in the courtyard, then hurriedly called to his girlfriend, “Xiao Xiao, come quickly, all the flowers we planted yesterday have bloomed.”
Lin Xiaoxiao, puzzled by her boyfriend’s shouting, came out, and when she saw the blooming flowers in the courtyard, she cried out in disbelief as well.
How could these flowers all bloom in a single night?
Their commotion disturbed the tourists staying at their place.
The tourists were naturally displeased and came out wanting to complain, but were suddenly captivated by the flowers in full bloom in the courtyard.
Weren’t these planted only yesterday?
Their anger forgotten, the tourists quickly took out their mobile phones to film.
When Lobster woke up, she likewise heard the noisy commotion of tourists outside the Tourist Service Center. Yawning, she looked out the window and her eyes instinctively widened.
She could see several Chen Clan courtyards in the distance, with their walls covered in blooming flowers, forming very beautiful flower walls.
The noise came from tourists gathering to look at the flower walls, each of them filming.
She hurried across to the room opposite to knock. The Crooked Mouth Dragon King lived there. When she opened the door, she was watching a video, and looked up in surprise. “Lobster, did you see the videos this morning? Last night the Chen Clan had rain, but not a drop fell in Shangyuan Village outside. We actually missed such a strange phenomenon.”
Lobster was shocked again.
This phenomenon itself was not rare; it had happened in many places. But linking it with the Chen Clan’s overnight blooming flowers, she felt there must be some connection between the two.
“Lobster, what’s wrong?” the Crooked Mouth Dragon King asked suspiciously.
Lobster quickly pulled her into her own room and led her to the window to look into the distance.
The Crooked Mouth Dragon King also saw the flower walls of the courtyards in full bloom and was equally stunned. “These… weren’t they just planted yesterday? This is too beautiful.”
The two girls were clearly shaken. Then they could not resist picking up their phones to film.
They had a sharp sense for popularity. After filming a short clip of the distant scene, they exchanged a look, then hurried to put on makeup and change into hanfu to shoot more videos.
When they went out, they found that the Innate Unwidowed Saint Body, the Little Celestial, and the others had also already come out wearing hanfu.
Inside the Chen Clan, the tourists were already boiling with excitement. Looking at the flower walls of each Chen Clan courtyard, they all began filming.
Tourists staying in the clan members’ own courtyards went straight to filming inside. With the courtyards now full of flowers, they felt that even if the conditions and service in the clan courtyards were not as strong as the Tourist Service Center, there no longer seemed to be any disadvantage.
The two options each had their own advantages.
Xu Bin had slept quite well his first night in Shangyuan Village. His years in the army had made him highly adaptable; he did not suffer the kind of fussiness that keeps people awake in new environments.
Because of his habits from the army, he got up early to jog around Shangyuan Village for exercise. Looking at Shangyuan Village, he felt a bit of lingering dread.
Yesterday’s crushing defeat had left a deep impression. After going back, he had looked into the “Under One Person” his cousin mentioned. 《Under One Person》
That power from Under One Person had been manifested by the Chen Family Head.
And the Chen Family Head was not the only one manifested; the Chen Clan also seemed to have a mysterious old Daoist priest from a photo.
Suddenly, as he ran, he looked in disbelief toward a direction in the distance.
It was the Qionghua Tree Forest where the Chen Family Head had erected the stone tablet yesterday.
Now it was a field of snowy white, as if radiating enchanting scenery.
He instinctively ran there, and when he got close, he was stunned by what he saw.
The entire Qionghua Tree Forest had bloomed. He remembered that this kind of tree should have passed its flowering season, and some of them, he thought, had just been planted not long ago.
He quickly took out his phone and called Ming Di. “Cousin, come quickly to the place where the Chen Family Head set up the stone tablet yesterday.”
“What is it?” came Ming Di’s puzzled voice. “So early in the morning.”
Xu Bin immediately said, “Hurry and check Weixin, I’ll send you a video.”
Ming Di grew even more confused. As he hung up, he saw a video from his cousin pop up on Weixin.
When he saw the Qionghua trees covered with blossoms in the video, his face showed shock. He rushed out the door and headed to the Chen Clan.
Soon he arrived at the Qionghua Tree Forest. Looking at the woods full of blooms and smelling the drifting delicate fragrance, he was utterly dazed.
Even the fence preventing people from entering was covered in flowering greenery.
“This… this… it must be related to last night’s rain, and definitely to that stone tablet,” Ming Di said, reacting as he instinctively looked at the standing stone tablet.
He knew quite a bit about the Chen Clan and quickly connected all the dots.
But that only made him more shocked. Had he personally discovered the Chen Clan’s mysterious power?
Xu Bin subconsciously asked, “Cousin, the Chen Clan seems really terrifying. Is it really a good idea for us to piggyback on their popularity?”
Ming Di quickly said, “We have permits, so we’re not afraid, not afraid…”
As he spoke, he hurriedly took out his phone and filmed the Qionghua trees.
This would absolutely let them grab the first wave of traffic.
As time passed, almost everyone in the Chen Clan and all the tourists discovered the marvels that had occurred overnight.
People of the Chen Clan were calmer. Having experienced much already, they knew their family had a feng shui array and the Protection of the Heavenly Lord, so this scene must be related.
However, the family group chat had already given instructions. If tourists asked, they were to say, “We believe in science.”
The tourists, on the other hand, were utterly shocked. The overnight blooming was too stunning. Last time, they had not personally experienced the Flower Sea of offering flowers blooming overnight, so it had not impacted them much.
This time, many of them had witnessed it firsthand. They had personally seen those flowers planted yesterday, and after one night they really had all bloomed.
These tourists also uploaded various videos, once again filling the entire internet with legends about the Chen Clan’s overnight blooms, though there was one thing that left everyone speechless.
Many tourists tried to probe for clues from members of the Chen Clan, but everyone from the Chen Clan had the same response: “We believe in science!”
It was not that people did not believe in science; it was that they simply could not believe this at all.
Could they not be a little more sincere?
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When Chen Han opened his eyes and finished cultivating, his uncle, Uncle Dagou, his junior sister, and the others had already left the special spiritual aperture.
Without a cultivation method, they could only passively let their bodies enjoy the spiritual energy rinse and could not draw spiritual energy into their bodies through a method, so there was no need for them to refine spiritual energy.
After the spiritual energy rinse ended, there was no point in them staying.
Now that he had already opened four of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, he was considering whether to pass on the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》.
His uncle, Uncle Dagou, and Uncle Shuisheng were older; cultivation might not be very useful for them. His junior sister was different; at the very least, he should teach her.
Thinking this, he led the Little White Rabbit to stand up and walked out of the pavilion, when he suddenly noticed something drifting down from above.
He reached out to catch it, and when he saw what it was, he looked up in surprise, then his smile grew even brighter.
So this had an effect too?
