Chapter 213: That Old Daoist Priest Has Appeared Again!
In the Shu Shan Swordsman World, cultivation methods are divided into levels.
Among them, the Emei Sect’s 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture》 is the highest-level cultivation method.
The 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》 that Chen Han obtained is one part of it and is definitely the best grand initiation for beginner cultivation.
This kind of cultivation method is also very rare to obtain in the Shu Shan Swordsman World.
In contrast, the 《Chen Clan Disciples’ Universal Basic Qi Cultivation Method》 is relatively ordinary.
He had already considered teaching his junior sister a cultivation method; he just did not know what kind of talent his junior sister had.
After all, cultivation requires talent. Without talent, teaching a cultivation method is in vain.
Now that he had this 《Chen Clan Disciples’ Universal Basic Qi Cultivation Method》, he could first teach it to his junior sister and experiment with the effect to see his junior sister’s talent.
After that, he could also have his junior sister teach his uncle and then see how his uncle’s cultivation progressed.
It was just that his uncle’s age, combined with the lack of spiritual energy in reality, with only that brief spiritual energy rinse from the special spiritual aperture, might not lead to much cultivation.
However, with this ordinary qi cultivation method, he could at least let his uncle take his personal strength one step higher.
The Chen Clan hall master and expert identity would be even more deserved.
As for other matters, for now there was only that short period of spiritual energy rinse from the special spiritual aperture to cultivate with, so he would not consider anything else.
The question now was when to teach his junior sister.
Besides, he could let the old Daoist from the photos make another appearance to teach his junior sister this 《Chen Clan Disciples’ Universal Basic Qi Cultivation Method》 and solidify the old Daoist’s story.
This would further confirm that the Chen Clan’s past inheritance foundation was profound and make his junior sister and the others believe it even more firmly.
Look at that: they even had cultivation methods that used the underground Feng Shui array for cultivation.
But there was no rush; he would handle things one by one.
Thinking this, Chen Han continued shaving the old elm branch in his hand. He now needed to carve Matchmaker God’s cane first.
The third requirement for establishing the Marriage Hall was the spiritual cane and red thread.
He was still quite looking forward to the Marriage Hall task. After all, during the previous Statue of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation consecration ceremony, the blessing had been heavenly sweet dew; the Chen Clan members had all felt it, and later there had even been a reward with a minor punishment as a warning type attribute.
Now, the Marriage Hall task might also reward a similar rule-type attribute. If so, it should be related to marriage, which made him a little excited.
With Chen Han’s current strength, carving a cane was very easy. Shaving wood was no different from cutting tofu. As for how the finished product would look, that depended entirely on knife skills and artistic creativity.
He felt the final product was quite good. After all, for an artistic creator, there is a natural aesthetic filter toward one’s own creations.
So, after the cane was stored in the game warehouse, the game system made him recognize reality.
【Rough Matchmaker God cane: This is a roughly crafted Old Man Moon Statue Staff, but it is carved from an old elm that has already become an ancient tree. Such an ancient tree contains spirituality. If this cane is refined, it may become a spiritual statue component!】
Chen Han was a bit speechless. He felt he had carved it very smooth; how was it rough?
However, when it came to refinement, he immediately thought of the artifact refining furnace.
He got up at once, left the courtyard, and went to the artifact refining furnace. Previously, this thing had been built by his uncle as specified by a game task.
The refined Green Pheasant Fan had not been very useful, but unexpectedly, the artifact refining furnace built for that task was being used more and more.
He used wood to light the furnace fire and directly put the rough Matchmaker God cane into the furnace. When he sealed the furnace again, the same prompt appeared:
【Artifact refining furnace sealed, Samadhi True Fire blazing, artifact refining furnace is refining…】
Before long, the cane’s refinement was completed.
The flames went out. When he took out the cane from inside the stove, its surface had become very smooth, no longer as rough as before. Instead, it looked very beautiful, like a work of art.
After storing it in the game warehouse again, Chen Han saw the new remark information:
【Exquisite Matchmaker God Statue Staff: This is a Matchmaker God Statue Staff made from an ancient elm branch, carrying the spirituality of the ancient tree. It is an excellent statue cane component. After refinement, it has a special effect: artistic sense +2】
No wonder the cane had become so beautiful. So it actually had the attribute of art +
After storing this Matchmaker God cane in the game warehouse, Chen Han went back into the courtyard and took out all the old elm bark.
Next, he planned to handle the red thread needed for the Matchmaker God statue.
Since this spiritual Matchmaker God cane could be completed like this, the spiritual red thread required by Matchmaker God should be able to be made in a similar way.
It was just that the steps needed to make the red thread were much more complicated than for the cane.
First, he had to peel off the hard outer bark and keep the soft inner bast, which contained more fibers.
Chen Han took all the old elm branches he had previously cut and retrieved from the game warehouse, then stripped the bark from these branches one by one.
If he wanted to use old elm bark to make thread, there was no way to do it directly. It needed to be soaked and softened.
Chen Han cut the stripped bast into small pieces and put them into the pond to soak. They would need to soak for at least a day and a night to remove impurities and gums and soften the fibers.
After finishing this, he turned his attention back to the 《Chen Clan Disciples’ Universal Basic Qi Cultivation Method》 to first teach this method to his junior sister.
He first called his junior sister on the telephone.
Once connected, his junior sister’s voice came through: “Senior brother, what is it?”
Chen Han smiled and found an excuse, saying, “Junior sister, go check the situation of the rapeseed flowers over at the spirit field, and then also keep an eye on the progress of the rapeseed flower industry.”
“Okay, senior brother!” Xiao Yu replied.
Chen Han hung up the phone and went into the room, took out the Thousand Illusions Mask again, and after activating it, his entire person visibly transformed into an old Daoist wearing a blue-gray Daoist robe.
He spoke two sentences, and even his voice became old, without the slightest flaw.
Since he wanted to solidify this old Daoist identity, he would let the Chen Clan accumulate more legends.
The perfect plot: the junior sister encounters an old family elder in the spirit field and is given a cultivation method.
Moments later, Chen Han went out the window into the Chen Clan compound, but unexpectedly, not long after he appeared, he ran into a few tourists.
These tourists were clearly surprised and immediately raised their mobile phones to film him.
“It looks like him!”
“It really is him, he appeared again.”
“It’s really similar!”
“……”
After the previous incident with the old Daoist priest in the photo, many people who followed the Chen Clan remembered it. Tourists coming to visit the Chen Clan, when doing their research, would also come across the video about this matter.
It had even become one of the Chen Clan’s mysterious events.
So it was easy to imagine how excited these tourists were when they saw this old Daoist priest, and they all wanted to surround him.
Chen Han felt a bit helpless and simply pushed off with one foot, leaping onto the rooftop of a building.
After unblocking four of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians, his current strength in the Shu Shan Swordsman World was even greater than those first-class experts of the martial world. Together with his clothes’ lightness +2 effect, he truly floated lightly upward and disappeared over the rooftop.
This scene left the tourists dumbfounded.
“Did you… did you see that?”
“Y-yes, that old Daoist priest really flew up!”
“My god, compared to him, the Chen family head’s lightness skill is at the grandson level.”
The tourists subconsciously agreed with this. They joked that the Chen family head’s lightness skill was powerful, but those parkour practitioners dared to come forward to seek attention, claiming it was just parkour.
The key point was that the Chen family head really had no way to refute it, because those world-class top parkour videos were truly astonishing.
But now, faced with this scene, could any parkour person come and seek attention?
In comparison, it was instead the Chen family head who seemed incompetent, disgracing the Chen Clan’s lightness skill reputation, like in dramas where each generation is worse than the last.
The Chen family head simply had not cultivated enough.
Chen Han did not know they were partly ridiculing him. He went straight to the spirit field, this time choosing an internal path that tourists rarely used.
Who knew that when he reached the end of this little path, he would find a girl tourist there crying.
She happened to look up and see him. Her sobs stopped subconsciously, and she stared at him in disbelief, as if she had also seen the previous old Daoist photo incident.
“Y-you…” The girl stared blankly at him.
Seeing that he had been seen, Chen Han asked, “Little girl, why are you hiding here and crying?”
The girl did not expect him to speak to her. She reacted and blurted out, “I was scolded by the cameraman while filming.”
She was scolded and hid here to cry.
Chen Han really did not know how to comfort people. After all, he was not a professional Daoist sect comforter with experience in such things.
In ancient times, Daoist temples had specialized comforters at the gate. When believers had worries or doubts, they would come seek guidance, and these gatekeepers would counsel them so they left with peace of mind.
However, he had read some Daoist books before and could borrow some ideas, so he said, “Little girl, if someone scolds you, you should quickly scold them back. Since he took the initiative to scold you, why not fulfill his wish? His scolding you plants evil causes for himself; your scolding him back helps him repay his evil fruits. This is doing a good deed and accumulating virtue.”
“???” The girl was stunned by these words.
It sounded quite reasonable, but an old Daoist priest teaching her to curse people, did that seem right?
Moreover, the cameraman who scolded her was her boyfriend.
But when she came back to her senses, she found that the old Daoist priest was already gone.
She hurried out of the path and looked around, but there was no one. This…
Then she remembered something and took out the portable shooting device clipped to her collar. She and her boyfriend were filming videos because she was a small internet celebrity, planning to shoot an ancient-style plot video at the Chen Clan.
She had been scolded because her acting in the plot rehearsal was so bad and she was not in the right state. She had only come here to vent her emotions, and unexpectedly, she had a surprise gain.
She had just recorded that old Daoist priest.
……
Chen Han quickly arrived at the spirit field. Because of the special attributes of the spirit field, he could see clouds and mist shrouding the peach trees.
But there were no tourists here now. Previously, it had been the peach blossoms that attracted people. Now that the blossoms had withered and become tiny peaches, no one paid attention here.
This was quite realistic.
Chen Han walked into the spirit field. Behind the cover of the peach trees was a stretch of golden rapeseed flowers in full bloom. Ten mu of land was neither large nor small, but standing within it still felt somewhat magnificent.
At this moment, there were no family members around, and it felt very quiet. He immediately spotted his junior sister observing among the rapeseed flowers.
So he decided to put on a proper divine manifestation in front of his junior sister.
Inside the spirit field.
Xiao Yu was carefully observing the rapeseed flowers and making notes.
The Chen Clan rapeseed flower project required planting ten thousand mu, and the rapeseed seeds were very important. They all depended on the seeds produced by these rapeseed flowers in the spirit field.
Moreover, some rapeseed flowers had already formed seeds, which looked very plump, so the fullest ones could be reserved.
As Xiao Yu was recording seriously, she suddenly noticed someone in the spirit field. She thought it was a family member and was about to go over to greet them when she was surprised to see it was an old Daoist priest.
And it was actually him.
Because of this person, the Chen Clan had been in an uproar for a while, trying to find him, since he looked exactly like the ancestor in the photo.
But no matter how they searched, they could not find him. Later, the entire Chen Clan rummaged through old stored odds and ends and really found a bit of information recorded about him.
He had once been the Chen Clan’s chief instructor, training the young and strong men within ten miles and eight villages. There were even brief records that one night he had gone alone to a bandit camp and cut off the bandit leader’s head.
It was also recorded that he had a strange temper, was mysterious, and hard for clan members to get along with, and even the patriarch did not like him.
Now she was actually seeing him here in the spirit field.
She felt it was necessary to greet him and that her attitude should be respectful.
But at that moment, she suddenly saw a small sword flying around the old Daoist priest, then a second, a third, a fourth…
In that instant, Xiao Yu’s eyes widened, her face full of disbelief.
