Chapter 215: Newton Can’t Rest In His Coffin! Has Ming Di Become A Legend?
Wudang is a very well-known tourist attraction of the Daoist sect and also has a very high status within the Daoist sect.
Recently, Daoist Priest Chen has been quite busy.
The main reason is that previously the Chen Family Head’s lightness skill, where he borrowed force a few times to get onto the roof, went viral. He also said that the Daoist sect has this kind of lightness skill, such as Wudang, and that he practiced the same lightness skill as his.
Previously, many people mocked his lightness skill as parkour, saying it was not even as good as parkour. In truth, he had no way to refute it.
Mainly, at his age, wanting to move as sharply and at the limit like someone in their twenties is something his body simply cannot do.
When the Chen Family Head’s lightness skill went viral, the people who questioned him became fewer.
After all, regarding the Chen Family Head’s lightness skill, although people in parkour circles brought out videos of some top international parkour experts, that was still a small number. How many people who do parkour can achieve that?
Moreover, the Chen Family Head said he was practicing the same type as his, which indirectly showed that the Daoist sect truly has lightness skill, and that Wudang is the same.
The reason he could only cultivate it to this degree was because his own talent and ability were lacking, not because the lightness skill itself was lacking.
This also brought them a lot of attention, and visits from people coming to discuss Wudang lightness skill increased.
In this regard, he was naturally pleased to see it happen, since it could promote Daoist sect culture.
Only today, he had just filmed a video about lightness skill and was about to upload it, when he noticed that in the backstage someone had @mentioned him.
He clicked in and saw a video with the title: about the Chen Clan’s 《real-life “Under One Person”, the Chen Clan’s Old Heavenly Master!》
The title itself was very eye-catching. After all, memes like “Under One Person”, “Old Heavenly Master”, “Under One Person”-type jokes are extremely famous. Now that it was tied to the Chen Clan, anyone would click in to take a look.
Daoist Priest Chen opened the video, and when he saw an old Daoist priest directly fly up onto the roof in front of everyone, he felt the back of his head go numb.
“Daoist Priest Chen, can your Wudang lightness skill reach this level too?”
“Daoist Priest Chen, before when they compared you to the Chen Family Head, we felt you had not mastered it. Now it seems the Chen Family Head has not mastered it either.”
“……”
Seeing the comments that @mentioned him, he swallowed nervously.
He did not know whether the Chen Clan’s lightness skill could be cultivated to that level, but he knew very clearly that the lightness skill he practiced absolutely could not reach that level.
So, faced with these @mentions, he chose to remain silent, and even quietly deleted the lightness skill video he had just recorded.
This time, he would not make a fool of himself.
Just then, one of his disciples ran in. “Master, a reporter from a major new media outlet says they want to discuss questions about lightness skill with you.”
Hearing this, Daoist Priest Chen immediately said, “I am going into seclusion for the next two days. For visitors, tell them I am not available.”
“Alright, Master.” The disciple nodded, a bit puzzled. During this period, had his master not been very enthusiastic about receiving all these discussions and interviews? Why did he suddenly want to go into seclusion now?
Without hesitation, Daoist Priest Chen returned to his study room and continued to check the online news about the Chen Clan.
He had previously watched that video of the old Daoist priest of the Chen Clan, and the man looked exactly the same as the old Daoist priest in an old photograph of the Chen Clan.
It was not that he had specially paid attention to the Chen Clan, but because when the Chen Clan’s lightness skill incident happened, they mentioned him, and he interacted with the Chen Clan’s side, and their accounts followed each other.
So, videos about the Chen Clan would always be recommended to him by Douyin first.
This was due to Douyin’s mechanism.
Previously, he felt it was a bit far-fetched to say that old Daoist priest was the same one as in the Chen Clan’s photo. Many people, based on the photo, had speculated that the man might be over 150 years old, even close to
This was impossible.
Although there are many legends in ancient times of people living for several hundred years, modern science has already proven that humans cannot live beyond
So many people believed he was just someone else cosplaying. But now, seeing this old Daoist priest directly leap up onto the Chen Clan’s rooftop in the video, he really was no longer sure.
His head was buzzing.
“Is this even human?” Daoist Priest Chen muttered to himself.
He scrolled through several videos in this trending topic.
Quite a few had @mentioned him and @mentioned the Chen Family Head, all asking about this lightness skill.
Previously, he had been teased for not having practiced his lightness skill well enough. Now there were even people teasing that the Chen Family Head’s lightness skill also was not fully mastered.
He could not help but feel a bit like he was watching a show.
As for those who @mentioned him, he simply chose to ignore them.
This level of lightness skill was something he could not explain at all.
Soon, another video caught his attention. It was also about the Chen Clan, and also about that old Daoist priest.
The title was: 《I met that old Daoist priest, and he even enlightened me!》
“Little girl, why are you hiding here and crying?”
“Little girl, if someone curses you, you should hurry up and curse them back. Since they took the initiative to curse you, why not fulfill their wish? When they curse you, they are planting bad karma for themselves; when you curse back, you are helping them repay their bad consequences. This is called doing a good deed; you are accumulating virtue…”
The old Daoist priest’s words came through in the video.
This kind of “enlightenment” clearly attracted a huge number of people. So, under such heat, the video also received a lot of attention and many comments.
“Holy crap, after hearing the old Daoist priest’s enlightenment, I feel like I’ve seen the light. I just got cursed at; how can I not curse back?”
“I don’t know why, but after seeing this enlightenment from the old Daoist priest, I suddenly feel he really does have a bit of that ‘Under One Person’ Old Heavenly Master feeling.”
“……”
Daoist Priest Chen himself felt that this old Daoist priest was truly worthy of being an expert of the Daoist sect, a model for cultivators like them, someone who deeply understood Daoist ethics.
However, there were also critical comments. One of them came from a female blogger with more than 2 million fans. She commented: “I really don’t understand what kind of values you people have. Isn’t this teaching people to curse? Why are so many people liking this? Since we were young, our country has taught us morality, intellect, physical fitness, and aesthetics, and personal quality is a top priority. Isn’t this teaching people to have no quality?”
Daoist Priest Chen felt a bit dissatisfied when he saw this. He had no way to speak on that lightness skill, but on this point, he had plenty to say.
He directly replied with his real-name account: “This devotee may not know, but in our Daoist tradition we have never advocated swallowing one’s anger. Emotions are the natural flow granted by heaven and earth. Suppressing them only builds up illness in the heart. When others curse you, you must curse back. It is like wind encountering a mountain: it must bend around it or sound against it. When you meet an obstacle, you respond. When it is time to speak, you must speak. That is following nature. Taking a step back will not bring a vast sea and sky; it will only suffocate you with internal injuries. Being excessively emotionally stable is punishing yourself for other people’s mistakes…”
As a famous Daoist priest with strong prestige, his statement quickly drew many likes, support, and comments.
“Haha, the Daoist priest said it well. I am exactly the kind of person who doesn’t want to endure.”
“Confucianism: to be great is to be tolerant like the sea, which admits all rivers! Buddhism: with resentment in your heart, you cannot obtain the true sutra; you must continue to train! Daoism: how dare these brats disturb my Dao heart!”
“Buddhism: everything is the will of heaven! Daoism: hold on, I’ll go change your fate right now!”
“Endure for a moment and you get breast nodules; take a step back and you get uterine fibroids…”
“……”
Daoist Priest Chen’s reply received much support, which made that female internet celebrity unhappy. She immediately wanted to strike back. He was just a Daoist priest with a bit over 1 million fans, while she had more than 2 million. But what followed left her dumbfounded.
The topic was so hot. They could not take advantage of the lightness skill angle, but when it came to talking about Daoist teachings, many Daoist priests had something to say.
They could not let Daoist Priest Chen occupy all the heat.
So, after the previous incident with the Chen Clan’s lightness skill and martial arts, many Daoist priests of the Daoist sect spoke up together again.
《In our Daoist tradition, besides advocating cursing back when cursed, we also do not advocate suffering for its own sake. Hardship is just hardship; it does not necessarily bring success, nor is it worth pursuing. If eating bitterness led to success, then donkeys would be the richest beings in the world, bearing the greatest hardships while serving others. ‘After enduring the greatest bitterness, you become superior to others,’ and ‘flower fragrance comes from bitter cold’ — in fact, the plum blossom is fragrant simply because it is a plum blossom…》
《We not only advocate cursing back, we also advocate putting aside concern over personal “quality” and enjoying a morally unrestrained life. Read whichever page the wind turns to; if you don’t understand a page, tear it out. Ask yourself “why” less, ask others “based on what” more. As long as I have no morality, others cannot morally blackmail me. Refuse spiritual self-torment; if something happens, just go a little crazy…》
《……》
These collective statements from Daoist priests everywhere not only left the female internet celebrity stunned, but also made her feel that public opinion was turning against her, frightening her into hastily deleting her own comment.
“What is wrong with these cultivators? Instead of properly cultivating, they are mindlessly attacking a girl like me.”
But these Daoist priests’ statements truly won the approval of countless netizens, who joined in under the posts with relay comments:
“This is exactly the temper and character of our national tradition. I feel like this temperament is in my DNA too, hahaha!”
“When facing difficulties, other sects say: god gives me strength, then I will go. The Daoist sect says: by the decree of heaven, god, you go for me…”
“Let me tell a true story. Last year I went to a Daoist temple to ask for a marriage lot. Three times in a row I drew the worst lot. I was getting old and could not get married; I was so anxious I cried. The Daoist priest interpreting the lot directly grabbed a best lot for me and said he would change my fate. Haha, and this year I really got a boyfriend.”
“……”
Chen Han naturally also saw all this while holding his mobile phone, since many people were @mentioning him.
This was also why people in their country were increasingly fond of Daoist sect culture.
If you look on Douyin, the videos related to the Daoist sect, in terms of discussion and traffic data, far exceed those related to the Buddhist sect.
In topic discussion volume, the Daoist sect has exceeded 40 billion, while the Buddhist sect is under 8 billion.
Of course, in real life, earning ability is the opposite, and you still have to multiply the numbers.
While Chen Han was watching videos on his phone, he heard in the courtyard the voices of his junior sister and his uncle.
“Why can’t I sense spiritual energy?”
“I can’t sense it either!”
“That’s not right. Are we misunderstanding something?”
“Try again!”
Chen Han shook his head. With no spiritual energy, how could they sense anything? But for now he did not expose it, letting them keep trying. Even if they could not sense anything yet, they would become more practiced.
When the spiritual energy surge at the special spiritual aperture came the next morning, his junior sister and uncle would be able to sense spiritual energy the first moment.
When Chen Han noticed the courtyard had gone quiet again, he resumed checking the situation online, only to find that the @mentions of him were increasing again.
Because more people were paying attention online, the popularity was exploding again.
Linhe County.
Chu Ping was paying very close attention to the Chen Clan’s situation. With such heat online, he naturally followed it too, and late at night he was still in the office discussing the matter with Chen Kai.
Chen Kai frowned and said, “Right now, many university professors and mentors are also paying attention to this. The popularity of this old Daoist priest of the Chen Clan is about to explode. We still cannot be sure whether he truly exists, but he should be real, right?”
Chu Ping nodded. After all, he had witnessed much of the Chen Clan’s miraculous side. But if this level of heat continued, he feared someone really would use “promoting superstition” as a pretext to make trouble.
The key point was that some things about the Chen Clan could not be used for public promotion or explanation, as they ran counter to the mainstream.
Chu Ping suddenly said, “For Liangmei’s case, the evidence and confession are already set. Let them leak some news. That should be enough to push down the old Daoist priest’s heat.”
“Mm.” Chen Kai nodded. This was also a form of protection for the Chen Clan.
If the popularity became too great and it turned into a case of excessive superstitious propaganda, then even if the Chen Clan was real, it would still cause more or less trouble. It was best if such trouble could be avoided.
Moreover, quite a few serious-minded university professors had already appeared online.
Magic City.
In an office at a university, Ke Yan, a physics professor, was very upset. What upset him was that today he had been teaching the proportional equation for human gravitational acceleration and apparent weight under gravity.
But in class there was a troublesome student who caused disturbance, raised a question contradicting scientific principles, even gave examples, and argued with him.
Now their argument had been posted on the school forum, making him lose all authority as a professor.
So, after class, back in his office, he was so angry he could not eat, repeatedly watching that video about the Chen Clan. The more he watched, the angrier he became.
“Newton’s coffin lid can’t be held down anymore,” Ke Yan said in frustration.
Then he remembered he also had a Douyin account. He had to post a video and remind that Chen Clan not to use these superstitious methods for promotion. This was disrespectful to science.
Opening the recorder, he began speaking directly: “The human limit in high jump is closely related to gravity. Gravity is one of the core factors that restrict the maximum height of a jump…”
“When a person jumps, gravity pulls the body downward… the greater the initial velocity, the better one can counter gravity, and the higher the body can rise…”
“After leaving the ground, under the action of gravity, the human body performs projectile motion… the magnitude of gravity, （about 8 N/kg）, directly determines the airtime and the maximum height reached…”
“Currently the world record for the human high jump limit is 45 meters… in conclusion, the situation shown in that video is absolutely impossible. If Newton knew, he truly would not be able to keep his coffin lid down.”
“On the contrary, here I want to remind the Chen Clan that your promotional methods already verge on superstitious propaganda. I hope everyone can recognize this rationally, and I also hope that Chen Family Head will come forward and apologize!”
After recording, he uploaded the video angrily, then went home to shower and sleep.
Although he was not an internet celebrity, he had posted videos before and knew that, with such hot topics, this kind of critique video would definitely get a lot of attention. If not over a million views, at least tens of thousands, right?
By then, the Chen Clan would have to consider what he said, come out to clarify, and apologize.
Thinking this, he felt delighted, his anger gone, and he slept very soundly. In his dream, he was highly praised, and when he returned to the classroom to lecture, that troublesome student obediently came over to apologize.
Because of this, he got up a bit after five, hurriedly grabbed his phone, and checked the video he had posted. When he saw the numbers, he was dumbfounded.
Likes: 1,200
Comments: 46
“???” Ke Yan was completely confused. This was not right. With that kind of hot topic, it should not have so little data.
He immediately checked further and was even more confused. Why had the hot topics and trending lists changed overnight?
What on earth was this 《‘Ming Di is going to be enshrined as a god’》?
