Chapter 217: The Matchmaker God Is Very Satisfied! A Deity’s Divine Manifestation Incident!
In the pavilion, after Chen Han refined the absorbed spiritual energy, he opened his eyes and found that his junior sister and uncle had not left today. Instead, they were all looking at him with questioning expressions.
Chen Han also knew what they were wondering about. After all, he had been cultivating the whole time. Even after the spiritual energy rinse ended, he was still sitting in meditation refining the energy; anyone who was not stupid could guess something.
He said, “Don’t look at me like that. I really have been cultivating before, and I was cultivating the cultivation method left behind by the ancestor from the organization who built the Chen family Feng Shui array.”
“However, that cultivation method can only be cultivated by the patriarch, just like this 《Chen Clan Qi Cultivation Method》 can only be cultivated by the main bloodline, so I did not tell you. Now there is also no need to tell other clan members about this 《Chen Clan Qi Cultivation Method》.”
Xiao Yu said in surprise, “When that professor taught us the 《Chen Clan Qi Cultivation Method》, he never mentioned this. I thought the Chen clan only had this one cultivation method.”
Chen Han asked in return, “Since only the patriarch can cultivate it, what if that person was not the patriarch, so he was not qualified to cultivate it at all?”
These words made a lot of sense. Xiao Yu and Chen Lin were full of emotion. It seemed that the Chen clan had truly been very formidable in the past, and the key was clearly defined hierarchy.
Xiao Yu then asked curiously, “Senior brother, since there is no spiritual energy outside, how did that person cultivate? Could it be that there are other places where a Feng Shui array’s energy leaks out and can provide for cultivation?”
The three of Chen Lin all nodded, feeling this was possible.
Chen Han did not answer, because only he knew the truth. Instead, he shifted the topic and said to his junior sister, “For the consecration ceremony of the Matchmaker God Statue, you must keep a close eye on things. After all, we are adding a statue of god; nothing can go wrong.”
“Mm, I understand.” Xiao Yu nodded.
Chen Han mounted You Fu and left.
After he handled the medicinal cuisine and put it into the stew pot to simmer, he returned to his own courtyard and took all the soaked old elm tree bark out of the pool.
Of the three conditions for establishing the Marriage Hall, one was a Matchmaker God staff with spirituality and one was a red thread with spirituality. The staff was already done; now only the red thread was missing.
To make the red thread from old elm bark, after soaking, it needed to be stripped into fibers.
Using hands or tools, he gently peeled away the outer coarse bark of the soaked bark, took out the inner bast, and tore it into thin strips.
For Chen Han’s current strength, this was easy. He only spent a bit of time to process all the soaked bark.
Then, holding these torn tree bark fibers, he went again to Uncle’s Kitchen, because these fibers still needed to be boiled in a pot with some plant ash added to remove impurities and increase fiber strength.
Conveniently, there was a big iron pot in Uncle’s Kitchen that could be used to boil these fibers.
He added water, threw in the fibers, and boiled them for about 30 minutes. At the same time, he called his uncle and asked him to prepare things like a stone slab, wooden mallet, drawing stake, dyeing bucket, and line-twisting board.
Now the Chen family Work Hall was also quite large. It was not hard to find these things in the family, and even if they did not have them, making them would not be hard.
After instructing his uncle, Chen Han began stirring the bark in the pot with a stick, mainly to let the plant ash work more effectively.
When it was almost done, he scooped out the old elm bark and rinsed it with clean water in the courtyard.
At this time, his uncle also came with a few people from the Work Hall, bringing along the tools Chen Han had asked for.
Chen Lin asked curiously, “Xiao Han, what are you doing with this bark?”
Chen Han explained with a smile, “We’re going to consecrate the Matchmaker God Statue and need to give the Matchmaker God a dedicated red thread. Otherwise, how could the Matchmaker God be satisfied? But once the red thread is ready, I will have the Matchmaker God pull a good red thread for you, uncle.”
These words made the Work Hall people smile kindly.
Chen Lin was a little over forty now and still single. They were all family and hoped he could find a woman to marry.
“Xiao Han, stop making fun of me.” Chen Lin was somewhat helpless and did not want to talk about this topic.
Chen Han did not continue. After the Work Hall people put down the stone slab, he took the slab, placed the boiled elm bark fibers on it, and repeatedly pounded them with the wooden mallet.
This could separate the strip-like bark into finer fibers and also remove residual impurities.
Next was the final step, dyeing. He put the fibers into the prepared red dye bucket to soak and dye, then took them out to drain.
This would take another day; by tomorrow he could twist them into thread.
While Chen Han was handling those dyed fibers, he received a call. It was Ms. Liao.
He answered, and the woman’s voice came through: “Patriarch Chen, I have some doubts in my heart. May I ask you to resolve them?”
Resolving doubts was also a kind of Inheritance of the Daoist sect, hence sayings like “teachers resolve doubts” and “help the world and benefit others.”
However, he answered honestly, “Ms. Liao, my ability in cultivating the Dao is limited. I cannot be sure I can resolve your doubts.”
“Daoist priest, are you free now?” Liao Shuang’s voice came again. “I am already here at the Chen clan.”
“Mm.” Chen Han agreed and told her the location.
In a short while, Liao Shuang arrived outside the courtyard. First she smelled a rich medicinal fragrance, which she knew was the medicinal cuisine of the Chen clan.
So, upon entering the courtyard, after respectfully greeting Chen Han, she asked, “Patriarch Chen, I would like to order a medicinal cuisine for tomorrow. Do you have the materials?”
“I can reserve one stew of medicinal cuisine for you tomorrow, Ms. Liao,” Chen Han agreed. After the national style event, the price of the medicinal cuisine had also increased; it was now one hundred thousand per stew.
However, this price did not stop the rich from wanting to order it. For example, Mr. Liu, after eating the medicinal cuisine twice, understood its benefits.
Later, he planned to train clan members to become sports stars. For example, after the planted medicinal herbs and the Thunder Bamboo Forest rats’ bone wine were ready, he would train Chen Dalong, this Chen clan prodigy, to become a martial arts celebrity.
At that time, it would become increasingly difficult for outsiders to order medicinal cuisine.
“Thank you, Patriarch Chen.” Liao Shuang expressed her gratitude. Beside her, Chen Lin had already gone inside to bring out the tea set, placing it on the stone table and brewing a cup of Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea for her.
“Thank you, Hall Master Chen.” Liao Shuang thanked him again. Since the merit industry she donated was under his Work Hall, she had paid attention during the previous handover.
Later, when materials for the new factory construction and the new machines arrived, she would have to sign to receive them, transfer them to the Chen clan, and liaise with him, since all those orders had been placed by her and needed proper completion.
Although she could have signed and let her secretary deliver them, knowing how miraculous the Chen clan was, she naturally preferred to handle it personally. No one understood better than she did how extraordinary the Chen clan was, and she did not want any errors in this matter.
After taking a sip of tea, Liao Shuang went straight to the point and asked, “Patriarch Chen, do you think a man would really care for a woman who is severely disfigured, with one eye blind, in every possible detail?”
Hearing this question, Chen Han did not know how to answer for a moment. To be honest, would a normal man pursue a woman whose face was covered in burns and with one eye ruined?
He could be sure that in modern society there was no such man.
If a man truly stayed with such a woman, it would only be because they were already together before the burns. After the burns, due to conscience, or fear of being talked about behind his back, he might reluctantly stay. It definitely would not last long.
Of course, if the woman were a super rich second-generation heir, then that was another story.
When Liao Shuang saw his reaction, she seemed to guess the answer and asked again, “Doesn’t giving him two hundred thousand a month in pocket money buy his true feelings?”
When Chen Han heard this, he really wanted to say that the man’s heart must be very true, so true it could not be more true.
Two hundred thousand a month could do a lot of things.
With that money, a young guy could accompany an eighty-five-year-old granny.
He roughly understood Liao Shuang’s intention, and said with a smiling tone, “Ms. Liao, you can actually bring him here to the Chen clan. Then you will naturally be able to tell.”
“Thank you, Patriarch Chen.” Liao Shuang thanked him and took her leave. In fact, she knew the Chen clan had the ability to punish people.
Coming to the patriarch was mainly to help herself make a decision.
After she left, Chen Lin clicked his tongue. “Two hundred thousand a month. If it were me, I could do it too.”
Chen Han teased with a smile, “Actually, uncle, you can give it a try. After eating so much medicinal cuisine, your stamina must be very good.”
“You brat, making fun of me again, huh?” Chen Lin said speechlessly as he took the tea set back inside.
Chen Han chuckled and went back to handling the dyed bark fibers.
This step took quite some time. It was only by evening that he had completely dyed all the fibers red.
Now they only needed to be drained. Tomorrow he could twist them into thread.
Seeing that there was nothing else pressing, Chen Han remembered that there was another task in his mind: the Task to explore Qingluan Peak （Chapter 173）.
This task had been left undone all this time. If he had time, he could complete it.
So he went out and headed directly to the back mountain to explore.
Until evening, he roamed through most areas of the back mountain, but clearly it was not so quick to complete the task. The progress shown in the game screen in his mind was only at sixty-eight percent.
So this task was not something that could be completed quickly. He would have to investigate more thoroughly, leaving no corner unchecked.
But when he came down from the mountain, he saw that police cars had arrived in Shangyuan Village. Thanks to the eyesight from having taken so much Moon Gazing Sand, he could clearly see Captain Li Rui leading people to arrest two men and put them in the car.
The key point was that Ming Di was at the side, using his mobile phone to record.
This guy, had he caught some fellow practitioners of the demonic path again?
Such efficiency was really a bit uncanny.
However, knowing Ming Di’s personality, he would definitely upload the video soon. Then they would know what was going on, so there was no need to go ask deliberately.
Sure enough, that night, after Chen Han finished his shower and went to scroll through videos, he saw a notification that Ming Di had uploaded a new video.
He tapped in to watch:
“In order to gain Patriarch Chen’s trust, I betrayed a high-level figure of a demonic sect I had infiltrated. Now this sect considers me a traitor and Patriarch Chen’s running dog, and they actually sent experts to assassinate me. I truly had no choice but to let the protector expert by my side strike them down. Nothing is more important than rescuing the Dog Demon King brothers.”
At the end of the video were the two men’s miserable figures as they were taken into the police car.
Chen Han understood. These two were from Liangmei Group. Were they here to retaliate against Ming Di?
They were indeed fast.
What surprised him was that Ming Di’s protector expert was actually his cousin.
That man had wanted to challenge him last time.
But this time, the cousin’s performance in the video was truly surprising; he took down the two men almost effortlessly.
Ming Di’s cousin’s moves were clearly from the army. In the eyes of ordinary people, he was definitely an expert.
Looking at Ming Di’s video, the comment section was indeed lively:
“666, it had to be you. Since the demonic path wants to kill you, you might as well fully defect!”
“Damn, so there’s actually a follow-up to this!”
“This protector expert is badass, definitely a real expert.”
“……”
Chen Han smiled.
This wave of popularity would keep feeding Ming Di for a long time.
He put down his phone and sat cross-legged. He took out a Primary Spirit Stone and began cultivating with the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》.
The next day, when he went to the special spiritual aperture, he could clearly see that, after yesterday’s cultivation experience, his junior sister and uncle were even more eager.
As the time for the spiritual energy rinse approached, they could not wait to sit down cross-legged.
However, his gaze turned toward Xiao Mi.
Her eyes were clearly full of envy, like a little girl who had been left out and given no candy.
Xiao Mi seemed to notice Chen Han’s gaze. She looked up and indeed met his eyes, with a faintly indescribable emotion in them.
Chen Han gave a slight smile, sat cross-legged, and secretly sent a message to Xiao Mi on his mobile phone: “After it ends, wait for me in my room.”
Seeing Xiao Mi’s envious look, he felt that teaching her the 《Chen Clan Qi Cultivation Method》 was no big deal, mainly because this cultivation method could only be used here at the special spiritual aperture.
Outside, it could not be cultivated.
Besides, over this period of time, he could feel Xiao Mi’s wholehearted devotion to him.
And as for what this cultivation method truly was, that was up to what he said.
So if he taught Xiao Mi now, he could simply say it was not the 《Chen Clan Qi Cultivation Method》 at all, but the 《Hundred Flowers Palace Qi Cultivation Method》. How could anyone possibly know?
Xiao Yu and his uncle were all cultivation novices. It was impossible for them to be like those big shots in novels who could see at a glance what cultivation method someone practiced.
Just as Chen Han put down his phone, the spiritual energy rinse appeared, and he immediately circulated the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》 to cultivate.
Before long, Xiao Mi was again the first to stand up alone. Looking at the still cross-legged Xiao Yu and the others, she silently sighed and returned to the Chen clan.
Entering the Chen clan grounds, she took out her phone and clearly paused for a moment. Seeing Chen Han’s message, her heart began to beat faster.
…
When Chen Han finished cultivating and stood up, his junior sister and uncle were still waiting for him, their faces full of curiosity.
Xiao Yu asked in confusion, “Senior brother, after my uncle and I absorb the spiritual energy and refine it into true qi, the true qi disappears during circulation.”
Chen Han explained, “This is a normal situation. What you need to do now is successfully guide the true qi into the dantian.”
Chen Han felt that his junior sister and uncle were fortunate. At least while they cultivated, he could resolve their doubts. After he explained a few questions to them, he headed back to the Chen clan with them.
This time, after finishing with the medicinal cuisine in Uncle’s Kitchen, Chen Han hurried back to his room. As soon as he entered, a fragrance greeted him.
Xiao Mi had already leaped into his arms, face full of expectation, her eyes dewy and bright.
Chen Han asked, “Looks like you know why I asked you to come, right?”
“Mm.” Xiao Mi nodded.
Chen Han continued, “This is something only members of the Chen clan can learn. That means from now on, you are destined to belong only to the Chen clan, and you must not teach it to others.”
“Mm mm.” Xiao Mi kept nodding.
Chen Han said, “Then I will teach you now.”
“Mm mm mm.” Xiao Mi still nodded.
“Come over here.” Chen Han said with a mischievous smile, pulling her toward the bed and removing the defense of her hanfu.
“Huh?” Xiao Mi was instantly stunned. Wasn’t he going to teach her? This was teaching?
Chen Han said righteously, “What ‘huh’? Do you know the meridians? When I teach you, I have to tell you the positions of the meridians. How can we know the positions through hanfu?”
“Is it really like this?” Xiao Mi was half doubtful.
“Or what?” Chen Han replied.
A moment later, Xiao Mi’s voice turned resentful. “Didn’t you say you would teach me the acupoints?”
“You tell me, is this not an acupoint?” Chen Han laughed triumphantly.
…
As time passed, Chen Han appeared once again in Uncle’s Kitchen to add water to the medicinal cuisine. Teaching Xiao Mi the 《Chen Clan Qi Cultivation Method》 was truly tiring.
After adding the water, he took down the drained fibers he had left to dry in Uncle’s Courtyard yesterday. He straightened them out, then took out the line-twisting board, tied one end, divided them into small strands, and started twisting them into thread by hand.
Combining multiple strands like this increased the strength, and the required thickness was under his control. Before long, he had a ball of red thread in his hand.
【Rough red thread ball: this is a rough red thread ball made from the bark of the old elm tree that has become an ancient tree. This ancient tree contains spirituality. After refining these red threads, they may become a spiritual part of a statue of god.】
The basic description was almost the same as that of the Old Man Moon Statue Staff, so he did not hesitate. He went again to the Artifact Refining Furnace, lit the fire, and put the red thread ball in.
The Artifact Refining Furnace was truly miraculous. The flames roared, yet the thread ball did not show any signs of being scorched. After taking it out, its color was even deeper.
【Red thread ball full of tenacity: this is a red thread ball made from ancient elm tree bark, carrying the spirituality of the ancient tree. It can serve as the Matchmaker God immortal’s red thread ball part. After refinement, it has a special effect: tenacity +】
Tenacity +2 as an attribute; no wonder it was called a red thread ball full of tenacity.
Now that both the staff and the red thread ball were done, he extinguished the fire in the Artifact Refining Furnace and headed to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall. In the side hall, the purchased Matchmaker God Statue had already been placed.
He wanted to test the staff and red thread ball. If they did not match, he would have to adjust or remake them.
“Patriarch.” Aunt-grandmother saw him arrive and came up to greet him.
“Aunt-grandmother, take me to the Matchmaker God Statue,” Chen Han said.
Aunt-grandmother nodded and led him into the side hall to see the Matchmaker God Statue. However, since the statue had not been consecrated yet, if it was left exposed for too long, it would easily attract evil spirits and thus be disrespectful to the deity, so it was still wrapped up.
He did not intend to uncover the whole statue. He only opened the area of the statue’s hands and placed the staff and red thread ball in them. They fit perfectly, so there was no need to adjust or remake them.
What he had not expected was that as soon as he placed the red thread ball and the staff, a game prompt suddenly appeared:
【You have completed crafting the spiritual tool staff and red thread ball. You suddenly feel a burst of dizziness and reappear in a place shrouded in cloud and mist.
Once again the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation and the Matchmaker God appear, expressing great satisfaction with the spiritual staff and red thread ball you prepared. They state: when you hold the consecration ceremony for the statue of god, they will bestow a blessing. Lovers who come to piously worship during the consecration ceremony will be able to see the red threads between each other.】
“???” Chen Han was stunned. The Matchmaker God immortal had not even been consecrated yet, and this already worked?
This also showed that the Matchmaker God was truly pleased, so he even added an extra blessing for the consecration.
The key was, this counted as a divine manifestation event, right?
