Chapter 238: Shock Them! Make Them Truly Respect Him!
As Daoist Sect Daoist Priests arrived one after another in Linhe County, more and more people rushed over to join the fun.
That night, the hotels and guesthouses in Linhe County became fully booked, which undoubtedly showed that many people had been attracted by the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》 exchange meeting.
Because those Daoist Priests were all in the ancient city area, many people also went to the buildings outside where the Daoist Priests were being hosted in the ancient city area, hoping to film videos of those Daoist Priests.
Many people, having captured the figures of those Daoist Priests and uploaded them to Douyin, gained a lot of traffic.
This kind of trending traffic made even more people flock to it.
The next day, as soon as Chu Ping got up, he immediately took out his mobile phone to check the situation on Douyin.
When he saw that the Linhe County ancient city area had also appeared as a trending topic, he really felt like kowtowing to the Chen Family Head.
In the trending topics for the Linhe County ancient city area, aside from the places where those Daoist Priests were staying taking up more than half, places such as “entertainment and singing” and so on also received a lot of attention.
Originally, people already had some wild thoughts about such entertainment houses, but upon entering they turned out to be KTV.
This popularity also allowed more people to see the Linhe County ancient city area, and the key point was that the positive reviews were extremely high, so overall the promotional effect was very good.
And all of this, he naturally knew, was due to the merit of the Chen Family Head.
If the Chen Family Head had not accepted the New City News interview and spread the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》, it would not have triggered this grand Dao discussion event, nor would there be the trending topics about the Linhe County ancient city area.
Having gained benefits, they naturally also had to help the Chen Clan properly arrange the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》 exchange meeting.
He immediately called Chen Kai, and as soon as it connected, he asked, “Chen Kai, have the arrangements for those Daoist Priests to go to the Chen Clan been made?”
Chen Kai’s voice quickly came through. “County Magistrate Chu, rest assured, I am already here and will personally escort those Daoist Priests over.”
“Good.” Chu Ping nodded, still satisfied with how Chen Kai handled matters.
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Early in the morning, Chen Daoist Priest woke up. Smelling the faint elegant incense floating in the room, he was quite satisfied; it also showed that the Linhe County side was indeed very attentive.
After coming out of the room, he saw that Daoist Priest Xuan Shi and the others were already in the hall, and there was also someone who was obviously a Linhe County leader guiding and organizing everyone to have breakfast, clearly well prepared.
When they saw Chen Daoist Priest come out, those Daoist Priests all looked toward him in unison. This Wudang ox-nosed priest was not very kind; having clearly mastered the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》, he was still stringing them along.
Chen Daoist Priest naturally understood their psychology. He walked over and said with a smile, “Everyone, we are about to go to the Chen Clan. When the time comes, we can exchange on the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》.”
Hearing this, each Daoist Priest really wanted to retort with a “boundless Heavenly Lord,” feeling that he was bringing up exactly what weighed on their minds.
After breakfast, under the arrangements of the people from Linhe County, Chen Daoist Priest boarded a dedicated bus.
Chen Kai was personally acting as guide on the bus, showing absolute sincerity.
The bus set off, heading straight for the Chen Clan. As they were about to reach the Chen Clan, he began introducing to these Daoist Priests, “Fellow Daoist Priests, in a moment we will enter the Chen Clan’s grounds. Because when the road was being built earlier, a special stone tablet was dug up from underground, and after the Chen Clan erected this stone tablet, it changed the environment around the Chen Clan. So the air within the Chen Clan’s range has become exceptionally good and will be out of tune with the outside. I hope this can give you all a surprise.”
Under normal circumstances, they naturally would not bring this up, and even if others asked him why the air at the Chen Clan was like this, he would say it had always been so, nothing to make a fuss about.
Anything unscientific would never come out of his mouth.
But facing these Daoist Priests was different.
They themselves were people of the Mystic Sect, so he naturally needed to use Mystic Sect terminology to communicate with them and let them further understand how formidable the Chen Clan was.
The Daoist Priests in the bus were all very surprised when they heard this, even exchanging glances.
In their daily work, they would film and share some mysterious content with their fans and devotees.
But something like digging up a stone tablet from the ground and then erecting it to change the surrounding environment was not something they dared to promote to their fans.
If some serious-minded fans really came to investigate, they feared they would have no way to prove it.
Who knew that this culture and tourism leader of Linhe County would directly promote such mysterious content to them, suddenly giving them a feeling of reversing the Heavenly Dipper.
“Chen Daoist Priest, do you think this is reliable?” Daoist Priest Xuan Shi leaned close to Chen Daoist Priest’s ear and asked in a low voice.
Chen Daoist Priest was just about to speak when he suddenly froze, as a vague sense of freshness suddenly enveloped his whole body.
Daoist Priest Xuan Shi beside him also froze, clearly feeling it too.
This…
The Daoist Priests in the bus immediately became unsettled. They talked about cultivating the Dao and quieting the heart, but upon discovering that the matter of the Chen Clan changing the environment with a stone tablet dug out from the ground was actually true, they could not calm their hearts at all.
The impact was too great.
“It is actually true.”
“Yes, the air quality really improved all of a sudden.”
“Incredible. Can the Chen Clan really accomplish such a thing?”
“…”
Hearing the exclamations of these Daoist Priests, Chen Daoist Priest also thought of the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》. That thing had also been proven to have real effect.
The Chen Clan seemed to have a deeper foundation than their own places.
He became even more expectant about this visit to the Chen Clan.
Sensing the ever-improving air, he took out his mobile phone, planning to check the situation on Douyin.
Now that the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》 was so popular on Douyin, and they were about to arrive at the Chen Clan, the related discussion should be even more intense.
But after swiping only two videos, he was surprised to find that the system had pushed him a newly updated video from the Chen Family Head.
Since that person had updated a video, he naturally clicked it right away. It should be related to the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》, right?
But once he opened the video, he found that it had absolutely nothing to do with the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》.
“Because the Matchmaker God has taught the method for refining the Marriage Stone, I explored Green Luan Peak for many days and finally obtained a piece of Geng Metal Meteorite that can be used to refine a Marriage Stone.”
“Now the Chen Clan Hall Elder has arrived before the Artifact Refining Furnace and is about to ignite the Samadhi True Fire and refine this Geng Metal Meteorite for three years…”
As this voice sounded, it drew the attention of the Daoist Priests in the bus.
They could all naturally recognize that this was the voice of the Chen Family Head.
Many of them subconsciously took out their phones to check and also saw the new video of the Chen Family Head. It was just that, at this moment, instead of releasing a video about the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》, the Family Head had released a video about the Matchmaker God.
The key point was that the video was abstract.
What was clearly an ordinary stone, how could it be a Geng Metal Meteorite?
Geng Metal Meteorite was something from Daoist Sect legends; it did not exist in the real world.
Not only were these Daoist Priests surprised, the netizens following this matter online were surprised too. Everyone was paying attention to the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》, yet the Chen Family Head updated not with that, but directly with a special Matchmaker God Marriage Stone?
Was this not going in completely the opposite direction?
“…As long as you are a truly loving couple and there is currently no fault between you, if you wear red and come to the Matchmaker God Hall to pray for blessings, you can trigger the Matchmaker God’s blessing and gain unexpected rewards.”
But with the Chen Family Head’s video saying this, do you believe it?
Although the talk at the start about Geng Metal Meteorite and so on was too fake and too abstract, the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》 truly had miraculous effects.
Many people also said that the videos of the Chen Family Head contained some real things.
So what if this matter of the Matchmaker God giving blessings was true?
Which couple would not hope to receive the Matchmaker God’s blessing?
So for now, they could only wait and see whether some good people would go and try it out to see if this blessing was real.
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The Chen Clan’s side had already received the message from Chen Kai that those Daoist Priests were almost there.
Xiao Yu hurriedly ran into Uncle’s Kitchen and saw her senior brother, who had already finished preparing the medicinal cuisine. “Senior brother, Director Chen from culture and tourism just called. Those Daoist Priests are almost here. Are you going to welcome them?”
“You and uncle and the others go. I will wait for them at the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.” Chen Han gave a casual instruction and walked unhurriedly toward the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
This time, the people sent from various Daoist Sect locations were not their respective persons in charge. For example, that Chen Daoist Priest, though senior in generation, did not hold much authority, so there was no need for him to personally receive them.
Besides, this time those from the Daoist Sect places were coming to seek guidance. He did not need to be too proactive; it was they who needed to ask him.
What he did not expect was that, on the way to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, a game prompt suddenly appeared:
【Because the Chen Clan’s reputation increases by the day and they have shared a cultivation scripture obtained by accident, all sects have sent experts from within their gates to the Chen Clan for Dao discussion. This is destined to be a grand event of the righteous path!
To further raise the Chen Clan’s reputation, you need to make these sect experts feel shock and deep emotional impact, so that they truly admire you!
Furthermore, the Shushan Immortal Alliance, upon learning of this Dao discussion, has sent a gift box as the final reward for the event!】
Chen Han was surprised. The game system had suddenly given him another task, and completing it would also earn a gift from the Shu Shan Alliance?
This gift should be the task reward.
So how was he to make these experts feel shock and deep emotional impact and sincerely admire them?
If this were really the game world, it would seem a bit difficult. He was just a minor cultivator whose spiritual meridian had not yet been opened. But in the real world, it seemed he had quite a few means.
Thinking this, he went directly to the side hall where the Dao discussion would be held.
This place had already been arranged by his uncle, with several small, simple and unadorned low tables set up. Behind each table was a cushion for the Daoist Priests to sit cross-legged.
In front of him was a low tea table common in the Daoist Sect, with a tea set and premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea on it.
Naturally, the surroundings had also been arranged with Daoist Sect-related facilities and equipment, along with many Daoist-related patterns, all of which his uncle had dug out from the family.
Some indeed had quite some age.
Viewed this way, the Chen Clan truly had some foundation.
…
There were clearly more tourists at the Chen Clan today, and it was even livelier. Many had come specifically for the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》 exchange meeting.
Even though many people could not get tickets and could not enter the Chen Clan grounds, seeing so many Daoist Priests from the Daoist Sect coming, they were still willing to come join the fun.
Even just joining the fun, this was still a Dao discussion conference, a grand event for all to share.
When the bus stopped and Chen Daoist Priest and the others got off, they were immediately drawn, just like the ordinary tourists, by the colors of the Chen Clan’s ancient buildings.
Chen Daoist Priest had to admit that, compared to many of their Wudang buildings, the Chen Clan’s ancient buildings appeared older and more simple and unadorned.
Yet the architectural style clearly was not that ancient, which was very mysterious.
Then he saw people from the Chen Clan, led by that “Xiao Yu girl” and the Chen Clan Hall Elder.
Chen Kai immediately led people forward to hand over. “We leave these Daoist Priests in the care of the Chen Clan.”
“Alright.” Xiao Yu nodded, and then said to Chen Daoist Priest and the others, “Fellow Daoist Priests, please follow me. A place for the exchange has already been prepared for you.”
Chen Daoist Priest and the others nodded and followed them into the Chen Clan. Very soon, they all caught a waft of elegant flower fragrance.
The source of the fragrance was a flower bed not far away.
With one glance, Chen Daoist Priest recognized them as flowers of the Five Offerings of the Daoist Sect. Their Wudang also cultivated many such offering flowers, but the offering flowers at Wudang were clearly not as bright and charming as those of the Chen Clan and did not have such an attractive fragrance.
From this, it could be seen that the Chen Clan surpassed their Wudang in the cultivation of these offering flowers.
The other Daoist Priests felt the same emotion. In terms of offering flowers, their places were indeed inferior to the Chen Clan.
“Fellow Daoist Priests, this way.” Xiao Yu continued to lead the way in front.
Chen Daoist Priest and the others followed. After they had gone a short distance, they suddenly saw a tourist with bruised face rushing out in a panic, only to stumble and fall again after just a few steps.
This immediately reminded him and the other Daoist Priests of the related videos online. This person must have done something bad and was now having a streak of bad luck.
Thinking of this, Chen Daoist Priest’s expression grew much more serious and reverent, because this was the protection of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation, who could not tolerate filthy deeds, hence such consequences.
And the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation was their Wudang Emperor Zhenwu.
Soon, they arrived at the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall. Just as Xiao Yu was about to lead them to the Dao discussion side hall, they suddenly saw a pair of man and woman dressed in red hurriedly coming out from another side.
The key point was that both the man and the woman were wearing women’s clothing, which was somewhat eye-searing.
The man complained, “Baby, the Chen Family Head casually shot a video and you took it seriously.”
The woman said with a beaming smile, “We’re already here, so let’s try it.”
“But I’m wearing your clothes, what is this supposed to be?” the man said.
“The Chen Family Head never said you can’t wear women’s clothing,” the woman said.
This astonishing train of thought surprised Chen Daoist Priest and the others, and also reminded them of the new video from the Chen Family Head. There were actually people who believed it.
However, they were also curious about how it would turn out.
So a Daoist Priest asked Xiao Yu and Chen Lin, “Fellow Daoists, may we also go and have a look at this Marriage Hall?”
Seeing the Daoist Priests all filled with curiosity, Xiao Yu nodded and led them to the Marriage Hall to take a look.
Lin Hai and Wu Mei entered the Marriage Hall hand in hand. The red women’s clothing on Lin Hai was truly eye-searing and drew the attention of many couples inside.
Seeing the two of them both in red, those couples understood what was going on; they had all seen the Chen Family Head’s video.
They just had not expected someone to take action so quickly. They themselves were still observing.
Wu Mei and Lin Hai, however, ignored the gazes around them. She pulled him to take incense and candles, then came before the Matchmaker God and piously worshiped, asking the Matchmaker God for blessings.
After the worship, Wu Mei, just as described in the Chen Family Head’s video, held his hand and walked to the Marriage Stone.
“Nervous?” Wu Mei could not help asking, her hand already on the Marriage Stone, as she looked at her boyfriend.
Lin Hai did not hesitate. He also put his hand on the Marriage Stone. At the very moment when both their palms touched the Marriage Stone, an expression of disbelief appeared in their eyes.
They saw a red thread slowly appear, extending to their wrists and tying them together.
“It’s real, it’s actually real!” Wu Mei could not help exclaiming excitedly. A red thread had really appeared.
Lin Hai was also full of surprise. “What the Chen Family Head said is actually true.”
At the same time, as they looked at each other, an indescribable sweetness appeared on their faces. The appearance of the red thread was just as the Chen Family Head had said, proving they were a truly loving couple.
What could make a couple feel sweeter than knowing this?
It could be said that, in that instant, their feelings for each other deepened in an incredible way.
The other would be the most important person in their life.
Their words left the surrounding couples stunned, and the Chen Daoist Priest and the others outside the hall subconsciously exchanged glances.
“Is the Chen Family Head’s video real?”
“The true feelings of these two do not look like an act.”
“…”
Amidst the hushed murmurs, everyone saw Wu Mei and Lin Hai fall into silence again, as if immersed in something.
