Chapter 245: Tailor-made! Feng Shui For Cultivators?
（Regarding those who say it feels fake to portray the Daoist sect priests as so noble while still completing the task, I will just say two things. First, the Daoist sect is a respected native tradition of our own land, and everyone hopes it is portrayed positively. Second, from the protagonist’s perspective, there is no need to write these priests as disgusting villains who get slapped in the face. Third, it is inherently not appropriate to write them that way. If you can understand, thank you. If you cannot, I will not explain further, and I will not change this!）
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Chen Han quickly led Wu San, Wu Yan, and the others to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
With such a commotion outside, Aunt-Grandmother and the Hall Wardens of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall naturally took notice and came out. Seeing Chen Han, they greeted in unison, “Patriarch!”
Chen Han explained to Aunt-Grandmother, “Aunt-Grandmother, this Mister Wu has come to the Chen Clan to fulfill a vow. Please bring some people to conduct a ceremony. By the way, the Daoist priests will also participate. I will trouble you.”
“Yes, Patriarch.” Aunt-Grandmother nodded and told the Hall Wardens to go and explain the situation to the tourists inside the hall. She herself went up to instruct and explain things to Wu San and his group.
As for those Daoist priests, they were very familiar with this kind of matter. When the time came, it would be enough to arrange appropriate positions for them.
Wu San was naturally very cooperative.
The repayment ceremony was soon carried out inside the hall.
Aunt-Grandmother arranged ceremonial positions for Daoist Priest Chen and the others. In fact, they were just following the procession steps. It was not some grand ritual, more like helping make up the numbers and build atmosphere.
Outside the hall, more and more tourists gathered to watch. They all held up their mobile phones to record, and especially after learning the ceremony was due to the Chen Clan’s good deed, quite a number of tourists posted the matter online.
This was a story worth sharing.
Finally, when Wu San handed the letter of thanks to one of the Chen Clan’s Hall Wardens, it signified that the Chen Clan had helped Wu San complete the repayment ceremony, and also that the Chen Clan accepted his thanks.
In this way, Wu San’s wish was fulfilled.
As Wu San led Wu Yan and his girlfriend in worship, Chen Han also said to Wu Yan and the other person, “You two should do more good deeds in the future, and remember that there are deities three feet above your head!”
As he spoke, he activated the Refine Yin Transform Yang bracelet and removed the skill effects from the two of them, so they could soon return to normal.
After the ceremony ended, it was time to deal with the Five Animals.
In ancient times, the one offering the animals would leave some things at the Daoist Temple and take some back. For them, the Five Animals after the ceremony were imbued with good fortune and were very special.
Naturally, when they encountered generous people, they would give most of it to other believers or villagers and passersby in the vicinity, sharing this good fortune together and treating it as accumulating blessings for themselves.
However, in modern society, such things are rarely seen. After all, there are not many people who make such grand repayment offerings anymore. Only middle-aged and elderly people in small places understand this; people in cities basically do not.
They do not even have any particular customs anymore on how to handle the offerings of the Five Animals.
So everything was done casually.
This suited the circumstances of modern society.
However, one of the Chen Clan’s Hall Wardens still asked the person at the center of this, Wu San.
Wu San said quickly, “There are not many people at home. Even if I take these things back, I do not know how to deal with them. I will share a bit with the villagers who came along to support me, and the rest can be given to the tourists to taste, so everyone can share a bit of the Heavenly Lord’s good fortune!”
The Chen Clan’s Hall Warden nodded. “Then according to the devotee’s wishes, we will share them with the tourists who have come. Since everyone came here by a stroke of fate, let everyone obtain a share of good fortune!”
Wu San naturally had no objection.
After that, the Chen Clan’s Hall Wardens made arrangements, having people from the Chen Clan bring over several tables, along with cutting boards, kitchen knives, and many disposable chopsticks and other items.
The two pigs and the rest of the Five Animals were also carried onto those tables.
For a time, this news spread among the Chen Clan’s tourists.
The watching tourists exclaimed in surprise.
“There is even an unexpected surprise.”
“My father used to bring back some offerings from the Daoist Temple sometimes and said eating them would bring good fortune. Now I more or less understand what that is about.”
“I have to say, just witnessing this is a blessing in itself, and eating something on top of that is definitely good fortune.”
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“Everyone line up and do not push,” people from the Chen Clan began organizing the tourists. It would not do to let everything be in chaos.
As the Chen Clan was distributing the Five Animals and sharing the good fortune with tourists, things became lively online as well because of this matter.
After all, the spectacular cloud mist and the Daoist priests’ Dao discussion and Immortal Feast were just at their peak in popularity.
So as soon as the Wu family’s repayment was posted online, it drew attention. Especially as more and more tourists posted videos, the story of the Wu family’s repayment became more complete.
A delinquent high schooler who went astray in society and had been in prison twice was guided back to the right path by the Chen Family Head, and the grateful father came to repay his kindness. This story became vivid.
This kind of story is loved by everyone, so it quickly became a trending topic.
Qingmin City First Hospital.
After finishing his work, Zheng Ruikai went to the hospital to visit his father. After the blessing at the Chen Clan last time, his father’s arteriosclerosis symptom was cured. When they came back to the hospital to confirm the result, they directly scheduled surgery.
His postoperative recovery was very good.
But now Zheng Ruikai was a bit annoyed at himself. Why had he not thought to ask the Chen Clan for blessings earlier to treat the arteriosclerosis? Why not ask for more blessings to cure his father’s other symptoms as well?
Still, this was just his passing thought.
The Chen Clan is not a wishing tree, and the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation is not a wishing tree either. Being able to bless him so that even medical science could not handle his arteriosclerosis, yet it was cured, was already tremendous luck.
If he asked for more, it would seem greedy and annoying, or even risk offending the deity.
None of that would be good. In any case, his father was recovering very well now.
When he arrived, he found Old Master Zheng seriously scrolling on his phone, so he asked curiously, “Dad, what are you watching?”
“I am watching news videos about the Chen Clan.” Old Master Zheng looked amazed as he held up his phone to his son. “Look, in this season, in broad daylight, the Chen Clan somehow has this special cloud mist. This is absolutely not normal.”
Zheng Ruikai watched the video and was also surprised. He knew that Qionghua Tree Forest, he had seen it before.
Now the cloud mist over that Qionghua Tree Forest was absolutely abnormal. In their southern region, there is no way such cloud mist should appear at this season and time.
The key was that one end of the cloud mist was connected to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
But when Zheng Ruikai set the phone aside and searched further, he came across another video, posted by a Daoist priest, about the Immortal Feast. Those Daoist priests were in the midst of the cloud mist, and the hazy scene was astonishing.
He could not help saying to Old Master Zheng, “Dad, look, people online say that this cloud mist was created by those Daoist priests and the Chen Family Head discussing the Dao. This should be real, since you have already seen the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.”
Old Master Zheng really wanted to roll his eyes.
When had he ever seen the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation?
At the time, he had only felt it.
But he was too lazy to argue with his son.
Moreover, having experienced the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s blessing, he fully believed that the Chen Family Head and those Daoist priests could have created those clouds and mist through their Dao discussion.
Although this was very much metaphysics, his arteriosclerosis had left modern science helpless, yet two blessings in metaphysics had cured it.
At that moment, the father and son came across another video about the Chen Clan. It was of a group beating gongs and drums and carrying the Five Animals to the Chen Clan.
The video was clearly shot by a tourist, and the person also explained the story behind it: “You probably have never seen such a lively repayment scene, right? The main reason is that an old father came to thank the Chen Family Head.”
“This old father’s son turned rebellious in high school and started mixing with shady people in society, basically becoming a person everyone despised. He did a lot of wrong things and even went in twice, and still did not straighten out after coming out.”
“In such a situation, the old father was completely helpless, until one day this bastard son met the Chen Family Head and got a stern lesson from him. As for how he was taught, everyone can use your imagination!”
“From then on, this bastard son mended his ways. This really matches the Daoist sect’s principle of guiding people towards goodness, so the old father came specifically to fulfill his vow.”
“You could say this is absolutely the most romantic expression of our national inheritance and culture.”
“Guiding people towards goodness!” Old Master Zheng murmured to himself, deeply moved. “The Chen Clan is truly remarkable. Ruikai, after I am discharged in a few days, arrange it as soon as possible. I want to go and recuperate at the Chen Clan.”
“Dad, do not worry, I will arrange it,” Zheng Ruikai replied immediately. He knew better than anyone how formidable the Chen Clan was, and he had long wanted to imitate Liu Ye, that Mister Liu, by often doing office work at the Chen Clan to get closer to them.
Things had been delayed only because his father had not yet been discharged.
But the arrangements on his elder brother’s side should soon be implemented as well. It should not be difficult to build a connection with the Chen Clan.
Every year, the state provides tourism subsidies. For any given place, they hope tourists from all regions will visit their city to boost the tourism economy.
For the country, tourism is an important way to drive economic development, and at the same time they hope foreign tourists will come, which increases economic returns while also exporting culture and raising international reputation and status.
So every year there is a large tourism fund for support, and Qingmin City’s amount is quite considerable. As for how to allocate it, that depends on the “situation.”
His brother had already mentioned that Linhe County’s tourism development was doing well and should receive key support, and naturally there were people who knew what to do.
Once this support reached Linhe County, there would naturally be no fools over there.
In a society of human relationships, no one fails to understand human relationships.
The video of the Wu family’s repayment was gaining popularity online, and more and more people saw it, especially fans who followed the Chen Clan.
Huang Tao and his companions naturally noticed it again. Seeing Wu San kneel directly before the Chen Family Head, they were very moved.
“The Chen Family Head is truly an expert!”
“Yes. I have seen many similar situations on television, but this is the first time seeing it in reality.”
“Look, that demonic cult rogue Ming Di posted a new video.”
Huang Tao and the other companions, hearing this, instinctively looked over. In the video, Ming Di’s voice sounded: “Whether it is the demon sealing matter, or those experts discussing the Dao… perhaps these were all meant to draw attention from the outside world… the real goal may be hidden… I think there is something in the back mountain that the Chen Family Head needs, and those things are what he truly wants…”
If some ordinary commentator blogger said this, not many people would believe it, since it would just be an abstract video.
But the key is that this was Ming Di.
Many people knew Ming Di. He had first gone viral as a joke for getting his balls bitten by a lion head goose. At the beginning, he was just a joke.
But as his demonic cult rogue persona became more and more deeply rooted in people’s minds in the Chen Family Head’s abstract video plot, many people realized that Ming Di was not simple.
Leaving aside how he repeatedly guessed the Chen Family Head’s intentions correctly, the fact that he repeatedly helped get those demonic fellow practitioners caught was astonishing.
Those criminals were real, some had already been sentenced.
This track record could be verified.
Now Ming Di posted a video saying the Chen Family Head had another purpose, so there was a high chance it was true.
At once, many people began discussing this in Ming Di’s comment section, wanting to know whether he would be proven right again this time.
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As the Chen Clan distributed what Wu San had prepared, all the Five Animals were given out to the tourists. Wu San and the people he brought also took some back.
When they left the Chen Clan, everyone wore smiles. After the Chen Clan’s ceremony, these things were definitely no longer the same.
By now, everyone in Linhe County knew the Chen Clan was extraordinary.
Wu Yan and his girlfriend also let out a sigh of relief. Fortunately there had been no accident. His girlfriend had been wearing a mask the whole time and had long been stifled; once in the car she finally took it off.
Wu Yan stared, stunned, because she had completely recovered. She realized it too and instinctively touched her face, unable to suppress her smile.
Suddenly, she thought of something, reached out toward Wu Yan, and then was overjoyed, tears welling up in her eyes.
Wu Yan’s face was full of delight as well. The two of them even hugged each other in tears of joy.
They were finally healed.
Only they knew how tormenting this period had been.
But the psychological fear was even deeper. That kind of punishment came without warning and also disappeared without warning. Would you dare not to believe that there are deities three feet above your head?
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After completing Wu San’s repayment ceremony, Chen Han also invited those Daoist priests back to the side hall to continue their Dao discussion and exchange.
Originally, he had intended to use this opportunity for more Dao discussion to find a chance to awe these people, but now that the task was completed, it was no longer necessary.
So he had already told these Daoist priests the origin of the Ancient Quiet Heart Art, and now he really did not know what to discuss in terms of the Dao.
On the way to the side hall, he checked the remark information for two items in the game warehouse:
【Spring Point Stone: this is a stone with special spirituality, a good item obtained by an expert of the Shu Shan Immortal Sect from the polar earth veins. As long as one uses the feng shui spring-seeking knowledge recorded in the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone, and uses geography and terrain to find a spring located at a suitable geographical position, one can use the Spring Point Stone to activate the spring and obtain a spirit spring, which has the attributes: sweetness +1, stamina recovery +1, refreshment +】
The remark information of the Spring Point Stone surprised Chen Han.
Everyone knows that mountain spring water is sweet and helps restore stamina. When you drink a mouthful of mountain spring water while climbing a mountain, it is indeed incomparably refreshing.
Now, this meant that as long as he found mountain spring water in a suitable geographical terrain, he could use the Spring Point Stone to transform it into a spirit spring?
This was another slightly fantastical thing. Although sweetness and stamina recovery were only +1, one could clearly feel it when drinking, especially with the refreshment +2 attribute.
What would happen if people halfway up the mountain drank this spirit spring? They would be delighted out of their minds.
So was this not tailor-made for future development of the back mountain? After all, when developing mountain forest tourism projects, tourists will inevitably need to climb.
In the future, just to taste this spirit spring, tourists would probably all go up the mountain to check in.
However, to use this item, he would need to rely on the feng shui knowledge recorded in the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone.
So this was the reason the task gave these two things continuously as rewards; they were meant to work as a set.
Of course, what surprised him even more was that in the Shu Shan Swordsman World, a group of cultivators actually also cared about feng shui.
But thinking about how cultivators sometimes needed to rely on geography and terrain to set up formations, it was not strange at all.
However, after he finished reading the remark information of the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone, his brows furrowed:
【Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone: this is a special Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone containing profound feng shui knowledge. It can even help cultivators arrange formations through geographical formations… data error has occurred…
The currently recorded feng shui knowledge has errors; geography and terrain cannot be matched. Please collect and supplement corresponding geography and terrain information and feng shui knowledge to correct the data…】
“???” Chen Han clearly felt a familiar sensation. Previously, the game system was supposed to take him into another world, but the transfer failed, and the game system’s data had become somewhat strange.
What did this mean now? The prize had arrived, but what was recorded inside did not match this real world, or could not correspond?
Previously, there had been no such problem with cultivation methods. They could be cultivated directly.
But thinking about it, he could understand. Cultivation methods only needed spiritual energy to work, and drugs only needed formulas to refine.
But geography, terrain, and feng shui were things where every world’s geography and climate had its own characteristics or differences at least.
It was possible that even the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers did not exist in the Shu Shan Swordsman World, and that it was a world much larger than reality.
Otherwise, if geography, terrain, and climate characteristics were different, the feng shui knowledge you used would inevitably differ. Now the meaning was that he needed to supplement this feng shui knowledge?
But he did not understand feng shui at all.
So how was he supposed to supplement it?
Chen Han immediately felt troubled. He thought of a method but did not know whether it would work. He greeted Daoist Priest Chen and the others briefly and went to his own courtyard.
No matter whether it would work or not, he had to try. What if it did?
Watching him leave, Daoist Priest Chen frowned slightly, wanting to speak but stopping. On the Wudang side, the Sect Leader had led people to study the collected feng shui texts to see if they could repair the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit.
But they could not figure out whether the feng shui classics were incomplete or truly lost. The Sect Leader and the others could not make sense of them at all, let alone repair the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit.
So the Sect Leader had asked him to sound things out and see whether the Chen Clan had inherited feng shui ability, whether they could pass on some of it, or whether it might be possible to ask them to help repair the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit.
That was truly a sore point for their Wudang.
