Chapter 247: Insect Control Technique! Hundreds Of Thousands Have To Kneel!
A new day arrived, and the fact that Daoist Priest Chen and the others were staying with the Chen Clan was naturally discovered and posted online.
So after a night had passed, many people were already discussing the purpose of these daoist priests lingering at the Chen Clan.
Most people believed these daoist priests or the Chen Family Head definitely had some kind of goal.
Early in the morning, the related level of discussion was already very high.
Even the video with Ming Di was being talked about again. Perhaps the Chen Clan really wanted to obtain something from the back mountain of the Chen Clan and had to rely on these daoist priests to help.
However, the online discussions would not interfere with the normal operations of the Chen Clan.
Early in the morning, after going to the special spiritual aperture to cultivate, Chen Han went to Uncle’s Kitchen to routinely prepare medicinal cuisine.
Once the medicinal cuisine was set to stew, he received a telephone call from his junior sister. Then he put down his mobile phone and headed to the spirit field.
When he arrived at the spirit field, his uncle was already leading the Work Hall members in collecting rapeseed seeds.
These rapeseed seeds came from a failed cultivation attempt by the Hundred Flowers Palace. Although they did not possess the attributes of spiritual flowers and herbs, they still had special attributes of growth speed +1, yield +1, oil content +1, and two harvests per year.
With their inherent growth speed +1 attribute, plus the spirit plant dew’s growth speed +2 attribute, it had allowed the Chen Clan to plant and obtain new seeds in a very short time.
Most important of all was still the speed +1 attribute. In the same season, these seeds could definitely be planted and harvested twice.
With two harvests per year, planting four times a year would absolutely not be a problem.
So now, even though the rapeseed planting season had already passed, there was still time to plant another round.
This was something others did not know. That was why County Magistrate Chu and the culture and tourism side had been worried and not optimistic about this project.
On his side, he had only been able to use the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s dream as a pretext to express the Chen Clan’s determination.
Naturally, besides this, the most important were still the yield +1 and oil content +1 attributes.
Currently, imported rapeseed made up about 65% of domestic total demand, and about 91% of that had to be imported from Maple Country, resulting in a chokehold in this area.
If Linhe County could seize the opportunity and plant this rapeseed across the whole county, it could definitely bring wealth to all the residents of the county.
At that time, with the rapeseed flower spectacle, Linhe County would attract a terrifyingly large number of tourists every year.
Right now, none of this was known to others.
Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi were also at the spirit field, watching the Work Hall members collecting the rapeseed seeds.
His junior sister and Xiao Mi’s figures were truly getting better and better; even just squatting there, their outlined curves were very alluring.
This was entirely due to the Joyful Union Sect Sister Body Sculpting Ring Set. When worn long-term by a woman, not only did it have an excellent body-shaping effect, making the wearer’s figure more perfect, it also helped slow the aging of the wearer’s skin.
Honestly, this was something not only women liked; men liked it as well.
At least he had experienced it deeply. Compared to when he had first met Xiao Mi, her current softness and glow were on a different level.
Just her soft legs wrapping around him in various ways, that sultry, fiery figure, no matter what pose it took, was a huge impact.
When Chen Han walked up to them, he heard Xiao Mi holding some rapeseed seeds say, “These rapeseed seeds seem plumper than ordinary ones. Their shape is rounder, and the black shell pigment content is clearly higher. This should make them easier to germinate.”
Xiao Yu looked at her in surprise. “Sister Xiao Mi, you know this too?”
Xiao Mi explained, “Previously when I came here and saw the sea of rapeseed flowers, I looked up some related information and remembered it.”
Besides, there was one thing she did not mention: after cultivating the cultivation method Chen Han taught her, although she had not yet managed to guide true qi into her dantian, she clearly felt she had more energy when reading and that remembering things had become easier.
Hearing this, Xiao Yu looked at Xiao Mi with a bit of admiration.
In her eyes, Sister Xiao Mi was exactly what she imagined she wanted to be. Why was Sister Xiao Mi so impressive and knew everything?
If she herself tried to read, she just wanted to sleep.
At this moment, when she saw her senior brother arrive, she immediately held some rapeseed seeds out to him. “Senior brother, Sister Xiao Mi said these rapeseed seeds germinate more easily.”
“Mm, I heard.” Chen Han nodded with a smile.
Taking the seeds from his junior sister’s hand, he casually stored a few into the game warehouse and saw the remark information:
【Special rapeseed seeds: These are special seeds cultivated from a variety developed by the Hundred Flowers Palace Fairy. Although they still retain the attributes of growth speed +1, yield +1, oil content +1, and two harvests per year, because they are the second generation of cultivation, they have become highly dependent on the local environment.
Restriction: When the seeds are planted outside the city where the Chen Clan is located, due to the influence of climate, soil, environment, and humidity, the farther the distance, the weaker the attribute effects.】
Seeing the restriction in this remark information, Chen Han’s eyes lit up.
The city where the Chen Clan was located was Linhe County. In other words, these seeds would only have full attribute effects when planted in Linhe County?
And outside Linhe County, the farther away, the weaker the effects?
Simply put, in the neighboring county, the planting attribute effects might only be 90%, or even lower.
If taken abroad, they would become ordinary rapeseed, and might even have negative attributes, such as growth speed -1, yield -1, rapeseed –
If far enough away, -2 or -3 was also possible.
Previously, he had been worried that once this thing came out, foreign people might get hold of it, study it, and end up benefiting from it.
Now, with this restriction, just let them try.
If they toiled away at great cost only to end up with rapeseed seeds that had negative attributes, who knew if they would break down.
Moreover, promoting this rapeseed flower sea would not only attract tourists but also improve the situation of being choked by rapeseed imports, and could even keep the annual rapeseed-related economic outflow inside the country.
He had to know that last year, the total taxed amount of imported rapeseed reached 40 billion.
And how much was Linhe County’s GDP last year?
8 billion.
So as long as Linhe County seized this opportunity, even if this industry ultimately had to share profits with surrounding counties, Linhe County’s having full attribute effects when planting this rapeseed would definitely be the greatest advantage. Doubling its GDP would be no problem.
It could absolutely become an industry that would make the entire county soar, just like that county that soared from planting watermelons.
Most importantly, when the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s dream, standing in an endless sea of rapeseed flowers, spread as the reason for the Chen Clan planting this rapeseed, what kind of mythological color would that create?
Especially when people learned that it could not be successfully planted too far away, and might even have reverse effects in foreign countries.
The mythological color would be even stronger.
At that time, people in the areas planting rapeseed flowers would probably all come to worship the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.
If several counties planted them, the affected population would easily reach hundreds of thousands, right?
Had the county not always wanted to hold a Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation god parading activity?
What kind of grand spectacle would that be then?
However, for now, the Chen Clan had not even started planting, and the county probably had no idea what good fortune awaited them.
They might even still be worrying about the Chen Clan’s rapeseed flower planting project.
After all, Mr. Liu, who was responsible for this merit industry, had already contracted ten thousand mu of land. The land had been prepared and was just waiting for rapeseed to be planted.
If this investment failed, it would certainly not be a good thing for the county.
After reading the remarks about the rapeseed seeds, Chen Han also instructed his junior sister, “Junior sister, first collect a batch of seeds. Tomorrow, have uncle lead the Work Hall members to plant them. Also inform Liu Dong’s side. Since he is responsible for this merit industry, have him arrange people to distribute and plant the seeds.”
“Okay, senior brother.” Xiao Yu nodded, then went to discuss with uncle.
In an instant, only Chen Han and Xiao Mi remained there.
“Chen Han, there are already butterflies,” Xiao Mi suddenly said, attracted by a few fluttering butterflies.
Chen Han was not surprised. In a place like Linhe County, from August to November was butterfly activity season, and from late September to mid-October was peak butterfly season.
Xiao Mi took out her mobile phone and filmed those butterflies, then had a sudden idea. “Chen Han, if all ten thousand mu of rapeseed are planted, and there can be as many butterflies flying over the sea of flowers as in Butterfly Valley, that would be magnificent.”
Chen Han knew of Butterfly Valley.
Worldwide there were only two Butterfly Valleys, one of them in the country, attracting huge crowds every year to see the sea of butterflies dancing.
But that spectacle was caused by a special geographical environment. It was very difficult for other places to produce such a scene.
And there was another problem: when there were many butterflies, during the caterpillar phase it became a terrifying issue, with caterpillars everywhere.
During that time, no tourists would want to go near.
However, he thought it over carefully. With the influence of metaphysical power, many problems might be solvable, such as guiding the butterflies to lay their eggs deep in the mountains and forests, and then having them fly back when they transformed.
But that would be a bit against natural patterns. Butterflies were not highly intelligent animals with developed brains; it would be hard to achieve that.
Unless he cultivated a special king butterfly to guide countless butterflies. That might truly be possible.
For example, the 《Insect Control Technique》.
This was a secret technique rewarded by the earlier Guiding people towards goodness task from the treacherous guest, and he had used this secret technique the previous night when he had free time.
The 《Insect Control Technique》 could cultivate insects into insect puppets through secret methods. If successful, these insect puppets could gain strange abilities, even undergo metamorphosis and command swarms of insects.
In the description of the 《Insect Control Technique》, Left-Path cultivators could cultivate insect puppets and, through them, control overwhelming swarms of insects, creating horrifying scenes.
This was using insect puppets to indirectly control insect swarms.
If these insect puppets could be cultivated to the level of spirit insects or demon insects, they would also have terrifying offensive power.
It was just that ordinary insects generally could not reach that level.
However, cultivating insect puppets with the 《Insect Control Technique》 was not something easily done. It required a certain amount of time to cultivate and refine them, as well as feeding them one’s own essence blood.
If the cultivation failed, the insect might explode and die during the cultivation and refinement process.
Originally, he had planned to try cultivating some offensive insects, such as wasps.
But was it not said, “One rider in red dust brings a smiling princess”?
Since Xiao Mi liked butterflies, he had to try butterflies first.
So he said to Xiao Mi as well, “When the Chen Clan’s sea of rapeseed flowers is in full bloom, you might see a swarm of butterflies flying over the sea of flowers.”
Xiao Mi looked at him in surprise. Although it was a simple sentence, she had a feeling he might really mean it.
In the past, she would have known such a thing was difficult. But now that she herself was cultivating, she naturally knew there were some mysterious phenomena. Perhaps Chen Han had mastered some special secret techniques.
As she was thinking this, she noticed Chen Han’s gaze scanning over her body, becoming somewhat different.
Because his eyes were becoming increasingly unrestrained, sweeping over Xiao Mi’s seductive curves, which had become even better after eating yellow spirit gourds.
That curve clearly showed she was not wearing an apron today.
Xiao Mi could not help feeling shy. “Why are you looking at me like that?”
Chen Han said with a teasing smile, “Your figure has improved again. I really want to see it without any defenses.”
How could Xiao Mi not understand what he meant? She subconsciously glanced at Xiao Yu and snorted softly, “Because of this rapeseed matter, Xiao Yu will definitely be busy. I’ll find a time to contact you.”
With that, she hurried off to find Xiao Yu.
Chen Han smiled, left the spirit field, and then went to the back mountain, naturally to look for butterfly larvae.
To cultivate and refine insect puppets with the 《control technique》, the younger the larvae, the easier they were to cultivate and refine.
Growing up in the countryside, he naturally knew which insects would become butterflies. In no time, he had caught a few and put them into an empty bottle, then went down the mountain and returned to the Chen Clan.
By then, it was about time to add water to the medicinal cuisine.
When he reached the martial arts field, he noticed that Daoist Priest Chen and the others were gathered there, and some daoist priests had already gone up to the chanting hall to discuss with Chen Jing and the other scripture chanters.
When they saw him, Daoist Priest Chen and the others greeted him with smiles. “Chen Family Head!”
Chen Han asked in puzzlement, “Daoist Priest Chen, what are you all doing?”
Daoist Priest Chen explained, “We came to recite the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》 together. Since people online are saying we are staying at the Chen Clan to carry out some big scheme, we’ll shift the focus back to the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》. Mainly, we do not want those experts and professors to find out about the Feng Shui matters, to avoid causing trouble for everyone.”
Hearing this, Chen Han could not help but smile. It seemed these daoist priests truly resented those experts and professors.
However, these daoist priests reciting the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》 together at the Chen Clan would definitely become a grand spectacle and would likely soon appear on Douyin trending topics.
Just looking at the tourists around made that obvious. As Daoist Priest Chen and the others went up to the chanting hall, everyone took out their mobile phones to record them.
Moments later, the voices of the Chen Clan scripture chanters and the daoist priests reciting the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》 rose together. Although the effect of the chanting would not differ, in videos, the scene of so many daoist priests chanting together would certainly be more striking.
After all, it was rare to have so many Daoist Sect daoist priests gathering together, let alone reciting the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》 for people.
Such a scene would be hard to witness again.
Chen Han then returned to Uncle’s Kitchen to add water to the medicinal cuisine, after which he went back to his own courtyard, entered his room, opened the glass bottle containing the insects, and prepared to begin the preliminary cultivation and refinement of insect puppets.
The 《Insect Control Technique》 offered by the treacherous guest belonged to a Left Path method. First he had to plant special runes on the insects to be cultivated and refined.
These runes had to be drawn using the practitioner’s blood combined with true qi, then branded onto the insects.
He found a small spoon and a needle, disinfected the needle with true qi, pricked himself, and let a few drops of blood fall into the spoon.
Then he activated his true qi and performed the secret method of the 《Insect Control Technique》. In an instant, the blood in the spoon was stirred, floated up, twisted under the technique, and finally stretched into fine lines, forming a blood-colored rune.
He waved his hand, and the blood-colored rune flew toward one of the larvae. As it flew, the rune slowly shrank until it was just the right size to be branded onto the larva.
The moment the blood-colored rune was successfully branded, he felt a special sense of connection with this larva and could sense its location even from a distance.
Without hesitating, he repeatedly used the 《Insect Control Technique》 to brand runes onto several larvae.
After that, he used true qi to refine the remaining blood. The blood floated up under his guidance and fell in front of the larvae. The larvae, drawn to it, began to absorb the blood.
This was the feeding stage. Only after passing this stage could they be refined into insect puppets. Whether these larvae could be successfully refined into insect puppets now depended on luck.
At noon, after eating the medicinal cuisine, Chen Han scrolled through videos on his mobile phone and indeed saw that the video of Daoist Priest Chen and the others reciting the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》 together had hit the trending list.
Moreover, its popularity was rising, just as Daoist Priest Chen and the others had expected. The online discussion was being drawn back to the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》.
When he got up the next morning, this popularity had already reached the trending topics.
Now they just had to wait for Daoist Sect branches everywhere to send over the Feng Shui books.
On the Chen Clan’s side, they had finished collecting all the rapeseed seeds from the spirit field yesterday. Early in the morning, after cultivating in the special spiritual aperture, Chen Lin began preparations.
Yesterday evening, he, Xiao Yu, and Mr. Liu had already negotiated the related matters. Naturally, they had to plant the rapeseed flower sea first.
When Chen Han returned from the special spiritual aperture to the Chen Clan, he saw at the gate that his uncle was leading the Work Hall members out, carrying tools.
“Xiao Han, I’m taking people to plant the rapeseed seeds. Breakfast is left for you in the kitchen.” After greeting him, Chen Lin led the group out of the Chen Clan and toward the rapeseed planting area.
Meanwhile, in Shangyuan Village, Village Chief Guo Zhen also led people out to meet him.
With ten thousand mu to be planted as a rapeseed flower sea, Shangyuan Village’s planting area alone was no less than two thousand mu. Even with the high-tech equipment prepared by Mr. Liu, it would not be possible for just the Chen Clan Work Hall members to finish planting quickly.
Therefore, Shangyuan Village villagers were naturally hired to plant as well. The villagers were very enthusiastic; they also hoped that once the rapeseed flower sea was planted, it would benefit everyone.
It was just that planting rapeseed in this season was something they were seeing for the first time, so they did not know if it would work.
As Chen Lin led the Work Hall and Shangyuan Village people to start working, they naturally attracted the attention of many tourists. Back when the Chen Clan had developed so much land, some tourists had already posted it online, and many people were curious about what would be planted.
Since they had never seen the Chen Clan take action, and now the Chen Clan members had begun planting, people became even more curious.
Especially when, not long after, the tycoon Liu Ye appeared in the fields with his people, those who saw it speculated even more intensely.
Three vehicles drove over from the direction of the county seat. Chen Kai naturally saw the Chen Clan people working those geographical plots.
He knew this meant the rapeseed project had begun.
Seeing the vehicles stop in front, he quickly got out and, spotting Old Master Zheng and Zheng Ruikai getting out, went over with a broad smile.
He knew who the eldest son of Old Master Zheng was: a big shot in Qingmin City. Strictly speaking, he now counted as being under that big shot’s camp as well.
Old Master Zheng and Zheng Ruikai were somewhat curious when they saw the Chen Clan members busy planting.
Especially when they saw Liu Ye personally in the fields, Zheng Ruikai guessed that whatever was being planted was definitely not simple.
When Chen Kai approached, Zheng Ruikai asked curiously, “Director Chen, what are the Chen Clan and Liu Dong planting?”
Chen Kai did not hide it. “Liu Dong and the Chen Clan have rented ten thousand mu of land. They are cooperating to plant a rapeseed flower sea.”
Old Master Zheng was surprised. “A rapeseed flower sea? While I do not know much about these things, I thought the season for planting rapeseed had already passed?”
Zheng Ruikai echoed, “Yes, the season has passed. Planting this now would mean a guaranteed loss, no?”
Chen Kai said awkwardly, “Actually, our county is also worried about this problem. But the Chen Family Head said the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s dream instructed them to plant a rapeseed flower sea, and he was very firm about it. We had no way to persuade him, so we can only fully support it.”
Hearing this, Old Master Zheng and Zheng Ruikai were both stunned for a moment, and their expressions became more solemn.
Old Master Zheng immediately said, “If it was the Heavenly Lord’s dream, then there will definitely be no problem. Perhaps this rapeseed flower sea will receive the Heavenly Lord’s Blessing and become something different.”
Zheng Ruikai nodded earnestly. “Yes. Dad, you were able to see the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation yourself. It is not strange for the Heavenly Lord to send a dream to the Chen Family Head. And the Heavenly Lord would not send such a dream without reason. Perhaps this rapeseed flower sea will turn out very different in the end.”
“???” Hearing the father and son’s words, Chen Kai’s jaw dropped in shock.
What?
What had he just heard?
This Old Master Zheng had seen the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation?
He knew about the Chen Clan treating the old master, but he had not heard it would be this mystical.
Even though he knew that the being the Chen Clan worshipped truly had mysterious abilities.
Crucially, with this old master’s status, there was no need for him to lie about such a thing.
Could it be that the rapeseed flower sea the Chen Family Head wanted to plant would truly be extraordinary?
Was… was that really possible?
