Chapter 252: All The Daoist Priests Searching For Spring Water! What A Perfect Plot!
When Chen Han proposed using the spring seeking technique from the purple Feng Shui Secret Arts Terrain Record to verify it, those Daoist priests also each took two freshly printed Feng Shui books back to their lodgings.
At the same time, they received the electronic documents that Xiao Yu sent them.
Daoist Priest Chen and the senior brother who had delivered the Feng Shui books returned to a room and had the young disciple who came along stand guard at the door.
The two of them did not immediately study the spring seeking technique in the Terrain Record. Instead, they first took photos of the two books and sent them to the sect leader, then sent back the electronic documents as well.
No matter what, the electronic documents had to be saved at once.
While Daoist Priest Chen and the others were having the Dao Discussion at the Chen Clan, the Wudang sect leader was still leading people every day at the Golden Summit to draw all kinds of topographical maps, hoping to find a pattern from them.
It was just a pity that without the corresponding theoretical knowledge, no matter how meticulously they drew all kinds of topographical maps, he had no way to figure out a method for repairing the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit out of thin air.
They could only wait for the Chen Clan to compile useful Feng Shui books. But book compilation could not be that fast; half a year or a year was entirely possible.
Previously, the association had spent half a year compiling a single volume of Daoist Scriptures.
Feng Shui books were far more difficult than Daoist Scriptures.
When Daoist Priest Chen sent word back and learned that the new Feng Shui books had already been compiled, he immediately opened the electronic file version to read.
To him this was somewhat unbelievable. He had originally thought it would take half a year or a year to compile these Feng Shui books. Who knew they would be finished in such a short time?
He opened and looked at the purple Basic Feng Shui, and was even more shocked. Inside there was not only Feng Shui knowledge, but Feng Shui knowledge had actually been combined with modern geographical knowledge.
The key thing was that he randomly checked a few entries, and the Feng Shui knowledge could be perfectly matched with modern geographical knowledge.
So that meant useful Feng Shui could really be explained by science?
Previously, quite a few geographers had made statements in this regard, but many Feng Shui applications could not be explained by geography. Instead, those geographers themselves were mocked.
Could it be that useless Feng Shui could not be explained, while useful Feng Shui could be explained with geographical knowledge?
This way of thinking by the sect leader was completely overturned after he read a section of Feng Shui knowledge in the purple Feng Shui Secret Arts.
This section of Feng Shui actually involved geography, meteorology, hydrology, climate ecology, and other related disciplines.
For example, this one section required using the knowledge content of these disciplines in a comprehensive way in order to combine and analyze it.
This inexplicably gave him a sense of superiority.
So what if Daoist Sect Feng Shui was a kind of science?
It was not something a single discipline like geography could seek attention by making accusations against. Rather, one Feng Shui was equal to so many of their disciplines.
Judged by scientific standards, it was even more advanced than theirs.
This also made him even more amazed that the Chen Clan could actually combine Feng Shui and science in this way. If such a thing were left to their Daoist Sect, absolutely no one could accomplish it.
Likewise, if it were left to those experts and professors, absolutely none of them could accomplish it either.
At this moment, he also saw the new message sent by Daoist Priest Chen about everyone using the geography and terrain of the Chen Clan back mountain to verify the two Feng Shui books.
He replied to his junior brother Chen with one sentence, then immediately turned to the spring seeking technique Feng Shui content in the purple Feng Shui Secret Arts Terrain Record and began to read it carefully.
Not only Wudang, but Longhu Mountain, Baiyun Temple, Zijin Palace, and other such places also received news of the two Feng Shui books and the electronic files at the first possible moment.
Afterward, these places all began studying together the spring seeking technique in the purple Feng Shui Secret Arts Terrain Record.
Although they were not at the Chen Clan, that did not affect their sense of participation.
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Chen Clan.
Chen Han did not continue paying attention to those Daoist priests. Since the spirit spring had already been renovated, he would simply wait for those Daoist priests to find it.
Surely with these two Feng Shui books in hand, and with each of them being a Daoist Sect elite, they would not fail to even find this spring water.
So after dinner he returned to his room, took out a primary spirit stone, and began cultivating with the purple Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method.
After experiencing the miraculous purple Heart Light Escape Technique, he now had an extremely strong desire for sword flight.
Even though he currently had only the basic Sword Control Technique and no sword flight technique.
But the minimum requirement for sword flight was the Liquid Condensation Stage. If he could reach the Liquid Condensation Stage earlier through cultivation, there would always be benefits.
He cultivated until the alarm clock rang the next day before getting up, and looked at a game prompt in his mind: yellow Spring Point Stone mountain spring renovation complete! yellow
Looking at the sect residence information, he indeed saw that complete spirit spring information had been added.
Special spirit spring: this is a spirit spring renovated using a special Spring Point Stone. It has special effects: sweetness +1, stamina recovery +1, freshness +
Additional spirit spring renovation, Spring Point Stone special protective effect: purification +
Chen Han was still somewhat surprised to see this remark information.
The first three effects were ones he had already known.
This additional effect really was something he had not expected.
What is the greatest concern for spring water in the mountains?
It is that there are many bacteria, and drinking it directly can cause problems.
Even if people are posted to watch over it and protective structures are built to prevent bugs or bird droppings and such from getting in directly, the process by which mountain spring water gushes out still depends on luck.
Now, with this purification +2 effect, if people are later sent to build protections and to guard it, there will be no problem at all.
However, it was not strange. The Spring Point Stone, as the remark information stated, was taken from the polar earth vein in the Shu Shan Swordsman World. It could transform ordinary spring water into spirit spring water, so the power it embodied also protecting the spring water was not strange.
In some games, stones like the Seven Luminaries Stone and similar settings could even protect spirit springs for tens of millions of years, and even immortals and gods could hardly approach them.
This Spring Point Stone merely carried an additional attribute of purification +2, which was nothing to make a fuss about.
He was just curious about how surprised those Daoist priests would be when they found this spirit spring.
Thinking of this, Chen Han checked on the three larvae again, fed them with blood once more, then went down into the courtyard. His luck today was very good; there were actually three Moon Gazing Sands.
He picked them up and stored them in the game warehouse.
Now he had over one hundred Moon Gazing Sands. When he had time, he could hold a related ritual activity.
After all, the Daoist Sect still had a deity like the Lady of Sight.
Her main function was specializing in treating eye diseases among the people, allowing all beings to be freed from eye ailments.
So when conditions allowed, it would not be impossible for the Chen Clan to have one more deity.
Picking up the Little White Rabbit, he also went out and got onto You Fu, who had long been waiting. The other two cattle and Doggy then followed. It had to be said that after the three cattle and one dog gained enlightenment, they had become more and more intelligent.
The key point was that because of the game system, they were all very loyal. Even though they knew the Special Spiritual Aperture was beneficial, they would not instinctively run there on their own, but would wait for him.
What surprised him most was this Little White Rabbit. According to the game system’s setting, it was a Moon Gazing Rabbit, which in fact was just a Wild Rabbit that the village chief had caught in the mountains. It had not undergone demonic beast blood transformation and quenching like You Cai.
But with daily spiritual energy rinsing and being in spiritual energy, its fur had become very smooth, white as snow, like the Jade Rabbit of the Moon Palace.
Moreover, with the spiritual energy rinse, the rabbit was clearly much smarter. As he held it, it even knew to rub its head against his palm to show affection.
After cultivating at the Special Spiritual Aperture, Chen Han then prepared medicinal cuisine, lit the fire, and began stewing. At this point, Daoist priests who could not wait any longer came up to inquire.
They seemed very confident about finding the spring water in the Chen Clan back mountain.
Chen Han naturally immediately summoned all those Daoist priests. Each Daoist priest also looked confident, as if they all had strong confidence in finding the spring water.
“Patriarch Chen, when are we starting the verification?” Daoist Priest Chen asked eagerly as soon as they met.
Daoist Priest Xuan Shi was the same. “Patriarch Chen, last night we all discussed it together and even made auxiliary props. We should be able to roughly find the spring in the Chen Clan back mountain. Moreover, we have all guessed that judging by the geography and terrain, as well as the distribution of mountain ridges, there should be a spring in the Chen Clan back mountain.”
Hearing this, Chen Han smiled and nodded. “Since you are all so certain, we can start the verification now.”
The verification required going up the mountain. Chen Han also summoned Chen Dagou and the people of the Demon Subduing Hall to go up the mountain together. This way, if anything unexpected happened, they could respond in time.
Chen Lin, Xiao Yu, and Xiao Mi had already participated in the Dao Discussion yesterday, so they naturally knew what these Daoist priests were going up the mountain to do. They all came along, wanting to see whether these Daoist priests could really find the spring water with the Feng Shui books.
After everyone had gathered, Daoist Priest Chen, holding the purple Feng Shui Secret Arts, said, “Patriarch Chen, this spring seeking technique says: mountain mouth facing mountain mouth, gully edges embracing a lone hill, there the water often does not dry up… protruding mountain facing protruding mountain, good water is in the hollow between…”
“Using modern geographical knowledge, that means where two mountain mouths face each other, the flat terrain beneath them lies where landforms and rock formations meet, and the squeezing of rock formations in the mountain body will create fissures, forming channels for spring water to flow…”
“I see three suitable terrains in the Chen Clan back mountain. There is a good chance at least one will produce spring water!”
Another Daoist priest took out a simple and unadorned Feng Shui compass. “Patriarch Chen, this Feng Shui compass is an heirloom of our Daoist temple. I specially brought it this time, never expecting it would be put to use.”
“In the Terrain Record spring seeking technique you compiled, there is a method of using the compass to find spring water. Just as it says in the purple Feng Shui Secret Arts, the compass essentially uses the magnetic field to explore.”
“The ‘Twenty-Four Mountains’ and the ‘Heavenly Pool’ positions on the compass, as long as the correct four-pole magnetic field is determined, can be used to find the star position representing water. Then, based on that star position in combination with the actual terrain, we can determine the approximate location of the water source…”
Chen Han had to admit these Daoist priests lived up to being Daoist Sect elites. No matter what method they used, from their confidence and eager looks, he had a feeling that these Daoist priests would be able to find the renovated spirit spring as fast as possible.
So he also announced they would go up the mountain, with these Daoist priests leading the way to the back mountain.
With so many Daoist priests plus the Chen Clan Demon Subjugation Hall, such a large group heading up the back mountain naturally attracted the attention of tourists.
Ming Di also noticed them; he was filming videos with Xu Bin and Zhu Xueqin.
Xu Bin said in surprise, “The Chen Clan and these Daoist priests are going to the back mountain together. Cousin, is this another thing you predicted?”
“???” Zhu Xueqin looked at Ming Di in shock. At this point she wanted to prostrate herself. What kind of great luck did it take to always stumble into things like this?
Perhaps only Ming Di himself could answer that.
When she had first come over to the Chen Clan, she could not understand how Ming Di, who had been muddling along just like her, had suddenly blown up in popularity.
After coming to join Ming Di, she found him even harder to understand.
This guy seemed to have great fortune. Every time, the popularity was delivered right to his mouth.
“Come on, let’s go take a look,” Ming Di said immediately, his heartbeat also starting to speed up.
Could he have hit the mark again?
Inside the Chen Clan, many tourists also saw this group of Daoist priests going up the mountain. Many followed out of curiosity, and quite a few discussed in surprise:
“People online were already curious why these Daoist priests came to the Chen Clan. Ming Di said before that they would definitely get something in the back mountain. Now it looks like there’s something to it.”
“Yeah, otherwise why would these Daoist priests gather at the Chen Clan and then specially go to the back mountain?”
“Could there be another possibility? That Patriarch Chen’s demon sealing matter is real, and now these Daoist priests are going to seal the demon?”
“Huh? Then should we follow?”
“Follow. Even if there really is a demon, we have to record a video.”
“…”
At the Chen Clan Parking Lot, Chen Kai also arrived early in the morning. After parking, he saw the Chen Clan and those Daoist priests heading up the mountain in a group.
He had come early to deliver the Qingfeng Daoist Priest’s Palace document to Patriarch Chen and needed cooperation from Patriarch Chen.
After the Qingfeng Daoist Priest’s Palace was built in the county, since the person was an ancestor of the Chen Clan, when the time came, the abbot would definitely need to be sent from the Chen Clan.
Also, for the statue of Daoist Priest Qing Feng, there would be one in that palace and one at the Chen Clan. This required the Chen Clan’s involvement.
After all, when it came to erecting ancestor statues and statues of gods, the people in the county government did not understand it at all, so it had to be handled by the Chen Clan.
He just had not expected to encounter such a commotion as soon as he arrived, which made him very curious and eager to follow to see what was happening. He also heard the tourists talking about demon sealing.
Could that really be true?
If so, it would finally make sense why these Daoist priests had gathered here. What they were carrying should be magical artifacts for demon sealing and such.
With such doubts, Chen Kai and those tourists followed the group up the mountain.
Chen Han and the others naturally noticed the tourists trailing them, but he did not react to it. The script in which the spirit spring was found through the joint efforts of Daoist Sect Daoist priests had long been written.
So would it not be better to have more tourists as witnesses?
In that case, tomorrow the story of Daoist Sect Daoist priests seeking and finding a spirit spring for the Chen Clan at the Chen Clan would spread across the internet, including legends about how extraordinary the spring water was.
Most of Chen Han’s attention was still on Daoist Priest Chen and the others. These Daoist priests did not move slowly up the mountain. However, since they were verifying things as they walked, their speed was slowed.
The Daoist priest holding the simple and unadorned compass was the fastest at searching for direction, and the path he took headed straight for the location of the spirit spring.
Some bold tourists had already run ahead and filmed the Daoist priest using the compass to find the direction, uploading it online immediately.
So by the time Chen Han and the others reached the mountain top, there were already videos online of the Chen Clan and this group of Daoist priests going up the mountain. People who saw them felt that the Chen Clan and these Daoist priests really were up to something big.
Inside the Chen Clan, Zheng Ruikai and Old Master Zheng were staying in an independent courtyard. This had been booked through connections in Linhe County.
The father and son were living there very comfortably.
Zheng Ruikai could also deeply understand why Chairman Liu wanted to work long-term at the Chen Clan.
Old Master Zheng was there simply to recuperate. In daily life he would go to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall to offer incense, and scroll through videos related to the Chen Clan, even though he was already living at the Chen Clan.
So he also came across the videos of those Daoist priests and people of the Chen Clan going up the mountain. Seeing the Daoist priest holding the compass and searching, he said, “These Daoist priests must be looking for something incredible. Otherwise, there would be no need for such a big commotion.”
“Dad, of course. You’ve seen the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation yourself. In a place where such a being exists, for these Daoist priests to make such a fuss, it must be something unusual,” Zheng Ruikai said as if it were only natural.
When these Daoist priests had come to the Chen Clan, he had already felt it was very unusual.
Otherwise, for any matter, the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation could settle it with a flick of his fingers. Why would there be any need for Daoist Sect Daoist priests to get involved?
Hearing his son, Old Master Zheng did not want to respond. This fellow had no filter on his mouth and kept talking nonsense. He better not go around saying he had seen the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.
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When Chen Han and the Daoist priests arrived at the mountain top, they were actually very close to the spirit spring.
Sure enough, with Daoist Priest Chen and the Daoist priest holding the compass leading the way, they quickly arrived at a relatively flat place. This spot had a very distinctive feature: there was a section of special rock formation, compressed on both sides, bulging in the middle, and then torn open again in the center, where it sank in.
Seeing this special terrain, Daoist Priest Chen and the other Daoist Sect Daoist priests all became excited.
“The terrain here is exactly as described in the purple Feng Shui Secret Arts.”
“The surrounding terrain on all sides matches perfectly.”
“Haha, the compass star position points to this place as well.”
“…”
The Daoist priests spoke excitedly, and the tourists who had followed them were all attracted.
Had the Daoist priests found something?
Then they saw the Daoist priests rush excitedly toward the compressed rock formation. Soon, even more excited voices came: “We found it, there is a spring right here.”
All at once, all the Daoist priests surrounded it, and their excitement could no longer be contained. This meant the two Feng Shui books had been verified.
The curious tourists also came over.
When they saw the Daoist priests gathered around a spring, all excited, they were a bit slow to react. Had all this fanfare really been just to find this one spring?
Still, being able to find a spring out of thin air was quite impressive. That Daoist priest was also holding a compass. Could it be that they had used Feng Shui to find the spring?
If so, that was amazing.
After all, using Feng Shui to do this kind of thing was something normally seen only in movies.
Chen Kai also came close. When he saw that the Daoist priests had only found a spring, he let out a sigh of relief. Since it was not demon sealing, there would be no negative impact, and it would not affect Chen Clan tourism.
But did they really need such a big show just to find one spring?
However, it occurred to him that this could be hyped up. After all, this mountain spring had been found jointly by so many Daoist priests, so it could fully bear the title of spirit spring.
He could claim it was a spirit spring, an extraordinary spring, and that was why so many Daoist priests had been needed to find it. That might attract some people to come here to check in.
Many tourists loved to do that kind of thing.
The more he thought about it, the more feasible it seemed. The question was how to turn one mountain spring into a spirit spring. That would take some work.
He remembered that at Longhu Mountain and the Southern Sect ancestral temple there were also spirit springs that had originally been ordinary springs, which were turned into spirit springs by relying on mythological stories.
And those two spirit springs had been “opened” by Daoist Master Ziqing, who had held Dao Discussions with Daoist Priest Qing Feng.
So had Daoist Master Ziqing’s spring-opening technique been learned from Daoist Priest Qing Feng?
Then since Daoist Priest Qing Feng was an ancestor of the Chen Clan, it would not be strange for him to open a spirit spring here.
After all, tourists there had also said those were ordinary springs and that it was all hype.
After Chen Kai sketched out the story plot in his mind, he felt it was exceptionally perfect.
Crack crack!
