Chapter 263: Loyalty Maxed Out And Overflowing! Portal Renovation!
After seeing the attribute of “sincerity brings blessings,” Chen Han gave up on the idea of going to the special spiritual aperture to cultivate and decided to go to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall to check the situation.
It so happened that more than half of the clan members would go to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall for morning class, which would provide wish power and matched the “sincerity brings blessings” attribute, so they would definitely receive blessings.
According to the noted effect of this “sincerity brings blessings” attribute, the Chen Clan members’ daily morning class met the requirements, which absolutely counted as long-term prayers.
In the future, the Chen Clan members would definitely all enjoy good health and longevity.
The key point was that the elimination of negative influences should be perceivable.
In that case, what would happen to the clan members? Their loyalty would probably be pulled straight up to full, even overflowing.
Thinking of this, Chen Han checked the sect residence information again.
The upgrade requirements had already appeared.
It seemed that as long as the renovation was completed, it would be fine; the two generated diagrams were not mandatory.
Level: level 6 sect residence
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Upgrade requirements: Money: （9132 million/200 million）. Reputation: （124/1,000,000）. Wish power: （56/100,000）. Feng Shui formation: （1/2）. A forest of Three Talents Plants.
Chen Han could not help clicking his tongue.
This time, the upgrade actually required five conditions.
Money and reputation were obviously no longer very important, and the requirements had not changed from the previous level at all.
But wish power had directly increased tenfold; 100,000 wish power was needed for the next upgrade.
That was a bit rough.
For him now, collecting wish power was harder than money and reputation.
Money was the easiest. As long as he was willing to spread the word, there were plenty of sick tycoons willing to bring money.
Besides, after the rapeseed planting project was harvested, there would be a large income, and selling Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea could quickly make up the 200 million.
Reputation went without saying. Online, fans’ follows could increase it; offline, many tourists witnessed the Chen Clan’s mysterious phenomena, which also increased reputation.
But for wish power, the only fixed source he had now was the Chen Clan members’ morning and evening classes every day.
Whether tourists provided wish power depended on luck.
Previously, reaching 10,000 wish power had already been the slowest to achieve.
Now the wish power requirement had actually increased tenfold.
It seemed the Chen Clan also needed to find some fixed believers to farm wish power, and it just so happened they had this “sincerity brings blessings” attribute.
Previously, no matter how mysterious the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s teachings were, even with the attribute that those who did bad deeds would suffer misfortune, for those believers, offering incense only contributed wish power; they themselves gained no benefit, apart from a very low lottery chance that could improve luck.
But the tourists who actually won were, in the end, very few.
Now with this “sincerity brings blessings,” believers could receive the benefit of blessings as long as they provided wish power, and those blessings that eliminated negative influences should be perceivable.
Once believers could sense the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s feedback, the truly pious believers might come every day, especially those in the Linhe County area.
So this was something his aunt-grandmother could publicize and operate, treating it as preaching across the ten miles and eight villages.
As for the other two upgrade conditions.
Two Feng Shui formations were required.
The existing one should be the underground Qi manipulation formation.
The other would fall to the “gentle breeze comes” Feng Shui formation from the system reward.
The last upgrade requirement, however, the forest of Three Talents Plants, would take some effort.
The Daoist Sect’s Three Talents Plants were pine, bamboo, and plum.
Pine, bamboo, and plum were also called the “three friends of winter.” In Daoist culture, “three talents” refers to heaven, earth, and man; pine, bamboo, and plum respectively symbolized heaven’s firmness, earth’s gentleness, and man’s resilience, embodying Daoist ideals of following nature and unyielding spirit.
So for this level 6 sect residence, the Chen Clan needed to have pine, bamboo, and plum woodland, that is, pine forest, bamboo forest, and plum forest planted.
Conveniently, the county had allocated a tourism support fund approved by the city to the Chen Clan, so the back mountain could be developed on a large scale, and Three Talents Plant ornamental forests could be planted.
The stated reason would be that these Three Talents Plants met the viewing requirements for Daoist Plants, and they could also be tied to the soon-to-be-arranged “gentle breeze comes” Feng Shui formation.
Anyway, once he gave the order, his uncle would lead the Work Hall to handle it.
Once the “gentle breeze comes” Feng Shui formation was arranged, his uncle and the others would only marvel and naturally assume the Three Talents Plants were related to the Feng Shui formation.
It was just unclear how large the pine, bamboo, and plum forests needed to be, so they could only start planting and keep going until the area was sufficient.
After understanding the upgrade requirements for the level 6 sect residence, Chen Han left the courtyard.
You Fu, the three oxen, and Doggy were already waiting for him. When You Fu saw him, they lay down, inviting him to get on their back.
Chen Han lightly kicked You Fu and instructed, “You go by yourselves today.”
With that, he walked toward the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
The three oxen and the dog were already enlightened; they understood him. After You Fu got up, the three oxen and one dog headed toward the special spiritual aperture.
Before long, Chen Han arrived at the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.
His aunt-grandmother and a few hall wardens were already there.
Some early-rising elders of the Chen Clan had also arrived.
For the Chen Clan members, the daily morning and evening classes were also a kind of benefit; just listening to the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》 was an enjoyment.
When they saw Chen Han arrive, those clan elders all greeted him respectfully, “The patriarch is here.”
His aunt-grandmother also asked curiously, “Patriarch, how come you have time to come over this morning?”
Chen Han improvised, “Aunt-grandmother, last night I dreamed of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s dream. The Heavenly Lord said he would bestow better blessings on the Chen Clan members and pious believers. As long as they are sufficiently pious, they will be able to feel the blessings after offering incense. Not only can it eliminate the negative influences on everyone’s bodies, but with long-term blessings from the Heavenly Lord they can also enjoy good health and longevity.”
These words made his aunt-grandmother and the surrounding Chen Clan members freeze.
The patriarch had come just for this?
The Chen Clan members already believed the clan was under the protection of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation; after all, they knew far more inside information than the outside tourists.
Moreover, everyone already felt they were blessed and protected by the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation; they had just never clearly perceived what those blessings were before.
And now what was the patriarch saying?
The Heavenly Lord would grant better blessings to the Chen Clan and believers, and as long as they were sufficiently pious, they could feel the blessings after offering incense?
They would not think the patriarch was making things up; this was the Heavenly Lord Hall, after all.
One by one, they started to feel a bit of anticipation.
After all, we are talking about good health and longevity.
When Chen Xing arrived, he saw two neighbors who had come early excitedly chatting with glowing faces, so he asked curiously, “What good thing happened to you? Why are you so happy?”
One neighbor hurriedly said, “The patriarch just announced that the Heavenly Lord gave him a dream message, saying he would grant better blessings to our Chen Clan and the believers. As long as we are sufficiently pious, we can feel the Heavenly Lord’s blessings after offering incense.”
The other person added, “Being blessed by the Heavenly Lord not only eliminates the negative influences on our bodies, but with long-term blessings from the Heavenly Lord we can also enjoy good health and longevity.”
“Blessings? The Heavenly Lord gave the patriarch another dream message?” Chen Xing was immediately stunned.
His words made the Chen Clan members remember something.
Right, the Heavenly Lord had previously given the patriarch a dream message, telling the Chen Clan to plant rapeseed flowers. So even though it was the wrong season to plant rapeseed, the patriarch still went ahead directly.
Now the Chen Clan members all knew those rapeseed flowers were growing at an astonishing speed, completely unlike ordinary rapeseed flowers. In just over ten days, the Chen Clan would probably have a vast rapeseed flower sea.
Everyone knew this was definitely due to the Heavenly Lord’s Blessing.
Previously, someone in the clan had said the Heavenly Lord gave the patriarch a dream message to plant rapeseed flowers, so there must be some plan.
So for a moment, everyone thought again of this new dream message to the patriarch, and their curiosity about the blessings grew even stronger.
As more Chen Clan members arrived, the conversations about the Heavenly Lord’s dream message grew even livelier.
Good health and longevity, who would not look forward to that?
At this moment, his aunt-grandmother had already rung the bell. Morning class was beginning.
Chen Xing and the other Chen Clan members were even more expectant. They sat down in meditation positions faster than usual, their faces more devout, eager to experience what the Heavenly Lord’s Blessing felt like.
Morning class began with his aunt-grandmother leading the hall wardens in chanting the morning scriptures, and by now the Chen Clan members had all learned the morning scriptures, so they all chanted along.
Participating together in morning and evening classes every day, chanting together in such a neat and resonant voice, really gave a sense of a flourishing Daoist clan.
Seeing this, Chen Han could not help nodding.
Nowadays many Daoist temples and temples used electronic sound systems for chanting, but those amplified sounds could not compare to the Chen Clan members chanting loudly together.
The key was that everyone’s voices merged, giving a feeling of ten thousand people as one, something no sound system could match; the feeling was completely different.
After the chanting ended, Chen Jing, the scripture chanter in charge, led the clan’s scripture chanters in reciting the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》 for the Chen Clan members.
After they finished enjoying the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》, the clan members awaited the important moment.
After receiving their incense sticks, each of them impatiently lit them, then returned to their positions to devoutly offer incense along with the others.
His aunt-grandmother was at the front, full of expectation, and was the first to insert her incense sticks into the incense burner. At the moment she finished offering incense, a look of surprise appeared on her face.
A wonderful warm current instantly swept through her entire body.
In that instant, she clearly felt her body loosen.
She really felt it.
Her body trembled.
Although she had long known the Heavenly Lord protected the Chen Clan and had given blessings many times, this was the first time she had personally felt it.
The few hall wardens followed closely behind. After finishing their offering, they also felt the blessings. One of them had not slept well the previous night and was very sleepy that morning.
But after that feeling of blessing, he felt his entire state completely restored, with no drowsiness at all.
He could not help exclaiming, “I felt it.” Then realizing his rudeness, he immediately offered a devout Daoist salute toward the Heavenly Lord, “Heavenly Lord, this believer was disrespectful.”
At that moment, he was as pious as it was possible to be.
The clan members naturally noticed his loss of composure and all understood something, which made them even more expectant.
Chen Xing was just like that. Seeing the clan members in front finish their incense offerings, their faces unable to hide their excitement, it was obvious they had all felt the blessings.
That made him even more eager.
When his turn finally came, he hurriedly placed his incense into the incense burner, and in that instant he also felt a warm current sweep through his whole body.
That cleansing sensation was extremely comfortable. In a moment, his whole body felt lighter, and even the slight rhinitis he had that day cleared up.
It was… it was real.
The Chen Clan members soon all experienced that kind of blessing.
This time, such a personal experience of the Heavenly Lord’s Blessing made their loyalty to the clan and to the Heavenly Lord completely full and overflowing.
The same was true for their feelings toward the patriarch.
After all, this was the Heavenly Lord’s dream message to the patriarch, and it was the patriarch who told everyone.
The patriarch was the Heavenly Lord’s spokesman.
As the Chen Clan members finished offering incense, messages of wish power appeared continuously in Chen Han’s mind:
【You have gained 1 point of wish power!】
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【You have gained 1 point of wish power!】
Once everyone finished offering incense, he had gained a total of 120 wish power. With more clan members having returned, there were more at morning class now.
Wish power: （176/100,000）
Just then, a clan member suddenly asked, “Patriarch, can the Heavenly Lord’s Blessing only be gained once each time?”
These words immediately stirred all the clan members.
After feeling the Heavenly Lord’s Blessing, everyone wanted to receive it several more times; more blessings would definitely mean more benefits.
Chen Han had actually not thought about this question.
His aunt-grandmother acted quickly and rang the bell again.
The Chen Clan members understood and very cooperatively stood back in their positions.
This time there was no chanting of scriptures and no reciting of the 《Ancient Quiet Heart Art》, only devout incense offering.
His aunt-grandmother was still the first to walk to the incense burner.
Chen Han also started to anticipate. When his aunt-grandmother inserted her incense sticks into the incense burner, and he saw the message reappear in his mind, he revealed a pleased expression.
【You have gained 1 point of wish power!】
So it worked.
A single person could actually provide more than one point of wish power.
As the Chen Clan members finished offering incense again, Chen Han gained another 120 wish power, bringing the total to
His aunt-grandmother rang the bell again.
The clan members understood and once more offered incense together.
After his aunt-grandmother completed her offering, Chen Han once again received a game prompt:
【You have gained 1 point of wish power!】
This made him even more expectant. Could this be farmed endlessly?
But just as he was getting excited, after a few hall wardens finished offering incense, no new game prompts appeared. It was the same for the clan members; no more wish power messages appeared.
Instead, Chen Jing and the two scripture chanters each provided another 1 point of wish power.
So ordinary clan members could only provide 2 points of wish power per day?
But his aunt-grandmother and the scripture chanters could provide 3 points.
This was probably related to degree of piety and cultivation level.
His aunt-grandmother’s was piety, and the scripture chanters’ was cultivation.
Or it could be a combination of both.
While Chen Han was thinking, his aunt-grandmother rang the bell again. This time the ordinary clan members did not continue; only his aunt-grandmother and the two scripture chanters did, clearly very self-aware.
【You have gained 1 point of wish power!】
This time, Chen Han only gained 1 point of wish power.
It came from his aunt-grandmother.
Chen Jing and the two scripture chanters could no longer provide wish power.
After providing 4 points, his aunt-grandmother offered incense once more, but this time she also did not provide further wish power.
It seemed there was a limit.
However, with this discovery, the 100,000 wish power no longer seemed as hard as he had thought.
His aunt-grandmother had clearly guessed this as well, and instructed the clan members, “Be more devout toward the Heavenly Lord; diligently cultivate Daoist scriptures in daily life, and that can increase the number of times you receive the Heavenly Lord’s Blessing.”
Seeing that his aunt-grandmother had thought of this too, Chen Han also told her, “Aunt-grandmother, the Heavenly Lord’s teachings are to protect all beings. We also need to bring in more believers to offer incense and enjoy the Heavenly Lord’s Blessing.”
Although it was for wish power, outwardly it definitely had to be inviting believers to enjoy blessings.
“Patriarch, I understand!” His aunt-grandmother nodded. Bringing more believers to offer incense and enjoy blessings would not only increase the Chen Clan’s prestige but also make the Heavenly Lord’s incense flourish.
With that instruction, she took out her mobile phone and opened several groups.
These groups were believer groups she had created earlier, keeping up with the times.
At first, the groups only had believers from the ten miles and eight villages, and mostly those from Shangyuan Village. Later, as more people were added, any tourists who won the lottery would be pulled into the groups.
After all, winning meant great luck, having been blessed by the Heavenly Lord.
She directly posted a notice in the groups: “The Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation has given the Chen Clan a dream message. Any believer who devoutly offers incense in the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall can feel the Heavenly Lord’s Blessing. With long-term blessings from the Heavenly Lord, you can enjoy good health and longevity!”
As soon as this notice was posted, it caused a sensation in several believer groups.
If another Daoist temple or temple had posted such news, they would not believe it, but this was the Chen Clan’s Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation. Would you dare not believe?
Especially for the people of Shangyuan Village, everyone had witnessed many mysterious events of the Chen Clan.
Village Chief Guo Zhen was in one of the Chen Clan believer groups. After seeing the message, he did not hesitate, immediately opened the village group, and sent a message: “Everyone who has time, go to the Chen Clan’s Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation to offer incense.”
When he left the village, he met two middle-aged men from the same village. As soon as they saw him, they hurried over to go to the Chen Clan together:
“Village chief, is that message true? Can we really feel the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation’s blessing?”
“Yeah, it also says that with long-term blessings we can live longer!”
Longevity was obviously tempting to everyone.
“Could anything posted by that person be fake?” Guo Zhen snorted. In the Chen Clan’s Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, that elder was the highest and most traditional; how could she speak carelessly about such things?
Guo Zhen led the two of them to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, received incense sticks on the spot, and then followed the hall wardens’ guidance to go forward and offer incense.
Chen Han naturally saw the arrival of the village chief and the other two and felt some anticipation.
A moment later, a game prompt appeared in his mind:
【You have gained 1 point of wish power】 x
All three provided 1 point of wish power. Benefiting from the Chen Clan and having seen its mysterious phenomena, the villagers of Shangyuan Village were indeed very pious toward the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.
Guo Zhen and the other two certainly felt that blessing, and their faces showed disbelief.
They could really feel it?
Thinking of longevity, the three did not hesitate. They took more incense sticks and devoutly offered incense again.
However, Chen Han did not receive any more wish power prompts. It seemed that while the villagers of Shangyuan Village were pious, they were not on the same level as the Chen Clan members and could only provide 1 point of wish power.
Next, after Chen Han prepared medicinal cuisine, he returned to the hall to continue observing. People from Shangyuan Village arrived one after another, and basically each person provided 1 point of wish power.
The proportion of tourists who could provide wish power was still low.
Although these tourists came to the Chen Clan after hearing many rumors and might witness bad people suffering misfortune while the Chen Clan had good luck, that was not enough to generate true piety and wish power.
Most tourists, after all, had never personally experienced mysterious events.
However, the tourists who did feel the blessings were all visibly shocked. That clear, wonderful sensation and the instant lightness of their bodies were just too incredible.
These people also became visibly more devout. It was likely they would help spread the word for the Chen Clan and would think of coming to the Chen Clan to offer incense first whenever they had time.
Over time, increasing wish power would surely become easier and easier.
After half a day, Chen Han’s wish power exceeded
This rate of increase was far faster than before. Near noon, the Chen Clan finally left the hall and prepared to go eat medicinal cuisine at his uncle’s.
But a sudden game prompt in his mind made him hurry back to his own courtyard.
【Congratulations, the instance portal renovation diagram has been completed!】
He immediately checked the new diagram in the Game Warehouse.
【Instance portal renovation diagram: this is a renovation diagram that can be used to create an instance portal. Please choose a door within the sect residence and carry out the portal renovation!】
Chen Han had not expected the instance portal renovation to be this simple; he only needed to choose a door.
Without hesitation, he returned straight to his courtyard.
On the second floor, he found a room door at the end of the hallway near his own room. This room had been vacant for a long time, with no one living in it; inside there was also a toilet, and the toilet door was just right for renovation.
The key point was that no one came into this room, and no one would open the toilet.
Once the outer door was locked, no one would know what was going on inside.
Chen Han directly took out the instance portal renovation diagram and selected renovation.
【Congratulations, you have selected the instance portal renovation target. Instance portal renovation beginning…】
In the next moment, the instance portal renovation diagram in his hand turned into a ray of light that drilled into the toilet door. As the light flared, special runes began to appear on the door and quickly spread…
