Chapter 284: Refining Feng Shui Ornaments! Uncle Is Acting Strange!
Chen Han looked at the projected rockery phantom from the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone, feeling eager to try.
He could not arrange a Feng Shui array formation for now, but he could practice using this Feng Shui ornament.
He just had to go to Fifth Uncle’s place first to borrow a set of carving tools.
Chen Han left the courtyard, dealt with those fake Feng Shui stones first, put them directly by the artifact refining furnace and stacked them as steps, so he could sit there when refining artifacts.
Only after that did he head to Fifth Uncle’s place.
There were many more clan members here carving Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.
Because the area of the Thunder Bamboo Forest had increased and the family had expanded production, even though ordinary Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea now used the laser engraver and clan members only needed to carve the key marks, they were still extremely busy.
Now Fifth Uncle no longer needed to carve personally. Premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea was carved exclusively by clan members with better skills. The pieces carved by Fifth Uncle himself had higher artistic value, so Xiao Yu added another level above premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea: gift-grade Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.
Normally, it was not sold to outsiders.
People like Liu Ye, who had a closer relationship with the Chen Clan, could buy one or two, but that also depended on whether Fifth Uncle would carve them.
You could say the style level instantly went up.
“Patriarch!”
“Patriarch!”
“……”
When the clan members saw him coming, they all stood up as usual to greet him, their faces full of respect.
In the Chen Clan, the patriarch’s prestige was unmatched.
Speaking of which, the highest-paid job positions in the clan were those making Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea and those carving the packaging.
After the Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea price increase, the laborers had received another wage raise. With monthly bonus and full attendance, they had already exceeded ten thousand.
Second were the carvers. Besides basic salary, there was piecework carving pay. The more they carved, the more they earned; some could also make ten thousand.
All this had been arranged after he gave instructions; Chen Xiaoyan and Xiao Yu held meetings to work out the details, and he was responsible for signing.
His dad had started the Chen Clan Ancient Architecture tourism business mainly to help the clan members make money.
“Patriarch, you have time to come today?” Fifth Uncle saw him and got up with a smile to welcome him.
Chen Han stated his purpose directly. “Fifth Uncle, I need a set of tools for carving stone. Please give me a set from here.”
“Wait a moment.” Fifth Uncle nodded and went inside to rummage around.
Previously, he had already requested a lot of tools from Chen Xiaoyan, including several sets for stone carving, just in case.
He himself could also carve stone art, only he was better and more skilled at bamboo carving.
Now the patriarch needed them, so they were just in time.
In no time, Fifth Uncle came out with a set of tools and handed them to him. “Patriarch, here.”
After taking the tools, Chen Han returned to the hall of his own courtyard. He closed the door and started carving.
Stone art carving required considerable skill, but with the phantom projected by the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone, he was essentially just copying.
The rest was all about strength, and with his current power it was easy.
In the time that followed, Chen Han focused seriously on carving this Feng Shui stone.
A day passed. Early the next morning, Chen Han woke up and checked the Insect Puppet in that bottle. Its condition was very good, and its body color had completely changed.
On the ground was a rockery ornament he had already finished carving, with Feng Shui Wind Concealing talisman runes carved on the base.
He had to admit, the phantom projected by the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone truly accorded with Feng Shui knowledge. Even his copied version was vivid and lifelike.
Now this Feng Shui “Wind Concealing” ornament had completed the first and second conditions. Next, he only needed to put it into the artifact refining furnace for refinement, and he could activate this Feng Shui ornament’s attribute of “borrowing fortune and prosperity, warding off evil and concealing wind” +
Borrowing fortune and prosperity, warding off evil and concealing wind, this was a Feng Shui ornament suitable for businessmen and could bring luck and wealth.
Just put it on the office desk to replace the Lucky Cat.
The Lucky Cat was not of much use, and it was quite controversial. Many in the country said it originated domestically, but no one could produce concrete proof, just a few miscellaneous notes.
But internationally, it was generally recognized as originating from Little Japan. They had detailed origin records and the evolution of its image.
So even if it did originate domestically, the Lucky Cat had already been played to death by them; there was no need to argue.
Many of their own Feng Shui ornaments already contained the meaning of attracting wealth and were more stylish than that Lucky Cat.
When Chen Han went to the courtyard, the Moon Gazing Rabbit gave him a big surprise. There were 4 Moon Gazing Sand grains today. After collecting them, he took out a storage tube made from an Old Elm Tree branch, put them in, and then stored it in the game warehouse.
Seeing the Little White Rabbit inside already craning its neck and waiting, he reached out his hand, and it eagerly jumped into his palm and nudged his hand with its head.
He had not gone to the Special Spiritual Aperture for two days, but You Fu and You Cai were still waiting for him outside.
Pets could sense their master, so they naturally knew he had come out. You Fu had already lain down on the ground so that as soon as he came out he could sit on its back.
When he reached the Special Spiritual Aperture, Xiao Yu and Little Uncle were already there and were happily chatting.
“What are you talking about so lively?” Chen Han casually asked.
Xiao Yu immediately spoke like offering a treasure. “Senior brother, did you see the morning news? A cruise ship crashed directly into a Little Japan harbor late last night.”
“And there were corpses all over the ship. Many people at the harbor saw it at the time, one corpse after another being carried down.”
“At that moment our reporters and internet celebrities happened to be there and filmed all of it.”
When Chen Han heard this, he knew what it was about. It had to be that cruise ship from Skull Gate. Judging from the timing, it was not strange at all that the ship would reach Little Japan from that position on the high seas at that time.
Maybe the Skull Gate people had originally planned to make their money on that job and then go have fun in Little Japan at night.
For example, soaking with those “bubble princesses” and “adult entertainment girls” and so on.
Unfortunately, now these people could only go over as corpses.
This incident had indeed caused a sensation online. Dozens of corpses on a cruise ship that had crashed directly into Little Japan’s side.
The matter was obviously not simple.
So after fermenting for one night, by the next day it was on the trending searches and many people had seen it.
As a gossip lover, Huang Tao had originally gotten up early to look for news about that Chen Dalong.
After all, the guy had knocked out Habak, that world fighting champion, with just two kicks yesterday. The popularity was sky high and had fired everyone up.
That world fighting champion Habak, with a swollen face and half his teeth missing in hospital, had also been posted online. That scene really stirred a strong sense of national pride.
After all, this was traditional martial arts defeating western martial arts.
Previously, when it was mocked as “dancing art”, people really had no way to refute it, since those showing off online in the past did seem that way.
Once they got on stage, it either turned into the so-called Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms joke, or they ended up like those people who were easily knocked out by Habak.
But now it was different. People were already calling this competition the new era of Chinese martial arts, short name Dragon Era.
In the future, if anyone from taekwondo, karate, judo and the like said Chinese martial arts was just dancing, they would directly bring up Chen Dalong: if you are so great, go fight Chen Dalong.
Just imagining those people chickening out was satisfying.
What surprised Huang Tao, though, was that before he saw news about Chen Dalong, he instead saw news about a cruise ship ramming into a Little Japan port.
This kind of incident was rare, so he curiously dug into it. Online there were already many discussion threads from Little Japan’s side.
《Did an alien appear on that cruise ship? I heard all the wounds are in the same spot!》
《That is terrifying. Was it done by pirates?》
《Latest news, the great artist Idada has started a new manga,《“Cruise Ship Horror”》, and the first chapter uses this cruise ship incident……》
Huang Tao was really shocked. He had to admit Little Japan’s manga industry was impressive; they had already arranged it into a story.
No wonder people said there were three things from Little Japan that people at home would not criticize: music, manga, and that other thing.
Their manga was indeed strong. Although people at home were catching up, you had to acknowledge some things.
While the internet buzzed about this, two different groups were stunned.
One side was naturally Zhong Hou in the capital city, in charge of tracking the Hacker Judge.
After his people located that cruise ship, they knew the target was going to Little Japan and even arranged some undercover people there to confirm the situation.
Then he received a report that everyone on that cruise ship was dead, all turned into corpses.
Now Little Japan had sealed the news. It was only known that that notorious society had declared those people were their own members and claimed that foreign gangs took revenge and caused this tragedy.
The cruise ship had already been towed back by that notorious society, and it was said they had painted the society’s emblem on it.
When this news came back, Zhong Hou’s expression grew grim.
This made things more confusing.
The Hacker Judge had been on that cruise ship. Was the target now one of the corpses? If not, then this incident was definitely related to the Hacker Judge.
And now it was linked to that notorious society.
Could it be that the things exposed online were really related to Little Japan’s side?
As for why they would do this, that was simple. Grudges needed no explanation. It might be pure smearing, which could damage their reputation.
Those fifty-thousand-bounty posters online, many of them were also from Little Japan.
Zhong Hou thought it over and felt he should report this upwards and send more people to that side.
He had no idea he was getting farther and farther from the truth.
On the other side, in Qingmin City.
Zheng Ruixin had just arrived at the office when the person in charge of the Ma San case rushed in to report, quickly handing him a news video. “Last night Ma San gave us a new lead, said the Brother Long behind him was on a cruise ship on the high seas. Early this morning I saw this news, went to question Ma San, and confirmed that this cruise ship is the one his Brother Long was on. Now all those people are dead.”
“What?” Zheng Ruixin stood up instinctively and watched the news video. After a moment, he muttered, “I knew it… that super protective one from the Chen Clan……”
He knew this was definitely done by that old Daoist priest from the Chen Clan, just like what happened in Myanmar.
The key was that the other party’s ability to find people so quickly and eliminate them was terrifying.
The cruise ship had been on the high seas.
At the same time, he also breathed a sigh of relief. As long as it did not happen in the Qingmin region, it was fine.
He could finally put his mind at ease.
The person in charge beside him looked at his leader, completely confused. How did this get linked to the Chen Clan again?
…
The Chen Clan.
After Chen Han finished stewing the medicinal cuisine in Little Uncle’s Kitchen, he went back to the attic, picked up that Feng Shui ornament, and put it into the game warehouse to check the information.
【Feng Shui “Wind Concealing” ornament（semi-finished product）: this is a special semi-finished Feng Shui ornament. It needs to be refined in the artifact refining furnace before it can take effect!】
Leaving the courtyard, he went straight to the artifact refining furnace, then put this Feng Shui “Wind Concealing” ornament into it, and threw a pile of firewood into the furnace to start the fire.
The prompt that the artifact refining furnace had begun refining appeared again.
Chen Han sat down on the pile of Feng Shui stones beside him and checked what he currently had.
《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture advanced Qi Cultivation Method》. After the final governor meridian was opened, he would break through the breaking meridians stage and then be able to cultivate this advanced Qi Cultivation Method.
There was also the flying sword embryo, but he still did not have enough metal suitable for refining it.
So for now, none of that could be used.
There were also many other miscellaneous items.
Then he simply took out a primary spirit stone, sat cross-legged, and cultivated the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture basic Qi Cultivation Method》 until the game prompt from the artifact refining furnace appeared again, at which point he stopped.
He got up, extinguished the furnace fire, and opened the artifact refining furnace to see the “Wind Concealing” ornament inside.
After refinement in the artifact refining furnace, this Feng Shui ornament was clearly different. The original stone texture now seemed to contain a trace of jade, making it feel very refined.
He put the ornament into the game warehouse and checked the remark information:
【Feng Shui “Wind Concealing” ornament: this is a special Feng Shui ornament suitable for businessmen. Place it in a special location and it will activate the effect: “borrowing fortune and saving luck, warding off evil and concealing wind” +1
special wonder: wind concealing in the forest, runes turning into mist!
duration: 12 months!】
When Chen Han saw the words “special wonder,” he took the Feng Shui ornament back out. Looking closely, he indeed found something unusual on the rockery carving. There seemed to be faint runes appearing among the carved trees, and the moment the runes surfaced, they turned into a wisp of mist.
This was quite special.
He figured real Feng Shui ornaments likely all had such wonders to some extent.
However, since this ornament was suitable for businessmen, he himself did not need it, and no one in the Chen Clan really needed it either.
If left unused, after 12 months its effect would disappear, and it would be no different from an ordinary stone.
That was normal. It was just an ordinary Feng Shui stone without a Feng Shui formation to support it. If a single ornament could maintain the Feng Shui effect indefinitely, that would be strange.
The Feng Shui ornament was not of much use to him, but if this news spread, it could give the Chen Clan another layer of legendary foundation.
What would happen if many people came to know that the Chen Clan could make genuine Feng Shui stones, and they released a few at the right time?
He considered whether this Feng Shui ornament could be spread within the Chen Clan, such as to Little Uncle and Uncle Dagou and the others. It might be worth a try.
The carving technique had to be learned though. Now that he knew the carving pattern of the “Wind Concealing” ornament, he could teach it, but without some carving skill, it would be hard to meet the standards.
After returning to his own courtyard, Chen Han began to ponder this problem and took out paper to draw a three-dimensional diagram of the “Wind Concealing” ornament.
From every angle, he carefully drew all these three-dimensional diagrams.
With this level of detail, anyone with carving skills could carve it by following the diagrams.
With detailed three-dimensional diagrams and accurate carving of the runes, the first and second conditions for making the Feng Shui stone would be met, and other clan members could do that part.
The third condition, refinement in the artifact refining furnace, was more likely to raise suspicion, and he did not want to expose the artifact refining furnace.
So he needed to think carefully about whom to teach.
Just then, he heard footsteps. Little Uncle walked in from outside, greeted him with a troubled expression, and said, “Xiao Han, there is something I want to talk to you about!”
Chen Han looked at Little Uncle in confusion. This old man actually had a shy, awkward look on his face.
Something was off with Little Uncle.
Suddenly, he was drawn to the red rope on Little Uncle’s wrist.
This red rope was what he received when he enshrined the Matchmaker God. It was a reward from the Matchmaker God and could show a person’s romance fate.
Now he could see the red rope on Little Uncle’s wrist flashing madly and extending outward…
