Chapter 287: The Chen Family Head Is Abstract Again! A New Record?
Inside the Artifact Refining Furnace, the New Five Emperors Sword was already completely different from before. The woven red rope now seemed to have merged into the coins.
The coins and the red rope seemed to have become one.
More importantly, these coins had originally wrapped around the red thread without being connected, but now they were completely linked into a single whole, looking somewhat like a crystal-linked model, actually resembling a real sword.
Chen Han looked at this new Five Great Powers sword, took it out, and casually swung it twice, and it could even bring forth a gust of force.
He felt that if this video was filmed and uploaded, the people who saw it would definitely not believe this was that originally woven sword. They would absolutely think he had switched to another sword.
Chen Han put away his mobile phone. Holding the New Five Emperors Sword, he suddenly had a special feeling: through this sword, he could vaguely sense the flows around the Chen Clan.
This was perhaps the geography and terrain around the Chen Clan.
He stored the New Five Emperors Sword into the Game Warehouse and saw the Remark Information:
【New Five Emperors Sword: this is a New Five Emperors Sword born in a new era. It not only possesses the function of restraining evil spirits, but the wielder can also sense the geography and terrain. Combined with a Feng Shui Formation Diagram, it can draw on the geography and terrain to set up formations, achieving the purpose of formation deployment.
Remark: when you possess the Mountain-Patrolling Dragon Vein Diagram, you will be able to use the New Five Emperors Sword to explore dragon veins!】
After seeing this Remark Information, Chen Han knew he had guessed right. That faint flow he sensed was exactly the geography and terrain.
As long as he used a Feng Shui formation diagram together with it, he could guide the geography and terrain to arrange a formation.
Right now, there was the “Gentle Breeze Comes” Feng Shui formation diagram in his Game Warehouse. With it, he could lay out this Feng Shui formation.
As for the other function of restraining evil spirits, it might not be used in reality.
After all, in reality there should not be such things.
But exploring dragon veins sounded pretty impressive.
He just did not know whether such things still existed in reality. According to legend, as long as you found a dragon vein and did certain things to it, it could cause disasters to the local area such as earthquakes, mountain floods, debris flows, and, for dragon veins at sea, even tsunamis.
However, he did not know what this Mountain-Patrolling Dragon Vein Diagram was, and without it, he simply could not find dragon veins.
Chen Han took out the New Five Emperors Sword again, swung it twice, and once more felt that faint flow.
It was a very marvelous feeling.
He did not know whether this geography and terrain originally existed and the New Five Emperors Sword just let him sense it, or whether this geography and terrain appeared because of the New Five Emperors Sword.
Carefully sensing it, he even felt the Qi Manipulation Formation of the Chen Clan, which also had a flow, and a very strong one, already forming an integrated Feng Shui pattern.
Chen Han then looked toward the “Gentle Breeze Comes” Feng Shui formation diagram in the Game Warehouse.
Now, by using this Feng Shui formation diagram, he could know where the positions of the five elements were. When Wudang sent over the Feng Shui Stones, he could carve Runes onto them as Feng Shui Stones, set them at the five-element positions, and thus arrange the Feng Shui formation.
However, he did not plan to use the “Gentle Breeze Comes” Feng Shui formation diagram immediately. Instead, he intended to make use of the 《intermediate Feng Shui》 knowledge in the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone to try to find the five-element positions himself.
Now that he also had the New Five Emperors Sword to sense the geography and terrain, it should not be difficult to find them.
Later, he could use the “Gentle Breeze Comes” Feng Shui formation diagram to compare with the five positions he had found to verify whether his exploration was correct.
Thinking this, Chen Han first stored the New Five Emperors Sword back into the Game Warehouse. He planned to edit and upload the recorded video first, since he still needed to rely on posting videos to attract new fans to follow him and increase his reputation.
After editing the recorded video, he directly wrote a title: 《Refining the Five Emperors Sword!》, and then uploaded it.
After finishing, he took out the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone and checked the 《intermediate Feng Shui》 within it. With the flow sensed through the New Five Emperors Sword, he began searching for the five-element positions.
In terms of the directions sensed through the geography and terrain, the east belonged to wood, the south to fire, the west to metal, the north to water, and the center to earth.
Naturally, this was only the general orientation of the five elements; the specifics still had to be determined from the actual landforms.
Towering peaks and dense forests, as wood-shaped landforms, belonged to wood; sharp and protruding peaks and chimneys, as fire-shaped landforms, belonged to fire; gentle hills and fields, as earth-shaped landforms, belonged to earth; round hills and metal ore deposits, as metal-shaped landforms, belonged to metal; rivers and mountain springs, as water-shaped landforms, belonged to water.
Sometimes, these landforms had even more subtle classifications.
Because the landforms of each place were different, there might even be breaks in terrain, and situations where terrain interwove and spread.
These would all cause differences in the five-element positions.
Holding the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone and the New Five Emperors Sword, Chen Han began searching toward the Back Mountain. At a high place on the mountain, he could better observe the terrain and look for positions.
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Online.
Chen Han now had many fans, especially many who had turned on update notifications. After he posted the new video, those who had enabled notifications all saw it.
Daoist Priest Chen was one of them.
He was the one delivering the Wudang Mysterious Stones. Those mysterious stones were absolutely fine to serve as Feng Shui Stones. After getting off the airplane, he saw the Chen Family Head’s update notification while watching videos in a taxi.
So he clicked into the video and saw the title 《Refining the Five Emperors Sword》.
As a man of the Daoist Sect, he naturally knew the Five Emperors Sword, and even knew the distinction between the Great Five Emperors Sword and the Small Five Emperors Sword.
In fact, it was a Copper Coin Sword.
He did not expect the Chen Family Head to post a video about the Five Emperors Sword. Seeing him take out red thread, he assumed he was going to string the Five Emperors Coins.
But when he saw the Chen Family Head pick up a one-yuan coin, he was obviously stunned.
Not copper coins?
Then, as the Chen Family Head took out coin after coin to weave, he was really dumbfounded.
It was not only one-yuan coins; there seemed to be foreign coins too. Anyway, there were no copper coins.
Was this a Five Emperors Sword?
The Chen Family Head must be tricking people who did not know about Five Emperors Coins, right?
There was no way these modern coins could be used as Five Emperors Coins.
Then he understood. This was definitely the Chen Family Head filming an Abstract Video. There was no need to even watch the rest.
Before he finished watching, he noticed that a group chat of Daoist priests was already lively, with someone @everyone.
Opening the group, he saw that these Daoist priests were talking about the Chen Family Head’s video.
Someone had also shared the video into the group.
“The Chen Family Head is clearly very capable, but he likes to make this kind of abstract video,” Daoist Priest Xuan Shi posted in the group, adding a helpless emoji afterward.
This made the other Daoist priests speak up one after another:
“Yeah, I thought Daoist Priest Chen was really going to make a Five Emperors Sword.”
“Ah, those coins really make it hard to keep a straight face.”
“You’ll get used to it. The videos from Daoist Priest Chen have always been very abstract. He even says that local dog of his is a dog demon.”
“You guys did not watch the end of the video. The sword has been changed into a model.”
Daoist Priest Chen also smiled helplessly at these comments and continued watching. At the end, the Five Emperors Sword that the Chen Family Head took out from the furnace was completely different from the original.
This Five Emperors Sword looked just like it had been replaced with a plastic model. It was abstract to the point of treating people like fools.
Anyone could see this was not the original thing.
He opened the Comment Section. Sure enough, everyone was not blind.
Daoist Priest Chen soon arrived by taxi at a transportation depot. There, he completed the procedures. The mysterious stones from Wudang would be sent through another transportation channel to this place.
Once the procedures were done, those mysterious stones would be unloaded here and then transferred over to the Chen Clan.
He only needed to wait at the Chen Clan to receive them.
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Chen Clan Back Mountain Summit.
Chen Han was already standing at the best vantage point, gazing into the distance.
From here, he could clearly see most of the Chen Clan, and even the range of the Rapeseed Flower Sea not far away could be seen clearly.
Through his understanding of the flows with the Five Emperors Sword, and the insights from the 《intermediate Feng Shui》 knowledge in the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone, he had basically determined where the five-element positions were.
He walked to a position at the back. There, at the edge of a Cliff Edge, stood a thick tree, and one of the five-element positions was right beneath that tree.
However, this tree did not belong to the wood attribute position, but to the earth attribute position. The cliff and the tree did not seem to have much to do with earth, but the rock was the spine of earth where roots anchored, and here was the heart of the land for the whole mountain’s surrounding area.
Therefore, this was the earth position.
Thinking this, Chen Han took out the “Gentle Breeze Comes” Feng Shui formation diagram from the Game Warehouse and used it together with the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone.
The Game Prompt sounded immediately:
【You used the “Gentle Breeze Comes” Feng Shui formation diagram together with the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone. The exploration, positioning, and indication of the Feng Shui five-element positions has been completed!】
【Congratulations, by using the “Gentle Breeze Comes” Feng Shui formation diagram, you have obtained the Five-Element Hidden Wind Feng Shui Runes!】
In the next moment, Chen Han felt streams of information about the Wind Concealing Feng Shui Rune surge into his mind, along with detailed carving sequences.
At the same time, just like before, the Spiritual Record Stone shone with a special Game Map indicator.
On the Game Map indicator, he could clearly see five locations marked, each position suspended in the form of an exclamation mark.
This was also a type of prompt icon that appeared in many Game Tasks.
The five locations were exactly the five-element positions.
Moreover, these five positions were almost identical in distance and alignment to the ones he had found. One position was precisely under the big tree by the cliff, astonishingly accurate.
Now, the three conditions for arranging the “Gentle Breeze Comes” Feng Shui formation diagram had been met, including the sword that combined popularity and luck, and finding the five-element positions.
What remained was to erect the five Feng Shui steles at these five positions to fully activate the entire Feng Shui formation.
So he now needed to wait for Wudang to deliver the mysterious stones that could serve as Feng Shui Stones. Then he would carve the Five-Element Hidden Wind Feng Shui Runes onto them, inscribe them onto the Feng Shui Stones, and set them at the five positions.
Thinking this, Chen Han walked down from the mountain. When he returned to the Chen Clan, he received a telephone call.
Seeing the number, he smiled. Here already?
They really could not wait.
It was understandable. A competitor who could easily defeat Habak, the World Fighting Champion: Habak’s four gold medals from the World Combat Sports Games meant that whoever got this competitor would have four gold medals.
Although in the World Combat Sports Games Dalong would also represent the nation, once he joined Qingmin City, his registration would belong to Qingmin City.
In domestic competitions, he would also represent Qingmin City.
So their urgency was not surprising. It was all about political achievements.
For the leaders of the Sports Bureau, whether they got promoted or not, the most important metric was performance.
After Chen Han picked up, a young man’s voice came from the other side: “Family Head Chen, hello. I am Zheng Fei, director of the Qingmin City Sports Bureau. I have already arrived at the Chen Clan and would like to talk to you about Chen Dalong.”
“So it is Director Zheng. I will arrange for someone to bring you to my courtyard,” Chen Han said with a smile. Hearing his surname, he was completely sure that this person was related to Mr. Zheng.
No wonder Mr. Zheng personally helped arrange this.
Furthermore, from his voice, the other party did not sound very old.
Soon, someone from the Chen Clan led a young man into his courtyard.
“Family Head Chen, hello.” When Zheng Fei saw him, he hurriedly greeted him respectfully, not daring to be the least bit negligent.
When he came, his father had repeatedly warned him that when visiting the Chen Clan he must remain humble.
He knew very well how much authority his father held in Qingmin City, and his father had never spoken to him so solemnly about anyone there.
This showed that the Chen Clan was truly not simple.
“Director Zheng, you are too polite,” Chen Han replied with a smile.
After a few more polite exchanges, Zheng Fei could not wait any longer and asked, “Family Head Chen, Chen Dalong is a fighter with outstanding talent. He should participate in the World Combat Sports Games, and then the Olympic Games afterward. Only then will his talent not be wasted.”
“Director Zheng, I understand what you mean. Let us go and see how Dalong’s training is going?” Chen Han smiled and invited Zheng Fei.
Naturally, Zheng Fei did not refuse and followed him out.
Soon, the two arrived at an area the Chen Clan had allocated to the Demon Subduing Hall, on an open space at the back. It had originally been wasteland, but after the Chen Clan’s development, it was developed into a very large square.
People from the Demon Subduing Hall usually trained here.
When Chen Han brought Zheng Fei over, the Demon Subduing Hall members who were off duty were all doing Martial Arts training. They were practicing the Daoist Sect Kung Fu passed down within the Chen Clan.
Under normal circumstances, these would naturally be of little use.
But the Demon Subduing Hall members were different. They were allocated some Body Tempering Pills, so their training indeed had some effect. As long as their physical fitness improved, even the simplest slap would have more power.
Chen Dalong, Chen Linlin, and Chen Dao were doing specialized training under the guidance of Chen Dagou.
The people of the Demon Subduing Hall were somewhat envious. After all, these three young people were learning the Chen Clan’s true martial arts.
But it was only envy. They themselves were not qualified to learn this martial arts.
At the moment, Chen Dalong, Chen Dao, and Chen Linlin were only doing simple training, because they had reached a bottleneck. To break through again, they either needed progress in cultivating the 《Tai Xu Chasing Wind Leg》, or access to higher-level Body Tempering Pills.
When Zheng Fei saw the three training, his eyes lit up. Before coming, he had watched the videos of the three Heavenly Prodigies of the Chen Clan training.
Since they were all Heavenly Prodigies, if Chen Dalong was so strong, the other two must also be quite good.
His greedy thoughts arose. He wanted to take all three in one sweep.
But the Chen Clan might not agree.
“Family Head Chen, can I take them all to Qingmin City?” Zheng Fei asked tentatively. Even though he knew the Chen Family Head was unlikely to agree, he had to ask. If the other party refused, he would then try to persuade him.
He had already thought of many lines to persuade the Chen Family Head.
“Sure,” Chen Han said decisively.
He had planned from the start to let Chen Linlin and Chen Dao run the 100 meters. Now that the Qingmin City Sports Bureau was taking charge, as long as the contract was closely watched, it would be beneficial for the two of them.
The key was the Zheng family’s attitude, and they would certainly do their best.
“???” Zheng Fei was stunned. He had not expected such a direct agreement. Then he reacted and asked, “Family Head Chen, you mean you agree?”
Chen Han nodded in confirmation. “They are not doing the fighting events. Let them run the 100 meters. With proper training, breaking the domestic 100-meter record will not be a problem.”
“Huh?” Zheng Fei was instantly shocked.
He was very clear what the domestic 100-meter record meant: 83 seconds.
And at this year’s International Athletics Championships, the men’s 100 meters gold was 77 and silver was
If they could break 83, in this year’s environment it would definitely be enough for a medal, and at the next Olympic Games, it was very likely to win a medal too.
He subconsciously looked at the Chen Clan youths, his eyes shining even more brightly.
