Chapter 307: Is The Feng Shui Formation Related To Martial Arts?
When the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit was restored and the first bolt of lightning struck, Chen Han felt the Thunder Fire Power conducted through the Golden Summit and impacting the Feng Shui Stone placed inside.
The entire Golden Summit served as a guide.
If the object placed at that position had been a Statue of God, then this Thunder Fire Power would have been guided into the mountain and would not have produced any effect.
That was how it had been for the previous more than 600 years. Its only function was to give Wudang one more wonder, the Wudang Thunderfire Alchemy Peak.
Now it was different. As the thunder fire power was guided into the Feng Shui Stone, he could clearly feel faint energy spreading out, drifting around.
At the same time, the game prompt sounded.
【The Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone has detected Feng Shui energy generated by a special Feng Shui formation. This is a low-level free energy produced after decomposing special Spiritual Energy. Although its level is far lower than Spiritual Energy, it carries special properties.
This kind of free energy bears Yin Yang Attribute. It not only has some effect in strengthening the body, but can assist in the cultivation of Wudang inheritance 《Tai Chi Fist》! 】
This was the true intention of Patriarch Sanfeng.
Looking at this game prompt, Chen Han understood that this special Spiritual Energy should be Lightning Attribute Spiritual Energy, but no one dared to touch the Lightning Attribute Spiritual Energy within lightning.
Now the role of the Wudang Leihuo Lianjinding Feng Shui Formation was to draw upon the geography and terrain of Wudang’s seventy-two peaks, decompose the lightning attribute spiritual energy, and then produce a relatively low-level energy that did not harm the human body.
It was just that the energy after such decomposition was far inferior to Spiritual Energy.
But even so, it was astonishing. This was without a game system, relying purely on wisdom and the use of natural geography and terrain, yet they had achieved this.
Moreover, free energy with Yin Yang Attribute was likely nothing other than positive charge particles and negative charge particles.
If so, that would accord with science.
Because in science there is also a field concerning ion decomposition, but in reality, the separation of positive charge particles and negative charge particles is still being overcome.
Since positive and negative charge particles very easily attract each other and combine into a neutral whole, some external energy is needed during separation to overcome this attraction.
Does this not make it even more astonishing?
Under today’s advanced science, accomplishing such a thing is still in the process of being overcome. Even if experimental separation succeeds, there is no way to implement it in practice.
Yet more than 600 years ago, an old Daoist priest named Zhang Sanfeng had already accomplished this using primitive methods.
Tell me, are the ancients’ wits impressive or not?
Do you still dare to say that if you traveled back to ancient times you could easily crush the ancients?
Take for example those time-travel stories where someone makes soap, it sells crazy well, and they make a fortune. In reality, once your soap sells well, the next day the county magistrate will arrest you, and after some time, others will be the ones selling soap.
Then the county magistrate and some local gentry will be in a room happily sharing the dividends.
As for the transmigrator: finished!
Seeing this game prompt, Chen Han formed a rough guess about Patriarch Sanfeng and this Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit.
In Wudang, Patriarch Sanfeng was a legend, and the Tai Chi Fist he created was renowned throughout the world.
However, the Tai Chi Fist he cultivated seemed different from what others practiced. He had once gone down the mountain and performed demon subjugation relying on this Tai Chi Fist.
But after him, 《Tai Chi Fist》 seemed to decline. Almost no one truly mastered it, or if they did, it was not that powerful.
In modern times, 《Tai Chi Fist》 is mostly used for health preservation, and it is difficult to show much real combat effectiveness.
Now he might understand what had happened.
There were many sayings about Patriarch Sanfeng’s creation of Tai Chi Fist. One of them claimed he created it while cultivating deep in Wudang Mountain.
Now it seemed to Chen Han that Patriarch Sanfeng had accidentally encountered a falling bolt of lightning in the mountains.
That lightning was perhaps drawn by chance by Wudang’s natural geography and terrain, striking a Feng Shui Stone, and then releasing this Yin Yang Attribute energy.
By this, Patriarch Sanfeng created Tai Chi Fist.
He remembered there was a legend in Wudang of Patriarch Sanfeng sitting on a rock, looking up to watch a magpie and a snake battling playfully, and then creating an internal cultivation method.
At that time someone had recorded this scene and even carved it into a mural.
That mural was still preserved in Wudang as a heritage mural, also proving the origin of Tai Chi.
But judging from the current situation, was this misunderstanding not huge?
When Patriarch Sanfeng watched the magpie and snake fight, was he merely lifting his head and being momentarily attracted by two animals?
His real aim might have been to study the Feng Shui Stone he was sitting on, then look up at the sky to study why lightning striking the Feng Shui Stone would release Yin Yang energy.
It was just that he happened to be distracted by the magpie and snake when someone saw him and misunderstood?
And at that moment Patriarch Sanfeng might not have wanted to expose the secret and simply went along with it?
Just like many online celebrity hype cases: have celebrities not revealed that many online things are completely different from reality, and that some strange news and hype also leave them baffled?
But sometimes when they feel the situation, the hype, or the persona benefits them, they simply go along with it and save on promotion.
In this way, everyone believed he was supremely gifted, creating his cultivation method by observing the fight between a magpie and a snake, and nobody thought of other reasons.
Perhaps for this reason his strength grew and grew, making Patriarch Sanfeng the number one figure in the martial world, able to go down the mountain to subdue demons.
As for later, the special effect of the thunder-struck Feng Shui Stone likely failed, so Patriarch Sanfeng wanted to use the geography and terrain to recreate it. That was why he later kept drafting Feng Shui Formation Diagrams of the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit.
As for why it failed, it might have been natural causes or war damage.
Before the Ming dynasty, Wudang Mountain had also been affected by war several times, two of which had the greatest impact.
One was the struggle over Daoist orthodoxy. At that time, Wudang worshiped Emperor Zhenwu, but for some reason the Yuan rulers insisted on calling a stag a horse, branding the Zhenwu deity as the “founding god” of their steppe people.
They wanted to use this religious approach to integrate and consolidate their rule over the south. Although the Yuan dynasty declared they would rely on religion to consolidate their rule and would surely protect the holy land of Wudang Mountain instead of destroying it, how could the Daoist Sect swallow this humiliation without resistance?
A simple example: imagine that the Jade Emperor you worship is suddenly claimed by some short nobody who says he is actually their great ancestor god, and that they now want to rename the Jade Emperor. What would you do?
Would you cut down that short fool or not?
The second incident took place during Zhu Yuanzhang’s time, when his defeated forces retreated into Wudang and fought a battle with the Yuan army there.
At that time, the True Person Sanfeng should have been over 110 years old.
In any case, either situation could have damaged Wudang Mountain or even destroyed its natural geography and terrain.
Unfortunately, by the time Patriarch Sanfeng had finished drawing the Feng Shui Formation Diagram of the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit, his lifespan was exhausted, and he did not manage to implement this formation.
It was not until later that the Yongle Emperor, calling himself the reincarnation of Zhenwu, set his eyes on Wudang, wanting to build it up as a national religion center. So, following the Feng Shui Formation Diagram left by Patriarch Sanfeng, they constructed the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit.
But Patriarch Sanfeng had left a key piece of information that neither the Yongle Emperor nor the people of Wudang knew.
When the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit was completed and lightning fell, the spectacle of the flashing golden light would surely have greatly delighted the Yongle Emperor and earned Wudang many rewards.
Both sides were happy and had no time to consider whether the Feng Shui formation was complete.
While he was thinking this, another bolt of lightning tore through the night, struck the Golden Summit, and made its radiance flash once more.
“Chen Han, you really repaired the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit. It is spectacular.” Xiao Mi stood beside Chen Han, looking at the wonder before her, both excited and full of admiration.
The other Daoist priests also looked at Chen Han, speaking out proudly one after another:
“Chen Family Head, you have truly opened a new chapter in Daoist Feng Shui.”
“Indeed. Now that the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit is restored, it further proves the weight of the two Feng Shui Books you wrote.”
“Yes, those Feng Shui Patterns all exist in the two Feng Shui Books. Once linked together, they actually produced such a miraculous effect.”
“……”
Although they were all praising Chen Han, they also felt some pride.
Because they had participated.
Some of the Feng Shui Pattern segments had been restored under their responsibility.
Qingwei Daoist Priest led Daoist Priest Chen and the other Wudang Daoist priests forward and performed the most respectful Daoist salute. “Many thanks, Chen Family Head.”
Chen Han nodded and was about to reveal the inner workings of the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit. “Qingwei Daoist Priest, have you noticed there is something more in the surroundings?”
“Huh?” Qingwei Daoist Priest was stunned, instinctively looked around, and discovered nothing. He could only look at Chen Han, puzzled.
Chen Han explained, “Qingwei Daoist Priest, you cannot sense it with the naked eye. This Feng Shui formation decomposes the falling lightning into positive charge particles and negative charge particles, that is, a kind of Yin Yang Attribute microparticle energy.”
“This microparticle energy belongs to Yin and Yang. It should be usable to assist in cultivating martial arts. The method of using it should be contained in your Wudang Tai Chi Fist Manuals. Back then, Patriarch Sanfeng became number one in the martial world because of this.”
These words had an enormous impact, leaving the various Daoist priests of the Daoist Sect shocked.
After all, the Daoist Sect had many martial arts inheritances, and many modern Wuxia novels were created based on these legends.
For example, Patriarch Sanfeng’s Tai Chi Fist was even called the first internal style.
But when it came to martial arts, they knew the truth: many had declined to the point of being called dancing arts.
Even Qingwei Daoist Priest, who had trained in martial arts for a long time, merely had better physical fitness and agility than ordinary people.
That challenger who got crushed earlier lost not because Qingwei was too strong, but because the challenger was too weak.
If a truly powerful person came, would they still try to extort him for 8,000 yuan in compensation?
So, regarding the legendary martial arts, he, as an inheritor, had felt they were somewhat far-fetched.
Now, one could imagine how impactful the words of the Chen Family Head were.
Next, he thought: if Feng Shui is real, why cannot martial arts be real?
Sometimes Feng Shui seems even more mysterious than martial arts.
Moreover, Qingwei Daoist Priest and the other Daoist priests thought of something: the Chen Clan possessed True Kung Fu, and they also had Feng Shui formations.
Could True Kung Fu be related to Feng Shui formations?
Once this idea clicked, Qingwei Daoist Priest’s face filled with excitement.
It had to be so.
But he still could not help asking, “Chen Family Head, is what you said true?”
Chen Han reminded him, “Qingwei Daoist Priest, you can get a microparticle detection instrument, just an ordinary one. If Wudang has weather monitoring facilities, they should have one, right?”
“Yes, yes…” Qingwei Daoist Priest quickly nodded.
Such weather monitoring facilities were auxiliary detection tools. Not only Wudang, but all Five Great Mountains had them, as well as officially assigned monitoring personnel.
Microparticle detection instruments also played an important role in these measurements.
Qingwei Daoist Priest immediately made a telephone call. Before long, a Wudang Daoist priest came up carrying an instrument.
Qingwei Daoist Priest took the instrument at once and began testing the surrounding air, with the other Daoist priests crowding around.
Although they did not understand the readings, they did not want to miss any details.
In fact, after the test, Qingwei Daoist Priest did not understand either. He had to take out his mobile phone, look up the detector model online, and then compare and check the readings.
Soon after, Qingwei Daoist Priest and the others obtained an unbelievable result: the area around the Golden Summit was filled with a special kind of microparticle energy.
Just as the Chen Family Head had said.
“It is real, it is actually real,” Qingwei Daoist Priest could not help shouting excitedly.
This also conveyed to the other Daoist priests that what the Chen Family Head had said was true.
True Kung Fu might be related to Feng Shui formations.
This was the case for the Chen Clan and for Wudang. What about their own Daoist temples?
Celestial Master Zhang could not help asking, “Chen Family Head, if Wudang Tai Chi is due to this, could our Palace Temples’ inheritances also be like this?”
Their Longhu Mountain martial inheritance was richer than other places, and they had even more spell legends.
This made him all the more anxious.
Regarding this question, Chen Han could only say, “Celestial Master Zhang, your Palace Temples may also be like this, but specifically, we must see whether you have relevant Feng Shui Formation Diagrams, and then analyze them. Without a Feng Shui Formation Diagram, even I cannot create a formation for you.”
Hearing this, Celestial Master Zhang and the other Daoist priests did not hesitate. They hurriedly left the Golden Summit and returned to the lodgings arranged by Wudang.
They needed to contact their own Palace Temples as soon as possible and urge them to search for relevant Feng Shui Formation Diagrams. Because these matters touched on secrets, they could only make contact after returning to their rooms.
They believed that since Wudang still retained Feng Shui Formation Diagrams, their own Palace Temples would certainly have some as well.
On the Golden Summit, soon only Chen Han, Xiao Mi, Qingwei Daoist Priest, and the Wudang people remained.
After confirming everything, Qingwei Daoist Priest, excited, greeted Chen Han, then he and Daoist Priest Chen quickly sat cross-legged on the Golden Summit, planning to study through the night.
Wudang Tai Chi was created by Patriarch Sanfeng and was one of Wudang’s symbols. Naturally, he knew the Tai Chi Manuals by heart.
Previously, when reading and cultivating Tai Chi, many passages in the ancient manuals had felt mysterious, as if filling space with words.
Now that he knew about this Yin Yang Attribute microparticle energy, he suddenly felt enlightened.
So that was it.
They could not wait to try it.
Seeing this, Chen Han did not disturb them. He went down from the Golden Summit with Xiao Mi. Xiao Mi returned to the Kundao Courtyard. After all, in a Daoist Temple holy land like Wudang, even if the two wanted to fool around, they had to mind the influence.
Chen Han returned to his lodging, just about to cultivate, when he received a call from his junior sister.
As soon as he answered, her excited voice came through, “Senior brother, did you really use Feng Shui to restore Wudang’s Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit? You are amazing. That video online is spectacular.”
When Chen Han heard this, he knew that the matter of the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit had already spread online.
But on thinking it over, this was normal. As long as the lightning fell and the wonder of the Golden Summit appeared, all those staying at Wudang Mountain for tourism would have seen it.
These tourists, suddenly seeing the legendary Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit restored, would certainly recall the earlier news about many purple-robed Daoist priests gathering at Wudang to exchange on Feng Shui and repair the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit.
Once they uploaded the videos online, the result went without saying. It would explode.
Fortunately, no one had come to disrupt the repair this time, and it had been successfully completed.
Opening Douyin, he saw that the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit’s popularity had already gone through the roof.
《Holy crap, I am so kind. When I saw those Daoist priests sincerely say they believed in science before, I actually believed them.》
《Do you know what the biggest lie of the new era is? The “believe in science” coming from the Daoist Sect.》
《When I saw this Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit video, I immediately thought of those supervision team professors. Damn, there is something going on here…》
《Wudang: we knew the supervision team would come make trouble, so we took them out first. Golden Summit: nicely done.》
《……》
Various speculation videos all had very good numbers.
One Daoist Sect-related blogger even made a summary: “Everyone should have heard the legends about the Wudang Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit Feng Shui formation, but no one knew the specifics.”
“This time it is obvious that those Daoist priests of the Daoist Sect have made some progress in their research and discussions on Feng Shui. It is just that this news may have been learned by Yuan Xin and those professors.”
“As for the identities of these professors, they are actually related to the Golden Summit. I will not say too much; everyone can look it up online.”
“So, when these people learned that Wudang was going to repair the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit, they rushed over. But Wudang had suffered once and would not be fooled again, so they directly outmaneuvered them.”
“Now it is obvious that those Daoist priests of the Daoist Sect have succeeded. Does this not also prove that Feng Shui has always been real and existent?”
This video almost laid out the whole sequence of events, so its numbers were excellent.
Feng Shui as a topic was attractive to begin with, and now the online discussions were even more heated.
Chen Han glanced at it, then put down his mobile phone. No matter how lively it was online, the ones at the forefront were Wudang and Association President Li Daochang.
So he felt at ease and began cultivating.
The night passed quickly. The next day, when he finished cultivating and went out to have some breakfast, he arrived at the place only to see a group of Daoist priests gathered there. None of them were eating; they were all discussing and exclaiming in surprise.
When he appeared, the Daoist priests all turned to look at him in unison, their eyes full of a respect they had never shown before.
Last night, after the Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit was repaired, they had not displayed such reverence.
What had happened now?
Just then, a game prompt suddenly appeared in his mind…
