Chapter 323: So The Demonic Path Is Affected In Reality Too!
The shrill wails outside made Chen Han even more upset and confused. He did not understand what had happened.
He could only tighten his control over this Immortal Light Merging, and finally there was an effect. He stabilized it and then slowly dispelled it.
But outside, Daoist Priest Li and the others felt their scalps go numb.
Daoist Priest Li had followed because those lay Buddhists had gathered over here to view the wonder of the Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram. He had not expected to see such a shocking scene.
A curious lay Buddhist walked into the area beneath the Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram and actually began to emit black qi from all over his body. Even the skin on his arms looked as if it had been burned.
This scene was too bizarre, making everyone else afraid to approach the area covered by the Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram.
Looking at the rotating, swimming green and white yin-yang fishes, each face showed fear. They had no idea what was going on.
Yet the three young members of the Chen Clan standing under the Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram were completely unaffected.
Could it be that this Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram had no effect on people of the Chen Clan?
Chen Dalong, Chen Dao, and Chen Linlin, seeing that man’s miserable state, were also badly frightened and did not dare to move at all.
As the person in charge, Daoist Priest Li did not know what was happening, but he knew they could not let it continue. It was obvious that man was in great pain.
Luckily, at this moment, the Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram suddenly contracted and then dispersed.
This made him breathe a sigh of relief.
In the room, Chen Han also let out a breath. The sudden inspiration he had on the airplane had indeed helped him master Immortal Light Merging, but it was a rushed success, and he had nearly lost control.
Hearing the commotion outside, he got up, went downstairs, and walked out. He saw Daoist Priest Li leading people around a middle-aged lay Buddhist, asking questions. The man’s arms and even neck showed burn-like marks.
Thinking of the wails from earlier, he had a guess. He summoned Chen Dalong and asked, “What just happened outside?”
Chen Dalong hurriedly explained, “Brother Han, just now a Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram appeared above the house. When that mister walked into the range of the Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram, black smoke came out from him, and burn-like wounds appeared on his arms and neck.”
Even though Chen Han had already guessed, hearing it confirmed still left him full of surprise.
The attribute of the Immortal Light Merging spell was to restrain the Demonic Path. As long as someone was a demonic cultivator, they would be suppressed, their body would emit black smoke, and even their skin and flesh would corrode.
He had not expected that attribute to have an effect in reality as well.
In that case, identifying some people would be very easy. For example, this injured lay Buddhist was clearly someone of the Demonic Path.
Thinking of the man’s wealthy status, he was either an unscrupulous merchant or someone who had made too much money against his conscience.
In fact, it was not rare for such unscrupulous villains to mingle at Daoist temples and Buddhist temples.
The core motive behind these people’s donations was essentially to seek psychological compensation through “good deeds” related to religion, or to try to trade for “forgiveness” for past evils, rather than truly recognizing the moral teachings of religion.
And the starting point of such people’s behavior was nothing more than two things.
First, a psychological need to atone. Faced with the guilt and anxiety brought by their own evil deeds, they fantasized about offsetting moral or legal punishment in this way.
Second, to shape an outward image of “charity and kindness,” to cover their true nature, so their evil deeds would not be exposed and their businesses would not be affected.
The first type was better. Fear would make them restrain themselves somewhat. The second type was absolutely great evildoers, hypocritical to the extreme.
Chen Han glanced at the middle-aged man and did not know which type he was.
But this was a Daoist Sect Event under Daoist Priest Li’s responsibility. He did not want to meddle and make things ugly.
After all, this was not a Chen Clan event, and the man was not a Chen Clan lay Buddhist. Besides, there were too many such people in society. He could not manage them all, nor did he have the spare energy.
Yet while he thought this way, the middle-aged man instead proactively stepped forward. “Chen Family Head, your Daoist arts are astonishing and shocking. It was I who walked into the range of your spell and was hurt by your spell. It is not anyone else’s fault.”
As he spoke, his eyes sparkled with excitement. After all, he had truly witnessed Daoist methods and seen something miraculous.
A Daoist expert like this was certainly someone to befriend, and as a Daoist Layman, he naturally had the opportunity.
Moreover, he intentionally said he had been injured so as to stir up a sense of guilt in the other party. Once that guilt arose, would the other party not feel the need to give him some benefit?
After taking the benefit, he could then go to the Chen Clan to make some donations. Going back and forth like that, would their relationship not deepen?
Right now, many people must want to build a connection with the Chen Clan.
After all, a tycoon like Liu Ye was already close to the Chen Clan.
And there was also Liao Shuang. The Liao family’s business was also among the top hundred.
Now such an opportunity was right in front of him.
“Fellow lay Buddhist, you jest. In modern society, how could there be spells? You should believe in science.” Chen Han had not expected that when he ignored the man, the man would instead come pester him.
What kind of world was this?
It was as if he refused to pay attention to the Demonic Path, yet the Demonic Path had to wave itself around in front of him.
Besides, how could he not hear the man’s intentions?
Truly a treacherous petty man.
Hearing this, the middle-aged man was clearly dissatisfied and immediately said, “Chen Family Head, we are all Daoist Sect Daoist Priests and lay Buddhists. We will not spread this around. You need not act like this. We all believe the Daoist Sect has mysterious methods.”
Seeing the man still pestering him, Chen Han smiled and looked at him coldly. “Sir, since you know the Daoist Sect has mysterious methods, have you ever thought that three feet above your head there are deities? For evildoers, their sins cannot be washed away just by using the identity of a Daoist Layman.”
As he spoke, he activated 《the advanced Qi Cultivation Method of the Nine Heavens Profound Scripture》, and a wave of aura pressed directly down on the man.
Even though he had only just begun to open spiritual meridians and would only count as a small fry in the Shu Shan Swordsman World,
in reality, this aura was absolutely enough to make an ordinary person feel immense pressure.
In that instant, the middle-aged man instinctively swallowed. “Chen Family Head, I… I do not know what you are talking about!”
“Do not know?” Chen Han said with a smiling expression, “Then do I need to make a Call the police, so you can tell the Police Uncle in person? Do you believe there really are deities three feet above your head who will make you speak all the truth yourself?”
In that instant, the middle-aged man’s heart sank.
Especially after having just seen the terrifying Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram and now feeling the unsettling presence of this Chen Family Head, he could no longer bear the pressure. Terrified, he hurried away and did not dare linger another second.
Daoist Priest Li and the others stared at this scene in astonishment. They also understood in their hearts that this must be the evildoer Chen Family Head had spoken of, who wanted to use the identity of a Daoist Layman for some scheme.
Now he had been exposed by Chen Family Head.
The key was, how did Chen Family Head know at a first meeting?
Was it because of the Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram just now?
All at once, everyone began to speculate.
Chen Han had already turned his gaze to the Daoist lay Buddhists gathered around and said coldly, “I know that some among you are not sincerely devoted to the Dao. The reason you donate and sponsor the Daoist Sect is mostly with ulterior motives. Some of you may even have sins as deep as that man just now, right? The Daoist Sect is not a place to shelter filth. Those of you with such intentions should leave of your own accord, otherwise… hmph…”
Perhaps the earlier events had been shocking enough, for as soon as they heard this, four of the lay Buddhists showed unpleasant expressions. After hesitating, they turned and left.
Having witnessed the mysterious manifestation earlier, they did not dare to gamble on whether this Chen Family Head had other special methods.
Since they had money, if they did not sponsor the Daoist Sect, they could sponsor the Buddhist Sect instead. It was not their loss.
This scene made those lay Buddhists, as well as Daoist Priest Li and the other Daoist Sect Daoist Priests, look at this Chen Family Head in utter shock.
In such a short time, he seemed like a truly enlightened expert who could distinguish good and evil, and with just a few words, he had made those evildoers retreat on their own.
It was like the plot often used when novels described a Daoist expert.
Had the novel stepped into reality?
But Chen Han simply looked at the Daoists and lay Buddhists gathered outside and said calmly, “Disperse.”
With that, he returned into the house and did not intend to say more to anyone.
“Everyone go do your own things.” Daoist Priest Li also dispersed the others, then looked once more at the detached house before him.
What Chen Family Head had just displayed could be called a Divine Manifestation.
It was definitely another wonder and miracle after the Wudang Thunderfire Alchemy Peak.
Unlike the Wudang Thunderfire Alchemy Peak, what Chen Family Head created could not be seen by outsiders unless he displayed it again publicly while people happened to be present.
But the Wudang Alchemy Peak appeared frequently, so there were more tourists at Wudang, and even all kinds of prices were driven up by the market.
At the same time, it greatly increased the influence of the Daoist Sect.
This was something the Daoist Sect had never had before, and all of it seemed related to this Chen Family Head.
Perhaps he truly was, as many fellow practitioners in the Daoist Sect believed, a Great Master who appeared only once in several hundred years.
In the future, he would surely establish his own lineage and be recorded in Daoist texts.
Otherwise, how could one explain that Yin Yang Tai Chi Diagram just now?
However, he did not intend to ask Chen Family Head about such spells. He knew clearly that such things were surely secret techniques not to be passed on.
Just like Wudang, which had recently been cultivating the manual 《Tai Chi Fist》. Would they tell others?
Asking would only make people dislike you.
Even if others did tell you, how would you know whether it was real or fake? If you practiced wrong, there might even be deaths.
So now he only hoped that people of his own sect could find their Feng Shui Formation Diagram. Even if only residual traces remained, they could invite Chen Family Head and many fellow practitioners of the Daoist Sect to take a look.
Perhaps it could be restored. His own side also had inherited cultivation manuals. More than 200 years ago, during Daoist Master San Feng’s time, they had produced a Daoist Grandmaster.
Daoist Priest Li entered the building and met Chen Han. “Chen Family Head, it is almost dinner time. Given the current situation, will you go together to the restaurant, or how would you like to arrange it?”
Chen Han thought for a moment and looked at the three. “Have the three of them pack a portion for me. I will skip the restaurant. I do not want too much attention.”
“Alright.” Daoist Priest Li nodded. He chatted a bit more with Chen Han about tomorrow’s Daoist Sect Event and did not touch on what had just happened.
It was only when he was about to leave that Daoist Priest Li suddenly made a suggestion. “Chen Family Head, next year my term as Association President of the Daoist Association ends. I feel that in terms of prestige in the Daoist Sect now, no one can compare with you. I want to recommend you. Those Vice Presidents and Daoist Priests will all agree.”
Chen Han immediately shook his head when he heard this. “Daoist Priest Li, do not harm me. I do not want to deal with those trivial matters. Find someone else to do that hard labor. There are so many purple-robed Daoist Priests. Any of them would do.”
“Hehehe!” Daoist Priest Li laughed helplessly.
Calling it hard labor was indeed accurate.
Just the constant battles of wits with Secretary-General Ma Yuan consumed a lot of mental energy, not to mention handling many Daoist Sect Events.
These matters involved not only the Daoist Sect itself, but sometimes also tasks assigned by the higher-ups. There were many troublesome issues.
After Daoist Priest Li left, Chen Han returned to his room and continued to study Immortal Light Merging, working to fully master this spell.
Since he knew that under the attributes of the game system, this spell could affect and harm people of the Demonic Path in reality, its use was great.
Thinking of the description in Shu Shan Swordsman, once his strength became powerful, he could cast Immortal Light Merging to cover an entire city.
What kind of scenario would that be?
After familiarizing himself with Immortal Light Merging, he turned his attention to the Immortal Alliance gift package, the reward from this Divine Manifestation task.
What such a treasure chest could yield depended entirely on luck.
Sometimes it might be worthless.
But since it was a free reward, it did not matter what came out.
【Congratulations, you have opened an Immortal Alliance gift package and obtained one special Evolution Bagua Plate Fragment part from Purple Cloud Palace】
“???” Chen Han froze for a moment when he saw this game prompt.
If it had been some other Magic Treasure fragment, he would have complained that the game system was stingy but could not be that stingy.
Before, at least they had given incomplete items. Now it was directly a fragment.
But an Evolution Bagua Plate Fragment was different.
Purple Cloud Palace was a sect founded later in the Shu Shan Swordsman World by Qi Lingyun, and its strength was not to be underestimated.
Every disciple of Purple Cloud Palace was proficient in strange formations, yin-yang and Eight Trigrams, and adept at using the Eight Trigrams for deduction. The fundamental source of this came from the Evolution Bagua Plate Fragment.
It was said that the runes on the Evolution Bagua Plate intertwined to form several manuals on Eight Trigrams deduction, providing cultivation methods for Purple Cloud Palace disciples.
And Qi Lingyun, as everyone who had read the novel knew, was one of the famously renowned “three heroes and two clouds.”
In any TV Series or Movie related to Shu Shan, she would inevitably appear.
She was also the daughter of the Emei Sect Leader.
Precisely because of this, the Evolution Bagua Plate could become the sect-protecting Treasure of the sect she founded.
Later, the Evolution Bagua Plate was shattered and scattered. A wandering itinerant diviner obtained a fragment and became a famous seer in that region, eventually even becoming a national preceptor.
It was said this was because the diviner had used it several times to help the emperor deduce wars and make key deployments.
So even as a fragment, it was not an ordinary fragment.
Chen Han immediately looked at the Remark Information for the Evolution Bagua Plate Fragment in the Game Warehouse:
【Evolution Bagua Plate Fragment: this is a fragment from the Purple Cloud Palace Evolution Bagua Plate after it was shattered. It has special effects. When worn on the body, when fate arrives, it will trigger a special deduction effect. Because the fragment is too small and the runes incomplete, the direction, result, and target of the deduction are random and uncontrollable!】
Seeing this Remark Information, Chen Han roughly understood the use of this fragment.
Purple Cloud Palace was skilled at deduction because of the Evolution Bagua Plate.
For example, they could deduce who would face calamity soon, so as to avoid it. It was similar to the common idea of divination, but even more miraculous.
Purple Cloud Palace had relied on this Treasure many times to avoid the schemes of the Demonic Cult.
There was even a rumor that before Old Ancestor Long Eyebrows’ Ascension, he used this Treasure to deduce that Emei would rise and thus made a series of arrangements.
However, the Evolution Bagua Plate could only deduce matters of the mortal world. It had no use in Ascension, so it was left in the Emei Sect.
Now, according to this Remark Information on the Evolution Bagua Plate Fragment, this fragment also had a certain degree of deduction effect, but this effect could not be controlled.
The direction, result, and target of the deduction were random.
The key was that “when fate arrives” was the prerequisite for triggering the Evolution Bagua Plate Fragment.
This had a bit of a cryptic riddle feeling. He had no idea how to interpret it.
Unable to figure it out, Chen Han simply took out a Red Rope and wrapped and wove it around the Evolution Bagua Plate Fragment so he could hang it around his neck and count as wearing it.
Night completely fell. Chen Dalong, Chen Linlin, and Chen Dao went to the restaurant for dinner and packed a portion for him.
After eating the food they brought back, Chen Han received a message from his junior sister. She sent a Photo: the thank-you gift from the Chen Clan.
One portion of Premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea plus one portion of refined Spirit Tea, placed in a Gift Package box.
These were gifts to thank the blueprint designers.
After all, they had used their blueprints to reskin the Artifact Refining Furnace and those items, so naturally, they should show appreciation.
Although the participants had joined voluntarily, whether you showed appreciation or not sometimes made a difference. It showed the level of one’s vision.
Chen Han had his junior sister record a Video and send it to him. Then he posted the Video on his Douyin Account, adding voiceover: “The Old Ancestor has already completed the construction of the Family Cave Mansion and has understood what it means to keep pace with the times. To thank the several Fellow Daoists who helped the Old Ancestor realize what true keeping pace with the times means, they will receive gifts from our Chen Clan.”
“It is the Gift Package of Premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea and refined Spirit Tea shown in the video. The Chen Clan will contact the Fellow Daoists, and at that time please cooperate by filling in some information.”
He then uploaded it to Douyin, wrote a title, and @-mentioned those whose blueprints had been used.
Click send.
That night, apart from cultivating for a while, Chen Han spent all his time studying the Evolution Bagua Plate Fragment, but he did not discover anything.
Online, however, the internet became lively again because of his Video.
After work, Huang Tao went to a dinner gathering with colleagues. They were all men, no women. With women at such gatherings, sometimes things got weird.
Seeing in the Douyin Backend that someone had @-mentioned him, Huang Tao thought it was again about his picture being used by Chen Family Head.
Because of this, many mischievous entertainers had @-mentioned him many times.
But this time, after he clicked in, he was clearly stunned, especially when he heard Chen Family Head in the video talking about giving gifts, especially Premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea plus refined Spirit Tea.
The colleagues who knew the situation around him subconsciously stopped and looked at him. Their expressions turned strange as they hurriedly took out their Mobile Phones to search for Chen Family Head’s Video.
The colleagues who did not know what was going on were confused. “Why did you all suddenly become like this?”
One informed colleague asked, “You don’t know? A set of the Chen Clan’s Premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea plus refined Spirit Tea as a gift is worth several hundred thousand. Huang Tao is about to get such a gift.”
The phrase “several hundred thousand” caught the attention of the uninformed colleagues. They quickly took out their phones to check. They all knew about the Chen Clan and had come across the videos.
They just had not paid attention to the specifics of Premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.
When they found out the price, the looks they gave Huang Tao changed. Someone even voiced envy. “Huang Tao, you are about to get rich?”
Although Huang Tao was also dizzy from this Surprise, he had been to the Chen Clan and seen some mysterious phenomena, so he suddenly asked, “If Chen Family Head only made an AI video using my picture, would he need to give gifts worth several hundred thousand? And several sets at that. How much would that cost?”
This question stunned the other colleagues.
What did he mean?
Online,
countless others also saw Chen Han’s Video. The Video was simple but captivating. Mainly, the two teas together made each Gift Package worth several hundred thousand.
Such an amount did more than attract attention; it stirred up deep envy. And this was just in exchange for an abstract blueprint.
Many who had not participated, as well as those who had participated but not been selected, were now beating their chests in regret.
They had thought it was only for a video, just to join the fun and be entertainers. Who knew there would be such a valuable gift?
Besides Chen Han’s Video, Chen Dalong, Chen Dao, and Chen Linlin had also each posted a similar Video promoting this Daoist Sect Event.
The three of them now had quite a lot of fans, all over two million and still increasing. After they took part in the next world championship and placed, their fan counts would soar.
After all, people were already calling Chen Dalong and Chen Dao “big brother,” and signs of the fan economy were emerging.
Because of this, this Daoist Sect Event drew great attention.
……
The next day, when Chen Han rose from meditation, the entire villa complex was already bustling in the early morning.
Because today was the start of this Daoist Sect Event. Both the invited Daoist Priests and the lay Buddhists would go to Tianhuang Pavilion to participate.
When he went downstairs, Chen Dalong, Chen Dao, and Chen Linlin were all wearing Daoist Robes, though only the most basic plain robes.
Today the three of them would be the faces of this Daoist Sect Event.
Presumably many of their fans would come to support them, making the Scene even livelier.
Before breakfast, Chen Han had planned to go to this Daoist Sect Event as well. After all, he was already here.
But just after finishing breakfast, he suddenly froze. The Evolution Bagua Plate Fragment hanging around his neck suddenly trembled slightly.
Then a cool sensation surged straight into his head, and his expression became incredulous.
Damn, after studying it all night with no result, it suddenly triggered on its own.
And the effect was really something.
