Chapter 339: What If The Entire Demon Realm Became A Merit Industry?
This minor punishment as a warning（ merit industry version） is definitely meant to be used at the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Daoist Temple in the Demon Realm.
Because that place is now his important source of wish power.
When Mahadra used that manifestation scroll to bring about divine manifestation, it provided him with data of more than 200,000 wish power.
Today it likewise provided him with more than 80,000 wish power, which means that after the manifestation there were still 80,000 people coming to piously worship the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.
But at the same time, without the impact and shock of the first manifestation, the people of the Demon Realm cannot keep worshipping the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation endlessly.
Because the Daoist Temple over there does not have the Chen Clan’s blessing rules, which allow people to feel that peculiar warm sensation in their bodies and that sense of comfort.
Over time, even with the added blessing from the first manifestation, the people of the Demon Realm will gradually lose the desire to go worship.
After all, they are still in a desperate situation where survival itself is a problem. Even if they believe in a deity, they cannot worship every day, especially when the distance is relatively far.
If there is this kind of minor punishment as a warning attribute that people can observe, then it will be different.
People in the Demon Realm will be able to see the deity punishing evil people, and can feel miracles, so their desire to piously worship will be stronger.
In this way it can maintain the Demon Realm people’s desire to worship the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation, so that side can continuously provide wish power.
As for the other merit industries, whether factories, the back mountain, rapeseed flower planting, or even the not-yet-built Qingfeng Daoist Priest’s Palace, none of these need an extra minor punishment as a warning attribute.
So, using it in the outer Demon Realm is best. Now he just did not know, once this minor punishment as a warning merit industry version was used at the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Daoist Temple in the outer Demon Realm, how large the affected range would be.
As he was thinking this, the game system very considerately displayed a prompt:
【Would you like to use the minor punishment as a warning（ merit industry version） at the merit industry Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Daoist Temple in the outer Demon Realm? The radiation range of minor punishment as a warning will be determined by the scope of influence of the Demon Realm Daoist Temple’s propagation of the way!
Do you agree to use it?】
Seeing this prompt, Chen Han immediately chose to agree.
If this is the case, as long as Mahadra works a bit harder over there, the entire Demon Realm will become the Chen Clan’s merit industry.
As he made his choice, the game prompt appeared again:
【The minor punishment as a warning（ merit industry version） has selected the merit industry Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Daoist Temple in the outer Demon Realm. The minor punishment as a warning attribute is being renovated…】
Renovation takes time.
Chen Han also looked at the other special attribute for the sect location in this upgrade: the divine skill of a dream of yellow millet.
This upgrade had only these two rewards, which also showed that this divine skill of a dream of yellow millet was not simple.
The term “a dream of yellow millet” is also widely known in the vast body of writing to come from a classical story:
The story tells of Lu Sheng of the Tang dynasty, who at an inn in Handan encountered the Daoist Lü Weng and lamented his own poverty and frustration.
Lü Weng gave him a green porcelain pillow. Lu Sheng leaned on the pillow and fell asleep while the innkeeper was cooking yellow millet.
In his dream Lu Sheng married a woman from a prestigious family, passed the imperial exams, became a high official and even a prime minister, enjoyed all wealth and glory, had many children and grandchildren, and died peacefully of old age. But when he woke up, he found that the yellow millet the innkeeper was cooking had not yet finished. Only then did he realize that the ups and downs of his life had been just a dream. He suddenly saw through it all and followed the Daoist away.
This term is a metaphor for dreams that are illusory and cannot be realized. It is often used to warn people not to indulge in unrealistic fantasies, to emphasize that worldly glory and wealth are as fleeting and illusory as dreams, and to suggest that past events should pass away like the dream of yellow millet, without too much entanglement over trivial things.
Only now this dream of yellow millet has gained the two words “divine skill” and has become a special attribute of the sect location. What kind of effect this will have made him curious.
Right now this sect location special attribute was still under renovation, so he had no way to know yet.
So he set this aside for the moment, turned his head to look toward his junior sister. She had already placed that mecha model into the artifact refining furnace and closed it.
He naturally filmed this scene as well. The footage of his junior sister refining the mecha had to be complete.
This time, he even deliberately went to the modern device display screen of the artifact refining furnace to film the percentage display of the refining progress.
The skin of this artifact refining furnace had been crowdsourced from fans. Especially this tech-filled display screen showing the percentage data of refining progress was the brainchild of one fan and had been liked by many fans.
Now he and his junior sister using this artifact refining furnace to refine these mecha models was a very abstract thing, especially for those fans who had watched the family cave mansion construction videos.
In their minds, that family cave mansion was a video made by AI.
Now taking the artifact refining furnace from that AI-made video to refine real-life mecha models was something with a lot of discussion value, and many people would even admire this creativity.
But what they did not know was that the cave mansion was not an AI video, and this was not a creative gimmick, but a real artifact refining furnace actually refining mecha models.
Seeing his junior sister’s serious expression, Chen Han let her operate as she wished, while he walked to the edge of the cave mansion, took out an intermediate spirit stone, sat down cross-legged, and began cultivating.
After the eight extraordinary meridians are opened, the process of opening meridians is not easier than before, but once there is progress and the spiritual meridian can connect with the upper and middle dantian, his strength will rise significantly.
If the upper, middle, and lower three dantian can all connect with the spiritual meridian, that will be the foundation for entering the liquid condensation realm.
But for him right now, connecting to even one dantian was a bit difficult.
Chen Han kept cultivating until the prompt for the artifact refining furnace completing its refinement sounded. Only then did he stop cultivating. When he got up, his junior sister had already reopened the furnace.
Seeing his junior sister still in high spirits, Chen Han also left the family cave mansion. Outside it was already night, but a white light shield shrouded the entire Chen Clan.
That was the game system’s renovation radiance, which others could not see at all.
He returned to his room, took a shower, and planned to scroll some videos before heading back to the family cave mansion to continue cultivating. He then discovered that many people had mentioned him in the Douyin backend.
Opening it, he saw it was Xiao Mi’s video about the Chen Clan holding an Honor of Kings cosplay event.
In a very short time this video had already received more than 2 million likes.
This showed the allure of the 3 million bonus. In addition, the heat of the event itself was large enough, with so many national style goddesses announcing their participation at once.
Of course, the main point was that there really were many Honor of Kings players, and many people joining the fun.
This event was led by the county, which set up the venue. The square in the ancient city area was much larger than the Chen Clan’s martial arts field and could hold far more tourists.
This event would definitely be even livelier than the previous National Style Ceremony.
The reason viewers were mentioning him was mainly to ask why the Chen Clan was holding this event, and even to ask if he also liked playing Honor of Kings.
Naturally, some people asked whether Timi Studio had contacted him.
Chen Han smiled and naturally would not tell them that it was only to get participants to curse more, increase resentful energy, and let him collect resentful energy.
Putting away his mobile phone, he went again to the family grotto-heaven. The last mecha model had also been placed into the artifact refining furnace by his junior sister.
His junior sister was beside him cultivating with a primary spirit stone in hand.
He likewise took out an intermediate spirit stone to cultivate, continuing until the alarm clock rang the next day before stopping.
In his mind the prompt indicating that the last mecha model had completed refinement had appeared.
When he opened his eyes and got up, he saw that his junior sister had opened the artifact refining furnace and taken out all those mecha model parts.
“Senior brother, both mecha models have been refined.” Xiao Yu stepped forward to claim credit when she saw her senior brother finish cultivating.
“Mm, go cultivate by the old elm tree!” Chen Han nodded with a smile and walked toward the exit, leaving the family cave mansion.
After the special spiritual aperture was upgraded, the quality of the spiritual energy washing through it was very high. One session of cultivation under its wash could equal him cultivating for several hours with an intermediate spirit stone. It could not be wasted.
Seeing her senior brother go out, Xiao Yu hurriedly followed. She naturally also knew the benefit of cultivating there.
Chen Han of course returned to his own courtyard first. He still had to bring You Fu and You Cai over.
And that little white rabbit as well.
Only after that did he go to the special spiritual aperture, sit down cross-legged, and cultivate.
When he finished refining and absorbing the spiritual energy and stood up, his junior sister and his uncle and the others had already left.
The difference in strength was too big. His junior sister and the others could only absorb a limited amount of spiritual energy.
Chen Han left the special spiritual aperture, put the little white rabbit back into the Moon Gazing Rabbit Hutch, and then went to Uncle’s Kitchen to deal with the medicinal cuisine.
To be honest, this medicinal cuisine was now of no use to him at all.
Moreover, his junior sister could refine body tempering pills（ premium）, with body tempering effect of +2, no worse than the effect of the medicinal cuisine.
So the medicinal cuisine was starting to become a bit tasteless even for his uncle and the others.
However, the premium body tempering pills were still few, and for now could only be supplied to his uncle and the others.
The medicinal cuisine could still be used to nurture others. It could be given to Aunt-Grandmother, and also to Fifth Uncle and Sixth Uncle.
As the saying goes, an old person at home is like a treasure. Even if these three elders in the end still cannot cultivate the cultivation method, it is good enough if they live longer.
Besides the three elders, there was also Chen Jun, and two children selected from the family.
The two children in their early teens had relatively good roots. Uncle, Uncle Dagou, and Uncle Shuisheng had already examined their roots according to the cultivation methods.
They were the second batch of clan members practicing martial arts after the three of Chen Dalong. After the three of them practiced the Tai Xu Chasing Wind Leg《》 to some level, they would also register them like the three of Chen Dalong.
As for cultivation methods for immortality, they would not be passed on to other clan members for the time being.
At least not until his junior sister and the others had cultivated some strength and opened several of the eight extraordinary meridians.
Thinking of this, Chen Han called his junior sister on the telephone and instructed, “Bring Chen Jun and the other two children selected to practice the Tai Xu Chasing Wind Leg《》 over.”
“Okay, senior brother!” Xiao Yu agreed.
After hanging up, Chen Han took out a portion of demonic beast meat from the warehouse and also took out all the medicinal herbs needed to make the medicinal cuisine and set them aside.
He did not rush to make the medicinal cuisine himself. He intended to hand this job over to Chen Jun. From now on, Chen Jun would stew the medicinal cuisine.
Soon, Xiao Yu arrived with Chen Jun and the other two teenagers. The two children looked at him with respect and greeted him reverently, “Patriarch.”
Now in the Chen Clan, everyone knew to respect the patriarch. And as the chosen lucky ones, even as children they knew they would be different in the Chen Clan in the future, so they supported the patriarch even more.
Children of this age are more likely to become loyal followers. It is one reason that those wandering the underworld like to recruit teenagers.
“Brother Han.” Chen Jun also greeted respectfully.
“Have you been practicing the Tai Xu Chasing Wind Leg《》 recently and drinking the medicinal wine?” Chen Han called Chen Jun over and asked.
“Yeah, the three of us have all been drinking it.” Chen Jun nodded.
Pointing to the demonic beast meat and medicinal herbs, Chen Han said, “Besides drinking the medicinal wine, I will also teach you a kind of medicinal cuisine. Eating it will also benefit you. From now on, I will put the materials here with uncle every day. You can come make the medicinal cuisine. After it is done stewing, don’t forget to send a share to Aunt-Grandmother, Fifth Uncle, and Sixth Uncle.”
“Okay, Brother Han.” Chen Jun’s eyes lit up.
He naturally knew of the Chen Clan’s medicinal cuisine. In the past tourists could still purchase it, but later it was no longer open to tourists. Now everyone knew that this medicinal cuisine could assist in martial arts training.
So, as soon as Chen Han began to process the demonic beast meat, Chen Jun watched very carefully and seriously.
He was actually very curious what kind of meat this was, but he also knew that meat used for medicinal cuisine would not be ordinary. Sensibly, he did not ask.
In any case, he would just follow whatever arrangement Brother Han made.
Afraid that Chen Jun would not remember the steps for adding the medicinal herbs to the medicinal cuisine, Chen Han specifically took out a mobile phone and had him film it.
Chen Jun naturally did so.
The two children beside them also watched very seriously. Although the patriarch had not said they should learn the medicinal cuisine, they felt that when the patriarch was not present and Brother Chen Jun was making it, they could help.
After passing all the steps on to Chen Jun, Chen Han had him watch over the stewing medicinal cuisine and told him to remember to add water. Then he went back to his own courtyard.
With these matters handed to Chen Jun, he did not need to stay. In the future he only needed to place the demonic beast meat offered by You Cai in Uncle’s Kitchen every day.
Things like this could be left to others.
Just as Chen Han returned to his courtyard, prompts of increased wish power quickly appeared in his mind:
【Your wish power has increased by 1 point!】
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【Your wish power has increased by 1 point!】
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【Your wish power has increased by 1 point!】
An increase of more than a thousand wish power at once meant that people in the Demon Realm were worshipping the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.
Calculating the time difference, people over there would have gotten up and started going to the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Daoist Temple to worship.
Moreover, this increase in wish power would be continuous.
Because people in the Demon Realm would go one after another to worship the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.
Seeing the increase in wish power, Chen Han also checked the sect residence data:
Level: level 7 sect residence
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Upgrade requirements: Money: （359 million/****）. Reputation: （0265 million/****）. Wish power: （285255/****）. Feng Shui formation（2/2）. Three Talents Plant forest（completed）.
Because the divine skill of a dream of yellow millet had not yet finished renovation, the requirements for the next upgrade had not been displayed.
However, he could still see the data he currently possessed.
After yesterday’s additional 80,000, wish power had originally reached 385,000, but after spending 100,000 wish power on the upgrade, 285,000 remained.
Today it should also increase by about 80,000, but compared to the initial more than 200,000, it had already been severely halved.
And in the time to come, if there was no new manifestation, even this daily increase of 80,000 wish power would be directly halved again.
So this minor punishment as a warning (merit industry version) had really come at a very timely moment.
Almost as he was thinking that, a game prompt appeared again:
【Congratulations, the minor punishment as a warning（ merit industry version） attribute at the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Daoist Temple in the Demon Realm has completed renovation and begun to take effect. The range of attribute influence is determined by the scope of propagation of the way by the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Daoist Temple in the Demon Realm.】
This reminder made Chen Han immediately look toward the light screen in his mind.
Truly, he hoped Mahadra could put in more effort.
If the whole Demon Realm under the influence of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Daoist Temple was covered by the minor punishment as a warning attribute, what would that mean?
The Demon Realm.
At the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Daoist Temple, Mahadra was already in the great hall inside the hall receiving the common people who had come to worship, holding a fly whisk in his hand like the Daoist priests of the Chen Clan.
The great hall was already crowded with worshippers. Because there were too many people and the inside could not hold them all, many worshippers were kneeling and bowing outside.
Among those 100,000 Heavenly Lord Believers, several were full of emotion. They were real Daoists. Within the country, there was no Daoist sect that could have tens of thousands of believers come to worship in a single day.
As for those temporary Daoist priests, they also felt emotional about how their leader’s plan of using sect inheritance to carry out cultural infiltration and influence had truly been thought up, and the key point was that the plan was clearly successful.
“Rise, and bow again!” While the people were worshipping, Mahadra directed their movements. The only thing that made him feel disrespectful to the Heavenly Lord was that there was no incense yet.
That had to be imported from Eastern Greatness, and transporting it here would take some effort.
As Mahadra was thinking about this, he suddenly froze, a momentary confusion flashing in his eyes. Immediately after, uncontrollable excitement appeared on his face. “The Heavenly Lord has manifested once more. The Heavenly Lord will protect us. Give thanks to the Heavenly Lord!”
Shouting, he began to piously worship the Statue of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation.
This left those 100,000 Heavenly Lord Believers confused. Ten of them looked at each other.
Because Mahadra was speaking the local Demon Realm language, they did not understand what he was saying or why he suddenly seemed to go crazy.
But those believers were all excited, looking at one another. Some of those outside the Daoist Temple even subconsciously looked up to the sky.
They remembered that when the Heavenly Lord previously manifested, the long-floating dust clouds were dissolved, and rain descended, restoring their physical discomfort and healing some of their injuries.
Now the Heavenly Lord had manifested again?
Yet after staring at the sky for a long time, they still did not see anything happen…
