Chapter 349: A Rehearsal In Advance
After the Evolution Bagua Plate Fragment returned to normal, Chen Han also left the Robot Fighting Cage and then met his junior sister, who was studying the AR control equipment.
Since the Evolution Bagua Plate Fragment had given an evolution prompt, some matters had to be dealt with.
Xiao Mi was guiding Xiao Yu on some things.
In the end, she personally took it and tried it, controlling the Beginner Puppet in the fighting cage to walk out.
Seeing his junior sister, Chen Han said, “Junior sister, you might have to control this puppet in tomorrow’s competition. I will probably need to handle some matters on my side.”
“Really?” Xiao Yu immediately grew eager to try, her face full of expectation.
After watching her senior brother fight two matches, every cell in her body was boiling. She also wanted to control this puppet to slaughter all directions.
“Of course it is real,” Chen Han said with a smile.
Seeing many spectators around them excitedly shouting to him, he also waved to those spectators in greeting.
This caused even louder cheers.
The live audience had clearly been shocked by that sword strike just now.
At this moment.
The person most shocked at the competition venue was definitely Minister Ma.
At his level, he could see the overall situation in many matters, and see the changes and effects that one thing could bring to the whole picture.
For example, the Feng Shui and Feng Shui formations created by the Chen Family Head and those Daoist Sect Daoist Priests of the Daoist Sect.
They had no way to probe the Chen Clan’s True Kung Fu. After all, by the time they started to follow the Chen Clan, the Chen Family Head and the Chen Clan Masters had already been proven to possess True Kung Fu, and their kung fu was not weak.
But after Wudang Thunderfire Alchemy Peak was repaired, they had been watching it closely. Once the positive and negative microparticles split by lightning were confirmed to exist, they paid even more attention to it.
They also knew about those Wudang Daoist Priests cultivating the Manual 《Tai Chi Fist》 on the Golden Summit.
Moreover, that 《Tai Chi Fist》 was no longer the soft, showy routine from before, but something truly powerful and imposing.
To monitor this matter, they even directly pulled a satellite feed to watch over the Golden Summit.
Some might say this was making a big fuss over nothing, but once they discovered that the Wudang Daoist Priests had clearly improved their strength after cultivating the Manual 《Tai Chi Fist》, they had no choice but to take it seriously.
Especially when the people they sent to pose as thieves were beaten badly, they understood the miraculous nature of this.
Now the Daoist Sect was saying that Feng Shui formations were the key to cultivating True Kung Fu, just like Wudang Thunderfire Alchemy Peak, which could decompose special energy.
He knew very clearly what it would mean if they could master this.
It would allow their soldiers’ individual combat power to increase by more than one level, completely widening the gap between them and the soldiers of other countries.
According to their tests on that microparticle energy and its enhancement to the human body, it could reach an extremely terrifying degree.
If truly unforeseeable and uncontrollable events occurred, they would also have an absolute advantage in individual combat, and it would be no different from bullying children.
This was also why the higher-ups had allocated so much funding to their Special Intelligence Analysis Department, and had even given them very great privileges now.
There were a few stubborn experts who wanted to pull tricks regarding Wudang Thunderfire Alchemy Peak. He directly used his privileges to send several of them in to step on sewing machines.
With so much on their plate already, they still wanted to stir up trouble.
It was all because some people had gained benefits when fixing the lightning strike issues at the Golden Summit before. Now that lightning had appeared again, these guys started scheming.
Back then it was a special era and there had been no other method, but under the current circumstances, how could he possibly allow those people to come out and wreck things?
The mountain canyon they had created now had also gone through many procedures at the higher level, and several leaders had put in an enormous amount of effort to get it for them.
Thunder Fire Refining Golden Summit was their best reference template. How could they allow anything to go wrong there?
There was also the Illusion Array set up by the Chen Family Head and those Daoist Sect Daoist Priests at the Chen Clan’s side, which their department was now studying with full effort.
Although they currently had no clue about this Illusion Array, it did not stop him from painting a big pie of a proposal for the leaders.
That was, if one day they could use the geography and terrain of other countries to directly airdrop and launch Feng Shui Stones to set up an Illusion Array right on the enemy army’s positions, what kind of situation would that be?
Although this was just a big pie, with the Chen Clan’s existing Illusion Array as proof, it showed that as long as they grasped the principles and spent the time to work on it, they might be able to achieve it in the future.
This was surely more reliable than things like the Southern Heavenly Gate Plan, right?
But now he suddenly realized he was wrong. With the appearance of this mecha, it seemed the Southern Heavenly Gate Plan might be the first to be realized.
What he was thinking now was that if they could air-drop Feng Shui Stones onto enemy army positions to lay an Illusion Array, and then throw mecha like the one controlled by the Chen Family Head into the array, what would happen?
You would not even need to say it would be a crushing situation. The enemy would be scared out of their wits.
Most crucially, in science and technology, once a country developed a new technology and it was seen by others, even a bit of residual technical fragments could allow other countries to copy it.
For example, the old Tsar Bomba technology. How tightly did the Stars and Stripes guard against it?
And the result?
It was not long before other countries mastered it too. Even though they had lagged so far behind, they still managed to produce it.
After all, in this kind of science and technology, once those researchers saw it, or even understood the general principles, they could reproduce it through scientific methods.
Even with lithography machine technology, once blocked by countries around the world and called a colossal technical challenge, they still conquered much of it. It was only a matter of time before they fully cracked it.
They might even take another step up and become world-leading. It was not impossible.
But what they were facing now was not technology. Whether it was Feng Shui formations, Illusion Arrays, or even this mecha, all might be related to the Daoist Sect’s inheritance, culture, and craft.
For people in other countries, this was countless times harder than science and technology.
To put it another way, their cracking department could not understand descriptions in many Daoist Sect books, let alone people in other countries.
Even if there were plenty of traitors over there, this difficulty was absolutely not something a few traitors could solve.
He did not believe these traitors would have done much research on the Daoist Sect.
That was impossible.
As he was thinking this, he saw someone enter and report with a frown, “Minister Ma, we have caught two people with suspicious identities who should be infiltrators from the 500,It seems the videos of this league’s competition spread out, and foreigners came to investigate the situation.”
“Bring them back. Find out which side they belong to, and send more people. Do not let these people get close to the Chen Family Head’s mecha,” Minister Ma ordered immediately.
After that, he felt it necessary to meet the Chen Family Head, so he left this box and headed for the rest area assigned by the league to the Chen Family Head for modification and repair.
He could not help himself; he wanted to ask the Chen Family Head about the situation with this mecha.
But just as he got close to the rest area arranged for the Chen Family Head, he saw the Chen Family Head walking out.
The other party seemed to be walking right toward him.
He really was walking toward him.
And he came straight up to him. “Minister Ma, let’s go!”
“???” Minister Ma was directly confused.
He could be sure he had never met this Chen Family Head face-to-face. Now the other party had directly called out his name and identity, and a chill instantly ran down his spine.
Would you not be startled?
You had to know his identity was classified. He did not interact with outsiders; the other party should have had no way to know his name or position.
More critically, the other party also knew he had come to find him and came out first, then walked right up to him to greet him.
This…
Fortunately, Minister Ma had seen a lot of the world. He calmed down, and his mind quickly recalled the online news about the Chen Family Head guiding a driver, saving the driver’s wife and twins.
In the news, some people said the Chen Family Head could divine and know future events.
Because of this, their cracking department had specially found Daoist Sect books about the Eight Trigrams and such, trying to have someone decipher them, but they had achieved nothing.
Now it seemed the Chen Family Head really had such abilities, so he had calculated his visit in advance and taken the initiative to come out and greet him.
Impressive.
Minister Ma took a deep breath and said, “The Chen Family Head knew I was coming?”
“If not today, then sooner or later. Let’s go see what is going on with that mountain canyon together,” Chen Han said with a faint smile.
He could clearly see the way Minister Ma’s expression changed drastically.
That was exactly his goal.
As the Chen Clan sect’s sect residence grew more advanced and displayed more things, it was normal for the higher-ups to pay attention, and just as normal for them to come into contact.
So when he saw the evolutionary scene of the Evolution Bagua Plate just now, he was not surprised.
However, for a first meeting, he had to show some techniques to seize the initiative.
The effect was obviously good.
He had not expected that the higher-ups had already started researching Feng Shui formations, and their progress was even greater than he had imagined.
But thinking about it, the power of a principle was like that. They controlled all kinds of top-level power, absolutely beyond what ordinary people or grassroots factions could compare to.
It was like in many wuxia novels; even when the martial world sects were full of experts, the imperial dynasty could still firmly hold the throne because their strength surpassed all the martial sects.
A country’s resources and power were simply not something those martial world sects could match.
Of course, cultivation novels were another matter.
That was a worldview where one sect could control several countries, and princes from all nations scrambled to become disciples.
That was a different dimension.
However, in this respect, the resources and power that the higher-ups could mobilize now far exceeded those of imperial dynasties in those novels.
The more he thought about it, the less strange he found it. After all, in just 50 years, they had advanced from having nothing to catching up fiercely, even reaching world-leading levels.
If, after learning about Feng Shui formations and after such a period of time, they still had not achieved these things, that would have been strange.
He even began to look forward to seeing what kind of Feng Shui formations the higher-ups could create.
Minister Ma was indeed shocked.
You had to know that the Feng Shui formations in that mountain canyon were also classified. Apart from those involved, only he and a few leaders knew about it.
Now this Chen Family Head even knew about that?
How could one not be alarmed?
But since they had originally planned to invite this person to inspect the Feng Shui formations, now that he heard the other party take the initiative to propose going there, he even forgot his original intention of asking about the mecha. He hurriedly took people along.
Only when they walked toward the parking lot did he realize something was wrong. At this time, it should have been them leading the way, so how had it become the Chen Family Head leading?
Then he was once again shocked to see the Chen Family Head walk directly to their vehicles.
The other party even knew which ones were theirs?
Minister Ma suddenly felt even more terrified of the Chen Family Head, as if he had no secrets at all in front of this man.
He even felt that the other party might know what color underwear he was wearing right now.
“Chen Family Head, please get in,” Minister Ma said. Shocked as he was, he still maintained a steady demeanor and invited the other party to board.
Chen Han smiled and got into the back seat with him. Knowing what the other wanted, his mentality was very steady.
“Drive. Go to Feng Shui Site No. 1,” Minister Ma instructed the driver after getting in.
“Alright, Minister Ma,” the driver nodded, immediately started the car, left the competition venue, and drove straight toward the outskirts of the capital city.
The layout of houses in the capital city was, in many places, different from that of other places.
After reaching the suburbs, the car went straight out of the capital’s area and then drove toward a mountain.
All the way, Chen Han acted as if nothing was happening. However, he had already secretly taken out the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone and placed it into the inner pocket of his Daoist Robe.
After all, if he was going to help inspect the Feng Shui formation, he had to rely on this thing.
Before long, the car arrived at a Sentry Post.
Around the Sentry Post stood signs, all marked with the word “Forbidden.”
Moreover, the guards stationed there all carried weapons. As soon as the car approached, one of them came forward to inspect.
The driver took out an identification document and handed it over.
Chen Han watched this scene with curiosity.
This should be a restricted zone regulation, right?
If someone approached and could not prove their identity, or if someone tried to rush the Sentry Post, these people would be allowed to open fire and kill directly.
The key point was that for a restricted zone like this, there were likely more than just these visible guards; there were probably more people concealed in the dark.
Chen Han closed his eyes and activated the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Advanced Qi Cultivation Method》, then felt the surrounding Qi. This was also a special effect of the Cultivation Method.
So in Shu Shan Swordsman, even if someone was lying in ambush, they could be discovered by this method, unless their strength was vastly superior or they had some special way to conceal their Qi.
Otherwise, there was nowhere to hide.
Especially for ordinary people.
So Chen Han quickly discovered some hidden guards.
Neither Minister Ma nor these guards knew this.
However, he was only doing a simple Qi scan. Once he reached the Golden Core realm and cultivated divine sense, he would be able to use his divine sense to perform mental attacks on these ordinary people, making them fall asleep silently, or die, or even suffer mental collapse.
Moments later, after the identification check was completed, the Sentry Post was opened, and the car continued into the mountains.
But not long after entering the mountains, Chen Han felt the Feng Shui Spirit Record Stone vibrate, along with a Game Prompt:
He almost subconsciously looked toward the mountain depths, and an expression of disbelief appeared on his face.
What Minister Ma and the others were trying to set up here was actually this kind of geography and terrain.
Damn, this was a bit against the heavens.
Even if this was modern times, in ancient times Minister Ma and the others would definitely have been executed along with nine generations of their families.
