Chapter 38: No Way, You Really Know The Beast Taming Technique?
Chen Han had already arrived at the fence where the lion head geese were kept. When he opened it, the geese started cackling in a noisy mess, with many rushing out.
Seeing this, Xiao Mi quietly sighed, thinking that he was someone who filmed goofy cultivation videos anyway, so it was not surprising for him to do something outrageous.
So she also picked up her mobile phone, pointed the lens at him, and adjusted the angle, lighting, and the curve of his jawline in profile.
Chen Han was very handsome, but his profile was even better looking. The first time, she had been attracted by his profile.
When she adjusted to the best angle, she said, “I have the angle ready. You can start filming.”
“Mm!” Chen Han nodded, also raised the beast taming flute to his lips, and did not forget to say, “The spirit beast elder taught me four beast taming techniques. Now I will try the first move, ‘guard’.”
Through the lens, Xiao Mi felt that not only was Chen Han’s profile handsome, but he looked even better holding the flute. Unfortunately, as soon as he opened his mouth it was all about beast taming techniques, which ruined that sense of cool.
She had originally thought Chen Han was just posing with the flute, but the next moment, she heard a melodious and pleasant flute sound.
This surprised her.
He could actually play?
Then she suddenly saw something unbelievable. As Chen Han played, the lion head geese before her suddenly quieted down and all looked toward Chen Han’s position, as if responding to a summons.
Xiao Mi hurriedly turned the lens toward the movements of the geese, even stepping back a few paces to widen the frame. In the shot, all the geese were staring at Chen Han. It was incredibly shocking.
Soon she saw something even more unbelievable. After all the lion head geese looked toward Chen Han in unison, they actually ran toward him and then neatly surrounded him.
The key thing was, the lion head geese all stretched out their necks and spread their wings, as if warily watching the surroundings.
My god!
Xiao Mi’s eyes widened. What was she seeing?
Was this the “guard” Chen Han spoke of?
From their actions, it really seemed they were protecting Chen Han.
Could he really use a beast taming technique?
Chen Han naturally also understood what “guard” meant.
So this was it.
All the mysterious frost lion head geese surrounded him, the family head, to protect him.
Think about it: if this were not in reality, but in a game plot, with one hundred spirit beasts, mysterious frost lion head geese, encircling him, how spectacular would that be?
Not to mention the game plot, just the lion head geese around him now, uniformly spreading their wings and stretching their necks to ring him, were already spectacular enough.
Probably even circuses could not get one hundred lion head geese to perform such synchronized movements, right?
Chen Han continued playing the first sequence of notes on the beast taming flute, then started walking out of the spirit beast hall. To the sound of the beast taming flute, the lion head geese also spread their wings and followed him forward, stepping along.
Though they were all two-legged creatures, their stride length was naturally far shorter than Chen Han’s. So they had to work hard to move their steps quickly enough to keep up with him, doing their best to keep him within their protective ring.
As the family’s guardian spirit beasts, they spared no effort in protecting the family head.
Xiao Mi, dazed, kept filming this scene. The way the lion head geese worked their steps to protect Chen Han on all sides made her feel as though they really were afraid something might happen to him.
But they were just a flock of geese. How could they possibly have such thoughts?
Chen Liu had returned to his own courtyard and driven over a few lion head geese he raised himself. Since they were going to keep so many, sending his own over could give them companions. To distinguish them, he had specially marked his few by tying red ropes around their necks.
Just as he came back toward the sheep pen, he heard a melodious flute sound, quite clear and cheerful.
But as soon as he turned a corner and saw the scene ahead, he rubbed his eyes in disbelief.
What was he seeing?
Xiao Han was playing the flute, and over one hundred lion head geese had all spread their wings and were surrounding him, walking forward with him.
The sight really was extremely shocking.
What astonished him even more was that his own few lion head geese, upon seeing this, cackled and ran over to join the fun, as if they wanted to charge into the flock.
Normally, if a few extra lion head geese suddenly rushed in, the flock would be thrown into chaos, right?
But the lion head geese around Xiao Han did not get chaotic. Instead, when they saw his few geese rush over, several of them flapped their big wings at these newcomers, clearly driving them away.
This…
Then he saw his few lion head geese, after being driven off, helplessly follow along with the flock to watch. Within a short while, they started mimicking the actions of the others and walked along with them.
At first, their wing-spreading and stepping motions did not look quite right, but before long they looked almost identical to the others.
“???” Chen Liu was completely stunned.
Chen Han saw this as well. It was because lion head geese had a strong flocking instinct and strong learning and imitation abilities. Once they acted as a group and did the same thing, the few outliers would follow and learn to do it too.
He had not expected the beast taming flute to have such an additional effect.
Xiao Mi also saw all of this and filmed it all, even giving the old master’s stunned expression a close-up.
Then inspiration struck her, and she said, “Haha, the spirit beast elder’s mysterious frost lion head geese have been controlled by the family head’s beast taming technique, and he is completely dumbfounded.”
She was, of course, cooperating with Chen Han for the filming. As long as she could help him, even if saying such things was embarrassing or cringeworthy, she did not mind.
Although she did not know who this old master was, Chen Han had just mentioned the term “spirit beast elder”.
So she might as well assign the identity of spirit beast elder to this old master.
Having been on Douyin for so long, she believed that the footage of the spirit beast elder being stunned as his spirit beasts were controlled would definitely attract a lot of attention.
After experiencing the “guard” skill of the beast taming flute, Chen Han felt that was enough. He played the flute again as he walked back inside, leading the lion head geese back into the fence and closing it again.
When he stopped playing, the lion head geese returned to normal, lowered their wings, and started cackling and roughhousing inside the fence.
When he turned around, he saw Xiao Mi and Sixth Uncle both staring at him with curious eyes, clearly wanting to know what had just happened.
Xiao Mi could not help asking, “Chen Han, how did you do that?”
How did he do it?
Naturally, Chen Han could not tell the truth, so he made something up: “Our Chen Clan comes from a Daoist sect lineage and has a lot of Daoist sect ancient books passed down. I read one miscellaneous Daoist ancient book before, about special flute sounds making poultry perform certain movements.”
“When we bought these lion head geese, Sixth Uncle used a whistle to get a reaction from them, so I thought I would give it a try.”
Of course, this was pure nonsense.
However, Chen Liu was old and believed such things, and with Xiao Mi as an outsider present, even though he was shocked and puzzled inside, he also wanted outsiders to know how impressive the Chen Clan was. So he said calmly, “Xiao Han only controlled a few lion head geese. In the past, our Chen Clan ancestors could use this method not only to control geese, but even cattle.”
As he spoke, he took out his whistle and blew twice. The lion head geese reacted, becoming restless, though they did not know where the food was.
Then Chen Liu tapped the fence twice with the bamboo pole he had used to herd the geese. The six with red ropes around their necks directly flew over the fence and landed at his feet.
This filled him with smug pride. He had raised them for so long, and these fellows breaking out was an everyday occurrence. So the fact that they reacted to the sound of him knocking the bamboo pole meant his efforts had not been wasted.
Xiao Mi watched this with fresh astonishment. Although this was not as impressive as Chen Han, using a whistle to get the lion head geese to break out and fly to his feet was still pretty amazing.
Chen Han could not help giving Sixth Uncle a thumbs up.
He can play, and even control cattle!
However, he did not want to dwell on this topic. He took his mobile phone back from Xiao Mi and said, “Let’s go. I need to get back to watch the medicinal cuisine and edit the video.”
Seeing this, Xiao Mi immediately caught up, still curious. “Chen Han, can your Chen Clan really use a flute to control cattle?”
“Sixth Uncle was just talking nonsense,” Chen Han answered honestly.
Xiao Mi did not believe him. “Don’t lie to me. You think I can’t tell truth from lies?”
“…” Chen Han really wanted to say, “As if you could.”
Back in Uncle’s courtyard, they again smelled that enticing medicinal fragrance. Entering the kitchen, he checked the water, added a little more, and then started editing the footage. Naturally, he was editing today’s video and attaching it to the end of yesterday’s.
He had to admit, Xiao Mi’s filming skills were better than his, especially when shooting his profile and him holding the flute. She made him look really handsome, with an artistic flair.
That shot definitely had to go in.
And the scenes of the lion head geese being controlled by the beast taming flute also had to go in; that was the highlight.
Plus Sixth Uncle’s dumbfounded expression had to be included, as well as Xiao Mi’s voice. After all, it had always been his own narration before, and suddenly having such a pleasant female voice would be attractive.
He had not expected that Xiao Mi had also captured the scene where Sixth Uncle tapped the bamboo twice and those few geese flew to his feet.
That could stay too. The spirit beast elder was also showing off a little. Although this was really just a habitual reaction developed from those geese breaking out often and being driven back over a long time, the audience would not know that.
Besides, with the beast taming flute’s dazzling effect shown first, others would only assume the spirit beast elder had some skill too.
Since the spirit beast elder had appeared, he needed some screen time.
Chen Han quickly finished editing the video. This time the video was a bit long, since it covered everything from the dog demon spying, to meeting the spirit beast elder, to purchasing the mysterious frost lion head geese, to the spirit beast elder’s final little display.
Title: 《A dog demon spies on the family but is driven off by the spirit beast elder’s cultivated spirit beasts, the “mysterious frost lion head geese”, and I even learned beast taming from the spirit beast elder…》
He clicked upload.
Soon, those who followed the family head Chen and had turned on update notifications saw the video.
For example, Chu Hao was already at the airport. After learning about the effect of the thunder bamboo spirit tea, he had booked tickets to the Chen Clan Ancient Architectural Complex. What left him speechless was that his junior sister Chu Ling was following along.
How had she seen it? What was a girl doing being interested in ancient architecture and insisting on coming along?
While waiting for the airplane, he saw that the family head Chen’s account had updated.
He instinctively clicked in, wanting to see what new tricks this family head had come up with. Just reading the title left him stunned.
Spirit beast elder, spirit beasts “mysterious frost lion head geese”?
Judging from the family head Chen’s usual style, if those stray dogs were dog demons, then these spirit beasts “mysterious frost lion head geese” must just be lion head geese, right?
And what was with this beast taming technique?
Could he really control geese?
With a skeptical mindset, he clicked into the family head Chen’s video.
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