Chapter 42: If You Don’t Believe In Formations, What About Feng Shui?
The alarm rang. As usual, Chen Han got up and then looked at the data for the sect residence in his mind: 400,000 money （54,200/400,000）. Reputation 2,000 （823/2,000）.
After this sleep, his reputation had increased by more than 300 again.
He took out his mobile phone and checked yesterday’s video data. Likes had reached 25,000 and were still rising.
Obviously, in this video, the effect brought by the beast taming technique was very good.
In the comment section, that science popularization comment by Professor Wu also had a lot of likes, actually reaching 10,000 likes, and had been pinned to the top spot in the comment section.
You had to know his video only had 25,000 likes!
This was mainly because Professor Wu’s explanation was very reasonable.
In addition, this kind of explanation would make many people feel that controlling lion head geese by playing the flute was nothing special. If they spent the time, they could do it too; they just did not want to do it or did not have the time.
So they were more willing to believe this explanation.
This mentality is common anywhere that has a comment section, and in many places it has even become twisted.
For example, people who cannot even afford a minivan look down on those who buy a BMW 5 series, commenting with one sentence: “A crappy BMW is nothing.”
For example, people who are single and cannot find a girlfriend are especially good at judging other people’s girlfriends, with comments like: “It is like they have never seen a woman.”
For example, people who have never come into contact with martial arts watch a video of a national wushu routine champion and comment with one sentence: “No martial arts foundation at all.”
In fact, this is not humble realism, only trying to brush up their sense of existence online to seek follows and a sense of recognition. They simply do not realize their own ignorance and lack of understanding, are overly confident, and feel their own thoughts are correct.
Anyway, every single one of them is just a jumping clown.
Since he needed to rely on Douyin to increase his reputation, Chen Han could also understand this situation. After all, it did not affect his reputation growth.
He briefly washed up and then left the room.
In the courtyard, he checked a few winter orchids that had not fully grown and that he had marked with scratches.
Those watered with spirit plant dew water had obviously grown another section. Originally they were the same height, but now they were much taller than the unwatered ones.
This gave him a better comparison for the attribute “spirit plant dew growth speed +2”.
At this rate, the winter orchids, whose growth cycle originally took a year and a half, would complete their growth cycle in about two to three months.
Chen Han then left the courtyard and headed to the special spiritual aperture.
On the other side, Professor Wu also got up at 5 o’clock today because of a special situation. He picked up his mobile phone and looked in surprise at the like prompts in the Douyin backend.
When he usually posted his own science popularization videos, the most likes he got were just over 1,Yesterday, he had posted one explanatory comment under that Chen Family Head’s video, and unexpectedly it had reached 10,000 likes.
This really made it hard for him to keep his composure.
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In the pavilion.
Chen Han was already sitting cross-legged. He placed the Hundred Flowers Palace Spirit Jade beside him again, waiting for the spiritual energy rinse to arrive.
With the first ray of sunlight, the spiritual energy rinse of the special spiritual aperture arrived on time.
《The Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》 began operating, guiding him to absorb the surging spiritual energy at once.
However, today was clearly somewhat different. He clearly sensed that he was absorbing more spiritual energy today.
Under inner vision, the spiritual energy rushing through his meridians was obviously more than before.
This made him beam with joy. He guessed it was because, after several rounds of cultivation and eating medicinal cuisine with the strengthen body +2 attribute every day, his body was much better than at the beginning.
He hurriedly focused on activating the 《Nine Heavens Profound Scripture Basic Qi Cultivation Method》 to refine and absorb the spiritual energy he had drawn into his body.
Time passed.
When Chen Han stopped cultivating and opened his eyes, he immediately checked his character panel. Although the spiritual energy he absorbed today was still all consumed on treating his lungs, he had absorbed more spiritual energy today, so the effect would certainly be better.
March 15 days 4 hours.
This number made his face light up with joy.
It had directly started counting in months. Before, it had still been in days.
Moreover, by calculation, today’s cultivation had increased his lifespan by a full month.
Sure enough, as his lungs were treated, the effect of cultivation became higher the further it went.
He picked up the Hundred Flowers Palace Spirit Jade beside him. The “spirit plant dew” spell on it had also had its uses restored.
Just as he was about to stand up, he looked around at the fence wall in surprise.
Floral vines had already grown thickly over it.
Those floral vines had almost covered the bamboo fence itself, so dense that you could not see inside.
The flowers were blooming more and more profusely, completely unlike wild ones. It was as if a once skinny wild child had been fattened up by the dispersed spiritual energy.
But what truly shocked him was that he actually saw short sections of bamboo branches and bamboo leaves poking out between the floral vines in various places.
How was this possible?
Who had ever seen mao bamboo made into a fence that could still grow branches and leaves? It obviously had no root system to absorb nourishment.
Unless new roots had grown again, but it had been chopped down, split into thin pieces, practically torn limb from limb, smashed to bits.
He instinctively walked up to the fence wall, examined one bamboo strip of the fence, dug into the ground a bit, and really saw a shocking scene.
The bamboo strip, shaved into a slat and already smashed to bits and torn apart, had actually grown some roots.
You could call this dead wood meeting spring again.
However, in the game plot this fence wall was the thunder bamboo defensive formation, rewarded with the sturdiness +2 attribute.
He had previously tried chopping it with a cleaver and could barely leave a mark.
Could this still be considered ordinary bamboo?
Thinking this, Chen Han planned to go back to make medicinal cuisine. When he entered Uncle’s Kitchen, his uncle had already made congee. “You always come at about the same time. I already filled a bowl for you.”
“Mm!” Chen Han nodded.
After the two finished eating the congee, Chen Lin said, “Xiao Han, I am going to the vegetable garden later. A batch of loofahs is ready today. I will pick some and send them to the tourist service center. If there is anything you want to eat, I will pick some and bring it back.”
When Chen Han heard “vegetable garden,” he thought of the “spirit plant dew water” he had modified yesterday.
That water reservoir could irrigate the entire vegetable garden twice. Although there should not be any major problems, if cauliflower counted as a flower, then many vegetables would count too.
So he reminded him, “Uncle, if you run into anything, try to stay calm.”
“???” Chen Lin froze for a moment at this strange remark, then left with confusion, heading to the vegetable garden.
Soon, he arrived at the vegetable garden again.
When he saw the scene inside, he was stunned once more.
Because there were so many flowers.
Celery, leeks, onions, loofahs, beans, carrots… they had all bloomed.
Especially carrots. You almost never see them flowering, yet now they had grown clusters of dense little flowers.
（This refers to the carrot flowers!）
When had Chen Lin ever seen such a scene?
It was not strange that these vegetables could bloom, but with different growing seasons, they would not bloom all at the same time like this.
Such a situation was a bit eerie and reminded him of the cauliflower seed incident yesterday. He hurried to check the two cauliflower plots and indeed found that what had been tiny tips yesterday had now grown a whole section with leaves.
This definitely was not a height achievable in just one day and night after planting.
Even if he had been slow to react, encountering this kind of thing again and again made it clear it was not that ethylene effect he had mentioned yesterday.
He immediately thought of his nephew’s strange reminder before leaving:
If you run into anything, stay calm?
But faced with this situation, how was he supposed to stay calm?
He realized at once that his nephew must know what was going on.
He quickly left the vegetable garden and rushed back to find his nephew.
If he did not figure this out, he would be upset and restless.
Back in his own kitchen, seeing his nephew making medicinal cuisine, he hurriedly asked, “Xiao Han, the celery, leeks, onions, loofahs, beans, carrots in the vegetable garden, all those vegetables have bloomed. Tell your uncle what is going on. You definitely know.”
Hearing that so many vegetables had bloomed, Chen Han was also a bit surprised, especially when he heard about the carrots.
These counted as flower-type plants too?
He had learned something new.
Seeing his uncle’s anxious expression, he decided to reveal a bit.
But he could not reveal everything. Some things had to be half true, half false, so after thinking for a while, he said, “Uncle, did I not already say that there really is a formation under our family land? Or to put it another way, a feng shui array, which is easier for you to accept, right?”
“Feng shui?” Chen Lin was stunned.
Because he thought of his grandfather.
His grandfather had known some feng shui, and in the past villagers had gone to him to do feng shui readings when choosing graves or building houses.
As for whether it was accurate or useful…
Anyway, his father had not learned it, and their generation did not either.
But he did know that in the daoist sect, “mountain, medicine, fate, physiognomy, divination” were the five arts.
Feng shui belonged to physiognomy. Their Chen Clan’s books included content about feng shui.
So, what he had previously thought unreliable, one of those unreliable legends of the family, now that it was called feng shui instead of formation, actually seemed possible to him.
Otherwise how could he explain what had happened in the vegetable garden?
“There really is a formation under the family land?” Chen Lin could not help asking again.
“Uncle, did you not see it in the vegetable garden? It is all recorded in the ancient books left by the family. You did not think, like Xiao Yu said, that it was just our ancestors teasing their descendants, did you?”
Chen Han continued to spin his explanation, still half true, half false: “Recently I have been studying this formation. I have just caught a glimpse of its workings. I believe before long I will definitely be able to activate this feng shui array.”
At this moment, Chen Lin was extremely shocked. His mind was buzzing.
Xiao Han, had you not replied in your video’s comment section to that Professor Wu last night telling him to believe in science?
And now you are saying this?
Thinking again of all the vegetables blooming together in the vegetable garden, he also made the connection: that definitely had to be caused by Xiao Han researching that formation. How else could he explain it?
Was their Chen Clan really this powerful in the past?
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