Chapter 57: Red Plum Blossom, Persimmon, Bamboo! Did The Video Blow Up?
Chen Han really did not know about these Daoist nine-direction plants, so he could only wait until he went back to check the Chen Clan’s books.
Then, he also looked at the sect residence information in his mind:
Level: level 3 sect residence
Effect: simple and unadorned +2, ornamental value +2, sturdiness +
Special Daoist Sect residence effect: as long as it is housing belonging to the Chen Clan’s Daoist Sect, and plants representing the Li, Kun, and Zhong directions among the Daoist nine-direction plants are placed at the corresponding positions in the room, the attribute effects can be activated!
Upgrade requirements: 10 million money （476,300/10 million）. reputation 50,000 （7,005/50,000）.
Looking again at the sect residence information, as the renovation was completed, the upgrade requirements had also refreshed.
The reputation requirement had risen to 50,That requirement was still fine; after all, now that the video shooting effect had improved, once Xiao Yu and Xiao Mi set up the National Style Event, the manifestation before people alone could harvest a big wave of reputation.
But the upgrade requirement of 10 million in money, compared to the 476,300 deposit, was a huge gap.
Obviously, at the beginning it only needed 10,000 money and 10 reputation.
He suspected the game system used the same routine as those pay-to-win games: first giving a simple and easy sweet taste, then starting to cut like crazy.
Moreover, with an upgrade requirement of 10 million money, it was impossible that once it reached 10 million he could just spend it directly; a lot of tax had to be paid.
Even if the Chen Clan applied for a Daoist special scenic spot sign to exempt most taxes, 25% on non-cultural management projects definitely had to be paid.
Right, the system transfers out were all charitable acts, which could exempt part of it, but even so he definitely had to reserve a lot of tax funds; otherwise, if it suddenly dropped to zero, the relevant departments would come to the door.
So, cultivating immortality also required knowing how to generate wealth.
He was considering whether to raise the prices of the medicinal cuisine and Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.
Besides, it had been trial operation pricing before; it was normal to increase the prices for official operation, right?
But that would face one problem: customer sources!
Medicinal cuisine at 20,000, Premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea at 50,000; ordinary tourists would not consume it.
If you film videos for promotion, people also need to believe it.
He had to make the reputation resound.
Otherwise, excluding the few with strong curiosity and no lack of money, no one would really follow.
The gold content of wealth, methods, companions, and land was still rising.
Before long, the high-speed train arrived at Linhe County station.
Xiao Yu had been waiting long ago.
When Chen Han met up with his junior sister, he heard her complain, “Senior brother, I used the Cloud Barrier Pill you gave me to film videos, and Douyin actually gave me a special effects behavior prompt, making it look like I was using effects to fool fans. Look at these few fan comments.”
Chen Han glanced and laughed.
“Xiao Yu, the special effects are too stiff, still need improvement!”
“Haha, has Xiao Yu started learning special effects editing? Feels like 5-cent effects.”
“666, is Douyin afraid I will really believe Xiao Yu knows the Smoke Escape Technique, so it gives me an anti-fraud prompt?”
“……”
Douyin’s anti-fraud and anti-violation prompts were sometimes really a bit funny. Besides this, there were also prompts like suspected AI, dangerous behavior, AI-generated content, and so on. It seemed there had even been an internet celebrity whose face was so （perfect）ly pretty that it was judged as AI-generated.
Of course, it might also be that the beauty filter and filters were turned up too much and were judged as AI-generated.
Seeing his junior sister’s dejected look, Chen Han smiled and said, “Isn’t that even better? Now that they identify it as AI, the National Style Event can do a live performance. Wouldn’t that shock everyone?”
These words made both girls’ eyes light up at the same time; both of them actually looked eager to try.
“Senior brother, but I used up my Cloud Barrier Pill.” Xiao Yu immediately stared at him with big watery eyes; her meaning was already obvious.
“Don’t look at me like that. I will just make you another Cloud Barrier Pill.” Chen Han shook his head and said.
“Senior brother, you are the best. Let’s go back.” Having achieved her goal, Xiao Yu happily got into the driver’s seat.
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By the time Chen Han returned to the Chen Clan, the sun had completely set.
When he entered his own courtyard, the orchid fragrance in the courtyard smelled even better.
Thinking about the sect residence upgrade and that the Chen Clan now had the sturdiness +2 attribute, he took out a dagger and casually experimented on the attic wall. Sure enough, the sturdiness was astonishing, and it was hard to leave a mark.
He then tried with a hammer, and the final result made him feel that if the Chen Clan compound were placed in wartime years, it could be used as a bunker.
After that, Chen Han went to search for ancient books in the Chen Clan related to Daoist Plants.
For the warm-in-winter, cool-in-summer +2 attribute to take effect, he first had to know what the nine-direction plants were.
He found a book specifically recording and depicting Daoist Plants and then went to the courtyard lying chair to read it.
Reading in this faint, elegant, charming orchid fragrance was quite nice.
This book recorded a lot of information on Daoist flowers, grasses, and trees.
The Daoist Sect had the Five Offerings, among which there were also the five offering flowers.
There were also the seven sage plants, as well as seven evil-warding trees and thirteen auspicious ones.
And the Daoist nine-direction plants referred to nine plants with very strong spiritual energy, which had appeared in many Daoist legends and stories. These nine-direction plants were often associated with mysterious phenomena such as the 108 heavenly stems and earthly branches positions and the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams of strange gates.
And these nine plants were respectively: pine and cypress, boxwood, osmanthus, podocarpus, persimmon tree, white magnolia, red plum blossom, bamboo, and maple tree!
Of course, in modern times, these nine-direction plants had become linked with Feng Shui. Together with their rich spiritual energy, legend said they worked very well for arrangements such as Feng Shui formations.
The Li, Kun, and Zhong mentioned in the warm-in-winter, cool-in-summer +2 attribute should refer to the Li Palace, Kun Palace, and Zhong Palace in the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams.
So as long as the nine-direction plants representing these three palaces were found and placed at the corresponding housing positions, the warm-in-winter, cool-in-summer +2 attribute could be activated.
He immediately looked at the descriptions of the nine-direction plants in the ancient book and compared them with the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams.
The Li Palace in the Nine Palaces represented fire and light; the corresponding nine-direction plant was red plum blossom. Red plum blossoms were mostly bright red, and red belonged to fire in the Five Elements. Blooming in the cold represented enthusiasm and hope, echoing the light of the Li Palace.
The Kun Palace represented the earth, with the symbolism of bearing and supporting. The persimmon had the meanings of roundness, fullness, and good fortune, sharing common symbolic significance. Most importantly, the persimmon tree was the great lord of the earth granted titles, and emperors of many dynasties had conferred noble titles such as marquis and ten thousand years upon persimmon trees.
The Zhong Palace governed the center, coordinating all directions, symbolizing balance and stability. Bamboo was upright, unyielding, and modest, which corresponded to it. Moreover, the Zhong Palace had the two black giant gate star flying in, forming a sickness charm position and earth evil; bamboo could drain earth evil.
Simply put, the plants representing Li, Kun, and Zhong were red plum blossom, persimmon tree, and bamboo among the nine-direction plants.
As long as these three plants were placed in the southern, southwestern, and central positions of the room representing Li, Kun, and Zhong, the warm-in-winter, cool-in-summer +2 attribute could be triggered.
Chen Han suddenly felt he had broadened his knowledge and felt that what he had previously learned from his dad seemed to be just some superficial Daoist Sect stuff.
These plants and the Nine Palaces could have so many twists and connections, correspondences, Five Elements representations, and directional positions.
It was just a pity that these were only theories in books; in reality, no one could truly rely on these nine-direction plants combined with the Nine Palaces and Eight Trigrams to arrange any actual Feng Shui Formation.
However, he was different. With the system adding attributes to the Chen Clan, as long as the plants, Nine Palaces, and positions corresponded correctly, the attributes could take effect.
It seemed he had to drag in the family underground formation again.
All of these were the merit of the Chen Clan’s elder predecessors, who had left precious wealth for their descendants.
Knowing the three plants, he immediately called his uncle and, once connected, instructed, “Uncle, help me buy three green plants tomorrow: red plum blossom, bamboo, and persimmon tree, the kind that can be placed in a room.”
Now all these plants had corresponding potted versions cultivated, so there was no need to worry about them not fitting in the room.
Chen Lin would basically not ask much about these matters his nephew ordered now and immediately agreed.
After hanging up, since he was now just waiting for his uncle to buy the three plants for an experiment, Chen Han planned to self-study the Daoist Scripture Notation some more to activate the calm mind +2 attribute as soon as possible.
But just as he was about to put down his mobile phone, he was surprised to see prompts frantically popping up in the Douyin Backend.
He opened it and, seeing the data prompts, was clearly stunned.
The data was increasing too fast, right?
Opening the video 《”Shock! The Demonic Cult Rogue was actually stripped by the Mysterious Frost Lion Head Geese…”》 and watching for a while, he indeed found that the speed of likes increasing was many times faster than during the whole trip back.
Not only likes; prompts for increasing reputation from the game system were also popping up much faster.
He realized something.
Did the video blow up?
He naturally did not know that a certain Douyin editor had been amused by the Lion Head Geese and gave an S-level resource push stream, so more and more people online saw the video of the Lion Head Geese stripping the Demonic Cult Rogue.
Countless people were stunned watching it, then clicked into the Chen Family Head’s homepage, watched his other videos, and one by one changed from laughing faces to confused expressions full of question marks!
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