Chapter 64: Uh, Not Special Effects!
After Chen Han received his junior sister’s message, he also took the Cloud Barrier Cauldron for restoring spiritual energy out from the warehouse, planning to refine today’s Cloud Barrier Pills as well.
This thing is never too much; refining more in reserve definitely has no downside.
The Cloud Barrier Cauldron’s daily refinement quota could not be wasted.
When making medicinal cuisine in the morning, Chen Han had already put dog demon grease into the Cloud Barrier Cauldron, so he went back in to take a pair of scissors, trimmed some orchid branches and leaves and put them in, then began refining.
As the runes on the cauldron lit up, operated, and intertwined, before long the Cloud Barrier Pills inside were refined.
But this time his luck was bad; there was only one Cloud Barrier Pill with a 10-meter range, and, crucially, six waste pills.
The failure rate was more than half. That was truly unlucky.
Just as he put away the Cloud Barrier Cauldron and the Cloud Barrier Pills, footsteps sounded outside the courtyard. His junior sister happily came in and asked with anticipation, “Senior brother, you’re going to film a video of the Cloud Barrier Pill. Did you make new Cloud Barrier Pills again?”
Although the Cloud Barrier Pill her senior brother gave her for filming was considered by viewers to be special effects, and they mocked her five-cent effects, that Cloud Barrier Pill was definitely a great prop for performing.
Looking at her expression, Chen Han deliberately took three Cloud Barrier Pills from his pocket and handed them over. “Here you go, all with a 2-meter range.”
“Thank you, senior brother.” Xiao Yu happily took them right away.
“Let’s go, find an open space to film,” Chen Han said, leading his junior sister out of the courtyard. In the end, he decided to film this video at the martial arts field.
This time he wanted to use the 10-meter range Cloud Barrier Pill to shoot the video, so he had to find a relatively open place.
In the past, the martial arts field could accommodate the young and strong from the ten miles and eight villages gathering to drill, so it was very large.
And using the Cloud Barrier Pill for this video at the martial arts field was also appropriate.
After Chen Han and his junior sister arrived at the martial arts field, he opened the camera function on his mobile phone and handed it to her, letting her first shoot a full view of the entire martial arts field as material.
Two couples walked over from the other side while chatting, clearly planning to return to the tourist center to rest.
“These Chen Clan ancient buildings are really nice. They have that foundation of time’s accumulation.”
“Yeah, I didn’t expect that besides the Chen Family Head’s beast taming technique, there would be such a surprise. This trip was worth it.”
“I heard from the Chen Clan people that there are three old elm trees that are very miraculous… eh, is that the Chen Family Head and Xiao Yu Za?”
The two couples saw the senior brother and junior sister at the martial arts field.
Seeing Xiao Yu holding the mobile phone pointed at Chen Han, they guessed the two were filming a video.
This made the four stop and watch. They all knew the two were internet celebrities and were curious what video the senior brother and junior sister were going to shoot.
At this moment, Xiao Yu adjusted the lens and said, “Senior brother, you can start filming.”
Chen Han nodded, coughed pretentiously at the lens, and then said, “Today, I, the family head, am specially using the Spirit Shadow Mirror to leave a recorded image, to tell everyone something!”
“Pfft!” Although Xiao Yu had already guessed that her senior brother would definitely do something abstract again, once the words “Spirit Shadow Mirror” came out, she still couldn’t hold it in.
A mobile phone is a mobile phone, yet he calls it a Spirit Shadow Mirror.
She was truly defeated by her senior brother’s shame-inducing video series.
“Junior sister, be serious!” Chen Han was not surprised by her reaction. After all, this was the first time he had formally said the words “Spirit Shadow Mirror” to the camera.
After scolding his junior sister once, he coughed again with a serious face and said, “Previously, my junior sister used the Spirit Shadow Mirror to leave a recorded image and showed a Smoke Escape to fellow daoists everywhere. In fact, that was not some 《Smoke Escape Technique》, but our Chen Clan’s secret 《Cloud Barrier Technique》.”
These words did attract the four tourists who had stopped to watch, and they whispered:
“It’s that ‘Xiao Yu Za’ video, right?”
“Definitely. Her special effects were mocked by many people!”
“Those effects really were fake. You can tell at a glance the smoke was fake. In an open space, smoke would disperse immediately.”
“In that video, the smoke dispersed very slowly, so it really looked fake.”
While the four whispered, they heard the Chen Family Head continue, “However, my junior sister’s 《Cloud Barrier Technique》 is not well learned. After it was transmitted through the Spirit Shadow Mirror, it made fellow daoists everywhere laugh. So today, I, the senior brother, will personally perform this 《Cloud Barrier Technique》 for fellow daoists everywhere.”
The four tourists immediately understood what video the Chen Family Head was going to shoot.
It was because Xiao Yu Za’s Smoke Escape special effect had been mocked and drawn popularity. The Chen Family Head would not let that popularity go and wanted to take a share of that bonus by shooting this video too.
That was normal. Many internet celebrities, once one person’s plan goes viral, others will follow and imitate.
The four saw the Chen Family Head suddenly start stepping back, opening a large distance from the lens, and immediately thought he must be leaving enough room for the later special effects.
After all, when the finished product video comes out, there should be special effect smoke appearing here. Leaving this much distance meant the smoke effects would definitely be huge.
Junior sister Xiao Yu Za had poor skills, only producing smoke that covered herself.
The senior brother, the Chen Family Head, would definitely have smoke with a larger range.
Thinking this, the four all smiled. They had already seen through it.
Although they were not part of the internet celebrity circle, with a bit of brain it was easy to understand this trick.
After Chen Han opened enough distance, he had already taken out a 10-meter Cloud Barrier Pill from the warehouse and placed it in his palm. He then said to the lens, “Fellow daoists, watch closely. This is the real 《Cloud Barrier Technique》.”
The four tourists could not help feeling emotion. The internet really was not something ordinary people could handle. Although they had been attracted to the Chen Clan by the Chen Family Head’s videos and felt his videos were fun, the Chen Family Head’s filming was really very abstract.
Wouldn’t he feel awkward?
Just then, the four saw the Chen Family Head actually start moving his fingers, pinching out hand seals in a decent-looking manner.
The hand seal Chen Han was forming was of course an ordinary hand seal from the Daoist Sect: the left hand curved, index finger straight and pointing up, thumb pressing against the index finger, the other three fingers bent into the palm, performing the sequence once forward, once backward.
What this hand seal was actually for was not important. Right now it was obviously the hand seal used to perform the 《Cloud Barrier Technique》.
He still had to put on a good show.
Crucially, he really had the bearing when forming the hand seals, so the four tourists subconsciously watched him, imagining that once the Chen Family Head finished, then added smoke effects, it would have more impact than Xiao Yu Za’s video.
Just then, the four saw the Chen Family Head’s hand seal stop, and in an instant, dense smoke exploded around him, blocking everyone’s view.
“Great effects…” one tourist subconsciously praised, then his voice abruptly cut off, and after a moment, one word came out of his mouth, “Uh!”
At that instant, the other three tourists also showed looks of shock, directly dumbfounded as they stared at the dense smoke in front of them, which almost covered the entire 10-meter range.
They could not see the figure of the Chen Family Head at all.
“N-not special effects…” one female tourist said blankly, her mouth hanging open.
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