I Materialized the Cultivation Game-Chapter 69 - 63: Call Him Patriarch Chen! Chen Han: It’s Just Special Effects!
Chen Han focused his attention on the Taiyin Meridian through introspection. Previously, during cultivation, the refined True Qi would be completely consumed in healing the lungs when it passed through the Taiyin Meridian. As a result, he still hadn’t successfully directed True Qi into his Dantian, truly taking the first step in cultivation.
The Dantian is also known as the ’Qi Sea’ in the human body. Some depictions in movies and novels describe the Qi Sea as snow-capped mountains, but they are essentially descriptions of the Dantian.
Introducing True Qi into the Dantian allows one to form a self-sustaining Qi Sea circulation during cultivation, thereby truly embarking on the path of cultivation.
In other words, he hasn’t truly started cultivating, even though he comes to this special Spiritual Acupoint every day to absorb spiritual energy.
Previously, the refined True Qi was entirely used up in treating lung cancer as soon as it entered the Taiyin Meridian. This time, however, in addition to the consumption for treating lung cancer, some True Qi continued to circulate along the meridian paths of the cultivation technique.
Chen Han was overjoyed and immediately controlled the circulation of True Qi, guiding it toward his Dantian.
Through introspection, he could clearly see the surging True Qi in the meridians. However, with the surging process came noticeable consumption, as it integrated into his body, nourishing and strengthening it. In the end, the True Qi was depleted before reaching the Dantian.
He didn’t succeed in guiding it into the Dantian.
Chen Han opened his eyes, not feeling disappointed.
It was a positive sign, and after all, cultivation isn’t something that can be achieved overnight.
Afterwards, he immediately checked his lifespan.
years and 4 months.
This round of spiritual energy flush cultivation actually increased his lifespan by more than three months. Indeed, the healthier the symptoms, the better the treatment effect becomes.
With cultivation finished, Chen Han packed away the Cloud Barrier Cauldron and got up to return to Little Uncle’s courtyard to prepare medicinal meals.
There were only two portions of medicinal meals today.
One portion, of course, was for himself.
The other portion was reserved by a friend of Mr. Zhao, for six consecutive days, with three days remaining.
As for the three-day order from the Demon Sect demon Mr. Chu, it had been completed and Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea was delivered yesterday; the client must have been eager to leave this morning.
Indeed, last night Chu Hao booked tickets and also arranged for a vehicle to transport the Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea; the vehicle was due to arrive early in the morning.
He and his younger sister entered the tourist restaurant early in the morning, where they saw many tourists, mostly couples, likely from a tour group that arrived the previous night.
As soon as they sat down, they heard these people discussing:
"It’s amazing how Patriarch Chen can train ducks like this. I read in a comment section by Professor Wu that it takes a long time to achieve this."
"Can such actions really be trained? It feels a bit unscientific."
"Did any of you ask when the Lion-headed Goose performance starts?"
"I asked Xiaoyu, but she hasn’t responded yet."
"..."
...
In the kitchen.
Chen Han had just finished processing the Dog Demon Meat when his junior sister rushed in: "Senior brother, can you go control the Lion-headed Goose to fight with those stray dogs today? The 34-person couple tour group that arrived last night is asking when the Lion-headed Goose performance starts."
"I’ll head over as soon as I finish preparing the medicinal meal." Chen Han smiled, thinking the tourists consider this a regular show?
But it doesn’t matter; after all, the Dog Demon Meat needs to be processed daily, and if the tourists want to watch, they might as well. It’s a side task anyway.
"I’ll inform them," Xiaoyu said, picking up her phone to respond.
Chen Han prepared the medicinal meal and headed to the Spirit Beast Hall to bring out the Lion-headed Goose.
Arriving at the Chen Family gate, he saw a group of tourists already waiting there, all attracted by the ’Demon Sect demon being stripped bare’ video, naturally wanting to see Patriarch Chen’s Beast Taming Technique.
With more people, it was very lively.
In fact, many in Shangyuan Village were aware of the events at the Chen Family’s place.
The Chen Family seemed to be getting livelier these days.
Village Chief Guo Zhen, with a cigarette in his mouth, was observing from a distance with some villagers!
"Village Chief, the Chen Family has become lively,"
"It must be Chen Han controlling those Lion-headed Geese again," said a middle-aged man.
His words surprised everyone.
They had all seen Chen Han’s video, and the older generation believes in such mystical things!
The Chen Family happens to have those mystical things, and in their childhood, they often heard elders talk about the Chen Family.
Many ancestral tombs were even selected by the elders of the Chen Family for their forefathers.
"Chen Han also..."
Someone was about to speak when Guo Zhen, the village chief, interrupted him: "From now on, address him as Patriarch Chen."
The person was baffled.
But Guo Zhen looked at him: "Isn’t your family’s Yang Mei ripe? Pick some and take it next to the Chen Family to see if anyone buys it."
He then turned to another person and said, "Aren’t your peaches ripe too? Pick some and take them next to the Chen Family to see if anyone buys them."
His words made others pause, looking eager to try.
Who doesn’t have something planted at home? If the tourists directly buy, it would be much better than selling to fruit wholesalers.
Besides, people from the county and city have already been going to farms to pick their own fruits.
They call it: Experiencing life.
The Chen Family’s tourists might even be willing to pick themselves, saving them the effort.
Guo Zhen saw through their thoughts: "Everyone else, don’t rush, wait for my news!"
Some things require politeness, but when testing attitudes, don’t rush, lest you become annoying.
The key is that he has been watching Chen Han’s videos for days, and for some reason feels the Chen Family will become increasingly popular.
Perhaps due to this feeling, he’s been wandering outside the Chen Family these days and even realized they look better than before, as if the visiting tourists are praising their beauty.
Thinking of this, he went home, grabbed some tools, and headed into the hills. It’s important to bring something when visiting someone, especially in the countryside. He couldn’t bring anything valuable from home, but the wild game from the mountains is quite a rarity.
...
Chen Han played the Beast Taming Flute to lead out the lion-headed geese, naturally grabbing the attention of the tourists. Without hesitation, they all took out their phones to capture him and the geese.
"It’s truly as magical as the video, each one spreading its wings and performing the same action."
"Yes, these geese are so obedient."
"..."
After recording their videos, many tourists immediately posted them on social media, with captions like: "Just witnessed Patriarch Chen’s Beast Taming Technique!"
This is an uncontrollable urge to share.
When an item is sensational and wildly famous, the first person to interact with it feels compelled to share it, leading to an inexplicable superiority complex and a pressing urge to post on social media.
It’s through this desire to share and feel superior that many trends, like viral spots, are created.
As Chen Han played four notes on the Beast Taming Flute, the changing actions of the lion-headed geese further excited the tourists, especially when the geese formed an Eight Trigrams Diagram, prompting a few sharp shrieks from female voices:
"They really formed it."
"That’s incredible..."
"Honey, it’s truly the Eight Trigrams Diagram!"
"..."
When Chen Han directed the lion-headed geese to approach a stray dog, he glanced at the game’s prompt in surprise:
[Congratulations, you’ve gained 1 reputation point through your public demonstration!]
[...]
Earlier, there were six more reputation prompts.
Had six tourists added to his reputation after seeing the lion-headed geese’s performance?
It’s understandable; this Beast Taming Technique is publicly advertised as Ancient Techniques, and although Professor Wu previously educated people about science, after the video of the Demon Sect Demons getting exposed, people might think this isn’t something easily explained by science.
Now seeing it with their own eyes, they would naturally be amazed and awed.
This is a good thing!
After all, they can again grind Dog Demon Meat while simultaneously earning some reputation.
After the dog-and-goose battle concluded, Chen Han casually picked up the dropped Dog Demon Meat, then led the lion-headed geese back.
However, the drop rate for Dog Demon Spine Bone really wasn’t high as none appeared again.
At noon, he ate medicinal meals with his junior sister and Little Uncle, then returned to the courtyard to check the data.
Just as Xiaomi predicted, ’Shocking! Demon Sect Demons Exposed...’ broke 500,000 likes by noon, increasing his followers by 18,000, totaling over 33,000 fans.
Looking at the reputation again: 50,000 reputation (29,335/50,000).
In summary, the data growth is drastically faster compared to when he started; it would have taken days back then for 2,000 reputation.
It’s a pity this ’Demon Sect Demons Exposed’ video noticeably slowed in data growth after breaking 500,000 likes, so he must shoot new videos to continue the momentum.
Coincidentally, he thought of his junior sister’s Cloud Barrier Pill video; upon checking, its popularity wasn’t low either, exceeding 100,000 likes.
Reading the comments, they jest about his junior sister’s poor use of special effects, cheap effects, fake-looking effects... and more.
One comment, ’The officials wouldn’t actually believe Xiaoyuzha knows Smoke Escape Technique, right? They even added a special effects warning!’ has already garnered 12,000 likes.
His junior sister reacted with effort to this comment: "What if it’s not special effects?"
The commenter replied back: "It’s clearly cheap effects!"
Seeing this, Chen Han laughed and replied to the comment himself: "Haha, it’s definitely special effects by my junior sister!"
Upon seeing her senior brother’s reply, Xiaoyu immediately checked the content, feeling speechless. But remembering her senior brother’s words about letting everyone think it’s special effects first, and later surprising everyone with a live demonstration, she wasn’t worried.
Next, she received a message from her senior brother: "Junior sister, be my camera operator; I’m filming a Cloud Barrier Pill video!"
He planned to shoot a 10-meter Cloud Barrier Pill video, which would be much more impressive.
"On my way, senior brother." Xiaoyu promptly responded.
Naturally, Chen Han’s reply was seen by the commenter as well. Wang Bing had been following ’Xiaoyuzha’ for some time, and didn’t expect his jesting comment to receive so many likes.
The key was ’Xiaoyuzha’ even replying to ask if it might be real, yet the cheap effects were evidently fake; true smoke should have dissipated differently, the diffusion speed was clearly off.
They didn’t even grasp this point while doing effects.
Unexpectedly, receiving a reply from Patriarch Chen startled him, realizing he was ’Xiaoyuzha’s’ senior brother.
However, seeing Patriarch Chen himself confirm they were special effects amused him, prompting him to reply to ’Xiaoyuzha’: "Xiaoyuzha, your senior brother has personally revealed the secret, haha!"
