Chapter 404: Chapter 193: The Chen Family’s New Hot Spot! The Jade Flower Tree Will Be Beautiful Next Year!
(Don’t be so rigid with some things, knowing a little and thinking it’s everything. For items like stone steles and carvings, as long as you can prove they are a family heritage, you don’t need to hand them over. Knowing some would say this, I specifically added the words on the stele: ’Gifted to the Chen Family by Hundred Flowers Palace.’)
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Chen Han was very surprised.
After thinking a while, he even felt that the dust-removal array recorded on the stone stele was more impressive than the stone formations shown in movies about Zhuge Liang.
After all, the air freshness +1 attribute feels a bit like climate modification.
Moreover, for a tourist place, the air freshness +1 attribute is like a super BUFF.
People travel to relax and nurture their mind and body, so a good environment is one thing, and good air is another.
As for the environment, there’s no need to mention—it’s absolutely unbeatable with Feng Shui rooms and ancient architecture.
Now, with the "Ancient Calming Heart Technique" in place, as time passes, many creative profession folks wanting to travel will first think of the Chen Family.
This air freshness +1 attribute practically makes up for another shortcoming.
Then there’s the range aspect.
Previously, the tools Chen Han obtained mostly worked within the sect’s base, but this time it’s different. Although the effect is mainly within the sect’s base, the stele location’s attributes extend to a 30 square kilometer range.
This seems like an opening up and expansion of the attribute.
Upon careful consideration, it makes sense. After all, air is in a state of movement, and middle school taught us some knowledge about airflow and fluid dynamics. So, if the air in the Chen Sect’s base got modified, it wouldn’t be strange for it to spread outward.
Moreover, naturally, the farther out you go, the weaker the effect becomes.
Therefore, apart from the dust-removal array’s air modification capabilities being somewhat fantastical, everything else is quite scientific.
He already knew where to place the stele; once the hint appeared, a map appeared once more in his mind, including a marked location for setting the stele.
Coincidentally, this place is the same area outside the Chen Family where Qionghua trees are planted.
Chen Han immediately checked the trigger condition. Activating the stele’s dust-removal array with True Qi is simple. When the time comes, just input True Qi into the array pattern on the stele.
The special location has also been marked by the game system.
However, he truly didn’t have experience regarding the Taoist Sect’s special stele ceremony, never having read about it before.
So, the supposedly made-up search for stele ceremonies with Chu County was an actual need to investigate.
The Chen Family has quite a few Taoist texts, a good number of which are about various ceremonies. After spending some time searching in the Library Pavilion, he found a specific ceremony for standing single steles.
Additionally, this stele standing is not something that can be done casually. There’s a meticulous procedure involving selecting the right day, location orientation, offerings, deity worship, ceremonial stele standing, and hanging red for blessings.
Selecting the day involves choosing a suitable time to stand the stele, avoiding unlucky days like Three Disasters and Heavy Mourning. Chen Han has some insights on this because, as the Patriarch, he supplemented his knowledge with some Taoist texts, gaining expertise in choosing auspicious days.
The day after tomorrow is an auspicious day to stand the stele.
The location orientation isn’t necessary since the game system has already marked the position, so just standing the stele there is sufficient.
Offerings include preparing incense, paper money, fruits, flowers, and pastries—five types of offerings—to honor the deities.
The ceremonial stele standing requires stepping on the Gang before standing, and others assist to guide the stele into place. Additionally, True Martial Evil-removal Coins, cinnamon, and the Five Grains are placed under the stele base to symbolize auspiciousness.
Hanging red involves draping red cloth horizontally across the stele’s top after erecting it, tying both ends tightly to symbolize celebration and auspiciousness, with the intention of warding off evil and preventing disaster.
These procedures seemed not hard, so he sent his junior sister a message about preparing the items.
Xiaoyu received the message from her senior brother while editing videos with Xiaomi, and she immediately complained: "Incense, paper money, fruits, flowers, pastries I get, but what is a True Martial Evil-removal Coin?"
This indeed hit a blind spot in her knowledge; her senior brother knows she doesn’t like reading books.
Beside her, Xiaomi, dressed in Daoist Plain Clothes, smiled and said: "True Martial Evil-removal Coin has ’True Martial Evil-removal’ written in large letters on the front, and on the back, it’s decorated with the Big Dipper on top and the Profound Turtle and Red Snake below. Aunt’s place definitely has some."
Xiaoyu knew she had to act quickly.
After instructing his junior sister, Chen Han put his phone away, now just waiting for his little uncle to organize the flower planting so that by the day after tomorrow, the clan members can fully plant flowers around the courtyard and walls.
When the dust-removal array stele is activated and the Hundred Flowers Dew Talisman is used, everyone will be in for a huge surprise.
Thinking about it, he planned to go out and inspect the clan’s situation. Just as he left the courtyard for a while, he saw a couple arguing, surrounded by many tourists who were recording with their phones.
After all, in such a scenic spot, it’s inevitable for there to be onlookers when a couple argues.
Previously, incidents of couple arguments making the news in scenic areas were quite common.
"Zhao Yan, tell me if you cheated." The girl kept hitting the man’s chest, her face filled with anger: "Otherwise, why would you keep having bad luck in the Chen Family, falling over three times?"
Her words indeed caused the surrounding tourists to buzz with talk, suddenly uncovering a highlight, and many began to whisper:
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