"The flowers on this fence seem a bit different," Liu Yuanyuan, a photographer who also grew flowers herself, noticed the unusual flowers on the fence.
"Aren't those just ordinary wildflowers? Though they're quite beautiful," Sun Xin couldn't see any difference.
The others saw nothing special either.
Liu Yuanyuan, however, was quite surprised and said, "These flowers have a regular, full, and symmetrical shape. Their colors are bright, pure, and lively. They even have multiple layers of petals, something wildflowers normally don't have."
"These flowers must be a rare variant cultivated by the Chen Family with a lot of time, effort, and skill. In terms of quality and aesthetics, they're more beautiful than many high-level flowers from the Shanghai flower exhibitions," Liu Yuanyuan, holding her camera, started photographing the flowers on the fence.
For a photographer focused on flowers, this truly was great material.
"Patriarch!" a middle-aged woman in Hanfu greeted Chen Han respectfully.
Her family was struggling due to her husband's illness, and she couldn't go out to work while taking care of him, so having a job in the family with a 3500 salary a month was something she was very satisfied with.
She was naturally grateful to this Patriarch.
"Aunt Yanfang, is the work agreeable?" Chen Han asked with a smile.
"Yes, thank you, Patriarch," Huang Yanfang expressed her gratitude again.
At this moment, Liu Yuanyuan, still holding her camera, asked Chen Han in amazement, "Patriarch Chen, were these flowers of the Chen Family specially cultivated? They're so beautiful, even more so than many high-level flower plants."
"However, displaying them outside like this could easily lead to damage by tourists. I suggest setting up a railing for protection."
Chen Han understood what she meant; it was because these flowers absorbed Spiritual Qi.
The fence was originally built as part of the Thunder Bamboo Array to protect the special Spiritual Acupoint.
Adding another layer of protection to this fence felt like an overdoing.
Nonetheless, he gratefully said, "Thank you, beautiful lady, for the suggestion. I hope you enjoy your time at the Chen Family."
Saying this, he flipped his palm and took out an apple from the warehouse to hand it to Liu Yuanyuan.
He thought he should prepare more items in the warehouse, not just apples; there should be more variety.
Liu Yuanyuan took the apple with a face full of surprise, yet again, he conjured out an apple in front of her, and she still couldn't see any flaw.
Sun Xin and the others were equally captivated.
Of course, Chen Han also gained 7 [Congratulations, you have displayed a miracle before others and gained 1 point of reputation!], increasing his reputation by 7 points.
With his goal achieved, Chen Han leisurely returned to his Little Uncle's courtyard.
By noon, he invited his junior sister, Uncle Dagou, and Uncle Shuisheng over to have medicinal cuisine.
In the afternoon, the video on Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea stopped updating with a final tally of 18,000 likes.
Chen Han checked his reputation (85/2000).
The journey to upgrade reputation was still long.
At this moment, a game prompt appeared in his mind again:
[Congratulations, the sect's base special effect: Calm Heart +2 has been completed!]
The white light enveloping the Chen Family also faded with the notification, but the game prompt continued:
[During the construction of the family base, the family elders discovered that the underground base had a special earth qi which could eliminate some negative qi, so they used this earth qi to set up a special Qi Management Array! Through quietly sitting in meditation to smooth one's qi, and reciting or listening to the recordings of the Ancient Calming Heart Technique by the elders, one can harmonize their own qi with the array and eliminate negative qi, achieving a state of inner peace!]
[Congratulations, you have obtained an ancient text of the Ancient Calming Heart Technique!]
Chen Han looked at this prompt with surprise.
Humans have qi that can make the heart open and the mood pleasant; by regulating qi, one can reduce inner desires and worries, leading to mental focus and harmony of qi and blood.
In modern terms, it's like the human magnetic field; eliminating negative magnetic fields can put people in the best state.
And earth qi is like the environmental magnetic field, meaning setting up an array using the environmental magnetic field to regulate the human magnetic field, thus immersing humans in nature, reaching the optimal state.
This is quite amazing!
So, this is the difference between the special effect and ordinary effect of the Taoist Sect's Residence?
The ordinary effect is directly visible, such as Ancient +2, Aesthetics +2, visually perceptible to the eye.
Now the special effect of the Taoist Sect's Residence: Calm Heart +2 tends to lean towards special abilities.
According to the game prompts, under normal circumstances, being in the Chen Family does not trigger the Calm Heart +2 attribute.
To activate this attribute there are two prerequisites: one is quietly sitting in meditation to stabilize one's magnetic field, and the other is to recite or listen to the recordings of the Ancient Calming Heart Technique by the family elders.
However, this seems to add a sense of mystery compared to directly experiencing the Calm Heart +2 effect.
As long as one quietly sits and meditates, reciting or listening to this Ancient Calming Heart Technique in the Chen Family, one can achieve inner peace, undisturbed by distractions.
Isn't this such an astonishing thing?
The key is that Taoism indeed talks about magnetic fields, also linked to Feng Shui concepts.
Looking towards the warehouse, Chen Han saw the somewhat yellowed ancient text of the Ancient Calming Heart Technique.
[Ancient Calming Heart Technique: Reciting or listening to the contents can trigger a special Qi Management Array and eliminate some negative qi from people, achieving a calming effect. Would you like to use it and obtain the related content?]
He instinctively wanted to choose to use it, but looking at the yellowed pages, he decided to take it out instead.
The pages of this Ancient Calming Heart Technique looked ancient, with the handwriting showing traces of time's corrosion.
Opening the first page, he saw special ancient seal script characters that he happened to recognize because many Taoist ancient texts were in such scripts, taught by the main family of the Chen.
On the first line of the first page, it read, "The family elders discovered that the family base's underground had special earth qi, utilizing it to set up a special Qi Management Array. This Ancient Calming Heart Technique was written by the elders for communicating with the special Qi Management Array..."
Suddenly, Chen Han didn't want to choose to directly use this Ancient Calming Heart Technique.
Because this item could prove the Chen Family's heritage and perfectly explain how the sect's base's Calm Heart +2 attribute came to be.
All passed down by the Chen Family's ancestors, with this ancient text as proof.
Once he learns this Ancient Calming Heart Technique on his own, he should frame it and promote it occasionally, letting more people know about the Chen Family's heritage.
Which family in the Taoist Sect has heritage like theirs?
Thinking so, he directly took out his phone and called his junior sister.
This time he wanted his junior sister to have a sense of participation too—imagine, by the time he and his junior sister study and figure out the Calm Heart +2 effect together, she would surely feel accomplished, wouldn't she?
Xiaoyu was currently with Uncle Dagou, as she was recording the Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea video and needed to film the production process. Seeing her senior brother's call, she instinctively answered: "Hey, senior brother!"
Chen Han said with a smile: "Junior sister, I discovered something good in the Chen Family's ancient texts!"
"What good thing?" the junior sister asked curiously.
Chen Han explained: "Underneath the Chen Family, there is actually a special array!"
"What?" The junior sister was a bit stunned upon hearing this.
What did the senior brother just say?
There's an array under the Chen Family?