I manifested the Shushan game

Chapter 163, "Small Punishments as a Warning," is a rule-oriented chapter!
Congratulations! Your Taoist characteristic, "Minor Punishment as a Warning," has been successfully modified. You will gain the "Minor Punishment as a Warning" characteristic within the sect's territory.

Within the territory of the Chen Clan, those who commit malicious acts such as harming others for personal gain, engaging in lewd and perverse behavior, sowing discord, slandering and defaming, being greedy, behaving improperly, or being unfilial and disloyal will be subject to the "minor punishment as a major warning" attribute.

The duration of a minor punishment as a warning depends on the degree of malice.

Chen Han was immediately surprised when he saw the "minor punishment as a warning" attribute.

This is a rule-based attribute.

The key point is that these are precisely some of the precepts of the Demon-Subduing Heavenly Venerable.
such as:

Isn't harming others for personal gain the same as plotting and scheming against others for personal benefit?
Isn't lewdness and perversion the same as abstaining from lust, evil, and defilement of truth, as well as disrespect for spiritual energy?
And what about slander and defamation? Isn't that just about avoiding making friends with the unworthy and living in a filthy place?

The "minor punishment as a major warning" applies to everyone within the sect's territory, including outsiders and tourists. These people are not true members of the Taoist sect, nor are they followers of the Heavenly Venerable. Therefore, the rules of the Demon-Slaying Heavenly Venerable are not strictly followed, but rather simplified to apply to ordinary people.

The key point is that these attributes are interesting. You know, who are the most annoying people in tourist attractions these days? It's unruly children and unreasonable middle-aged women.

Under normal circumstances, when these kinds of people throw tantrums, even the police can't do anything about them and usually have to let it go.

If this happened in the Chen family, the police wouldn't be able to handle it, and they could try to smooth things over, but they would still be given a minor punishment as a warning.

There are other greedy individuals, such as petty thieves, scalpers, etc. Sorry, they get punished before they even start their schemes or begin to cause trouble.

Those who engage in misconduct, such as taking secret photos, will also receive minor punishments as a warning.

The more interesting thing is that people who are promiscuous and depraved are probably congratulated, whether they are married or unmarried.

If that's the case, then the Chen family will become a moral exemplar, and people with these problems will probably be afraid to come to the Chen family in the future.

Some might say that if this gets out, wouldn't it be tantamount to turning away many tourists?
But if these kinds of tourists are gone, they're gone. What's the point of bringing them here? They might even cause trouble. Wouldn't it be a good opportunity to filter them out?
It's unclear to what extent this "minor punishment" is meant as a deterrent.

According to the code of conduct and doctrines of Taoism, it should mean exactly what it says: a small punishment, yet one that leaves a lasting impression!

However, this will require further research.

He then focused his attention on the mental screen, because with the completion of the final minor punishment modification, the sect's headquarters had new upgrade conditions:
Level: 5 Sect Residence

Effects: Antique +2, Aesthetics +2, Durability +2...

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升级要求：1、2亿钱财（591.32万/2亿）。2、声望100万（155.46万/100万）。3、1万愿力(0/10000)。

The upgrade requirements for a level 5 sect headquarters have only doubled in terms of money and reputation this time. Moreover, as before, reputation is not lacking at all, and the requirements for upgrading have already been met, and even exceeded by a large margin.

But the 2 million in cash is far from enough.

In addition, this time the upgrade of the sect's residence has an additional requirement of willpower; 10,000 willpower are needed to meet the upgrade requirements.

Perhaps this is why their wealth and reputation only doubled this time.

But what exactly is this "willpower"?
After thinking it over carefully, I have a rough idea!

After all, within the Xuanmen (Taoist school), combining it with the scriptures and their meanings should make it not difficult to understand.

Just as he was thinking about this, he received a call from his aunt.

Upon answering, the old man's voice came through: "Patriarch, I have recruited several Fourth Hall Guards and need to perform the conversion and ordination for them. Patriarch, you must be present."

"Understood." Chen Han replied, hung up the phone, and walked towards the main hall of the Demon-Slaying Heavenly Venerable.

To be a member of the Demon-Subduing Heavenly Venerable Hall, one must truly enter the Daoist path and be bound by many precepts, unlike ordinary clansmen who are lazy.

The Chen clan has grown to the point where it is no longer registered, and most of the normal clan members do not follow the precepts and constraints. However, due to the many mysterious phenomena nowadays, many clan members feel awe and have begun to actively follow certain rules.

In the past, when the Chen family was prosperous, this position of palace attendant was not something that people from collateral branches could hold. It also held a higher status within the clan, and only members of the main family could take on this role.

Only those who have just branched out one or two generations and are closest to the main family, like Uncle Xiao, Uncle Dagou, and Uncle Shuisheng, can take on this role.

He doesn't have as many demands now, since he's the only one in the family.

Before he got the game system, he was thinking of tricking his uncle into going on blind dates so that his uncle could have a child to be adopted into the main family and then inherit the family business.

When Chen Han arrived at the main hall of the Demon-Slaying Celestial Venerable, he saw several beautiful girls offering incense under Xiao Mi's guidance. They were all dressed in Hanfu, had great figures, and were very good-looking.

After all, they are all beautiful Chinese-style internet celebrities.

If other types of internet celebrities rely entirely on beauty filters and can't be seen in real life, then those who embrace traditional Chinese style are definitely the most resilient.

Because they mainly rely on offline events, and live streams don't attract many viewers, their appearance fees for offline events are often higher than those of regular internet celebrities.

Those who can participate in offline activities regularly must have a certain level of attractiveness.

Otherwise, it would really be a laughing stock offline. Even that beautiful internet celebrity with many fans, Xing Gou, was criticized offline a few times and then rarely went offline anymore.

These individuals should be the guests at the Chen Family Traditional Chinese Culture event. Besides Lobster, Crooked-Mouthed Dragon King, and the Innate Widow Saint Body, the other two seem to be the Innate Sun Saint Body and Little Fairy.

Xiao Mi paid a considerable amount for the appearance fees of these guests alone, but their presence was also one of the keys to the event's success.

Of those 5000+ ticket buyers, many came specifically for them; the influence of traditional Chinese style internet celebrities offline is undeniable.

Moreover, with several of the top ten beauties in the traditional Chinese style gathering, many minor internet celebrities and video editing groups in the traditional Chinese style circle will also gather here.

After the girls finished offering incense and were walking out, they saw Chen Han coming in.

Xiao Mi arrived in front of him with a few girls, introduced him to the two new girls, and then said, "You've probably seen their videos too. They're on a friendly price this time, so their appearance fees are very low. We need to compensate them."

Chen Han sensed something was wrong when he heard this, because Xiao Mi said "we," not "I."

Therefore, the compensation is not for her to pay, but rather for him to pay.

He couldn't help but look at her with a strange gaze.

Xiao Mi realized that her thoughts had been seen through, so she said, "You've been getting a lot of attention lately, even if it's a bit abstract, but attention is attention. So, they want to ask you to film a video together. Don't you have kung fu skills? Film a video of you jumping off a roof and delivering a bouquet of flowers to them. The plot would be something like: the Fairy of the Hundred Flowers Palace comes to support the Chen family, and you present them with spiritual flowers to express your gratitude!"

Chen Han smiled when he heard this. "You're a fairy from the Hundred Flowers Palace now, aren't you?"

However, that was easy. Instead, he smiled and asked, "How about I film a different kind of video with you? At first, you're on the roof, and then I'll scale the roof to deliver flowers to you. After that, you'll ask how to get down from such a height, and I'll hold your waist and fly down from the roof. That would definitely be more appealing."

"Can you fly down with someone on your back?" Xiao Mi looked at him in surprise.

Chen Han has now opened up three extraordinary meridians, plus the +2 to lightness of his clothes and the +2 to force reduction attribute, so it's a piece of cake.

However, he also jokingly said, "I'll prepare a big umbrella then, just like Wong Fei-hung uses an umbrella as a parachute."

This is actually unnecessary, but how can you just blindly believe in science without incorporating some scientific elements?
The scene of Huang Feihong carrying a beauty and holding an umbrella while falling down has already been shown to everyone by the veteran actor. The film director said it actually happened and is consistent with reality, so isn't that science? "Then let's film this!" Xiao Mi's eyes lit up immediately. She would then have someone add a special effect of rose petals falling from the sky, which would be incredibly romantic.

However, as the two were chatting, they suddenly noticed that all the girls, including Lobster and Crooked-Mouthed Dragon King, were staring at them.

"Xiao Mi, you promised to compensate us!" the lobster suddenly said.

The Crooked-Mouthed Dragon King also took the opportunity to look at Chen Han: "Patriarch Chen, treat us the same as Xiao Mi."

Chen Han felt embarrassed upon hearing this, as theoretically it was impossible to treat everyone equally.

So, he could only ask Xiao Mi, "Is it okay if you all film the same video?"

Xiao Mi naturally understood the underlying meaning.

And you even asked her?
I couldn't help but roll my eyes at him!
If this doesn't work, Xiaoyu will definitely start to wonder, and might even start to suspect something.

Therefore, all she could say was, "It shouldn't have any impact; on the contrary, it can generate buzz, as long as you have the stamina."

She was worried about him. Although he had been blessed by the Demon-Subduing Celestial Venerable, his cancer was still not cured.

"Then there's no problem." Chen Han nodded in confirmation. After all, this was what Xiao Mi said, so he couldn't be blamed for not being able to have close contact with men and women.

This made the girls, like the lobster and the crooked-mouthed dragon king, eager to try it out.

I've never filmed this kind of video before. The main reason is that it's not worth using wires in such an ancient architectural setting; the cost is too high, including a large rental fee.

The key issue is that there aren't enough male internet celebrities with a large enough following and good looks to cooperate with the Chinese style filming.

Although this Chen family head is a bit abstract, he now has more than 230 million followers and is very good-looking. His videos are more acceptable to fans and can attract more viewers.

"Then go and prepare the filming location and equipment. I have something to take care of here first," Chen Han said to Xiao Mi when he saw that his aunt had already brought people to wait there.

"Okay!" Xiao Mi nodded, led a few girls out of the Demon-Slaying Heavenly Venerable's main hall, and then went to make preparations.

Chen Han also walked to the offering table.

The four clansmen beside his aunt quickly bowed to him and said, "Greetings, Head of the Clan!"

This also shows why Auntie chose a certain number of people.

After being instructed, the group was also dressed in the plain clothes of the Taoist sect.

Afterwards, they became temple attendants and were issued special Taoist robes and whisks.

Of course, before that, a conversion and ordination ceremony must be performed.

In orthodox Taoist traditions, such a ceremony is very complicated and takes 2-3 days.

However, for matters such as passing down branches or families, the procedures have been greatly simplified.

After all, some Taoist temples and family heads can't even gather enough people for the ceremony, so they have to simplify it.

The Taoist school is flexible and not so rigid.

Their Chen family's ceremony is also very simple.

As long as the ceremony is held in the main hall, the clansmen receiving the ordination should wear plain clothes, kneel before the statue of the deity in the main hall, and express their piety.

In addition, the aunt, the temple elder, and the head of the family jointly petitioned the Heavenly Venerable, chanting incantations and making hand gestures, writing golden light talismans and protective amulets above the heads of the clansmen, and then bestowing ordination certificates, which the recipients knelt and worshipped...

The subsequent teachings on cultivation methods, the establishment of the Wanfa Zongtan (Altar of Ten Thousand Laws), and the transmission of the eight protective magical artifacts were all simplified…

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After a series of procedures, the ceremony was finally completed, and more than two hours had passed.

Several clansmen also became the heads of the Chen clan temple.

"Offer incense and kowtow!" The aunt took a handful of lit incense sticks and distributed them to the four members of the clan.

Now we need to bow three times and offer incense to the Earth God, the Heaven God, and the Heavenly Venerable.

One incense stick for the Earth God, one incense stick for the Heaven God, and one incense stick for the Heavenly Venerable.

Each incense stick consists of three sticks.

As his aunt guided the four clansmen to offer incense to the Heavenly Venerable, Chen Han suddenly looked at the prompt that appeared on the screen in his mind in surprise:

Congratulations! You have obtained 1 wish power!

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Congratulations! You have obtained 1 wish power!

Chen Han subconsciously looked at the four clansmen offering incense. Four consecutive game prompts, totaling four points of wish power, made it clear even to a fool what was going on.

So, does offering incense provide merit points?
That's not right. Those internet celebrity girls were also burning incense, but they didn't offer any prayers.

There must be a reason for this, and it's not just about burning incense.

It might not be entirely related to offering incense, but also to whether they are believers, because those girls were not followers of the Demon-Slaying Celestial Venerable at all, while these four clansmen were.

Or rather, after experiencing so many strange events, the clansmen who returned to their clans should all be followers of the Demon-Slaying Celestial Venerable.

Thinking it over, Chen Han also instructed his aunt, "Aunt, as the temple guardian elder, you should lead the temple guards to offer incense again."

He wanted to experiment with it.

The aunt was somewhat puzzled because this wasn't part of the ritual procedure. However, since the head of the family had given the order, she did as instructed. She took out a new bundle of incense sticks and distributed them to the four temple attendants, leading them in bowing and offering incense together.

Not long after the incense offering was completed, Chen Han was surprised to see the game prompt appear in his mind again, but there was only one prompt:
Congratulations! You have gained 3 point of wish power!

Chen Han looked at his aunt in surprise. The notification must have been from her. The other four clansmen did not provide any wish power this time. In other words, like reputation, wish power can only be earned once a day by the same person.

The key is that my aunt's three points of willpower are two more than everyone else's.

This should also be related to the level of piety, because the aunt was definitely more devout than these four tribespeople.

Therefore, the way to obtain this power of will is that devout believers can obtain it by offering incense at the Hall of the Demon-Subduing Heavenly Venerable.

If that's the case, he did come up with a way to generate a wave of wish power every day.

(End of this chapter)